Fair enough. Eventually, every political group will have its own niche market social media platform. Team Rising debates a potential conservative social media platform.
Unfortunately, most mainstream discourse of about wealth disparities is limited to “more taxes vs fewer taxes” which is an after-the-fact question that fails to address the causes of extreme wealth disparities generally. Team Rising discusses new polls showing the popularity of taxing the rich.
Hill reporter, Reid Wilson, discusses California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest COVID plans.
Regrettably, during times of enormous wealth disparities, sympathy for statism tends to escalate.
Saagar Enjeti debates whether problem-spotlighting journalism is useful.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a new ultra-rich candidate for Manhattan District Attorney, Tali Farhadian Weinstein.
Watch daily live coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, faces charges of manslaughter, second-degree murder, and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd. The trial is expected to last approximately four weeks.
By Justin Yau, Williamette Week For the third consecutive night, Portland activists gathered Tuesday to protest racist policing in the aftermath of an officer in Minnesota fatally shooting a Black man named Daunte Wright. For the second night in a row, Portland police declared a riot after protesters […]
That didn’t take long either.
That didn’t take long.
“We’re not dealing with bad apples, we’re dealing with a rotten tree.” Trevor addresses Daunte Wright, Caron Nazario, and the system that protects bad cops.
Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter made her first court appearance Thursday afternoon, charged with second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of motorist Daunte Wright on April 11. Appearing via Zoom from the office of her attorney Earl Gray, the 48-year-old Potter said few words, acknowledging the […]
By Kyle Jaeger, Marijuana Moment The movement to decriminalize psychedelics has spread so rapidly this year that it can be hard to keep track. But Decriminalize Nature, the group coordinating many of these initiatives, is up to the task. The group recently shared a map with the most […]
Chicago police release bodycam footage of shooting on 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
Chauvin takes the Fifth. Former police officer Derek Chauvin invoked the 5th Amendment, choosing not to testify at his trial in the death of George Floyd.
Saagar Enjeti breaks down how Trump’s “America First” has been hijacked by neocons.
The judge in the trial of Derek Chauvin said that he would declare a mistrial if the prosecution rebuttal witness even mentioned evidence of test showing normal carbon monoxide.
The prosecution asked to introduce new evidence regarding carbon monoxide evidence in George Floyd’s blood in the trial of Derek Chauvin.
If this actually happens, my guess would be that multiple things are probably happening. First, the neo-realists who seem to prefer to reestablish the Cold War-era alliance between the US and the mujahideen may be getting the upper hand over the neocons who prefer a permanent occupation. Also, […]
These are my basic thoughts on what the future of the USA is likely to look like: Direct American military interventionism is likely to become less common, with the use of international institutions, client states, mercenaries, proxy armies, “dollar diplomacy,” soft power, cultural imperialism, economic sanctions, etc. as […]
By Jonathan Payn This document, first published in Portuguese under the title Anarquismo Social e Organização and adopted at the first Congress of the Feder-ação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro in August 2008, seeks to map out the FARJ’s theoretical conception of an organised, class struggle anarchism and, […]
Women’s Liberation Front The ACLU has filed a lawsuit to prevent a private citizen from receiving public records from the Washington State Department of Corrections on the number of inmates in state custody who identify as transgender and the number of male inmates who are housed in women’s […]
Watch daily live coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, faces charges of manslaughter, second-degree murder, and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd. The trial is expected to last approximately four weeks.
Fail.
By Orion Rummler, Axios The Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6 as she joined a pro-Trump mob ransacking the Capitol will not face criminal charges, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. Driving the news: In their investigation, federal prosecutors determined […]
US troops will probably remain in Afghanistan as long as they have been in Germany and South Korea.
By Dan Mangan, CNBC News Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, was arrested on a charge of second-degree manslaughter. Potter’s arrest came a day after she resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department and three days after her shooting of the 20-year-old Black […]
The former Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer who shot Daunte Wright has been released from jail after posting a bond.
By By Sahil Kapur, NBC News WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats will introduce legislation Thursday to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices, joining progressive activists pushing to transform the court. The move intensifies a high-stakes ideological fight over the future of the court after President Donald […]
By Ben Zeisloft, Campus Reform After discovering the tenets of what is referred to as “anti-racism,” one University of Nevada-Reno professor will stop teaching songs like “Jingle Bells” and “Baa Baa Black Sheep.” Kate Pollard — a senior music lecturer at the University of Nevada-Reno — wrote about […]
By Ben Zeisloft, Campus Reform After a University of Vermont professor criticized the notion of “whiteness,” administrators denounced his comments and students called for his resignation. The professor refuses to resign. In a YouTube video entitled “Racism and the Secular Religion at the University of Vermont,” education professor […]
By Mike Brest, Washington Examiner A local Black Lives Matter chapter chief has called for an investigation into one of the founders of the activist group after reports emerged the self-styled Marxist spent millions on multiple real estate purchases. Hawk Newsome, the head of the greater New York […]
By Brendan Nyhan Previous research indicated that corrective information can sometimes provoke a so-called “backfire effect” in which respondents more strongly endorsed a misperception about a controversial political or scientific issue when their beliefs or predispositions were challenged. I show how subsequent research and media coverage seized on […]
A pretty good critique of progressive totalitarianism from a conservative/constitutionalist perspective. By William Voegeli, American Mind When it comes to progressive ambitions, nothing is off the table. Editors’ Note The Claremont Institute’s DC Center for the American Way of Life is a new initiative for actively counteracting the […]
Host of Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, discusses the how much in taxes the wealthy avoid each year.
Saagar Enjeti reacts to Biden’s pledge to have all US troops out of Afghanistan by 9/11/2021.
This is good. Don’t vote! Krystal Ball debates whether or not President Biden is populist right.
An expert called by the defense said that George Floyd died from sudden cardiac arrhythmia and ‘significant’ contributing conditions.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to newly released findings on the January 6th Capitol riots.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the pause on the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccine.
The judge in the trial of Derek Chauvin denied a request by the defense to acquit Chauvin in George Floyd’s death.
A friend of George Floyd who was with him the day he was killed said Wednesday that he would not testify in the ongoing trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, invoking Fifth Amendment privileges.
Conservative state legislators are taking a page from the playbook of pro-immigration activists and the marijuana legalization movement.
And, in other news, CNN announces that the sun is hot.
Here’s wishing Iran some good luck.
Hating on Russia and China at the same time. This really is a neocon administration.
But don’t forget to “trust science.”
Kropotkin’s daughter discusses life under the Stalin regime.
‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ host says ‘nothing the Democratic party advocates for is more dishonest than gun control.’
Watch daily live coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, faces charges of manslaughter, second-degree murder, and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd. The trial is expected to last approximately four weeks.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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