Uvalde Cops HIDING From Investigators As More LIES Revealed
Krystal and Saagar bring the latest on the Uvalde shooting investigations that local law enforcement leaders are hiding from as even more lies about the timeline come to light
Krystal and Saagar bring the latest on the Uvalde shooting investigations that local law enforcement leaders are hiding from as even more lies about the timeline come to light
“Nothing will fundamentally change.” – Joe Biden
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Joe Biden wants to declare war on white supremacy or at least so he claims. “White supremacy is a poison. It’s a poison… running through our body politic.” He forcefully declared at a recent PR junket following one […]
By Julie Gerstein, Associated Press UVALDE, Texas — Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upward of 40 minutes and ended […]
By TRAVIS LOLLER, AP News COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Miranda Atnip lost her home during the coronavirus pandemic after her boyfriend moved out and she fell behind on bills. Living in a car, the 34-year-old worries every day about getting money for food, finding somewhere to shower, and […]
by Don Fitz and Susan Armstrong The change in marijuana laws across the US raises issues far beyond, “Hey, dude, we can blow a joint now without getting busted.” The racism that permeated the age of criminalization now lurks throughout the phase of decriminalization. The burgeoning business of […]
By K. Lloyd Billingsley Independent Institute As the great state of Minnesota recently confirmed, a police officer of Somali extraction can gun down an unarmed woman who called 911 to report a crime, get his murder conviction tossed, and gain release after serving only 57 months. That works out to […]
Postmedia News A Florida sheriff wants citizens to take the law into their own hands if someone is breaking into their home. “If someone is breaking into your house you’re more than welcome to shoot at them in Santa Rosa County,” Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson told […]
Krystal and Saagar comment on the concerns raised by GOP Sen. Rand Paul about the DHS ‘disinformation’ board and the threat it could pose to free speech
Krystal and Saagar analyze the reporting about the FBI’s searching of millions of Americans data over the past year without obtaining warrants
Proto-Protestant Blog Many Evangelicals will undoubtedly celebrate the recent legislative moves in Texas and Florida and both governors (one Catholic and one Evangelical) are certainly viewed as allies or even champions in the Christian Right’s culture wars. Let’s be clear. Sodomy is an abomination and parents that encourage […]
Slavery is still legal in this country for felons. Not only do private prisons get money from the government for warehousing prisoners, they are allowed to hire them out as super-cheap labor for private companies. We really need to start a list of companies that use prison labor […]
“We’re all potential victims.”—Peter Christ, retired police officer Rubber-stamped, court-issued warrants for no-knock SWAT team raids have become the modern-day equivalent of colonial-era writs of assistance. [Click to Tweet] It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by […]
Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger details his almost 1000-day detention after taking on Big Oil.
By Caitlin Johnstone The news man tells me the CIA’s “Queen of Torture” now runs a life and beauty coaching business which helps midlife women “look good, feel good, and do good.” “HI, I’M FREDA, A CERTIFIED BEAUTY AND LIFE COACH READY TO HELP YOU OWN YOUR BEAUTY […]
Olayemi Olurin and Darvio Morrow react to new data showing that American police budgets have remain largely stagnant through the past five years.
The Herland Report Herland Report: The American Prison Industrial Complex: There’s no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love putting people in prison. The U.S. has both the highest number of prisoners and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the […]
Olayemi Olurin, Briahna Joy Gray, and Robby Soave discuss New York Mayor Eric Adams’ response to yesterday’s Brooklyn subway shooting.
Briahna Joy Gray makes the case for seeking alternative solutions to address violent crime.
By CHARLES CRUMPLEY Los Angeles Business Journal The Los Angeles Police Department is having such a difficult time attracting recruits that leaders plan to seek help from the business community. Specifically, L.A.’s landlords will be asked to voluntarily subsidize apartments for police recruits for two years. That way, […]
Journalist and former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori
Ryan Grim describes how an ‘all-or-nothing’ dogma is flawed in treating addiction.
By Alexa Gervasi The Week In the United States, government officials cannot inflict pain to compel you to speak — unless you live in Texas, Louisiana, or Mississippi. A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that police officers do not violate the Constitution when they […]
Newly elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams is a former cop, and so it should come as little surprise that he’s making an increased police presence a part of his plan for reducing crime in the city. Controversially, he’s decided to bring back the controversial “broken windows” […]
The House is poised to pass legislation this week that would legalize marijuana, just the latest example of the swiftly changing attitudes on drug laws that marks a near reversal from the Reagan-era war on drugs that also reverberated through the 1990s.
Carly Cooperman and Melik Abdul debate whether additional funding for the police will help stop crime.
By Aída Chávez The Nation After 50 years of prohibition, some states are starting to challenge the federal government’s policy on psychedelic drugs. In November 2020, voters in Oregon passed a pair of historic drug policy ballot measures. The first was Measure 110, a proposal to decriminalize low-level […]
By Maia Szalavitz The Nation Just a few decades ago, the left and the right, politicians and the public, universally embraced the criminalization of drug use. But a new consensus has emerged. Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson was raised by a single mother in a Baltimore housing project. […]
by Katie Way Vice Maybe it’s the book’s cover, with its huge, red letters and clean typeface, legible from halfway across a room. Or maybe it’s just the message that’s electrifying. The End of Policing has been omnipresent on anti-racist reading lists since summer 2020, but it entered […]
Max Alvarez and Amy Tarkanian discuss the reappropriation of American Rescue Plan funds to police and prison expenditures.
THEMED SHOW: War on Drugs Keeps Failing, Countries Try Decriminalization / Opiate Users Switching to Marijuana / Which Drugs Should Be Legalized & Decriminalized? / and much more… 00:00 Start 00:35 War on Drugs Keeps Failing, Countries Try Decriminalization 06:17 Opiate Users Switching to Marijuana 11:03 Which Drugs Should Be Legalized […]
Krystal and Saagar analyze the decisions by American and Russian officials to take the countries’ respective media down as the Cold War rhetoric heats up
Here’s a brutal irony about regulating hate speech: Such laws often end up hurting the very people they are supposed to protect.
Kim Iversen explains the World Economic Forum’s efforts to introduce a digital ID.
Robby Soave makes the case that issues related to transgenderism and gender fluidity shouldn’t be adjudicated in primary school classrooms.
Briahna Joy Gray discusses the neoliberal exploitation of the Canadian truckers protest.
Saagar examines the IRS’ plan to collect facial recognition data and why America must reject it in order to avoid a crackdown like we saw in Canada
Director of the Criminal Justice Program at the CCLA, Abby Deshman, details a lawsuit against the Canadian government over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act.
By Lee Fang The Intercept The company formerly known as X-Mode is now part of a federal government contractor that sells location data quietly harvested from apps. In January, The Markup revealed a list of apps that have sold location data to X-Mode, a controversial data broker that […]
By Damon Linker The Week Nothing terrifies contemporary conservatives more than the thought that their woke-progressive enemies will bring the regulatory weight of the federal government — in alignment with Big Tech and the economic and cultural powers that dominate civil society — to drive them out of the […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the revelation of a hidden domestic spying program used by the CIA to conduct surveillance on Americans
By Grayson Quay The Week The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives tweeted Monday that jilted lovers should get revenge by reporting their exes’ firearm crimes to the feds. “Valentine’s Day can still be fun even if you broke up,” the tweet reads. “Do you have information […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to quell anti-mandate protests launched by the ‘Freedom Convoy’ of truckers.
By Sarah Sicard, Military Times Throughout 2020, America has faced a global pandemic, civil unrest after the death of George Floyd and a contentious election. As a result, an influx of fear about the possibility of the invocation of martial law or unchecked military intervention is circulating around […]
The Department of Homeland Security, presumably at the direction of the Biden administration, has issued a new terrorist warning surrounding the extraordinarily dangerous threat posed by anyone questioning or “spreading misinformation” about the government’s COVID response. Such prospective terrorists may even be receiving aid and comfort from nefarious […]
Reminder that the US government is trying to pass a law to mandate security backdoors in every internet service.
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Another high-profile police-related death has rocked Minneapolis, once again thrusting the Twin Cities — and the authorities’ use of controversial no-knock search warrants — into the spotlight. Here’s everything you need to know. What happened? Early morning on Wednesday, Feb. 2, the Minneapolis […]
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason In a February 7 bulletin, the Department of Homeland Security warned that fake news is fueling domestic extremism. The warning came complete with new jargon to describe the threat: mis-, dis-, and mal-information (the three are collectively referred to as MDM). “The primary terrorism-related […]
By Marisa Iati Steven Rich and Jennifer Jenkins Police shot and killed at least 1,055 people nationwide last year, the highest total since The Washington Post began tracking fatal shootings by officers in 2015 — underscoring the difficulty of reducing such incidents despite sustained public attention to […]
Kim Iversen breaks down concerning new language in a Department of Homeland Security bulletin about domestic terrorism.
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