Is this happening? My mail-in vote in America did have a “no” option.
Virginia County REMOVED “NO” Option from Referendum Ballot. Sheriff Is Investigating. youtube.com/watch
Do you think this’ll become more common? Do you think it already is? Buy the good insurance.
A warehouse worker recorded of himself setting fire to the warehouse he worked at while stating they “should’ve paid us enough to live” youtube.com/watch
Turns Out the Elites Like the Administrative State Better than Democracy
The New York Times claims that the “administrative state”—that is, governance by unelected bureaucrats—protects our country and enhances democracy. pca.st/episode/9…
Will Ireland have a civil war before the USA and because of US?
Ireland is a good reminder that the self-appointed vanguard of the proletariat loves the proletariat mostly as an abstraction.
Right now, actual workers in Ireland, truckers, farmers, and other fuel-dependent people, have been out disrupting roads, cities, and supply lines over rising fuel costs. Dublin has been hit, depots have been targeted, and the government has made clear that while protest is technically fine, it has very little interest in treating these people as a legitimate body worth negotiating with. That part matters.
Because this is where the mask usually slips.
The modern managerial left loves “workers” as a poster, a slogan, a moral prop, a bit of museum glass labeled Working Class. What it does not love nearly as much is workers with their own center of gravity. Workers who are loud, blunt, rooted, impossible to curate, and fully willing to tell institutions to get bent. Workers who do not ask to be represented because they are perfectly capable of representing themselves.
That kind of worker is a problem.
So over time, a lot of what calls itself solidarity has quietly shifted away from workers and toward clients, people whose housing, legal status, education, services, identity, and social legitimacy all run through institutions staffed by the same professional class claiming to speak for them. That arrangement is much tidier. Dependency gets renamed compassion. Control gets repackaged as care.
That is why Ireland matters right now. Because when actual working people move under their own power, the people who endlessly invoke “the people” suddenly become anxious, managerial, and faintly contemptuous. The rhetoric stays populist. The instincts turn administrative.
That is also why Eoin Lenihan’s Vandalising Ireland caught my attention. I have not read it yet, but after hearing him interviewed by Bridget Phetasy, the broader pattern was hard to miss. Ireland is not some strange exception. It is one more place where the institutions, government, NGOs, academia, media, all seem much more comfortable speaking for ordinary people than listening to them.
And when those workers push back, they stop being celebrated as the noble working class and start being treated as a disruption to be managed, a nuisance to be smeared, or a threat to be contained.
That is the tell.
The vanguard did not merely lose touch with workers. It replaced them with constituencies that are easier to administer. Ireland is just making that harder to hide.
In Ireland right now, truckers and farmers are blocking roads over fuel costs, and the self-appointed vanguard suddenly looks nervous. They love “the working class” until actual workers move without permission. Then it’s not solidarity. It’s crowd control.
There’s real fuckery around Virginia’s redistricting vote. This isn’t a normal reform question. It’s about whether Virginia should temporarily let the legislature redraw congressional maps mid-decade to answer partisan map changes elsewhere. YES changes the map now. NO keeps the current system.
I took the German or Autistic diagnostic and scored Neither. I am apparently the control group. german.millermanschool.com
Trump’s America ramps up threats and strikes on Iran, pushes things to the brink, then steps in with a ceasefire and calls it victory. Create the crisis, control the escalation, then take credit for the calm you engineered.
Yesterday was the best Taco Tuesday I’ve ever had. If “Trump Always Chickens Out” means threats cool off instead of turning into missiles, I’ll take tacos over war every time. Call it whatever you want—I call it not waking up to a headline about Iran being erased.
This is awesome. Four episodes. Amazingly produced and acted. And I personally know Lucifer.
Experience the story of Jesus like never before in THE CHRIST, a four-part podcast masterpiece from the award-winning producers of Scrooge: A Christmas Carol. thechristpodcast.com
Canada mocks U.S. immigration policy while imposing caps and freezes at home—40% cuts to student permits, higher financial thresholds, and refugee sponsorship pauses through 2026. It’s not “more open,” it’s just branded better. One finger out, three back.
Fascinating AF
Canada Is Built on a Clause That Nobody Is Supposed to Use. What Happens Now That Everyone Is Using It? pca.st/episode/a…
Mao Zedong, the Chinese communist revolutionary who founded the People’s Republic of China, was not a Yale graduate. But in Changsha he had ties to Yale-in-China’s Yali network, editing a Yali-linked student magazine and reportedly running a bookshop from its medical college.
Same ice cream shop just with new exotic flavors!
Do you think the BRICS nations are going to save us from the New World Order? Then you might be suffering from multipolaritis. pca.st/episode/5…
Primer: “Baby killer” isn’t new. During the Vietnam War, U.S. troops were branded that over civilian deaths like My Lai Massacre. Today, the same language is aimed at the U.S. and Israel over Gaza and regional wars—a recurring anti-war tactic, not a new invention.
Fascinating
Spanberger approval rating at 47 percent in new poll youtube.com/watch
Fascinating
Warning To Voters: Abigail Spanberger’s ‘Bait And Switch’ Playbook Could Be Dems' Golden Strategy youtube.com/watch
Why do that when they can share costs with the State? Why would they spend more when they can do halvesies?
Haley Flatpack digital EDC pack
Everyone likes to take shots at my GR2 34L—“Why are you carrying an end-of-days, international, one-bag travel rig just to go sit in a café?” Fair. It does look like I’m about to either board a flight or disappear into the mountains. But here’s the punchline: I don’t need it.
What I actually need fits into something much smaller—a Haley Flatpack that’s basically the physical manifestation of restraint. Inside it right now: a 2011 Lenovo ThinkPad X220 (no extended battery, because we’re not reckless), a charging brick, USB charger, cables, Kleenex, lip balm, and a titanium fork/knife/spoon set because apparently I prepare for both emails and soup.
And yes—it all fits. Barely. The X220 slides in like a climbing shoe or a ballet flat—snug, borderline unreasonable, but technically compliant. You have to negotiate with the zipper a bit. There’s a moment where you and the bag come to an understanding. Then it closes, and suddenly you’re carrying a full mobile office in something that looks like it shouldn’t even hold a sandwich.
There are extra zippered pockets doing quiet, heroic work—absorbing all the small life-support items that normally metastasize across larger bags.
Today I forgot my notebook, which is a personal failure and will likely haunt me for several hours. But the important thing is: it would fit. The system holds.
So yeah—mock the GR2 all you want. It’s my mothership. But this little Flatpack? This is the shuttlecraft. This is me proving I can go from overbuilt expedition mode to minimalist café operator with zero drama.
And for scale, that espresso cup in the photo isn’t even standard size. This whole setup is basically “slightly larger than coffee, significantly more useful.”
