Tommy Weir

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

The #BrokenTimes cannot bring itself to label and thus explain the reality of today: a fascist dictatorship. It is failing America.
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

And the NYT’s Cooking app… recipes failed to load.

YouTube video by ARTE.tv Documentary Spain: Fleeing Trump's America | ARTE.tv Documentary

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@artefr.bsky.social documentary on the exodus, particularly by women, from America since the election.

Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.

"Our findings highlight the limits of countering misinformation directly, because for some people, literal truth is not the point. ... This mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes." theconversation.com/winning-with...

YouTube video by Frank Stanford It WASN'T A DREAM: IT WAS A FLOOD

This is spectral and beautiful - a 1974 autobiographical 16mm short film about poet Frank Stanford, made by Stanford and his publisher, Irv Broughton. A weave of poetry, talk, shadow images, blues songs.

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

If anyone here is still using X/Twitter, here's another good reason to stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

(Remember Musk spoke at so-called Robinson's fascist demonstration a few weeks ago)

Macron reappoints outgoing PM Sébastien Lecornu, far right calls for snap legislative elections Returning Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said Friday he accepted his reappointment "out of duty", just days after he handed in his resignation to French President Emmanuel Macron. The decision was…

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Macron continues to baffle me. Would do anything other than appoint a left wing PM. Including show his shortcomings and embarrass the nation.

This One Don't by Eric Bibb on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 3:26

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Real Genius had it right in 1985: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X...

We use social networks to share human experiences and interact with people about culture or politics. Silicon Valley wants to replace that, turning person-to-person interactions into person-to-machine interactions, leaving us alone talking to no one.
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That’s our timeline.

I up the ante.

I think AI is acceptable right now because the underlying information is still discoverable, with people able to trace back to truth and discover AI's mistakes. but we're building towards an information ecosystem of liquefaction zones, where there is no foundation of truth under the slop.

Can we have Michael D for a third term please? #Aras25

Strongly suspect the main outcome of this debate will be to reduce turnout. #Aras25

This presidential debate… oh boy. Terrible interviewer/interrupter needs a chamomile tea. All discussion nothing to do with the job.

So exhausting..

Sounds fab. Signed up. Dead curious.

Impressive set of journalists. Impressive set of contributing editors from Eno to Solnit. Looking forward to this.

A President can raise issues which are difficult when the voice is that of a thinker, a philosopher, a voice who brings people along, it starts with ‘we’. When the voice is activist it starts with them/us. It can push people away.

Labour, the Greens and the SocDems look like they’ve blown it.

In November LinkedIn will use your publicly posted data, presumably including your career history to feed their AI - you can opt out in their Settings - www.linkedin.com/e/v2?urlhash...

Not many of them are sung about to be fair…

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals Finland's President on Trump, Resilience and Putin's Threat | Leaders with Francine Lacqua

Finnish President Alexander Stubb interview, calm, measured, well judged. In case any of you needed a reminder as to what that might be like…

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I'm a subscriber, and every article is wonderful. I count on Mother Jones to continue excellent journalism.

these people are genuinely idiots

Robert Redford obituary One of Hollywood’s greats who starred in All the President’s Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sting

All journalists should bend the knee to the work of the obituarist, the one discipline which enables the practitioner to get a byline from beyond the grave. Ronald Bergen predeceased his subject Robert Redford by 5 years, but left behind a truly masterful obit.

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Poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti, translated by Patrick Reagh.

The Journalism Lesson I Learned on September 11 Why the most effective preparation for a crisis lies in empowerment

On working at the Journal on 9/11 - "…clear assignment and delineation of responsibility, instilling of common purpose and understanding of mission, empowering human beings to do their best work and motivating them to want to do it"
@dicktofel.bsky.social on dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-journa...

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this.

I hope it endures.

It’s amazing how, the older I get, the more my politics crystallizes back to the bumper stickers I saw on Volvos growing up.