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From Warren Cook He didn't come to say goodbye... Veteran ranger Sipho Nkosi suffered a heart attack while patrolling alone in South Africa's Kruger National Park. His vehicle was found abandoned, p...

Tolik comes here for a special reason, and this time it is not merely to pause the endless flow of bad news. This guy is here today to remind you that today is International Cat Day. And I remind yo...

Substack is the only place where I write. This is my only home on the internet, and I have no social media elsewhere bringing new readers here. Which means that when a new reader finds this journal, ...

My thoughts on dead mothers, dead fathers, dead children, silent generals, amnesiac podcasters, and the prison terms we are owed.

The part of me the story never reached.

another day, another disgrace

Dear Voice from Ukraine Community! Yesterday a mother was killed while walking through a park with her children during a russian strike on Odesa, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) reported. Th...

America's closest ally fought back, so America reached for a Depression-era weapon no president in 96 years would touch. Who pays? Check your trolley.

"Ukraine is not just defending its own land; it is defending the idea of a free world against tyranny." - Garry Kasparov

A historian described how democracies begin to fray. By morning, the headlines had supplied the case study.

"Hey pal, it's Dad.

I fucking hate reboots.

Reality depends on who is asked to lose

The ceasefire is dead, oil is screaming, an Indian sailor is dead, and the President of the United States is demanding protection money like a mob boss with an aircraft carrier. Welcome to Day 137.

Mette Frederiksen brought receipts. Trump brought a history lesson so wrong it lapped itself twice.

Every essay at The Fractured Line is free and always will be.

From a country at war to the one that never looked away

Another morning in Kyiv. Smoke everywhere. And above it, one bright star is resisting. It is Venus. A whole planet, hanging over what some humans do to innocent people. What would they think, if som...

They’re Calling a Doctor “Dangerous.” I Taught History Long Enough to Know Exactly Why.

A podcaster asked Barack Obama how he keeps his cool while a sitting president still can’t stop saying his name. His answer is the civics lesson I’m teaching my kids tonight.

Americans do NOT know how to protest. A single day march is meaningless. THIS is how you protest. Days and days and days of saying NO NO NO NO NO!!! NEVER BEND, NEVER COMPROMISE, NO NO NO!!!

You have seen these golden domes before.

I just need Moscow to stop making us suffer