Hoyer and Scalise SNIP at each other over Supreme Court
Rep. Steny Hoyer and Rep. Steve Scalise snipped at each other on the House floor over the Supreme Court.
Mike Lindell Floats ‘Free Speech’ Platform Which Bans Cursing, Porn, Lord’s Name In Vain
Fair enough. Eventually, every political group will have its own niche market social media platform. Team Rising debates a potential conservative social media platform.
Poll Reveals Americans HATE Media’s Weaponized Negativity
Saagar Enjeti debates whether problem-spotlighting journalism is useful.
Police in America – Where Are The Good Apples?
“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.
‘Anti-racist journey’ prompts UNR lecturer to apologize for teaching ‘Jingle Bells,’ ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’
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 […]
Professor rebukes social justice theory in scathing video. Despite student pressure, he refuses to resign.
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 […]
BLM activist calls for investigation into Marxist co-founder’s real estate purchases
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 […]
Why the backfire effect does not explain the durability of political misperceptions
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 […]
CNN Caught On Camera Admitting To Pro-Democrat Propaganda
And, in other news, CNN announces that the sun is hot.
“Cancel culture” and Solidarity
By Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski We’re looking forward to our conversation this Friday with Dan Kovalik, author of Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture. In advance of this conversation, we’re thinking about how the Left will build an unapologetic movement for equality that goes […]
Due Process Is Good, He Said Controversially
By Matt Taibbi Gaetz, Greenwald, and accusations in the Twitter age. I interviewed friend Glenn Greenwald yesterday about his new book, “Securing Democracy” (review on the way). For those not familiar, that’s the one where Glenn and his husband David Miranda shepherded a major corruption story into print, […]
Who Are the Squares?
By Gentleman Bandit How a dwindling minority of mid-caste teacher’s pets dominate the expert class despite their near-total lack of experience. I’ve written before about the Square University Culture. I don’t mean everybody who attends university — I mean people who are born in comfortable circumstances, advance easily […]
Biden Re-Ignites the Waco Fire
By James Bovard, The American Conservative Last week, President Joe Biden nominated David Chipman to be head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the premier federal firearms enforcement agency. Biden complemented that announcement with a call for a national red flag law to entitle police […]
MSNBC CONFRONTS Fauci For Lying To Americans On Masks
Fraudci the Spin Doctor. Team Rising discusses the Biden administration’s COVID messaging.
Biden’s ATF Pick Is Literally a Veteran of the Waco Massacre
Trump had Bill Barr of Ruby Ridge infamy. Now, Biden has this dude from Waco infamy. Saagar Enjeti reacts to Biden’s pick for head of the ATF, David Chipman,
COVID Cronyism: How Government-Industry Ties Shaped Our Pandemic Response
It’s interesting that a bunch of Republicans are most aware of all this than much of the so-called Left. The American Conservative’s 5th Annual Crony Capitalism Conference The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was created to be a lifeline to small businesses struggling to stay afloat as the response […]
Trump EXPLODES at Republican Event…AGAINST Republicans!
-Donald Trump is absolutely irate at a Republican donor event over the weekend, primarily against fellow Republicans, setting up a major showdown in 2022 and 2024
Matt Gaetz Blames Cancel Culture & Deep State For His Scandal
Ironically, he may be right.
Free Julian Assange Protest at CNN Los Angeles
Free Assange, Jail the war criminals!
Sinister Establishment Takedown Of Anti War, Anti-PAC Matt Gaetz?
I suspect Kim is on to something here. This looks like a convenient purge of a prominent Trumpist.
Controversy Around Substack EXPLAINED
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses journalists leaving Substack due to transphobic content.
500 CEOs PLOT To Stop GOP Voting Laws
Wow. The capitalist class really is fragmenting. Team Rising reacts to the virtual meeting of hundreds of CEOs to discuss the Georgia voter laws.
Anti-war activist visited by police after posting embarrassing AOC video
By Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone An anti-war activist was visited by California Highway Patrol officers after posting video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bumbling comments on Israel-Palestine. The action, which AOC denies triggering, was initiated by a call to US Capitol Police. As he waited for a food delivery […]
The Culture War Has Destroyed Liberal Principles
This is a great discussion. Ben, Producer Forrest, and Nando Vila talk about how the culture war has turned politics into the WWE and why so many liberals seem to be afraid of “principled liberals” like Glenn Greenwald.
End the War on Drugs for Good | Christina Dent
In this heartfelt and thoughtful talk, Christina shares her ideas about the destructive impact of the war on drugs and the mounting evidence that the opposite approach would be much more effective. Christina Dent is a life-long Mississippian and was a staunch supporter of the War on Drugs […]
Serious Trouble’: Gaetz Associate Indicted For Sex Crimes Could Flip On Him
Republican congressman Matt Gaetz is under federal investigation for possible sex trafficking and sex with a 17-year-old. The probe reportedly stems from Gaetz associate, Joel Greenberg, who is likely to plead guilty to crimes including sex trafficking. Greenberg’s lawyer dropped this bombshell saying Gaetz is “not feeling very […]
Biden Confirms He’ll Make Announcement on Gun Control This Week
By Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times President Joe Biden said he’ll make an announcement on his upcoming gun control plan on Friday, coming after reports that suggested he would sign an executive order on guns in the near future. When asked about reports saying he would take executive […]
Is Racism Moral Now?
“Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expediencies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people . . . ” —Damon Young, New York Times contributor […]
The Art of the New Racism
By K. Lloyd Billingsley, Independent Institute “Certain San Francisco artists may receive $1,000 a month under a new city program, the latest in a series of universal basic income initiatives cropping up in cities across California,” writes Faith Pinho of msn.com. Anybody eager for the extra $1000 might […]
American Exodus: Don’t wait for the oligarchy to let you in. Just walk away.
By Angelo Codevilla, Independent Institute When Machiavelli wrote, “in order to know Moses’ virtue it was necessary that the people of Israel be slaves in Egypt …,” he was pointing to the truth that knowing what one is up against is a powerful incentive for dealing with it […]
ELITIST National Review Writer Blames VOTERS For National Mess In Anti-Democracy Piece
Krystal Ball reacts to a new National Review about the Georgia voter laws.
Republican Smacks Down Tucker Carlson on His Own Show
Republican Governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson appears on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News channel and smacks Tucker around on the issue of actual conservative in the context of Hutchinson’s recent veto of a transgender rights bill.
Ryan Grim vs Ryan Knight, Briahna Joy Gray, Kshama Sawant & Jimmy Dore – TWITTER WAR
These Vanguard podcast folks have a program where they track the various sectarian squabbles and personality clashes on the Left, although they seem more focused on the mainstream, reformist oriented left than the further left anarchist, Marxist, Antifa, etc. Left.
Biden May Restart Construction Of Trump’s Wall
Democrats are now the Wall Party. Republicans are now the Kids in Cages Party. Right on cue. It’s almost like someone is scripting all of this. “We have always been at war with….someone or other.”
Officials investigating child sex abuse, neglect allegations at Texas migrant shelter
By Jesse O’Neill, New York Post Texas officials are investigating allegations of child sex abuse and neglect at San Antonio’s Freeman Expo Center, where thousands of migrant children who crossed the border are being held. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made the alarming announcement at the center Wednesday night, […]
Meet the Censored: The U.S. Right to Know
By Matt Taibbi A nonprofit that investigates Genetically Modified Organisms and the origins of Covid-19 is the latest to see its traffic plunge after a search engine update. In July of 2020, a nonprofit watchdog group called the U.S. Right to Know — which describes its mission as […]
Gaetz Sought BLANKET Pardon From Trump In Last Days Of Office
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that Matt Gaetz asked Trump for a pardon before he left office.
HEARTBREAKING Video Emerges of Migrant Boy Abandoned at Border
It’s rather fascinating how the parties have done an about-face on the migrant kids issue right on cue. It’s almost like all of this is completely scripted. A viral video has been released of a 10-year-old migrant boy approaching an off-duty Border Patrol agent asking for help. Will […]
New Fox News Comedy Show Is WORST THING You Will Ever See
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Greg Gutfeld’s new comedy show on Fox News, Gutfeld!
McConnell Says Get CEOs Out Of Politics While SELLING OUT Harder Than Anyone
Krystal Ball breaks down Sen. Mitch McConnell’s hypocritical comments on corporations involvement in politics.
Dan Crenshaw’s IDIOTIC Argument Against Stimulus Checks On Joe Rogan
Saagar Enjeti reacts to Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s attack on populism in his latest interview with Joe Rogan.
Public Interest In Trump PLUMMETS To Pre-Presidency Levels, GOP In Catastrophe
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss lack of public interest in Donald Trump since his deplatforming on social media.
UH-OH: Matt Gaetz Could Face Life in Prison
–Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz could face life in prison if convicted of child sex trafficking
I Was Offered a Lucrative Job to Become a Conservative
–David tells the story of when he was offered a lucrative job if he were to have a political awakening and become a conservative.
Melissa Chen on Fighting Wokeness at Home and Radicalism Abroad
Chen is New York editor for The Spectator and managing director of Ideas Beyond Borders, a nonprofit that translates new and classic texts about science, history, and liberal political philosophy into Arabic and distributes them as free ebooks throughout the Middle East. Born and raised in Singapore, Chen […]
Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds
By Alan Feuer, New York Times Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic white population were the most likely to be homes to people who stormed the Capitol. When the political scientist Robert Pape began studying the issues that motivated the 380 or so people arrested […]
What an analysis of 377 Americans arrested or charged in the Capitol insurrection tells us
By Robert A. Pape, Washington Post The Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by a violent mob at the behest of former president Donald Trump was an act of political violence intended to alter the outcome of a legitimate democratic election. That much was always evident. What we […]
Biden Compared To Karl Marx On Fox
Comparing Biden to Marx is like trying to compare apples to motor oil…
The Uneasy Alliance of Evangelicals and Conservatism
Trumpism is dividing the evangelicals. By D.G. Hart, The American Conservatism Since Ronald Reagan’s defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980, evangelical Protestants have been a seemingly solid segment within American conservatism. “Seemingly” is important, because conservatives often scratch their heads at evangelical habits of mind. Some of the […]
Woke Capitalism & Decadent Republicans
The fact that this legislation could not pass even in Arkansas, with a governor who is a former head of the DEA, indicates that the “cultural left” (or at least cultural liberalism) is now almost completely hegemonic, with the exception of peripheral institutional, socioeconomic, subcultural, and geographical sectors. […]
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