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.

The latest Epstein file dump—millions of unredacted DOJ documents released in early February 2026—lays bare not just one predator’s web but the historic privilege of America’s white billionaire class. * The often-overlooked fact is that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t operate in a vacuum. * He was not a lone perpetrator. * His trafficking ring, implicating presidents, princes, and power brokers, thrived because the ultra-wealthy live by rules that crush everyone else. Ghislaine Maxwell’s deposition dodge (Fifth Amendment on all substantive questions) and her lawyer’s tease—“Both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent”—only sharpen the indictment: deviance among the elite is not punished; it’s protected.

This is another old one - but somehow still relevant I have been thinking about this topic for a long time and finally hit on a way to say it that expressed what I wanted to say. An Imperfect Metaphor I like cats. Note, I didn't mention dogs. In fact, I’m more of a dog person than I am a cat person. Saying I like cats doesn’t impact my feelings about dogs at all, despite it being a reality. Think they are fluffy adorable little murder machines and I enjoy cuddling them.

This is a work of fiction. It uses real public controversies as atmosphere, not as proof. So, let us begin… I know how a jail smells when the night goes wrong. Cold bleach. Old sweat. Burnt coffee that sat too long on a hot plate. And that stale, damp odor that clings to concrete no matter how hard you scrub. You learn it in your first month, and it never leaves you. Years later, you can catch it on a stranger’s shirt in a grocery aisle, and your body tightens before your mind even places the memory. I did my time on the inside in South Carolina, at the state level, and then again down in Florida. County work. Not federal, but we still held prisoners for the Feds that had detainers. Still, a cell is a cell when the doors lock, and policy turns into habit, and habit turns into survival.

Will people still work if there’s a UBI in place? A long and pretentious thought experiment UBI and You There are a lot of common objections to the idea of a UBI and I’m going to try and address them over the next little while. This article is my first stab at it. The objection “People won’t work if you give them money for free”. I’m going to examine that idea and see if it holds up to scrutiny. Spoiler alert: not even a little.

Low taxes discourage spending while high taxes encourage it The Lie We All Believe It’s a common refrain today, more from the right than the left, but both are guilty of it. Lower taxes encourage growth. It’s also a lie.

This article argues that the Citadel Council in Mass Effect doesn’t fail due to ignorance or arrogance, but because it functions as a stability mechanism. Its purpose is to preserve equilibrium, not confront disruptive threats. Evidence of the Reapers is delayed, reframed, or proceduralized because acknowledgment would require structural change. Action is avoided through process, jurisdictional ambiguity, and consensus-building. The Council acts only when inaction threatens its own legitimacy. The failure isn’t moral—it’s structural. The system delays not to prepare, but to survive.

Author’s Note: Thank you for reading. I believe that poetry is one of the few ways we can truly process the shifts in our world. I wrote this piece to capture the tension of our current moment—the transition from the struggles of our past to the hope of a brand-new page. If these words resonated with you, I invite you to subscribe to this stream as I continue to explore the heartbeat of our country.

Another segment of the abuses our agencies have done, and the tolls it's taken on us tax paying Americans. Feel free to comment and share what you know about these abuses, here.

How the Prussian military and how it influenced western civilization and other nations such as Japan.

Welcome to the first issue of my political newsletter. I’ll be writing about the major political headlines seen throughout the week.

Elon Musk is possibly going to be the world’s first trillionaire in the very near future. Why? I don’t mean what has he done to earn that money, that’s another question. I mean, why does he want that result? Why was he pushing for this compensation package from Tesla, which is the largest compensation package that has ever been given to anyone ever?