by MootMuteSeptember 21, 2025 Moot Mute (Best Of).mp3Moot Mute (Best Of).mp4Moot Mute.mp3 Moot Mute.mp4 The new release of the day, “Mootmute,” was born from the flood of questions I keep hearing: “What can I do?” in the middle of this growing sense of helplessness and hopelessness. My answer? Focus on your strengths. Build a strong […]
Category Archives: Society
Words as Swords: Fighting Tyranny with Satire
PSA: Killing Humor Isn’t Funny
by C. MooreSeptember 20, 2025 The Death of the First Amendment: Trump’s War on Free Speech As an investigative journalist with decades of experience defending the First Amendment, I’ve endured more than my share of danger. My life has been threatened, my family targeted. I’ve been assaulted by both criminals and police, fined, arrested, jailed, […]
The Death of the First Amendment: Trump’s War on Free Speech
As an investigative journalist with decades of experience defending the First Amendment, I’ve faced more than my share of danger. My life has been threatened, my family targeted, I’ve been assaulted by both criminals and police. I’ve been fined, arrested, jailed, and dragged through years of court battles. But I have never seen anything as […]
Subjectivism 101: Why Charlie Kirk’s “Opinions” Aren’t Opinions
by Daniel Brouse September 15, 2025 Subjectivism is the philosophical stance that reality, knowledge, or morality is dependent on the individual subject’s perception, consciousness, or experience, rather than on an objective, independent external reality. In essence, “truth” is seen as subjective and varies from person to person or culture to culture. There are different forms, […]
U.S. Threatens Tariffs and Sanctions to Undermine U.N. Marine Fuel Emissions Deal
The United States has reportedly warned countries to reject a United Nations–brokered agreement aimed at reducing marine fuel emissions—or face punitive tariffs, visa restrictions, and additional port levies, according to U.S. and European officials familiar with the matter. The U.N. initiative, designed to curb the shipping industry’s significant contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, has […]
Texas-Sized Climate Change
by Daniel Brouse September 3, 2025 The CO₂ Coalition released a report titled “Texas and Climate Change: No Climate Crisis in the Lone Star State,” making a series of sweeping claims: that Texas has experienced no “unprecedented or unusual” warming despite rising atmospheric CO₂, and that current temperatures are comparable to those over a century […]
Health and Quality of Life in Florida
by Daniel Brouse September 3, 2025 Florida faces mounting challenges in health, education, and climate resilience—each reinforcing the state’s declining quality of life. Life ExpectancyFlorida’s life expectancy has fallen sharply. Recent estimates put it at ~77.5 years, down from 79 in 2019, with COVID-19 and drug overdoses driving much of the decline. The state now […]
Runaway Climate Feedbacks and Systemic Collapse
Daniel Brouse and Sidd MukherjeeSeptember 3, 2025 Our probabilistic, ensemble-based climate model — incorporating complex socio-economic and ecological feedback loops within a dynamic, nonlinear system — projects that global temperatures could rise by as much as 9°C (16.2°F) within this century. This far exceeds earlier estimates, which predicted a 4°C rise over the next thousand […]
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Key Trump Tariffs, Deepening Trade Uncertainty
by Daniel Brouse On August 29, 2025, heading into the Labor Day holiday weekend, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. delivered a major ruling: most of President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs, along with a separate set imposed earlier this year, are illegal. The decision represents both a constitutional challenge […]
Sea Level Denial vs. Climate Reality: The Accelerating Collapse of Ice Sheets and Ocean Circulation
by Daniel BrouseAugust 29, 2025 Here’s an example response you can use when confronting a climate denier—this one addresses the accelerating rise in sea levels and the collapse of the AMOC. The climate denier said to me: “What an absolute load of BS. Sea level hasn’t changed to ANY verifiable degree in 2,000 years. Sit […]