Coffee Break: Gavin Newsom Weaponizes ‘Dark Woke’ Cringe Against Trump
California Governor Gavin Newsom is using a cringe-worthy “dark woke” approach to counter President Trump on social media that is getting positive poll results.
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Coffee Break: CDC and Acceleration of the Doom Loop
Part the First and Only on this Friday Afternoon: One More Revolution of the Accelerating Doom Loop of Science. The following is an update to our previous discussion earlier this week. As everyone should know by now, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has fired the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. […]
Read more...Haiti Is Not a Failed Country; It Has Been Broken. Now Erik Prince Wants to Fix It.
Haiti’s “manufactured chaos” is the result of foreign intervention in connivance with the country’s oligarchic elites. Erik Prince’s mercenaries will not fix it; they will only make it worse.
Read more...Coffee Break: The Political Blender Is Throwing Up Some Odd Alliances
In 2025 we are witnessing a political blender: the collapse of old political alliances and the emergence of new coalitions.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Misguided Marines
The Marine Corps’ new Pacific island strategy, articulated in its Force Design 2030 planning documents, envisions small units deployed across the Pacific island chain, armed with missiles and sensors to strike Chinese shipping and contest maritime access. Branded as Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), the concept seeks to adapt the Corps to great-power competition by […]
Read more...Coffee Break: The Abundance Bros Notice the AI Bubble but What Is Their Narrative Leaving Out?
The AI bubble has gotten so big that even the Abundance Bros are noticing, but maybe conventional analysis is missing something really big.
Read more...Coffee Break: Beware the Jargon, Chocolate(!), Arsenic Life Final Update, Death Becomes Us, and the Scopes Trial,
Part the First: Beware Scientific Jargon. But everyone here already knows that. Nevertheless, this is a perpetual challenge for every scientist and other scholar who wants to be understood by our fellow citizens without “dumbing it down.” Scientific jargon can be ‘satisfying’ — but misleading. Jargon works especially well for those of my tribe who […]
Read more...Putin and Trump in Alaska: Do Men Make History or Does History Make Men?
At the meeting between Putin and Trump, the question of whether a leader is a product of history or its maker reveals much about them, and us.
Read more...Coffee Break: Andrew Cuomo Counting on Trump’s Support in New York Race
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is counting on support from President Donald Trump in the New York mayoral election.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Vanishing Foot Soldier
Armored knights vanished when gunpowder weapons made them ineffective, and cavalry vanished when motorized transport and tanks arrived on the battlefield. I believe infantry will likely be the next category of warriors to disappear. History shows that survival, cost-effectiveness, and competitive advantage dictate military force composition—not tradition. The lessons are clear: when a combat role […]
Read more...Coffee Break: 2025 Gubernatorial Races Provide Preview for 2026 Mid-term Elections
The New Jersey and Virginia 2025 gubernatorial elections provide a preview of the 2026 midterm elections occurring in the shadow of Trump.
Read more...In Latin America, the US Is Showing What the Future World-Order Might Look Like
The rules-based order is giving way to one of ‘sphere of influence,’ and in Latin America the U.S. is showing what could look like one
Read more...Coffee Break: Posse Comitatus and Trump’s Post-Constitutional Order
Trump and the GOP’s extra-Constitutional acts in Washington, D.C., California, and Texas raise questions about the Posse Comatitus Act.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Trouble with ALIS
The F-35 fighter jet is the most expensive weapons program in U.S. history, but one of its biggest failures isn’t in the air — it’s on the ground. The Pentagon’s Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), conceived as an ambitious plan to revolutionize fighter jet maintenance and logistics, collapsed under the weight of bad design, poor […]
Read more...Coffee Break: Larry Ellison + Oracle + AI + Paramount + Trump = Total Info Control
Oracle billionaire CEO Larry Ellison is aggressively moving into media and military contracting to consolidate his power in the Trump 2.0 era.
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