How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Thanks Tim!
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'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
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Black and white tuxedo cat with pale yellow eyes looking directly at the camera. Living room in the background.
Think I might end up posting more on here, pretty much gave up in the other place. Some stuff about my research soon but more important things first - #proofofcat!
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Wow, it’s nice over here.
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Archaeologist, Curator.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Best Small Fictions nominee.
Reviewer and editor/co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. Creative writing university tutor. Literary Festival committee member.
Writer & photographer of award-winning books about the sea, beachcombing & mudlarking | Sea Journal | Rag and Bone | Lost to the Sea - 'Wondrous, elegant and haunting' Philip Hoare
lisawoollett.co.uk
Writer of many things.
YA: The Other Girl, is coming from Penguin in May 2025.
Sci fi in the US as Evie Green
Backpack, The Sleeper and various others, back in the day (and working on more)
Screenwriting is incoming...
Writer, one of Literature Works Wordspace cohort 2023/4, tandem rider, fair-weather wild swimmer
Short fiction & poetry & hybrid things. MLitt Creative Writing University of Glasgow 2023. Strange Waters (@ArachnePress , 2021). Writer in Residence by the sea in Looe (Jan - March 2025).
Author. Microfarmer. ‘Under a Metal Sky’ (Granta UK Feb ‘25, US Nov ‘25) also ‘The Summer Isles’, ‘Rising Ground’ etc. Lives in Cornwall.
Ex UK journo. Living in Bordeaux, France. Still calls Cornwall home. Writing novels. Published by WriteSideLeft. Station Philosophers' Club available Feb 28
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website: https://roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site
I like to tell stories, mostly through poetry…occasionally performing them.
Live in Cornwall (Kernow), Land of my Fathers. Socialist, Humanist. SWFC
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Author, debut novel THE SEA CHILD set in Cornwall pub'd by Simon & Schuster UK Feb. 2026 and Ballantine @ Random House Jan. 2026.
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Writer, swimmer, reader, music-maker. Cornwall-based. Proper job. Here for fun & games & booknookery. Royal Literary Fund Fellow. London Writers’ Salon Coach.
@acwilsonwriter.substack.com
Author. Loves chocolate, Wonder Woman, and Doctor Who. Dislikes heights, sweet potato, and running. Wishing Shelf Book Awards silver winner, Rubery Book Award finalist, and Costa Short Story Award 3rd placer.
https://linktr.ee/Annalisa_Crawford
He/Him. Raised in Oathkeepers and the Militia Right, rural Montana delegate to the crash and burn DNC of '24 and (doomed) state legislature candidate on top of it. Sometimes a writer, becoming a local troublemaker, subject of a documentary, Aquarius ♒️.
Fiction editor, gardener, archaeologist, animal lover, biker.
Words & Pictures
Poet, Broken Sleep Books; academic, University of Leeds
More here: https://shorturl.at/IYmT1
Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
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Newspaper journalist. Kernowyon. Whisk(e)y drinker. Proud member of Y Wal Goch.
Often found stomping around Bodmin Moor.
Jynnji lover.
Kernow bys vyken.
M.E./C.F.S. & Fibromyalgia survivor.
Linux user.
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