Laurent Enckell
@lenckell.bsky.social
In my eighties but still relatively sane. Living in Paris.
The ship of state is suffering from several leaks. Can it stay afloat ?
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April 6, 2025 (Sunday)
After President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements on April 2 wiped $5 trillion dollars from the stock market, the Republican Party is scrambling.
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April 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The ship of state is suffering from several leaks. Can it stay afloat ?
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Trumbu toi.
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Ubu roi — Wikipédia
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April 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Trumbu toi.
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fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubu_roi
There used to be this game in the sixties where we divided the world into creeps and assholes. Like Nixon=creep, LBJ=asshole. How would it apply today?
Trump = asshole
Musk = creep
JD Vance = asshole
Marco Rubio = creep
etc.
Trump = asshole
Musk = creep
JD Vance = asshole
Marco Rubio = creep
etc.
March 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
There used to be this game in the sixties where we divided the world into creeps and assholes. Like Nixon=creep, LBJ=asshole. How would it apply today?
Trump = asshole
Musk = creep
JD Vance = asshole
Marco Rubio = creep
etc.
Trump = asshole
Musk = creep
JD Vance = asshole
Marco Rubio = creep
etc.
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January 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
What is this, in the middle of a NYTimes article on is web site:
"Advertisement will go here, if sold. A horizontal rule will appear above the ad by default. Please place at a break in the content, where a horizontal rule exists below."
"Advertisement will go here, if sold. A horizontal rule will appear above the ad by default. Please place at a break in the content, where a horizontal rule exists below."
January 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
What is this, in the middle of a NYTimes article on is web site:
"Advertisement will go here, if sold. A horizontal rule will appear above the ad by default. Please place at a break in the content, where a horizontal rule exists below."
"Advertisement will go here, if sold. A horizontal rule will appear above the ad by default. Please place at a break in the content, where a horizontal rule exists below."
0K now, NYT - gift artcle
The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
Opinion | The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms (Gift Article)
It echoes another era of extreme inequality and extreme violence.
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December 6, 2024 at 6:47 PM
0K now, NYT - gift artcle
The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
Not to belabor the point, but one billion is one thousand million.
December 6, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Not to belabor the point, but one billion is one thousand million.
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December 5, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Exactly. When I read this, I hear music.
This reminds me a lot of Veryln Klinkenborg’s “Several Short Sentences About Writing” which several academics who have written gorgeous trade books I admire recommended to me when I started attempting to do the same…
December 3, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Exactly. When I read this, I hear music.
Three-hundred year old ragtime
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4p...
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J.S. Bach: Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826: VI. Capriccio (Recorded 2018)
YouTube video by Angela Hewitt - Topic
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December 1, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Three-hundred year old ragtime
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4p...
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Obscenely wealthy individual fails to grasp what it means to be poor. A common occurrence.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/n...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/n...
Art Collector Who Bought a $6 Million Banana Offers to Buy 100,000 More
The vendor who sold the banana only received a quarter for the fruit. Now the buyer of the conceptual work has offered his fruit stand a bigger payday.
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Obscenely wealthy individual fails to grasp what it means to be poor. A common occurrence.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/n...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/n...
"Character is what you do when you think no one is looking."
How would Trump’s cabinet nominees fare in an FBI background check? Read my latest and find out! open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
How Bad are Trump's Nominees? Ask Carla F.
An insider look at the FBI's secret sauce for conducting background checks, and why Trump hates it.
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November 27, 2024 at 4:32 PM
"Character is what you do when you think no one is looking."
Jim Stonekettle Wright at his best. Dystopian.
New Essay up on Stonekettle Station: The War On Tomatoes, Trump's plan to use tariffs to socially engineer America.
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The War On Tomatoes
The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it's a failure is that any kid can get almost any drug they want...
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November 26, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Jim Stonekettle Wright at his best. Dystopian.
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It happened before... With at best mixed results
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November 11, 2024 at 8:54 PM
It happened before... With at best mixed results
www.history.com/news/operati...
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