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Sunday Reads...

  • Greg McNeilly
  • Apr 12
  • 3 min read

An irregular roundup of thought-provoking reads. Most made me go “hmm…”

 

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"When plunder becomes a way of life, men create a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat


  • Nate Silver documents the insanely incestous bubble that is “social media.”

  • Ari Fleischer notes how NATO is undoing itself. 

  • Phone-free dinning is on the rise. 

  • YES PLEASE:  Apparently researchers can now regrow bone AND cartilage. 

  • NASA: All of the stunning Artemis II photos in one spot. 

  • American Progressives are starting to realize the over-reach of their linguistic authoritarianism. 

  • JD Vance’s Iran War narrative, here. 

  • Vatican verifies false narrative peddled by U.S. “media.”

  • The New Yorker: Inside the fringe online right. 

  • U.S. birthrates dropped about 1% last year. 

  • Living-and-dying with Ben Sasse, listen here. 

  • The (wake-up) playlist from Artemis II. 

  • In praise of the pop-culture contrarians. 

  • Trump’s POTUS library vision starts to take shape. 

  • Amazing: The U.S. murder rate in 2025 was the lowest since…1968. 

  • More good news: Everyone is getting wealthier! 

  • Is Tucker Carlson the non-satirical version of Alex Jones?

  • A reflection on what is wrong with the conversation on ADHD - from a scientist, not a therapist. 

  • Depressing: PEW unpacks US adult reading habits. 

  • Press photo contest, winners, some of which are stunning. 

  • In “high(er) education” the pronoun insanity continues. 

  • Another alleged socialist terrorist caught spreading violence. 

  • The propaganda behind “carrots” (from WWII) still spread in grade schools today. 

  • What does it take to guard the Tomb of the Unknown Solider (watch here)? 

  • Differences between reading habits between the sexes. 

  • Is Germany a third world country at this point?

  • Active slave markets in Africa that apparently no one cares about. 

  • AI:

    • Can Sam Altman be trusted with our future? Asks The New Yorker.

    • Promising signs of using AI for advanced cardiac screening. 

    • Mane joins the CCCP-aligned “no data center” movement. 

    • AI proponents suggest that AI nudges people away from “extremes” compared to Social Media. 

  • CHINA & RUSSIA, IRAN & TERROR:

    • Chinese graft is drawing increasing internal attention. 

    • Chinese execute a Frenchman for drug trafficking. 

    • China evaluates the opportunity to arm, equip efforts to murder U.S. soldiers and Gulf State civilians in the Iran War. 

    • The Islamist war on a free press still has a victim held as hostage. 

    • Islamist Iran commits another war crime - putting civilians next to legitimate war targets (duel-use infrastructure) 

  • COURTS:

  • ECONOMY:

    • Proving CEOs have little to add to the national discourse on public policy, Jamie Dimon has thoughts. 

    • Home mortgage applications dip. 

    • Disney laying of 1,000, mostly marketing, employees 

    • Consumer sentiment tanks. 

    • An unexplained oil boom for US producers. 

  • POLS BEHAVING BADLY:

    Dems

    • Another alleged child-raping Democrat official. 

    • That time a leading Democrat operative advocated for legal bestiality.

    Reps

    • WTF: The federal government is using our tax dollars to fund weed for medicare participants. 

    • Trump challenges ex-MAGA hustlers turned Qatar grifters in a post. 

  • A reminder that beauty is hated by those who value the mediocre:


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