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Nexus X HumectressKyle Tells Marianne Williamson To Run For President In 2024 To Her Face
The ironic thing is she might actually be among the best candidates of anyone with a snowball’s chance.
The GOP’s NEW WAR On Fossil Fuel Divestment
The Lever’s David Sirota describes a disturbing trend of Big Oil’s influence in politics.
Cancel Student Debt CHAOS? Is Biden SCREWING OVER Americans Who Paid Off Loans
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky take a look at the week ahead in politics.
Inside The NEW RIGHT Organizing Behind Tucker Carlson, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance
Contributing editor for Harper’s magazine, James Pogue, describes the rise of what he calls ‘the New Right.’
Bipartisan Legacy Of Orrin Hatch LOST In Modern Politics
Author William Doyle breaks down the achievements of recently passed Senator Orrin Hatch.
Biden To DRAG Dept. Of Education Back To DISASTROUS Obama-Era Title IX Policy:
Emily Jashinsky makes the case that the Biden administration’s proposed changes to how the Department of Education interprets Title IX will hurt students.
Lab Leak-Connected EcoHealth Accused Of HIDING Data To Preserve Funding
Reporter at U.S. Right to Know, Emily Kopp, describes how U.S. virologists have pushed back against regulation of viruses made more lethal through laboratory alterations.
If Elon Musk Is Serious About Freedom, Here’s The First Thing He Needs To Do With Twitter
Ryan Grim encourages Elon Musk to address weaknesses in how Twitter protects its users’ communications and data.
Fauci WALKS BACK Comments AGAIN, Says Pandemic Is NOT OVER. ‘I Should Have Said ACUTE Phase Over’
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky take a look back at the week’s biggest stories.
Rising: April 29, 2022
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky take a look back at the week’s biggest stories. Ryan Grim encourages Elon Musk to address weaknesses in how Twitter protects its users’ communications and data. Emily Jashinsky makes the case that the Biden administration’s proposed changes to how the Department of Education […]
HIGHLIGHTS: Jordan Chariton INTERVIEWS Amazon Workers
Krystal and Saagar bring a highlight reel of the interviews conducted by Jordan Chariton with Amazon workers and activists attending the Donziger freedom party
New York THREATENS Amazon Subsidies over Union Busting
Krystal and Saagar are joined by reporter Matthew Cunningham-Cook of THE LEVER to better understand how governments such as New York are responding to Amazon union busting’
Krystal and Saagar Have HEATED DEBATE On Disney, DeSantis
Krystal and Saagar go back and forth on the legislation passed in Florida concerning Disney after the company came out against the recent legislation on parental rights in education and school curriculums
The pretend proletariat
By Samuel Goldman The Week What are the sources of political instability? Conventional wisdom holds that unrest starts at the bottom. It makes sense, that those who derive the fewest benefits from a particular order would want the biggest changes. Freedom, as the song goes, is just another […]
When Will They Cancel Karl Marx?
By Andrew Sullivan Never, of course. On the revealing double standards of the woke left. Discrediting a thinker’s broad worldview or legacy by discovering some statement from the distant past revealing him or her to be a bigot by today’s standards is a depressing degeneration in our intellectual […]
Breaking Points: 4/29/22 WEEKLY ROUNDUP
Krystal and Saagar talk about Elon buying Twitter and the chaos that ensued, Ukraine war strategy, French elections, worker rallies, CNN+, student debt, economic statistics, Saudis, & More! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ David Dayen: https://prospect.org/economy/supply-c… Ukraine: 0:00 – 11:26 France: 11:27 – 23:00 Musk: 23:01 – 36:56 Workers: 36:57 – […]
Freedom Digest: FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022
Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement of our own life according to our conscience, is the air in which alone moral sense grows and in which moral values are daily re-created in […]
HOW BLOWBACK BY ARMED GROUPS IS TURNING CIVIL WARS INTO INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS
By Peter Krause and guest contributor Nils Hägerdal Political Violence at a Glance The crescendo of missile and drone strikes into Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are just the latest in a growing trend turning civil wars into international ones: blowback, or violent retaliation at home in response to intervention abroad. Civil war is […]
Texas, Florida, and Anti-Sodomy Laws: Some Theological Dangers and Warnings
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 […]
What Solzhenitsyn Understood
By Gary Saul Morson, New York Review of Books Detecting the same incompetence and self-satisfaction among the liberals of the Provisional Government in 1917 and the reformers of the post-Soviet era in the 1990s, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn feared another descent into authoritarian rule. For Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, no literary form […]
Was Emancipation Constitutional?
By James Oakes, New York Review of Books In The Broken Constitution, Noah Feldman argues that the Confederate states had a constitutional right to secede and that Lincoln violated the Constitution in forcing them back into the Union and freeing the slaves. Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor […]
Russia’s Challenges in the Ukraine War
By Peter Zeihan on April 29, 2022 Russia and its military have lagged considerably behind the Ukrainians in several categories: logistics, communications, and especially in metabolizing and deploying new technology, such as drones. It is especially in this latter instance where Kyiv has shown a remarkable nimbleness over Moscow. […]
The Intercept: Left News Digest April 28, 2022
Bottled Water Giant BlueTriton Admits Claims of Recycling and Sustainability Are “Puffery” Sharon Lerner BlueTriton, owner of Poland Spring and other brands of water packaged in plastic, stated in a court filing that its claims of sustainability are “vague and hyperbolic.” READ MORE → The $287 Million […]
Savor the Great Musk Panic
By Matt Taibbi On drinking the delicious tears of blue-check hypocrites, who’ve suddenly discovered the perils of a privatized speech landscape. The New York Times earlier this week ran a guest essay by Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers, fulminating about Elon Musk’s effort to purchase Twitter. She wrote: […]
How ‘Cranks’ Advance Science
A major lesson of the pandemic is that science is “not a priesthood,” says Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer, a general surgeon and senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
Why aren’t non-Western countries joining the sanctions against Russia?
The Signal Why aren’t non-Western countries joining the sanctions against Russia? Richard Gowan on food, guns, and global risk management. Andy Art Renewing ties that had frayed since the Cold War, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has united the West against Moscow. This bond is the foundation for the unprecedented […]
Buttigieg DEFENDS Mask Mandate Appeal, ‘Most Understand Difference Between Hotel Ballroom & A Plane’
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss the CDC’s role in deciding pandemic policy.
INSANE Market Rigging On Wall Street Revealed
Krystal and Saagar break down the indictment of a wall street hedge fund manager for fraud related charges after he was investigated for manipulating financial markets to the tune of billions of dollars
Wash Post Smears Free Speech Advocates As “Racist”
Twitter’s head attorney and the individual most responsible for promoting Twitter censorship of Donald Trump and others Vijaya Gedde reportedly cried when she revealed to staffers that Elon Musk was taking over the social media platform. And after she received vitriolic and racist comments from randos on Twitter, […]
PUSH For War In Ukraine? Politicians IGNORE Crises In The US: NY Congressional Candidate & Veteran
Candidate for New York’s 11th Congressional district, Brittany Ramos Debarros, criticizes U.S. arms sales to Ukraine.
Elon Musk Replied To Me, MSM LOST THEIR MINDS
Saagar goes deeper into the Washington Post article that implicated him alongside Elon Musk for Twitter comments about high ranking employees involved in curtailing free speech
Pentagon-Backed “Newsguard” Threatening YouTube’s Anti-War Voices
An organization called Newsguard Technology has taken to evaluating traditional and independent news organizations and rating the outlets for their trustworthiness and independence from outside influence. The only problem? Newsguard is itself controlled by national security apparatchiks, former administration officials and others with decided biases of their own. […]
Fox News SIMPS For Billionaires “Enriching America”
Krystal critiques the Fox News simping for billionaires and going against wealth taxes or other economic measures to curb their power and redistribute resources
Max Blumenthal JOINS Sabby Sabs
Just watched a video of Jordan Chariton tearing Tulsi down so I was glad to hear Max Blumenthal explain the other side of her situation.
Amazon Gets $400M In Tax Write-Offs, This MUST End
Candidate for New York’s 11th Congressional district, Brittany Ramos DeBarros, calls for the end of government subsidies for Big Business.
Madison Cawthorn CAUGHT On Crossdressing, Potential Insider Trading, Gun Charges
Krystal and Saagar review the scandals plaguing conservative firebrand Madison Cawthorn who was caught crossdressing, carrying a gun through TSA, and in a pump and dump crypot scheme
POLICE STATE: The New Way Private Prisons Make BILLIONS
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 […]
Kamala Harris TESTS POSITIVE For Covid, Will Reportedly Isolate LONGER Than CDC Recommendation
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave criticize Kamala Harris’ pandemic theatre after she was diagnosed with Covid-19.
Elon TRASHES Trump’s Truth Social
Krystal and Saagar evaluate the points made by Elon Musk about Trump’s TRUTH social network and it’s performance in the app store now that conservatives are coming back to Twitter
The Constitution May BAN Trump From Running Again
Hah. The constitution has power? Signing violating bills into law is a day’s walk in the park for politicians.
Democrats Have ABANDONED The Working Class, Left Workers WITHOUT A Party: Union Tradesman
Union tradesman Russell Dalton argues that both parties have abandoned the working class.
WaPo ATTACKS Saagar, Elon For Knocking Top Twitter Exec
Krystal and Saagar respond to the journalistic tactics and attacks by the Washington Post after they featured Saagar’s Twitter comments in a story about Elon Musk’s online activity over the weekend
Fox Host Wants Public Schools ELIMINATED
The public education system in the US needs to be completely torn down and reworked from top to bottom.
POLICE In EVERY School? MD School District Floats Idea In Response To School Shooting
Will Jawando and Denise Long debate whether police presence makes schools safer.
Krystal And Saagar DEBATE Student Debt Cancellation
Krystal and Saagar have an extended debate about student debt cancellation on a political level and on the policy proposals themselves now that Biden has expressed openness to loan forgiveness
58% Of Voters Open To Backing INDEPENDENT Over Biden/ Trump
They always say this and yet they end up going with the two major parties.
Bezos-Owned Wapo SMEARS Breaking Points Host, Saagar Enjeti, Over Elon Musk Twitter Spat
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave condemn The Washington Post for accusing Elon Musk and Saagar Enjeti of encouraging harassment of Twitter executives.
LEAKED AUDIO: Twitter Execs FREAK, CRY Over Musk Takeover
Krystal and Saagar review the leaked audio of Twitter employees who privately freaked out about Musk’s takeover to the point of tears for some worried about their future
REPORT: Biden To CANCEL Student Debt?
The only issue I have with student loan debt forgiveness is that we need a plan to prevent this from becoming an issue again in the future. Politicians are interested in the benefits for them about forgiving student debt, but they also need to do a ton of […]
Biden Has The Power To CANCEL Student Debt, Waging CLASS WAR With His INACTION
Briahna Joy Gray makes the definitive case for cancelling student loan debt.
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