Week 9, 44 to go. Might we get one week, just one, that doesn't have some form of major chaos or existential calamity floating in my timeline? War with Iran in 2026 is inane no matter which way you are looking at the issue, there is nothing to gain and a lot to lose. So we have:
1. ICE running around rampant untrained and uncontrolled like regular police.
2. Further attacks on civil liberties.
3. "Age Verification" Laws that require chucking the 4th amendment out the window.
4. Gaming platforms are dead.
5. Epstein.
6. School and politically motivated killings continue.
7. A President associated with a pedophile and found to be in his roster of acquaintances.
8. Rogue FBI agents.
9. Mass layoffs.
10. Apple releasing a budget laptop.
11. Internet enshittification is in hyperdrive.
12. AI hype is like a drug.
13. We're finding out kids can't read or write or pay attention for more than 30 seconds at a time and by kids I mean all the way to undergrad.
14. BAFTA invite a guy with Tourette's to their awards show and he does what's a guy with Tourette's will do and then no one apologizes to the gentlemen accosted and demeaned. They even keep the slur in the actual footage but edit out commentary on a Free Palestine.
15. The place known as Palestine is rubble and a real life famine and genocide are still going on.
16. Same thing is happening in Sudan.
17. Congo continues in shambles.
18. There is SLAVERY still going on in Lebanon and Yemen.
19. Cuba in a death spiral.
20. Haiti is even worse?!
21. Venezuela in a death spiral.
It's just like come onnnnn, I could list 100 things that have happened over the last 9 weeks and not a hint of real societal progress?! What are we doing?