11-year-olds filmed chanting "Germany for Germans" to "L'Amour Toujours" at party spark major uproar
Footage from a club night in Falkenberg, Germany shows teenagers chanting "Germany for Germans, Foreigners Out" to Gigi D'Agostino's "L'Amour Toujours,"
Palais Bourbon
Just an old picture from my archive, and from my time in Paris, of the Palais Bourbon, home to the French National Assembly (i.e. the lower house of parliament).I can’t remember why it was all…
Seeing Through Weaponized Faith: Five Patterns You Should Never Ignore
Christian Nationalist Reality Check #4. This is part of an ongoing series examining how religious language is used in modern politics. This is the fourth part of a weekly series, you can find the…
Seeing Trump Clearly
What if Trump’s apparently chaotic thought processes and intuitive decision making are all a blind, a charade? What if we are really witnessing, in the Middle East and more widely, a carefully…
American wreckage
The biggest issue plaguing the U.S. Imagine an automotive industry that sold cars and trucks with no recommendations as to oil changes or other servicing, so that motor vehicles would start breaking…
Chicken Soup for the Zionist Infiltrator Soul, Part II
The left-wing group Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) , a major ally of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has unveiled a plan to combat hate and keep Jews and other minorities safe that…
Reminder: It isn’t defamation if it’s true
bogleech:croaksac:the complete and total defeat in the prosecutor’s voice at the very end….. im 💀💀💀Havent seen a lot about this on tumblr so maybe not a lot of people know:He was…
You’ll wait a long time for Meta to remove fake content
An ABC News (the Australian one) investigation has shown how good the deepfakes are, usually right-wing-supporting content to fool the public. Matt Martino shared this link on Linkedin, to a story…
WTC Wrap: 21 March 2026
This week: Energy supply concerns, the Singapore High Commissioner to Australia gets pissy about a radio segment, and more support needed for people with special needs and mental health conditions.
When the city becomes the weapon: IoT, AI, and the new face of warfare
There is a quiet assumption most of us carry around about the devices that fill our cities. Traffic cameras sit on their poles to catch speeding drivers. Smart sensors monitor air quality for public…
Media and Platform Failures: Unverified Amplification of an Anonymous Influence Tool
Everyone makes mistakes. Journalists work under pressure. Deadlines are real. A fuel crisis two days before an election is genuinely stressful - for reporters and citizens alike. But what happened on…
1923: A Punt Gun
We look at a strange, divisive and forgotten weapon that was banned in the USA but tolerated in Great Britain.
Russia is Not a Great Power
Russia is not a great power. It is in no way a contender for the title, and treating it as one of the “power brokers” of the world benefits no one except the autocratic regime that hinges…
37 Days in Jail For Posting a Meme on Facebook
In America, we don’t jail people for political speech. Yet Larry Bushart spent 37 days behind bars simply for posting a meme in a Facebook group. Perry County, Tennessee Sheriff Nathan Weems sent…
my political platform
I have received my first call from someone close telling me to stop running. I’ve been expecting that to happen and to be honest it didn’t feel great. I’m witnessing the different emotions I’m…
The U.S. government is at war with the Catholic Church
My latest piece in America Magazine lays bare the extent to which US government policy seems to be going in outright opposition to decades of Catholic teaching—particularly on climate, war, and civil…
The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched…
Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Circus Smacked Down in Rome
A papal adviser calls Peter Thiel a heretic after his secret Rome lectures on the Antichrist draw global attention and a Vatican rebuke
The Lasting Impact of Trump’s Tariffs
The U.S. attack on Iran has diverted attention from the tariffs the United States has applied liberally since Donald Trump took office in January 2025. While tariffs based on the International…
Ranked Choice Voting
In most elections in the United States, we have "first past the post voting" in which whoever gets the most votes wins.
MBTA’s Phillip Eng Says T Will Exceed Pre-Pandemic Levels of Bus Service This Spring
After years of driver shortages, the T has finally has enough bus operators to be able to exceed its pre-pandemic levels of bus service, according to MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng. Eng appeared on…
A Maga Saga
Although I was early in calling Trump a fascist, and although I’ve even described his acolytes as Nazis, I’ve been […]
Murc’s Law
the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics You’ve Probably Never Heard of “Murc’s Law”, But You’ve Seen It in Action Lots of Times…
Federal Data Forum and ACS Data Users Group
If you’ve attended any of our presentations or office hours, you’ve probably heard us mention just how complicated the U.S. federal statistical system is. Luckily, our partners at the…
Found!
As a wise commenter remarked, "They finally found the POTUS who Trump said congratulated him on having 'the guts' to invade Iran... it was 45!"
immigrant song
My wife was in hospital this morning. We turned up to A&E at 1:30am and were seen by medical people who had obviously come from all over the world to work there. In fact, the most striking thing was…
2026.12: Please Listen to My Podcast
The best Stratechery content from the week of March 16, 2026, including everything not written, what Jensen Huang has in common with Steve Jobs, and Trump's delayed trip to Beijing.
How to move a spacecraft
NASA has put out a draft request for proposal for how to move its historic flown spacecraft around the country. Spurred on by two Texas senators bid to relocate space shuttle Discovery from the…
The Federal AI Policy Framework: An Improvement, But My Offer Is (Still Almost) Nothing
The Federal AI Policy Framework has been released. Well, it is a four page outline. Mostly it just reiterates existing such outlines. But that is four more pages than we had previously. It includes…
Iran: How we oppose this war
Notes from a livestream with Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley, on fighting back.
Democracy is a Liability
Once you have no more earning potential, you’d think the advertising would go away. If you have no money, there’s no reason for people to pay to manipulate you to get you to give them some. Google…
“Let my name be the last”
I had coffee yesterday with my friend, Sgt. Huy Nguyen, the president of the Oakland Police Officers Association. He had just returned from a memorial service for the four Oakland cops who were slain…
Had enough of 'experts'
Things will be bad enough after the government doubles the price of vaping in October with its new vape tax without going full prohibition, but the “ban it harder” mentality always seems to prevail.…
Trump likes spending federal dollars
The government is spending money faster in 2026 than it did in 2025 — a year surpassed in spending only by 2021.
Nuclear Arms Race 2026: Post-New START World Enters Uncharted Territory
With the collapse of the last major US–Russia treaty, a new phase of nuclear competition is emerging—faster, broader, and harder to control. On February 5, 2026, the New START Treaty expired—quietly,…
Weeknotes #322
The war between the United States and Iran continues to drag on. In a shocking twist, it seems victory might not be the fait accompli it was initially presented as being. President Trump attempted to…
How to fail at healthcare, education, and technology in one week
Sometimes it feels like governments are actively trying to make everything worse. “Affordable” healthcare that no one can afford. AI regulations designed to ensure 450 million Europeans…
TTABlog Test: Are Cat Food and Cat Food Supplements Related to Cat Litter Under Section 2(d)?
The USPTO refused to register the mark ZENCAT in the word-and-design form shown below, for cat food and nutritional supplements for cats, concluding that confusion is likely with the registered mark…
Negrón ⎮ Eisler
A pairing of works by two composers who exemplify pushing back against oppressive systems; both operate at the interventions oscillating between poles of hemispheric influence; both are embedded in…
Thursday’s Trailheads
The Pre-War World Is Gone by Noah Rothman There is no going back to the world as it was before February 28. Under fire from the Iranian field commanders independently targeting the region’s civilian…
Russia’s Ukraine War Lessons Are Hitting the Gulf
Russia is taking what they’ve learned on the battlefield in the Ukraine War and sharing that with Iran. This is not a new strategy for the Russians, but it is already spelling trouble for the…
The Chios Incident: Echoes of Pylos Humanitarian Disaster and Greece's Criminalization of Solidarity
Georgios Athanasiou , PhD Researcher, University of Antwerp Photo credit : Julian Lupyan, via Wikimedia Commons The Chios migrant boat shipwreck of 3 February 2026 <span lang="EN-US"…
Norway’s Crown Princess Speaks Out On Epstein Links For First Time
The post Norway’s Crown Princess Speaks Out On Epstein Links For First Time appeared first on Life in Norway.
μ-Note: Russia's Max Tightens Telegram's Ad Business Handcuffs
The online publication Ixbt.com published "The National Messenger Max Has Opened Up New Business Opportunities: Integration Is Available for More Than 8 Million Companies and Individual…
The Iran war is unlikely to end soon
Apologies: bad html code in this post, now fixed, made the site inaccessible for several hours today. Thanks to Alain for reporting it, apologies to all for the inconvenience. * I’m struggling…
The myth of Israeli invincibility
My monthly column with the UK outlet, Middle East Eye: Who’s excited about the US and Israeli war on Iran? As the Middle East is on fire, from Tehran to Manama, the Israeli weapons industry is…
Statuslog - "A striking datum of this war is how...
"A striking datum of this war is how few attempts have been made at selling it, rhetorically dignifying it, morally arming it or situating it in some context of shared Western interests. [...] Of…
The Gathering Storm Over America: How War, Fear, and Invisible Forces Could Unravel the World We Thought Was Safe
America seems to be moving in a direction that feels increasingly uncertain, and for many people, that uncertainty is hard to ignore. The growing tension with Iran is not something most Americans…
1405 - Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst
So today is "Nowruz," the first day of the Iranian calendar. The word-by-word translation of it is "New day" as "Now = New" and "Ruz = Day". People normally celebrate this year in Iran by gathering…
The Age-Gated Internet: Child Safety, Identity Infrastructure, and the Not So Quiet Re-Architecting of the Web
Governments around the world are introducing age-verification and youth social-media laws, but these policies may be doing far more than protecting children. They are quietly pushing identity into…