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05/29/2026

Leaving without comment. Just something to think about. And comments are closed.

05/21/2026

The U.S. economy is showing the strain of the nearly three-month old conflict with Iran, new S&P surveys showed. Another flareup in inflation has raised business costs and pared customer demand.

05/21/2026

Rates hit an eight-month high but are still lower than they were a year ago.

05/21/2026

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

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04/17/2026

Content Warning: Sexual violence, drug-facilitated assault, r**e

CNN's "As Equals" investigative series just dropped something that should be dominating every news cycle, and the fact that it isn't tells you everything about how seriously this society takes violence against women. A site called Motherless dot com pulled in 62 million visitors in February 2026 alone, with its core audience in the United States, and it hosts over 20,000 videos of women being r**ed while unconscious, organized under tags like "sleep content," "passedout," and "eyecheck." A French lawmaker who was herself a survivor called it exactly what it is: an online r**e academy, where men teach each other how to drug their wives, r**e them while unconscious, film it, and share or sell the footage to a paying audience.

And this is not a story about powerful men in penthouses or Harvey Weinstein types leveraging fame and money. These are regular guys. Husbands. Partners. Men living ordinary lives in ordinary homes, comparing notes on Telegram about dosages and evasion tactics like they're in a fantasy football group chat. Perpetrators are deliberately choosing drugs like Ambien because they leave the body in seven to eight hours, meaning by the time a survivor wakes up and gets to a hospital, the toxicological evidence is already gone. This is calculated. Methodical. And shockingly common.

This is the world women are living in when they say they'd feel safer alone in the woods with a bear. Nearly one in three women globally experience sexual violence from an intimate partner, a number that has barely shifted since 2000. The danger isn't abstract or elite. It's organized, monetized, and happening in their own beds, protected by outdated laws and platforms that check paperwork instead of content. It is truly sickening.

04/17/2026

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The man who literally wrote "The Art of the Deal" is now reportedly offering to unfreeze $20 billion in Iranian assets to reopen a strait that was wide open before he started his war of choice, and the greatest business mind in human history is scrambling to buy his way out of a crisis he created. This is the same man who recently referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the "Strait of Iran," which tracks, because at this point he basically handed it to them.

The staggering irony here is impossible to ignore. Under the Obama nuclear deal, the U.S. lifted sanctions on frozen Iranian funds and sent $1.7 billion to settle decades-old failed contracts, the very arrangement trump and Republicans spent years calling a national disgrace and a handout to terrorists. That deal came with real, verified nuclear limits and rigorous international inspections. Now the world's greatest negotiator is looking at paying $20 billion for a deal that offers weaker protections and still has gaping holes, including on the Strait itself.

And as of today, even the definition of "open" is up for debate. Iran declared the strait open for commercial vessels while simultaneously requiring ships to follow a state-controlled route near Iranian coastline. trump hailed it as a win while keeping the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports fully in place. So the man who turned Atlantic City casinos into spectacular financial rubble is running the same playbook on American foreign policy: walk in with swagger, blow up what was working, and then pay more than you would have originally to dig out of the hole. The only difference is this time the rest of the world is holding the debt.

04/14/2026

02/21/2026