Attack the System- 1/16/26: Trump Insurrection Act, Newsom V Shapiro, Iran War, Nurse Strike & MORE 16th January 2026Ryan, Emily and Mac discuss Trump threatening the Insurrection Act, ICE homicide reported in Texas, Newsom Vs Ben Shapiro, MAGA flips over Epstein coverup, Lindsey weeps over Iran War delay, historic NYC nursing strike. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2togMvV… Submit AMA question: https://breakingpoints.locals.com/pos… Mac’s YouTube: / goodpoliticguy NYC Nurses: https://www.nysna.org/news/take-actio… Timestamps: (00:00)Intro […] The post 1/16/26: Trump Insurrection Act, […]Keith Preston
- Veterans Groups Warn VA Telehealth Mandates Limit Medical Choice 16th January 2026Centralized healthcare vs. patient freedom as one-size-fits-all policies squeeze veterans. Jan 15, 2026 Veterans advocacy groups are raising alarms over new and expanding Veterans Affairs telehealth mandates, warning that Washington’s push for centralized, remote-first care is limiting medical choice for the very men and women who served the […] The post Veterans Groups Warn VA […]Keith Preston
- Venezuela’s End: Was a Deal Struck? 16th January 2026Released on Patreon on Jan 8, 2025 To get early access to all the videos and newsletters, as well as other perks like the news digest, join our Patreon JOIN THE ANALYST TIER (PATREON) There’s been speculation that a deal could have been struck between the US and […] The post Venezuela’s End: Was a […]Keith Preston
- 1/16/26: Trump Insurrection Act, Newsom V Shapiro, Iran War, Nurse Strike & MORE 16th January 2026
- Samizdata
- Samizdata quote of the day – hypocrisy about Iranian 16th January 2026“So, where are the chants of ‘From The Gulf to the Caspian Sea, Iran will be free'”? – Allister Heath, asking a question that sort of gets a natural, logical answer: because Iran’s regime is against Israel and Jews, and against the West more generally. And in the minds of those who used to protest […]Johnathan Pearce (London)
- Samizdata quote of the day – Is Britain in the process of ‘democratic backsliding’? 15th January 2026As the i reported, Emily Darlington, Labour MP for Milton Keynes Central, ‘is seeking to make the Electoral Commission recommend enhanced DBS checks for candidates and then publish whether or not parties have agreed to the vetting. The aim is to ensure political parties justify whether their candidates are fit for office and name and […]Perry de Havilland (Prague)
- Without their monopoly on force, the police are just the second biggest gang 14th January 2026Nick Timothy writes in the Telegraph: It was last summer when Aston Villa drew Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Europa League. Immediately, the local, “Gaza Independent” MP Ayoub Khan launched a campaign to cancel the match. His petition demanded the match be cancelled because Aston is, in his words, a “predominantly Muslim community”. After police […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata quote of the day – hypocrisy about Iranian 16th January 2026
- Wisdom Dancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them(An extension of a few points I mentioned in this video concerning education.) So-called educational systems teach young students what to believe, how to behave, and perhaps skills deemed necessary—not to question. (To a considerable degree, teaching what to believe … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoesA brief excerpt taken from Book III of Volume I of The Constellation of Man. These metaphors, like others I use in the book, introduce realism concerning the novelty of our personal appearance on preconstructed stages of history and human culture, atop mind … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 2021by John Grauerholz Your medical record is something that will always be used against you. Your medical history only exists to record your physical humiliations. A doctor is not there to cure you, but to cause you as much consternation as possible. A physician’s role is not to heal a patient of your ilk, but […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- Richard Hanania: his break with the Right and the rise of kakistocracy 16th January 2026On this episode Razib, talks to Richard Hanania, a returning guest to the podcast. Hanania holds a Ph.D. from UCLA, a J.D. from the University of Chicago, and an undergraduate degree from CU Boulder in linguistics. He is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe and UnHerd, and has his own newsletter. Hanania is also the author of The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, […]Razib Khan, Richard Hanania
- Davide Piffer: how Europeans became white 16th January 2026Talking about ancient DNA and polygenic predictionsRazib Khan
- Francis Young: Baltic paganism in modern times 12th January 2026On this episode, Razib talks to returning guest, Francis Young, a historian who teaches at Oxford. Young specialises in the history of religion and belief from ancient times to the present day, and provides expert indexes for academic books and translates medieval and early modern Latin. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University and is the author, […]Razib Khan, Francis Young
- Richard Hanania: his break with the Right and the rise of kakistocracy 16th January 2026
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Catch-22 23rd November 2025This might be one of the most well-known books I’ve reviewed here (despite ending my last review of a novel by claiming I didn’t expect to do more literary rather than genre fiction), to the extent that the very title is now a well-known phrase for a phenomena. It’s also one whose film adaptation I […]teageegeepea
- Applying a gendered disparity in ranking films to the “Double Feature” podcast corpus of films 23rd September 2025Yesterday, Marginal Revolution linked to this tweet on the films with the largest “delta” in men vs women’s rankings on IMDB. I don’t know anybody else who still talks about the Double Feature podcast, since it went completely defunct a while back and had been mostly defunct for some time even prior to that, but […]teageegeepea
- Can you judge how people would handle power by how they handle the comments sections of their blogs? 5th September 2025I recently had to dig through pages of Hopefully Anonymous’ blog in the Internet Archive in order to find this post. As noted recently, TypePad’s disappearance means that will be the only way to access it. As I’d rather not have to repeat that, I have decided to copy his post below, which I acknowledge […]teageegeepea
- Catch-22 23rd November 2025
- Evolutionist X
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021Like the uncollapsed quantum state holding Schrodinger’s cat in a state of simultaneous life and death, whether a school is “teaching critical race theory” or not seems to depend entirely on whether the inquiring person wants them to. Are you anti-CRT? Then, you may rest assured, American schools most certainly aren’t teaching CRT. (If you […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence 26th June 2021Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. — Proverbs 9:1 T. E. Lawrence is the Lawrence, of Arabia, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom is his autobiographical account of his time spent serving in the British and Arab armies during World War One. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ve got the […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Lawrence in Arabia 10th June 2021Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is, quite obviously, about the famous T. E. Lawrence “of” Arabia. The book ranges significantly wider than Lawrence’s personal account, however, shifting between the perspectives of Ottoman officials, German spies, American spies, Zionist spies, and of course British spies. I read this book concurrently with The Berlin-Baghdad Express, so my […]evolutiontheorist
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021
- Human Stupidity
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023We boldly claim to change the world, with one simple dogmatic rule! TOTAL HONESTY, and intolerance for deception, can change the world for the better. One simple rule! Honesty is the #1 necessity for a modern scientific society PC deception and lies are the CAUSE for the downfall of Western civilization. Total honesty and full disclosure are […]Programmer
- HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate 23rd March 2022HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate Teen sexting case highlights severity of N.C. sex offender laws A North Carolina teenager faces felony sex crime charges after police discovered sexually explicit photographs of a sixteen-year-old girl on his cell phone. Cormega Copening is a seventeen-year-old high school student at Jack […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- Vote counting corrupted in USA, infiltrated by dishonest leftist activists 15th October 2021Formerly honest and unbiased vote counting is another institution infiltrated with and taken over by leftist activists. Leftists think deception is virtuous to reach higher goals. Dishonest partisan election officials “cured” problem ballots. This must be exposed, opposed, reversed. Continue at Sincerity.netWait, there is more! This article continues! Continue reading »Vote counting corrupted in USA, […]Programmer
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- The Freewoman by Rebecca West 9th October 2025From Time and Tide for July 16, 1926 pp. 648-649 I have been asked to write an account of the Freewoman, and those who asked me were wise, for that paper, unimportant as it was in content, – and amateurish in form, had an immense effect on its time. But unfortunately, I have forgotten nearly […]Trevor Blake
- Little Black Cart/Ardent Press (R.I.P.) + Union of Egoists + Underworld Amusements 27th June 2024On December 31, 2023 the Berkeley anarchist publisher and distributor Little Black Cart / Ardent Press closed shop after many years of the project producing fascinating and challenging work, often finding it brought them at odds with many in the anarchist milieu they operated in. After the Underworld Amusements edition of The Unique and Its […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Trevor Blake & The Atkinson: Dora Marsden and the Gospel of Power 27th May 2024Dora Marsden was born in the village of Marsden in 1882. In 1900 began teaching at Owens College, where she met Christabel Pankhurst and other suffragists. Dora joined them and became a leader in the Women’s Social and Political Union (WPSU) by 1908. The following year she resigned as a teacher and became a full […]Trevor Blake
- The Freewoman by Rebecca West 9th October 2025
Tag Archives: post-punk
Horror Vacui (19/8/25, Helgi’s, London, England, UK)
The catacombs of Helgi’s proved a fitting spot for Italian goth rockers Horror Vacui to stop off for the London date of their Sleepless Nights tour. It was something of a pleasant surprise to encounter them via YouTube and Bandcamp, … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchism, Atheism, Culture, Entertainment, Gigs, Music, Personal, Politics, Religion, Reviews, The UK
Tagged bomberventionism, deathrock, Dusty Gannon, Gaza, goth rock, Helgi's, Horror Vacui, immigration, Islamophobia, Palestine, post-punk, Solus, Vision Video
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Forever Now Festival (22/6/25, The National Bowl, Milton Keynes, England, UK)
Named for the Psychedelic Furs song of the same name, Midsummer Sunday’s Forever Now festival had been billed as the UK’s answer to Stateside’s Cruel World, that is, a showcase of post-punk, and post-punk—adjacent, bands past and present. Having been … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Entertainment, Gigs, Music, Personal, Retinal Reprobation, The UK
Tagged 80s, Berlin, Billy Idol, Cruel World, Death Cult, Forever Now, Johnny Marr, Kraftwerk, Milton Keynes, new wave, PiL, post-punk, synthpop, The Chameleons, The Psychedelic Furs, The The, UK Decay
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The Sisters of Mercy (26/5/25, Roundhouse, London, England, UK)
My bank holiday, and half-birthday, gig had been a much anticipated one for me. Having first seen The Sisters of Mercy back in 2023, I’d been looking forward to a follow-up, especially in light of talk and footage indicating that … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Culture, Entertainment, Gigs, Music, Personal, Retinal Reprobation, Reviews, The UK
Tagged 80s, goth rock, Oversize, post-punk, radio rock, Roundhouse, The Sisters of Mercy
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Peter and the Test Tube Babies (30/12/24, New Cross Inn, London, England, UK)
Once again, punk stalwarts Peter and the Test Tube Babies saw the year out at the New Cross Inn in Sarf London, this time bringing along newer acts Meathook and Bamboo Vipers along for the lark. The Vipers opened the … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, Bamboo Vipers, gigs, Meathook, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, post-punk, punk
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The Chameleons (7/12/24, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, England, UK)
A post-punk triple bill last Saturday night, with me revisiting a couple of familiar acts plus one never seen live before. First came a familiar band, Statesiders Vision Video, with a new keyboardist (complete with fishnets and teddy bear mascots) … Continue reading
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Tagged gigs, post-punk, The Chameleons, The Membranes, Vision Video
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