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Mar 22, 2026

Here I am with another very dumb joke to open a digest post of everything I have been writing and podcasting around the intertubes of late.

The internet is actually a series of tubes, according to the Ted Stevens Foundation, a Washington think tank. These are links to all the electrons I pumped out to fill up those tubes.

What Washington actually needs is a septic think tank to clean up the Potomac. I’m glad I don’t live in that swamp. All of my intertubes are sanitized for your protection.

Use The Pronouns Or You'll Be Sorry. Also This Does Not Even Affect You, Why Do You Care?

History records that for one brief moment, it was okay to be gay. And then it passed, because the straights with interesting hair colors demanded the spotlight on campus. Kevin Waldman, a gay clinical researcher at the University of Michigan, finds that “gay male students experience conditional belonging when situated within a trans-centered LGBTQ identity hierarchy…

a month ago · 12 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

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Year Five Of The Three-Day Special Operation

The renewed invasion caught the world off guard. It caught me off guard. I did not think Vladimir Putin was dumb enough to really do it. Turned out that the CIA and MI6 were right, he really was that dumb. As I plumbed sources of information, it became clear to me over the first 24 hours that…

a month ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Thing That Never Happens Turns Out To Have Happened Thousands Of Times, Actually

For those of us who have been in these ‘culture war’ trenches the longest, the story of Sage Blair is not new or shocking. Most Americans are only just now finding out she exists, and hearing her story for the first time, because she was not supposed to exist and her story is not supposed to be real…

25 days ago · 13 likes · Matt Osborne

Inspecting Gender

Why Judith Butler Was Inevitable

To the passing observer in 2017, it seemed that women’s rights were at the center of the world. #MeToo, Time’s Up, and the Women’s March had reshaped politics, culture, and society. The force was female, the future was female. All three movements are now dissolved and forgotten. Instead, a new schism was forming within feminism. On one side were feminis…

24 days ago · 9 likes · Matt Osborne

Ok, Weird: Nick Pope Basically Wrote A Foreword To My Book Draft At Skeptic Mag

Nick Pope worked for the Ministry of Defence over decades, running the ‘UFO desk’ from 1991 to 1994. While the MoD closed the office in 2006 and announced it was no longer studying UFOs at all in 2009, Pope became a fixture of Ancient Aliens on the History Channel, and more recently, a commentator on S…

24 days ago · Matt Osborne

Brittany Ortiz AKA Slightly Twisted Female Charged For Violent Attack On A Family

A past organizer of a Let Women Speak event covered by The Distance has been charged alongside her father with injuring three people during an altercation at a youth basketball game on 1 February 2026…

24 days ago · 12 likes · 4 comments

Thing That Never Happens Has Happened At Least $135 Million Times At Taxpayer Expense

A Congressional Budget Office analysis of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program has found that taxpayers spent at least $135 million on transgender medicalization, including surgeries, on minors from 2019 to 2023…

23 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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Battle Damage Assessment

An Israeli strike at 8:15 AM local time appears to have possibly ended the career of Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei. Reuters is reporting that Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian were present at the meeting, whole Israeli Channel 12 is reporting that Kha…

22 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Why Single-Sex Prisons Are In The 1949 Geneva Convention

Women shall be treated with all the regard due to their sex and shall in all cases benefit by treatment as favourable as that granted to men. …

20 days ago · 7 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Must Decide How It Wants To Die, Now

Yesterday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi signaled that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is acting on its own, now. “What happened in Oman was not our choice”, he told Al Jazeera, referring to overnight missile strikes on that country. “We have already told ou…

20 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Why Democrats Suddenly Fear And Loathe AI

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont wants a moratorium on data center construction. “We cannot sit back and allow a handful of billionaire Big Tech oligarchs to make decisions that will reshape our economy, our democracy and the future of humanity”, Sanders argued on social media. Instead, we should let Sanders, 84, reshape our economy, democracy and the fut…

20 days ago · Matt Osborne

The Culture War Vibe Shift Is Happening Fast

Have you noticed the dogs that are not barking, right now? Actors. Big A-name celebrities, B-listers, even the C-listers have all suddenly re-learned the lost art of shutting up about divisive political topics. Pedro Pascal and Rachel Zegler and Emma Thompson and Mark Ruffalo are all shutting up, all of a sudden…

18 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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Destroying The IRGC With Foes From Within

Ismail Qaani kept missing out on Israeli decapitation strikes that killed his colleagues in batches. After one coincidence too many, the Quds Force commander was reportedly detained by the regime and his fate remains unknown. Adding to suspicions, Qaani was…

16 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

James Talarico Wants The White Men Of Texas To Feel The Pain Of Being Nonbinary

In 2019, James Talarico said that “prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego. It’s a never-ending process, and it’s a painful process.” Masculinity and whiteness are sins. White men have to feel pain for their sins. That’s what Talarico and the progressive Democratic Party want for white men: pain. Democrats want the white men of Texas to cry like Jesus and beg forgiveness for voting the wrong way, all these years…

17 days ago · Matt Osborne

We Will Give 'Debunker' Michael Hobbes $10,000,000 For A 'Gender Identity' Detector

To date, the true nature of the phenomenon known as “gender identity” remains nebulous to our human understanding. Sure, people “express” themselves in various ways that cultures decide are “masculine” or “feminine.” In that sense, “gender” is a performance, just as Judith Butler argues…

13 days ago · 10 likes

The Ultimate Climate Warming Heresy Is That It Might Be ...Good... For Humans, Actually?

You would not know it from the climate science we have all learned together, but periods of climate warming are consistently associated with the success of the human species, while periods of climate cooling are associated with human suffering. Contrary to the expectations of doomsday, the more likely outcome …

13 days ago · 8 likes · Matt Osborne

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Pacifism Is A Lie

“I was in the middle of saying ‘as a born and raised New Yorker, we welcome everyone into this city’ when he threw that over my head”, Walter Masterson says, referring to the nail bomb that Emir Balat, 18, used to attack anti-Islam protesters. No scene or sentence could better capture the suicidal stupidity of the pacifist city mouse. It is a Platonic a…

12 days ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

A Brief History Of Detransition

As shown by these two graphs, the rising number of published references to “detransitioner” has closely tracked the rise in published references to “puberty blockers”. The graph looks very different when both terms are compared together because detransitioners get far less attention than ‘trans kids’. We have to see them independently to discern the pattern…

11 days ago · 31 likes · Matt Osborne

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Cuba Negotiates The Terms Of Their Liberation

Donald Trump has defeated proletarian internationalism in Cuba. President Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged on Friday that his government is negotiating the terms of their surrender with the Trump administration, capitulating rather than attempt ‘resistance’ to internal and external forces it cannot overcome…

6 days ago · 6 likes · Matt Osborne

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Behold, A Hormuz Strategy Unfolds

“Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz” CENTCOM announced Tuesday evening. “The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait.” Posed, past tense, because the former threat to the world economy is gone, now…

3 days ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

Stop Trying To Help The Butch Lesbians Gain Acceptance With Your Awful Video Game

Aeta, a young knight errant, undertakes a “brutal journey through Italy” to rescue her true love, Bianca (see above): this is the plot of 1348 Ex Voto, a new video game that centers the ‘representation’ of lesbians right in its marketing…

3 days ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Successful Deterrence Of Xi Jinping

The latest report on national security issues by the Director of National Intelligence assesses that “Chinese leaders do not currently plan to execute an invasion of Taiwan in 2027, nor do they have a fixed timeline for achieving unification”, according to…

2 days ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Why They Cover Up The Cult Of César Chávez

César Chávez became a friend and imitator of Charles Dederich, founder of Synanon, during the 1970s. Dederich established control of his initiates through The Game, a regular practice of Maoist struggle sessions in which everyone engaged in verbal attacks on one another to break down egos and inculcate obedience…

2 days ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

Thing That Hardly Ever Happens Happened 60 Times In Just One Blue Colorado County

According to the United States Department of Education, Jefferson County, Colorado public schools have allowed boys to take up 60 different places on girls sports teams. One “nonbinary” player is listed on a team for girls as well, though it is unclear whether this student is male or female…

2 days ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

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