So far, I’ve written three of these short posts addressing how various parts of the State who are responsible for keeping the government inside its lane could be expected to fail in the face of the current fascist coup in…
Too Many Secrets: Not Enough Oversight
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently ran some photos of the new “National Defense Area” the regime has declared at the southern border as a way of excusing (and hiding) their use of the military to enforce immigration laws. One of…
Archive: ccTLD cold war with ICANN gets hot
The ccTLD operators never did actually have the guts to break away from ICANN. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Sun Jun 3rd, 2001 at 09:26:56 PM EST”. The operators of the country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) have finally…
All About The Benjamin: Franklin On Freedom Of Speech
In the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk, by a young man whose ideology is probably best described as “terminally online”, the regime has decided to roll out an initiative that the White House Chief of Staff says was…
More On Charlie Kirk: Speaking Ill Of The Dead
As a rule, “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” works pretty well for keeping things peaceful in a community. But it’s not a good rule. It’s a very bad rule when someone horrible has died,…
On Charlie Kirk: 1st Amendment Actions Should Not Have 2nd Amendment Consequences
Charlie Kirk was married, and had two children; presumably his family loved him and will miss him. I know nothing about how he treated them or behaved in his personal relationships, but in public he was frankly a horrible person.…
Church And State: A Wall We Should Actually Build
The United States is not, and has never officially been, a religious nation. Seriously. That quote above from the english-language version of Treaty of Tripoli, from just seven years after the drafting of the Constitution, makes that very, very clear.…
The Kids Are Alright: Clicking “Like” For Nepal
I want to say that the kids in Nepal are showing the U.S. how its done; I mean, we have a fascist coup here in the U.S. and we’re still chanting and waving placards around but Nepal just banned some…
History And Tradition: Extra-Judicial Killing In The Name Of
The U.S. military has a long and ignoble tradition of illegal killings outside of wartime. A very, very long and very, very ignoble tradition. So last week’s destruction of a private boat in international waters by the U.S. Navy, under…
Archive: Press Freedom Conference
That was a good weekend. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Thu Apr 26th, 2001 at 02:57:54 PM EST”. As this year marks the 25th Anniversery of Project Censored, a well respected media monitoring organization which publishes an annual…