We are surrounded by Bonhoeffer Tools: people who advance a mainstream-approved worldview, allergic to counter-evidence, and compelled to signal disdain for dissenters. Recognizing this pattern clarifies why family rifts persist, why celebrity rants feel scripted, and why facts alone rarely sway the committed. Remember: against such Bonhoeffer Tools, defenselessness in debate does not mean helplessness in living truth.

President Trump has reached the top of the 2nd inning in his second term as we approach Thanksgiving 2025. He crushed it in the first inning with a Hall of Fame-level performance. Herewith: ten 1st-inning scores, ten 2nd-inning assets, and ten 2nd-inning challenges for POTUS 47. Bottom line: The game is going great.

The MELTDOWN @ MOSS LANDING public briefing packed them in on Cannery Row.  A hundred citizens came out for this CASI civic education event at Wave Street Studios , a sign of civic health, especially given the terribly grim topic. I participated reluctantly. Duty called. Dr. Francois Melese opened the briefing, followed by me, soon joined by two victims of Vistra’s Battery Bomb: the analytic Larry Moore & the heroic Liza Schmidt — Supermom. I then ceded the stage to my scientific hero,...