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What is it with guys and guns? Do you think it’s just the sexual association? The constant media din about “being a man”? Too many John Wayne movies? Who knows? I can only tell you what made me a fan. Guns were anathema in my father’s home. On the Pale, marauding Cossacks used guns to shoot at him and his [...]
"Perhaps @Icegov should go check this corner out." That’s how social media influencer and Turning Point USA contributor Savanah Hernandez captioned her October 19, 2025, video on X showing West African vendors selling counterfeit goods on Canal Street. The video has been viewed 5.1 million times. Several days after it went online, ICE agents raided the area and arrested nine [...]
I started freaking out when I saw the vintage coat. It was Saturday, a sunny and unusually warm day, the first day of spring, and I wanted a break from the endless immigrant rights meetings, the sign-making prep for No Kings 3, the bleak New York Times, Free Free Free Palestine, the strictly correct Guardian, the internet in general. I [...]
This excerpt from John O'Connor's new book, A Short, Strange Trip: An Untold Story of Magic Mushrooms, Madness, and a Search for the Meaning of Life in the Amazon (pub date April 14, 2026), explores the peripatetic ways of both the author and his subject, the late American mystic and "psychonaut," Terence Mckenna (1946-2000). McKenna, a countercultural figure in the 1970s who [...]
