Samuel Caveen
@caveen.com
Strategic Designer & Researcher. Fmr: Meta, OMD. MSc Politics & Communication (Class of 2020), LSE. Flag enthusiast. Trekkie. Bylines: @thetimes.com, @the-independent.com, @newstatesman.com
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We are doing our best not to dismember any more journalists with bone saws www.ft.com/content/dc11...
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are doing our best not to dismember any more journalists with bone saws www.ft.com/content/dc11...
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This was one of Trump's very worst moments. And that is saying something.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This was one of Trump's very worst moments. And that is saying something.
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big, multicultural cities - they're good!
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
big, multicultural cities - they're good!
Giving the Peace Prize to a Venezuelan democracy campaigner is ice cold under these circumstances.
Is Brendan Carr going to threaten the Nobel Committee now?
Is Brendan Carr going to threaten the Nobel Committee now?
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Giving the Peace Prize to a Venezuelan democracy campaigner is ice cold under these circumstances.
Is Brendan Carr going to threaten the Nobel Committee now?
Is Brendan Carr going to threaten the Nobel Committee now?
The way things are going, I wouldn't be too surprised if the Trump administration did a missile strike on US soil before the 2028 election.
Perhaps in a suburban building in a blue city (Seattle or Portland?), where they say a ‘Hamas-sympathising antifa cell’ was planning an attack, or something.
Perhaps in a suburban building in a blue city (Seattle or Portland?), where they say a ‘Hamas-sympathising antifa cell’ was planning an attack, or something.
October 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
October 9, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.
Ah yes, fixing the crippling housing supply problem by...
*reads teleprompter*
...further increasing demand!
*reads teleprompter*
...further increasing demand!
After spraying around spending commitments like they are water, Badenoch claims they are so credible they have room for one more...abolishing stamp duty. (They do not have room for one more.)
October 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Ah yes, fixing the crippling housing supply problem by...
*reads teleprompter*
...further increasing demand!
*reads teleprompter*
...further increasing demand!
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Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?
October 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?
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"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!"
If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?
If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?
What Do We Have To Lose
If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him? Plus: some natural borders; and the non-existence of grey, and other letters.
jonn.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!"
If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?
If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?
It’s always ‘we don’t have a problem with *legal* migrants’, right before targeting legal migrants.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas, with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It’s always ‘we don’t have a problem with *legal* migrants’, right before targeting legal migrants.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The way things are going, I wouldn't be too surprised if the Trump administration did a missile strike on US soil before the 2028 election.
Perhaps in a suburban building in a blue city (Seattle or Portland?), where they say a ‘Hamas-sympathising antifa cell’ was planning an attack, or something.
Perhaps in a suburban building in a blue city (Seattle or Portland?), where they say a ‘Hamas-sympathising antifa cell’ was planning an attack, or something.
September 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The way things are going, I wouldn't be too surprised if the Trump administration did a missile strike on US soil before the 2028 election.
Perhaps in a suburban building in a blue city (Seattle or Portland?), where they say a ‘Hamas-sympathising antifa cell’ was planning an attack, or something.
Perhaps in a suburban building in a blue city (Seattle or Portland?), where they say a ‘Hamas-sympathising antifa cell’ was planning an attack, or something.
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It was also just incredibly shortsighted because if your second or third thought in response to 10/7 wasn’t “oh my god they’re probably going to kill so many fucking people in response to this”, you’re either dumb or awful. I don’t have any special expertise on the conflict and I knew that!
I actually think it's extremely difficult to qualify whether certain activist actions "hurt the cause" or whatever; really my objection to the way some acquaintances of mine reacted following 10/7 is that it revealed a careless appetite for violence that made me never really wanna get closer to them
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It was also just incredibly shortsighted because if your second or third thought in response to 10/7 wasn’t “oh my god they’re probably going to kill so many fucking people in response to this”, you’re either dumb or awful. I don’t have any special expertise on the conflict and I knew that!
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You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI.
The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.
The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.
China's July 2025 solar production was ~50% higher than its July 2024 solar output!
China's solar generated 839 TWh in 2024 and will likely exceed 1,200 TWh in 2025.
China's solar will generate in 2025 an amount of electricity equal to about 27% of USA's electricity demand. #energysky
China's solar generated 839 TWh in 2024 and will likely exceed 1,200 TWh in 2025.
China's solar will generate in 2025 an amount of electricity equal to about 27% of USA's electricity demand. #energysky
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI.
The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.
The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.
Remember, South Yorkshire Police didn't prosecute the grooming gangs because they were ‘too woke’...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Police officers ‘also abused’ Rotherham grooming gang victims
One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car.
www.bbc.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Remember, South Yorkshire Police didn't prosecute the grooming gangs because they were ‘too woke’...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Pro-Israeli apologists for their crimes, seeking to portray every critic (including Jewish ones like me) as anti-Semites, often will ask, "Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?" My answer is "Do you believe these murdered Palestinian children had a right to exist?"
The head of Gaza's largest hospital on Tuesday said 21 children have died due to malnutrition and starvation in the Palestinian territory in the past three days, while Israel pressed a devastating assault ➡️ u.afp.com/Sgkj
July 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Pro-Israeli apologists for their crimes, seeking to portray every critic (including Jewish ones like me) as anti-Semites, often will ask, "Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?" My answer is "Do you believe these murdered Palestinian children had a right to exist?"
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The Plot to Enslave America
Trump’s project to eliminate opposition media outlets and figures comes straight from Orban. The playbook is to:
- Use the law to force media owners to sell their companies to pro-regime oligarchs
- Assert control over (or defund) public media
It’s not censorship, it’s pro-regime oligarchy.
- Use the law to force media owners to sell their companies to pro-regime oligarchs
- Assert control over (or defund) public media
It’s not censorship, it’s pro-regime oligarchy.
July 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Plot to Enslave America
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I’m not religious at all but I know Stephen Colbert is and he has always seemed the sort to exhibit the very best of faith, and it’s a tragedy that politically active Christians in this country don’t follow the example set by a person like him rather than one of the most venal and depraved men alive
July 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I’m not religious at all but I know Stephen Colbert is and he has always seemed the sort to exhibit the very best of faith, and it’s a tragedy that politically active Christians in this country don’t follow the example set by a person like him rather than one of the most venal and depraved men alive
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This thread is incredibly gross to see all together.
It’s one thing to “know.”
It’s a whole other thing to look at all of this in the middle of Trump acting guilty about the Epstein files - and to see the birthday card in light of these other stories detailing things he said.
It’s one thing to “know.”
It’s a whole other thing to look at all of this in the middle of Trump acting guilty about the Epstein files - and to see the birthday card in light of these other stories detailing things he said.
ok everyone's seen the trump with epstein photos by now, after years of the media pretending they didn't exist. good progress. next step is making sure everyone who is like "uh this all is sketchy but surely the president isn't literally a pedophile" sees this gross photo
July 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This thread is incredibly gross to see all together.
It’s one thing to “know.”
It’s a whole other thing to look at all of this in the middle of Trump acting guilty about the Epstein files - and to see the birthday card in light of these other stories detailing things he said.
It’s one thing to “know.”
It’s a whole other thing to look at all of this in the middle of Trump acting guilty about the Epstein files - and to see the birthday card in light of these other stories detailing things he said.
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the connections trump had to multiple "modeling agencies" that were actually fronts for human trafficking is pretty interesting! i mean, maybe not AS interesting as the question of whether tim walz visited china in may or june of 1989, but like, at least moderately newsworthy imho
The modeling agency discussed in this article is the one that Ivanka started working for when she was 14. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
the connections trump had to multiple "modeling agencies" that were actually fronts for human trafficking is pretty interesting! i mean, maybe not AS interesting as the question of whether tim walz visited china in may or june of 1989, but like, at least moderately newsworthy imho
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
Someone start a “Death to the IRGC” chant – I want to test something.
June 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Someone start a “Death to the IRGC” chant – I want to test something.
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This is a real tension in the right wing coalition. The racist wing wants honest to God deportations of all Latinos, the business wing wants *the threat of* deportations as a way to create a group of second class laborers they can exploit with no rights.
June 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This is a real tension in the right wing coalition. The racist wing wants honest to God deportations of all Latinos, the business wing wants *the threat of* deportations as a way to create a group of second class laborers they can exploit with no rights.
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NEW
Trump is mobilising federal troops against US citizens with no clear legal basis
Yet the president’s latest constitutional outrage barely registers on the news
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(With added Wodehouse.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Trump is mobilising federal troops against US citizens with no clear legal basis
Yet the president’s latest constitutional outrage barely registers on the news
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(With added Wodehouse.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
June 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
NEW
Trump is mobilising federal troops against US citizens with no clear legal basis
Yet the president’s latest constitutional outrage barely registers on the news
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(With added Wodehouse.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Trump is mobilising federal troops against US citizens with no clear legal basis
Yet the president’s latest constitutional outrage barely registers on the news
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(With added Wodehouse.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...