‘A gym for the mind’

Every Friday, we make a members’ feature publicly available for the week. For free subscribers: a chance to read in-depth conversations Signal members have unlimited access to. For members: something you can share. This week: Millions more Americans are turning to talk therapy—and unlike previous generations, they’re sticking […]

Signing day

Thursday, Week XLIX, MMXXV Recently: Why are Colombian armed gangs and militias launching so many drone attacks? Robert Hamilton on the new art of war. Today: Congo and Rwanda signed a peace deal in June. Rwandan troops haven’t withdrawn. M23 keeps advancing. Thursday brought another ceremony in Washington—with […]

The Dell-Trump Alliance

The Dell-Trump Alliance Plus: Casino revenue, another Heritage scandal, and more… LIZ WOLFE Is the era of the billionaire philanthropist back? (In fact, had it ever really disappeared, or had our politics just failed to recognize the generosity?) Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, announced […]

The Affordability Con Job

The Affordability Con Job Plus: Tennessee election results, Three Mile Island controversy, immigration enforcement will hit Somali community, and more… LIZ WOLFE Trump off record: Affordability “doesn’t mean anything to anybody,” said President Donald Trump during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting at the White House, saying it’s a “fake […]

X Gets Fined

X Gets Fined Plus: Netflix buys Warner Bros., the tradlife really can be yours, baby slop on YouTube, gender insanity in Oklahoma, and more… LIZ WOLFE European Union slaps Elon Musk on the wrist: As of today, X became the first company to be fined (to the tune […]

Trump’s Threat to Mark Kelly

December 4, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, The latest headlines are dominated by new revelations about the fatal attacks on civilian boats off the coast of South America—particularly the […]

Rethinking the Right – Part IV

by Julius Evola Arktos Journal Dec 05, 2025 In this fourth installment of a series of Julius Evola’s meditations on the postwar Right, the Italian Traditionalist argues that a true Right must be grounded in transcendent and spiritual principles derived from Tradition — the metaphysical order that orients […]

Noahide public executions; Culture & Western Civilization; America & the Hyperstition of ‘Edom’; Israeli/Technocratic geofencing; Christian Zionist ‘martyr’ revivalism; & the new Pagan Panic (Part 1)

Sean Jobst Dec 04, 2025 [I intended this as the third and final installment of my analysis of Kirk’s assassination, but research soon led me in other directions. Yet, more details about the assassination will be weaved throughout as emblematic of this broader zeitgeist. Continued from Part 1 […]

What Do Rules Mean, Anyway?

DECEMBER 5, 2025 Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder → “Pete Hegseth is a murderer,” writes Elie Mystal. “He should be charged with murder for his role in killing unarmed civilians on boats in the Caribbean.”   Mystal is, of course, referring to the fact that since […]

The Military As A Murder Weapon

View in browser The Military As A Murder Weapon No congressional vote. No legal defense. Just a strongman’s madness and missiles. Andrew Sullivan Dec 5 ∙ Paid READ IN APP “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement,“ – George […]

Venezuela Invasion: Iraq War Redux?

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Venezuela Invasion: Iraq War Redux? Kevin Barrett Dec 3 READ IN APP By Kevin Barrett If you’ve been following Trump’s build-up for war on Venezuela, and are experiencing feelings of déjà vu—specifically, the uncanny premonition that it’s 2003 all over again—your […]

Ben Shapiro is the Problem, Not You

by The Right Wing Coalition Arktos Journal Dec 03, 2025 Dissecting Ben Shapiro’s latest comments on young Americans’ economic woes, The Right Wing Coalition points out the establishment right’s reluctance to address systemic problems like immigration, financial exploitation, and government manipulation, reaffirming that economic policies cannot compensate for […]

12/5/25:Bannon Praises Ryan, Hegseth Boat Strikes, Pentagon Press Clowns & MORE!

Ryan, Emily, Griffin and Mac discuss Bannon praising Ryan’s reporting, Hegseth orders new boat strikes, Pentagon press core clowned, Jan 6 pipe bomber, Candace Vs TPUSA, Olivia Nuzzi on Tim Miller. Submit AMA question: https://breakingpoints.locals.com/pos… Mac’s YouTube:    / goodpoliticguy   Griffin: https://x.com/griffinpdavis Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (1:03) Bannon Praising Ryan’s Reporting (5:41) […]

12/4/25: Mass Job Loss, Trump’s Corrupt Pardon, Epstein Island Images, CNN w/Kalshi, Hegseth & MORE!

Krystal and Saagar discuss mass job losses, Trump’s corrupt pardon, insane new Epstein images, Dem special elections, Israeli conference off the rails, CNN partners with Kalshi, Hegseth flails on boat strikes. Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (2:38)MASS Job Loss as Small Businesses GUTTED (20:05)Dem Leader CELEBRATES Trump’s Pardon Of Corrupt Dem […]

Against White Supremacy: Yes, really.

Craig Holly Nov 27, 2025 Respect All Ancestors Here’s something a lot of people don’t want to hear. The same arrogance that white supremacists display towards colored indigenous peoples about how they never invented, wrote, or “did” anything (read: never built empires) can be applied to pre-civilized Europeans. […]

Ah, Good Old War Propaganda

Caitlin Johnstone Dec 01, 2025 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Just as the news breaks that Trump has issued Maduro an ultimatum to leave Venezuela immediately if he wants to escape with his life, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has published an […]

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!

“What can be recovered of the real Jesus and his circumstances?” asks Diarmaid MacCulloch in The New York Review’s Holiday Issue. “The question can never be adequately answered in this sublunary world,” he continues, but two recent books, Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels […]

No One Left Alive

No One Left Alive Plus: Vaccine committee meets, privatizing air traffic control, the digital land as fairytale realm, and more… LIZ WOLFE War crimes cover-up? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is finding his way into trouble due to his handling of the legally suspect Caribbean boat strikes, which have […]

Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu

The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause. Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad Dec 01, 2025 Drop Site is a reader-funded, independent news […]