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Well maybe not daily, but as the need to express my current feelings. Joy and Depression. I know that this to shall pass, but sometimes it just feels hopeless.
This page is a curated and evolving list of internet voices I find worth listening to. Like anyone else, I’ve been pulled in by clickbait and hype more times than I care to admit, and I use sources like these to step back, clear the noise, and see the broader picture again.
I’ll be honest with you — most of what I read and listen to leans left. That’s where I land. But I’m genuinely afraid of any pendulum that swings too far in either direction, so I’ve made a deliberate effort to include voices that challenge that. The Dispatch and Tangle in particular are worth your time regardless of where you stand politically. If a source is a late-night show like The Daily Show or Jimmy Kimmel, you’re responsible for separating the delivery from the substance — humor often carries truth beneath it.
The goal here isn’t to tell you what to think. It’s to give you the opportunity to think — to slow the manufactured insanity we’re all living through, and to focus on fixing broken systems rather than just tearing everything down. Links get added and removed over time. So do my opinions.
The Education Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Seven – Education
What is missing is a federal civilian pathway to trade certification that carries the same social contract as the degree programs. We fund your training as an electrician, a welder, a medical technician, a licensed
The Capitalism Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Six – Capitalism – Video
We are currently in a period of deliberate deregulation. Sold as freedom for business to grow. What it actually produces — when the major players are left to their own devices — is consolidation until
How do you spell MAGA?
Total lies. Fake news. But we're gonna win anyway, we're gonna win so much, you'll be tired of winning. Make America Great Again? No no no... it's all LIES according to them. But we know
The Four Horsemen Are Already Here – A message for Texas Bible Thumpers and Christian Nationalists everywhere – Video
So there we are, folks. Three Horsemen accounted for. What??? There are FOUR Horsemen? You're right. There are four. So who are we missing? Who are we waiting for?
The Capitalism Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Six – Capitalism
We are currently in a period of deliberate deregulation. Sold as freedom for business to grow. What it actually produces — when the major players are left to their own devices — is consolidation until
Just Asking the Obvious – Video
If the tools exist, and they clearly do — why aren't they being used here? And if it turns out the forgiveness itself was secured by deceiving a federal court — what happens then?
The Four Horsemen Are Already Here – A message for Texas Bible Thumpers and Christian Nationalists everywhere
So there we are, folks. Three Horsemen accounted for. What??? There are FOUR Horsemen? You're right. There are four. So who are we missing? Who are we waiting for?
Just Asking the Obvious
If the tools exist, and they clearly do — why aren't they being used here? And if it turns out the forgiveness itself was secured by deceiving a federal court — what happens then?
The FCC and The News Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Five – The FCC and The News – Video
I can remember when the news was presented as news. Facts. This is what is happening. If an outlet wanted to offer opinion it was called an editorial and labeled as such. The separation was
The Elephant In The Room Nobody Is Looking At – Video
Are we watching the dark money apparatus recognize that their vehicle has failed and quietly preparing to deploy a new one? A cleaner one. A more electable one. A saving angel that turns out to
The FCC and The News Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Five – The FCC and The News
I can remember when the news was presented as news. Facts. This is what is happening. If an outlet wanted to offer opinion it was called an editorial and labeled as such. The separation was
Tell Me One Thing, I Dare You
Not a single word about what sending money would actually accomplish. Not a single promise about what gets better, what gets built, what gets fixed. Just the other side. How dangerous they are. How your
Fake News or Just a Fake Narrative
But in reality what he is missing is the real picture. Because it doesn’t fit the narrative.
The Elephant In The Room Nobody Is Looking At
Are we watching the dark money apparatus recognize that their vehicle has failed and quietly preparing to deploy a new one? A cleaner one. A more electable one. A saving angel that turns out to
The Judicial Branch Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Four – The Judicial Branch – Video
The Supreme Court needs its own enforcement mechanism. A Marshal's service with the specific authority to detain anyone — anyone — that the court by majority vote determines is willfully operating outside their constitutional limits
The Judicial Branch Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Four – The Judicial Branch
The Supreme Court needs its own enforcement mechanism. A Marshal's service with the specific authority to detain anyone — anyone — that the court by majority vote determines is willfully operating outside their constitutional limits
I Am In F-ing A Hurry
I won't live to see the final fruit from the seeds I hope to plant. But I sure hope I see the garbage taken out before it spoils what may come. I have my children
Why I Meme
This meme should speak for itself. It would have taken three articles to convey the same message. I think I'm getting the point across without overly offending too many people — except maybe a few
The Long View From 1964 – The Newsboy Cap – Video
We didn't just lose the newspaper. We lost the commons it created. Oh, I would love a basket of Ol' English Fish and Chips with a bottle of malt vinegar right now.
The Long View From 1964 – The Newsboy Cap
We didn't just lose the newspaper. We lost the commons it created. Oh, I would love a basket of Ol' English Fish and Chips with a bottle of malt vinegar right now.
I Just Got Scammed — For Real, Not Clickbait
$97.89 stolen from my checking account, and I helped them do it. I am eighty years old this November. I am exactly who they prey upon. They picked the wrong one. Let's make them hurt.
Before We Go Any Further A Reality Check – Video
The obvious goal with this set of foundation blocks isn't to fix the broken system. It's to provide a structure with enough strength that it cannot be so easily broken and manipulated again. The strength
Before We Go Any Further A Reality Check
The obvious goal with this set of foundation blocks isn't to fix the broken system. It's to provide a structure with enough strength that it cannot be so easily broken and manipulated again. The strength
Trump’s Peace Plan Memorandum Has Been Published, How Did We Do, Oh Master Negotiator?
I really wish this was a joke, boy has Second String Donny screwed us over.
The Cabinet, Party Favors Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Three – The Cabinet, Party Favors – Video
There would still be infighting. There will always be infighting. Human nature doesn't get reformed by better institutional design. But more handshakes and less backstabbing is not a naive hope. It is what happens when
The Cabinet, Party Favors Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Three – The Cabinet, Party Favors
There would still be infighting. There will always be infighting. Human nature doesn't get reformed by better institutional design. But more handshakes and less backstabbing is not a naive hope. It is what happens when
The Term Limits Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Two – Term Limits – Video
Not reform it. Not balance it. Remove the institutional infrastructure that makes it the only viable option. No party designations on ballots. No party primaries with public funding. No party based committee assignments in Congress.
The Term Limits Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick Two – Term Limits
Not reform it. Not balance it. Remove the institutional infrastructure that makes it the only viable option. No party designations on ballots. No party primaries with public funding. No party based committee assignments in Congress.
The Accountability Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick One – Accountability – Video
That's it. That's the foundation. Everything else — healthcare, infrastructure, justice, national security, the institutions we depend on daily without noticing — sits on top of that one simple principle. Remove it and nothing else
Get Off The Bench
Right now we are playing a purely defensive game. Where is the offense? The firebreak doesn't build itself. The ball doesn't move without someone running with it. Time to get off the bench. Then maybe
The Accountability Brick What Good Government Actually Requires — Brick One – Accountability
That's it. That's the foundation. Everything else — healthcare, infrastructure, justice, national security, the institutions we depend on daily without noticing — sits on top of that one simple principle. Remove it and nothing else
One last thing, the Treasury is ours as well, get your fingers out of it. – Video
Sorry Charlie, but you works for us, not the other way around.
The President Who Won’t Leave – That’s right Donny, you never needed 4 inches to begin with – Video
The President of the United States works for us. He has no reason to fear us — unless we are not on his agenda. Unless what he has been doing was never in the best
One last thing, the Treasury is ours as well, get your fingers out of it.
Sorry Charlie, but you works for us, not the other way around.
The President Who Won’t Leave – That’s right Donny, you never needed 4 inches to begin with.
The President of the United States works for us. He has no reason to fear us — unless we are not on his agenda. Unless what he has been doing was never in the best
F you Judge
I have this speeding ticket I've been thinking about. Pretty sure the officer was politically motivated. I'm going to evaluate whether his authority applies to me before I decide whether to pay it. If the
F you Judge – Video
If the rule of law applies to ordinary citizens it applies to everyone. Or it applies to no one. Pick one.
The Long View From 1964 – The Saucepan Hat – Video
The voters that scare me are the sheep. Here is how to vote, do it this way because I told you to. That is what keeps me up at night. Those are people with unfertilized
The collar changes the problem. – Video
The collar changes the problem. A dog that spent its life running wherever it wanted is not suddenly going to become obedient because it found itself at the end of a rope. It's going to
The Long View From 1964 – The Saucepan Hat
The voters that scare me are the sheep. Here is how to vote, do it this way because I told you to. That is what keeps me up at night. Those are people with unfertilized
That’s One Mangy Mutt
The collar changes the problem. A dog that spent its life running wherever it wanted is not suddenly going to become obedient because it found itself at the end of a rope. It's going to
The Truth They Can’t Reach – Video
When all is said and done the only person who will actually believe his version of history is Trump himself. That's part of the illness.
The Truth They Can’t Reach
When all is said and done the only person who will actually believe his version of history is Trump himself. That's part of the illness.
If It Isn’t Trump, Who Is Running The Show? – Video
This is about today. Right now. With a sick old man spending his remaining energy screaming at everything he doesn't like on his own little social media platform — there is not a chance in
If It Isn’t Trump, Who Is Running The Show?
This is about today. Right now. With a sick old man spending his remaining energy screaming at everything he doesn't like on his own little social media platform — there is not a chance in
They Opened the Door. They Can Close It. – Video
The Founders feared two things above almost everything else: a standing army loyal to one man, and an executive who could act without legal consequence. They built a system of separated powers precisely to prevent
They Opened the Door. They Can Close It.
They Opened the Door. They Can Close It. An op-ed on the Supreme Court, presidential immunity, and the precedent they set themselves In 2022, the Supreme Court did something many legal scholars had considered unthinkable.
The Long View From 1964 – Where is Anywhere – Video
That's what this series has been. Not solutions. Not a platform. Not a party. Just someone who has been paying attention since 1964 sitting with the question honestly and refusing the checkboxes that don't fit.
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