Beware: even a left-leaning Catholic remains doctrinally conservative where it ultimately matters compared to a garden-variety secular progressive. www.vox.com/life/4786…
Dear liberals: we’re genuinely psyched you’re buying guns. Every new gun owner becomes a 2A voter and shifts the pH balance of anti-gun politics. Blue hair, septum rings, rainbow flags and all—join us. slate.com/life/2026…
Dear All Liberals: Please Buy Lots of Guns
Dear liberals: we gun owners are genuinely psyched that you’re buying guns. It means you’ll join us as 2A voters and protectors. Every new legal gun owner changes the pH balance of the anti-gun vote and makes blanket caricatures harder to sustain. The broader and more culturally diverse gun ownership becomes, the less viable one-size-fits-all anti-gun politics will be. So tell your friends to become legal, responsible gun owners—no matter how blue their hair, how septumed their noses, or how rainbowed their flags. The Second Amendment isn’t a costume or a tribe. It’s for everyone. The more the merrier. slate.com/life/2026…
Zuckerberg Follows Billionaire Exodus To Florida As California Pushes New Wealth Tax
Street chaos and rhetoric about America being illegitimate don’t weaken MAGA—they validate it. Voters don’t parse ideology; they react to instability. If protests look revolutionary, law-and-order wins. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202…
Where journalists admit that they are radical activist advocates and not remotely interested in reporting.
Don’t blame rapacious owners of media organizations for the loss of public trust. Blame biased, incompetent reporting.
I listened to an episode of Triggernometry today. Britain is ~0.8% of global emissions. Net Zero mostly deindustrializes the UK while outsourcing steel, energy, and pollution to China. Emissions don’t disappear—they move. The atmosphere doesn’t care about accounting.
Super fascinating re ‘nobody wants EVs in the UK, only petrol & diesel’
How Net Zero Destroyed Britain pca.st/episode/e…
When you bring one of your unused x220s to the cafe to work and you don’t know the login password so you’ll need to pack up and go home and possibly reinstall Linux Mint; UPDATE: bringing it to my local computer repair shop to see if we can break in! Huzzah! Worth some money to get her did.
Fascinating and amazing. Listen!
Love, Race & the ‘Mixed Marriage Project’ pca.st/episode/d… Almost a decade after her father’s death, legal scholar Dorothy Roberts had to confront the 25 boxes of his research collecting dust in her office.
You can end poverty OR prevent climate change. You can only choose one.
Global development activates global desire. Once modern life becomes visible, it becomes the reference point. A world that modernizes becomes a world that wants AC in every room, cars in every driveway, flights for holidays, larger homes, constant power, phones, televisions, refrigerators, mobility, comfort, choice.
This isn’t excess. It’s the baseline of modern life being adopted everywhere at once.
That activation of desire is the unintended consequence nobody wants to confront.
People don’t escape poverty to remain austere. They escape it to live fully inside the modern world they’ve been shown. Development doesn’t pause at survival or dignity. It accelerates into expectation.
And once expectation exists at planetary scale, it does not slow down because of warnings, guilt, or behavioral scolding.
This is why climate collapse is structurally inevitable once development succeeds globally. The problem is not that people don’t care.
The problem is that caring is irrelevant once billions of people want the same comforts, mobility, and consumption patterns. Global desire floors the accelerator whether anyone likes it or not.
Climate change is not the result of individual failure or moral weakness.
It is the downstream effect of a world that successfully taught itself what “normal” looks like and then tried to pretend that normal could be optional. The system isn’t broken. It’s doing exactly what it was built to do.
Global development activates global desire. Once modern life becomes visible, billions want AC, cars, flights, homes, power, screens. That desire floors the accelerator. Climate collapse follows not from ignorance or evil, but from success scaling expectations worldwide.
I just accepted the apology and didn’t watch youtu.be/0NsfNOJCS…
Amazing. She’s brilliant! Hilarious.
I have no friends youtube.com/watch
My official stance on Bad Bunny is that he is always extremely funny on Saturday Night Live, his musical stylings are entertaining, and reggaeton is a very cool thing that I wish I knew more about.
Sure it did. It’s just never been at the fore of any legitimate conversation. It was previously dismissed as only conspiracy theory. But now, it’s obviously conspiracy reality. What used to be fringe is now in the mainstream.
Puerto Rico has U.S. passports, but Washington still treats it like a colony: no vote for president, no voting Congress reps, and Congress can override local choices. PROMESA’s fiscal board + capped/uneven federal funding (Medicaid, no SSI) keeps citizens second-class.
Never forget that whitey is the oppressor and never forget that it’s not a class war but it’s a race war and that the white man is keeping you down and not class pressures. ✊ youtube.com/watch
Classic Colbert was chef’s kiss! youtube.com/watch