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Chances are like most grieving Americans, you took some time today to mourn and give a send-off to South Carolina demon, Lindsey Graham, whose funeral was today.
We’re going to miss all the wars, killings, and mayhem he had a hand in bringing to the world during his brief stint here on clown show Earth.
I’m sure you too almost cried when celebrating the start of the Iran War, just as Lindsey did.
I Almost Cried’: Unreleased Documentary Footage Shows Lindsey Graham Celebrating Start of Iran War – antiwar.com
Footage from an unreleased documentary about the late Lindsey Graham shows the notoriously hawkish senator celebrating the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran just days after the bombing campaign started.
“Look what we’ve done here. I almost cried. How long have we been pushing this?” a laughing Graham is heard saying in the footage, released by Alex Holder, a filmmaker granted extensive access to the South Carolina senator in the years leading up to his death.
Oh Lordy…we’ll miss him. But of course, the wars will continue with or without the South Carolina peach.
On a lighter note…
How Total Surveillance Conquered the Last Sanctuary of Human Privacy
Your bedroom has been listening for years. Not metaphorically — quite literally. While you slept, while you loved, while you whispered secrets to partners in the dark, the devices you invited inside for “convenience” were recording, analyzing, transmitting. That smart speaker on your nightstand heard you breathe. Your WiFi router mapped your movements through walls. The phone charging beside your pillow tracked your REM cycles, your midnight tossing, your 3 AM anxieties.
All of it flowed through fiber optic veins into climate-controlled bunkers where analysts sift through domestic lives like archaeologists studying extinct species — except you’re very much alive, still walking, still paying monthly subscriptions for the privilege of being monitored.
This is the unvarnished reality of existence in 2026: privacy didn’t merely erode — it was systematically dismantled, commodified, and fed into machine learning systems that predict your behavior before you conceive the thought. Eight billion souls now exist beneath an invisible dome of perpetual observation, each breath monitored, each heartbeat catalogued, each flicker of dissent intercepted before consciousness fully forms it.
Ain’t that some dainty bullshit.
Related:
REVEALED: AI Companies MASS SHREDDING Rare Books, and ‘Data Center Alley’ Causes Widespread Blackout Surge in Virginia. (22 minutes)
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Aram Khachaturian: Waltz, from “Masquerade” Suite Yuri Simonov, conductor – Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Dispatches from the Asylum 