My newest essay, “When Hatred for the ‘Woke’ Left Trumps the Love of Liberty,” appears today on Notablog & Medium. It explores how the reactionary right has engaged in a form of top-down imposed cancel culture:

notablog.net/2025/09/08/w...

medium.com/@cms10_7549/...

There's a lot of BS lists going around attributing a lot of mass shootings to Trans/Non-binary perpetrators. They are false, including the Uvalde shooting.

There have been a few out of the very many that have occurred in the U.S. (mostly by cisgender males).

I could put an armed soldier or police in front of every house and every apt door, with instructions to kill people for the slightest infraction, and I could significantly "cut down on crime." But that wouldn't be "solving crime." It would replace one struggle with a much worse and stifling one.

I could send armed soldiers and police to push out and/or cage anyone homeless. "Cleaning up the streets" as they say. But I wouldn't be "solving" anything. I'd be inhumanely shoving real issues out of sight.

Similarly, .... (*Check comments*)

How about about less anger at corporate logo changes and more anger at lack of affordable healthcare and people being unhoused.

Being upset with the economy is what ultimately decided the last presidential election. And look what you got.... An even worse economy PLUS right-wing authoritarianism and an assault on the best of institutions in the U.S. government. Great job folks....

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

a sarcastic Bernie Sanders: "Why not? When you get bad news, fire the guy who delivered the news. I think that's sensible policy."

What's frustrating for me is the field of study I'm in requires APA. I much prefer the way Chicago style looks and operates.

I actually enjoyed the new Fantastic 4 more than the new Superman.

Under this map, you’d enter/exit a congressional district 8 times just by driving around Houston’s outer loop.

Insufferable people. And yes he should!

MAGA Pundits Are Triggered That Superman Is an Immigrant But he is an embodiment of America’s essential goodness and promise

MAGA Pundits Are Triggered That Superman Is an Immigrant
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Jordan Peterson claiming to value "precise speech" is like Donald Trump claiming to value "truth".

It's one thing to argue with reason and evidence with someone who simply disagrees with you.

It's another thing entirely to do so with someone who wants the opposite to be true.

You're more often than not wasting your time and energy. It's similar to when someone is intent on misunderstanding you.

Consequently, immigration restriction requires a level of police militarization and weaponization at an even more dystopian scale than the drug war. It is hard to imagine a bigger threat to a free society other than literal a literal comprehensively centrally planned command economy.

Both X and Threads have far more users than Bluesky. But X is a Nazi pit and Threads is exceptionally boring—and if you're looking to drive traffic, Bluesky outperforms both. So don't feel anxious that you're missing out by using this smaller platform. If you enjoy it, happily continue to do so.

Whenever someone suggests increases in funding for social safety net measures, we're told how it's at the height of impossibility or would be a total disaster.

Whenever someone suggests increases in funding for the police, military, or corporate subsidies and bailouts, mountains are moved.

Unpacking the Question “Can Housing Be an Investment and Affordable?” What does it really mean to say that housing can’t be both affordable and an “investment”?

If you only read one article on housing, let it be this one!

Suffice it to say, housing can either be an investment or affordable but it cannot be both.

www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024...

RTN1994 – Medium Read writing from RTN1994 on Medium. A Dialectical Left-Libertarian, Agnostic Spiritual Naturalist who commentates on political thought, psychology, religion, human flourishing, among other things.

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I write about politics/economics/social issues from a Dialectical Left-Libertarian perspective. I also cover other topics like religion and psychology. I include pieces on my own personal development as well.

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My first post on here. I was really hoping to avoid adding to the social media accounts I need to juggle. However, I wanted to stay in touch with Kevin Carson without relying on email. So, here I am. Lol