I'd like to say this carefully and be sure not to mince my words: In 2026, only an idiot would believe that "men are protectors."

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Insane to live in a world where I get to cackle at this, then immediately get reminded by the next post that we're living through some religious fanatic end-of-time bullshit – and the kicker is that these two posts actually kind of have something to do with one another.

"For me, #Yesteryear fundamentally hit as a novel about patriarchy so violent it makes our mothers fail us. About the parentification of children, particularly girls, in a world that infantilizes women." READ: gaslightnation.substack.com/p/review-yesteryear-is-about-the-daughters #CaroClaireBurke

They have a media team. This was NOT the goal.

Ok well if she says so.

Is my religion suddenly... based?

If we have to pick a dad I'm picking Spanish PM Pedro

"Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices." LOL

Meanwhile, will someone—ANYONE—define wokeness!!!!!!!!

Big bad men do big bad things and we talk about their "cognitive decline" as the reason. I mean this so genuinely: I'm happy for all y'all who don't understand how narcissists work.

Less than 24 hours later. Half done.

Yeah they do space travel in the Parable series too, so.

With the new floor crossing, I want media outlets to forget interviewing conservatives for their thoughts. I want to hear Liberals talk about why they think their party is so attractive to conservatives.

Have not been SOOO excited about a book in a long time! Pre-ordered #Yesteryear in January and raced to @massybooks.bsky.social within 5 mins of receiving the "it's here!" email today.

"Now, we’re the ones who don’t have vision. Unfortunately, the right has it in spades. It dreams of gooning, the great replacement theory being real, and saying the R word again." gaslightnation.substack.com/p/what-lindy-wests-memoir-reveals-about

LOL being "well read" is not about psychotically binging Twitter posts and gossip rags.

@mattlieb.bsky.social I will never get over blood l'eyeball

So happy to see my ballot #1 take the leadership. We voted to see a true, progressive party build something new. I think I speak for many when I say we want to see a lot of @votetanille.bsky.social in the future too!

"Could I have taken him in a fight?" coincides perfectly with my recent rewatch if Idiocracy.

@jmcelroy.bsky.social I must petition to do the Kingsgate Mall write up. It will be 100% and entirely bias. I took a picture to commemorate my newborn's first trip there. My friend once said to me "you really love that place, huh?" And I do.

Lost me at "quantity has a quality of its own" LOLOL

"Some people, it seems, desire unrelenting power. They want your supply. They are ambitious for its own sake, and when they take it all — all of it from everyone — they’ll make up new ways to take more." gaslightnation.substack.com/p/have-some-...

Accusations of "purity testing" are the refuge of people with morals that are inconsistent or performative and principles that are actually just preferences that rarely survive personal inconvenience. They are also active contributors to things getting worse and worse.

@moiradonegan.bsky.social Help please! I'm trying to remember which episode of IBWTR you broke down the history of HR?

"It’s an interesting phenomenon. About 70 million people lived through Nazi Germany without being a direct target of the regime’s violence. Yet, curiously enough, not a one of them were Nazis." Read Now: gaslightnation.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-nazi #FuckIce

I'm working on a #Grifter series & have created a Rubric that evaluates juuuuust how grifty someone is. It's totally scientific. Who should get put through the rubric? gaslightnation.substack.com/p/dare-to-grift-are-they-a-grifter

Ins and Outs for 2026: "Out" -LinkedIn lunatics -(so-called) Benefit of the doubt -The male loneliness epidemic -Hating Children "In" -Meeting IRL and focusing local -Trusting your gut -SSRIs Here's why: gaslightnation.substack.com/p/2026-in-and-out

Alright I’m fucking done. Shoot a woman in the face 3x + call her a fucking bitch? Get your dick chopped off. Rape a woman? CHOP. Harm a child? CHOP! Participate in a human sex trafficking ring in *any* way? CHOP! CHOP! CHOP! CHOP! I think we’ll see a complicated problem disappear by lunchtime.

LinkedIn lunatics, hating children and the male loneliness epidemic are on notice. gaslightnation.substack.com/p/2026-in-and-out

"After 11 minutes spent on a suborbital commercial spaceflight, accused nun-killer Katy Perry kissed the ground in what I believe she hoped would translate into a meaningful image about the human condition. It did not." gaslightnation.substack.com/p/a-2025-retrospective-highs-and-lows #culture

The current #Starbucks CEO earned ~$96M/year… How much more than the median employee was that? - 10x - 100x - 5000x -6000x -MORE? Want the answer? READ NOW: gaslightnation.substack.com/p/get-your-ass-up-and-work-the-starbucks #nocontractnocoffee #unionsforall #solidarityseason #sbworkersunited

Otherwise known as a totally unscientific checklist to answer the question of whether someone is a grifter… or maybe just sketchy… or maybe we just don’t like them: gaslightnation.substack.com/p/dare-to-grift-are-they-a-grifter #grifter #scams

"...when approached for his thoughts on Trump’s claim he’s better looking, Zohran’s chuckles with the affectation of someone who is clearly unbothered, and affably shoots back, “my focus is on the cost of living crisis.” Read Now: gaslightnation.substack.com/p/you-cant-bully-people-into-thinking

For all y’all “Politically Homeless” — you’re just right wing. And it seems to be putting a roof over your heads just fine. 🤑

✈️💩 Don't despair in the face of Trump's sloppy AI antics. Instead, know this: "That video was an admission of misery. The problem [he] faces is that despite his ability to claw his way to the top, revered by the wrong people..." gaslightnation.substack.com/p/no-little-kings-a-wannabe-royal-temper

They'll self defund like lmao k thanks

Why aren't people cheering for a ceasefire? Oh, maybe because a ceasefire for a GENOCIDE makes no fucking sense.

"So no, there was never a chance he was going to win. At least I don’t think so. But here’s the thing. I don’t think he did either...." gaslightnation.substack.com/p/this-week-in-gaslighting-the-nobel

You know exactly what it looks like to come together in community, centre the most vulnerable (children), re-distribute resources without expectation for return and make the world a little more joyful for one another — Halloween IS mutual aid, baby!

"Because what is common sense but an entirely un-scientific, unexamined and not evidence-backed perspective on the world?" gaslightnation.substack.com/p/are-you-common-sense-pilled

Who fucking cares what Netanyahu has to say about it?

"I will not hit my child. I will love my child like a REVOLT." These words ought to be a terrible promise to white supremacy, which requires the degradation of children to sustain itself. A system that trains children to obey, fear and internalize hierarchy before they can even speak its language.

I’m gonna need all my Oldest Daughters to come together now because nobody knows more about not obeying in advance than us.

Another day, another gaslighting article. There is an actual GENOCIDE happening—and you know it. That's the worst part. You. ALL. Know. It. Yet you do everything you can to frame a vigil for slaughtered children and innocent civilians as unreasonable. How excited were you to hit publish today 🤠

"...in a world where Liberals are gutless cowards who never call anything what it is, of course people are relieved to hear someone—fucking ANYONE—name reality." gaslightnation.substack.com/p/were-all-in-a-right-wing-pipeline

"Shouldn't we give them the benefit of the doubt?" WHERE is the doubt, my guy? Where is it ever?

This week Ken Sim is going ahead with a desperate election gimmick. Learn more and take action to help us stop ABC's cuts! www.votecope.ca/news/red-ale... #vanpoli #StopTheCuts

"Some people look like a hand-drawn Disney villain, designed to facilitate a child’s understanding of 'bad people.' But most people don’t." gaslightnation.substack.com/p/ezra-klein-is-more-dangerous-than