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The UK should have jumped at this chance - and still can. Make a special Trump visa for top scientists through January 2029. There are so many brilliant people who are losing grants and jobs but the world needs their brainpower.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

If Pierre Poilievre ever gets elected And fired our central bank The markets would nose dive Canada would nose dive Canada's financial system would be destroyed Our triple AAA credit rating would disappear There would be a run on banks Our dollar would plummet in value. #NeverPoilievre

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

So is this Trump's "golden age" he's been talking about? Empty shelves just like the covid pandemic, disrupted supply chains, higher prices on everything. Walmart, Home Depot and Target held an intervention and told Trump to stop all tariffs. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I've worked in finance, government and for corporations and let me tell you -without a regulated financial system a country can go bankrupt, it happened in 2008. This man is brilliant. #CarneyforPM is the only choice.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

I’m confident the Brits will tell Trump what he can eat as it flies off the fan blades.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

ATLANTIC: “Trump admin acknowledged in a court filing it grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison…” Outrageous. Criminal. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 39 days ago • 175 comments

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

submitted 41 days ago • 1469 comments

Literary history is filled with authors who oncee shaped public opinion. As public intellectuals their voice on current affairs was widely sought. George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Albert Camus, James Baldwin, George Orwell to name a few such authors. And today where are they? Fermi's paradox?

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Canada has an economist as Prime Minister and Mexico has an environmental scientist and Dr of Philosophy for president. Meanwhile the USA has a rapist con artist and Soviet sleeper agent as their president.

submitted 45 days ago • 234 comments

Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."

submitted 44 days ago • 187 comments

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

submitted 45 days ago • 617 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #20

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #19

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #18

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #17

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Does this impact any Republican districts in Maine ? If so, Ask that representative why he is putting Trump ahead of his district ! Canadians to Maine: No, thanks! www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/t...

submitted 49 days ago • 919 comments

Mutiny brews in French bookshops over Hachette owner’s media grip

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #16

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #15

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #14

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Visit the USA at your peril. You aren't safe.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #13

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

submitted 54 days ago • 562 comments

The path less traveled has an attraction. In Thailand, there are many such paths for the curious to discover and explore.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #12

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #11

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #10

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #9

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #8

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

I had coffee this morning with Giancarlo Narciso, Italian author and publisher, who was on his way through Bangkok and headed to Bali. We had a good discussion about book publishing, translation rights, and current trends in fiction.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #books #7

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment