Robert Weston
@hemissroad.bsky.social
U.S. East Coast. Not the slightest interest in the survival of the U.S. empire, so I wouldn't be sorry to see it gone, a process that's likely to take a generation at least. Of course, it's not clear that whatever follows would be any better.
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Robert Weston
@hemissroad.bsky.social
· Sep 28
Just a head’s up that I’ve continued making updates to this guide: most recently, to remove the caveat on Here WeGo for not having CarPlay, adding Citymapper, and a suggestion to try the DVD/Blu-ray section at your local library as a streaming alternative. More to come!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
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Always proud to be a Minnesotan ❤️✊🏽
50,000+ people.
-10 degree weather.
No one does it like Minnesota.
50,000+ people.
-10 degree weather.
No one does it like Minnesota.
January 24, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Always proud to be a Minnesotan ❤️✊🏽
50,000+ people.
-10 degree weather.
No one does it like Minnesota.
50,000+ people.
-10 degree weather.
No one does it like Minnesota.
Obviously, we'll have to wait for confirmation from WaPo or other sources, but for such an announcement to go out two weeks from the event, after travel and other arrangements would have been made? I'd like to hear more.
According to an internal email to Washington Post sports staff, the paper isn't sending any reporters to cover the winter Olympics next month. The decision comes as major layoffs are expected in the coming weeks.
January 24, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Obviously, we'll have to wait for confirmation from WaPo or other sources, but for such an announcement to go out two weeks from the event, after travel and other arrangements would have been made? I'd like to hear more.
Spot on, though I question the degree ti which RoW has moved on. But it seems clear to me that something cataclysmic will be required to redeem the United States.
Delusional, reflecting the dream world in which US centrists are living. Even in the unlikely event of a Democratic win in 2028 and an orderly transition, the rest of the world has written off the US. Only complete destruction of Trump's Republican party will change that.
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January 24, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Spot on, though I question the degree ti which RoW has moved on. But it seems clear to me that something cataclysmic will be required to redeem the United States.
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One of Biden’s and the Democrats’ worst decisions was this law to force-sell the only non-silicon valley social platform to a coalition of Trump allies. Just titanically poor judgement very explicitly aimed at censoring pro-Palestine speech that will now be used to censor all liberal speech instead.
January 23, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
May 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
It's not just people in Congress. I've heard ill-informed European journos spout the same line in the past week or two.
Some lines in an anti-colonialist letter to Congress got reimagined as a permission slip for regional imperialism, and Trump is making the most of it.
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/the-monroe...
New Racket.
theracket.news/p/the-monroe...
The Monroe Doctrine is fake
As Trump fantasizes about flying the flag over Greenland, Venezuela, Cuba and the rest of the Western Hemisphere, some old Fake History is new again.
theracket.news
January 22, 2026 at 10:40 PM
It's not just people in Congress. I've heard ill-informed European journos spout the same line in the past week or two.
I've never forgotten the Economist piece from 1992 that noted no country has done more than the United States to surmount its legacy of racial oppression.
The strides taken towards multicultural democracy in the last century have been incredible. Even with half the american political system continuously trying to exploit white resentment the vast majority of people (esp younger generations) are pretty normal about people of other races.
January 22, 2026 at 8:55 PM
I've never forgotten the Economist piece from 1992 that noted no country has done more than the United States to surmount its legacy of racial oppression.
Hard to argue with that.
We shouldn't resist because we're American. What's so special about us? About America? We're all just people here, same as anyone or anywhere else. We should resist because it's the right fucking thing to do, simple as!
January 22, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Hard to argue with that.
Worth repeating over and over again.
The thing I always take away from reading history is that in every era of widespread racism and sexism etc there were always people who were agitating against it at the time. None of this stuff ever went fully unchallenged, that's just an impression we get afterward.
January 22, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Worth repeating over and over again.
This is key.
Regular ass white moderates are getting hurt over this shit, these aren’t freedom riders or socialist radicals they’re just dudes
January 22, 2026 at 8:49 PM
This is key.
Crucial
I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
January 22, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Crucial
To me, the bigger problem is the sheer amount of Trump coverage on the BBC. On the World Service's Newshour, the first three or five segments often connect to DJT in some direct or indirect way.
The BBC has gone beyond both-sidesism, and frequently now presents only Trump's account of events
(This isn't the only recent example)
(This isn't the only recent example)
The BBC North America editor tells us that Trump doubts that NATO would respond if the US asked for help.
She doesn't point out that the US is the only NATO member which has ever invoked Article 5, and that it got help. From Denmark and others.
#R4Today
She doesn't point out that the US is the only NATO member which has ever invoked Article 5, and that it got help. From Denmark and others.
#R4Today
January 22, 2026 at 5:58 PM
To me, the bigger problem is the sheer amount of Trump coverage on the BBC. On the World Service's Newshour, the first three or five segments often connect to DJT in some direct or indirect way.
Worth pondering.
This is for people who think all the scientists losing their jobs because of the Trump regime will magically be hired by other countries. Let’s see how a PhD geoscientist is doing…
January 22, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Worth pondering.
Problem is, will the Americans renege on a hypothetical agreement and lay claim to the entire territory once again in the near future?
If this is meaningfully different from the status quo, it's not obvious to me how. We've had an agreement granting us jurisdiction over US military bases there for 75 years. We could easily have arranged to build another one without this psychotic brinksmanship.
“.. Denmark would give the United States sovereignty over small pockets of Greenlandic land where the United States could build military bases, according to three senior officials ..”
@nytimes.com
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@nytimes.com
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January 22, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Problem is, will the Americans renege on a hypothetical agreement and lay claim to the entire territory once again in the near future?
Excellent
The way the "Fall of the Roman Empire" gets compressed from several hundred years of fuckass emperors slowly destroying it into a single event confirms this.
January 21, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Excellent
Worth pondering.
TFW you realize in the longue duree historians will view the fall of the Soviet and US empires as basically taking place simultaneously
January 21, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Worth pondering.
Not a unique take, but bears repeating over and over again.
The purpose of the liberal rules-based order was not to constrain the actions of the United States. It was to lend legitimacy to a world system structured around US empire.
Trump has torn down this façade - what's left is the reality of naked imperialism.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Trump has torn down this façade - what's left is the reality of naked imperialism.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
The Law of the Jungle
The façade that once legitimised empire has collapsed. What remains is power without apology.
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Not a unique take, but bears repeating over and over again.
For me, as always, the question is: What impact does this have upon U.S. global hegemony?
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 21, 2026 at 2:05 AM
For me, as always, the question is: What impact does this have upon U.S. global hegemony?
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Scott Thompson once said an angry drag queen is scarier than a Minotaur, and the queens are ANGRY. Luscious Massacr explains:
January 20, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Scott Thompson once said an angry drag queen is scarier than a Minotaur, and the queens are ANGRY. Luscious Massacr explains:
Of course, but even now, I'd question how terrible the threat is.
Frankly: it is ridiculous that Russia (population circa 145 million, awful demographics, GDP of about the same size as Italy) is a security threat to Europe that requires US help to manage. But it currently is.
Reversing that is the first aim. And very very achievable.
Reversing that is the first aim. And very very achievable.
January 20, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Of course, but even now, I'd question how terrible the threat is.
It begins.
Denmark taking a stand all over.
The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is moving away from Microsoft and switching instead to Linux and LibreOffice
www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...
www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...
January 20, 2026 at 9:33 PM
It begins.
Probably the best description I've read of they crowd.
ICE is full of guys who dreamed of carrying out school shootings but were too scared to do it. Now they get to terrorize schools in a pretty similar way but they don’t have to kill themselves at the end of it.
ICE at Mercer Middle School in Seattle. Cleveland High School in lockdown. ICE were at Roosevelt High School earlier today.
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Probably the best description I've read of they crowd.
Are they, in fact, acting out of submissiveness and lack of pride?
The fact that European conservatives have so little pride as to consent to being Trump’s lapdogs isn’t their worst quality but it is their most contemptible
💥Viktor Orbán’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó says Hungary is BLOCKING a joint EU statement on Greenland.
After years acting as a Trojan horse for Russia and China, Budapest now does the same for Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Orbán ally Andrej Babiš’s Czech government also refuses to back Denmark...
After years acting as a Trojan horse for Russia and China, Budapest now does the same for Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Orbán ally Andrej Babiš’s Czech government also refuses to back Denmark...
January 20, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Are they, in fact, acting out of submissiveness and lack of pride?
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In Accra for Ghana’s independence, VP Nixon “turned to the nearest Black man, slapped him on the shoulder, and asked what it felt like to be free. “I wouldn’t know, sir,” the man replied. “I’m from Alabama.””
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 PM
In Accra for Ghana’s independence, VP Nixon “turned to the nearest Black man, slapped him on the shoulder, and asked what it felt like to be free. “I wouldn’t know, sir,” the man replied. “I’m from Alabama.””
Quick tangent here - and I may get in trouble for saying this - but I've never understood why "dual loyalties" are a problem.
Leaking this in bad faith after the fact proves that they were correct not to pick him.
What a pathetic whiner. This is not an "all Jews have dual loyalty" bias, it's a "this specific dude was so into Israel that he implied he was in the IDF when he wasn't."
January 19, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Quick tangent here - and I may get in trouble for saying this - but I've never understood why "dual loyalties" are a problem.