POLL: Majority Believe Trump’s War on Iran Has Made America Less Safe

Do We Really Believe In Freedom? Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, Do we really believe in freedom? Or do we only believe in freedom when it applies to people who agree with us? Do we trust people we fundamentally disagree with to remain free citizens? Or do we believe they must be controlled through laws, censorship, surveillance, or social pressure because they are too dangerous to be trusted with liberty? That question sits at the center of what I am most interested in during this moment in history, the 250th...

The Technate Was Always Coming Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, And what you can do about it (besides complaining). Palantir dropped a manifesto last weekend. 22 bullet points distilled from Alex Karp’s book The Technological Republic, posted to X with the casual framing of “because we get asked a lot.” I haven’t seen a reaction so widespread, unanimously opposed and viscerally aghast since James Damore’s infamous “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”. The usual suspects lost their shit. Engadget called it “the ramblings of a comic book villain.” TechCrunch clutched its pearls at the bits about “regressive” cultures...

Meteorologists Sound Alarm Over El Nino Plume Racing Across Pacific Like "Freight Train" Meteorologists on X are once again warning about a powerful El Niño, pointing to a new plume of warm subsurface water moving across the Pacific "like a freight train." The latest water temperature data suggest that El Niño later this year could rank among the strongest on record, with potentially significant implications for the Lower 48. "Updated El Niño forecast for this summer/autumn is 'off the charts' EXTREME with 'boiling red' map colors along Equatorial central and...