It's war on everyone. Digital surveillance and penetration is the new trench warfare on every side. Hack Wars! The Info Wars are real – hat tip to Ben Collins and Tim Heidecker, and fuck Alex Jones. As you know, social media platforms have been throttling leftists, liberals and progressives

It's October 19, 2026, and the billionaires are acting up. Did you know? Millions of people showed out at No Kings marches across the United States on Saturday, in another day of the muscular exercise of loud, vocal discontent. But scanning network news, online mainstream media, and in

So I don't want to get too paranoid or alarmist or doomer-ist, but it bears observing out loud that Republicans – and particularly the Trump Administration – have their backs against the wall – it's likely going to be an absolute rout in the midterms, with the GOP

ICE raids are surging across the country this week, as Customs and Border Protection and DHS announced they would be last month. In California, they're moving in concentration from San Diego north, destination San Francisco by November, and their mandate is much looser than it has been in

Hello, Owen Michael here with another day in America. It's October 6, 2026, and Los Angeles is melting from the heat.  First off, we're going to just blow past Trump's implied threat against L.A. and San Diego last night – calling for Iran to

Speed-running through some national headlines today from the past week, a few items of note stand out. First off, A.I. – artificial intelligence – remains in the news for all the reasons you know: workplace displacement, cybernetic hallucinations, wildly inaccurate results, environmental and community destruction, and potential obliteration of human

Listening to NPR, reading the AP last night, and just about every other major news headline: "President Trump promises $5,000 to every adult American citizen if the GOP wins both houses in the upcoming midterm elections," without much consideration for A) the felony illegality of bribery, and

Some recommended write-ups for context: 'We’re Broken': As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Are Leaving in Droves for ICE Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers

The Chicago Tribune reports the Texas National Guard is in the process of leaving the Chicagoland area. Troops started leaving Elwood, about 20 miles southwest of downtown, not too far from the Old Joliet Prison, on Monday; there were about 200 of them stationed in total. And last Friday, DHS