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Kris

Je me change les idées en créant du jdr, mais non lié à Dans l'ombre d'Excalibur pour une fois. Non, là je bosse sur Céans. Céans est un BoB inspiré de Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast qui se déroule à Cherbourg en 1561-1562. On va suivre le parcours de 12 habitant.es de la ville pendant un an. Chaque mois correspond à un Chapitre. Chaque Chapitre met en avant un des Personnages et ses questionnements. Des piliers thématiques viennent compléter l'environnement narratif:
- la Violence permanente
- la Vie quotidienne malgré tout
- la Conviction religieuse
- la Ville
- l'Abbaye
- la Mer
- la loyauté au Roi
- la loyauté au Pape
- les loyautés personnelles

Côté gameplay, c'est encore peu défini, pour l'instant je reste sur de l'éprouvé: chaque joueuse cadre une Scène (lieu, moment, enjeux) que l'on explore ensuite.
Ce n'est pas encore testé du tout.

#JDR #jdrhistorique #BoB #XVIe

Chuck Darwin

Social scientist and author #Bob #Putnam has pointed out that
❇️ the Gilded Age ended only when a spirit of progressive reform
“began in ordinary small towns in the middle of America and then spread from there.”

Simply put, we cannot wait for someone else to bring Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg, and their ilk to heel.

Putnam reminded us:
“What we learned from [the Gilded Age] is that history is not determined by something outside.

We think that the critical factor is really citizen agency
—that the choices that individual people make will, in fact, determine whether we end up on one path or another.”

He urged:
⭐️“Don’t be cynical. Don’t think that this is all determined by somebody else.
Working with others, you can make a difference because people exactly like you, people of the same age as you, changed things the last time.”

Our task to recapture democracy begins in earnest today.
-- @JenRubin
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-

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Reverend Elvis

Got a letter today from the CEOof the Church of the #SubGenius and the last of the pre-investigativ Journalists of today from Rev. Onan #Canobite aka @onan. He and the other followers are pure Subgeniuses And they wrote exactly what I told them to say, and I didn't say anything. This is what post-postmodern #journalism should look like. Donate them at subgenius.com/ - get eternal salvation or triple money back! #Believe them like I do! Praise #Bob for his mercy! #dobbs #dobbstown #real

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Chuck Darwin

For all Trump’s success in winning back reluctant conservative billionaires,
many of them have seen firsthand the ways in which his erratic behavior
and anti-market ideas
could disrupt their businesses and the wider economy.

After Trump became President, he asked Schwarzman to enlist high-profile business executives to serve on an advisory council.

The participants included #Musk;
#Jamie #Dimon, the C.E.O. of JPMorgan Chase;
#Mary #Barra, of General Motors;
#Bob #Iger, of Disney;
#Larry #Fink, of BlackRock;
and #Jack #Welch, the former C.E.O. of General Electric.

It was a perfect Trump setup:

the biggest brand names in American business would come to the White House,
kiss his ring,
and offer free advice.

But, as one of the panel’s members recalled,
the first session quickly devolved into an argument between Trump and several participants over his false allegation that China was manipulating its currency.

In the summer of 2017, following Trump’s comments about there being
“very fine people on both sides” of the white-supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia,
the group convened an emergency call and decided to disband.

After Schwarzman conveyed the news to the White House, Trump preëmptively tweeted that he had decided to shut the group down.

Early this summer, Trump’s campaign surprised the Business Roundtable,
a members-only organization of corporate C.E.O.s,
with a last-minute acceptance for the ex-President to appear at the group’s quarterly meeting in Washington.

Andrew Ross Sorkin, the Times’ financial columnist and a host of “Squawk Box,” on CNBC,
reported that even C.E.O.s at the meeting who were sympathetic to Trump had found the former President 🔸uninformed and ♦️“remarkably meandering.”

A source in the room told me that Trump’s digressions included complaints about his court cases and “crazy rants about Venezuelan immigrants.”

Soon after the event, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
a professor at Yale University who tracks the political preferences of America’s corporate leaders,
wrote in an op-ed for the Times that not a single Fortune 100 C.E.O. had donated to Trump by June of this year,
something he called a “telling data point.”

In fact, Sonnenfeld argued, the lack of giving to Trump from traditional Republican donors in the business community was the real fund-raising story,
“a major break from overwhelming business and executive support for Republican Presidential candidates dating back over a century.”

Sonnenfeld told me that such giving “fell off a cliff” when Trump became the Party’s nominee
—going from more than a quarter of Fortune 100 C.E.O.s in 2012,
when Mitt Romney was the G.O.P. candidate,
💥to zero in 2016.

In 2020, he noted, only two Fortune 100 C.E.O.s had given to Trump
—someone in the energy sector who is no longer running his company
and #Safra #Catz, the C.E.O. of the Oracle software corporation.

One lobbyist who speaks with many corporate C.E.O.s told me,
“Unanimously, they hate the Biden Administration’s policies.
But I think almost unanimously they would much rather deal with that than the risk of catastrophic disaster from a Trump Administration.”

By fall, the only Business Roundtable member publicly backing Trump was Schwarzman.

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Chuck Darwin

Republican Senate candidate’s hedge fund managed $415m in Russian debt

#David #McCormick, the Republican candidate for US Senate in #Pennsylvania,
led the largest hedge fund in the world while it managed and advised funds holding hundreds of millions of dollars in Russian debt,
documents obtained by the Guardian show.

Filings with the US Department of Labor, known as "form 5500s", show that ⚠️from 2017 to 2021, #Bridgewater #Associates managed funds holding as much as $415m in Russian sovereign bonds.

Since 2019 👉these types of investment have been subject to increasingly stringent US #sanctions, in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Holding such assets is not illegal, but ♦️the question of McCormick’s work with foreign investments and how it might influence his political career has already coloured his current campaign, against the incumbent Democratic senator, #Bob #Casey.

McCormick stepped down as Bridgewater CEO in 2022, in order to run for Congress and a month before Russia mounted a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

But sanctions were first levied three years before that when, according to the firm itself, as co-CEO from 2017 to 2020 and then as sole CEO, McCormick was responsible for “overseeing the firm’s strategy, governance, and operations”.

McCormick himself has saidabout his time as Bridgewater boss: “Whatever we did I’m responsible for.”
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/o

The Guardian · Republican Senate candidate’s hedge fund managed $415m in Russian debtBy Martin Pengelly
Chuck Darwin

Since the start of the year, there have been
$723 million worth of campaign ad buys
for just three Senate races:
in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Montana, according to AdImpact data.

A fierce battle for control of the Senate is fueling the expected record-breaking ad spending this election cycle.

The investment so far points to the races both parties deem most critical for the majority.

Democrats have long held a fundraising advantage over Republicans, which is helping them play defense in nine competitive Senate races.

Ohio is the only Senate race in which Republicans have been spending more than Democrats on campaign ads and reservations
— though this is largely due to it having one of the only highly competitive Senate GOP primaries this year.
Republican Bernie Moreno won the Ohio primary and will face Democratic incumbent Sen. #Sherrod #Brown in November.

The showdowns between Sen. #Bob #Casey (D) and Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania
and Sen. #Jon #Tester (D) and Tim Sheehy in Montana
come in second and third for ad spending and booking for both parties, so far.

The $70.5 million of spending in California was driven by heated Senate primary. Rep. #Adam #Schiff (D-Calif.) is expected to have an easy general election in November.

Totals include ad reservations made so far through Election Day, though those reservations are expected to keep coming.

axios.com/2024/08/07/senate-ca

Axios · 2024's priciest Senate racesBy Stef W. Kight
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