I don’t anticipate Republicans flinching at all over the shutting down the government. The right loves the government closed. There are way fewer anti-ICE Americans than anyone acknowledges. Also, many Americans are amazed as to how few protesters have been shot and killed.
This is so completely awesome!
Beyond the Headlines - SNL youtube.com/watch
Doors+Radiohead+Rufus=Geese?
Geese: Trinidad (Live) - SNL youtube.com/watch
I can tell that Geese is cool and that I’m old (and this isn’t satire) because they sound like Drunk Rufus Wainwright.
Geese: Au Pays du Cocaine (Live) youtube.com/watch
An exposé of American BIG PROTEST
The Minneapolis Protests and Democrats’ Nonprofit Problem youtube.com/watch
Capitalist Pig Greed Transcends American Imperialism For Sure!
The mistake in “American empire collapse” narratives is assuming the empire is the thing that holds power. It isn’t. Capital does. Modern billionaires and oligarchs aren’t loyal to flags, voters, or even countries—they’re loyal to liquidity, legal arbitrage, and mobility. If U.S. hegemony weakens, they don’t suffer; they pivot. Assets move. Passports change. Headquarters relocate. Monaco, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Moscow—pick your jurisdiction.
What collapses isn’t global capitalism, or elite power, or greed. What collapses is the American middle class’s access to the leverage that once came with being inside the dominant system. The belief that “America” is the center of global capitalism is a 19th–20th century idea rooted in industrial empires and national elites. Today’s elites already operate in a post-national, meta-state economy. If the American empire falls, it won’t be the rich who pay the price—it’ll be the people who can’t leave.
All of Star Trek is woke—and always has been
Every generation of Star Trek has been denounced on arrival as woke propaganda, civil-rights sermonizing, or pinko nonsense. The original series was blasted for interracial crews and utopian politics. The movies gave us San Francisco, flower power, and literal “save the whales” messaging. The Next Generation was mocked as preachy, soft, and politically correct. None of this is new.
What is new is selective memory. People who now defend “classic” Trek don’t realize that their affection for it is proof they evolved alongside it. If they were 30, 40, or 50 in the late ’60s, they would’ve hated Kirk’s Enterprise. If they were that age in the ’90s, they would’ve called Picard’s Enterprise moralizing nonsense. Time softened the edges, not the ideas.
Starfleet Academy is just the next expression of the same trajectory: optimism, pluralism, competence, anti-authoritarian ethics, and a belief that cooperation beats domination. Trek has never been neutral, and it has never pretended to be. The franchise doesn’t shift left so much as it drags each generation—kicking and screaming—forward, then waits until they forget they ever resisted it.
Starfleet Academy has 100% Star Trek DNA. It’s delightful. I don’t know what’s up with people. Don’t let the saboteurs sabotage this camp-but-lovely Harry Potter in Space.
Amelia is a Masterclass in unintended consequences for the British cultural revolution. youtube.com/watch
Dana Carvey called himself a Bill Clinton Liberal—that’s totally what I am! He also said that in 2026 people call him a Nazi.
Bill Maher, Dana Carvey & David Spade Get Honest About Comedy
Here’s the view from my Meshtastic device—ABRA—for those of you who are curious. I leave the window open most of the time. Here’s its view.
She’s always a prescient laugh-riot!
Europe Is Garbage via Bridget Phetasy’s Dumpster Fire
The Post is Officially a Soap Opera
She helped him flee a rally, then learned he was a right-wing provocateur Jake Lang, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter, jumped into a stranger’s car after he was driven from his anti-immigrant march in Minneapolis by a large counterprotest. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
What's in my bag? Going minimalist as possible working from Starbucks
I usually EDC a huge Goruck GR2 34L in Tropical Multicam but sometimes I want to go lighter and smaller and lower-profile and inconspicuous. This is about as minimalist as I go:
- Haley Strategic Flatpack, black
- Haley Strategic GP Panel, black
- 2011 X220 Lenovo Thinkpad with 16GB and Linux Mint
- OEM X220 power brick
- Bulk cheap Chinese Wayfarers
- Olive Lochby Pocket Journal
- BIC Cristal Re’new, aluminum with blue bold ink
- Staedtler Mars Technico 780 C Lead Holder
- RUIDUN 65W Flat GaN USB C Charger
- Lost Dutchman Leather Livingston 2
- NIU USB-C to USB-C Cable, 3.3ft, Type C Charging Cord
- Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition 11th Generation
- ALVIN Flexible Stainless Ruler R590-6
Lip Balm Withdrawal
I usually EDC a huge Goruck GR2 34L in Tropical Multicam but sometimes I want to go lighter and smaller and lower-profile and inconspicuous. This is about as minimalist as I go:
- Haley Strategic Flatpack, black
- Haley Strategic GP Panel, black
- 2011 X220 Lenovo Thinkpad with 16GB and Linux Mint
- OEM X220 power brick
- Bulk cheap Chinese Wayfarers
- Olive Lochby Pocket Journal
- BIC Cristal Re’new, aluminum with blue bold ink
- Staedtler Mars Technico 780 C Lead Holder
- RUIDUN 65W Flat GaN USB C Charger
- Lost Dutchman Leather Livingston 2
- NIU USB-C to USB-C Cable, 3.3ft, Type C Charging Cord
- Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition 11th Generation
- ALVIN Flexible Stainless Ruler R590-6
