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Nexus X HumectressBy Gwynne Hogan, Gothamists Newly sworn-in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has instructed his staff to halt prosecutions for a handful of low-level offenses, to only seek bail in certain cases and to never seek life sentences for any crime, according to a memo sent out to employees […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Anti-imperialist commentator Richard Medhurst reports that Instagram has deleted some 20 images from his account and given him a warning that he could face a permanent ban if he continues making similar posts. The posts in question are screenshots from a Twitter thread Medhurst made to […]
Quite a bit could be learned about Western politics by examining electoral patterns in India. The Democrats are an alliance between the Brahmins and Dalits and the Republicans are an alliance between the Vaishyas and Shudras, while the Kshatriyas are divided between the Democrats and Republicans, depending on […]
Michael Lind, Tablet It’s within metro areas, not between the states. America’s states seem increasingly disunited. Divisions over controversies related to COVID— lockdowns, vaccine mandates, school closures—have accentuated existing splits among blue Democratic and red Republican states with respect to partisanship and attitudes toward crime and public policy. […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic Everyone has COVID. Or at least, that’s how it feels in America right now. The daily-case curve is no longer a curve at all but practically a vertical line, launching like a rocket toward the outermost bounds of every chart. Omicron, the […]
Pardoning Assange and/or Snowdon? There was nothing in it for Trump.
WATCH HERE From the comments: The fact that John Sullivan so easily walked into the Capitol that day, without so much as anyone batting an eyelash, DISPROVES the fanatical belief, held even by Sullivan, himself, that all Trump supporters are inherent hWhite Supreeemists. Holding Sullivan’s explanation of the […]
By Hannah Nightingale, The Post Millennial “‘You don’t have to do this, please just go, please don’t please don’t.’ She was desperately pleading for her life,” said Kankakee County State’s Attorney Jim Rowe. A prosecutor in Illinois is seeking the death penalty for a duo charged with the […]
Her real mistake was crossing people more powerful than her.
By Christopher F. Rufo City-Journal A Reuters data scientist questioned the Black Lives Matter narrative—so the company fired him. Zac Kriegman had the ideal résumé for the professional-managerial class: a bachelors in economics from Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard and years of experience with high-tech startups, a […]
The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Modern Surveillance State Written by Derrick Broze, produced by Jeremy Martin (Originally Released September 2018) Watch on Vimeo / Bitchute Transcript and sources: The War on Terror Immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush promised Americans he […]
By Joel Schlosberg, Garrison Center As “the city that never sleeps” turned the calendar to 2022 with the inauguration of Eric Adams just after midnight, partygoers didn’t need Frank Sinatra’s reminder to “start spreading the news” heard on the New Year’s broadcast from Times Square. New Yorkers were […]
David Patrick Harry is joined by Uberboyo to debate what is more unconscious, Orthodox Christianity or the philosophy of Nietzsche? Promise to be a good one. Make sure to check it out and let me know what you think. God bless Intro Music Follow b-dibe’s Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/b-dibe Superchat […]
Ben Burgis is the author of the upcoming book: Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters, as well as the host of “Give Them An Argument” on YouTube. His previous book Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left was […]
By Greg Sams, Ancient Origins There is a remarkable discovery that has not yet emerged from our renewed interest in ancient civilization. Yet few remark upon this glaring omission from the relics and records we dig up and discover. I first recognized its absence at a visit to […]
By Hank Kennedy Hank Kennedy reminds us of a period of all-sided culture war against comic books, pointing at its lessons and aftermath today. In 1952 there existed twenty comic book publishers, publishing six hundred fifty titles a month, and employing one thousand workers. By 1956, the industry had […]
By Leah Willingham and Rebecca Santana, Associated Press | NEW ORLEANS — Lawrence N. Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran in the U.S. — and believed to be the oldest man in the country — died on Wednesday at the age of 112. His death was announced […]
By Vincent Harinam, Quillette Whether you’re an impartial onlooker or active combatant in the culture wars, you may have come across the term “simp.” A lexical fixture in Twitch chatrooms and TikTok videos, simps are romantically-challenged men whose servile nature prevents them from earning the affection of their […]
Clip from the recent #EwoksUTheoryClub with Noah talking about how BreadTube discourages their viewers for having a solid grasp of Marxist theory in order to lead them towards Anti-Communism.
It’s almost like doing nothing for the people makes you really unpopular.
By Brigid Kennedy The Week A majority of Americans believe events akin to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — the one-year anniversary of which falls on Thursday — are likely to occur again in the next few years, according to a new Axios/Momentive poll. Fifty-seven percent of respondents […]
By Damon Linker, The Week One year ago this Thursday, President Donald Trump attempted to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election by exploiting ambiguities in the 1887 Electoral Count Act. Thankfully, Senate Democrats have set out to reform the act — and senior […]
By Amanda Barroso Pew Research Center Dating has always come with challenges. But the advent of dating apps and other new technologies – as well as the #MeToo movement – presents a new set of norms and expectations for American singles looking for casual or committed relationships, according […]
By Grayson Quay The Week The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced Wednesday that it was imposing additional sanctions against Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and a media company he allegedly controls, Reuters reports. A Treasury Department statement accused Dodik of “corrupt activities and continued threats to the […]
By Damon Linker The Week I’m very much in favor of treating the conventional political wisdom with a healthy dose of skepticism, so I was eager to read a recent, short tweet thread from Nick Gillespie, an editor at large for the libertarian magazine Reason, asserting former President […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Protesters in the oil-rich former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan burned the country’s presidential residence Wednesday as protests that began earlier in the week continue to escalate, The Associated Press reports. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who took office in 2019, declared a two-week curfew, threatened […]
By Jp Cortez After the Consumer Price Index surged last year to its highest level since 1982, politicians are feeling pressure from constituents to do something about it. On Monday, President Joe Biden announced $1 billion in grants, loans, and other assistance for small meat producers. Another costly […]
Kim Iversen details how the Theranos Elizabeth Holmes case exposed medical greed within the medical-industrial complex.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss why the Joe Rogan Experience performs so much better than legacy media shows.
Briahna Joy Gray makes the case that progressives in Congress are hiding behind Senator Joe Manchin in their failure to push President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda through.
Team Rising reacts to Vice President Kamala Harris’s poorly-timed Tweet, plus the cleanup of the I-95 traffic disaster.
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 to protest racial segregation sparked the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cemented “separate but equal” into […]
By Hamilton Nolan, In These Times The crypto market’s inevitable crash will pull America’s politics in an even scarier direction. Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to […]
Chicago Teachers Union image courtesy of AP Photo/M. Spencer Green.
The Editorial Board The Republicans are reviving American apartheid. Thursday is the one-year anniversary of the day seditionary forces sacked and looted the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn a lawful democratic election and install Donald Trump as fuhrer-king. The violence stopped long ago, but the […]
Ryan Grim speculates about a possible PPP scam that would allow employers to avoid repaying their loans.
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 […]
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 […]
Robby Soave details the latest academic freedom violation on a college campus.
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 — […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss President Biden’s faltering approval numbers.
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 […]
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
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.
So says my political compass test. Take the quiz here.
–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
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 […]
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 reviews the worst media screw-ups of 2021, and predicts whether we can expect the same kind of coverage in 2022.
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 […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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