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10 November - 22 December 2025

Dec 23, 2025

Every four weeks or so, I publish a link post that includes everything I have been writing and podcasting around the internet.

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The Scrupulosity Of The Woke Campus Radical

Every cult presents itself as a positive solution to the world’s problems. Every cult wants its children to carry on the cult into a new generation. As a result, Ben Appel writes in his new memoir, “life inside a cult is pretty great” at first, especially if you are a child, as he was. “Often, the real trouble doesn’t come until after you leave — and have to figure out how to think for yourself.” Deprogramming yourself takes time and struggle, even with help, and Ben had none. He was horribly alone…

2 months ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

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Hitler's National Socialism Was Socialism

North Korea calls itself a Democratic People’s Republic and claims to represent all of Korea, thus the acronym DPRK. If you are an intellectual heir of Vladimir Lenin who believes in ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat’, then it does make a certain sense. Simply define ‘democracy’ a dictatorship ‘expressing the popular will’ — because as Orwell famously observed, totalitarianism inverts the meanings of words to master them— and freedom becomes slavery, ignorance becomes strength, and democracy becomes dictatorship, thus the Democratic in DPRK…

2 months ago · 8 likes · Matt Osborne

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The 1561 Nuremberg 'Space Battle' Warned That The French Wars Of Religion Were Coming

Nuremberg was the first city to convert to Protestant religion and along with Geneva, became a wellspring of the Reformation in the 16th century. All of Protestant Europe was therefore in regular communication with Nuremberg. The printing press had also been in use for more than a century when Hans Wolff Glaser created the above illustration, which has variously been described as an atmospheric event or a space battle, according to the level of sensationalism in the interpreter…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

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Quantum War And Rumors Of Quantum War

According to a recent headline in The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration wants taxpayers to have a stake in the quantum computing industry. Shareholder agreements would provide a minimum of $10 million in “funding earmarked for promising technology companies” in this emerging economic sector. Whereas the 20th century model of science funding received no return on investment, the administration thinks this approach will ensure that Americans benefit from the success of quantum industries in the 21st century, according to the…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

Osborne Ink

A Spiritual Biography Of The Flying Saucer

Next month will complete the first ‘volume’ of audio readings of my essay series on the history of the belief in extraterrestrials. Each essay is linked below with the audio reading on YouTube. Audio of the Heaven’s Gate essay linked at the bottom of this post will be published on the channel in December…

2 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Osborne Ink

The Penny Finally Drops

James Thomas Kolbe died in 2022. He was eighty years old and retired after representing Arizona in the US House for 22 years. A moderate Republican, and openly gay, Kolbe did not live long enough to see his most famous pet project become reality when the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia stopped minting pennies last Wednesday…

2 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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Some Notes On Drone War 3.0 In Ukraine

A new sub-genre of Ukraine war drone video has emerged: the counter-interdiction battle, a new kind of drone-on-drone engagement. This update would have required so many video clips that I decided to just splice them together with a voiceover. For premium subscribers first…

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2 months ago · Matt Osborne

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How Sports Went Woke, Went Broke, And Accidentally Re-Elected Donald Trump

Sports coverage got suffused with identity politics because the sports media, like the rest of the legacy media, is staffed by people whose politics are to the left of the median voter. If anything, sports media is even worse about this than the rest of the media. This is how sports became ‘woke’ without any audience demand, Clay Travis writes in…

2 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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Assessing The Narcoterror Drug Boat As A Trolley Problem

At sea, form is function. That is a drug boat. Do not let anyone talk you into doubt. There are no cranes with nets, no rods or reels, nothing visible to suggest they are fishermen out for a pleasure-cruise at night in eel-infested waters. Fishing boats do not require three powerful outboard motors with extra fuel. These ‘go-fast boats’ are used for transporting drugs between the shore and the ship that is waiting out at sea to take the drugs to their final destination. It is a logistical middleman — or, if you prefer, a link in a kill chain. On average, every go-fast boat like this one will kill a dozen Americans through cocaine overdose…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

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Our Recent Podcast Guest Was An Author Of The HHS 'Umbrella Review' Of Trans Medicine

During May, the Trump administration HHS released an “umbrella review” of the evidence-base for pediatric gender transition that exposed it as low-quality, and the medicine conducted on that basis as harmful fraud. The final version of that report, Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices…

2 months ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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Epstein Shark Week

It took less than a week for the Jeffrey Epstein ‘files’ to boomerang on the enemies of Donald Trump exactly as I had predicted. Democrats had these same ‘files’ for four years and never weaponized them against Trump until now, so it was always unlikely they contained anything incriminating about him with anyone underage. I never bought it. For all his faults, Trump has always preferred the company of adult women. Porn star Stormy Daniels was 27 at the time of their encounter. Nancy O’Dell, the woman Trump told Billy Bush he had tried to “fu*k”, was 39 when the…

2 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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The Man Who Raped Dagny Benedict Has Gotten A Jailhouse Gender Transition

James Everette Hughes, convicted of sexually abusing his daughter Dagny ‘Nex’ Benedict, has ‘transitioned’ in lockup. Inmate records at the Sebastian County, Arkansas jail, where Hughes was being held for trial until recently, show he started changing his surname as well as his appearance in the last year…

2 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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Oswald Was A Communist. He Acted Alone

It is that anniversary again. Sixty-two years have passed since Lee Harvey Oswald, an ideological communist, killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. Two days later, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, whose motive remains obscure. This was a happy convenience to the KGB, …

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

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How Stalin Beat His 'Allies' And Won The War

No single book has undermined the reputation of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, as well as the outcome of the 20th century’s pivotal conflict, more than Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II. Rejecting “the enduring Hitlerian hypermnesia in the historical literature on World War II and the concomitant neglect of the enormous Soviet part in the drama”, author Sean McMeekin was assailed by historians for upending their professional consensus, threatening the hallowed myth of the Second World War as a victory for freedom rather than a victory by the forces of communism…

2 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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Nick Fuentes Is An Attention Farmer

Nick Fuentes wants your attention. He is not actually interested in ideology or history or race, or even America. Nick Fuentes only wants your eyeballs and your ears aimed at him. That’s it. That’s all he wants. The rest is incidental: the effects on you, on others, on society or politics, are incidental to his project of self-promotion. Fuentes says whatever stupid shit will get your attention. Blaming all the wars that ever happened on Jews, as Fuentes does, is absolutely…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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Why The Attempted Takedown Of Pete Hegseth Was Doomed From The Start

The same people who propelled Russiagate on Twitter are insisting today on X that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has thrown Adm. Mitch Bradley (see photo) under the proverbial bus by calling him “an American hero, a true professional” who “has my 100% support” for “the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since.” Prais…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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Riding A Comet Through Heaven's Gate, Again

I had this promotional post scheduled months ago when a comet showed up and history rhymed with my topic. I cannot claim any foresight, it is just a complete accident that 3I/Atlas gave us another wave of revivalism for the cult of the extraterrestrial right as I was ready to unlock the audio…

a month ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

The Distance

Video: Culture Critic 'Echo Chamberlain' On The Vindication Of J.K. Rowling

Nicholas Sheppard, aka ‘Echo Chamberlain’, is a British writer and musician as well as a popular culture critic on YouTube. He is a frequent guest on on the Critical Drinker channel as well as other panel shows that discuss cultural criticism. I have always found his insights and analysis good. Now he has applied them to the controversy over J.K. Rowling’s public stand for women’s rights in this video…

a month ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

Osborne Ink

Minnesota Nuts, Democratic Party Lootership: The Coddling Of An Immigrant Generation

It is not possible to blame the Somali diaspora entirely for the predicament they find themselves in, today. Not entirely. Just mostly, and in as collective a tribal manner as that ‘community’ displays themse…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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Most Of The Trans TV Characters Are Being Canceled But Nobody Is Shouting About It

“The number of transgender characters on television has slightly increased, but only four characters appear on series that have been officially renewed”, reads the summary of the 2025 “Where We Are On TV” report from GLAAD. The overall number of shows is being culled, and content reconsidered, as the industry adjusts to a new market reality…

a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

Inspecting Gender

Is The Left-Right Political Divide Really Just All In Our Heads? This Psychotherapist Says So

Backyard Politics: A Psychological Understanding of Today’s Political and Social Divide…

a month ago · 12 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Drone War Future Is Already Here, It is Just Not Evenly Distributed Yet

Today I had a discussion with ‘Grandpa Roy’, a Canadian OSINT analyst who dives through Telegram every day looking for new developments in the drone war. We talked about the emerging new phase of the drone war in Ukraine and the ever-changing electronic warfare realities of the precision strike battlefield. We talked about Controlled Reception Pattern A…

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a month ago · Matt Osborne

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So What's The Harm In A 'Nonbinary Phase'?

Exulansic was medicalized into the ‘transmasculine’ identity category in her early 20s as a student at Berkeley. She now lives with the iatrogenic harms of the ‘nonbinary’ experiment carried out on her body. As we discuss in the show, it is not a special category safe from harm. If anything, the category is an ethical Wild West where clinicians are making it up as they go…

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a month ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Osborne Ink

Karen Bass Losing Ballroom Race With Trump

Recently, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass made a triumphant announcement that her administration had given final approval for a house to be rebuilt in Pacific Palisades for the very first time. As critics noted, the structure is in fact a model property…

a month ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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US Navy Cooperated With Nobel Prizewinner's Escape From Venezuela By Boat

María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition figure, escaped her country this week to receive her Nobel peace prize in person. According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, the group which exfiltrated Machado “made an important call to the U.S. military before they set out to sea, warning American forces in the region of the vessel’s occupants t…

a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Distance

Born On The Wrong Planet: The Natural Dysphoria Of The Neurodivergent Child

Forest van Slyke did not have rapid onset gender dysphoria, or ROGD, as a youth. It happened in her late 20s, during a burst of ideational romantic interest in a woman. “Hazel” surely disliked Forest discussing her as a pseudonymous love interest on TikTok. Forest writes that “the hardest lesson I had to learn was that even if you know why there’s a miscommunication, it doesn’t mean the other person is interested in solving it…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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Tariffs, The Affordability Economy, The AI Transition, And The Biden Immigration Bubble

Zohran Mamdani resumed calling Donald Trump a “fascist” and a “despot”, but said he will work with the president anyway, after their photogenic Oval Office meeting. If Trump really is a fascist, then his new frenemy relationship with Mamdani, an avowed socialist, must be the new Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, in which case Manhattan is about to become Warsaw …

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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The Last Confederate Effort In The West

Most historians consider the Emancipation Proclamation of New Year’s Day 1863 to be the doom of the Confederacy, when President Lincoln ended any hope of foreign recognition for the fledgling secessionists. Many point to the result at Antietam in September, when Gen. Robert E. Lee was thrown back from his invasion of Maryland after a battle nearly as bloody as Shiloh in April. Few historians know much about Braxton Bragg, who was simultaneously in Kentucky, or how Bragg and Lee were both disconcerted by their cool reception as they crossed the nascent boundaries of the Confederacy into enemy territory…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

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Timothy McBride Is The Real Victim Here

Yes, I am deadnaming ‘Sarah’ McBride, the representative from Delaware. Rep. McBride was a 21-year-old gay man when he decided to ‘become a woman’ 15 years ago. There was never a magical woman named Sarah inside Timothy, waiting to be liberated from her flesh-suit. Instead, McBride had an experience of late adolescent gender dysphoria and became one of the two types of adult male transsexual in Ray Blanchard’s typology. Shame is bound up in McBride’s performance of ‘woman’ and avoidance of that shame is paramount to his psychology, so he reimagines his past as a journey to the present conversion-state the same way a new member of any religion does. This quasi-spiritual phenomenon has been observed in such men since the moment scientific observations were kept. They tell us they were always like this because it is easier than admitting what they really are…

25 days ago · 28 likes · 6 comments · Matt Osborne

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2025: The Year Patent Gender Medicine Fraud Was Finally Prosecuted

During October, the U.S. Department of Justice charged Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh with “fraudulent billing practices…

22 days ago · 26 likes · 3 comments · Matt Osborne

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