@rberger@hachyderm.io2026-01-15 20:57:39
"So it’s not enough to equate Trump’s legions to the Gestapo or the Klan. (I’ve done both.) He also is the 21st-century version of Attila or Genghis Khan, heading a horde that is defined by an exterminationist loathing of cities and all that they stand for and promote. Their diversity, their toleration, their culture, their solidarity across racial and other lines—all are threats to the horde’s and its ruler’s autocratic monoculture. On the streets, the horde’s loathing manifests as indifference (at least) to the loss of city dwellers’ lives.
As it is the 21st century, and as we have an 18th-century Constitution, Trump’s impulse for city sacking Š la Attila is constrained by laws and customs, but he’s plainly determined to find ways around as many of those constraints as he possibly can. Correspondingly, a good share of the fear he’s engendered all across America has an ancient pedigree: It’s the fear of the barbarians at the gates."
#USPolitics
https://prospect.org/2026/01/15/attila-genghis-khan-trump/
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-12-16 19:27:50
Those are all wonderful films, but The Princess Bride is quite simply the perfect movie. @… https://flipboard.social/@CultureDesk/11572588…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-09 01:08:25
Iran plans water cuts for Tehran amid worst drought in decades
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251108-iran-plans-water-cuts-for-tehran-amid-worst-drought-in-decades
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-10 21:01:40
NFL reduces time between picks in draft's first round by 2 minutes: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6879500/2025/12/10/nfl-draft-cuts-time-first-round-2026/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-01 07:30:41
Sources: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could IPO in 2026; those three deals alone would exceed the total proceeds from roughly 200 US IPOs in 2025 (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bf607829-dca5-497d-b1a1-ca945d32a8c6
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-23 23:50:45
Trump calls off San Francisco ‘surge,’
but East Bay braces for action as protests erupt
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-23/trump-federal-forces-surge-san-francisco-east-bay
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-06 22:05:39
"Put up or shut up now": Walz unleashes after announcing political exit (Torey Van Oot/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2026/01/06/tim-walz-trump-republican-response-unleashed
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p126#a260106p126
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-11-10 11:36:59
@sillon_fictionnel@paperbay.org2025-12-31 11:57:14
La beauté n’est pas toujours évidente.
Il est difficile de dire qu’une toiture est une invitation Š la rêverie. Et pourtant, je suis toujours émerveillé par une vue sur les toits de Paris depuis une chambre d’hôtel. Pourquoi ?
🌊 lire la suite sur le Sillon https://sillon-fictionnel.club/post/pa
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-29 12:06:47
Patriots emerge as AFC East champions in a tale of two cities https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6924635/2025/12/29/patriots-jets-afc-east-champions-nfl-playoffs/