6/14/24: Ryan CLASHES With Right-Winger On Immigration, Biden, Economy – Counterpoints Fridays

Ryan debates Oren Cass, the Executive Director of the American Compass, on Immigration, Biden, and the economy. Oren Cass: https://x.com/oren_cass Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (2:33) The American Compass (10:03) Immigration’s Impact on Labor (40:43) Labor Reform (1:08:10) Outro To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the […]

JFK’s Peace Speech Got Him Killed

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2024 We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and […]

No One is Above the Law?

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2024 We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid […]

Microsoft mulls AI pricing

June 12, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hello there! Turns out the name-calling in “Dumbo” isn’t that far off. Scientists discovered elephants might have unique names for each other. Hopefully, they’re not mean ones! In today’s big story, we’re looking at Microsoft considering a pricing […]

Elon’s payday decision

June 13, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hey there! It’s always sunny at Business Insider when “Welcome to Wrexham” star Rob McElhenney is around. Check out our cover story on the actor-turned-entrepreneur. In today’s big story, we’re looking at the drama between Tesla shareholders over […]

Las Culturistas” Enters the Honesty Zone

In a February episode of Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s podcast, Las Culturistas, Tina Fey used an instant catchphrase to caution Yang about publicly sharing his pop-culture opinions now that he’s SNL-level famous: “Authenticity is dangerous and expensive.” It’s a sentiment Rogers and Yang know well. Las Culturistas […]

Behold The World Gently

Caitlin Johnstone Jun 14, 2024 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The dead children don’t affect me like they used to. The images. The videos. They still disturb and horrify, but not like they did in the beginning. Not anywhere close. And, honestly, […]

Trump’s Tax Plans: Good, Bad, Ugly?

Trump’s Tax Plans: Good, Bad, Ugly? Plus: Trump endorses Larry Hogan, violent crime decreases, and more… ROBBY SOAVE Donald Trump wants to cut taxes if he gets a second term. On Thursday, the former president told a group of influential business leaders—Apple’s Tim Cook and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon […]

Update on the Gershkovich Case

FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2024 The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratic council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. – John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson [November […]

The Calculation Of J.D. Vance

The Senator tries — and fails — to defend Trump alongside Trumpism. Andrew Sullivan Jun 14, 2024 Trump listens as Senate candidate Vance speaks at a rally in Ohio in April 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) In Ross Douthat’s engrossing sit-down with his old friend and now Senator J.D. […]

Saudi Arabia wants China

June 14, 2024 • 4 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday and a happy start to the UEFA Euro 2024 tournament! It’s best to wrap up any work you have with European colleagues before they disappear to the pub for the next few weeks.   In today’s […]

Upcoming Anarchist Events

Limousin Anarchist Bookfair (France) Sat Jun 15 to Sun Jun 16 Madrid Anarchist Biennial (Spain) Fri Jun 21 to Sun Jun 23 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair! Sat Jun 29 to Sun Jun 30 Ecotopia Biketour (Finland, Baltic states, Poland) Mon Jul 1 to Tue Oct 1 Earth First! […]

Jill Stein: Challenging Empire

“Jill Stein: Challenging Empire” Green Party Webinar 6:30 PT/ 6:30 MT/ 7:30 pm CT/ 8:30 ET, Wed, July 3, 2024 Mark your Calendar! Election concerns include abortion rights, increased use of fossil fuels, vicious attacks on immigrants, and the bipartisan dumping of Medicare-for-All.  But what takes center stage […]

The Contemptuous Merrick Garland

Plus: The Federal Reserve considers an interest rate cut, its chairman considers persistently high inflation, housing pops up on the National Mall, and more… CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI Republicans hold Merrick Garland in contempt. This has long been true, but on Wednesday the GOP-controlled House of Representatives made it official. In […]

Stolen Lands

Sponsored by St. Martin’s Press Francisco Cantú A Legacy of Plunder In its reexamination of entrenched narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work is changing how Native people are situated in the arc of North American history. David Toop All That Floats and Drifts André […]