The Mongoose
"Systems diagnostics for a world in transition — politics, geopolitics, economics, and resistance, written by a small fierce mongoose with a Gaelic accent and a Shoggoth friend."
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 237 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Dispatches from the Brightwell
Personal Memoir?
I owe you all an explanation for the sudden silence. Or maybe not an explanation so much as a weather report: the Mongoose has been deep in the jungle. And I’m working very hard to bring something beautiful into the...
Apocalypses (A User’s Guide)
Lady T says I’ve prepped for three apocalypses. She’s being generous with the undercount. She’s also the one who was cleaning the cans.
We spent a Saturday afternoon in May doing something I’ve meant to do for years and kept putting...
XVI. The Celtic Thread
The Immortal Memory is the Burns Supper dispatch from a room two-thirds-full in Utah — the friends who left for Tunisia, their tartan cloak and Celtic knotwork bodhran laid out on the auction table, and the Loyal Toast quietly remove...
Scottish Judgement
XVI. The Celtic Thread
There’s a phrase that runs in my family, and probably in yours, in some dialect or another. Can’t hurt, might help. Try it and see what happens. It has the sound of folk wisdom, and folk wisdom is usually right — t...
Part Three: The Bedrock the Engine Stands On
Part III of the Engine trilogy. Part I — The Pattern-Engine Runs on Randomness — showed how the well‑fed engine works. Part II — The Captured Engine — showed how it fails. Part III answers a question reader Dan asked back at the beginning:...
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WG-11 HVAC tech, Red State Republican who never voted for Trump, Scottish Gaelic author. Applies mongoose methodology to political analysis: patient observation, evidence over narrative. Counting down toward retirement. Beò an Rèabhlaid!
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