Sunday Reads...
- Greg McNeilly
- Apr 26
- 3 min read
An irregular roundup of thought-provoking reads. Most made me go “hmm…”
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"It is of the utmost importance to launch a geopolitical chaos in the domestic life of the United States … to encourage all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts by supporting all kinds of dissident movements—extremists groups, racist and sectarian ones, who will destabilize the domestic political process of the U.S. At the same time, we will support the isolationist tendencies in American politics, even if this isolationism is being implemented through the frame of the original Monroe doctrine. This does not mean that Eurasia should refuse to destabilize the Latin-American world. All level of geopolitical pressures on the U.S. should be applied simultaneously." - Alexander Dugin, Putin’s advisor
Nearly 10% of U.S. infants are “anchor babies,” apparently.
A lament: Of the death of the movie tagline.
Average college graduate on pace to have $43,000 in student obligations.
Mentally ill: Apparently, some believe that words harm.
Visualizing trust in the Federal Reserve.
Education: Why skepticism is warranted with government k12 “graduation rates.”
Unpacking collective narcissism.
American liberals are 3x more likely to see the State of Israel - the Middle East’s only democracy - as an “enemy.”
Biggest victims? Apparently, middle-class women have a beef.
12 million illegal immigrants flood into Europe, visualized.
Nebraska reaches an agreement with the DOJ to end illegal immigrants’ in-state tuition rates.
Government engagement with American healthcare - ever on the rise - correlates with incredibly poor trends for patients, apparently.
Sad: Study suggests that 2 out of 5 people cut off family over politics.
Broadcast radio listening drops to an all-time low per this study.
Inside the competitive world of “rock, paper, scissors,” because of course there is one.
UBI is dumb.
Hate: The history of the SPLC unpacked
Inside Jeff Bezos annual “campfire” retreat.
A month “offline” is the digital “dry January,” apparently.
The last 20 years of streamed Spotify music revealed.
Palatir presents a “manifesto.”
Visualizing rent rates.
A bracket of “movies” adapted from a book, here.
The government’s response to COVID has lasting negative consequences, per the collection of this data.
Let’s make English American our official language.
AI:
CHINA & RUSSIA, IRAN & TERROR:
China’s hopes of overtaking the USA by GDP measure seems to be in free fall!
Putin admits Russia’s economy is in trouble.
The Islamic regime of Iran hates women; enough already.
NYT: Russia has vastly improved its military capabilities (contrary to Western perceptions).
China blocks airspace for Taiwanese officials' air travel.
China’s CATL claims it has a battery that charges in 7 minutes.
COURTS:
Large law firm found guilty of using AI on court filings.
Justice Keagan reportedly is the “meanie” on the bench.
ECONOMY:
Nike cut 1,400 jobs.
POLS BEHAVING BADLY:
Dems
Democrat students continue their near-Nazi level hatred of Jews.
Democratic voters have lost their pride in America - apparently.
American Friends of Hezbollah - also known as the Michigan Democrat Party - has some explaining to do.
SPLC is indicted by the DOJ for using 501 (c) (3) donor dollars to fund hate-group operations, allegedly.
The growing pro-terrorist, anti-Jews wing of the Democrat Party apparently also makes up stuff in an attempt to rewrite history.
Another immoral Democrat advocating lawlessness and violence.
Reps
Ex-Labor Secretary has some explaining to do.
TRAVEL:
Revisiting the four principles of the Monroe Doctrine. President Monroe’s special address, here.
John D. Roceknfeller's story is remembered by the LOC here.
Recalling the real Moby Dick Mocha Dick.
What does it take to make a new antibiotic? Think: 5,480 days and $1,000,000,000.
Uncovering the need for blankets in the quest for human sleep.
A site that provides a live track of all the satellites in space.
Even mummys know, the best story ever is the Iliad - recently found in an Egyptian tomb.
WSJ: Why everyone hates the Ivy League.
