by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 16, 2025
There’s a line we used to believe no one would cross. A line etched in moral clarity: You don’t come for the children. But that line’s been blurred. And now, it’s being crossed—in broad daylight. Last week, agents presumed to be from Homeland Security walked into two...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 15, 2025
I remember school lunches the way you remember your first heartbreak—with equal parts nostalgia and indigestion. Back in the day, our cafeteria cooks had access to five-pound blocks of government cheese that came in plain brown cartons—USDA surplus with a side of...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 15, 2025
Just yesterday, I told you “Drill, baby, drill” was dead. Now the International Energy Agency (IEA) just zipped the body bag. In its latest forecast, the IEA reports that global oil demand in 2025 will grow at its slowest rate in five years, and that U.S. oil...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 15, 2025
Some warnings are subtle.This wasn’t one of them. Walking into the Oval Office the president of El Salvador, Donald Trump reportedly made a statement so blunt, so authoritarian in tone, that it didn’t just cross a line—it erased it: “Homegrown are next.” Let that...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 15, 2025
You can’t build a military without minerals.You can’t win a tech war without magnets.And you can’t bluff your way through a crisis when your opponent controls the raw materials and the map. Welcome to the rare earth trap.And as of April 4, the trap has been sprung. In...
