I keep hearing that "you don't have a nation without borders" which just proves that many people are too lazy to bother to think further than their noses reach or read books on history and evolutionary biology and social and institutional trust.

Truth. But few people will read the article because it is published by a for profit media organization; there is no functional free press in American and there never has been. That is how White Nationalism has not just survived for 400 years but thrived.

In our deeply flawed Imperial institutional structure, Unitary Executive theory is as true as Corporate Congress and the political Supreme Court allows it to be.

The problem with American police departments is that they are not strictly regulated by an independent Ombudsman office with full investigative and prosecutorial powers. There is no mystery here. We do not have a functional institutional structure. Thus, we have structural corruption and abuses.

Culture is a product of institutional design. The Patriarchal, Hierarchical structure is the fundamental problem. Just as it is the fundamental problem in France, Spain, Italy, the UK, Russia, China, Iran and everywhere else where hierarchical structures are in conflict with the network age.

In a sane country, the DOJ response to a motion asking a judge to stop the government from destroying evidence after federal officers shot and killed a man in broad daylight would be, "Of course we wouldn't destroy evidence. We agree with this motion." That . . . is not what happened.

My people, the Rani of modern Bohuslän, have used these ancient tactics to defeat invading forces for thousands of years. This is wonderfully stupid. 😅

rogue bands of knitters and quilters appear to be managing supply routes providing insulation and camouflage. Native women exhibit a shocking ability to stretch the large can of folgers and one box of assorted canned goods for months at a time; canning rooms have been discovered

1/ The Trump Administration talks about using the Insurrection Act to impose its vision on Americans. But there's a problem: they and Conservatives in general fundamentally misunderstand who actually serves in the US military.

The time for public announcements is well past. It is time for Governors to call up the National Guard and order them to protect their residents against “Threats to life, property, or public order.”

America does not have an immigration problem. We have a nativist bigotry problem.

It's always been about Anglo-Saxon nativist anxiety. Ben Franklin sounded just like Trump when speaking about his fears of the German immigrants that were arriving in large numbers. “…generally of the most ignorant stupid sort of their own nation…” 1/

Look at the structural reasons for why Nordic cultures were and remain highly resistant to radicalization, and why Americans remain vulnerable to radicalization. Nordic societies don't avoid extremism because they are morally superior; they do so because they built institutional shock absorbers. 1/

If we had a functional education system in the US, the general public would have a functional understanding of world history and how to think and communicate coherently. The reason that we don't is American Conservatives and the Republican Party that represents asset holders. 1/

This is the way

Unemployed German workers disproportionately supported leftist parties, not the Nazis. If poverty were the driver, the voting data would show the poorest Germans moving en masse to the Nazis. It does not.

groups that solve federated cooperation outcompete groups that don't

No, local police don't need more money; they need oversight by an independent Ombudsman office with full investigative and prosecutorial powers that ensures that police officers have college degrees, relevant training in behavioral science and follow the law.

Historical illiteracy is generous. The United States governs 574 Native nations that it holds in colonial subordination today.

The answer to a fool is silence

Conservatism is best understood not as love of tradition but as a reaction against egalitarian challenges. We do not have any concept of trespass in Germanic or Gaelic law traditions. Trespass is not ancient—it is Anglo-American and its maladaptive.

Norway does not award the Nobel Peace Prize because Nordic institutional structures are not patriarchal hierarchies.

We Are All Americans Here

The Trump Administration is demonstrably incompetent. The majority of actual security threats (terrorism, organized crime, trafficking) either use legal entry points with valid documents, exploit the vastly more porous spaces between checkpoints, or involve domestic perps. Noem is full of shit.

Virtue signaling is how cooperators find each other. It's how norms get established and reinforced. It's how reputational costs get attached to defection. It's how groups coordinate punishment of free-riders. It's the immune system of cooperative society. 1/

The Senate, the Electoral College, suffrage to property-owning men, the Three-Fifths Compromise - these weren't bugs or compromises with imperfect times. They were the core design. A republic explicitly structured to filter and constrain popular will while protecting existing wealth concentrations.

The Constitution proper is a document primarily concerned with commerce, debt enforcement, property protection, and creating a structure where, as Madison wrote in Federalist 10, the "minority of the opulent" would be protected against redistribution by democratic majorities.

Civil servants with domain expertise represent accumulated institutional knowledge - long-duration assets.

Happy Sunday friends. Don't let the bastards make you forget the power of virtue signaling. It's humanity's secret weapon. Stay positive!

The Governors of the free States of America, particularly Democratic states, need to hold a summit to create a deliberative body and as a framework for collective action against those who would wage war against those states

Because freedom of movement is not explicitly guaranteed and is governed through state powers, the Governor—by directing state agencies, emergency authorities, and enforcement priorities—functions in practice as the ultimate arbiter of how and whether freedom of movement is protected within a state.

There would not be Federal Nazi gangs roaming our streets if it wasn't for ordinary people that believe that they have a right to decide who belongs in America. That they should not have to live next to people with different values and traditions than them. Exactly what happened in 1930s Germany.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

The DOJ was never legitimate; it is under the control of the Executive Branch. This is not how functional Democracies are structured.

Tricia McLaughlin isn't lying on CNN today. She believes everything that she's saying. She believes that Americans do not have the right to follow, film and yell at law enforcement. She believes that the murder of Renee Good was justified. She believes. She does not know. She does not understand.

The clock is ticking. The wave is rising. Charlie is learning to surf...

The Democratic Party has completely failed to understand the epochal shift from hierarchy to network. Completely failed to meet the historical moment with a functional strategy. Instead, it has become more Conservative. Now is the time for Liberals to take over the Democratic Party.

NORDEFCO will defend Greenland against any and all foreign threats. I am pretty sure JSOC includes enough intelligent officers that understand what that means.

Social media can be a great place of learning about myself and my flaws with a bit of healthy detachment. Here I see clearly that there's no universal form of cerebration. Here I see that most people think things mean what they want them to mean.

Most people in this world think, decide and act based on conditioning, and relative and subjective factors. But the incoherence of the average American consumer/voter/investor is a whole different level of incoherence.

Real talk

All my theater reviews are based on evolutionary biology

2026 will be about getting rid of mealy mouthed Centrists and Moderates from the Democratic Party

Socially well-adjusted individuals with fully developed identities and the ability to distinguish opinion from knowledge are not influenced by noise merchants. The source of information is never the problem; channel capacity and the receiver are always and everywhere the problem.

Social equality dissolves the unearned distinctions on which way too many people rely

There's a simple, scientific explanation for why Conservatism leads to bad outcomes for most people. We should talk about it when you have a moment.

my husband's joke about this was "well, if you always bet on incipient fascism in america you'll never go broke." but it is nevertheless remarkable how prescient the movie was

If you are staring at inflation there's something to plowing your money in cash into something with a yield.

I know, from personal and public experience, that Democratic Party leaders simply don't understand that Labor Bargaining power enforced by a functional administrative state is what makes Capitalism functional.

Senator Warren going on about Democrats creating a "bigger tent"....when are they going to get out of their leaky tent and build a platform to put a functional tent on?