Mark Hussey

I’m becoming convinced that the reason they keep making the White House look like Mar-a-Lago is that he’s slowly losing his memory and they keep trying to put him in places that seem familiar.

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

Trump Is Building a Maximalist Government In a series of actions this week, the president sought to expand the government’s reach.

The New York Times uses the word “maximalist” because it’s afraid to use the word “dictatorship.”

EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

Woolfians: if you have a copy of the SP Books ed of the Mrs Dalloway MS can you tell me how VW corrected "submit" in this passage - Notebook 3, p.98. Wussow says VW crossed out submit then added it in again. But my subpar notes from the BL say *an illegible word* was crossed out & "submit" was added

a belated #modwrite announcement: my first academic book should be out with the Edinburgh UP in October. On its cover is Alexandra Hughes's stunning art. More on what’s between the covers soon, but for now, enjoy Alex’s stunning work, and see more here: alexandrahughes.co.uk

Senate Confirms Conspiracy Theorist To Lead National Counterterrorism Center

Hey no big deal and all but... Senate Republicans just confirmed Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with alarming ties to white nationalists and far-right groups, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

CBS NEWS, statement from Giuffre family: “It was shocking to hear Trump say he was aware Virginia was ‘stolen’ from Mar-A-Lago… we are asking for answers… If our sister could speak today, she would be most angered by the fact that the government is listening to a known perjurer.”

On holiday in Cumberland in 1921,Dora Carrington painted two pictures of Watendlath Farm: a view of the moorlands behind the farmhouse, now at the Tate Gallery, London; and this painting which has the same stone-walled field and the three transfixed sheep in the foreground.

UMich cancels doctoral epidemiology program admissions for 2026 The University of Michigan School of Public Health will not admit a 2025-2026 admissions cycle cohort to its PhD in Epidemiologic Sciences program.

Due to disruptions in funding, there will be no applications admitted for U Michigan's epidemiology PhD this fall. 🧪

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Motherfucking wind farms…

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Columbus, Ohio

Walking and Quacking like a Pedophile Donald Trump has a bizarre history of sexualizing children; it coincides exactly with his friendship to Jeffrey Epstein

Folks, journalist Leland Nally covered Epstein for @motherjones.com and called EVERY SINGLE NAME in his black book. He has done phenomenal reporting. He finally started a Substack. Please support him.

"Walking and Quacking like a Pedophile"
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Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders --The Montreal Star, 4 Feb 1939

1939

There are 500 stories about AOC’s met dress on my socials today when this administration openly takes bribes in the hundreds of millions. Cmon.

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling [Painting of a family]

Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community" [Painting of a German family]

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

Turns out the best way to make a deal to get out of your child sex trafficking conviction is to have one of your clients get elected president.

On Occasion: Poetry for the People On Occasion: Poems for the People Deadline for submissions: September 7, 2025  In the tradition of the poem as an act of love, as an act of protest, an act of visionary incantation, of remembrance,…

Submit! On Occasion: Poetry for the People sinaqueyras.com/2025/07/10/o... P.S. Previously published poems are also fine. Just note where they have appeared.

I woke up with the thought I still consider The Great Dictator one of the most impactful pieces of anti-fascist cultural production of the period.

Didn’t realize a new South Park aired.

I look forward to months of Paramount satirists outdoing one another to stress-test his power.

Don't miss an evening with @markhussey.bsky.social at @blueheronbooksny.bsky.social, discussing his new book, Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel, with bookshop owner, Jean Mills.

25th July
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‘Stop arming Israel’, urge family of slain aid worker James Henderson was among three British aid workers killed in Gaza. Now his family wants Keir Starmer to put an arms embargo on Israel.

James Henderson was among three British aid workers killed in Gaza last year. His family urged Keir Starmer to put an arms embargo on Israel.

Instead, Starmer's government allowed the chief of the Israeli air force to visit Britain this weekend👇
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Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

Just tried to do interlibrary loan - which I have been planning on using heavily in the research phase of this book - only to be told interlibrary loan at the DCPL no longer exists thanks to Trump’s cuts

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Rümeysa Öztürk wrote about ICE detention and the women who helped her survive. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

Apart from the neat hand, that was me!

Love this sign!