@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/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-12-15 14:45:57
Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2026-02-15 00:30:02
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social2026-02-15 17:11:12
A satisfying outcome of being a scientist is when an organically developed collaborative project comes to fruition, and an early career researcher seizes an opportunity to publish new findings. This is the case for Anthony Arsenault who found that across the Great Lakes, ice stores different levels of dissolved organic matter, which can be very important to microbes during melt to jump-start spring production.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-13 18:35:53
A bipartisan bill agrees to provide $653M to USAGM, down from $867M in 2025, but over Trump's $153M request, as part of a package needing Congressional approval (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/13/vo…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-13 12:30:43
Congress agrees to fund Voice of America, bucking Trump shutdown order (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/13/voice-of-america-trump-congress-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p15#a260113p15
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-12-08 21:55:39
High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/high-levels-of-forever-chemical-found-in-cereal-products-across-europe-study<…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-09 20:18:09
Please apply pressure to electeds, urging them to aggressively pursue state charges against ICE officers, in defiance of the FBI if necessary.
Many of them already want this. State AG is already taking steps to do this. Apply the pressure anyway; the pressure helps.
If you live in Minnesota:
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #MSP
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-09 18:25:55
The Public Media Bridge Fund awards $26M across 74 organizations that operate more than 180 public radio and TV stations (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/12/public-media-bridge-fund-announces-initial-round-of-grants/
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-01-11 20:56:49
Sleeping less than 7 hours could cut years off your life #health
