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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/31/us/trump-deals-policy-conflicts-web.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFA.Nggr…

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.

Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
#USpol

The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

@… For better and worse, the geopolitical situation also seems to have been the final push that some folks out there needed to ask themselves why their whole lives rely on American SaaS.
And while I hate the situation that got us there, it’s heartening to see some folks ask themselves that question.

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You try and help. You try and make things a little better in whatever small way you can. You think, “hey, maybe at least there will be some respite now… maybe things can start to get better” and, just as your foolish little brain starts to believe it, the fuckers who fuck everything up for everyone but themselves – and somehow are never held to account for any of it – go and fuck things up even further. It’s fucking depressing. I mean I don’t know how we’re not all just fucking depressed eve…

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
—Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

California's 2024 Google deal to fund journalism is tangled in budget cuts, infighting, and questions over who controls money, leaving journalists empty-handed (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/01/california…

Fascism isn’t some distant or hypothetical threat
— it is already here.
Unmarked vans and masked agents snatch students off the streets without due process.
Judges and lawyers are intimidated.
The most powerful institutions in society
— universities, tech firms, law firms, billionaires, legislators
— preemptively prostrate themselves to an autocratic leader’s whims,
not because they are forced to,
but because they calculate that accommodatio…

The Hardest Part of Fighting Fascism Comes After the Fascists Have Fallen
Having lived in Argentina after dictatorship, I know restoring democracy requires far more than just deposing fascists.