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In search of silk purses

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[POST/POD] The strange gift to the world that was 9/11
How the blow meant to break globalization instead completed it
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February 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
We'll be able to fly

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[POST/POD] Rubio’s "Don't Fear the Reaper" Offering to Europe
They looked backward and said goodbye
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February 18, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Risk is the dark matter of our universe; it never disappears but merely changes form and owner.
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[POST/POD] Trumpism as peak risk shift
Pooled (i.e., socialized) risk is the antidote
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February 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM
If only I had written this first

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[POST/POD] Now I am become Demise, the destroyer of words (aka, the Authorship Inversion Effect)
The line between me and my machine grows thinner by the paragraph.
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February 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Resistance is futile. You will be simulated.

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[POST/POD] Sunday Cutdown CXII (15 February 2026)
Clearing my inbox of stories I want to document
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February 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Hey hey we're the monk-eys!

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[REWIND/POD] The Monks of War
Esquire, March 2006
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February 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Everybody resisting everything

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[LESSON] V is for Violence
A Symvol educational video generated from a recent Substack post
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February 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
This is why we can't have nice states

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[POST/POD] The Oxymoron That is the Minnesota Insurgency
When deportation raids read like a COIN manual—in reverse
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February 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Walking in another person's jackboots
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[POST/POD] What if the world treated the US in the same way the US treats a rogue regime?
I'm thinking ... we wouldn't like it even as we deserve it
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February 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
It's either comprehension or chaos

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[POST/POD] V is for volume, velocity, vendetta--and violence
Nihilistic violence is a symptom--not a cause--of our Unexplainable Age
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February 10, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Congrats Seattle, and nice job, Bad Bunny!

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[DELAYED POST/POD] Sunday Cutdown CXI (8 February 2026)
Clearing my inbox of stories I want to document
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February 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Driving them mean streets

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[POST/POD] Taxi Driver
A genuine taxicab confession
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February 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Never gonna say goodbye

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[POST/POD] Sticking around
On bodies, distance, illness, and the modest, modern heroism of just not giving up
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February 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Made it ma, top of the world!

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[POST/POD] Ice Station Zebra
Time to Carve Out America's Arctic Command
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February 5, 2026 at 6:56 PM
The Guthrie-Trump connection

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[POST/POD] This land is your land, this land is Trump's Land
Re-imagining the Woody Guthrie classic for Trump 2.0
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February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
This land is our land, this land is Greenland

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[POST/POD] Greenland Viewed Realistically
Trump has poisoned that well, so it's time to dig another
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February 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Zero dark 25 years later
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[POST/POD] From his Watery Grave, Osama Bin Laden’s Long Game Echoes
How 9/11 Bent America as Much--or More--Than We Bent His Movement
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February 2, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Baby it's cold outside

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[POST/POD] Sunday Cutdown CX (1 February 2026)
Clearing my inbox of stories I want to document
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February 1, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Super Bowl edition

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[POST/POD] Questions and Answers 14
An Ask Me Anything post
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January 31, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I know you are but what am I?

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[LESSON] When Leviathan Goes Rogue
A Symvol educational video generated from a recent post
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January 30, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Step up to the bar, please

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Q&A Saturday
A recurring segment where readers determine the content
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January 29, 2026 at 6:24 PM
All of a sudden the Western Hemisphere rules

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[POST/POD] Trump's NDS: Halfway to America's New Map
The 2026 National Defense Strategy marks a promising pivot toward hemispheric realism, echoing America’s New Map—but it needs bolder integration to match the climate-demographic century ahead.
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January 29, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Shock and awe

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[POST/POD] ICE's Purposeful Snuff Films
Trump's State-Sponsored Terrorism is Designed to Incite Mass Fear
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January 28, 2026 at 4:12 PM
It's good to be the king

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January 27, 2026 at 3:59 PM
It is happening.

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[POSTDATE/POD] The Diary of Ana Francisca
Future archaeology of a dark chapter in American history
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January 26, 2026 at 1:56 PM