Scott Stavrou

Expat Writer | Losing Venice, a novel | PEN Hemingway Award | Bd. Advisors, Write Away Europe Writers Retreats |

[Scott Stavrou @ScottStavrou]

Write Away Europe's upcoming #WritingRetreats in Italy and France. This Sept. in Tuscany is full but still spaces in 2025.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

The richest man in the world is sitting at the Resolute desk, about to defund your public school.

Trump should stop him.

[Scott Stavrou @ScottStavrou]

A little note to let you know I've moved to a nice new place: @scottstavrou.bsky.social

[Scott Stavrou @ScottStavrou]

I have jumped on the Bluesky bandwagon.... https://t.co/vnFNNUvJLh Hope to see you there. Casual dress. No gifts.

[Scott Stavrou @ScottStavrou]

@AvignonDr31522 You're so kind. I'm eagerly awaiting finishing it! Just signed up for Bluesky yesterday and looking forward to the civility.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”

- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

Pretty wild that we just went through an election where a top foreign adversary aggressively tried to stop Democrats from voting — including calling in bomb threats to swing state polling locations — and there’s zero media interest in learning what Trump plans to do about that.

[Scott Stavrou @ScottStavrou]

Thinking about putting a tariff on my tweets so they're cheaper.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Chin up, team. Take some time. Take care of yourself. Take care of your loved ones. Take care of your community.

There are a million ways to make a difference—get back in the fight when you’re ready.

And know that, whenever you are ready, I’ll be ready to get back in with you.

[Zena Keita @itszenakeita]

When people used to fail open-book tests in high school, I used to be genuinely confused.

I get it now.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Eight years ago this night, my son asked me: "What do we do now?"

I answered,

"We walk to the bar, strike up the band, and sing The Marseillaise."

These past few months, my plan for 2025 was to retire from political journalism.

Seems I'll have to make new plans.

[Scott Stavrou @ScottStavrou]

I am out of the country but I would like him to still consider me the enemy within.

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

Russia won the cold war. It just took them a while.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"This is PRECISELY the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write... That is how civilizations heal."

In these wordless hours, a lifeline from Toni Morrison worded 20 years ago: https://t.co/rsDH2BQzwX

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Democrats: First black president. First female vice president.

Repulicans: First convicted felon president.

[Scott Stavrou @ScottStavrou]

As an American who's lived in Europe for some time, America has never seemed further away.

[Scott Stavrou @ScottStavrou]

Sorry, world.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Scott Stavrou @ScottStavrou]

This didn't age well.

[Scott Stavrou @ScottStavrou]

Going to sleep. Here's hoping America wakes up before I do.