A guarantee of speech is not the guarantee of platform.
Jane Fonda, artists slam Trump for Kennedy Center changes | NBC4 Washington youtube.com/watch
Fascinating
An appeals panel ruled that ICE did not wrongfully detain hundreds of immigrants in Minnesota. youtube.com/watch
Exoticism is the tendency to view cultures outside one’s own as strange, alluring, or fundamentally “other,” reducing them to aesthetic or symbolic objects. It romanticizes difference while flattening complexity, often reflecting more about the observer’s gaze than the reality of the people observed
“Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis” = “the exception proves the rule in cases not excepted.” Often attributed to Cicero, though the exact origin is debated. The modern cliché is “the exception proves the rule,” usually misunderstood.
America really sucks at being authoritarian.
America really sucks at being an authoritarian state. People talk stink about Trump all the time and they’re not thrown in jail. People go ahead and spit in the face of armored and weaponized people in the streets and don’t get shot in the face. America is the worst authoritarian country in the history of authoritarian countries. Not even one Kent State event in the last 50 years. I mean it’s really lazy. None of the late night show people are in a gulag. It’s all talk and rhetoric. Everybody is so sensitive. Then again, there are two million people in jails and prisons currently. That’s pretty authoritarian. But it’s been like that for decades. I don’t know man, when it comes to authoritarianism this is pretty underwhelming.
My view: this DHS shutdown was always about ICE. That is the leverage, the pawn, the whole ball of wax. Democrats are basically saying fund the rest, curb ICE. Republicans would be dumb to concede on the one thing the fight is actually about.
This is so cliché and derivative I can’t believe it. I wish the Chinese created better memes. This is way too OG socialist realist utopian that’s cartoon level trope. I fucking love it!
Fascinating.
Are Chicago Leaders Funding a Revolving Door for Crime? youtube.com/watch
When Great Britain and the BBC tells on itself?
They’re Coming For The Noticers youtube.com/watch
Meme warfare. ©America Fuck Yeah™® Must listen! pca.st/episode/6…
Concealed carry flips the script of “the wrong place wrong time.”
Sheridan Gorman was not in the wrong place at the wrong time. The system failed her. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/2…
A predicted inevitability.
A new study looks at the impact of CALIFORNIA’S $20 fast food MINIMUM WAGE youtube.com/watch
I really liked Starfleet Academy. I thought it was inventive, and honestly it probably should’ve been about high school kids, not college kids, because it basically plays like a high school show anyway. I’m sad to see it go, and it’s weird calling it canceled when season 2 still exists.
What tearing down Cesar Chavez symbolizes
For the last decade, the people torn down in effigy have mostly been Confederate generals, slaveholders, segregationists, and other plainly racist white villains. Now Chavez gets the same symbolic treatment. Whatever the details, the public reads the signal, not the footnotes. If he is handled like them, many people will assume he belongs in the same moral category. That is how symbolism works: it flattens distinct histories into one shared judgment.
Hilarity ensues.
Federal ICE agents deployed to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport for the first time Monday, sparking immediate controversy and protest www.fox5atlanta.com/news/prot…
Amazing speech on academia and economics.
Professor Lucas Engelhardt examines how mainstream economics has deliberately abandoned the history of economic thought. pca.st/episode/a…
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. After years of framing Joe Biden as cognitively impaired, trying the same line on Trump just feels recycled. The shot’s already been fired. It doesn’t land twice—it just reads as derivative, not devastating.
It used to feel like the right argued morality and the left argued reason, science, and progress. Now the left talks like a secular church, obsessed with sin, purity, victims, and moral status. Politics is no longer just policy. It’s a nonstop fight over who is more righteous.
