On the Road

So, I’m about to go hide out in a friend’s converted monastery in Italy for a while. Not the one in the picture. I just grabbed that photo off the Internet. But an actual former monastery, or convent, or something. Anyway, it’s rent free, and a place where I hope to recuperate a bit from the stress of recent Kafkaesque events.

My friend’s offer to let me stay there for a while was just one of many kind offers and messages expressing support and donations to my legal defense fund that have been pouring in. If you are one of the people who have donated money, or signed up for a paid subscription to my Substack, or have sent me one of those messages of support, or have offered me sanctuary in the Italian countryside (yes, I have had more than one such offer), I do not know how to thank you properly. I am literally overwhelmed by your support and generosity, as in I get all teary writing sentences like this.

Thank you, from the depths of my heart and soul!

OK, this is clearly not one of my columns. I just wanted to say thank you before I hit the road, and let you know that I might not be publishing as much as usual during September (although I do plan to publish at least one column from the monastery).

And I wanted to tell you about an update to my Substack page.

See down there, under my name, those sections? There’s one for my Legal Defense Fund, and there’s a new one called Interviews. I’ve been doing a lot of those since I received the Order of Punishment from the Berlin District Court.

You can click on that section …

… and you’ll find a bunch of short posts with links to some of my interviews. I also added some old ones. I don’t want to flood my subscribers with emails about every interview I do, so I thought this was a good way to make some of them accessible without doing that, i.e., flooding.

I hope that will be of some interest to folks interested in listening to me ramble on and on about GloboCap, and the new totalitarianism, and the crackdown on dissent, and all the other stuff I usually ramble on and on about, and now also my court case.

I’ll do my best to keep it relatively up-to-date.

I’ve also created a section for non-column posts, like this one, called Oddments.

Yes, I’ve gone a little “section-happy,” but I want to keep the main page clean.

That’s it for now. Again, thank you so much for your generous support! It has given me strength, and has demonstrated to me that what I have been telling readers who sometimes write to me in states of emotional distress about how totalitarian things are rapidly becoming, and about how alone they feel being surrounded by this New Normal, as many of us are, is true.

We are not alone … we’re just widely scattered.

As we plow headlong into whatever comes next, let’s remember that, and raise our voices, together, and let all those who would silence us know how not alone we are.