“Few politicians have invested more ill-gotten resources into riling up my neighbors against some mythic Queer agenda than Donald Trump has over the last four years. He has transformed his public persona from a populist potty mouth who would much rather troll John McCain’s funeral than the Pride parade to an absurdly philanderous stadium church crowd exciter whooping up hysteria over bearded macho men playing ladybug soccer and mandatory sex change surgeries at a kindergarten near you. There is a reason for this. The first four years in the White House alone proved that Donald Trump is just another neocon-hiring missile merchant to anyone actually paying attention, so he has to invest more and more resources into making sure that you’re way too pissed off at weird people like me for you to pay attention.” (09/28/25)
“It seems like Comey’s tenure was mostly lies. So pardon me if I decline to break out even the world’s smallest violin for his current legal problems. On the other hand, it’s also true that this prosecution has nothing whatsoever to do with the alleged lie in question. It’s partly about Donald Trump’s desire to ‘get’ Comey for having proven insufficiently loyal to Donald Trump. It’s mostly about Trump’s need for distractions from his close personal relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein.” (09/28/25)
“National Public Radio recently aired a segment on the evils of ‘Surveillance Pricing’— the practice of employing customer data and AI to tailor prices for individual consumers. The coverage, predictably, is overwhelmingly negative: an interviewee warned that it would let corporations prey on people’s vulnerabilities, as the Federal Trade Commission frets about ‘privacy, competition, and consumer protection.’ … In truth, this is simply a scary name for something we already know: dynamic pricing. Airlines, ride-share companies, hotels, and supermarkets have been doing it for years. Arguably, it has been done since time immemorial: I have little doubt that Arab traders offered ‘special’ prices for visiting Englishmen to Jumma Bazaars — and I know this because they still do, from Kuwait to Karachi. … The fact that dynamic pricing exists is a net win to all of us.” (09/26/25)
“One of the most awesome powers of the modern state is its ability to imprison people who have violated the law. This is why the Founding Fathers were so obsessed with procedures and principles meant to protect citizens from arbitrary arrest. As they recognized, no liberty worth its name is possible when a head of government, even one elected by popular vote, can direct the machinery of the state to punish those who have displeased him. And yet, that is precisely what Donald Trump is attempting to do in the case of James Comey.” (09/27/25)
“Sadly, for most people today, World War I, or what some older Brits still refer to as the Great War, doesn’t mean too much. This is too bad, as it is perhaps the best mirror we have on the behavior of people and countries during the Covid era. For those who have forgotten, WWI occurred at a time when technological advances enabled a sudden quantum leap in man’s ability to slaughter his fellow man. And armed with these new killing powers, people proceeded to go out and do precisely that in absolutely staggering numbers, and on the most flimsy of nationalist pretexts. But, believe it or not, this heretofore unthinkable level of calculated murder is not even the most instructive element of this history for us today. Rather, it is the fact that, at the time, most people not only bought into these flimsy pretexts, but that they did so with an astonishingly high degree of zeal and enthusiasm.” (09/27/25)
“When the civilian at the head of the Department of Defense is a public cheerleader for war crimes, that sends a message to everyone in the military that similar conduct won’t be punished.” (09/26/25)
“Elon Musk is going to rejoice next week when President Trump’s budget director, Russ Vought, unleashes his secret shutdown weapon. A former House speaker, Newt Gingrich, talked about it last night: ‘Look, I think that the Democrats are in a hopeless situation. And I’ve been looking at people like Congresswoman Spanberger, who’s running for governor in Virginia. How can she vote against keeping the government open when it is her constituents in Northern Virginia who are going to bear the brunt of any government shutdown?’ What’s Mr. Vought’s secret weapon? He is ordering all government agencies to identify all programs that would lapse in a shutdown or don’t meet up with Mr. Trump’s policies. As Kim Strassel writes in the Wall Street Journal, usually shutdowns mean federal employees are furloughed — and then they get hired back.” (09/26/25)
“As the old saw goes, to the man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. To the Labour technocrat, there is no problem that can’t be solved with a national ID-card scheme. So it is that UK prime minister Keir Starmer has landed on that most New Labourite of policies. The PM announced this week that digital ID cards – to be known in true Blair-era fashion as ‘BritCards’ – will help solve the problem of illegal immigration. … There is absolutely no reason to believe the state can collate private data currently scattered across disparate systems and governmental departments and not screw it up. But even if the state were capable of creating an effective digital-ID scheme, that wouldn’t make a good idea.” (09/27/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s so crazy that we’re two years into a genocide and we’re still being hammered by propagandists pretending to believe that the world has just spontaneously started hating Israel for no reason in some inexplicable explosion of Jew-hatred. ‘U.S. registers most outbreaks of global antisemitism in August,’ reads a recent headline from Fox News. ‘Report: Antisemitism Hits Post-Holocaust High,’ blares a headline from Newsmax. ‘Gen Z’s casual antisemitism is growing — seeded by influencers like Tucker Carlson,’ says a headline from The New York Post. During a recent ‘counter-terrorism’ summit at Reichman University, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt complained that the entire world is becoming increasingly hateful toward Jews.” (09/28/25)
