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Nexus X HumectressCorporations PROFIT Off PPP Loans With NO Intention To Fill SHAM Job Openings
Ryan Grim speculates about a possible PPP scam that would allow employers to avoid repaying their loans.
What is ‘flurona’? Coronavirus and influenza co-infections reported as omicron surges.
By Jennifer Hassan Washington Post New year, new coronavirus term? Many people around the world kicked off 2022 by searching for more information about “flurona,” after Israel reported that two young pregnant women had tested positive for both the coronavirus and the flu. Doctors have long been concerned […]
The Power of Reclaiming My Asian Name
By Maria Chia-Ming Liu, Washington Post This past spring, at the height of violence against Asians and Asian Americans during the pandemic, my husband and I chose to eat dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant near where we live in South Florida — in a show of solidarity with […]
Conservative Professor CENSORED By Woke Students, Another Blow To Free Speech
Robby Soave details the latest academic freedom violation on a college campus.
When Professors Offend Students
By Emma Pettit Chronicle of Higher Education Classroom norms are changing. Where’s the line, and who decides? Erica Cope admits it wasn’t a great lesson. In the fall of 2020, Cope, like faculty members across the country, was teaching virtually, from her kitchen table. None of her students — […]
Biden RECORD HIGH Disapproval, DOUBLES Down On “Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated’ Amid 1M Daily Cases
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss President Biden’s faltering approval numbers.
My Dad Attacked Cops at the Capitol Riot. I Turned Him In
By David Gilbert Vice How one 18-year-old’s decision to turn his father in to the FBI tore his family apart. On January 5 last year, Guy Reffitt, a member of the Texas Three Percenters militia, packed his AR-15 rifle and a Smith & Wesson pistol into his wife’s […]
WOKE MOB: Patton Oswalt APOLOGIZES For Chappelle Picture
Krystal and Saagar weigh in on the Patton Oswalt saga that saw the comedian post a lengthy apology for posting a picture with longtime friend Dave Chappelle after online backlash
Fairly Consistently Anarchist
The Center for a Stateless Society political compass test is one of the best there is. These are my results. I’m fairly consistently anarchist, although as with all of these tests the answers I would give to some of the questions are a bit relative to context.
Left-Leaning Anarchist Isolationist Bleeding-Heart Libertine
So says my political compass test. Take the quiz here.
CIVIL WAR: Dan Crenshaw Turns on MTG, MTG Loses It
–Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw accurately calls out Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for attention-seeking around her Twitter ban, and Greene quickly turns on Crewnshaw
“Class War” and the Lessons of History
I would generally agree with this author’s argument, following Aristotle, that diamond-shaped societies are better than pyramid-shaped societies, though I disagree with his analysis of how to get there (“Viva Roosevelt!”). Social democracy is like treating cancer with aspirin. By David Brin One aspect of our re-ignited American […]
Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for Civil War
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
Katie Halper, Robby, And Kim Look Back At 2021’s BIGGEST Media Screw-ups
Katie Halper reviews the worst media screw-ups of 2021, and predicts whether we can expect the same kind of coverage in 2022.
2021 – Not a good year for the USA
The inflation is primarily businesses profiteering off supply chain breakdowns and the need to recover losses from the pandemic. To blame government excessive spending when most is on the military does show that austerity is coming and the collapse of Americans living standards will accelerate. So crime will […]
2021 Year in Review: Madness, Mayhem and Tyranny
By John Whitehead and Nissa Whitehead, Rutherford Institute “Tyranny does not flourish because perpetuators are helpless and ignorant of their actions. It flourishes because they actively identify with those who promote vicious acts as virtuous.”—An academic study into pathocracy Disgruntled mobs. Martial law. A populace under house arrest. […]
The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner
By Saidiya Hartman, Anarchist Library Esther Brown did not write a political tract on the refusal to be governed, or draft a plan for mutual aid or outline a memoir of her sexual adventures. A manifesto of the wayward: Own Nothing. Refuse the Given. Live on What You […]
Shinmin Prefecture Summary
By Min, Anarchist Library A short historical summary of the forgotten Korean project known as Shinmin Prefecture and Korean People’s Association in Manchuria. This was a self-governing region of around two million people from 1929 to 1931. 1. Inception Many Koreans gathered in Manchuria to avoid oppression from […]
FBI To Host First Annual Jan 6 Reunion U.S.
Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—Special agents involved in last year’s ‘January 6th Insurrection Against Democracy™’ are set to reunite as guests of honor at an extravagant gala hosted by the FBI. The event will reportedly feature live music and entertainment, with comedian James Corden acting as master of ceremonies. […]
Rank-and-File Radicalism within the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
By John Zerzan, Anarchist Library In the following article are presented some unusual features of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, the only period in which the KKK was a mass movement. In no way should this essay be interpreted as an endorsement of any aspect of […]
Society is Founded Upon Blood and Torture
By AntiBoomerEquation ProphetBattlestone’s Amysterium Joseph de Maistre and Society Red in Tooth and Claw Joseph de Maistre is one of the greatest thinkers of the right in history. Not a reactionary, he is rather a realist on the bloody nature of sovereignty and nature in general. He (like […]
What To Do With the Anarchists
“Overwhelming popular demand…” That kind of throws a wrench in popular government or mass democracy of the kind that liberals and social democrats favor.
A Question for Anarchists to Consider
One question that I’m interested in is what the cultural framework of hegemonic anarchism would look like. I think it’s clear the political aspect would more or less be a world of free cities, micronations, federated bottom-up imperiums, millets, eco-villages, intentional communities, communes, diffused networks, etc. But I […]
One Year Later
By Michael Bluhm The Signal What really happened on January 6? Seth Masket on how Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election continue to endanger U.S. democracy. Americans believe vastly different versions of what happened in Washington a year ago, when a group of Trump supporters breached the […]
What A World
Why the troubled US empire could quickly fall apart
By Richard D Wolff Asia Times For the first time in more than a century, the United States has a real, serious, ascending global competitor. The US wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan exposed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats […]
‘Democracy is always up for grabs.’ Will January 6 become the new July 4?
By Michael Paul Williams Richmond Times-Dispatch In hindsight, Virginia was a testing ground and a grim portent of the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in January 2020, theologian Corey D.B. Walker, then a visiting professor at the University of Richmond, was among a […]
How January 6 Birthed a New Right
By Jonathan Chait New York Magazine January 6, 2021, may be the most contentious date in American history. To Democrats and the surviving remnant of anti-Trump Republicans, the event was a spasm of right-wing political violence aimed at terminating the republican experiment. To most Republicans, it was something […]
Support For Political Violence SKYROCKETS: Poll
“When faced with extinction any other option is preferable” “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolutions inevitable” You can not take everything from people and leave them with no hope, desperation breeds violence, and those with nothing to lose have no problem putting it all on […]
Digital Vaccine Passports: Convenient Or The Beginning Of Surveillance State?
Journalist Judith Levine makes the case against digital vaccine passports.
Elites Declare WAR on Working Class, Bring Back Austerity Politics
Krystal looks at how opportunistic elites have weaponized inflation to bring austerity politics back after coronavirus stimulus created an opportunity to move to a different style of politics
Dutch Police Release DOGS On Anti-Lockdown Protesters, Health Expert Says Omicron May End Pandemic
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss Israel’s push for a second booster, as well as whether natural immunity will end the pandemic.
Bezos Post: DENY Unemployment to the Unvaccinated
Krystal and Saagar respond on an op-ed by the Washington Post Editorial Board calling for unemployment insurance to be denied to the unvaccinated while owner Jeff Bezos parties on a Yacht
UNSEALED Epstein Documents Might Let Prince Andrew Off The Hook
Kim Iversen details the new documents released as part of Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against Prince Andrew.
Media IGNORES Good Omicron News AGAIN
Krystal and Saagar deliver more good news on the Omicron covid variant based on early data obtained from places where the variant has quickly spread and case numbers are rising
Elizabeth Holmes GUILTY Of Fraud. Devos Family, Walmart Heirs, And Rupert Murdoch DUPED By Theranos
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the jury’s verdict in Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud trial.
Twitter, YouTube CENSOR Joe Rogan Guest on Vaccines
Krystal and Saagar comment on the decision by tech giants to censor the interview between Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology
Haitian Prime Minister Survives Assassination Attempt. But Was It FAKE?
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave weigh in on the reported assassination attempt against Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry
BREAKING: Elizabeth Holmes GUILTY of Fraud
Krystal and Saagar cover the verdict in the Elizabeth Holmes trial that saw the disgraced Silicon Valley billionaire charged with multiple counts of wire fraud by the jury
Cheney Says Jan. 6 Panel Has PROOF Ivanka Trump Pleaded With POTUS To ‘Stop The Violence’ Amid Riots
Team Rising reacts to new findings from the House Committee investigating January 6.
Media RIGS Briefings To PROTECT Biden
Saagar details how the White House Correspondents Association run by mainstream media journalists is using its power to protect the Biden administration from scrutiny at briefings
Schumer Takes Aim At Filibuster. If GOP BLOCKS Agenda, It’s Time To Put Up Or Shut Up
Ryan Grim details Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s efforts to reform the filibuster.
SECRET Epstein Settlement Implicates Prince Andrew
Krystal and Saagar look at the details in a previously undisclosed settlement involving Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, and victim Virginia Guiffre that was revealed as part of an ongoing lawsuit
The Era Of Covid Karens Is OVER– Omicron Is Coming For Everyone
Robby Soave predicts that we’ve reached the end of Covid grandstanding and shaming.
Exposing the Greedy BASTARDS Running US Foreign Policy
Krystal and Saagar talk to foreign policy expert Richard Hanania about how defense contractors made a fortune off America’s wars and that this money is at the heart of America’s strategy
Drivers STRANDED On I-95 For 19+ Hrs Amid Snowstorm. VDOT SCRAMBLES To Clear Roads, No End In Sight
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the massive overnight traffic stop on I-95, as well as Covid case data collection.
BIPARTISAN push to PUNISH Meatpackers Jacking Up Prices
Krystal and Saagar outline the bipartisan push in congress supported by the Biden administration to reign in the meatpacking giants who have been jacking up prices and screwing ranchers
How close is America to a new civil war?
By Damon Linker The Week It’s not inevitable. Maybe not even likely. But it’s still worth debate. With the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection looming later this week, analysts and pundits have put the worst-case scenario for the American future on the table for public debate […]
Cruz predicts a GOP House will impeach Biden ‘whether it’s justified or not’
By Grayson Quay The Week If the House flips in 2022, Republicans will likely consider “multiple grounds” for impeaching for President Biden, Sen. Ted. Cruz (R-Texas) predicted on the latest episode of his podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. Cruz argued that while he regrets that impeachment proceedings have […]
Over 4.5 million people quit their jobs in November, shattering September’s previous record
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week A record number of workers voluntarily left their jobs in November, CNBC reports, according to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS. The aptly-named quits level jumped to 4.53 million that month, an 8.9 percent increase from October. The […]
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