Fascinating. Must read.
The conservatives finally got their populist victory for middle-American working-class voters. The result is more federal spending, more federal power, and Israel-first foreign policy. pca.st/episode/1…
I coined a new term today: broken brag. It’s what happens when the war stories eat the meeting. Russell Brand, twelve-step rooms, and why it doesn’t matter whether Brand is faking it. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on charges that the organization used millions of dollars in donations to leaders of hate groups it claimed to be fighting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/…
Thanks to my buddy Dan for adding this perfect thing to my daily driver. I do want to believe. I’m not a stickers on laptops guy—except for this one.
Did you know “gonorrhea” comes from Greek for “flow of seed”? Ancient doctors saw the discharge and mistakenly thought it was semen loss. So yes, the name of the STI is basically a 2,000-year-old medical misunderstanding that never got corrected.
Looking good on this Velcro scuba strap on this 2010 Marathon Pilot’s Navigator which isn’t at all a diver but has fixed lugs so a pass through like this makes a lot of sense. There’s a spring in the clasp which means the strap expands and contacts, keeping snug but not binding or restricting.
Fascinating
Megyn Kelly is joined by Mollie Hemingway, author of “Alito,” to discuss the inside story of what really happened at the Supreme Court during the Dobbs decision youtube.com/watch
Ordered a Militado ML08. $85 delivered. Sweep quartz, sapphire, steel bracelet, BGW9 lume, 100m WR. Looks like a Sinn tool watch, costs like a beater. I hate automatics and I love a watch that doesn’t apologize for being cheap. Perfect philosophy of use.
I knew it!
Investigative journalist Steve Baker joins Jimmy to reveal that forensic gait analysis—using both AI (94% match) and human experts (98% match)—identifies former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kirkoff as the January 5th pipe bomber www.youtube.com/watch
I LOVE the fact that SAS and SBS commandos are quitting en masse because they don’t believe that the UK and EU government will protect them and will turn against them and prosecute them over just being commandos and doing commando stuff. Yes, do it! youtu.be/ITYEKZHdN…
Les Misérables Doesn’t End at the Barricade: Everyone planned for the climax. Nobody planned for the denouement. The soldiers didn’t even remember it the next day. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/les-mis…
The left runs two tracks: what they actually know and what they’ll say publicly. The gap between them isn’t incompetence–it’s policy. They’ve decided you can’t handle the full picture. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Chesterton’s Fence applies to culture. Don’t dismantle what you don’t understand. A dry stone wall torn down by someone with no claim to it. That’s the immigration question—not ethnicity. Compatibility. Do you inherit a place or just occupy it? youtu.be/vplxJAyMR…
I know I’m getting old because every post and thread across social media turns into the same soft consensus chorus. Different topic, same lines, same tone, same outcome. At some point it stops being a conversation and just becomes ‘oh Lord, kumbaya.’
Péter Magyar presents as moderate, but on borders he tracks at least as hard as Viktor Orbán. He supports strict migration limits, fortified frontiers, and rejecting EU quotas. The difference is tone and EU alignment, not softer border policy.
Everyone poops & everyone’s radicalizing
The Boomers are Radicalising youtube.com/watch
Best ad for Polymarket & Kalshi ever—thanks, John!
John Oliver discusses prediction markets—platforms where you can bet on basically anything
Hannah Arendt watched Adolf Eichmann’s trial and expected a monster. She found a bureaucrat. The banality of evil: atrocity doesn’t require malice. It just requires people who follow procedures, speak in abstractions, and never ask who gets hurt.
I’ll believe it when I see it; nobody believes.
THIS is what we’ve ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!: A structured analytical review of the recent executive communications regarding the FBI’s internal investigation into the “Arctic Frost” framework. www.youtube.com/watch
“Hollywood DESTROYED Beauty (and I can PROVE IT!)” (Amazing insights and analysis from JesterBell) youtu.be/GfHJTj1ZF…