Donald Trump Is Waging War Against Human Conscience. “The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late — neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/14/donald-trump-plato-gender-education
Donald Trump is waging war against human conscience

The Trump administration’s assaults on liberty are the kinds of abuses that spurred the American revolution that the nation will commemorate this year

The Guardian

@kottke

To Trump our lives are worth nothing. Women are just fucking bitches and to any man who opposes him he just says, "Fuck you".

@kottke Great essay. “The lust for mud”instantly reminded me of the orcs being birthed scene in LotR.