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–Anti-vaccine Deputy District Attorney Kelly Ernby, a Republican who ran for California State Assembly, has died of COVID-19 at age 46
How the Fed has Guaranteed Socialism for the Rich
It’s been a year since the Capitol riot. The Democrats are fangirling over Dick Cheney and listening to Hamilton, so it’s hard to say what we’ve learned or improved upon as a society. Around this time last year, Thomas Frank joined us for a thoughtful conversation about who […]
A Tale of Two Authoritarians
By Matt Taibbi The appearance of Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives on the anniversary of January 6th helped identify the true villain on the scene. Former Vice President Dick Cheney visited the House of Representatives yesterday. He and his daughter Liz were the only two Republicans […]
A Denial-Of-Service Attack On Our Minds
By Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish The plague, the web, and our predicament. “The lesson for man is that personal happiness has very little to do with all this. It is possible to be unhappy and very adaptive,” – E.O. Wilson, RIP. The last weeks of 2021 were […]
America’s post-holiday return to work tainted by onslaught of COVID-caused staff shortages
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week Typically marked by a widespread return to professional form, the first work week of the new year has instead been marred by the effects of the latest Omicron-led COVID-19 spike, The Wall Street Journal reports, as employers contend with an ongoing onslaught of coronavirus-related […]
Report: On Jan. 6, Kamala Harris was inside DNC when pipe bomb was discovered outside
By Catherine Garcia, The Week Vice President Kamala Harris was at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pipe bomb was found outside the building, four people familiar with the matter told Politico. At the time, Harris was the vice president-elect, and this raises […]
Florida has highest number of Capitol riot cases
Florida Man. By Catherine Garcia, The Week One year after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Florida has had more residents arrested in connection with the riot than any other state. Since last January, 76 Floridians have been charged with participating in the assault on the Capitol, and at […]
The Time to Resist Vax Passports Is Now
By Helen Andrews, The American Conservative had Covid over Christmas break, after my triple-vaxxed husband brought it home from a conference, which means two things: I now have natural immunity, and you will never persuade me that vaccinated people don’t spread the virus to others. That was supposed […]
The Libertarian Party Is Not About ‘Education’ – And Can Never Be
By Peter R Quinones In January of 2020 I was happy to keep trudging along in my podcasting and theorizing about a fantasyland that will never exist: Ancapistan. A magical place where all property is private and the currency is what you want it to be. Reality finally […]
Scientists Study & KILL Infectious Bats In Risky Research. Will NIH Spur ANOTHER Pandemic?
The Intercept’s Sharon Lerner details her reporting on the dangerous and possibly unnecessary practice of tracking down and exterminating wildlife in order to prevent the spread of disease.
500 Richest People In The World Got $1 TRILLION RICHER In 2021 As Middle Class LANGUISHED
Team Rising discusses the wealth gap.
Biden’s Own Consultants Are Working On the Side to Tank His Agenda
David Sirota details reporting on the conflict of interest for some consultants hired by President Biden
RECORD NUMBER Of Americans Say Violence Against Gov Is JUSTIFIED
Team Rising debate the real-life threat of the growing number of Americans who say violence against the government can be justified,
House Buying FRENZY? Americans Took Out $1.6T In Mortgage Loans In 2021, SHATTERING 2005 Record
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss 2021’s home buying boom and how the pandemic may further affect the housing market in 2022.
NASA, Billionaires Eye Terraforming Mars And ‘Space Parks’ Instead Of Dealing With Climate Change
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen react to Tim Green, NASA’s retiring top scientist, claims that we can terraform Mars and maybe Venus.
Don’t Look Up Producer RESPONDS to Critical Reviews
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist and Don’t Look Up Producer David Sirota to hear his response to critical reviews and the popularity of the movie so far
SpaceX Mars City: Launch schedule, key build dates, and how to get there
Inverse.Com Ready to live on Mars? It could become an option soon, if Elon Musk succeeds in his goals. The SpaceX CEO has a long-standing vision of establishing a city on the Red Planet. It would be self-sustaining, would be home to 1 million people, and would transform […]
Ruthless Conquistadores And No Less Ruthless Indigenous People
Virtually all of history is one big heel vs. heel match. By Darío Fernández-Morera The Postil In his well-written, and impressively documented book, Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest, Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes (University of Bristol) tells us who these men were that beat the […]
Why Black Moderates Awoke The Woke
By Michael Schellenberger The backlash to progressive Wokeism, or victimology, has been brewing for years. Why did black moderates tip it over the edge? For a period of time last year it felt as though everything having to do with race, crime, and policing had changed. The killing […]
Undermining US Global Hegemony Is Good, Actually
By Caitlin Johnstone China and Russia are right to try to undermine US unipolar hegemony. The planet is not America’s property and efforts to stop it being treated as such are good. It’s not okay to be a grown adult in 2022 and still believe the US is […]
A Distributed Capacity for Violence: A Brief History of Weapons Technology and Political Power
By Sam Jacobs, Ammo.Com, an interview with the author by Joseph Cotto here The Constitution contains a powerful set of ideals and a wise system of governance, based on a deep reading of classical and medieval history as well as Renaissance philosophy. However, none of this matters if […]
Stephen Marche: Is the U.S. on the Path to Dissolution?
National divorce does not have to result in a civil war.
The First Privilege Walk
By Christian Parenti, Nonsite.Org How Herbert Marcuse’s widow used a Scientology-linked cult’s methodology to gamify Identity Politics and thus helped steer the U.S. Left down the dead-end path of identitarian psychobabble. In the summer of 2021, a social justice training exercise called the Privilege Walk made headlines when […]
Conservatives Flying Freak Flags Embrace ‘Being the Villain’
By Matt Lewis, The Daily Beast Not long ago, the conservative movement I’ve been a part of for decades was square, wonky, and straitlaced to a fault. Now, it’s weird and warped. The conservative movement is depraved and decadent. And no, I’m not saying this because of the […]
The biggest threat to America now isn’t a coup
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic One year ago, the siege began. Politicians and their staffers ran for cover as the Capitol effectively became a war zone. When the haze cleared, we vowed not to forget. But the attack on American democracy did not end that day. A […]
Dick Cheney: Rebuilding a bridge across the partisan divide?
This just keeps on getting better. The neocons continue their multi-front strategy of forming an alliance with neoliberals and progressives while embedding themselves in Trumpism and forming their own parallel Trumpism without Trump (“national conservatism”). They are also seeking to weaponize J6 as a pretext for increasing state […]
Seattle Police Officers Falsified Reports About Proud Boys Moving Toward ‘CHOP:’ Watchdog
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times Seattle police officers falsified a report of armed Proud Boys members heading toward the autonomous zone in the city in 2020, a watchdog found. The Seattle Police Department abandoned a precinct on June 8, 2020, and activists soon after established an armed protest […]
Prime Age Mortality up 40 Percent, Majority of Deaths Not From COVID-19
By Petr Svab, Epoch Times Mortality among young-to-middle-age Americans went through the roof last year. The majority of the increase didn’t involve COVID-19, according to official death certificate data. Deaths among people aged 18 to 49 increased more than 40 percent in the 12 months ending October 2021 […]
Kamala Harris compares Jan. 6 to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 as a date that will ‘echo throughout history’
By Brendan Morrow The Week On its one-year anniversary, Vice President Kamala Harris said the date of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will be remembered in a similar fashion as Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Harris delivered remarks Thursday on the anniversary of […]
Biden, on anniversary of Jan. 6: ‘You can’t love your country only when you win’
Well, that’s kind of the point. The partisan sides are essentially rival countries at this point. By Brigid Kennedy The Week President Biden spoke Thursday regarding the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, delivering a potent and powerful address in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. His speech, held […]
Dick Cheney says he’s ‘deeply disappointed’ with GOP leadership on Jan. 6 anniversary
This piece of shit can go fuck himself. By Brendan Morrow The Week Former Vice President Dick Cheney joined his daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), in Congress on Thursday as lawmakers marked the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a moment […]
How 2021 became a lost year for American democracy
By David Faris The Week Democrats failed to coup-proof America after the Capitol riot Tomorrow marks a year since the outgoing president of the United States instigated a mob of his most fervent supporters to sack the Capitol building, where they set about taking selfies, occupying offices, and […]
Jan. 6 shows impunity is the rule for American elites
By Ryan Cooper The Week One year ago today, a violent mob of right-wing extremists stormed the heart of American democracy trying to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after his election loss. Egged on by Trump and his top cronies, they seriously injured dozens of Capitol Police […]
The Capitol riot’s roots in the New Left
By Samuel Goldman The Week How the left’s 1960s playbook gave us the Capitol riot. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s right, the assorted fanatics, thrill-seekers, and nutjobs who stormed the Capitol one year ago today have surprising precursors. The respectable backgrounds of […]
What Drove a West Virginia Democrat to Storm the Capitol on January 6?
By Christopher Jones, P. Nick Curran, Akela Lacy The Intercept Four years after being elected to the Parkersburg City Council with help from progressives, Eric Barber was all in for Trump. Eric Barber was elected as a Democrat to the Parkersburg City Council in West Virginia in 2016. […]
It’s January 6 and the Warning Lights Are Flashing Red
By Peter Maass The Intercept We are no longer observers of the distressed futures that afflict other people. We are those people now. It was the winter of 1991, and the country I was working in, the Soviet Union, was months away from its demise. Yet the collapse, […]
Kazakhs Protest, and Russia Reacts
By Peter Zeihan on January 6, 2022 Russian-led forces entered Kazakhstan today, under the guise of a Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) peacekeeping mission. The former Soviet state and significant oil producer has seen several days of sustained public protests turned violent after raising the price of liquefied petroleum […]
The Travails of Trumpification
by Timothy W. Luke, Telos Also available in Kindle ebook format at Amazon.com. In this series of critical essays written over the course of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, from its chaotic early days to its calamitous end, Timothy W. Luke explores how the recent twists and turns in […]
Mother of Ashli Babbitt, pro-Trump rioter killed in attack, joins Greene outside Capitol on anniversary
By Ellie Silverman Washington Post The mother of Ashli Babbitt, the pro-Trump rioter who was killed when she stormed the Capitol last January, joined Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday to talk about her daughter and criticize Capitol Police. Micki Witthoeft stood next to Greene outside the […]
On Jan. 6 anniversary, Biden calls out Trump for ‘web of lies’ about 2020 election
By John Wagner Amy B Wang Mariana Alfaro Eugene Scott and Felicia Sonmez Washington Post President Biden on Thursday decried the violent mob of Trump supporters who breached the Capitol a year ago, saying that “democracy was attacked” and urging Americans to ensure such an attack “never, never […]
January 6: A Legacy of Troubling Questions
By Joseph M. Hanneman, Epoch Times The hardened-steel baton made the most disturbing sound as it bounced off Victoria White’s skull. It varied between a hollow click and a deeper snap, depending on where on her head the metal weapon made contact. “Please don’t beat her!” a man […]
How Putin is building tinpot empire of tyrants to ‘rebuild Soviet Union’ as he ‘sends troops & tanks’ to Kazakhstan
“Putin is building an Empire of Tyrants” OR “Putin is builing A Coalition of former Soviet Republics; to reject Neo-Liberalism & The US-Centric World Order” OR Some of Both? The audacity of sovereign nations trading with each other when the US State Department told them they are now […]
The Flight from Degeneracy (2022), by Sean Gabb
By Sean Gabb Something known to everyone in England connected with independent education is the Oriental takeover of the scholarship system. In all the competitive examinations for bursaries and scholarships, the top marks go increasingly to boys from the Far East. I make part of my income from […]
Florida Sheriff’s Deputies Die by Suicide Just Days Apart, Orphaning Their 6-Week-Old Son
By Jerry Lambe Law and Crime Two sheriff’s deputies in Florida who were in a long-term relationship took their own lives in a tragic series of events that left their baby son an orphan. Clayton Osteen and Victoria Pacheco both died by suicide within days of each other, the […]
Young People in New Brunswick Are Getting a Serious Brain Disease and Nobody Knows Why
By Anya Zoledziowski Vice One-fifth of the cases identified by the public health agency have affected people under the age of 40, with symptoms ranging from muscle spasms to dementia. A mysterious and fatal neurological syndrome that currently has no known cause or cure has afflicted at least […]
‘Covid Villain’ Novak Djokovic DENIED Entry, DETAINED In Australia Over Vax Status
Kim Iversen details the current vaccination controversy surrounding tennis star Novak Djokovic.
VA Gov Blames DRIVERS For 30 Hour Road Blockade
Krystal and Saagar look at the major traffic jam on I-95 in Virginia after a winter storm that caused drivers to be stuck for over 30 hours with little assistance from government officials
ARREST Made In Haitian President Assassination, Was The New Prime Minister Attack SET UP?
English language editor of Haiti Liberte, Kim Ives, details the arrest of a man accused of assassinating the former Haitian prime minister.
Glenn Greenwald: How Deep State Has WEAPONIZED January 6th
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist Glenn Greenwald to break down how the deep state in tandem with the media has used the January 6th attack to go after civil liberties and expand their power
New: Juror’s Sexual Abuse REVELATION Means Ghislaine Maxwell Case Could Get A MISTRIAL
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss a possible mistrial in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case.
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