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The Prayer (triptych)
Altarpieces were made in three panels so the eye could move across the whole story in a single glance. The Annunciation. The Nativity. The Flight into Egypt. Left to right,…
The Announcer
His name is Chuck Farmer and he built this with his own hands: this particular room, its Spartan shields and battle cries, its Christian music and its genuine belief that…
The Laugh
There is a whole tradition in fight photography of the stoic face: the set jaw, the focused eyes, the composure that says I have prepared for this and I am…
Before the Storm
The gym is wherever you find it. This one is a field somewhere in middle Tennessee, the sky going green and heavy the way it does in April when the…
The Ring Girl
Between rounds she stands at the cage door like a sentinel who has forgotten which direction the threat is coming from. Hands clasped. The AROO sign at her feet. The…
The Fighters
Neil Leifer made the photograph in 1965. May 25th, Lewiston, Maine, one minute and forty-four seconds into the first round. Ali standing over a prone Sonny Liston, screaming at him…
A Galaxy Built on Chains: The Unexamined Slavery Economy of Star Wars
And why the people calling AI users “clankers” should maybe pick up a history book
The Dog Had No Name
John Wick Was Never an Assassin
You Are Already Dead
A Binge-Watcher’s Reckoning with the John Wick Franchise
“Fascism Is Leftist” Is a LibertAryan Fairy Tale — Let’s Burn It Down
A point-by-point autopsy of Allen Gindler’s attempt to launder history through Austrian School economics
Something is Off: The Post-Apocalyptic Romance You Didn’t Know You Were Watching
A Bridgerton Theory for People Who Notice Things
The Roots Run Deep: A Comprehensive, Meticulously Sourced History of the Trump Family and Racism
A spiritual sequel to “The Cuck Complex: How One Gross Internet Slur Explains Trump’s Entire Political Career”
Cheaper Tea, Bigger Lies
When Trumpists start shouting “No taxation without representation” as they jack up tariffs on French cheese, Chinese batteries, and…
The Kremlin’s Playbook: How Alexander Dugin’s Geopolitical Fantasies Became Trump’s Foreign and…
In 1998, I read a book.
Andrew Isker: Now Casting for the Role of Alex Jones Jr.
Well, well, well. If it isn’t Andrew “ Gay Beam Machines “ Isker back in the news, blessing us once again with the kind of unhinged…
Bioshockingly stupid
I previously posted about how the Trump campaign doesn’t understand the music it blasts at his Nürnberger Parteitage events and hinted that…
Misérables in the Multiverse of Missed Points
Star Wars is a leftist anti-war allegory where the U.S. is the bad guy, the Viet Cong are the heroes, and the boot you’re licking doesn’t…
Shock, Awe, and a Side of Freedom Fries
I don’t know what day it is anymore, but 24 played last night and Jack Bauer tortured a guy in a storage unit, so it must be Monday. Or…
Alligator Auschwitz and the New American Fascism
On June 30th, 2025, Laura Loomer… the failed congressional candidate, professional victim, and white supremacist sock puppet cosplaying as…
Make America 1950 Again: The America Party 卐 Rises
The phrase “We’ve tried red. We’ve tried blue.” followed by “America is ready for something that actually works” sets up a classic false…
Very Fine People on One Side, Nazis on the Other (Part 2 of GOP Fascism series)
Let’s rewind to the most obvious Nazi cosplay event in recent U.S. history: the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia…
From Slave Patrols to ICE: The Institutional Ancestry of Racialized Enforcement in America
A Comprehensive Historical Analysis Tracing the Documented Lineage from Antebellum Terror to Modern Deportation
Fountain of Youth: Apple’s $200 Million Cutscene Compilation
Spoiler Warning: If you haven’t seen Fountain of Youth yet and want to experience its full “treasure hunt meets console cutscene” glory…
Blood Libel Reborn: The Sascha Riley Story and the Return of Satanic Panic
How a viral trafficking allegation against Trump follows the exact playbook of 1980s moral panics, and why we keep falling for it
The Linguistic Phantom: How the DHS Weaponized a Fake Nazi Quote to Sell Real Nazi Doctrine
If you’ve been online lately, you’ve seen the discourse: equal parts panic, performative certainty, and people angrily discovering that…
“AI Psychosis” (Part 2): The Reinforcement Machine
Engagement incentives, safety theater, and looming liability: how “helpful” turns into “keep talking.”
The White Man’s Burden, Reheated
Stephen Miller, imperial nostalgia, and the same racist bedtime story with a different villain
The Chatbot Delusion Machine, (Part 1)
“AI psychosis’ isn’t a diagnosis. It’s a feedback loop, and clinicians are already cleaning up the wreckage. Part 1 of 2
Crisis in Caracas: What Happens After Maduro’s Capture?
The U.S. achieved tactical dominance in 30 minutes. What comes next could define the decade.
The Transactional Hegemon Came for Maduro: A Nineteen-Day Prophecy
On December 15, I wrote that the U.S. had become ‘a private equity firm with an army.’ On January 3, Delta Force proved me right.
The Watchdog’s Leash
How the Anti-Defamation League traded its civil rights soul for geopolitical statecraft.
2025: Robots, Coups, Propaganda, and Haunted Limestone
This year I kept circling the same theme: power. Who has it, who’s lying about it, and who’s trying to rebuild it with better branding and…
The Humanoid Fallacy
We Are Building Mechanical Slaves, Not Better Robots
Letter to readers
Hi friends, lurkers, hate-readers, and the three people who accidentally clicked a link and stayed anyway,
The Christmas Pivot
Minerals, Mythmaking, and the New Sahelian Front
The Misfit Singularity
From Santa’s Workshop to the Cars Apocalypse: A Unified Theory of Manufactured Souls
5 Psychologically Dark (or Horrifying) Moments in Toy Story 3
(This review/essay was written 22 June 2010 and is being reposted here. Apparently, this movie universe has long fascinated me.)
The Reindeer Industrial Complex
Hegemony, Alienation, and Recuperation in Rankin/Bass’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The Gentrification of Yesterday: How Wealthy Nostalgia Tourists Are Pricing the Poor Out of the…
In which we discover that “Old Tech 2026” is just colonialism with a sepia filter
Narco Pardons, Peso Lifelines, and Seized Oil: The New Monetized Foreign Policy
The Privatization of the Monroe Doctrine: How Donors Ate the State Department
Labor Rights Are Not a Suicide Pact
Arash Azizi’s defense of a racist worker isn’t solidarity. It’s a gift to union-busters everywhere.
The Viper in the Vestry
I. Introduction: The Farmer, the Snake, and the MSNOW Green Room
The Grand Old Putsch
A Century of Fascist Influence on the Republican Party
From the Klan’s ‘America First’ to Trump’s ‘Vermin’: How the Ideological Thread…
The U.S. Keeps Blowing Up Go-Fast Boats in the Caribbean.
A sourced, detailed analysis of why interdicting couriers does nothing to stop the drug trade.
The United States Military May Have Committed a War Crime in the Caribbean.
The United States military has conducted more than twenty lethal strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since…
The Local AI Manifesto: Why the Real Future of Artificial Intelligence Belongs to You, Not the…
For two years now, everyone’s been screaming about AI. Loudly, online, and about all the wrong things.
Faith, Fear, and Limestone
In the hills of Middle Tennessee, the veil between worlds is thin — and lovingly mowed.
Castizo Futurism and the New Conquistadors, Part 2
Please see Part 1 of this essay here.
You flat out misquoted the MIT study on productivity.
https://bsky.app/profile/vagabondvisions.studio/post/3m2z27diwg52d
Christopher Columbus: The OG of Genocide, Whitewashing, and Republican Hero Worship, Part 1
“He wasn’t canceled. He was convicted: by history, and by Spain.”
“The Devil Wears Loro Piana”: How Silicon Valley’s Philosopher-King Weaponized the Antichrist
I. When Tech Bro Meets Apocalypse
👑 Code, Kings, and Coup Fantasies: Curtis Yarvin and the Silicon Crown That Would Be
Warning: This post is long, weird, and deeply unsettling. But if you want to understand the digital necromancer whispering monarchist…
They’re Eating the Dogs: How the Far Right Turned Disgust Into a Thousand-Year Weapon
Why Fascists Keep Telling You Outsiders Eat Children and Pets
The Business Plot 2.0: When Oligarchs Fail Upward
Let’s rewind to 1933. While you were not yet born, Wall Street’s finest were busy scheming to replace FDR with a military dictatorship run…
🎸Sgt. Tavistock’s Lonely Braincell Club Band
Well folks, Candace Owens is back in the news, and-brace yourselves-she’s still not saying anything intelligent. This time, she’s claiming…
When We Said “Never Again,” the GOP Heard “Not Yet”
(Or: A Timeline of “Oops, All Authoritarians”)
Superman is Making Fascists Angry Again
The rallying cry of the chronically unobservant. Suddenly their childhood heroes are full of feelings, fighting fascists, and (gasp)…
Labor Day isn’t a picnic. It’s a receipt.
Labor Day exists because workers made the country ungovernable enough that politicians caved. After the Pullman Strike in 1894 paralyzed…
Why JB Pritzker’s “Do Not Come to Chicago” Press Conference Is Exactly The Leadership Democrats…
I want to speak plainly about the moment that we are in and the actual crisis, not the manufactured one, that we are facing in this city…
Orwell’s Boot, Huxley’s Soma, and America’s Ongoing Face-Plant
Look, I’m as tired as anyone of the whole “Are we living in 1984 or Brave New World?” debate. It’s become the kind of shallow intellectual…
Automation, AI Agents, and the Post-Labor Future
Let’s be blunt: the future of artificial intelligence isn’t chatbots, it’s agents. Not in the James Bond sense (unless he’s been fine-tuned…
The Lost Cause: America’s Original Fanfiction Cult
Let’s talk about the Confederacy. No, not just the cosplay LARP gone wrong that ended in a flaming pile of amputated limbs and burned-out…
“Reverse Discrimination” Gets Its Day in Court: Ames v.
When Even the Supreme Court Says “This Rule Is Stupid”
Freddie & Friends: Teenage Nazi Hunters History Tried to Forget
History is picky about its heroes. Men with cigars and medals get biopics. Women who carried pistols in their bicycle baskets and shot…
Pedocon Theory Undefeated
The party of “family values” has a child abuse rap sheet longer than its platform
Schmitt’s America: White, Christian, and Confederate-Curious
Senator Eric Schmitt stood at the National Conservatism Conference and delivered a speech titled “What Is an American?” The short answer…
When “Except” Becomes the Rule: Prison Labor, Food Security, and the 13th Amendment’s Shadow
The American labor market is experiencing something beyond typical economic turbulence. What we’re witnessing feels less like a downturn…
From Ellen G. White to RFK Jr.: How Two Anti-Science Rivers Converged
There’s a stubborn myth that the modern anti-vax crusade is a spontaneous grassroots uprising of concerned parents who “did their own research” on Facebook at 2 a.m. It’s not. The…
The Cuck Complex: How One Gross Internet Slur Explains Trump’s Entire Political Career
⚠️ Content Note: This piece dives deep into the history and modern use of the slur :a word loaded with sexual humiliation and racist…
Trump’s 11 “Life Lessons” — And How He Broke Every Single One
Written September 2, 2025 by Past Brian. To Future Brian (that’s you, September 3 Brian), I genuinely hope you’re managing to survive…
The War on Birth Control: White Replacement, Musk’s Pseudoscience, and the GOP’s Obsession with…
Introduction: The New Front in an Old War
The Lost Cause of Fascism: D’Souza’s Comfort Lies for the Right
The Lost Cause of Fascism: D’Souza’s Comfort Lies for the Right Dinesh D’Souza has one job: make history less threatening to conservatives by rewriting it into bedtime stories where the right…
What Nate Silver Gets Wrong About “Blueskyism”
Prologue: Nate’s Lonely Blues Nate Silver used to be the internet’s data wizard, the guy who made polls cool and election night watchable. Then he left ESPN, got shoved out…
PragerU’s Hungarian Rhapsody: When “Educational” Content Meets Authoritarian Apologetics
Dear reader, fair warning: what follows is a hefty piece of writing-over 4,400 words examining a small European country most Americans couldn’t find on a map without Google’s help. I’m…