Former Chicago officer Jason Van Dyke to be released from prison Thursday
Former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke is scheduled to be released from prison Thursday after serving a little more than three years for the murder of Laquan McDonald
Does prison reduce crime? Yes, obviously
But the first question is how is “crime” going to be defined in the first place? By Ed West I’m giving my first important TedTalk to a crowd of international executives and global ‘thinkfluencers’. I’m promoting a new airport psychology book, which is filled with curious and quirky […]
Jen Psaki MOCKING Crime Surge On Pod Save America Is Perfect Example Of OUT OF TOUCH Dem Party
Cleveland radio host Darvio Morrow criticizes the Biden administration’s dismissal of violent crime as a problem.
California Revives the Wild West Train Robbery | Gavin Newsom Apologizes to the Gangs
$255 million to stop $5 million in theft. Just doing a little math here…
Cancel culture comes to Georgetown Law
By Damon Linker The Week Warnings about the rise of “cancel culture” may sometimes be overblown. But the case of Ilya Shapiro, a libertarian expert in constitutional law placed on “administrative leave” from Georgetown University’s law school, is an especially egregious example of the trend — and runs […]
Multiple HBCUs receive bomb threats for the 2nd day in a row
By Brendan Morrow The Week Several historically Black colleges and universities have received bomb threats for the second consecutive day, and at least the third time in the past month. On Tuesday, Howard University said it had lifted a shelter-in-place directive after an investigation into a bomb threat made […]
Tribes Reach $590 Million Opioid Settlement With J. & J. and Distributors
By Jan Hoffman New York Times Money from the tentative deal would go toward addiction and treatment and would be overseen by Native American tribal leaders. Hundreds of Native American tribes that have suffered disproportionately high addiction and death rates during the opioid epidemic agreed on Tuesday to […]
People Serving LIFE For Weed BEG Biden For Mercy
For a guy who almost lost his son because of drugs, he is quite unsympathetic
Judge Rejects Ahmaud Arbery Killers’ Country Club Prison Deal
–A judge rejects a plea deal for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers on federal charges which would have allowed them to serve sentences at a country club prison
Prince Andrew Claims Epstein Victim Gave Consent
Kim Iversen discusses the latest in the Prince Andrew case brought against him by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre
Biden’s SCOTUS Pledge Is An EMPTY Gesture To Make Up Ground With Black Voters
Brihana Joy Gray reacts to Senator Lindsey Graham’s support of President Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
Trump Floats PARDONS For Jan 6 Defendants, GLOATS About Trying to Overturn Election
Team Rising discusses the latest jab made by former President Donald Trump towards former Vice President Mike Pence, and whether either could win the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.
Dem Rep. Henry Cuellar’s Home RAIDED By FBI After SHADY Business Dealings With Azerbaijan
Ryan Grim breaks down the circumstances behind last week’s FBI raid of Rep. Henry Cuellar’s (D-TX) home.
Prince Andrew Claims “Consent” In Virginia Giuffre Lawsuit, US Sanctions Against Russia IMMINENT
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Prince Andrew’s continued attempts to have Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against him dismissed.
The Drug War Ruins Lives, Part 2,644
Tom Woods Show Libertarian city council member Cara Schulz left her audience spellbound at a recent meeting during a discussion of chronic pain sufferers. Doctors are having their hands tied and people with unbearable pain can’t get the care they need because the authorities pretend they’re looking out […]
The prison beyond the law
The Week Staff The U.S. has been holding terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay for 20 years. Will the camp ever close? Here’s everything you need to know: Why was Guantánamo created? The military detention facility first called Camp X-Ray was built in three days in early January 2002, […]
Only 23 percent of Americans say Biden should just consider Black female SCOTUS candidates, new poll finds
By Grayson Quay The Week According to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, 76 percent of Americans say President Biden should consider “all possible nominees” to fill retiring Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat on the Supreme Court. Only 23 percent say Biden should consider only Black female candidates, as he […]
Congress Weighs PROMISING Antitrust Bill, OPENS DOOR For Further Big Tech Regulation
Author of “Goliath,” Matt Stoller, breaks down the antitrust bill that could change Big Tech.
Biden’s SHAMEFUL Nom Of Chevron Defense Lawyer Linked To Donziger Persecution
Katie Halper, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Robby Soave discuss one of President Biden’s controversial federal judicial nominees.
Sympathy for Malik Faisal Akram and Aafia Siddiqui
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s been just over two weeks since the latest act of Islamic terrorism on US soil and the powers at be in the Fourth Estate already have it all figured out. Hell, it took those brilliant motherfuckers less […]
DISASTER Looms If Biden’s SCOTUS Pick Is ANOTHER Corporatists Like Breyer
David Sirota argues that a play to identity politics isn’t enough when picking a nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Breyer.
INSIDE Retiring Liberal Justice’s Pro Corporate Record
Krystal and Saagar talk with Daily Poster founder David Sirota about the pro corporate record of retiring liberal SCOTUS Justice Stephen Breyer and how the court routinely sides with big business
They were sentenced to life in prison. Who should decide if they get a second chance?
By Rebecca Tan and Ovetta Wiggins Washington Post Nineteen years after Darryl Taylor was sentenced to life for a murder he says he did not commit, a board of parole commissioners recommended him for early release. The feeling, he remembers, was like standing with one foot out the prison […]
Behar: Supreme Court Like a ‘Dictatorial Branch of Government’
It’s hilarious how after decades of conservatives bashing “activist judges” liberals are now the SCOTUS haters. By Caroline Downey National Review Joy Behar, co-host of the show The View, compared the Supreme Court to a “dictatorial branch of government” because of the unique appointment process and lifetime tenure […]
The big nothing of replacing Stephen Breyer
By Damon Linker, The Week We appear to be at the start of one of the most routine processes in our politics. I know we’re supposed to think Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court and the pending announcement of President Biden’s nominee to succeed him is […]
Chaos rules in Soho, where residents say they fear for their safety
I can’t say I much care if the bourgeois bohemians are running scared of lumpen crime. The US elites wanted the domestic United States to be a Third World country and they’re going to get it. By Georgett Roberts and Gabrielle Fonrouge Open fires burning on the street. […]
Eric Trump & Alex Jones Plead the 5th HUNDREDS OF TIMES
–Eric Trump and Alex Jones invoked their 5th Amendment rights hundreds of times during recent testimony to the January 6 committee, a jarring contrast to Donald Trump saying that only guilty
Stephen Breyer to Retire, As Dems Approach a Probably Disastrous Midterms
I don’t really agree that Breyer is “far-left” but whatever. He doesn’t want the GOP to take the senate and then prevent Biden from replacing Breyer with a similarly far-left figure.
Will Biden DITCH Kamala By Tapping Her For SCOTUS?
That would be funny as hell. Krystal and Saagar bring the news about liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announcing his retirement and the possibility that Biden will nominate Kamala as his replacement
Manufactured OUTRAGE? TN School Board Removes Graphic Holocaust Novel From 8th Grade Curriculum
Katie Halper, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Robby Soave discuss one of President Biden’s controversial federal judicial nominees
Biden PRESSURED To Keep Promise To Nominate Black Woman To SCOTUS When Justice Breyer Retires
Adam Coleman, Kristal Knight, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Robby Soave react to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s imminent retirement.
Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers Leader, Is Denied Bail on Sedition Charge
By Alan Feuer New York Times Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, was denied bail on Wednesday by a federal judge in Texas who said he was a […]
Even Liberal MSM Realizes The Fake Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Was FBI ENTRAPMENT
A lot of culture war crap seems to me to be mostly a battle between the CIA Left and the FBI Right. Robby Soave examines the role of undercover FBI officers in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
US Marxists Need Political Innovation – Caleb speaks to Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library of Oakland
I am actually happy to see the rise of neo-tankieism because we need them as a counterpart of the pro-imperialist Breadtubers which, like Maupin, I also suspect is an intelligence front (the New CIA Left) and as a constraint on the woke left and on anti-woke but problematic […]
CNN’s Brian Stelter DOWNPLAYS US Crime Wave, Devalues True Victims Of Violence
Batya Ungar-Sargon is part of the anti-woke left, which is good, but like a lot of anti-woke leftists she seems to be embracing “law and order liberalism” at the same time. So we’re stuck with a context between the woke but pig-hating left and the anti-woke but pig-loving […]
BREAKING: Justice Breyer RETIRING From Supreme Court
“We can’t seat a Supreme Court justice during an election year! The 2020 audits are still ongoing!” – Republicans
The Senate battle to replace Stephen Breyer will get ugly
By W. James Antle III, The Week In a different world, Senate Republicans could let President Biden fill the vacancy created by Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court. Conservatives would still enjoy a 6-3 majority. Wednesday’s news did not create a situation like the deaths of […]
Who Biden might nominate to replace Justice Stephen Breyer
I’ve heard it rumored Biden might move Kamala to the Supreme Court and make Hillary VP. I would be surprised if that actually happened but it would be funny as hell. By Brigid Kennedy The Week Now that Justice Stephen Breyer has reportedly decided to retire from the […]
Reporter Asks Biden About Justice Breyer’s Retirement, Here Is How He Responds
By Allen Zhong, Epoch Times President Joe Biden told reporters that he would have “more to say later” about Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement. “There has been no announcement from Justice Breyer—let him make whatever statement he wants to make, and I’m happy to talk about it later,” he […]
Biden’s likeliest Supreme Court pick
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reportedly plans to announce his retirement as early as this week. The 83-year-old justice, who tends to side with the liberals on the bench, has faced pressure from Democrats to hang up his robe sooner rather than […]
Criminal Grand Jury Approved for Trump Election Interference
–A grand jury in Georgia has been approved to hear evidence regarding possible criminality by Donald Trump in his attempts to coerce Georgia officials into giving him the 2020 Georgia election, despite Joe Biden having received more votes
GOP Will JAIL Jan 6 Investigators Says Newt Gingrich
In a way, Newt is responsible for what happened that day, most toxic political figure in US politics in recent decades. Perhaps he is the one who needs to be jailed, nobody would miss him anyway.
Stop-And-Frisk Returns To NYC? Eric Adams REINSTATES Units Disbanded In Black Lives Matter Summer
Team Rising discusses New York City’s return to ‘tough on crime’ policing.
BREAKING: Assange WINS Right To Appeal Extradition In UK
Krystal and Saagar cover the court ruling in the UK that Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US in the Supreme Court of the UK and how his case presents a real danger to press freedom
Prosecutor: 3 officers stood by as Chauvin killed Floyd
Sammy “The Bull” Gravano had it right on these guys. By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights did nothing to intervene as fellow officer Derek Chauvin pinned the Black man’s […]
YOU CAN TOUCH, BUT YOU CAN’T LOOK: EXAMINING THE INCONSISTENCIES IN OUR AGE OF CONSENT AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY LAWS
This is an interesting article about a contemporary moral panic. Underage sex is one of America’s latest hysterias. Nowadays, we’ve got not only the Pizzagate/QAnon “pedophile under every bed” hysteria, but there is increasingly an effort to equate sexual relations between adults and postpubescent minors with pedophilia. An […]
Indentured Servants: Judge ORDERS Hospital Staff To WORK
Krystal and Saagar cover the story of a local judge ordering employees at a hospital to stay at their current jobs and keep working after they tried to leave the company for better jobs
Pelosi PRESSURED Into Supporting Stock Trade Ban For Congress
What about the immediate family of Congress? They shouldn’t be allowed to trade stocks either… What’s to say they can’t relay stock tips to their family members?
Crenshaw On Stock Trades: THEY DON’T PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE
Krystal and Saagar respond to the justification given by Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw for his insider trading that generated sky-high returns in the stock market over the past year
‘Unseemly’: NPR Refuses to Correct Story After Supreme Court Deems It False
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times National Public Radio (NPR) is refusing to correct a story that was challenged by a trio of Supreme Court justices, triggering a flood of criticism. Citing anonymous sources, reporter Nina Totenberg said Chief Justice John Roberts “asked the other justices to mask up,” […]
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