Gasoline prices are quickly approaching the "politically sensitive" $4 per gallon mark. Analysts claim that at this price, consumers make the conscious decision to drive less. This month's surge in retail fuel prices (gasoline and diesel) marks the largest increase on record, with gasoline only 4 cents below the precarious $4 line.

23 March 2026

United States ruler Donald Trump claims that since democrats are "blocking funding" for the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) personnel, he can have ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents fill in instead. He said he will make this happen if democrats refuse to unblock funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which governs both ICE and the TSA.

23 March 2026

Unless the Strait of Hormuz is opened within 48 hours, United States President Donald Trump will "obliterate" Iran's power plants. Iran closed the vital waterway on February 28th after Israel and the U.S. used joint strikes to attack Tehran over its diplomatic failures surrounding its nuclear program.  

23 March 2026

AI is everywhere now—woven into our workplaces, our devices, and our daily routines—and with its spread comes a rising fear: what happens when there’s no meaningful work left for humans? AI is becoming the silent collaborator behind almost everything we make. Yet its presence creates a new kind of tension: not whether we can use it, but how we should. Regardless of the advancements in AI, the central question does not change: given scarcity, what should you do with your time, and what should you let the tools do?

23 March 2026

The WHO is preparing for potential radioactive contamination from U.S./Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities (Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz), though no contamination has been confirmed yet.

21 March 2026

Commonly discussed in radical political circles is the Overton window (also called the window of discourse), which is typically defined as the range of subjects and arguments—public ideas—politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. The Overton window varies over time (either by shifting, shrinking, and/or expanding), thereby demonstrating the gradual evolution of societal norms and values. Less well-known is that political commentator Joshua Trevino has hypothesized that the political acceptability component of the Overton window can be subdivided into six significant and separately identifiable degrees. These degrees of political acceptability are, from least copacetic to most copacetic, as follows: unthinkable, radical, acceptable, sensible, popular, and policy.

20 March 2026

The war with Iran is now entering its third week. In light of escalations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) will reduce Iran's military "to dust."

20 March 2026

CNN is reporting that a US F-35 stealth fighter jet made an emergency landing at a US air base in the Middle East, in an incident confirmed by the Pentagon.

20 March 2026

Joe Kent resigned as head of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest of the U.S. war with Iran, citing moral and strategic concerns.

19 March 2026

A clandestine Iranian unit has a warning for United States politicians, after using drones to buzz the homes of War Department chief Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio's homes. Those in power in the U.S. "will no longer be safe anywhere in the world," Iran threatened. 

19 March 2026