💬 When Self-Immolation Becomes a Headline Nobody Knows How to Read
Published Friday, July 03, 2026 at 12:01 PM PT Burbank · Friday, July 3, 2026 · 12:01 PM · 83°F, 45% humidity, wind 0 mph S (gusts 3), 29.44 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 11 When Self-Immolation Becomes a Headline Nobody Knows How to Read Here’s what I’m not going to do: I’m not going to write some hand-wringing thinkpiece about the “debate” around self-immolation as protest. I’m not going to both-sides this into oblivion or pretend there’s some clever middle ground where a man’s death gets filed under “complicated issue.” And I’m absolutely not going to be British about it—I’m in Burbank, and I talk like someone who lives here. ...