Supreme Court Upholds Paper

This is an absurd and pernicious anti-American ruling by the Supreme Court in defense of geography-based citizenship:

The Supreme Court slapped down President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship in a major blow to the administration’s radical vision for the composition of the country. In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Justices halted the President’s attempt to end birthright citizenship – calling it blatantly unconstitutional and out of bounds.

The constitutional guarantee was enshrined by the 14th Amendment, and ratified in 1868 to guarantee citizenship to freed slaves, but has since applied to every person born on US soil or its territories.

It impacts an estimated 150,000 children born in the US annually to noncitizens.

The ruling is a major defeat for Trump, and comes as the high court has ruled against him in a handful of major cases – including invalidating his sweeping tariff regime, and blocking his effort to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed’s board of governors.

As one diehard liberal recently pointed out, the use of liberal democratic institutions to defend the indefensible and defeat the will of the people is only going to guarantee the eventual destruction of those institutions.

There will not be any independent judiciary in the governments that replace the corrupt governments of the West when they fall, because, as with so many Enlightenment concepts, their supposed value is net negative to society.

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Germany Learns the Hard Way

An African team has never won the World Cup.

And Germany had never lost a penalty shootout in the World Cup until yesterday. But although the media prefers not to discuss it, everyone in football knows that Africans are notoriously poor at taking penalties.

And now both Germany and Holland are out of the World Cup in the first knockout stage, defeated by football powerhouses Paraguay and Morocco.

It’s almost as if relying upon people who have never won the World Cup when playing for their own nations to win it for your own is a suboptimal strategy.

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Clown World Wants War

ITEM: Gen. Chris Donahue seems to have done it all. He led the Army’s Delta Force commandos in Iraq and Syria when it took the fight to Islamic State militants and was the last man out when the troops he commanded at the 82nd Airborne Division were called in to secure the 2021 evacuation of U.S. personnel and Afghan allies from Kabul. Rising to four stars in 2024, Donahue was made the top U.S. Army commander in Europe, where he helped overhaul NATO’s effort to defend against Russian aggression and support Ukraine. To many, he seemed to be on a fast track to become vice chief of staff of the Army and perhaps one day lead the service itself.

ITEM: “We have the capabilities, the plan, we know what needs to be done.” With these words, spoken at the “LandEuro” conference in Germany, U.S. Army Europe and Africa Commander General Christopher Donahue did more than just outline military readiness. He issued a deliberate and unmistakable message aimed far beyond the audience in the room. His pointed remarks about being able to “wipe out” Russia’s A2AD (Anti-Access/Area Denial) capabilities in Kaliningrad were not offhand bravado — they were a calculated signal, deeply rooted in strategy, deterrence, and alliance cohesion. By declaring that U.S. and allied forces could neutralize these assets quickly and effectively, Gen. Donahue sent a message that NATO not only understands the threat, but has prepared specifically to counter it — a direct challenge to the Kremlin’s confidence in Kaliningrad’s defensive umbrella.

ITEM: Gen. Donahue will relinquish his U.S. command at a ceremony in Germany on July 2, people familiar with the matter say, his European assignment cut short by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s push to put his imprint on the military’s leadership.

ITEM: David French complains in The New York Times: The Purging of General Donahue Is a Breaking Point. The Trump administration owes the military and the public an explanation for its treatment of Donahue — and an explanation for its treatment of other senior officers it has fired or forced out. As commander in chief, the president has the right to fire an officer, but as a servant of the people, the president has a duty to tell us why.

Translation: President Trump had Hegseth fire Donahue before he could start a war with Russia.

With the war in the Middle East necessarily winding down, convincing the European puppet-governments to sacrifice their citizens in the same way that the Kiev regime did is about the only card they’ve got left. But it’s not going to work; the Europeans are far more inclined to go to war with their own politicians and police than with the Russians.

Literally no one cares what the mainstream politicians say anymore, which is why they’re saying increasingly insane things every passing day in a desperate attempt to whip up a war frenzy in a very uninterested populace. .

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The Only Skull CD

A limited number of THE ONLY SKULL CDs are now available exclusively at NDM Express. 100 units total were made, with 25 reserved for the backers. If you were a Soulsigma backer at any level, you do not need to buy one, just contact NDM and send them your current shipping address, or if you are buying a book from them, make sure you let them know you were a backer and ask them to include your CD with the shipment. They are scheduled to arrive at the warehouse the week of July 13.

SOULSIGMA represents the current cutting edge of music and technology, with the combination of man and machine intelligence. All twelve songs are entirely produced with AI music technology, then edited with digital audio tools and mastered by a professional audio engineer to produce a very high-quality alternative rock sound that is original without feeling lifeless or uninspired.

The twelve songs on the album are:

3:35 RIDE AND DIE
4:17 THE ONLY SKULL
5:03 ANGEL IN FLIGHT
4:16 SEASONS
3:58 NEPTUNE GRIEVES
3:28 MY SECRET SIN
3:27 THE SHINING WIRE
3:15 THE WORD DESCENDED
5:29 ONCE THERE WAS SORROW
3:53 THE RIDE NEVER ENDS
4:04 A MERCILESS NIGHT
4:09 GIRLS LOVE GUITARS

All twelve songs were written by Vox Day, with the exception of The Only Skull and Once There Was Sorrow, which were co-written with George Gordon Byron.

Thanks to the manufacturer, you can check out a very cool 3D display of the complete packaging, including the disc art.

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Attritional Math

Even pro-Ukraine analytics that appear to wildly exaggerate Russian casualties are suggesting that attritional exhaustion is rapidly approaching in the Ukro-Russian war.

Dr Powell’s model suggests that the war is rapidly nearing a tipping point. Ukraine is approaching the fulcrum beyond which the weight of the war tips its forces into rapid depletion, allowing the Russian military to start achieving much more significant territorial gains. In turn, this would lead to accelerated Ukrainian losses through the ruthless reality of the square law. This road heads toward an eventual Ukrainian collapse.

Ukraine’s effective combat power (a composite of manpower, machinery and munitions) is depleting, the model shows, at a net rate that outpaces its replenishment, while Russia’s holds steady or grows marginally. This imbalance, compounded by recent reductions in Western support, suggests a tipping point where Ukrainian force density thins below viability, triggering rapid territorial losses and operational collapse.

Based on his integrated projections from an updated model (as of 15 May), Dr Powell estimates window for this tipping point is 3-6 months from now (July-September 2026), followed by a 3-4 month cascade to functional exhaustion. Overall, this yields a 6-9 month horizon to “floodgates opening,” where advances accelerate from the current 0.3-1 km/day to 5-10 km/day, as seen in historical breakthroughs like the 2022 Kherson retreat. This non-linear result is the manifestation of the pitiless square law which Frederick Lanchester first codified into a usable model for military operations in 1916. But it boils down to this: Dr Powell’s model estimates Ukrainian collapse by early Spring next year (nine months from mid-May 2026) at the outside.

Two factors support Dr Powell’s conclusion. The first is that Anusar Farooqui, the hedge fund CEO and international relations scholar, and friend of Multipolarity, has managed to replicate Dr Powell’s results using the model. The second is that Peter Turchin, emeritus professor at the University of Connecticut in the departments of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics, has produced his own model, which reaches a similar conclusion: Ukraine is heading toward a tipping point beyond which its position becomes irretrievable.

A key understanding here is that it matters not who is attacking and who is defending; who is capturing territory and who is losing it. The losses of men, munitions and weapons platforms carry on regardless, and in an attrition war, it is exactly that which counts. Absent a black swan event, Ukraine continues heading toward the tipping point whether it is successfully counter-attacking or doggedly defending.

It must be noted that the tipping point Dr Powell’s model suggests would not be the end of the war. It would simply be the point at which the war of attrition finally makes Ukraine’s conventional military position irretrievable, with Russian territorial gains accelerating from that moment.

No doubt this explains the increased volume of the EU’s insane belligerence, but the reality is that the anti-democratic governments of Europe are far more likely to find themselves fighting their own citizens over their attempts to deny everyone air conditioning than they are to ever fight the Russians.

French health officials recorded around 1,000 excess deaths in less than a week as the country was hit by its most severe heatwave in more than two decades.

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The Baen Drain Continues

I am now skeptical that Baen Books will last the year, given the latest news from Fandom Pulse

Jason Cordova, the unofficial second in command of the publishing company, is leaving Baen Books. The announcement came out of Liberty Con this weekend, confirmed by sources on the ground, and it lands at a moment when Baen can least afford another loss.

Cordova had been the engine running much of Baen’s day-to-day publishing operation. By most accounts, he was doing ninety percent of the backend work, from acquisitions to editorial to what little marketing the house managed to push out. He was widely viewed inside the industry as the heir apparent to Toni Weisskopf, who has run Baen for decades and is approaching retirement age with no clear succession plan in place.

First Correia, now Cordova. The prognosis is not positive. Our long-term strategy at Castalia House has always been to outlast our competitors, because we knew that both a) this economic crisis and b) the effects of Kindle Unlimited were going to have strongly negative effects on publishing. But I don’t think I thought we’d already be collectively at the point that we are now in the industry, which tends to suggest that a lot of these publishers have been surviving on little more than smoke, mirrors, and past reputation for a while now.

As I said months ago, those authors and publishers who disdain the use of AI are not likely to survive the next five years. Because the way to survive in a contraction is to be leaner and faster than everyone else, while still maintaining a reliable level of quality. And the good news is that those who survive the stresses of the contractionary period tend to be tomorrow’s market leaders.

Thanks to our readers, backers, and supporters, Castalia is not merely going to survive, it is going to thrive. Here is the latest piece of evidence fresh from one of the world’s only surviving independent binderies:

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A Shaky Ceasefire

The USA can’t afford another round of war due to the lack of oil reserves, but the Trump administration doesn’t have the necessary courage to stop screwing around and wave the white flag.

Late Friday night, and continuing into the early hours of Saturday, the US Central Command launched a second wave of retaliatory strikes on Iran, saying it attacked multiple targets in Iran at President Donald Trump’s direction. CENTCOM said US military aircraft targeted Iranian military surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities. This was notably broader than Friday’s strikes, which had focused on missile and drone storage and coastal radar. Adding “minelayer capabilities” to the target set is a significant escalation in scope.

Trump, in another violation of the first paragraph of the MoU, said in a Truth Social post Saturday evening that US aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites “for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN!” The president threatened that if Iran doesn’t “learn,” the US “will be forced to militarily complete the job that we successfully started” and that “the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist.”

The strategic logic on each side is now fully exposed. Iran frames every ship using the Oman route as a “violating vessel” and every US strike as a ceasefire breach — positioning its own attacks as defensive enforcement. The US frames Iran’s drone attacks on commercial shipping as ceasefire violations that require retaliation. Ebrahim Azizi, the head of Iran’s parliamentary national security commission, wrote that “the failed US President has shown he has no commitment to the principles of negotiation or a ceasefire” and that “this reckless violation of the ceasefire will, as always, lead to retreat and regret on their part.”

This is just totally inept military action. The level of incompetence being demonstrated is at every level. Literally nothing will be accomplished by further impotent threats and token actions; the best move would be to shut down all the bases, withdraw all the ships and aircraft, and declare that the Middle East is no longer the concern or the responsibility of the US military.

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His Satanic Majesty

King Charles has abandoned even the pretense that England is still a Christian realm:

The King will “protect the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation,” in a new definition of his official role.

Buckingham Palace unveiled a significant revision to the King’s official role, with the newly released Sovereign Grant report 2025/26 describing His Majesty as the protector of faith across Britain’s diverse religious landscape. The annual financial review of the Royal Household contains fresh terminology, positioning the monarch as someone who safeguards religion throughout the nation.

According to the document: “His Majesty is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and protects the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation.”

This reform represents a notable evolution in how the Palace formally characterises the sovereign’s constitutional and spiritual responsibilities.

The previous year’s report had characterised the King under his “Head of Nation” duties as “Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith.”

The King’s titles date back to the reign of King Henry VIII, after he was granted the title “Defender of the Faith” in 1521 by Pope Leo X.

That didn’t take long. And now we understand why divorcees were disqualified from wearing the crown. Over and over, we see how abandoning tradition leads very, very quickly to the exact evils that those traditions were developed to prevent.

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Further Advances

The improvement in the space of AI video generation proceeds apace. The combination of what is now possible in the music video space now exceeds anything that could be done back when Psykosonik was recording. A new interface dropped last week that provides access to multiple Seedance models, and the results are actually a little startling.

We’re getting within striking distance of Arkhaven Studios. I’m working with an actual director on the next one, so it’s going to be interesting to see how much the input of someone who actually knows what he’s doing with regards to camera shots and film edits can improve the tools that are already available.

You can see the whole FLOAT DOWN THE RIVER video at AI Central now, and it will be up on UATV later this weekend. In other Soulsigma-related news, the CD for the backers is now being finalized; 100 units of the 12-song CD will be pressed next month and those that don’t go to the backers will be available via NDM Express.

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