Chadis a Midwest slang term for a type of young man. It was used in Chicago in the 2000s as a derogatory description for young, upper-class, urban males [1]. In modern internet slang, the term generally refers to an "Alpha" [2], a stud, a wanker, or sexually successful male [3] living in the American Manosphere.
Gun toting armed civilian bystanders — Jordan Salinas and off-duty [though technically still on duty as it is a salaried 24-hour-a-day job] Idaho State Trooper Austin Scott James — returned fire, helping prevent additional blood and casualties, police claim. The Chad Williams then murdered himself by suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot wound using his own legal gun.
DEATHS? In-N-Out Burgers Corporation [4, 5], doing business as "In-N-Out Burger," is an American regional chain of fast fried junk food restaurants with locations primarily in California and to a lesser extent the West Coast and Southwest [6], in the process of expanding into Idaho.
The company was founded in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948 by deceased Founders Harry Snyder (1913–1976, dead at 63 of cancer) and amateur accountant Esther Snyder (1920–2006, dead at 86 of unknown causes).
Esther and Harry had three children, all dead prematurely: biological sons Harry Guy Snyder (1951-1999, dead at 48 of drug overdose) and [Richie] Rich Snyder (1952-1993, dead at in a plane crash, after returning from opening Store 93 in an OC mass death incident), and an adopted orphan son named Wilbur Stites (1951-1979, dead at 28 in a car crash), fostered since the 1960s.
Also, now dead through involvement with the death burger fast-food joint are at least one In-N-Out employee and two others yet to be identified (see below**) by police, with one of the injured parties being taxi driver Terry Dudley, who was charging his needy trillionaire Elon Musk-built Tesla. (The Tesla always being needy in terms of energy, not the Chad Elon Musk, who gets his energy from drug abuse).
Three burger eaters were murdered, and seven others were injured, preliminary reports suggest.
**Family members identified two of the many victims as Stockton In-N-Out Trainer/Manager Ashley Garibay, 23, and Christopher Claunch, 59.
The chain is headquartered in Irvine (OC), California, and has expanded outside SoCal into the rest of California, as well as into Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, and Tennessee.
The death-attracting corporation is planning an expansion into New Mexico [7, 8, 9] and wherever else slaughtered cows served with French fries are devoured in ghoulish rituals of mindless, distracted eating and tossing of bag, cups, and wrappers wherever is most convenient, such as a parking lot or public street.
This is usually preceded by getting high on marijuana, beer, hard alcohol (spiritous liquor), and/or pharmaceuticals. The current owner is Lynsi Snyder, the Snyders' only grandchild. As the chain has expanded, it has opened several distribution centers in addition to its original Baldwin Park location. More
(Tiago_R_Rebeiro) Dead Kennedys "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round"
"We've Got a Bigger Problem Now"
Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys
Once upon a time a singer named Jello Biafra had a lot of good ideas for a California punk band called the Dead Kennedys (a name indicating the decline of the USA). He made albums with them and contributed to other releases like Wargasm (1982, Pax Records, PAX 4, LP) with the American War Machine song "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round." The DKs released many great songs with many great ideas but became so popular with non-punks that punks started to criticize them for getting less funny (brilliantly sarcastic or ironic) and more serious (preachy rather than clever) as time went on. The band disbanded and reformed without Jello, who released a spoken word album, No More Cocoons, with the genius "Message From Our Sponsors."
LYRICS: We interrupt this program with a special bulletin! America is now under martial law. All constitutional rights have been suspended. Stay in your homes.
Do not attempt to contact loved ones, insurance agents, or attorneys. Shut up! Do not attempt to think or depression may occur. Stay in your homes. Curfew is at 7:00 p.m. sharp after work.
Anyone caught outside the gates of their subdivision sectors after curfew will be shot. Remain calm. Do not panic. Your neighborhood watch officer will be by to collect urine samples in the morning. Anyone caught interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot.
Houses will be inspected for trace elements at noon. Anyone who fails to display the required embossed black velvet Mexican painting ofAlexander Haig on their living room wall will be shot.
Cameras and surveillance equipment will be posted on all lampposts and streetlights.
Anyone failing to attend required worship services on Sunday will be promptly arrested and dispatched to a reeducation resort. Stay in your homes. Remain calm. The Number 1 enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual will.
Sports make living exciting and worthwhile.
All sports broadcasts will proceed as normal. No more than two people may gather anywhere without permission. Use only the drugs prescribed by your boss or supervisor. Shut up! Be happy. Obey all orders without question. The comfort you′ve demanded is now mandatory. Be happy. At last, everything is done for you. Source
Maybe it's just by chance that an American growing up in Amerikkka would gravitate towards punk rock's aggressive musick, rebellion, DIY ethic, and freedom-oriented rock aesthetic AND also toward the Teachings of the "Awakened One" (the Buddha). After all, if we were to translate the term "Budh-ism" into English, "Awakenism" would be a great start.
The Dharmic traditions all lean towards liberation (moksha, vimutti = "freedom") and, as such, they did not really begin as "religions." They're treated as religions now, to be sure. The British colonizers imposed that way of thinking on the various dharmas or "doctrines" of India, the paths to freedom taught by famous awakening teachers. It's good to say "awakening" here instead of "awakened" because Buddhism does not recognize that everyone who is called "enlightened" actually is. What the Buddha meant by the term is very specific. In Buddhism, arahant (Sanskrit arhat) is reserved for seven kinds of livings beings (the "noble ones" or Aryans):
stream enterer (three kinds of sotapannas):
one-seeder (ekabijin)
one who will be reborn at most seven times (sattakkhattuparama)
one reborn among noble families three or four times (kolankola).
once returner (sakkadagami)
non-returner (anagami)
fully awakened (arahant). One could say there are three kinds of arhats as well since in addition to being a "fully" awakened noble disciple, one might be a "non-teaching supremely enlightened person" (pacceka-buddha) or in extraordinarily rare instances, a "supremely enlightened teacher" (samma-sam-buddha).
These descriptions are part of Early Buddhism, preserved in the Pali canon of Theravada Buddhism, specifically explained in The Path to Freedom (Vimutti-magga), condensed to just four kinds by lumping the three varieties of stream enterers into just one grouping in The Path of Purification (Visuddhi-magga). It seems that in these modern times, only Wisdom Quarterly cares about the distinction. Goodness knows that by borrowing from Brahmanism and Hinduism, later Mahayana movement writers have invented new categories like countless bodhisattvas, mahasattvas, and "Cosmic Buddhas" like Amitabbha, Vairocana, Ksitigarbha, and others to worship in place of taking guidance (sarana) from the historical Buddha Shakya-muni ("Sage of the Indo-Scythians/Sakas"), Siddhattha Gotama, Siddhartha Gautama.
But before actual stream entry (entering the "stream" or sota that inevitably leads to complete freedom = nirvana), there are practices and beliefs the Dharmic traditions have in common, like reaching samadhi ("stillness," "mental coherence" resulting in "superconsciousness," sublime states and transcendental realizations). In fact, many Indian traditions consider samadhi to be the ultimate goal, knowing nothing higher. The Buddha did certainly point higher, adding insight practices (vipassana) to the already known states of meditative absorptions (the dhyanas or in Pali jhanas).
Minor Threat: "I was early to finish. I was late to start. I might be an adult.
But I'm a minor at heart." Fugazi: I wait, I wait, I wait in the Waiting Room
Why does Integral (Ashtanga) Yoga teach an eightfold system, as made popular by the sage Patanjali? It is precisely because of the historical Buddha's super popularity throughout the subcontinent at that time that Patanjali thought he should formulate the Vedic, Brahminical, Hindu (a term that would not be invented for centuries) path to samadhi in the same form as the Buddha's Ennobling (lit. Enlightening) Eightfold Path. "Noble" (Arya) means "enlightened."
One has to slosh around through a lot of Western misinterpretations, explanations, practices, Eastern teachers, and etymologies to rectify one's understanding and remove the confusion that has settled on Eastern philosophy and Dharmic traditions to see it clearly. There have been many well-intentioned translators and teachers over the decades that have inadvertently muddied the water and introduced some wrong notions. It's inevitable. If one practices and practices, those misunderstanding get straightened out.
PUNK has always been about individualism, questioning, rebellion, a willingness to set off on one's own path of investigation, practice, and self-realization. No one can do it for us, and "faith" (particularly of the blind sort) is just not in the cards.
PUNK is fun and, at least in the past, was very funny. It was not profit-driven. The goal from the beginning was freedom, personal and social, to liberate oneself and others. Maybe no one agreed on what a revolution would look like, but the enemy was pretty clear: sexist/racist cops working for the economic elite to maintain the status quo, gatekeepers, authority figures, bosses, dictators, know-it-alls, the forces of oppression bearing down on our pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
The founding ideals of our country never promised happiness, but those ideals did very clearly say we had a right to PURSUE happiness as we saw fit. In practice, it was nothing like that, just an Animal Farm/1984-style set of tricks, being told what to believe, how to behave, what to like, what to follow, and so on. Enough of that. The hippies were right, but they were no longer getting anywhere, so the pendulum had to swing the other way. Workers had to arise. Conservatives had to knock it off. Liberals had to wake up. Somebody had to flip off the patriarchy and its father figures.
The CIA, FBI, and PTB (powers that be) were not going to let this movement succeed any more than they had any of the previous ones. They can't stop these things, but they can guide them to implode. Movements are like that. What about individuals? What about intellectuals, poets, artists, and independent thinkers? The government has a game called whack-a-mole for that. They stop this rebellion or that, but another one will take its place. It's like Jello once said in "I Am the Owl." Black Flag had something to say beyond self-defeating aggression when they sang, "Rise Above." But the hippies had something to say, too. "What the world needs now is peace, love, and understanding" and, if not, then how about anarchy, hate, and profanities. How does that strike you, Society?
If England/Britain ruined us as a colony-cum-country, it had a little something to do with the rebellion:
(MS NOW) "So bad at her job": Nicolle Wallace reacts to cheater, liar, dogkiller, ugly state oppressor, cosplay-loving Kristi Noem being fired by traitorous Don John Trump.
(Firstpost) Feb. 9, 2026: The 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy were meant to begin with celebration and spectacle, but the opening ceremony has instead triggered a storm of controversy.
Social media users accused organizers of displaying Satanic symbolism after a pentagram-like visual appeared during the show.
This comes just two years after the Paris 2024 opening ceremony faced backlash for its religious parody.
Are Olympic ceremonies drifting into unnecessary controversies? [Did Hitler ruin The Games for everyone in 1936 by having Nazi Germany host them, adding a great deal of pomp and circumstance with industrialized symbolism and grandeur worthy of ancient Rome and Greece?] And are these spectacles overshadowing the spirit of sport?
Rupha Ramani breaks down the outrage, the history of opening ceremony controversies, and explores if the opening ceremonies are setting the wrong tone for the event to follow.
(Unpacked) The ultimate victims tell the story they want everyone to hold as the one and only explanation. "Why Hitler saw Jews as a threat to humanity" | Explained
Nazis burned few books compared to US, UK
Weren't the Nazis the biggest censors? Not by a longshot. Puritans were.
(ABC News) Massive crowds from California to North Carolina to Minnesota to New York turnout to protest ICE crackdowns, Trump's dictatorship and lies, and to take attention away from redactedEpstein Files. What does "redacted" mean?
Redacting or sanitizing means removing sensitive information from a document so that it may be distributed to a broader audience. It is intended to conceal information while allowing the selective disclosure of other information. Typically, the result is a document that is unsuitable for transparency but suitable for publication or for dissemination to others rather than the intended audience of the original document. More
(CNN) Pretti shooting witness Stella Carlson tells everything she saw to [CIA trained] mainstream media insider Anderson Cooper about the Border Patrol/ICE execution of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Peaceful and legal protests and demonstrations have intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse [like they executed Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother] who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, on Saturday.
ICE: Shoot 'n keep shootin
Democracy Now!'s John Hamilton reports from the scene where innocent Pretti was shot to death, where protesters are clashing with federal agents.
“We’ve seen everything from [teargassed] people that are unconscious, that have fainted, tear-gassed, bruised, bloody noses, can’t breathe,” said Melissa, a local resident.
State Senator Omar Fateh responded to the killing with outrage: “He had a camera on his hand. He was tackled, he was pummeled, and he was executed.” VIDEO:
Democracy Now! speaks with a former colleague of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse ICE shot to death, acting as Trump's federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who hired Pretti for a research job over a decade ago, says he lived with “kindness, compassion, and a strong sense of civic duty to help his fellow citizens.” VIDEO:
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