This is nicely written and helpful in understanding the role of Puritanism in our current state of affairs. Book burning, attacks on women’s rights, veneration of wealth, isolationism, condemnation of others who are different… it’s all puritanical bullshit.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/smal...

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy.

All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.

JUST IN: In order dismissing the case because of Trump’s proclamation, Judge Reyes rips a J6 defendant for lying on the stand about having a gun in the Capitol.

Elon Musk called Social Security a "ponzi scheme." This is absolute rubbish. Social Security has paid every benefit owed to every eligible American for 85 years. Perhaps the bigger "ponzi scheme" is the $38 billion spent by taxpayers to prop up his corporations?

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

Just saying.