A few days ago, a claim started making the rounds online that Kim Jong Un had announced North Korea would execute anyone named in the Epstein files, presumably by firing squad, if they were handed over. It spread fast, the way these things do, shared and reshared with a kind of grim satisfaction, as ifContinue reading “On Radical Empathy, Accountability, and Why No One Should Have the Power to Unalive Anyone”
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The Charlatans Are Coming, And They’ll Call Themselves Peacemakers
I have one more prediction to add to the last two, and this one might be the most important of the three, because it’s not really a prediction about the war itself, it’s a prediction about the language people are going to use to lie about their relationship to the war. Here it is. AsContinue reading “The Charlatans Are Coming, And They’ll Call Themselves Peacemakers”
The Script Is About To Flip, And Both Sides Are About To Be Wrong Again
I have another prediction, and I want to write it down now, in public, before it happens, so that when it does happen, and I think it will, there’s a record of someone calling it in advance instead of just nodding along after the fact like everyone always does. Here’s the prediction. If this trajectoryContinue reading “The Script Is About To Flip, And Both Sides Are About To Be Wrong Again”
The Wars Have Merged, And Now We Have To Choose What Happens Next
There’s a moment that happens sometimes in history where two separate fires that everyone assumed were contained finally touch, and instead of two fires you have one fire, bigger than either one alone, burning in a direction nobody fully controls. That moment happened this weekend. Ukraine struck an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea, aContinue reading “The Wars Have Merged, And Now We Have To Choose What Happens Next”
Pickaxe Mountain and the Question of What Happens When You Bomb a Bomb Factory
As of July 24, 2026, the United States finds itself once again on the edge of a decision that could reshape the Middle East, and this time the target has a name that sounds almost cartoonish for something so serious. Pickaxe Mountain. It is the informal nickname given to a fortified underground facility that IranContinue reading “Pickaxe Mountain and the Question of What Happens When You Bomb a Bomb Factory”
Selective Outrage: Mamdani’s Loud Netanyahu Campaign and His Very Quiet Maduro Silence
There’s a pattern emerging with Zohran Mamdani that’s hard to ignore once you actually line the two situations up side by side, and it has nothing to do with legal nuance or jurisdictional technicalities, even though those things are real and do matter. It has to do with volume. Right now, this week, Mamdani isContinue reading “Selective Outrage: Mamdani’s Loud Netanyahu Campaign and His Very Quiet Maduro Silence”
The Prophecy Fulfilled: How Mamdani’s Netanyahu Dance Played Out Exactly as Predicted
I said it back when this whole saga first flared up, when Zohran Mamdani was still riding the momentum of his mayoral campaign and delighting his base with the kind of righteous, uncompromising language that wins primaries but rarely survives contact with the actual machinery of governance, that he would eventually find a way toContinue reading “The Prophecy Fulfilled: How Mamdani’s Netanyahu Dance Played Out Exactly as Predicted”
WTF Is Actually Going On With The Iran War (July 2026 Update)
Alright, I said I’d come back to this, and here I am, because the situation somehow got worse instead of better, and I think a lot of people have quietly stopped paying attention even though this thing is still very much happening. So let’s just walk through where we actually are right now, as ofContinue reading “WTF Is Actually Going On With The Iran War (July 2026 Update)”
Beyond the Headline: Why Grief and Glee Both Miss the Point
Today, on July 12th, 2026, news broke that Senator Lindsey Graham has died. Within minutes, timelines split into two familiar camps, the ones lighting candles and the ones lighting fireworks. Tributes poured in from colleagues who called him a friend, a fighter, a man of conviction. And just as quickly, another current rose up besideContinue reading “Beyond the Headline: Why Grief and Glee Both Miss the Point”
Believing the Accuser Should Not Depend on Which Team They’re Accusing
I have been thinking about this for a while now, and I want to lay it out carefully, because I think it is one of the more uncomfortable truths in American politics, the truth that we, as a country, have developed a habit of treating accusations against politicians as credible or not credible based almostContinue reading “Believing the Accuser Should Not Depend on Which Team They’re Accusing”