On 09/09/09, I stepped off a plane into the heavy heat of Managua, unaware my old life was ending. Divorced, drifting, and quietly addicted, I had been bouncing between apartments along Jacksonville’s beaches when an appraisal job introduced me to Frank, a Nicaraguan with deep political ties. After one exploratory surf trip with friends, I saw opportunity beyond the crowded southern Pacific and returned alone to build what would become GreenSurf. Staying in a worn-down quinta, sober and hyper-observant, I began constructing a surf camp business while absorbing a world of diplomats, lumberyards, and Spanish conversations I barely understood. The reset had begun.

February 24th, 5:30 pm on a crowded subway filled with others who don't see my struggle, dreams, contributions, and full humanity yet! Submitting a typed letter for Lisa Yedonorowicz, a Ukrainian-American painter who is based in Minneapolis and has started to document activist profiles across the states ever since the rise of the ICE raids in her current hometown. This letter coincides with a painting she took of me over Zoom a few weeks ago, with the prompts "How are you affected by unrest?" "Are there causes & orgs you are passionate about?" How I felt: I wrote this elaborate note as if it's my last will and testament to hope for a better tomorrow, redeeming myself from the hell I am living in, and yearning to be seen and loved unconditionally. Apparently, this letter, along with the painting, will be published in a book, and featured in an exhibition in a art museum in Iowa. TBD

Disgusted by the state of the world, the main character, Olorin Adegoke, looks for an apprentice and finds it in an unlikely source.

The prologue to the story I'm writing. Pretty basic, nothing notable. It's basically meant to explain a little bit of the main character's backstory, as well as explain where their powers came from.

There's a pattern consisting of these assassination attempts, pointing to staged attempts. It also leads to a dark viewpoint of murderous intent on part of the government agencies involved. These gun men were tricked into staging a failed assassination attempt, but didn't know they were setting themselves up to be killed. But the agents knew.

Cultural Sociologist, Institute for Urban Culture “The rise in feminine visibility isn’t just about fashion. It’s about a generational renegotiation of masculinity. Our 2026 data indicates that over 60% of young Polish men have experimented with gender-nonconforming elements in style. That’s historically unprecedented in this country.”

This article examines how God of War Ragnarök treats prophecy not as mystical truth, but as a system for managing behavior. Fate functions as infrastructure: by convincing gods and mortals that the ending is inevitable, the system narrows choice and turns resistance into compliance. Odin weaponizes information and narrative control, while prophecy limits imagination more effectively than force. Kratos threatens this structure by refusing narrative finality, while Atreus initially believes understanding prophecy will grant agency. The game reveals that “fate” is often just predictable behavior under stable incentives—and that the system collapses when characters stop performing inevitability. Ragnarök isn’t destiny fulfilled; it’s inevitability disrupted by unmanageable human choice.

The case of the Central Park Five, now known as the Exonerated Five, exposes deep flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system, particularly racial prejudice, media bias, and coerced confessions. Influential figures such as Donald Trump further inflamed public outrage by calling for the death penalty, contributing to threats and hostility toward the teenagers and their families. Each of the five spent between 6 and 13 years in prison, losing their childhoods and suffering lasting emotional, mental, and social harm.

I'm a student in America. Here's how it feels. You may wonder what this is about, this is about the fear I feel from what happens in America. And how it feels to have a constant fear of a lockdown happening. Technically political because lockdowns and shootings are often political.

Growing up I didn't know much about politics, but I was raised in church, so I knew what it was to be a christian. Or at least that's what I thought. I remember in 7th grade when the church was saying impeach Clinton, I asked why? When I was told my response was different then everyone else's. I said, how is that any of our business, isn't that between him and his wife? I remember later on asking my mom if we were republican or Democrats. She said republican. And like I always asked, but why? What's the difference? She said, republicans are Christians and Democrats are atheist. It wasn't till I was 23 with my second kid; 2nd son in fact who is my mixed son, that I began to find out that's not what democrat means and I'm definitely liberal, and my opinion so is Jesus... I mean He says he came to set us free and that seems pretty liberating.

Introducing Wheelchair Detective: A true crime blog dedicated to shedding light on cases involving people with disabilities. Join Jennifer LaRocco as she explores overlooked stories, advocates for justice, and shares her personal journey of resilience and disability awareness.

Back in Fall 2019, a mass shooting happened in a kosher grocery in Jersey City by a black supremacist terror group called Black Israelites. They targeted the local Jewish community and scapegoated them for gentrification and their problems in Black America. While working in the central library in Staten Island, in St. George, my manager didn't bat an eye at how this affected me, and shortly afterwards, I went to work one day, and a huge white painted Swastika was smeared on the entrance doors, and I came to work in the late afternoon. I had made a major report, and none of my gentile colleagues cared to clean off the highly antisemitic vandalism on our property door, despite serving both Jewish and other marginalized patrons. It made me write this piece on how apathetic and passive Americans are to casual antisemitism.

Willow Harris returns from the Army to a life divided between her ambitious mother’s world and her pastor father’s strict Southern family. Rising through law enforcement to the FBI’s BAU, she excels at catching killers while hiding secrets about her identity, love, and past. As family scandals, buried trauma, and a calculating predator close in, Willow must confront the truth she’s spent years avoiding — before the life she built collapses from beneath her.

This is the start of what is probably my most ambitious piece of non-fiction writing to date. It’s going to touch on several different of my Medium publications and NOTD streams. On Medium, I will cross-link, and on NOTD, I will duplicate as appropriate. The basics are that this is about how things aren’t business as usual, how this collapse isn’t going to look like previous ones, and where there isn’t a whole lot we can do other than mitigate the damage as best we can. I guess I need to start by explaining what money is, otherwise none of the rest of this will make much sense.

What This is About This is the start of what is probably my most ambitious piece of non-fiction writing to date. It’s going to touch on several different of my Medium publications and NOTD streams. On Medium, I will cross-link, and on NOTD, I will duplicate as appropriate. The basics are that this is about how things aren’t business as usual, how this collapse isn’t going to look like previous ones, and where there isn’t a whole lot we can do other than mitigate the damage as best we can. I guess I need to start by explaining what money is, otherwise none of the rest of this will make much sense.

People often offload moral responsibility when facing systemic horrors like the Epstein files, assuming "someone else will handle it." This bystander mentality lets atrocities fester, but history proves collective action—led by bold figures—can shatter it and drive monumental change

Marco Rubio’s Munich vision thus updates imperial hierarchy for the 21st century: the Global South is to be disciplined through trade, finance, borders, and narrative—administered jointly by Washington and European capitals—so that American and European, overwhelmingly white, elites can re‑center their power in a world they no longer fully control.

Subject Panel discussion moderated by Amy Harmon at World Science Festival on synthesizing human genomes (HGP-write context) Primary voices in the record George Church, Drew Endy, S. Matthew Liao (with New York University), Gregory Kaebnick (with The Hastings Center) 1. Executive summary Your transcript shows a classic “capability outruns governance” pattern. The scientific case presented is not “we can build a whole human tomorrow.” It is “we are driving costs down and scaling genome writing so that a platform will exist.” Once that platform exists, the panel agrees that the ethical surface expands fast: germline use, enhancement, coercion, inequality, and biosecurity.

How bird and bat deaths can ripple into insects, crops, and daily life Wind turbines kill birds and bats. That part is already in the public debate. What gets ignored is my next question: What happens after we remove insect-eaters from a landscape?

As we head to the mid-terms, this segment's just a little recap-reminder of the border security, and the B.S. that came with it.