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Nexus X HumectressBy William Falk The Week Let’s be honest with ourselves: A censor lurks in all of us. When we encounter ideas and arguments that we believe are morally and factually wrong, we instinctively want them banned. When a speaker triggers our visceral disgust, we want him or her […]
By Catherine Garcia The Week Running February 4th through the 20th, the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing will be different, and not just because of the coronavirus pandemic. The United States and several other countries have said they won’t send diplomatic representation in protest of China’s human rights […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Friday in Beijing as Winter Olympics began and issued a detailed statement of their nations’ vision for a new international order, The Washington Post reported. The Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Spotify removed over 70 episodes of Joe Rogan’s podcast The Joe Rogan Experience Friday, according to The Daily Beast and the website “JRE Missing,” which compares Spotify’s current listings with a database that includes every episode ever released. Rogan has drawn criticism for […]
By Grayson Quay The Week The Biden administration restored a sanctions waiver for Iran’s nuclear program Friday, but the Iranian foreign minister says it won’t be enough to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, The Washington Post reported. The Trump administration withdrew from former President Barack Obama’s 2015 Joint […]
By Ella Fassler, Vice Open-source blueprints are inspiring activists to distribute tent-safe heaters that can be built for as little as $7. As temperatures fall sharply and the number of unhoused people swells throughout the United States, anarchists are forming a decentralized network that builds and distributes tent-safe, […]
By Lydia Saad Gallup WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. public is more closely divided on social issues than on economic issues, according to Americans’ description of where they stand on each broad category of topics. Nearly equal percentages of U.S. adults now identify as socially liberal (34%), moderate […]
More Rogan drama. By Jessica Bennett New York Post Joe Rogan has responded to a resurfaced clip of him using the N-word almost two dozen times while hosting his wildly popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Calling the clip “the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had […]
#Russia has maintained a threatening posture against Ukraine, including maintaining approximately 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian border. The United States and the United Kingdom have taken the lead in crafting a set of financial sanctions they are threatening to levy against Russia in the case of any aggression. […]
Neil Young’s long-lost twin has been found. By Morgan Sung NBC News A far-right pastor hosted a book burning event, encouraging parishioners to toss books like “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” into a fire to denounce what he described as “demonic” materials. Greg Locke, head pastor at Global Vision […]
Primo Radical Today a coalition of anti-war and anti-imperialist organizations will be staging nationwide protests against the Biden Administration’s dangerous march to war with Russia. Please stand up and be counted! Make clear that the American people do not support placing more US troops in Eastern Europe, and […]
So all things considered, Trump improved the quality of the GOP, at least by a slight margin. Marginalizing the neocons and business conservatives while elevating the populists and isolationists, at least on a rhetorical level. Axios Who used to – and currently – has power in the Republican […]
Make it happen! That would be hilarious. –Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests she may run for president in the future as she is encouraged to do so by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones during a recent interview
My father joined the NRA years ago and said all they ever did was repeatedly beg for money.
Nothing in the law regulates building your own firearms. What about gunsmithing schools like SDI?
By Andrew Sullivan “The uprising in the Warsaw ghetto was not described as a riot, nor were the participants maligned as hoodlums: the boys and girls in Watts and Harlem are thoroughly aware of this, and it certainly contributes to their attitude toward the Jews,” – James Baldwin. […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Following review, the Biden administration will continue to enforce an immigration policy enacted under former President Donald Trump that “that authorizes the rapid deportation of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border” for pandemic-related reasons, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention told CBS […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Nothing will open a pundit to anger and abuse like pointing out that both sides in our politics have a point — or a specific blind spot. That’s especially true now, in our era of political polarization, and when one of our two […]
By David Klion, The Nation What’s most striking about the Mailer contretemps is how it embodies so many aspects of the current discourse around cancel culture and free speech. The first “cancel culture” episode of 2022 began just three days into the new year, when the journalist Michael […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Back in November, The Military Times published a Ukrainian intelligence claim, which was picked up and repeated by numerous other mainstream publications, alleging that Russia was going to invade Ukraine by the end of January. Then in late January when the calendar debunked the Military […]
Ryan, Kim, and Robby answer questions from “The Great American Political Trivia Challenge: Political Trivia on Steroids”
David Sirota breaks down the failure of a single-payer healthcare bill in California’s state legislature.
Team Rising weighs in on speculation about Vice President Kamala Harris’ future in the Biden administration.
Pew Research Center’s Baxstar Oliphant breaks down where President Biden stands with American public opinion.
Team Rising debates government influence in drug prescribing.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the new progressive push to share the U.S. military’s pan-coronavirus vaccine with the rest of the world.
Andrew Marden explains why one Olympian is missing out on the 2022 Olympics due to Covid.
Every bit of this story needs to be questioned, as always when dealing with strikes of this nature.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
My whole issue with the censorship debate is they just assume we’re all too stupid to recognize information and make our own decisions
Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments made by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on behalf of the Biden administration demanding Spotify do more to censor Joe Rogan
Ben is usually pretty good on free speech.
The CPGB-ML stands resolute with the People’s Republic of China against imperialism.
By Robert Stark The Webster Dictionary defines racism as “a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” The term racism did not enter the vernacular until the early 20th Century and has since evolved from […]
Well, this doesn’t sound good for Trump. Condoleezza Rice’s interview on the #CarlosWatsonShow is full of unexpected surprises, one of which is the former Secretary of State’s unexpected take on the Trump presidency.
Fragment, fragment, fragment… Republican Sen. Mitt Romney condemned his party over a Republican National Committee motion to censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their service on the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who […]
A purge of all things Cheney by the GOP can only be a good thing. The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday voted formally to censure both GOP Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) over their criticism of former President Trump and participation in the special […]
Back in the 1980s and 1990s when the US religious right was more influential, I used to be a Richard Dawkins/Christopher Hitchens-like opponent of social conservatives. And I still maintain that a lot of conservatives would gladly maintain a cancel culture of their own when it comes to […]
By Caitlin Johnstone The western media are blaring headlines today about a “revelation” by the US government which does not actually reveal anything because it contains nothing but empty narrative fluff. “U.S. reveals Russian plot to use fake video as pretense for Ukraine invasion,” reads a headline from […]
From 2019. My guess is that laws pertaining to prostitution in the US will eventually splinter into three different directions: Some states and localities will have the conventional prohibition model. Others will have the so-called “Nordic model” and still others will have either full decriminalization or legalization. There […]
By Noah Millman The Week Ever since the rise of President Donald Trump, Americans have been warned that our democracy is under attack, even in danger of being extinguished. From the left, the center, and the shrinking precincts of the anti-Trump right, that warning has primarily been about […]
By Joel Mathis The Week The author and podcaster Roxane Gay has joined the (so far, small) exodus of artists who are choosing to leave Spotify rather than share a platform with Joe Rogan and his COVID misinformation. “It was a difficult decision — there are a lot […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Some people in Washington are very upset that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) doesn’t think the United States should want Ukraine in NATO. This includes the White House, where Press Secretary Jen Psaki dismissed the lawmaker’s concerns — that NATO membership would make […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week President Biden has announced the leader of ISIS has been killed during a U.S. raid in Syria. Biden said in a statement Thursday that U.S. military forces undertook a counterterrorism operation early Thursday, and “thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces, we […]
By Peter Weber The Week U.S. Special Operations forces conducted a large-scale counterterrorism raid on a two-story house in Syria’s northwest Idlib Province early Thursday, in pursuit of what one U.S. official told The New York Times was a “high value” target. The Pentagon gave only cursory details […]
By Jeva Lange, The Week In one of my characteristic moments of having no idea what day it was (a state I’ve lived in more or less constantly since March 2020), I got the inkling this week that the Opening Ceremony must be impending and did a requisite […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The U.S. reached a $30 trillion milestone this week. Instead of signifying a great achievement, though, it serves as a dire warning for American workers, investors, and retirees. On Tuesday, the Treasury Department reported that total public debt outstanding surpassed $30,000,000,000,000. That’s […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic ABC has suspended the View co-host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks after she said on Monday’s show that the Holocaust was “not about race,” and later that day repeated the idea on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, saying that “most of […]
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and LEAH WILLINGHAM, AP News JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. And if the U.S. Supreme Court allows […]
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