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January 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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X Twitter post by Senator Mark Kelly The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves ofa foreign nation. He said that the U.S. will "run the country" until a proper transition can take place and went right into how US oil companies will benefit from this takeover. He doesn't understand the risks and costs involved with these poorly thought-out decisions that don't make Americans any safer today than they were yesterday. Nicolas Maduro is a brutal, illegitimate dictator who deserves to face justice. I want the people of Venezuela to be free to choose their own future, but if we learned anything from the lIraq war, it's that dropping bombs or toppling a leader doesn't guarantee democracy, stability or make Americans safer. More often, it leads to chaos or drags the US into a war and lengthy occupation. I don't trust that this administration has a plan, timeline, or price tag for what comes next. Over the past year, Trump's foreign policy has been reckless, chaotic, self-serving, and unconstitutional. Congress should vote this week to reassert its authority on behalf of the American people before he oversteps again. also want to recognize the professionalism and skill of the American service members involved in this operation. While don't agree with the administration's justification for this, I'm thankful that no service members were killed or seriously injured.
January 4, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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As reality pushes harder against the tunnel, the response is not reconsideration. It is escalation. Volume replaces coherence. Certainty replaces curiosity. Rage replaces reflection. What looks like madness is often loyalty made loud. The nervous system fires before the cortex ever gets a vote. None of this happened accidentally. Reality tunnels are governable. People who outsource perception are easier to mobilize, easier to enrage, easier to aim. A population trained to experience doubt as attack and certainty as virtue is a political asset. MAGA did not arise spontaneously. It was cultivated, rewarded, and reinforced because it works. Wilson warned that rigid tunnels collapse badly. When they finally crack, the psychological cost can be severe. The danger is not that millions of Americans are stupid. It is that millions have been trained to treat uncertainty as an enemy and identity as truth. The lesson is not that we are smarter than them. That is another tunnel talking. The lesson is vigilance over one’s own perception. Keeping beliefs provisional. Staying uncomfortable. Holding multiple frames without panic. Refusing the emotional payoff of certainty when reality is complex. Resistance does not begin with shouting facts at a sealed tunnel. It begins with refusing to surrender your own. Annotated Sources Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising. Foundational text introducing reality tunnels, belief systems, and how neurological and linguistic filters shape perception. Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology. Expands on cognitive flexibility, certainty addiction, and the dangers of rigid belief structures across political and religious systems. Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity. Influential precursor to Wilson’s work, establishing the map is not the territory principle that underpins reality tunnel theory. George Lakoff, Moral Politics. Examines how political worldviews are structured by cognitive frames rather than factual disputes. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Explores how mass movements exploit certainty, ideology, and enemy construction to suppress independent thought. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death. Contextualizes how media environments shape cognition and reduce complex reasoning into emotional reflex
December 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM