Adam Cullen

Finally, Lennart Meri’s «Silverwhite» is available in Adam Cullen’s English translation. I was honored to attend the launch party at the residence of UK Amb. Ross Allen, featuring a number of good speeches, including one by president Alar Karis. I look forward to the read. @adamcullen.bsky.social

Sain just ka (iseenesest üllatava viivitusega) esimest üsna kahtlase (FS-/KG-/B) sisuga kirja-katsetust antud teemal. Sealpool piiri ei jäta tähelepanemata.

I found it necessary to write.

Pidin kirjutama.

I translated SILVERWHITE into English this year. Until today, I would have been able to decide what streets are repaired in my small town. Elagu Eesti.

"King Donald I" Accelerates White Nationalist Purge of Military Leaders A suggested guide to how the US media should be bravely—and clearly—covering our national crisis

Now that Trump has ousted Brown, and the heads of the Navy and Coast Guard, the remaining top military leaders are all white and male, particularly striking given that minorities make up nearly 40 percent of the military and women constitute fully a fifth.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

"After seizing the capital in a fast-moving coup+ w universal control of govt ministries now seemingly assured by a quiescent parliament, South African oligarch Musk spent his 3rd week in power dismantling legal constraints that would stop him from turning the US govt into his personal piggy bank."

Might as well be a nail in the Allied coffin.

To earn a chuck under the chin from his authoritarian boss, this POS Christian white nationalist spews ignorant patronization in allies' faces while fomenting the far right on the wrong continent. Cool.

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

Up another notch, please.

White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta A second update on Elon Musk's coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent

"White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta" -- this dispatch from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, written as a foreign correspondant in the U.S, is extraordinary. Makes clear the situation and how badly the legacy media is missing the picture

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...

You cannot deport an American citizen whom I, for one, have voted into office multiple times, and especially not because of falsified AI horse shit. And let's not even get into the whiny voice with which he's proposing it. Another circle of 2025 hell.

I'm very excited to learn that an English translation of Lennart Meri's 'Silverwhite: The Journey to the Fallen Sun', a legendary book about Estonia, is being published in May. And the front cover, featuring the Kali crater in winter, is just breathtaking www.hurstpublishers.com/book/silverw...

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chalk up one more successful genocide for the US.

. Some, like North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, even acknowledged that what Musk is doing is unconstitutional — but “nobody should bellyache about that.” “That runs afoul of the Constitution in the strictest sense,” Tillis said. But “it’s not uncommon for presidents to flex a little bit on where they can spend and where they can stop spending.”

Wow.

Via Brad Moss:

Oh those constitutional violations? Pfft, those aren’t really a concern.

#Musk

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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

As I've seen it said already, this is a coup.

Humbled to say that my translation of JOHN THE SKELETON (Triinu Laan, illustrated by Marja-Liisa Plats, published by Restless Books) won the American Library Association's 2025 Batchelder Award! www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

Charlamagne's advice to Dems: "Treat Republicans the way they treat you."

Books We Love Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.

Filling in last year's timeline a little more, my (long-ready) translation of Joonas Sildre's BETWEEN TWO SOUNDS, a great graphic novel about Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, was published and included on NPR's "Books We Love" list:
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31 Days, 31 Lists: Best Picture Books of 2024 Our final list! Enjoy what is inarguably a lovely list of books. And thank you for reading my lists this month!

Children's literature is always fun to translate, and the ego boost of being included on year-end lists isn't the worst thing, either. Triinu Laan's JOHN THE SKELETON found its way onto this one:

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Silverwhite | Hurst Publishers Translated by Adam Cullen The first English translation of this central work of Estonian nonfiction, marking the profound importance in world history of this small nation and its people.

My translation of former Estonian president Lennart Meri's epic SILVERWHITE will be out this May. The cover art is pretty damn fine, too.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/silverw...