Every time I think we’ve hit rock bottom in this nightmare… some fresh shard of hell emerges.

Don’t forget, there’s more than 800 000 imprisoned people working for the US economy as well. They get paid an average of between “13 and 52 cents an hour”, according to reporting by the Guardian and the ACLU from June 2022.

“Seven states – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas – pay nothing for the vast majority of prison work.”

Update

The latest report from the Human Rights Research Center on this came out on Tuesday, 2 June 2026.

Kaitlyn Andres, “Modern Day Slavery in the United States: Exploring Forced Labor for Prison Inmates”, Human Rights Research Center, June 2, 2026

“Most incarcerated workers (~80%) work in jobs that maintain their facilities including janitorial duties, groundskeeping, food preparation, and laundry.3 For this type of labor, inmates at federal prisons can earn between $0.12 and $0.40 per hour.” (Andres, 2026)

So much for keeping up with inflation.

In January 2025, an insightful report from the Economic Policy Institute states,

" from fighting wildfires to toiling in the kitchens of some of the country’s most popular food franchises, incarcerated workers perform vital functions across the United States and produce billions of dollars in value… Incarcerated labor is rooted in slavery and bears an especially striking resemblance in the South." (Mast, 2025)

Now add the 60 000 immigrants, migrants, and refugees kidnapped and imprisoned by ICE since 2025.

“Tens of thousands of detainees participate in the VWP because it is their only available source of income while in detention and they are often coerced into participating or threatened with retaliation if they refuse to participate.”

“for-profit companies running America’s immigration centers are permitted to put immigrant detainees to work for just $1 a day, based on a 1950s era law.” (Pasternak, 2026)

So, basically, this horseshit tariff is pretty rich coming out of anyone in this administration.

Just… politicians used to be better at this. Secret plans leaked from aides, maids, and trash bins.

Now the perps are leaking themselves to stay relevant. It’s gross.

London, England, UK. Waterloo Place, St. James’s.

. Source.

US Secretary of Defense/War.

The sycophant button-pusher “responsible” for:

• killing hundreds of innocent people in the Caribbean

• killing thousands of innocent people in Iran

• licking -2’s taint on command

• firing several career military officers as they were DEI hires

• firing other career military officers who are transgender or otherwise genderqueer

• putting forward a $1.5T budget request for the Pentagon

• being a petty little shit about his own image

• renaming the Department of Defense

• discussing active, secret military objectives on a commercial messaging platform

I’m not sure about the taint-licking, though there is ample evidence of his performing loyalty to -2. Much of the rest is detailed in the articles of impeachment filed against him two weeks ago, or virtually any article or SNL sketch about him in the past 18 months.

Send him to the Hague. Then, I’ll know he’s real.

Um… has this series jumped the shark yet?

That explosion may have caused hundreds of dollars worth of damage.

The damage to the reputation, the prestige, and the gold-plated hubris of “the greatest nation on Earth ever and for all time” is what’s at stake.

Fortunately, disaster capitalism will generate at least fourteen jobs, resulting in the fortification of this embassy — and all other embassies — at exorbitant cost. The US defense budget will far exceed the $1.5T requested for 2027.

Screw diplomacy, forget peace, pursue power.

At all costs. Until Empire falls.

I’ve never seen Letterkenny. And yet, “Letterkenny cold open” yielded this with the second click.

The only associations I can manage are the following:

1. Canadian.

2. Taught alliteration at school.

3. Friends and family from far down East.

4. The original Alphabet Aerobics, by Blackalicious in 1999 is a fave track of mine.

I guess, in text, I flex the gift of gab.

Not always well.

Riiight.

Attritable, armed aircraft. Add AI autonomy, an authoritarian asshole, and an aggressive alignment — all, appropriately, approaches an ashen Apocalypse.

See, in Seoul, to my eyes, drivers aren’t day-labourers, office workers, company people, or students. They are business developers, cab and bus drivers, delivery agents and the most affluent.

In a city of 45 million, car ownership is very, very low. Parking is very difficult to find — or own as city units must separately rent, lease, buy, or borrow a parking spot for a car.

If any large East Asian city could successfully ration gasoline, its Seoul. Public transportation is efficient and inexpensive. People remember the war and hardship. People respect tradition, unity in struggle, and are willing to fight together.

That’s the Seoul I remember anyway.

They imprisoned their Insurrectionist former President.

For life.

Six-hundred twenty-three days later.

“We cannot afford for Lebanon to become another Gaza,” António Guterres Secretary-General, United Nations, June 2024.

AI can read the Doomsday Clock.

They did get me. I got away. But, it was my own kids.

CIA. Recruiting my own kids against me.

Always has been.

“Canadians say U.S. … is bigger threat [to us] than Russia”

World’s longest undefended border may have something to do with that.

Note: ask any country in Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Africa, or the Arabian/Persian Gulf who is a bigger threat, you’ll get the same answer. Some might say China is forgotten from the list.

Canadians are breaking through the propaganda, finally. Contra-American sentiment or a political anti-American stance has probably not been this rooted since 1812.

Russia threatens European power. U.S. threatens the Western Hemisphere and

Let’s see: USA has 26.3% of world GDP. They jealously guard that by force of arms, unfair trade deals, and an aggressive propaganda campaign.

Then, the relationship turns truly abusive. America is even inflicting self-harm.

So, the trade partners of thw world want a divorce; to find themselves and reconnect to their core values, absent the frathouse belligerence of USA. Certainly, other powerful and potentially abusive partners are there among the large economies; but the smaller, resource rich countries are looking for better partnerships.

The US’s stars will fade. Their economic power will shrink. They may even lose some of their states to secession.

If I’m not mistaken, this is how the Holy Roman Empire collapsed — into a handful of warring kingdoms and principalities in the middle of Europe. It wasn’t the end of the world. It was the end of that world.

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Bye, Del-cy-sha.

Ok, I don’t wish her harm or any ill will. I just know that, in this meat grinder of international diplomacy, theres a cost if she tries to push back on Lord Farquaad’s wishes. He’s already promised he would harm her — like every other woman he’s ever encountered.

Beneath the politics, almost certainly, Delcy Rodriguez and María Corina Machado both want what will benefit Venezuelans. Or, perhaps, they only want to serve their own supporters. Regardless, neither of these women will gain from participating in the Game of Thrones that Washington has engaged.

Also, Angela Means’s quest to vindicate Felisha has merit. Much is assumed about her. Few, if any, care for her. These are the stories we promote. This is the world we promote.

I know, I know, the billionaires are fast-tracking another generation of Cylons. I promise, it’ll be different this time.

Or, maybe not.

Empires fall.

Rulers — elected, appointed, and de facto — grow lazy, stupid, overconfident, and short-sighted.

Listen/View: The Fall of Civilizations podcast

All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again. The trick is to have a long, calm interim of stability, providence, and peace.

Read: the Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. I got lazy and used the Wikipedia link.