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September 2026

The “Trans Kids” Consensus That No One Built
You arrive on the battlefield, and you see that the enemy line is weak.
 • Chris Bray
The Secret Life of Governor Walter Mitty
Chris Bray recently delivered a major address to the nations of the world, by which I mean that I muttered at strangers in the international terminal at…
 • Chris Bray
Political Solutions Matter: A Pediatric Trans Clinic Suddenly Closes, and Backdates the Announcement
the story behind the story, with a small mystery
 • Chris Bray
The Dying Politics of Strategic Anguish
We’re wired to react to pain signals from other people, and we have a deeply rooted instinct to help when someone cries out or shows through facial…
 • Chris Bray
California Is a Failed State
Tammany had honest graft: They said they would build a bridge or a park, and then they built it.
 • Chris Bray
LA’s Foremost Leading Indicator
I’m a week ahead of the arrests.
 • Chris Bray
How Government Thinks Money Works
A last thought (for a while) about California’s high-speed rail madness, with a note about why: I write about this project because it has a larger…
 • Chris Bray
A High-Speed Rail Punchline (and some more evidence about the details)
If you read the last thing I wrote about California’s very slow high-speed rail project, you may have noticed that I said walking over to the…
 • Chris Bray
Potemkin Flourishes Coming For California’s High-Speed Rail Gaslighting
The lie is about to transition from naked lying to massively inflated lying around a misleading kernel of reality.
 • Chris Bray
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