Only one part this Friday. The president announced Casey Means, MD, would be his nominee for Surgeon General of the United States hearings in the middle of 2025. The US Senate began considering her nomination this week. The back and forth has been interesting. Where to begin? First we can start with the previous nine […]
Friday, February 27, 2026
The Hidden Math Behind Rising Electricity Prices
How high construction and financing costs are likely to lead to even bigger electricity price increases than anticipated now.
Iran War Watch: Iran Makes Real Concessions on Nuclear Enrichment But Can Trump Take That Win? UPDATE: Israel Embassy Evacuation Says War May Be Imminent
As stoopid and wildly US-hegemony-destructive as a war with Iran would be, the possibility is still very much in play.
Will the US Try to Pull a False Flag to Justify Escalating Its War on Cuba?
The Trump administration is capable of just about anything these days, especially when it comes to Cuba, Marco Rubio’s most coveted prize of all.
How X’s Algorithm Shifts Political Attitudes
Not only does brain-pickling by algorithm work, but it has a durable effect by influencing voter information sources over time.
Curtis Yarvin’s Dystopian Plan for “Gaza Inc.” Closer With Proposed Stablecoin
Gaza will be rebuilt as the first fully native-digital, stablecoin-driven surveillance society and a dystopian model for others
From Fed Failures to Inflation and Stablecoins: America’s Trust Is Cracking
Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that falling trust in government and financial institutions puts the U.S. economy in peril
Trump Policies and “Donald Dash” Expats Produce Net Emigration for US, Prospective Population Shrinkage
The US showed net emigration in 2025, with an increase in expats bumping up over a rising trend line.
Pets Are Expensive and Shelters Are Packed. Advocates Say Mamdani Should Help.
A proposal to fund spay and neuter surgeries plus low-cost vet clinics and pop-up food pantries seeks to keep pets with their families.
The Roots of Nazi Ideology: Arthur Graf J. Gobineau and His Racial-Racist Political Theory
How resentment of the republican ideal of equality stoked the racist theories of Arthur Graf J. Gobineau.
Coffee Break: SOTU 2026 Kabuki Theater, Bipartisan Kayfabe
POTUS Donald Trump’s SOTU 2026 was the usual kabuki theater, aimed at scoring cheap partisan zingers on immigration while ignoring major issues like the Epstein Files, minimizing a possibly imminent attack on Iran, and misrepresenting last week’s SCOTUS ruling on tariffs.
The Work-From-Home Wage Premium
Why do work-from-home employees make more than in-office peers? Worker-boss relations don’t always hew to formalities.
