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2002, "Greater Than The Sum"
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2002, "Memory of the Sky"
So, we rise from the rubble...
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Friday, June 12, 2026
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major) and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon. That corresponds to a diameter of 60 light-years at its estimated distance. The massive star that created the bubble, a Wolf-Rayet star, is the bright one near the center of the nebula. Wolf-Rayet stars have over 20 times the mass of the Sun and are thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova phase of massive star evolution.
Fast winds from this Wolf-Rayet star create the bubble-shaped nebula as they sweep up slower moving material from an earlier phase of evolution. The windblown nebula has an age of about 70,000 years. Relatively faint emission captured by narrowband filters in the deep image is dominated by the glow of ionized oxygen atoms mapped to a blue hue. Presenting a mostly harmless outline, SH2-308 is also known as The Dolphin-head Nebula.”
Native Elder, "Why Every Day Feels the Same After 60"
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Native Elder,
"Why Every Day Feels the Same After 60"
"The Best People Ask Questions"
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"The Best People Ask Questions"
"Some people spend their whole lives trying to sound smart. The wisest people I've ever met did something different. They listened. They asked questions. They stayed curious. They never assumed they already knew everything worth knowing. "The Best People Ask Questions" is a thoughtful Delta blues reflection about humility, curiosity, wisdom, lifelong learning, and the quiet difference between knowledge and understanding. The resonator guitar moves with the patience of an old conversation that never needed to be rushed. The harmonica answers each verse like a thoughtful friend who knows that listening is often more valuable than speaking. The groove stays warm, reflective, deeply human... like a front porch discussion where nobody's trying to win, only understand. This is the blues of curiosity. Not certainty. Curiosity. Wisdom. Lifelong learning. Humility. Listening. Personal growth.Old soul perspective. The smartest person in the room is usually still learning."
The Poet: Mary Oliver, “October”
“October”
"There’s this shape, black as the entrance to a cave.
A longing wells up in its throat
like a blossom
as it breathes slowly.
What does the world
mean to you if you can’t trust it
to go on shining when you’re
not there? and there’s
a tree, long-fallen; once
the bees flew to it, like a procession
of messengers, and filled it
with honey.
I said to the chickadee, singing his heart out in the
green pine tree:
little dazzler
little song,
little mouthful.
The shape climbs up out of the curled grass. It
grunts into view. There is no measure
for the confidence at the bottom of its eyes-
there is no telling
the suppleness of its shoulders as it turns
and yawns.
Near the fallen tree
something - a leaf snapped loose
from the branch and fluttering down - tries to pull me
into its trap of attention.
It pulls me into its trap of attention,
And when I turn again, the bear is gone.
Look, hasn’t my body already felt
like the body of a flower?
Look, I want to love this world
as thought it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get
to be alive and know it.
Sometimes in late summer I won’t touch anything, not
the flowers, not the blackberries
brimming in the thickets; I won’t drink
from the pond; I won’t name the birds or the trees;
I won’t whisper my own name.
One morning
the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident,
and didn’t see me - and I thought:
so this is the world.
I’m not in it.
It is beautiful."
- Mary Oliver
"Famine Is Coming"
"Famine Is Coming"
by Qasem Al-Ali
"70% of American farmers can no longer afford the fertilizer they need. This isn’t a headline from a war zone. This is happening inside the United States. Right now. During planting season. This comes from an official survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation. 5,700+ farmers. All 50 states. Conducted April 3–11, 2026. Not an estimate. Not a projection. A snapshot of American agriculture in real time. Since Hormuz closed, fertilizer prices collapsed any sense of normalcy:
- Urea: +49%
- UAN: +38%
- NH3: +32%
- Farm diesel: +46%
Farmers don’t set these prices. They just pay them. The South is bleeding the most. 80% of Southern farmers can’t afford full fertilizer applications. Only 19% locked in prices before the season. Compare that to 67% in the Midwest who pre-booked.
Timing saved some. Geography punished others. 94% of farmers say their financial situation has gotten worse or stayed the same vs. last year. Only 6% improved. The farm economy isn’t struggling. It’s breaking.
Hormuz didn’t just close a shipping lane. It closed the margin between profit and loss for millions of American farmers. Less fertilizer = lower yields = less food. The grocery bill shock hasn’t arrived yet. It’s still growing in the field.
Oil has OPEC. Oil has futures markets. Oil has headlines. Food has nothing. No cartel to manage supply. No sovereign fund to absorb the shock. No prime-time coverage. When oil gets expensive, markets panic. When food gets expensive, the poor starve. That’s the difference nobody is talking about."
“Nine Meals from Anarchy”
“Nine Meals from Anarchy”
by Jeff Thomas
“In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people as disparate as Robert Heinlein and Leon Trotsky. The key here is that, unlike all other commodities, food is the one essential that cannot be postponed. If there were a shortage of, say, shoes, we could make do for months or even years. A shortage of gasoline would be worse, but we could survive it, through mass transport, or even walking, if necessary.
But food is different. If there were an interruption in the supply of food, fear would set in immediately. And, if the resumption of the food supply were uncertain, the fear would become pronounced. After only nine missed meals, it’s not unlikely that we’d panic and be prepared to commit a crime to acquire food. If we were to see our neighbor with a loaf of bread, and we owned a gun, we might well say, “I’m sorry, you’re a good neighbor and we’ve been friends for years, but my children haven’t eaten today – I have to have that bread – even if I have to shoot you.”
So, let’s have a closer look at the actual food distribution industry, compare it to the present direction of the economy and see whether there might be reason for concern.
The food industry typically operates on very small margins – often below 2%. Traditionally wholesalers and retailers have relied on a two-week turnaround of supply and anywhere up to a 30-day payment plan. But an increasing tightening of the economic system for the last eight years has resulted in a turnaround time of just three days for both supply and payment for many in the industry. This is a system that’s already under sever pressure, and has no further wiggle room should it take significant further hits.
If there were a month where significant inflation took place (say, 3%), all profits would be lost for the month, for both suppliers and retailers, but goods could still be replaced and sold for a higher price next month. But, if there were three or more consecutive months of inflation, the industry would be unable to bridge the gap, even if better conditions were expected to develop in future months. A failure to pay in full for several months would mean smaller orders by those who could not pay. That would mean fewer goods on the shelves. The longer the inflationary trend continued, the more quickly prices would rise to hopefully offset the inflation. And ever-fewer items on the shelves.
From Germany in 1922, to Argentina in 2000, to Venezuela in 2016, this has been the pattern, whenever inflation has become systemic, rather than sporadic. Each month, some stores close, beginning with those that are the most poorly-capitalized. In good economic times, this would mean more business for those stores that were still solvent, but, in an inflationary situation, they would be in no position to take on more unprofitable business. The result is that the volume of food on offer at retailers would decrease at a pace with the severity of the inflation.
However, the demand for food would not decrease by a single loaf of bread. Store closings would be felt most immediately in inner cities, when one closing would send customers to the next neighborhood, seeking food. The real danger would come when that store had also closed and both neighborhoods descended on a third store in yet another neighborhood. That’s when one loaf of bread for every three potential purchasers would become worth killing over. Virtually no one would long tolerate seeing his children go without food because others had “invaded” his local supermarket.
In addition to retailers, the entire industry would be impacted and, as retailers disappeared, so would suppliers, and so on, up the food chain. This would not occur in an orderly fashion, or in one specific area. The problem would be a national one. Closures would be all over the map, seemingly at random, affecting all areas. Food riots would take place, first in the inner cities, then spread to other communities. Buyers, fearful of shortages, would clean out the shelves.
Importantly, it’s the very unpredictability of food delivery that increases fear, creating panic and violence. And, again, none of the above is speculation; it’s an historical pattern – a reaction based upon human nature whenever systemic inflation occurs.
Then… unfortunately… the cavalry arrives. At that point it would be very likely that the central government would step in and issue controls to the food industry that served political needs, rather than business needs, greatly exacerbating the problem. Suppliers would be ordered to deliver to those neighborhoods where the riots were the worst, even if those retailers were unable to pay. This would increase the number of closings of suppliers. Along the way, truckers would begin to refuse to enter troubled neighborhoods and the military might well be brought in to force deliveries to take place.
So what would it take for the above to occur? Well, historically, it has always begun with excessive debt. We know that the debt level is now the highest it has ever been in world history. In addition, the stock and bond markets are in bubbles of historic proportions. They are most certainly popping.
With a crash in the markets, deflation always follows, as people try to unload assets to cover for their losses. The Federal Reserve (and other central banks) has stated that it will unquestionably print as much money as it takes to counter deflation. Unfortunately, inflation has a far greater effect on the price of commodities than assets. Therefore, the prices of commodities will rise dramatically, further squeezing the purchasing power of the consumer, thereby decreasing the likelihood that he will buy assets, even if they’re bargain-priced. Therefore, asset-holders will drop their prices repeatedly, as they become more desperate. The Fed then prints more to counter the deeper deflation and we enter a period when deflation and inflation are increasing concurrently.
Historically, when this point has been reached, no government has ever done the right thing. They have, instead, done the very opposite – keep printing. Food still exists, but retailers shut down because they cannot pay for goods. Suppliers shut down because they’re not receiving payments from retailers. Producers cut production because sales are plummeting.
In every country that has passed through such a period, the government has eventually gotten out of the way, and the free market has prevailed, re-energizing the industry and creating a return to normal. The question is not whether civilization will come to an end. (It will not.) The question is the liveability of a society that is experiencing a food crisis, as even the best of people are likely to panic and become a potential threat to anyone who is known to store a case of soup in his cellar.
Fear of starvation is fundamentally different from other fears of shortages. Even good people panic. In such times, it’s advantageous to be living in a rural setting, as far from the centre of panic as possible. It’s also advantageous to store food in advance that will last for several months, if necessary. However, even these measures are no guarantee, as, today, modern highways and efficient cars make it easy for anyone to travel quickly to where the goods are. The ideal is to be prepared to sit out the crisis in a country that will be less likely to be impacted by dramatic inflation – where the likelihood of a food crisis is low and basic safety is more assured.”
"Even The Mainstream Media Is Admitting That The Coming Global Food Crisis Has Now Arrived"
"Even The Mainstream Media Is Admitting
That The Coming Global Food Crisis Has Now Arrived"
by Michael Snyder
"We have been warned for a long time that a nightmarish global food crisis was coming. We are facing an unprecedented fertilizer shortage, extremely high diesel prices and long-term droughts in many of the most important food producing regions of the world, and now a “Super El Niño” is in the forecast. So a lot of experts have been projecting that we would experience a very serious global food crisis beginning in the second half of this year, but the truth is that it is already here.
In fact, even the mainstream media is openly admitting that it is already here. The following comes from a Telegraph article entitled “The hunger crisis experts warned about is here – and it’s about to get worse”… Pregnant women in Kabul, sheep-herders outside of Modigushi, the urban-poor in Colombo. As the war in Iran passes 100 days, these are the people on the front line of a new hunger crisis.
Months ago, the UN cautioned that a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz would push millions into hunger; now they say their worst fears are materializing. A report produced by the World Food Program (WFP), the UN’s food-assistance branch, found that 45 million additional people now face “critical” levels of food insecurity as a direct result of the war in the Gulf.
Officials with the World Food Program are having an “I told you so” moment. They warned that if the Strait of Hormuz did not get reopened this would happen, and now they are being proven correct… “We told the world the closure of the Strait was going to have a massive impact,” Dr Jean-Martin Bauer, the World Food Program’s director of food security analysis, told The Telegraph. “There have been impacts on energy markets, on trade, on shipping, and all these are combining to create this cost of living crisis affecting millions of people.”
In impoverished nations all over the planet, hunger is rapidly growing. For example, just consider what has been going on in Somalia…"The proportion of Somali households that can no longer afford what the UN calls the “basic food basket” – things like cooking oil and grains – has risen from 47 to 60 per cent in late 2025, according to the WFP’s analysis." It means ultimately an additional 2.5 million people in Somalia could be unable to afford a basic food basket by the end of the year.
Of course this is just the beginning. Globally, a lot less nitrogen fertilizer will be used this year as a result of the crisis in the Middle East, and one UN official is telling us that the effect this is having on food production is becoming “increasingly visible”…"The greatest risk of the Strait of Hormuz closure for the agri-food industry is not an immediate food shortage, but a fertilizer and production shock. This was the opinion of the UN FAO’s director-general, Qu Dongyu, speaking at the 181st Session of the FAO Council (June 8–12). As the crisis hit its 100-day mark, he said the effects of the crisis on farmers globally are “increasingly visible.”
Dongyu gave recommendations for countries to address the impacts of the Strait of Hormuz crisis, particularly “the urgent need for efficient fertilizer use” as global agri-food systems face “unprecedented challenges.” Farmers across Asia, Africa, and Latin America are grappling with higher production costs and “difficult choices regarding fertilizer use and crop decisions,” he said." It really doesn’t matter if the U.S. and Iran can reach some sort of an agreement now or not. The damage that has been done to the spring planting season in the northern hemisphere is irreversible at this stage.
And now a “Super El Niño” is coming. In fact, the beginning of El Niño conditions has been confirmed in the equatorial waters of the Pacific Ocean… A long-anticipated and dramatic global climate shift has arrived, federal forecasters said June 11 as they confirmed the start of El Niño conditions. The announcement also adds to mounting evidence suggesting this El Niño will be unusually strong, potentially supercharging droughts, heavy rainfall events and heat waves. Now we shall wait to see how strong this El Niño will become. Many are forecasting that it will be the strongest El Niño of all time, and if that turns out to be the case global food shortages will almost certainly get a whole lot worse.
Here in the United States, “a drier, warmer summer” is expected for the major food producing areas in our heartland… There is potential for a drier, warmer summer across the Northwest, northern Plains, and the Upper Midwest, prolonging ongoing drought in some areas and increasing wildfire risk, according to AccuWeather. Overall, El Niño increases the chances of above-average temperatures across the northern and western United States.
We are already in the midst of an epic multi-year drought. How much drier can things possibly get? Unfortunately, conditions are expected to be exceedingly dry in other “breadbaskets” around the world too. So brace yourself for much higher prices for wheat, corn, rice and barley in the months ahead.
This will have a dramatic impact in poor countries all over the planet, but it will also significantly affect us here in the United States too. According to a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, we have already been witnessing a “remarkable increase in food insecurity” among low income U.S. households…"A new economic report identified a “remarkable” rise in food insecurity, potentially explaining gloomy consumer outlooks despite strong economic fundamentals.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released a report on Wednesday identifying uncertain access to adequate food and consumer pessimism on the rise in certain vulnerable groups across the country. The report, which relies on newly collected data from the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE), found a “remarkable increase in food insecurity, particularly among lower-educated and lower-income households and households with young children.” It also identified “a contemporaneous increase in pessimism among the same groups, along with a sharp decline in job-finding expectations.”
If food prices continue to soar, what is that going to mean for millions of U.S. households that already struggle to put food on the table? I wish that I could get more people to understand that this is really happening. In this generation, we have never seen as much hunger among low income U.S. households as we are witnessing now, and the truth is that conditions are going to get a whole lot worse. There is no magic button that can be pushed that is going to fix this. The food crisis that we were all warned about has arrived, and the vast majority of the population is completely unprepared for it."
Bill Bonner, "I ❤ Inflation"
"I ❤ Inflation"
by Bill Bonner
“I love it. The numbers were great.
You know what I really love? I love the inflation.”
- Donald Trump
Youghal, Ireland - "MSN reports: "US oil reserves sink to 22-year low as Hormuz crisis deepens. Crude oil inventories in the United States decreased by 8.0 million barrels during the week ending May 29, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The decrease brings commercial stockpiles to 433.7 million barrels, according to government data, which is now 3% below the five-year average for this time of year. The EIA’s data release follows API’s figures that were released a day earlier, which reported that crude oil inventories saw a draw of 6.75 million barrels in the period."
Mr. Trump does not commute to work in a pick-up. Were he a normal working stiff, with an honest income, inflation might not be so agreeable. Nexstar: "Americans are paying, on average, 27 cents more for a gallon of gas since Sunday, data from AAA shows. That increase was partially fueled by a 10-cent jump that happened overnight Monday into Tuesday, the largest single-day rise since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Taking a longer view, in January of this year, a gallon of gas cost about $2.60. Today, it’s $4.30. That’s $1.70 more. The average commuter logs 37 miles per day, 13,500 per year. At an average of 25 miles per gallon, this means he is paying almost $1,000 more per year. Not a big number, if you’re a Trump. But if you’re an average worker, you earn about $50,000 and, after taxes and health insurance, take home about $40,000.
At $4.30 a gallon, your driving costs you $2,300....not to mention the costs of the vehicle itself. And if you stop for a coffee and a donut, it will be another $1,700 or so, per year...leaving you with only $36,000 to live on.
But Mr. Trump assures us that the war will be over soon. And then gas prices will drop ‘like a rock.’ CBS: “And now we’re in the final throes of what will be a very very good deal that will not allow any way shape or form nuclear weapons,” Mr. Trump told reporters after attending the third game of the NBA Finals at New York’s Madison Square Garden. “And the strait will open up right away. It will open up immediately upon signing, which could be in two or three days.”
By our count, since March 1st, that was the 23rd time he has said the war would soon be over. We have our doubts. The International Energy Agency: "With Hormuz tanker traffic still restricted, cumulative supply losses from Gulf producers already exceed 1 billion barrels with more than 14 mb/d of oil now shut in, an unprecedented supply shock."
Semafor: "The US oil industry has dwindling options to offset losses from the shuttered Strait of Hormuz. …Since the Iran war began, US oil exports have reached a record high and have helped stave off extreme global price spikes. But the precipitous drawdown since March essentially erases the stockpile built up since the 2010s shale boom."
Higher prices, such as they are, cause ‘demand destruction,’ where people simply decide to drive less. That helps to hold down prices too. Informed Comment: "The IEA says that in Q2, ending June 30, world demand for petroleum will be down by 2.45 million barrels a day....People are just using less petroleum because it is more expensive than it was before the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28. In the US, gasoline is up by 35% to 50%. In Europe, diesel, which runs trucks, was the equivalent of $6.78 a gallon in February, and is now $8.02 per gallon (€1.82 per liter). If you are running a fleet of trucks over thousands of miles, that is a huge loss, and you might consolidate and cut out less remunerative routes."
You can cut the fat, but pretty soon you reach the muscle. Informed Comment describes what happens next: "Airlines have cancelled tens of thousands of flights and ticket prices have risen, so some passengers are cancelling or postponing trips. Trucks deliver goods to retail stores, so prices of commodities have gone up, and some customers have put off buying things they don’t desperately need right now. If the retailer doesn’t sell a product, it doesn’t order more, so the trucks don’t roll as often. And if the goods aren’t selling, the factories scale back production, so they use less petroleum, too."
We don’t want to start a panic, but there’s bound to be some kind of hazard on the road ahead. And this could be it: an oil slick. Even if the Strait of Hormuz were opened tomorrow, it would still take months for oil inventories to recover. The US economy depends on cheap gas…and cheap credit. Both could become much more costly. Stay tuned..."
Jeremiah Babe, "2008 All Over Again - Prices At Grocery Stores Going Bananas"
Jeremiah Babe, 6/12/26
"2008 All Over Again -
Prices At Grocery Stores Going Bananas"
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Judge Napolitano, "INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern - Weekly Wrap 12-June"
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 6/12/26
"INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern -
Weekly Wrap 12-June"
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John Wilder, "Just Look At What You’ve Started!"
"Just Look At What You’ve Started!"
by John Wilder
"I find myself, time and again, beginning work that I know I will never see completed. My time here is finite. That fact sits in the background of everything, the ticking clock. Still, I keep launching projects where the meaningful results, if they arrive at all, will show up long after I am gone. Sometimes the gap stretches into decades or even centuries. The work starts now because the window for starting is now, even when the finish line sits on the other side of my own existence.
An example of that is the oldest written joke that we know, which is a flatulence joke. It’s not even a good joke. Heck, it’s so bad it’s not even Amy Schumer-tier. But we know it. And it was a seed planted, thousands of years ago. A proverb captures the feeling cleanly. It is often traced to ancient Greek sources: a society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit. The personal version lands just as directly. I am planting metaphorical trees under whose shade I will never metaphorically sit. Or fart. Or whatever.
Having children supplies one clear case where we build that future. Earlier generations treated reproduction as something that largely happened without deliberate long-range planning: a Saturday night and a bottle of wine and, boom, Julius Caesar was born nine months later and was off invading Gaul nine months after that. Biology and circumstance and the Roman Legions carried most of the load. Today the choice sits in the open.
I began a project whose success or failure will play out across lives that extend well past mine. The uncertainties related to having children arrive immediately, and stay. What sort of people will they become? What attitudes will they carry into whatever conditions they meet? How much of what I do now will actually matter when they make their own choices? Will the daily work of guidance and example turn out to have been enough? What sort of impact will they have on the lives of others?
These questions do not come with easy answers. I did it anyway, fully knowing that large parts of the outcome lie outside any direct observation I will ever have. I’m tossing a message in a bottle into the sea, and one day it will drift beyond my sight.
My writing here forms another example. Each idea or observation I write down moves outward like a ripple from a stone dropped in still water. Some ripples weaken quickly and vanish as distance grows from the initial perturbation. Other of my ripples cross paths with ripples started elsewhere and produce new patterns through interference in the brains of people I’ll never meet.
A smaller number may strengthen when surrounding conditions line up: when an idea meets receptive minds or aligns with events already in motion. I have no reliable way to track the final shape any of this takes. Has any portion of it improved the world in any way? I cannot measure that from inside.
What I can control is the attempt to keep what I write aligned with observable reality as closely as possible. The results are not always Beautiful. They are not always Good. They simply aim to stay as True as I can make them. When I’m lucky, they’re two of the three. When I’m very lucky, they’re all three.
Stepping back gives me yet another perspective. A single human life occupies almost no space against the age of the Universe. The cosmos we can observe remains young even by its own standards. Some red dwarfs carry enough fuel supplies to keep them burning for trillions of years, which is slightly longer than The Simpsons has been on TV. Distant descendants, if any exist at that scale, might live under skies lit by those dim red suns and occasionally consider their own origins.
Far more likely, the timescales involved would have erased any specific memory of earlier generations. The thread of continuity will be stretched to the utmost at that great depth of time and only the most basic, the greatest of what is Beautiful, Good and True will remain.
Yet, I keep starting these projects. I keep choosing to begin work whose completion sits beyond my time on Earth. I try to retell stories that are older than any living man, stories of our history, of self-reliance, of bravery, of what is best in being human. The way I tell those stories is imperfect and incomplete, but it’s just another tree planted without expectation of sitting under the finished shade.
Perhaps, at some vastly later point, whatever remains of humanity will retain at least a trace of humor about the whole arrangement and maybe a ripple from this time will impact them. That possibility, however small, supplies its own quiet justification for continuing to drop stones into the water. Besides, farting is intrinsically funny, and if my fart joke survives a trillion years, well, that really would be a blast from the past."
"Americans Are Moving Into Their Cars to Escape the Cost of Living Crisis"
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The Unfolded States, 6/12/26
"Americans Are Moving Into Their Cars
to Escape the Cost of Living Crisis"
"What does affordable housing in America look like today? For a growing number of people, it looks like the back seat of a sedan, a minivan in a parking lot, or a van parked overnight outside a grocery store. Across the United States, more Americans are turning to vehicle living as rising rent, higher insurance costs, inflation, and wage pressure make traditional housing increasingly difficult to afford. In this video, we break down why the cost of living crisis is pushing working Americans toward living in cars, vans, and SUVs. This is not just about homelessness in the traditional sense. More and more, it involves employed workers, retirees, gig workers, and even people with multiple jobs who are still struggling to maintain stable housing.
We explore the economic forces behind this shift, including housing affordability, rising monthly expenses, and the shrinking financial buffer of middle- and working-class households. We also examine what daily life inside a vehicle actually looks like - from finding safe places to park and sleep, to managing food, hygiene, safety, and the constant mental stress of survival. While some see vehicle living as freedom or financial flexibility, others view it as a warning sign of deeper structural problems in the American housing market. Do you think living in a vehicle is a smart adaptation to a changing economy, or a sign that the housing system is under growing strain? Share your thoughts in the comments."
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Adventures With Danno, "Massive Changes At Dollar Tree"
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Adventures With Danno, 6/12/26
"Massive Changes At Dollar Tree"
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Thursday, June 11, 2026
"The Light Beyond The Familiar"
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Walter’s Puppet Box,
"The Light Beyond The Familiar"
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Planetary nebula Abell 78 stands out in this colorful telescopic skyscape. In fact the colors of the spiky Milky Way stars depend on their surface temperatures, both cooler (yellowish) and hotter (bluish) than the Sun. But Abell 78 shines by the characteristic emission of ionized atoms in the tenuous shroud of material shrugged off from an intensely hot central star. The atoms are ionized, their electrons stripped away, by the central star's energetic but otherwise invisible ultraviolet light.
The visible blue-green glow of loops and filaments in the nebula's central region corresponds to emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms, surrounded by strong red emission from electrons recombining with hydrogen atoms. Some 5,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Cygnus, Abell 78 is about three light-years across. A planetary nebula like Abell 78 represents a very brief final phase in stellar evolution that our own Sun will experience... in about 5 billion years.”
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