Prepping & Emergency Preparedness
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Flock Cameras Aren’t Speed Cameras: What They Record, Keep, And Share
There are cameras appearing along American roads that do not issue speeding tickets and do not care whether you ran a red light. They are looking at your vehicle instead. The license plate, the make and color of the car, where it was seen, and the exact time it passed. Most drivers go underneath them
Church & State - The Apostle Grok and Building New Rome
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When the Grid Goes Down, What Will You Have to Give Up?
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AI Doom Came Knockin
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Preparedness Notes — October 13, 2026
This Week in History: The Battle of Kappel was fought on October 11, 1531. Swiss Roman Catholic cantons defeated the Protestant forces of Zurich. In the battle, reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli leader was killed. October 12, 1773: America’s first asylum opened for ‘Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’ in Virginia. October 12, 1901: Theodore Roosevelt renamed the “Executive Mansion” as “The White House”. And on October 13, 1773, the Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier.
The Newly-Released ATF NFA Guidance: Drill Baby, Drill!
I’ve had several more readers contact me in the past week, asking about the Guidance from the BATF regarding SBRs, SBSes, Suppressors, and AOWs, in light of the August, 2026 Silencer Shop (and related Jensen) decision.
Granberg 16 Inch Clip-N-Trim, by Thomas Christianson
Some SurvivalBlog readers may be familiar with “Grandmother’s Song” by Steve Martin. I heard that song for the very first time back in 1979. It was part of Martin’s album “Let’s Get Small”, played from a vinyl LP on a stereo belonging to one of my college roommates. One of the lines of the song is, “Live in a swamp and be three dimensional.” I never dreamed that one day I would be living that line. But now, almost 50 years later, I find myself living in a home surrounded by wetland. One facet of wetland life is the need
SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week
Today’s graphic: Sunrise lights up the Cirque of the Towers, Wind River Range, Wyoming. (A public domain photo by “gmiphone”, at Openverse.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable.
Economics & Investing Media of the Week
In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Today’s graphic shows the relative size of teh U.S. and European economies. The US GDP used to be smaller than Western Europe’s combined, but today it is larger than Europe’s entire economy. The thumbnail below is click-expandable.
The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods
SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. Today’s column outlines some new cyber threats. Android Malware Stealing PINs and Logins Reader C.B.
SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets
Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — Ukraine’s surprise robot offensive exposes a vulnerability in Putin’s war machine. o o o American Lasers Now Destroying Iranian Weapons and Infrastructure.
SurvivalBlog’s American Redoubt Media of the Week
This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. This week a map showing the population percentage increase between 2020 and 2025 in a few Northwestern metropolitan areas, and a few micropolitan areas. The image below, courtesy of Reddit, is click-expandable.
Editors’ Prepping Progress
To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage.
JWR’s Meme Of The Week
Meme Text: If You Cannot See The Irony Of This, Then You Are More Dense Than Osmium: Men, Armed With Guns, Sent To Disarm People Armed With Guns
Editors’ Quote
“During COVID I watched the Democratic Party turn against every one of its essential values, its principles, and all of the policies that define my party. Democrats turned away from gold standard research and blindly defended industry-sponsored, agenda-driven science written by corrupt and captive regulatory agencies. And the Democrats, which were once the champions of the American Constitution, systematically obliterated the Bill of Rights.
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First time using a cold frame for fall / winter greens - what should I know?
My friends said I should build a cold frame for winter lettuce, so I bought two panes of glass (previously doors) for 10 dollars each, and we used scrap lumber to create two boxes. I can open them for venting. We've put them in the garden (which I guess I should cover with mulch for the winter? separate question...)
What's something you thought would be easy about homesteading that turned out to be surprisingly difficult?
I think there's a pretty big gap between how people imagine homesteading and what it's actually like once you're doing it. Some things that seem complicated turn out to be pretty straightforward. Other things that sound simple end up consuming way more time, money, or energy than expected. I'm curious what caught everyone off guard. And on the flip side, what's something you were intimidated by initially that turned out to be easier than you expected? submitted by /u/rbprepin [link] [comments]
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