The huge death tolls in Iran being splashed all over the media are sourced to an outfit in Fairfax, VA called "Human Rights Activists in Iran" that is overwhelmingly funded by the US government. What is their methodology? Is it credible? Who cares? Just pump the big numbers out

It freaks me out to no end that we are essentially alone with a large cohort of unaccountable, heavily armed, violent and deranged lunatics who are always looking for blood, and nobody is coming to the rescue.

In the first 18 seconds, the US Treasury Secretary claims to speak “on behalf of the people of Iran”, and then brags that US sanctions have managed to “accelerate an economic collapse.”

They could impeach Trump for non-existent Russian conspiracy, or slowing a weapons shipment to Ukraine, but apparently none of the things he has actually done merit.

"The future is not a place we are going to, but a place we are creating. The path to it is not found, but built, and the act of building it changes both the builder and the destination." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Are high beams still a thing, or have they become redundant with LED headlights?

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

"Supporters of psychedelic therapies say they fear their goals have been overshadowed by other Kennedy agenda items, related to food and vaccines, and that a chance to get psychedelic drugs to people who need them could be slipping away." politico.com/news/2026/01/2…

Just saying, but if the whole world decided to unite and defy the US blockades and piracy towards Cuba and Venezuela or Iran, even the biggest military and financial weapons in the world could not stop them. Somehow every nation confronts Trump alone.

Some people talk about all the sinister things elites have planned as mass depopulating strategies to allegedly solve climate change. Yet elites also continue to ramp up fossil fuel use, and few if any scientists believe climate change can actually be averted at this point.

Rumi We don’t need motivation. Kindness without expectation is our expression of our true selves.