In July 1943, Allied forces launched Operation Gomorrah, a series of air raids on Hamburg. The use of incendiary bombs created a massive firestorm, resulting in approximately 40,000 civilian deaths. This event remains a subject of historical debate regarding the ethics and legality of strategic bombing during World War II.
Must read, must watch, just listen.
Journalist Amy Goodman — the subject of a new documentary “Steal This Story, Please!” — on why independent media is needed now more than ever. theintercept.com/2026/04/1…
Grab Your Tin Foil Hat for The Onion’s Takeover of Infowars | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Gunfu 101: The 21-foot rule says a knife attacker can cover 21 feet in about 1.5 seconds, roughly the time needed to draw and fire. Dennis Tueller’s 1983 drill isn’t a magic number. It’s a warning: distance, reaction time, and awareness matter.
If true, yikes!
Cleveland Schools Layoff 400 Teachers youtube.com/watch
Yikes!
A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. youtube.com/watch
Fascinating
This new Linux distro is breaking the law, by design… youtube.com/watch
Fascinating
Why People Label Themselves as Neurodivergent with Edward Dutton youtube.com/watch
Fascinating. Speech policing.
Free Speech Shouldn’t Need Elite Approval - Matt Taibbi youtube.com/watch
“Where are my poor desperate cheap fieldworkers?”
This Idaho Farmer Is Running Her Farm Like A SLAVE Plantation youtube.com/watch
Fascinating
Straight to the Point: FBI’s Secret Targeting of Team Trump youtube.com/watch
Men are afraid of men too. We read rooms, clock threats, cross streets—we do the same calculus women do. Women aren’t being paranoid. They’re being accurate. We rarely admit it, but we already know exactly why they choose the bear. We’d probably make the same call.
Jes Grew doesn’t ask your permission. Winston Napier taught me that. This is thirty years late and still reporting symptoms. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Does this also mean celibacy? Or is hooking up a cutout that doesn’t count?
Globally, the number of single people is on the rise. Rates of marriage and cohabitation are on the decline, and in some countries, even sex itself is down. youtube.com/watch
Fascinating
The debunkers absolutely destroy gun buy backs youtube.com/watch
Fascinating.
In the most insane turn of events, the left has been funding the very racism they are fighting. youtube.com/watch
“Broken brag” is the mirror of humble brag—competitive suffering dressed as confession. The brokenness is the credential. The bottom is the trophy. Russell Brand’s thousand women aren’t a confession. They’re a résumé. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/broken-…
Might Makes Right, and Other Things Nobody Will Say at the University in Bamberg I spent the morning on Threads getting lectured by a German about American imperialism. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/might-m…
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…