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Jul 19, 2026

It’s time for another roundup of all the keyboard-tickling and podcastiness that I’ve been up to, lately. Next week, premium subscribers will get to hear my full interview with author and journalist Gerald Posner. Free subscribers will have to wait until August. I have also been working on a couple of short stories for premium subscribers, and one of these will publish during the first week of August. It’s going to be a good month to support the Ink.

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Trump's Leveraged Buyout Of The Persian Rug Bazaar Is Happening Now, Cope With It

We are supposed to get peace in the Middle East this Friday. Actually, we are supposed to get 60 days of peace while the United States and Iran reach a deal on neutralizing the enriched uranium stockpile, so that there can be permanent peace. The Strait of Hormuz is supposed to reopen for business this week. Actually, it will take a month. At the time o…

a month ago · 6 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

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Pride Goeth Before A Fall In Public Approval

The collapse of Pride was already visible in 2025. In 2026, the air going out of the rainbow bubble is so visible that it cannot be denied by anyone. The most visible thing about Pride month anymore is that it passes with less fanfare, and more controversy, than ever…

a month ago · 118 likes · Matt Osborne

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How To Cope With The Memorandum Of Misunderstanding Through Hard Power Analysis

Are you tired yet? I too am tired. Getting Iran to ‘yes’ is exhausting. The whole world is coping with the apparent outcome of ceasefire negotiations. I said it would be exhausting and I hate being right…

a month ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

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Wages Are Low And 'The Rent Is Too Damn High' When Borders Are Not Enforced

Sarah Wakefield, the Green Party candidate for the Makerfield by-election in Greater Manchester, recently told BBC Question Time that it is “absolutely wild” to blame immigration for soaring housing costs…

a month ago · 23 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Three Reasons Why The FTC Can Put WPATH On Trial For Fraud

Litigation filed this week promises to break the spell of protection that pediatric ‘gender medicine’ has enjoyed in American discourse…

a month ago · 79 likes · 7 comments · Matt Osborne

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The Fine Art Of Assaulting Mesopotamian Walls

Kurd Qaburstan in Iraq has been identified as the ancient city of Qabara depicted in the Victory Stele of Dadusha. A new magnetometer survey of 180 acres by a team from the University of Central Florida has found a massive curtain wall with bastions surrounding the site, matching the fortifications portrayed on the stele…

a month ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

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Dear Dad, The New York Times Hates You

Gender has become complicated now. Fatherhood is no longer something boys should aspire to, or be prepared to accept, because girls who have their breasts removed will do the fathering, from now on. Testosterone alone confers manhood. This new manhood does not pass between males, which makes it non-toxic masculinity…

a month ago · 62 likes · Matt Osborne

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David Grusch Turns His Friend’s Tragic Overdose Into a National Security Mystery

According to David Grusch, the tragic overdose death of Matthew James Sullivan, a 39-year-old US Air Force veteran, is a national security mystery. “He passed away mysteriously”, Grusch told The Big Weekend Show on Fox News 13 June…

a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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Why British Politics Cannot Save British Children from Puberty Blockers

The United Kingdom is about to have a new prime minister. Andy Burnham is in the photo above. He is standing on stage with Sarah Wakefield, the Green Party candidate for the Makerfield by-election in Greater Manchester, along with a trash bin and a fox…

25 days ago · 33 likes · Matt Osborne

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Iran Cannot Actually Close The Strait Of Hormuz

“What has taken shape in the Pakistan negotiations is fundamentally different from what was supposed to happen and from what constituted the condition for the legitimacy of the negotiations.” With those words, Iranian lawmaker Seyed Mahmoud Nabavian, an influential MP in the camp that opposes negotiations with the Great Satan, accused the government of treason against the Supreme Leader last weekend…

23 days ago · 6 likes · Matt Osborne

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Member Of Zizians Transgender Vegan Death Cult Charged With Murder Of Her Parents

Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse has charged Michelle ‘Jamie’ Zajko in the New Years Eve murders of her mother and father, Rita and Richard Zajko. Both were shot to death in Michelle’s childhood bedroom…

24 days ago · 44 likes · Matt Osborne

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George Washington And The Guns Of Monmouth

Monmouth was not a particularly large battle. In his dispatches to Congress, Gen. George Washington reported 69 dead, 161 wounded, and 140 missing from his army, most of the latter from heat exhaustion. He also reported that 249 enemy officers and men lay dead on the field. Sir Henry Cl…

21 days ago

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The Cluster B Clique Just Got Famous For An 'Assault' In Seattle That Does Not Add Up

Three subjects of our previous reporting have released video of an altercation in a Seattle Park, framing themselves as victims of an unprovoked attack on detransitioners. The incident took place at a location that is famous for antifa organizing…

20 days ago · 6 likes

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Sophomore Soviet: How Gen. Zhukov Survived The Ordeal Of The Planetary Offensives

The dictator of the proletariat puffed at his pipe. Stalin was ready to take questions…

19 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Third Worldism And The Political Religion Of Our Downwardly Mobile Elites

Democrats are going full radical. To borrow a line from Kirk Lazarus, in American politics, you don’t ever go full radical…

18 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Blasphemers! SCOTUS Protects Sports For Girls During The Holy Month Of Pridemadan

No, I will not be nice about this. We are many years past ‘nice’. Nor will I exhaust myself with scientific argument against unscientific arguments…

18 days ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Medicare Fraud For All Affordability Crisis

Melat Asfawosen Kiros thinks that “Medicare is the most efficient and the most effective delivery system for health care in this country.” This is incorrect…

17 days ago · Matt Osborne

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The Pessimists Have Been Wrong About Iran

Iran is still in crisis. The economy remains devastated. Millions are unemployed. Oil prices have collapsed below pre-war levels, creating a market glut, and nobody is lining up to buy their oil. Because who wants to trade with a lunatic …

16 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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The Things That Never Or Hardly Ever Happen That Keep Happening All The Time, Now

Teha Delaruelle has been publicly repudiated by a Democratic Socialist running for Congress in Wisconsin after calling for a “trans jihad” against Republicans…

16 days ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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Happy 4th Of July To Everyone Who Actually Loves America, The Land Of Economic Freedom

Zohran Mamdani knows how a desk works. He has not sat behind the desk wrong. A Washington-style desk has drawers on both sides. While this one is associated with George Washington, the style is European in origin. It’s a furnishing for an age before file cabinets and folders, which were invented a century after this style took the name of America’s firs…

15 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Graham Platner Used The Same App To Meet His Alleged Victim, Reconnect With His Wife

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner allegedly raped a woman. According to Politico, Jenny Racicot says Platner “forced her to have sex with him” in 2021 “despite her repeated objections”, i.e. rape…

13 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Iran Cannot Possibly Win This War But Also Does Not Know How To Lose, Either

The United States Treasury Department revoked its waiver of sanctions on Iranian oil yesterday. CENTCOM reported strikes on “Iranian air defense systems, command and control networks, coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile capabilities, and more than 60 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps small boats in and near the strait to degrade Iran’s ability to con…

11 days ago · Matt Osborne

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Why Does This Thing That Never Or Hardly Ever Happens Keep Happening All The Time?

Allison Howlett, a 36-year-old man, was arrested last weekend before he could carry out a threatened mass shooting…

10 days ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Body Keeps The Marxist Score: Queer Theory And The Christianity Of James Talarico

Roberto Henderson-Espinoza, a PhD scholar using he/they pronouns, identifies as Mestizaje, autistic, bi-polar, non-binary, transgender, and Latinx. She is all of the things, the most intersectional identity imaginable, in order to escape the “conditional whiteness” of her mixed parentage, the original sin that she rejects in herself…