The Eternaut speaks to our uneasy times – that’s why this cult comic has become a global Netflix hit – Jordana Timerman

The Eternaut does not merely transpose alien invasion tropes on a new geography: it rewrites them. It about a lone hero who saves the day – it’s a story about how ordinary Argentines face existential threat - I write in @theguardian.com

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Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started | Jordana Timerman

Until Trump, none of Bukele’s would-be imitators had managed to get far. Trump understood is that the key isn’t the actual policies, but rather the sustained, brazen assault on the rule of law, which in itself appears to be “doing something” about the problems.

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OPINION @jordanatimerman.bsky.social “Nayib Bukele has shown how brutal control can be sustained not just through force, but by raising the cost of speaking out”. Are we but at the end of the prologue of the #Trump #fascism project? More, #democracy degradation? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...