Some of these took longer than they should have. Some of them I still like. All of them survived the “is this actually worth posting” filter, which is a higher bar than most people use.
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Trump Wanted Cheap Blood Diesel Before the Midterms. It Is Already Too Late.
🩸 Trump Wanted Cheap Blood Diesel Before the Midterms. It Is Already Too Late.
Donald Trump got on the phone with Vladimir Putin and came back with a shopping list. Three hundred thousand tonnes of Russian diesel now, five hundred thousand in November, another million after that, and three milli...
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Autism: Musk and I Share Something, and Why RFK Jr. Is Clueless
🧠 Autism: Musk and I Share Something, and Why RFK Jr. Is Clueless
There is a particular flavor of public commentary that treats an entire neurological category as a single ruined potato. In April 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood at a briefing on CDC autism nu...
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A Child Was Stabbed to Death at School
😡 A Child Was Stabbed to Death at School
On 6 October 2026 a 15-year-old entered a middle school in Istanbul wearing a uniform and stabbed eight children between the ages of 10 and 13. One of them, 10-year-old Eslem Sare Bulut, died. The others were injured. The attacker’s parents were detained....
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Columbus Day: The Man Who Missed the Continent and Found a Genocide
📜 Columbus Day: The Man Who Missed the Continent and Found a Genocide
Every October the United States takes a day to celebrate a man who never reached North America, never understood where he was, and left a paper trail of brutality that would get a modern contractor blacklisted.
The people who...
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America: From Leader of the Free World to Putin’s Diesel Errand Boy
🇺🇸 America: From Leader of the Free World to Putin’s Diesel Errand Boy
Once upon a time the United States liked to pretend it was the indispensable leader of the free world. That was the story it sold itself and everyone else: beacon of democracy, defender of elected governments, the big country...