# Chris Abraham > Follow @chrisa on Micro.blog. --- # 2026-08-05 *2026-08-05* — https://chrisa.org/2026/08/05/confessions-of-a-redletter-christian.html Confessions of a Red-Letter Christian I spent years on the vestry of an Episcopal church and never had the insights I got from forty minutes with the actual text [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/confess...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/confessions-of-a-red-letter-christian) --- # 2026-08-05 *2026-08-05* — https://chrisa.org/2026/08/05/america-afghanistan-why-the-us.html America = Afghanistan > Why the U.S. drains and buries movements the same way Afghanistan buries empires [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/america...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/america-afghanistan?r=aqj1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) --- # 2026-08-04 *2026-08-04* — https://chrisa.org/2026/08/04/i-love-lioness-its-killer.html I love Lioness! It's killer 5'2" 90lb fierce covert tier-1 operator porn. I missed season 2. They're already at season 3. Sweet! Two seasons left! I'm in! --- # 2026-08-04 *2026-08-04* — https://chrisa.org/2026/08/04/a-pagan-in-messiahs-clothing.html A Pagan in Messiah's Clothing? > Rome didn't sneak paganism into Christianity. It dissolved Christianity into the paganism that was already there [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/pagan-in-messiahs-clothing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-08-04 *2026-08-04* — https://chrisa.org/2026/08/04/there-is-no-such-thing.html There Is No Such Thing As A Good Man With A Gun? What happened in Twin Falls, and the argument it started [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/there-i...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-good) --- # 2026-08-03 *2026-08-03* — https://chrisa.org/2026/08/03/nobody-ever-looks-in-the.html Nobody Ever Looks in the Mirror and Sees Judas > Every betrayer goes home that night believing he’s the last honest man in the room [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/nobody-ever-looks-in-the-mirror-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-08-02 *2026-08-02* — https://chrisa.org/2026/08/02/sorry-haters-i-love-super.html Sorry, haters, I love Super Girl—I finally saw it with my own eyeballs. --- # 2026-08-02 *2026-08-02* — https://chrisa.org/2026/08/02/the-footnote-miracle-five-thousand.html The Footnote Miracle: Five thousand strangers ambushed a grieving man in the wilderness—and the real miracle wasn’t the bread, it was that he didn’t turn the boat around [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-foo...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-footnote-miracle) --- # 2026-08-02 *2026-08-02* — https://chrisa.org/2026/08/02/warning-warning-warning-theyre-going.html Warning warning warning they're going to be too many substats today coming from me. I apologize in advance. It was a very busy Sunday morning. --- # 2026-08-01 *2026-08-01* — https://chrisa.org/2026/08/01/i-feel-like-nobody-i.html I feel like nobody I follow is talking about Sugar on Apple+ --- # 2026-07-31 *2026-07-31* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/31/shoenhead-is-yearsold-i-survived.html Shoe0nHead is 12-years-old! > I Survived 'Woke 1.0'—The First Culture War [youtube.com/watch](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6okTQ6edZ8M&si=nT1bhAbSxSn6tdLW) --- # 2026-07-31 *2026-07-31* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/31/the-cockblock-of-history-joe.html The Cockblock of History > Joe Biden had the legal power to make Kamala Harris president two years early. He didn't do it out of defiance, not just vanity. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-cockblock-of-history?r=aqj1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) --- # 2026-07-30 *2026-07-30* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/30/so-iran-is-proice-maga.html So Iran is pro-ICE MAGA now? > reaking news: Iran is likely behind cyberattack on Minnesota water systems, U.S. says [www.nytimes.com/2026/07/3...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/minnesota-water-cyberattack-iran.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260730&instance_id=179576&nl=breaking-news)®i_id=68038104&segment_id=223933&user_id=43b188223c20b83024b329424895e8df --- # 2026-07-29 *2026-07-29* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/29/in-america-had-million-people.html In 1950 America had 151 million people. When I was born in 1970 it was 203 million. Today it's about 348 million: more than double 1950, up 70% since 1970. That's 145 million more people since I was born, mostly through immigration, while our flagship institutions barely scaled up. --- # 2026-07-29 *2026-07-29* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/29/044428.html Unintended consequences—or intended? [www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8tGL7...](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8tGL7Mj/) --- # 2026-07-28 *2026-07-28* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/28/nice-guys-never-are-why.html Nice Guys Never Are > Why the word you're afraid of being called and the word you actually want mean opposite things [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/nice-guys-never-are?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-28 *2026-07-28* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/28/the-fubu-face-why-seeing.html The FUBU Face > Why seeing what women actually say to each other didn't make dating more honest—it made it impossible [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-fubu-face?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-28 *2026-07-28* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/28/the-protected-species-they-call.html The Protected Species > They call it a "protected class." Critics have started calling it something else: a "protected species." That jab isn't a joke—it's the whole argument. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-protected-species?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-28 *2026-07-28* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/28/the-empathy-loyalty-test-the.html The Empathy Loyalty Test > The Economist thinks the right hates a feeling. What it actually hates is a shibboleth. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-empathy-loyalty-test?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-28 *2026-07-28* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/28/the-terrarium-why-new-york.html The Terrarium > Why New York is the only American city where the most regressive men and the most liberated women share the same six feet of sidewalk [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-terrarium?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-28 *2026-07-28* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/28/saw-the-skit-reprehensible-was.html Saw the skit. Reprehensible. Was this skit from 1960? > ‘Seinfeld’ star Jason Alexander apologized for an inappropriate sketch with 17-year-old married Courtney Stodden.https://people.com/jason-alexander-apologizes-for-inappropriate-funny-or-die-sketch-with-teen-courtney-stodden-12024419 --- # 2026-07-27 *2026-07-27* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/27/femme-formidable-sunny-ray-the.html Femme Formidable Sunny Ray, the Hors-Flesh, and the Body That Won't Stay Still > She built an audience on an engineered body, then started defacing it on purpose—and the internet still can't decide which version to believe. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/femme-formidable-sunny-ray-the-hors?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-27 *2026-07-27* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/27/they-could-have-just-fired.html They could have just fired the designerly-AF glasses. They always have them. I had them when I was designerly as well. > Cracker Barrel Chief Executive Who Oversaw Logo Change Steps Down: Julie Masino faced backlash online when the company tried to shed its old-timey image. David Deno, a former chief of Bloomin’ Brands, will take over. [www.nytimes.com/2026/07/2...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/business/cracker-barrel-julie-masino.html) --- # 2026-07-27 *2026-07-27* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/27/the-death-of-one-man.html "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic" —Joseph Stalin> Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accountinghttps://www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/politics/iran-war-casualties --- # 2026-07-25 *2026-07-25* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/25/fair-enough-the-word-doing.html Fair Enough > The word doing all the work in "fair enough" is "enough." [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/fair-enough?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-25 *2026-07-25* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/25/very-silly-aoc-said-the.html "Very Silly" > AOC said the thing. She said the thing. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/very-silly?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-24 *2026-07-24* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/24/disclosure-day-drips-with-hitchcocks.html Disclosure Day drips with Hitchcock's color-era DNA—Kodak-saturated frames, patient blocking, dread built through composition not noise. Haven't finished it yet, but 30 years of Art Bell primed me for this one. It's already one of the most visually compelling disclosure narratives put to film. --- # 2026-07-24 *2026-07-24* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/24/the-diorama-builds-itself-a.html The Diorama Builds Itself > A cartoon about the year 2300 is actually a museum exhibit under construction right now, by the same kind of person who built all the ones we've since apologized for [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-diorama-builds-itself?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-24 *2026-07-24* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/24/praying-with-your-fists-up.html Praying With Your Fists Up > Punching down was supposed to mean punching the powerless. Follow the rule far enough and it turns out to be a religion instead [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/praying-with-your-fists-up?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-24 *2026-07-24* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/24/nothing-comes-in-or-out.html Nothing Comes In or Out > On toil, Etsy, and why every disruptor eventually becomes the guild it once broke [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/nothing-comes-in-or-out?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-23 *2026-07-23* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/23/i-had-no-clue-that.html I had no clue that John passed away on the day I randomly posted a No Agenda Show primer. Quelle coïncidence. Crazy. > Push The Button, Chucklehead [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/push-the-button-chucklehead) --- # 2026-07-23 *2026-07-23* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/23/ive-been-watching-no-agenda.html I've been watching No Agenda since 2008—and I'm a Knight—and I just discovered that my beloved John C Dvorak passed away days ago. Live on the show. Right now. Love you, Brother. Miss you already. --- # 2026-07-22 *2026-07-22* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/22/if-you-really-do-want.html If you really do want full acceptance, try not being such an insufferable dick all the time to everyone. --- # 2026-07-22 *2026-07-22* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/22/the-dsa-isnt-confused-its.html The #DSA Isn't Confused. It's Correcting. > Give them this much: they figured out what went wrong, and they fixed it. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-dsa-isnt-confused-its-correcting?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-22 *2026-07-22* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/22/simple-yank-all-federal-funding.html Simple: yank all federal funding: "Republicans in House DOGE subcommittee excoriate a Smithsonian administrator" [www.npr.org/2026/07/2...](https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5902101/smithsonian-house-hearing) --- # 2026-07-22 *2026-07-22* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/22/the-parasite-was-always-the.html The Parasite Was Always the Insurgency > A year ago the accusation was "hostile takeover." Now it's "parasite." Same charge, new noun, same people making it. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-parasite-was-always-the-insurgency?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-21 *2026-07-21* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/21/unlimited-shrimp-for-all-damola.html Unlimited Shrimp For All > Damola Adamolekun for President, 2028, or the closest thing the Constitution will let him have. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/unlimited-shrimp-for-everyone?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-21 *2026-07-21* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/21/papers-please-america-is-the.html Papers, Please > America is the only country on earth that thinks a membership check is a manhunt. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/papers-please?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-21 *2026-07-21* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/21/who-the-fuck-is-we.html Who the Fuck Is "We," Kemosabe? > On the collectivizing pronoun, borrowed crowds, and the difference between "I" and everyone you've drafted without asking [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/who-the-fuck-is-we-kemosabe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-21 *2026-07-21* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/21/is-america-the-dad-with.html Is America the Dad with the Timeout or the Belt? > On planks, whistles, Göring memes, and the gap between a threat and a follow-through [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/is-america-the-dad-with-the-timeout?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-20 *2026-07-20* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/20/push-the-button-chucklehead-a.html Push The Button, Chucklehead > A completely remedial explanation of the No Agenda six-week cycle, with a Berlin origin story and a Lost joke you didn't ask for [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/push-the-button-chucklehead?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-20 *2026-07-20* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/20/the-window-was-closing-why.html The Window Was Closing > Why the 2022 invasion looks less like conquest and more like a country racing a deadline [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-window-was-closing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-20 *2026-07-20* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/20/nobody-put-you-in-the.html Nobody Put You In The Water > Why "debt slavery" is the wrong metaphor, and what scuba training teaches you about arguing with someone who's already panicking [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/nobody-put-you-in-the-water?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-20 *2026-07-20* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/20/the-false-choice-why-pick.html The False Choice > Why "pick the Nazi or pick the socialist" is a trick question, and Americans were never on that menu [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-false-choice?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-19 *2026-07-19* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/19/the-balloon-we-keep-inflating.html The Balloon We Keep Inflating > We didn't solve mortality. We just found more efficient ways to postpone the correction [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-balloon-we-keep-inflating?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-19 *2026-07-19* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/19/supersurprised-its-taken-so-long.html Super-surprised it's taken so long > Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents [www.nytimes.com/2026/07/1...](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/politics/fbi-ice-agents-investigations-shootings.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260719&instance_id=178999&nl=breaking-news)®i_id=68038104&segment_id=223365&user_id=43b188223c20b83024b329424895e8df --- # 2026-07-19 *2026-07-19* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/19/125441.html Homelander Trump > Why the mask came off, and why it was never a guardrail to begin with [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/homelander-trump?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-19 *2026-07-19* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/19/homelander-trump-why-the-mask.html Homelander Trump > Why the mask came off, and why it was never a guardrail to begin with [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/homelander-trump?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-19 *2026-07-19* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/19/democrats-and-liberals-forget-that.html Democrats and liberals forget that the Right believes that it's been under direct partisan lawfare attack since 2015. So this is all just reprisal. [www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/...](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/from-subpoenas-to-cockroaches-journalist-intimidation-101) --- # 2026-07-19 *2026-07-19* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/19/am-i-the-only-person.html Am I the only person who thinks the World Cup award looks extremely scrotal? --- # 2026-07-19 *2026-07-19* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/19/propaganda-vs-propaganda-what-did.html Propaganda vs propaganda! > What did some swing state voters think of President Trump's primetime speech on elections? [www.npr.org/2026/07/1...](https://www.npr.org/2026/07/19/nx-s1-5898445/trump-said-the-election-system-is-broken-what-do-swing-voters-make-of-the-claim) --- # 2026-07-19 *2026-07-19* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/19/drip-then-espresso-snob-then.html Drip, then espresso snob, then Nespresso snob, then moka-pot Bustelo snob—full stations of the cross. Now: a heaping scoop of Nestlé instant whisked into whole milk, warmed slow in a small All-Clad pot, poured into a thermal mug, sipped all weekend morning. This is coffee at peace with itself. --- # 2026-07-19 *2026-07-19* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/19/the-gospel-according-to-zeus.html The Gospel According to Zeus> What it actually meant to live under his law, before every retelling turned him into a tantrum with a lightning bolthttps://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-gospel-according-to-zeus?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1 --- # 2026-07-19 *2026-07-19* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/19/chunk-it-down-the-fire.html Chunk It Down > The fire team is the only unit of trust that actually scales [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/chunk-it-down?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-18 *2026-07-18* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/18/americas-always-been-fashy-donald.html America's Always Been Fashy: Donald Trump didn’t bring fashy back. He’s not any more fascist than any American President or Administration. He looks like a cartoon villain, is all. He’s just drawn that way. [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/america...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/america-has-always-been-a-little) --- # 2026-07-18 *2026-07-18* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/18/proportional-the-math-says-school.html Proportional: The math says school is safe. The culture says otherwise.https://substack.com/@chrisabraham/note/p-207044784?r=aqj1 --- # 2026-07-17 *2026-07-17* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/17/ride-or-die-is-proof.html Ride or Die is proof that a formulaic assassin action series can be awesome and led by lady action stars. --- # 2026-07-17 *2026-07-17* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/17/bastille-day-and-the-cult.html Bastille Day and the Cult of Reason: How the French Revolution's war on the Church killed sixteen nuns ten days before it ate itself [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/bastill...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/bastille-day-and-the-cult-of-reason) --- # 2026-07-17 *2026-07-17* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/17/view-from-my-south-arlington.html View from my South Arlington apartment: smokey! --- # 2026-07-17 *2026-07-17* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/17/smokin.html Smokin! --- # 2026-07-15 *2026-07-15* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/15/corn-dogs-and-kale-why.html Corn Dogs and Kale > Why black box theater dies of exposure the moment you sell it a Broadway house [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/corn-dogs-and-kale?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-15 *2026-07-15* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/15/the-kiddie-pool-question-why.html The Kiddie Pool Question > Why the "how could God allow it" trilemma smuggles in a premise the Bible never accepted [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-kiddie-pool-question?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-15 *2026-07-15* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/15/your-father-is-not-your.html Your Father Is Not Your Genie > On God, prayer, and why "no" was never proof He doesn't love you [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/your-father-is-not-your-genie?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-15 *2026-07-15* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/15/a-stampede-of-rightness-why.html A Stampede of Rightness > Why "right" means two different things to two different Americas, and why nobody notices until the argument stalls out. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/a-stampede-of-rightness?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-14 *2026-07-14* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/14/i-have-a-substack-superfan.html I have a Substack superfan in the form of a cat named Twig --- # 2026-07-14 *2026-07-14* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/14/not-a-manhunt-the-bad.html Not a Manhunt The bad hombre lie, the ladder that only sees motion, and why "never waste a crisis" cuts both ways. [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/not-a-m...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/not-a-manhunt) --- # 2026-07-14 *2026-07-14* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/14/proportional-the-math-says-school.html Proportional > The math says school is safe. The culture says otherwise. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/proportional?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-14 *2026-07-14* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/14/perspective-what-the-seventies-can.html Perspective: What the seventies can teach us about how safe 2026 actually is [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/perspective?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-13 *2026-07-13* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/13/clear-skies-only-everyone-quotes.html Clear Skies Only: Everyone quotes the first two lines of the Serenity Prayer. The entire thing runs on the third. [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/clear-s...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/clear-skies-only) --- # 2026-07-13 *2026-07-13* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/13/hubristic-pity-the-compassion-of.html Hubristic Pity: The Compassion of Status-Seekers: Noblesse oblige needs a noble and an oblige. The neo-nobility kept the first word and dropped the second. [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/hubrist...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/hubristic-pity-the-compassion-of) --- # 2026-07-10 *2026-07-10* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/10/lupita-nyongo-is-easily-more.html Lupita Nyong'o is easily more than beautiful enough to be Helen of Troy. --- # 2026-07-10 *2026-07-10* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/10/the-making-an-example-of.html The Making an Example Of Deterrence was never supposed to be universal. That’s what makes it work. [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-mak...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-making-an-example-of) --- # 2026-07-10 *2026-07-10* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/10/the-camera-doesnt-take-sides.html The Camera Doesn’t Take Sides, But It Isn’t Blind Either Total transparency ended every performance at once. It just didn’t end them equally. [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-cam...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-camera-doesnt-take-sides-but) --- # 2026-07-10 *2026-07-10* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/10/but-nobody-gave-me-the.html "But Nobody Gave Me the Instruction Manual!" The rulebook is real, unwritten, and enforced against you whether you ever saw it or not [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/nobody-...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/nobody-gave-me-the-instruction-manual) --- # 2026-07-10 *2026-07-10* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/10/the-sporting-fallacy-why-it.html The Sporting Fallacy > Why "it was good while it lasted" beats "no way, piggy" every single time. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-sporting-fallacy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-09 *2026-07-09* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/09/142857.html --- # 2026-07-08 *2026-07-08* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/08/how-did-i-miss-this.html How did I miss this banger? --- # 2026-07-08 *2026-07-08* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/08/the-right-has-always-loved.html The Right has always loved the star spangled banner and "white supremacy" has expanded to every flag-lover > "...there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag and they equate being an American or an American flag with white supremacy..." [www.irishstar.com/culture/e...](https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/sunny-hostin-american-flag-comments-37402104) --- # 2026-07-07 *2026-07-07* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/07/the-barbecue-always-wins-how.html The Barbecue Always Wins > How the 250th slipped out of NPR's hands, and why nobody but me seems to have wanted it there in the first place [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-barbecue-always-wins?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-07 *2026-07-07* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/07/the-envy-machine-why-the.html The Envy Machine > Why the crab bucket always wins, and why nobody escapes it by flattening the bucket [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-envy-machine?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-06 *2026-07-06* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/06/so-good-reality-is-basically.html So good. Reality is basically SETI@Home > The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside [pca.st/episode/7...](https://pca.st/episode/7efc7121-2a62-4837-941c-0a9406438186?t=3641) --- # 2026-07-05 *2026-07-05* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/05/heres-my-most-recent-diagnosis.html Here's my most recent diagnosis. --- # 2026-07-05 *2026-07-05* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/05/glad-america-doesnt-have-a.html Glad America doesn't have a glass jaw > The 4th of July stress test wasn't about violence. It was about whether the First Amendment still has teeth. [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/glad-america-doesnt-have-a-glass?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-04 *2026-07-04* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/04/215829.html --- # 2026-07-04 *2026-07-04* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/04/waka-waka-i-guess-the.html Waka waka I guess the SPLC spent quite a lot of it's members' donations on white supremacists today! Waka waka ;) [www.politico.com/news/2026...](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/04/patriot-front-white-supremacist-protests-july-4-00987020) --- # 2026-07-04 *2026-07-04* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/04/whimsy-beats-hypergamy-on-looksmaxxing.html Whimsy Beats Hypergamy > On looksmaxxing, mogging, and why being someone's ride or die beats being anyone's stat sheet [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/whimsy-beats-hypergamy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-04 *2026-07-04* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/04/i-feel-like-maga-has.html I feel like MAGA has disavowed Donald Trump après Iran attacks. Only neocons and America First zealots support the President now—and for months. --- # 2026-07-03 *2026-07-03* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/03/the-nail-that-stands-what.html The Nail That Stands > What a Honolulu hallway taught me about every hierarchy I've stood inside since [open.substack.com/pub/chris...](https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-nail-that-stands?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1) --- # 2026-07-03 *2026-07-03* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/03/im-in-northern-virginiasexy-south.html I'm in Northern Virginia—sexy South Arlington—and can see DCA from my window. All I've heard, though my closed windows and blaring AC, all morning, is the roar and boom of fighterjets—I assume celebrating America's 250th here in the Nation's Capital. --- # I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman *2026-07-03* — https://chrisa.org/2026/07/03/i-hear-america-singing-by.html I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs. --- # 2026-06-26 *2026-06-26* — https://chrisa.org/2026/06/26/virginias-gun-panicbuy-just-got.html Virginia’s Gun Panic-Buy Just Got an Asterisk A judge paused the assault weapons ban six days before it hit—and a lot of people spent themselves into debt for nothing, including, in a small way, me [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/virgini...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/virginias-gun-panic-buy-just-got) --- # 2026-06-25 *2026-06-25* — https://chrisa.org/2026/06/25/canada-didnt-get-meaner-canada.html Canada didn't get meaner, Canada got tested. "Nicer than America" was never a personality—it was the absence of stakes. Host a World Cup under real scrutiny and the cracks show. Not Trump's fault. The actual friction is Canadians vs. their own government over the bill, not tourists. --- # What's Up With Canada During This World Cup? *2026-06-25* — https://chrisa.org/2026/06/25/whats-up-with-canada-during.html Canada didn't get meaner. Canada got tested. For decades the national brand was "nicer than America"—a low bar, mostly true, mostly cost-free, because nobody was actually watching closely enough to check. Host a World Cup and suddenly people are watching. Stadiums get graded. Hotel prices get screenshotted. TikTok runs the comparison against US host cities in real time, and the algorithm doesn't care about feelings—it cares about volume, and the US has more matches, so it wins the discourse by default. That's not "Canada showing its true colors because of Trump." That's Canada discovering that politeness was never a personality trait—it was the absence of stakes. Nobody resents a houseguest who never asks anything of you. The moment Canada had to perform hospitality at scale, under scrutiny, with money on the line, the cracks that were always there—resentment of being America's quieter, smaller, more self-congratulating sibling—showed up. Not because Trump flipped a switch. Because hosting flipped one. And the actual data on the ground doesn't even support the "Canada bad host" narrative—transit's been fine, fan zones have been well-reviewed, Vancouver's ranked the best host city in the tournament by most metrics. The friction that's real isn't tourists vs. Canadians. It's Canadians vs. their own government, over a billion dollars spent on this instead of housing. That's the actual story. The "polite Canadians are secretly resentful" thing is a TikTok narrative chasing engagement, not a behavioral shift. So no—it's not that Canada is becoming the thing it disavowed. It's that "nice" was always conditional on nobody asking Canada to actually deliver anything under pressure. Now someone did. --- # 2026-06-25 *2026-06-25* — https://chrisa.org/2026/06/25/words-without-anchors-how-democracy.html Words Without Anchors: How “Democracy” and “Fascism” Both Became Smuggling Operations, and Why Antifa Will Tell You That to Your Face [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/words-w...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/words-without-anchors) --- # 2026-06-24 *2026-06-24* — https://chrisa.org/2026/06/24/inconclusive-if-i-were-ever.html Inconclusive If I were ever going to get a tramp stamp, I know what it would say. Inconclusive. [chrisabraham.substack.com/p/inconcl...](https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/inconclusive) --- # 2026-06-24 *2026-06-24* — https://chrisa.org/2026/06/24/remember-when-being-easily-offended.html Remember when being easily offended was a personality flaw, not a personality? [youtube.com/watch](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IkSBfdXNWWk&si=Fg1IFrpI0wDkrFvQ) --- # 2026-06-23 *2026-06-23* — https://chrisa.org/2026/06/23/primer-is-so-good-itll.html Primer is so good it'll melt your brain-it melted mine. --- # 2026-06-23 *2026-06-23* — https://chrisa.org/2026/06/23/forget-disclosure-daysave-your-moneywatch.html Forget Disclosure Day—save your money—watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind --- # 2026-06-23 *2026-06-23* — https://chrisa.org/2026/06/23/hapa-is-hawaiian-for-wasian.html Hapa is Hawaiian for Wasian --- # 2026-06-22 *2026-06-22* — https://chrisa.org/2026/06/22/devastating-hilarious-brutal-extremely-gen.html Devastating. Hilarious. Brutal. Extremely Gen X. Worthwhile.