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As non-US-citizens abroad don’t have 1st Amendment rights, he knows he can get at you only through US travel. Nonetheless, keep at it, please: you are helping Americans at home. You can travel to the US after he is gone from power… by which time few there will even admit they actually voted for him.
December 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
As non-US-citizens abroad don’t have 1st Amendment rights, he knows he can get at you only through US travel. Nonetheless, keep at it, please: you are helping Americans at home. You can travel to the US after he is gone from power… by which time few there will even admit they actually voted for him.
Foreign news sources (especially British and Canadian) leapt in US popularity in 2025. US social media critics are no doubt next on his target agenda. Foreign news and foreign social users may soon be about the only places Americans in the US will see real criticism and laughter directed at him.
December 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Foreign news sources (especially British and Canadian) leapt in US popularity in 2025. US social media critics are no doubt next on his target agenda. Foreign news and foreign social users may soon be about the only places Americans in the US will see real criticism and laughter directed at him.
That is part of a wider effort to get allies to buy US major media to stifle criticism of him and humor at his expense. (And make him money, of course.) Americans are already getting less critical news of him not only from Trump-ally sources, but even from still independent, but fearful, sources.
December 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
That is part of a wider effort to get allies to buy US major media to stifle criticism of him and humor at his expense. (And make him money, of course.) Americans are already getting less critical news of him not only from Trump-ally sources, but even from still independent, but fearful, sources.
Obviously, this bunch can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
December 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Obviously, this bunch can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
7/7 Jefferson would be appalled by the current regime’s treatment of foreign visitors: Do NOT “come to America” right now.
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
7/7 Jefferson would be appalled by the current regime’s treatment of foreign visitors: Do NOT “come to America” right now.
6/7 I do not say this lightly, and it sickens me: My own head could not currently suggest in good conscience to you, if you are a foreigner, to travel to the US…
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
6/7 I do not say this lightly, and it sickens me: My own head could not currently suggest in good conscience to you, if you are a foreigner, to travel to the US…
5/7 As 2026 approaches, compared to any president in my recollection (and I’m old enough to remember Carter) Trump is engaged in a generalized turning of screws on foreign tourists, students, and academics that is unprecedented in its daily capriciousness, ugliness, and “nativist” brutality…
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
5/7 As 2026 approaches, compared to any president in my recollection (and I’m old enough to remember Carter) Trump is engaged in a generalized turning of screws on foreign tourists, students, and academics that is unprecedented in its daily capriciousness, ugliness, and “nativist” brutality…
4/7 Due to his five years in Europe, Jefferson had numerous French and Italian friends. He desired increased immigration from southern Europe. As VP, he fought Alien/Sedition Acts’ efforts from 1798-1801 to deport French refugees.
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
4/7 Due to his five years in Europe, Jefferson had numerous French and Italian friends. He desired increased immigration from southern Europe. As VP, he fought Alien/Sedition Acts’ efforts from 1798-1801 to deport French refugees.
3/7 The letter is full of "theys." Yet any adult reading it gets that he doesn't really care about seeing her (English) husband (who was about Jefferson's age). He is obviously mostly interested only in seeing her again - although obviously he doesn’t feel he can write *that*…
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
3/7 The letter is full of "theys." Yet any adult reading it gets that he doesn't really care about seeing her (English) husband (who was about Jefferson's age). He is obviously mostly interested only in seeing her again - although obviously he doesn’t feel he can write *that*…
2/7 He had fallen in love with her in Paris that summer and is writing there in the form of a "dialogue" between his "head" and his "heart." His "head" tells him that he wants "they" - meaning both her and her husband - to visit the US one day to sightsee with him…
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
2/7 He had fallen in love with her in Paris that summer and is writing there in the form of a "dialogue" between his "head" and his "heart." His "head" tells him that he wants "they" - meaning both her and her husband - to visit the US one day to sightsee with him…