This Fucking Guy: Leander Perez

Wilson hid behind appointees. Mississippi hid behind file cabinets. Leander Perez didn't hide behind anything, he ran two Louisiana parishes like a personal kingdom, built a snake-infested prison out of spite, and got excommunicated for being too much even for the Catholic Church.

Music: Eric Gales doing his thang

Eric Gale brings da' FIRE. A medley for the ages.

July 26, 2026 - Week in Review

A bit slower of a week, but after listening to the outstanding podcast "Weird Little Men" – part of the Cool Zone Media ecosystem – that covered the racist shitbag, Byron de la Beckwith (the fucker that shot Medgar Evers in 1963) that really piqued my interest in the singularity

The Franchise: How Mississippi's Spy Agency Got Copied Statewide

Mississippi built a taxpayer-funded spy agency to crush the civil rights movement, then watched Louisiana and Alabama copy the homework. Georgia skipped the espionage and just staged a fake listening tour instead. Same con, three costumes.

The Vague Progressive: Wilson, Race, and the Cost of Breathing Your Own Exhaust

Woodrow Wilson promised Black America a seat at the table, then had his cabinet quietly move the table to a different room. A hundred years later, progressives are still doing the "quietly move the room" trick — they've just gotten better at calling it strategy instead of segregation.

The Uptown Klan

Economic terrorism with a rotary club newsletter: how Mississippi's 'moderate' segregationists built the farm system for a murder.

The Fulcrum

In 1954 Mississippi built a segregationist club so extreme even its own founders told one guy to tone it down. Then the state gave him a job application for a spy agency. This is how a Supreme Court ruling armed both sides of a war.

July 18, 2026 - The Week in Review

Posts from the week of July 13 - 18

The Billionaire Victims Club, Coda: The Man Who Needed to Be First

My favorite fucker, Elon Musk, needs another look as we close out the second season of the BVC

The Barnacle Archetype

Donor-class preferences enter the All-In podcast as private consensus, exit as public analysis, and arrive at the policy table already formatted for legislative language. It's not a debate show. It's a credibility laundromat with a Spotify deal.

There is no "Buckley Moment" Coming

History has three ways this ends: the extremists win, the party dies, or everyone pretends to make up and don't. Pick your favorite, because 'grow a spine' isn't on the menu.

The Whampoa Military Academy of Silicon Valley

In 2007 thirteen men posed in mafia cosplay for Fortune magazine and called themselves the PayPal Mafia. The photo looks different now. It's not thirteen men performing menace. It's a class photo — of the cohort that just finished taking over the government.