By Ben Feuerherd and Tamar Lapin New York Post Ghislaine Maxwell was once photographed rubbing Jeffrey Epstein’s feet on what appears to be his private jet — with her breasts spilling out of her skimpy top, according to new evidence released by federal prosecutors Wednesday. The raunchy photos […]
By Ben Feuerherd and Tamar Lapin New York One of Ghislaine Maxwell’s accusers claimed she once saw a photo of the British socialite “nude and pregnant” inside of Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida mansion. The woman, who testified using only her first name, Carolyn, was asked by defense attorneys at […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave break down new details in the tragic high school shooting in Oxford, Michigan.
Robby Soave further breaks down Jussie Smollett’s testimony while on trial for allegedly faking a hate crime.
Here we go. Another step toward Civil War Two. By ADAM BEAM, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the OK next year, California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature […]
Kim Iversen breaks down yesterday’s testimony at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial.
Krystal and Saagar outline the coming legal battle between Chris Cuomo and CNN after he was fired from his primetime spot on the network due to various scandals involving how he covered his brother
Ryan Grim details NSA whistleblower Reality Winner’s first television interview since her release from prison.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Jussie Smollett’s testimony.
Krystal and Saagar examine the growth of conservative media alternatives now that Trump’s new media organization has launched and is getting investigated by regulators
By Damon Linker, The Week America’s abortion precedents are a mess. They’re also as good as we’ll get. Even in our politically polarized time, abortion stands out as an issue uniquely defined by extremes. On one side, anti-abortion activists want the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade […]
By Peter Weber The Week Prosecutors in Oakland County, Michigan, and school officials laid out over the weekend what they believe happened leading up to last Tuesday’s deadly school shooting at Oxford High School. Student Ethan Crumbley, 15, will be tried as an adult for the murders of four […]
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, react to CNN’s firing of Chris Cuomo.
Krystal and Saagar cover the firing of Chris Cuomo from CNN after even more accusations about sexual misconduct and covering up his brother’s behavior came to light
Krystal and Saagar provide an update on the chances Roe v. Wade gets overturned now that the Supreme Court is deliberating on a challenge to the decision from Mississippi
Robby Soave details the charges Jussie Smollett is facing following an attack prosecutors say the actor orchestrated.
Reality Winner was arrested in 2017 for leaking classified information about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Scott Pelley speaks with Winner in her first television interview since being released earlier this year.
By ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Supreme Court court weighs the future of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, a resurgent anti-abortion movement is looking to press its advantage in state-by-state battles while abortion-rights supporters prepare to play defense. Both sides seem to […]
By Ruth Marcus Washington Post This essay was updated following the Supreme Court’s Dec. 1 oral argument on Mississippi’s abortion law. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., the Eisenhower appointee who became the liberal lion of the Warren Court, had a tradition for introducing every new batch […]
By Patrick Buchanan, The American Conservative According to Gallup, on the issue of crime, President Joe Biden is 18 points underwater. While 57 percent of Americans disapprove of how he is handling crime, only 39 percent approve. Biden’s dismal rating was recorded before the verdict came in the […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week Who’s responsible when a minor kills? For legal purposes, the greatest burden falls on the accused. There are situations, though, where parents may be liable to prosecution. In many states, that includes cases where parents provide guns to children or don’t take steps […]
By Amy Littlefield, The Nation If Supreme Court rules as expected, a group of committed abortion rights supporters is ready to fight to “liberate abortion.” Jessy Rosales stood in front of the Supreme Court Building on Wednesday, holding a yellow circle printed with the words “I had an […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week Americans love courts. Despite the jokes about sending attorneys to the bottom of the sea, legal disputes and judicial decisions play an outsize role in the national imagination, as they have for centuries. In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville noted “[t]here is virtually […]
By W. James Antle III The Week If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade (1973), it will be a major victory for former President Donald Trump if he chooses to run again in 2024. Yes, those are two big ifs. But social conservatives have a relationship with Republican presidents […]
By Andrew Sullivan The case for returning the abortion question to politics. There is no question, it seems to me, that abortion is an issue where the burden on women vastly outweighs the burden on men. Up to nine months of carrying and then caring for an infant […]
By Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The media’s blatant lies amount to racial arson. Both Wisconsin towns, Kenosha, and Waukesha, about 50 miles apart by car, were the recent sites of multiple deaths. The violence in both made national news. Yet in contradictory ways both reflected the common themes of […]
The weakening of the American regime provides many opportunities for anti-imperialist struggles and the creation of startup societies now that the global hegemon is in decline, and the domestic regime is experiencing decline as well. Meanwhile, I suspect the long-term effect of recent anti-police uprisings will be a […]
Team Rising discusses reporting from The Intercept about Pfizer’s efforts to kill a law making it easier for corporate whistleblowers to come forward.
The Daily Poster’s Andrew Perez details his reporting that corporate lobbying groups are pressing the biden administration not to reform the Supreme Court.
Kim Iversen discusses the media coverage of the charges against accused school shooter, Ethan Crumbley.
Team Rising breaks down yesterday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
Krystal and Saagar give viewers all of the latest news from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial as victims of she and Jeffrey Epstein’s serial pedophilia and sex trafficking testify in court
Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University at 19 years old to start the company that became Theranos Inc., a startup that promised to revolutionize the blood-testing industry. After operating largely in secret for a decade, Theranos began in 2013 publicizing its technology, which it […]
By Bindu Bansinath and Amanda Arnold The Cut In January 2019, Empire actor Jussie Smollett was beaten by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him, and put his head in a noose — an attack that was first investigated as a violent hate crime but […]
By Rebecca Traister New York Mag, Intelligencer The aftermath of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments this week on the fate of Roe v. Wade — in which a phalanx of right-wing justices made plain their disdain for the law — has been a festival of finger-pointing and recrimination […]
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court heard arguments in which it was asked to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years. The fate of the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States and its 1992 […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce Will Roe v. Wade be reversed, or simply defanged? Today the Supreme Court signaled that it will uphold an abortion ban in Mississippi (not to be confused with the law in Texas that caused an uproar earlier this year). For that law to stay […]
My guess is that if Roe v. Wade falls it will be another escalation of the culture wars on the level of the two Trump elections, the pandemic, the George Floyd protests/riots, and January 6. Some states will move to liberalize abortion rights even further, while others will […]
By Damon Linker The Week The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday morning in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a case with the potential to gut Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the court’s landmark decisions establishing and upholding a constitutional right to abortion. […]
I suspect that the overturn of Roe v. Wade will greatly increase polarization and fragmentation. Kim Iversen breaks down the challenge to Roe v. Wade being considered by the Supreme Court today.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave break down the testimony of Jeffrey Epstein’s pilot at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial.
By Damon Linker, The Week This past weekend, with still more than a month to go in 2021, Philadelphia surpassed 500 homicides in a single year, a grim record set in 1990. Just a few days later, the number of murders has already climbed to 506. You may […]
Saagar dives into the alarming history of Waukesha killer Darrell Brooks Jr. unlike the mainstream media sources who have already forgotten about this major event. To support the victims of the Waukesha massacre, check out the fundraising links below: To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen […]
Reporter J. Brian Charles details Baltimore activists’ ongoing fight to defund the police, as well as areas of disagreement within the movement.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to reporting that Chris Cuomo used media sources to aid his brother, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, as he fought sexual misconduct allegations.
Krystal and Saagar look at the newly disclosed texts that demonstrate how primetime CNN anchor Chris Cuomo tried to get dirt on the women accusing his brother of sexual misconduct
By Juliet Williams In a reversal of plans to divert funding from police to social services, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said Monday that she’ll push to reverse planned cuts to the city’s police department and seek to quickly hire more officers amid a spike in violence and homicides […]
By Ben Feuerherd and Tamar Lapin New York Post Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense attorneys on Monday portrayed her as a scapegoat being accused because of “the bad behavior of men,” — one in particular — since prosecutors never had a chance to put late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on trial. Her lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, […]
By Ben Feuerherd and Tamar Lapin New York Post Prince Andrew and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were among the high-profile men to get name-dropped Tuesday at Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan. Maxwell’s defense attorney quizzed Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime former pilot Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr. […]
By Amanda Arnold and Bindu Bansinath The Cut The long-awaited sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, a former girlfriend and longtime associate of the disgraced billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, begins November 29 in New York. Maxwell was arrested by the FBI on charges related to Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring in June […]
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