‘The New Normal,’ Are Seasonal Mask, Booster Mandates Here To Stay?
Kim Iversen breaks down what the “new normal” might look like in 2022.
Biden’s Student Debt LIES Fully Exposed
Krystal and Saagar compare the past statements President Biden has made about cancelling some student debt to what the White House plans on doing about it now
Gen Z TikTokers SCREW With Kellogg’s For Anti-Union Policy
Krystal and Saagar look at the methods used by Gen Z activists on TikTok and other social media platforms to fight the effort by Kellogg’s to shut down striking union workers.
Workers Nationwide DEMAND Better Conditions, MSM Pushes Biden As Most Pro-Union President EVER
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss high-profile labor organizing happening across the country.
AUTHORS DEBATE: Should US Defend Taiwan Or Not?
Krystal and Saagar are joined by two authors and foreign policy experts who debate on whether the US should defend Taiwan or not if China were to invade in the near future
Pelosi DEFENDS Lawmakers Trading Stocks. Congress, Staffers Make MILLIONS Off Insider Trading?
Insider’s Dave Levinthal reacts to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments about whether members of Congress should be allowed to own stocks,
Amazon Held Workers HOSTAGE As Tornado Rampaged
Krystal details the extent to which Amazon’s greed put the lives of warehouse workers in jeopardy as deadly tornadoes struck multiple states and killed over 100 people
San Francisco Mayor CRACKS DOWN On Crime, REVERSES Defund The Police Budget Cuts
Team Rising reacts to San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s newfound commitment to policing and law enforcement.
Twitter BLASTED For Anti-Science Censorship On Vaccines
Krystal and Saagar criticize Twitter’s decision to censor information about vaccines that has shown by be scientifically true even though it is inconvenient for covid narratives
Josh Gottheimer Claims A Protester Verbally Assaulted Him, Video Shows It Didn’t Happen
Ryan Grim breaks down the alleged antisemitic comments made towards Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
Pelosi’s DISGUSTING Defense Of Stock Trading By Lawmakers
Krystal and Saagar respond to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s justification of insider trading by members of congress including herself to the tune of millions of dollars and major conflicts of interest
Airplanes Have Better Air Quality Than ICUs. Isn’t It Time To End Mask Mandates?
Robby Soave makes the case against airline mask mandates.
Cornell SHUTS DOWN For COVID Despite Vax Mandate, ENOUGH MADNESS
Saagar goes over the new covid madness arising from the Omicron variant on college campuses and in blue states and why he has had enough of the endless covid guidelines
Biden, Manchin FEUD Over Child Tax Credits. Dems SHELVE Build Back Better For Voting Rights?
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the breakdown in Build Back Better Act negotiations between President Joe Biden and Senator Joe Manchin.
STUNNING Corruption Revealed At Heart Of DC Media
Krystal and Saagar cover the corrupt corporate backing and lobbyist influence of Punchbowl news which is one of the largest and most important newsletters in DC
Blame Voters for the Rising Crime Rate
By Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal Just maybe, voters are starting to regret the consequences of electing progressives. For the stressed-out voters in your political life, an aphorism to print and wrap in ribbon for Christmas giving is “Live and learn.” Though in these crime-sodden times, it might […]
Stop Fearmongering About Progressive Prosecutors and Decarceral Policies
By Nikki Trautman Baszynski The Appeal Larry Krasner’s clear win in the Philadelphia District Attorney primary election should have been a wake-up call to journalists who spent weeks breathlessly painting the race as a referendum on progressive prosecutors and their decarceral policies. Instead, they doubled down, redirecting their […]
Don’t Blame Progressive Prosecutors for Rising Crime
By Jennifer Doleac Bloomberg More lenient policies don’t appear to be contributing to a crime wave in urban areas across the U.S. Violent crime in urban America is rising. There have been 13.5% more homicides so far in 2021 compared to last year, across 84 cities, and the […]
A QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids
By Jessica Contrera Washington Post An Internet mob wanted to rescue a 13-year-old girl. Instead, they terrified her, derailed real trafficking investigations and incited ‘save the children’ violence. The real Samara Duplessis was sprawled across her comforter, her thumb on Instagram. Summer could drag on in the Detroit […]
Breaking Points: 12/16/21 Full UNCUT Show
Krystal and Saagar talk about Julian Assange, Pelosi’s defense of corruption, Twitter censorship, student debt cancellation, Gen Z digital activism, punchbowl news corruption, Amazon workers dying, Omicron madness, defending Taiwan, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Free Assange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DRVD… National Review Debate: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazi… https://www.nationalreview.com/magazi… Warrior Met Fund: https://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund/ Timestamps: Assange: […]
The March of the New American Leninists
It’s interesting to compare this piece by Williamson likening the J6ers to the Bolshies with Michael Lind’s piece at Tablet comparing the BLM/Antifa/whoever with the Jacobins. Both of these analogies may work on a remote or peripheral level, but those who are always looking to foreign examples to […]
Tulsi Gabbard calls on Biden to drop all charges against Julian Assange
Tulsi Gabbard continues to speak out in defense of Julian Assange. This is a mashup of her statement today plus previous statements the past few years. To my knowledge, Bernie and the squad remain silent.
CNN Pushes List Of 2024 Democratic Presidential Contenders Including Harris, Buttigieg, Warren
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll shows President Joe Biden’s approval rating has slightly improved.
New Zealand Extends Covid-Era Mandates To Cigarettes, It’s A PROHIBITION Disaster
Kim Iversen breaks down New Zealand’s newest public health policy.
It’s unrealistic to ban football. But it might not be ethical to watch it, either.
Is football the next target of totalitarian humanism? By Joel Mathis The Week In April, Phillip Adams killed six people — including two children, ages 9 and 5 — then turned the gun on himself, dying at the age of 32. On Tuesday, we learned a likely reason […]
Controversial Dr. Peter McCullough Tells Joe Rogan That Lack Of Covid Treatments DELIBERATE
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss whether public health officials should spend more time seeking effective treatments for COVID, not just preventatives.
The Jan. 6 texts and the rot at the heart of Fox News
By Damon Linker, The Week So now we know: Although Fox News’ primetime message for much of the past year has been that Democrats are wildly exaggerating the seriousness of the insurrection that took place on Capitol Hill last Jan. 6, major figures at the network — including […]
Acclaimed writer and feminist bell hooks dead at 69
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Celebrated author, professor, critic, and feminist bell hooks died Wednesday at her home in Kentucky, the Lexington Herald-Leader confirms. She was 69. According to a press release from her niece Ebony Motley, hooks had been ill, and died surrounded by friends and family. […]
Julian Assange’s Brother: The Way Wikileaks Founder Is Being Treated Is “Slow Motion Murder”
Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, details how the Wikileaks founder is faring after his stroke.
Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to violating George Floyd’s civil rights
By Brendan Morrow The Week Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted for the murder of George Floyd, has now also pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the federal charges, changing his previous plea of not guilty, NBC News reports. […]
McConnell V. Trump SHOWDOWN? MAGA Republicans Want Minority Leader OUT ASAP
Team Rising debates whether pro-Trump Republicans will be able to take down Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Democrats PANICKED Over Net Neutrality Repeal… And Nothing Bad Happened
Robby Soave looks back on the 2018 net neutrality debate.
We Need To Dream BIGGER Than Medicare For All
Ryan Grim breaks down his ideas for how to salvage the CMMI’s direct contracting model.
Americans are dangerously casual about war with Russia and China
By Bonnie Kristian, The Week The war in Afghanistan was the longest in U.S. history. The war in Iraq has killed perhaps as many as a million people. U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition intervention in Yemen’s civil war contributed to the most acute humanitarian crisis on the […]
Kyle REACTS To ‘Hillary 2024 Is Dems Best Hope’ Article
Hillary reminds me of a queen from medieval times who would rather let the whole kingdom burn down if she can’t have it all. At this point it’s charitable to assume bad faith. I really think she is just that crazy.
The dangerous vigilantism that fueled Jan. 6
By Damon Linker, The Week It didn’t take long following the shocking events of Jan. 6 for journalists to begin referring to what transpired on Capitol Hill that afternoon as an “insurrection.” Some on the right dissented from the term, insisting it was merely a popular protest against […]
Pfizer Requests EMERGENCY Authorization For ‘Effective’ Covid Antiviral Pill As Deaths Near 800,000
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave weigh in on the Senate debt ceiling vote, as well as Pfizer’s efforts to earn FDA approval for their antiviral Covid treatment.
Jan. 6 looks worse and worse. It still won’t matter.
By Samuel Goldman The Week It’s getting worse. While the basic storyline holds true, new information revealed by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot deepens our understanding of the final weeks of the Trump presidency. In its report recommending contempt of Congress charges against Chief of […]
Sarah Silverman Called RACIST For Revealing Joy Reid Lies
Krystal and Saagar look at how Sarah Silverman responded to the backlash she received after calling out Joy Reid’s misleading coverage on her primetime MSNBC show
The Unemployed and semi-unemployed in China might reach 300-400M people/Newly unemployed in 7 industries
We’ve said it before when Chinese officials warn the public about something, it means that the problem can no longer be contained. After the Chinese government released the economic data for the third quarter of 2021, the official Chinese media warned the public to be careful about the […]
How American Progressives Became French Jacobins
By Michael Lind, Tablet The iconoclastic gestures of the woke left bear an alarming resemblance to the excesses of the French Revolution. I spent the first third of my career among conservatives and the next two-thirds among progressives. At first, I thought both parties were equally cynical and […]
CEOs from Target, CVS and Walgreens ask Congress for help amid retail crime surge
This is what I thought would happen in response to “defund the police.” I suspected there would be a decrease in policing in predominantly lower-income urban areas, followed by rising crime rates (which are fueled by pandemic and economic conditions as well), followed by renewed calls for law […]
Ancient Greeks didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues
By Andrew Curry, Science Stories of Sparta aside, analysis questions idea that infirm infants were abandoned to die. In his biography Life of Lycurgus, written around 100 C.E., Greek philosopher Plutarch recounted how the ancient Spartans submitted newborns to a council of elders for inspection. “Fit and strong” […]
Why Hasan Piker Has Been Banned From Twitch
By Harrison Abbott Newsweek Prominent streamer Hasan Piker has been banned from Twitch, after reportedly violating the platform’s code of conduct. If you are not familiar with Piker — alternatively known by his username HasanAbi — he is a left-wing commentator and former journalist for both The Young […]
Grade Inflation Is Ruining Education
By Shane Trotter, Quillette When people lose the connection between their actions and their consequences, they lose their hold on reality and the further this goes the more it looks like madness. ~Robert Greene A recent study conducted at the Naval Academy showed that students learn less from […]
Never Mind the Bol%ocks: Why MODERN MUSIC SUCKS
Back in the late eighties/early nineties, all these bands constantly championed freedom of speech, free expression and hated the idea of censorship. It was all about freedom and ‘f**k you to the man. That attitude suited them when they were considered ‘fringe’ back in the day. The conservatives […]
Congressional candidate, ex-Army officer strips in pro-veteran, anti-war show
By Kyle Lawson, Staten Island Advance, N.Y. A provocative Instagram video from 2019 shows Staten Island House of Representatives candidate Brittany Ramos DeBarros stripping and twerking at a 2019 anti-war, pro-veteran event. The video depicts DeBarros, a Democratic Socialist and former Army officer, at one point pulling off […]
Origins, Harms and Political Deception of the COVID-19 Lockdowns
By Phillip Magness & Graham Walker, Independent Institute This Lighthouse Briefing video features Independent Institute Executive Director Dr. Graham H. Walker and Independent Research Fellow Dr. Phillip W. Magness discussing Dr. Magness’s article, “Case for Mask Mandate Rests on Bad Data,” including the politicization of science, the folly […]
Virus and Leviathan: Infectious Diseases and Government Growth
By Graham Walker and Christopher Coyne, Independent Institute “Infectious Diseases and Government Growth,” by Christopher J. Coyne, Nathan P. Goodman, and Abigail Deveraux (The Independent Review, Spring 2021) In early 2020, COVID-19 emerged from China. In response, and at the urging of the World Health Organization (WHO), governments […]
Fear: The Fuel of Government Power—Coronavirus Panic
By Mary L. G. Theroux and Graham H. Walker, Independent Institute In response to 400 known cases and 5 deaths from coronavirus in the San Francisco Bay Area, on March 16th Bay Area city and county governments panicked and overreacted by ordering a “Shelter in Place” mandate that […]
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