Ink Bomb

23 March - 19 April 2026

Apr 19, 2026

It is time for another link post to all my recent scrivenings and podcastery goodness. Since I always try to introduce these things with a very dumb joke, this time I thought I’d drop a real bomb on you. To, you know, blacken you up and then cancel you for wearing blackface. I’m Machiavellian like that. Muahahahahahahahaha

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New Providence Island, 1776: The First Time Americans Got Drunk On Victory At Sea

Located at the Saint Louis Art Museum is a scene of binge-drinking by the men who made America great in the first place. They are abroad in South America as trading sailors. Esek Hopkins is sitting at the table in the hat with red facings on his coat, talking to his fellow Rhode Island shipmaster …

a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

Back To Alabama, For Now

I am uprooting once again, transplanting myself across North America to where I came from, heeding the call of family. My father took a bad fall recently and the old folks will need me around to help. Dad will want to read my book draft anyway, so it’s good to go home…

25 days ago · 19 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

Arianna Laureano And The 'Cluster B Clique' That Wants To Destroy Detransition Advocacy

Arianna Laureano is a Seattle area man who allegedly turns 35 next month. While he describes himself as a homosexual transsexual (HSTS) in some forums, on various platforms like GroobyGirls, Shemalez, and TrannyDemonTV, Mr. Laureano identifies as bisexual and transgender instead…

24 days ago · 42 likes

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Will Donald Trump Buy A Persian Carpet?

Donald Trump presents flamboyant deal-making as his true “art form”— an instinct-driven, theatrical performance that is focused on winning big rather than playing it safe. I have just summarized Art of the Deal, which is a book based on Trump’s ideas about business…

24 days ago · 6 likes · Matt Osborne

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Operational Artist: Zhukov's Complete Victory That Started World War II On Soviet Terms

“He was a welcome friend, a true Communist”, Gen. Georgi Zhukov recalls of an acquaintance in his memoir. For Zhukov, it was the same thing to be a good friend as it was to be a good Communist. He credits ideology for victory, names the kommissars who indoctrinated his formations, recalls their noble careers and glorious deaths. “The heroic actions of our soldiers were inspired by the Communist Party and the army’s Party organization”, he writes of Khalkin Gol, the battle that started the Second World War…

19 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Today Is The Trans Day Of Invisibility

Transgender people are invisible today, but only for today. They become visible again at midnight…

18 days ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

The Communists Are Revolting

It is not an April Fools Day joke that actual Communists were behind the No Kings rallies last weekend. Neville Roy Singham, an American billionaire loyal to the Chinese Communist Party, funds more than 500 organizations across the country with $3 billion a year…

18 days ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

Robert De Niro Calls For Assembly Of Experts To Choose Future Supreme Leader Of US

Like most of America’s cultural and political elites, Robert De Niro just cannot reconcile himself to Donald Trump winning the popular vote in 2024. Now he says he wants “a screening process that everyone has to go through”, which is very rich coming from a man who endorsed Kamala Harris…

17 days ago · 16 likes · Matt Osborne

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Hollywood Is Officially Too Broke For Woke

The Los Angeles media production job market is 30 percent smaller than it was in 2022, when credit became more expensive due to the war in Ukraine. So-called ESG (environmental, social, and governance) capital — Vanguard and Blackrock — could no longer afford to prioritize the engineering of western societies over profitability. It was the beginning of a decline in LGBTQ+ ‘representation’ and the beginning of a process that will likely result in limited reach for future rainbow-themed content. Economics, not ‘hate’, will force these changes. The trends have been underway for years already…

13 days ago · 19 likes · Matt Osborne

Democrats Have A Long Road To November

On Monday morning, Harry Enten and John Berman informed the CNN audience that Democrats have the lowest generic ballot lead of any comparable midterm election in the 21st century. Over two decades, the pendulum-swing effect of a polarizing Republican presidency has diminished by half. As Enten explained, this means Democrats might be able to win a narro…

11 days ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

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Iran Has Been A Disaster For 'The Experts'

Anyone who says they already know what comes next is lying and you can safely ignore them. Everyone who said that Donald Trump was doing too much, then said that he was not doing enough, then said he wa…

11 days ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

Cloning Experiment Demonstrates Binary Sex Is Essential To Survival Of The Human Species

New experimental evidence strongly suggests that mammals cannot sustain reproduction without the genetic shuffling provided by the sex binary…

9 days ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

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Ukraine Is Winning Their Own War, Now

Despite some pain involved in the shift to a corps-based system, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are the side making the slow advances, now, whereas Russian troops are virtually unable to make any headway through the grinding style of attritional warfare that defined Russian doctrine in 2024 and 2025…

9 days ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

Republicans Just Need Direction

The left wants to fall in love with their candidates, while the right wants to fall in line. Donald Trump is presidential proof for this truism of our American primary season politics. Each time he ran against a field of Republicans, he swept them all away quickly…

9 days ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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Strait Flush: US Navy Holds All The Cards In Hormuz, Iran Loses All Maritime Leverage

Vice President J.D. Vance left Pakistan without a deal. This was predictable, for he is the grinder, whereas Marco Rubio is the closer in the Trump administration. Vladimir Putin similarly uses Vladimir Medinsky, his minister of culture, for 21-hour diplomatic haggling sessions, then sends Sergey Lavrov to close a deal when the other side is serious abo…

6 days ago · Matt Osborne

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A Metahistory Of The Murder Ballad

Songs about a “murdered sweetheart” have been popular fare since the early 17th century and the arrival of the English printing press. Popular songs were sold in the streets by people who sang them from the printed sheets for sale, a direct and human form of marketing…

6 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Affirmed to Death: The Tragic Case of Jamie Shupe, America's First 'Nonbinary' Pioneer

During his sojourn as a detransitioned man, James Clifford “Elisa Rae” Shupe sought an attorney to help him “put gender identity on trial.” Sadly, no one would help a self-described mentally ill person sue the federal government just because he had changed his mind for the moment…

It Couldn't Happen To A Bigger Schmuck

Let us now bask in the utterly cooked state of Rep. Eric Swalwell. Under investigation by the House Ethics Committee on Monday, he resigned from Congress. He had suspended his campaign for California governor on Sunday after Democrats threw him under the proverbial bus in unison over the …

5 days ago · 12 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Siege Of Boston: Washington's First Victory

America’s first president had a gift for surprises. “With me it has always been a maxim rather to let my designs appear from my works than by my expressions”, George Washington wrote in 1797. At sunrise on 5 March 1776, the British occupiers of Boston woke up to discover that overn…

4 days ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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Hasan Piker Will Kill Billions If We Let Him

“I don’t have any patriotism in my heart for America”, says Hasan Piker. Instead, he loves Communism with a capital C. According to The Black Book of Communism, the most commonly-cited source on the topic, Communism killed roughly 94 million people in the 20th century. Some scholars maintain there is double-counting, and say the number might be as low as 60 or 70 million, which is another way of saying that even apologists for Communism cannot hide the very murderous and oppressive nature of their cult…

3 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Why Are No Women Playing In The NFL?

Zero women have ever made an NFL roster, completed a training camp, or made a regular-season appearance on the professional football field with men. Every single person who has ever played a single actual snap in the history of the National Football League was male. Females have always been extremely rare at all levels of the game, but in the biggest professional league, they are nonexistent…

2 days ago · Matt Osborne

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What IRGC Doing?

Emmanuel Macron is adorable. He wants to open the Strait of Hormuz with European naval power “after the fighting ends” and cut the US Navy out of the deal. He is holding a meeting today, and “China and India were invited, but it’s unclear if they will attend, a French official said.” France operates the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world that is not American…

2 days ago · Matt Osborne

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