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03/29/2026

03/29/2026

Sadly Morrow is the popular front runner in the primary

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate McMorrow has gone viral depicting herself as a leader of anti-surveillance-pricing legislation that she’s refused to champion in her own state senate. Just as bad, her breathtakingly cynical move has been rewarded by media and liberal advocacy groups. The ...

03/20/2026

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International groups began to send humanitarian aid to Cuba as it faces widespread blackouts due to an energy crisis worsened by fuel shortages,

03/20/2026

03/20/2026

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03/20/2026

In July 2025, the State Department carried out a large reduction-in-force under Trump’s “DOGE cuts” initiative, eliminating most of the Bureau of Energy Resources’ oil and gas staff, including experts on Middle Eastern energy markets, the Strait of Hormuz, and sanctioned tanker tracking.

Those layoffs removed people who used to model disruptions in Gulf energy flows, coordinate with the International Energy Agency, and maintain relationships with oil and gas companies and foreign energy ministries.

Roughly six months later, in early 2026, Trump launched airstrikes and then a broader war against Iran, during which Iran and its proxies attacked energy infrastructure and tankers, effectively closing or severely disrupting the Strait of Hormuz.

These people don’t have a clue what they’re doing.

03/20/2026

I have admired the works of many ’builders’.
The worst 3 words in building are “Nothing to it”.
These three can really add to the impending crapathon, “Do it yourself”!

03/01/2026

18 thousand years………..

For 10,000 years, they knew. It took DNA to make the world listen.

The Blackfoot people have always known their connection to the northern Plains runs deeper than memory. Their oral traditions speak of "time immemorial"—of ancestors who hunted bison across glacial valleys, who witnessed ice retreating from mountains, who survived when ancient floodwaters receded and reshaped the land.

But for nearly two centuries, Western anthropologists told a different story.

Based on linguistic similarities to Great Lakes tribes, scholars theorized the Blackfoot had migrated westward sometime in the last thousand years. Never mind that Blackfoot oral history contained no memory of such a journey. Never mind the archaeological evidence suggesting far older presence. Never mind the detailed knowledge of landscapes that no recent arrival could possess.

The theory became textbook fact. And it threatened something crucial: land and water rights that depend on proving ancestral connection to territory.

So the Blackfoot Confederacy did something remarkable. They partnered with geneticists to let science test what their ancestors had always known.

In April 2024, the results were published in Science Advances. And they didn't just challenge the migration theory—they obliterated it entirely.

DNA analysis revealed that modern Blackfoot people belong to a previously unknown genetic lineage that diverged from all other studied Indigenous groups approximately 18,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age.

Let that sink in. While most Native American populations studied share common ancestral lineages, the Blackfoot split off into genetic isolation nearly 18 millennia ago—and remained in their homeland ever since. Eighteen thousand years of unbroken connection to the same land. Eighteen thousand years of memory.

The study was led by Blackfoot community members—Dorothy First Rider, Anna Wolf, and others—working alongside archaeologist Maria Zedeño and geneticist Ripan Malhi. They analyzed DNA from six living Blackfoot individuals and seven ancestral remains dating back 100-200 years.

The findings confirmed genetic continuity: today's Blackfoot are directly descended from those who lived on this land at European contact, who descended from those who lived there through thousands of years before that.

But here's what makes this truly extraordinary: Blackfoot oral traditions contain memories that align perfectly with this deep Ice Age ancestry. Dreams and stories passed down through countless generations describe standing in caves watching glaciers melt. Accounts of crossing ice to reach better lands. Knowledge of extinct megafauna like giant beavers and camels that disappeared 10,000 years ago.

"The Blackfoot can dream of the Ice Age," explained Andy Blackwater. "Through dreams, people are able to recollect the deep past by bonding to ancestral spirits from long ago."

This isn't mysticism. It's the transmission of ancestral knowledge across timescales Western science once deemed impossible. It's human memory preserved with a fidelity that rivals sediment cores and carbon dating.

Gheri Hall, archaeologist with the Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office, captured the moment perfectly: "This really confirms what we already knew. Now we can use the new science to fight the old science."

Because here's the critical point: This wasn't about science finally admitting Indigenous people were right. This was Indigenous communities using scientific tools on their own terms to generate evidence for legal battles over land, water, and sovereignty.

The Blackfoot Confederacy has fought for decades to protect their ancestral territories from governments and energy companies. In 2023, they won a major victory when Solenex LLC relinquished drilling rights in the sacred Badger-Two Medicine area. Studies like this provide crucial legal evidence for treaty rights and territorial claims.

But they also expose something uncomfortable: How often has Indigenous knowledge been dismissed as "myth" or "legend" until Western methods confirmed it? How many other truths are waiting to be "discovered" by science—truths that communities have known all along?

The Blackfoot didn't need DNA testing to know who they are or where they belong. But in a world that values certain kinds of evidence over others, they used the tools available to protect what has always been theirs.

The question isn't whether science should lead conversations about the past.

The question is: When will we start listening to the people who never forgot?

Fun Fact: Blackfoot oral traditions describe Ice Age landscapes with stunning accuracy—glacial floods, retreating ice sheets, and extinct megafauna—thousands of years before archaeologists mapped these same events. Knowledge preserved through storytelling proved as reliable as any instrument we've invented to study the past. Perhaps it's time we recognize that some forms of evidence have been valid all along.

02/24/2026

Interesting

Polite language has failed. Calm explanations have failed. Panels, op-eds, “both sides,” and soothing reassurances have failed. Fascism does not advance because people lack information. It advances because people are comfortable, distracted, anesthetized, and trained to mistake civility for virtue.

If you’re looking for gentle guidance, go find a museum placard. This article is not for you.

FASCISM IN AMERICA

American fascism isn’t creeping in. It’s already unpacked, changed the locks, and put your institutions on a payment plan. Camps exist. Courts are bent. Power is centralized. Cruelty is procedural. And half the country is still arguing about whether the word “fascism” is too dramatic, like vocabulary is the problem instead of cages.

You don’t defeat this by convincing everyone. You defeat it by making it unworkable.

Fascism is a machine. It requires obedience. It requires participation. It requires millions of people doing small, cowardly things every day and calling it normal. Your job isn’t to scream at the machine. Your job is to throw sand in the gears until it starts tearing itself apart.

NORMAL IS THE MOST DANGEROUS LIE IN THE ROOM

Every authoritarian project survives on one magic trick: making the unacceptable feel routine. Once cruelty becomes policy, people stop reacting to it like an emergency and start reacting to it like weather. Camps become “facilities.” Abuse becomes “incidents.” Dead people become “statistics pending review.”

The first move is to kill normal.

You do that by refusing euphemism. By documenting obsessively. By naming names. Contractors. Officials. Judges. Budgets. Timelines. You make the system visible again because fascism thrives in abstraction. When the harm has faces, when the paper trail is public, when denial becomes embarrassing instead of easy, the spell starts to crack.

This isn’t moral outrage. This is forensic exposure.

MASS BEATS HEROICS EVERY TIME

Fascism loves lone wolves. It loves martyrs. It loves isolated bravery it can crush quietly. What it cannot handle is scale. Not rage scale. Participation scale. The kind that makes repression logistically impossible and politically radioactive.

That’s why disciplined nonviolence keeps winning in history, even against regimes that look invincible. Not because it’s nicer. Because it recruits more people, fractures loyalty, and forces the state into impossible choices. Beat people publicly and look brutal. Back down and look weak. Either way, legitimacy leaks.

This is where tactical frivolity becomes lethal.

Humor shatters fear. Ridicule punctures myth. Absurdity exposes how fragile authority really is. When power is forced to arrest clowns, chase costumes, and explain why it’s scared of jokes, it looks ridiculous. Ridiculous power bleeds supporters. Bleeding power panics.

But frivolity is not chaos. It’s strategy with a grin. Clear message. Clean moral contrast. Punching up, always.

HIT THE PILLARS, NOT THE CROWD

Protests alone don’t topple regimes. Noncooperation does. You identify what keeps the system functioning and you deny it.

Labor that refuses complicity. Professionals who slow-walk enforcement. Cities that block cooperation. Vendors that cancel contracts. Donors who feel heat. Bureaucrats who demand process until the machine grinds itself raw.

This is boring. It works anyway.

You build legal defense. You train for repression. You rotate roles so burnout doesn’t decapitate the movement. You turn every crackdown into proof and every arrest into recruitment. The system is betting you’ll get tired. You build something that outlasts that bet.

STARVE IT AND CONTAIN IT AT THE SAME TIME

Fascism runs on money and legitimacy. So you attack both without playing its game.

Boycotts that hurt. Exposure that sticks. Follow the money until it squeals. Make profiteering from cruelty socially radioactive and financially painful. At the same time, you contest power everywhere it shows up. Local. State. Federal. Courts. School boards. Election infrastructure.

This is not about being “above politics.” That’s how authoritarians win. This is about denying them uncontested space.

BUILD WHAT THEY CAN’T BURN DOWN FAST ENOUGH

Mutual aid is not charity. It’s survival infrastructure. Sanctuary networks. Community defense of institutions. Parallel systems that keep people fed, housed, informed, and connected when the state turns hostile or useless.

Fascism collapses when people stop needing it. When fear loses its leverage. When solidarity becomes practical instead of rhetorical.

HOPE ISN’T ENOUGH

This will not be quick. It will not be clean. It will not feel heroic most days. It will feel like work. Relentless, unglamorous, grinding work.

But fascism is brittle. It looks strong because it demands obedience. The moment enough people stop cooperating, it starts screaming. That scream is not victory. It’s the sound of the spell breaking.

This is why hope isn’t enough. Hope sits still. Strategy moves. Pressure works.

You don’t wait for history to save you. You force it to change course.

That’s why this is written like a banshee instead of a brochure. Because people don’t sleepwalk out of emergencies. They wake up when something screams loud enough to make ignoring it impossible.