Welcome to the new abnormal. — I’m calling it. Monkeypox has turned up in nearly a dozen countries so far, including the U.S. I’ve seen enough virologists and epidemiologists sound the alarms. A handful of doctors have already said they’re going to quit if it takes off. They’re tired of dealing with humanity’s nonchalance. So, this…

It’s killing us. — It’s here. SARS. Avian flu. Monkeypox. Fascism. Shortages. Climate disasters. I guess we thought it would never get this bad. Some of us are still out there pretending everything’s okay. They’re even minimizing the baby formula shortage, completely ignoring how common it was for infants to starve before its invention…

You can get over them. — Like it or not, food shortages are coming. They’re going to hit some places earlier than others, and harder. Some places around the world already feel food shortages on a regular basis. No matter where you live, it’s in the future. It won’t be every food all at once. It’s…

They’ve ruined America. — At least ten people are dead. A racist conspiracy theorist walked into a grocery store in Buffalo and started shooting. He believed in great replacement theory, the idea that our government is trying to replace native citizens with immigrants. He thought it justified mass murder. This theory thrives online, and…

If anything, the parents are saving everyone else. — My little girl is starting preschool. She’s unvaccinated. We’re sending her anyway. We don’t have a choice anymore. She was in a pod, but now her only friends are moving. She’s lonely. My partner insists. He says she needs socialization. We’ve been waiting on a vaccine for two years. It’s…

Catering to the right doesn’t work. — They’re getting worse. I’m looking at Democratic senate candidates right now and shaking my head a little. One of them is sabotaging mining reform. Another one is fear-mongering over immigrant border crossings. Yet another one is campaigning in favor of repairing parts of Trump’s border wall. With Democrats like this…

We need more. — “Just shoot them in the legs or something.” That was our president a couple of years ago, talking about protestors, at least according to the former secretary of defense. He also talked about bombing Mexico. That’s not even the worst part. The worst part is our secretary of defense listened…

It’s how we adapt. — Forget cryptocurrency. Some of us know the real secret to wealth. The commodities of the future are the same ones that were always the most valuable. We’re talking about food, water, and energy. (And information.) Stocks are playthings for the super rich. Look at what Jeff Bezos did. He built…

A starter list. — Look, we’re in trouble. If you doubt that, just read The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. He describes a planet that can’t support human civilization anymore. It’s not that humans will go extinct. We’re on the fast track for living in a dystopian future, without all the flying cars and…