Black Mirror Season 7: When Netflix critiques itself (and charges you for it)

May 09, 2025

Black Mirror Season 7: When Netflix critiques itself (and charges you for it)

“Pregnancy costs extra; it’s $90 per month.” This line from the latest season of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s Twilight Zone-inspired sci-fi anthology on Netflix, succinctly captures the show’s persistent knack for extrapolating unsettling trends in modern technology. Season 7, featuring a star-studded cast, including Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones, and Awkwafina, grapples with everything from pesky subscription […]

The unthinkable: An American pope

It was long assumed that an American pope was an impossibility. Vatican insiders would dismiss the idea of a pope from the world’s preeminent superpower as completely out of the question and barely even worth a thought. That was until around 7 p.m. Rome time on May 8, 2025, when Cardinal Dominique Mamberti emerged on […]

Planned Parenthood defunding shifts gears to transgenderism

The mission to defund Planned Parenthood may switch from a basis in abortion to one in transgenderism. It’s still a pro-life angle, but one more indirect than the movement has hoped. That is the general tread of popular social politics: Transgenderism is fading, despite Democratic and Antifa efforts on its behalf, and becoming an issue […]

Disney gives anti-gay UAE a ‘huge endorsement’ after attacking Florida

In case you are trying to keep track of Disney‘s political morals, here is a summary: a state that doesn’t teach kindergarteners about being gay is a moral travesty, but a country that makes it illegal to be gay is a business opportunity. Disney is building a new theme park resort in none other than […]

How the US military guards against India-Pakistan nuclear war

Tensions between longtime political, territorial, and ideological foes, India and Pakistan, are escalating. The current crisis began when Pakistan-based terrorists killed 26 Indian tourists in an April 22 attack in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region. On Wednesday, India launched retaliatory air strikes against terrorists inside Pakistan that it blames for the attack. Pakistan then […]

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Germany and Marco Rubio are both wrong about AfD

The domestic intelligence service of Germany last week labeled “extremist” the political party that won the second-most seats in the Bundestag in February. The finding of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV, against the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party will allow for significantly more intensive government surveillance of AfD. […]

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