"If Trump wins, radicalism will spread, on the right as well as the left. America will find itself deeply enmeshed in a death spiral which has been described, in other times & places, as 'cumulative extremism.'" @anneapplebaum in @TheAtlantic. #USElectiontheatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
“We have got to fix this because we’re not only hurting ourselves, we’re hurting the world.”
Rather than reporting on the 492 Britons who died of #COVID19 ystdy (including a 13 year-old) or the 397 who died the day before or the hundreds who died in the days before that, the media are focussing on the important stories like @JeremyClarkson’s bum! #CovidMemorialDay 1/1/21
“It doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, a Leaver or Remainer, @piersmorgan or @Piers_Corbyn, we all need to take the time to grieve.”
"Art is dead. Artists should retrain in Cyber" @RishiSunak
"Art can reveal truth. It can shows you things that you'd never seen before, & teach you new ways of seeing. It can offer meaning and sooth pain. And sometimes - just sometimes - it can save your life." - Emerson Warner
The reality of “Yo-Yo” #lockdown has been known about since May👇
Govt scientists have modelled for 2nd, 3rd, 4th waves etc. but this modelling was not shared publicly by the secretive #JointBiosecurityCentre running the UK #COVID19 response. #lockdownUK
"Once an autocrat gets into office, it is very hard to get them out. They will disregard term limits, they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it." @sarahkendzior
"The most sophisticated tyrannies are ones that have a showman as their frontman. Clown or blowhard. Jester or villain. The type of showman doesn’t matter. Their audience will love them just the same."
(Emerson Warner, 1949)
Via @mdsharpe2
“I think that people are going to get hurt. People are going to get killed.”
Across the US, far-right militias are preparing for the #USElection & for post-election civil unrest