Author: nick

The Difference Between LGBT and Queer is a Revolutionary One

Investigative Reports

Joe is a gay man. A real swell guy who parts his hair down the side, says his prayers, and pays his taxes. He just so happens to suck cock. Well, one cock at least; his husband’s cock. They’ve been married for almost twenty years, have two adopted Filipino children, a labradoodle, and a mid-century craftsman with a white picket fence in the suburbs. Joe is also an usher at the local Lutheran church, works 9-to-5 for a Fortune 500 company and votes blue no matter who. Joe is LGBT, but he isn’t Queer. Sue isn’t quite sure what the…

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Securing Peace with Iran Compels Trump to Divorce Israel

Media Bias

After President Donald Trump signed a preliminary Iran peace deal on Wednesday, Israel’s occupation and bombing of Lebanon presents the central obstacle to a final agreement and lasting peace. Securing and upholding the final peace deal will require the kind of confrontation with Israel that Trump has avoided for most of his presidency, given Iran’s leverage over the Strait of Hormuz and global energy flows. Iran has insisted that the ceasefire and now the framework peace deal cover the entire regional war and thus require that Israel end its occupation of southern Lebanon. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council declared Monday…

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Trump, the Democrats and the Courage To End a Failed War

Geopolitics & War

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. I have spent years fighting against Trump’s push toward war with Iran, and I have the scars to prove it. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, I warned that it would eventually bring us to this moment. Ever since, I have consistently argued against the confrontational path he set the United States on. That record speaks for itself, which is why I can say what follows without any throat-clearing. Given the circumstances, President Trump’s decision to strike a deal with Tehran and bring this costly, unnecessary war to an end is…

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Why It Is So Problematic and What Might Be Done About It

Political Spin

I have written quite a bit about Judge Ross’s extrajudicial activities. I’ve also written how the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council, and Chief Judge Pryor in particular, have handled this issue. Last Friday, I raised some questions about how Judge Pryor addressed Judge Ross’s apology letter: How does Chief Judge Pryor have this authority? Did the other (unnamed) members of the Council agree to this plan? Moreover, it seems that Pryor decided not to investigate Ross further based on her making her private reprimand into a public reprimand. How does he have that authority? Judge Ross would have never consented to…

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Ranked: The Hardest Languages for English Speakers to Learn

Conspiracy Theories

Ranked: The Hardest Languages for English Speakers to Learn This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key Takeaways: Languages like Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch typically require 24–30 weeks of study for English speakers to reach professional working proficiency. Languages such as Russian, Hindi, Turkish, and Vietnamese take about 44 weeks, nearly twice as long as the easiest group. Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean require about 88 weeks of study, making them the most difficult languages for English speakers to learn. For English speakers,…

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