The Crime of Human Virtue
I loved this essay by A.R. Moxon. You might, too.
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Rupture
Here's some of what's happened so far this year: A masked agent of the Federal government shot an unarmed mother, a citizen, in the head in Minneapolis. She and her family are being investigated, but the shooter isn't. The US invaded, then expropriated lots
Truth Social gets into the fusion energy business?
An unusual story broke this week: Donald Trump's social media company is merging with a 27-year-old business that is working on technology to generate energy using nuclear fusion. The investor presentation is – interesting? On its face, the combination makes no sense. The two businesses work on completely different
The government shutdown, one month in
It's been a month and a day since the US federal government crossed from its 2025 into its 2026 fiscal year. Because there was no statutory authority to keep spending money on October 1, the government shut down. I wrote about the legislative and budgetary details back then.
No Kings for me!
I joined the No Kings march in Oakland, California on Saturday. Word is there were more than 10,000 of us who marched from Wilma Chan Park through downtown to the Lake Merritt waterfront on a gorgeous Bay Area autumn day. The estimates I've seen of total participation