The German word for a turkey is Truthahn, which (possibly) means "threatening chicken". Hahn is the chicken part (rooster, more specifically). And there’s debate whether the word trut is just onomatopoeic (trut-trut-trut sound turkeys might make) or comes from the middle German droten (to threaten).
November 28, 2024 at 4:31 PM
The German word for a turkey is Truthahn, which (possibly) means "threatening chicken". Hahn is the chicken part (rooster, more specifically). And there’s debate whether the word trut is just onomatopoeic (trut-trut-trut sound turkeys might make) or comes from the middle German droten (to threaten).
“Anti-choice zealots can file as many cases as they want. In New York, we protect our providers,” Hochul recently wrote on X. “Let me be clear: we will never comply with Louisiana’s extradition request. Not now, not ever.”
The NYT published a missing chapter of the DNC “autopsy,” titled “What Happened in 2024” which offers criticisms of party consultants who are “self-enriching” and out of touch with the concerns of ordinary voters.
President Donald Trump made nearly 30,000 stock trades since his return to office in January 2025, marking a far higher volume of trades than all 535 members of Congress combined, a new analysis finds.
When the post mortem is done (if we survive this), it'll be one heck of an indictment of our culture that the guy who failed and/or engaged in adjudicated fraud in literally EVERY real world business endeavor, and whose ONLY success was a staged "reality" TV show, was viewed a smart businessman.
State of Minnesota charging (i) the agent who initially committed assault & battery on all three protesters in the videos and (ii) those who fired shots (1st/2nd degree murder) is clearly the correct institutional response.
That would create space to avoid a violent/in-kind response.