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Nexus X HumectressBy Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic As Omicron ebbs, the COVID-cautious are exploring a return to more normal life. Then: Is it possible to actually change your personality? Our writer tried. The Coronavirus Pandemic (The Atlantic) The pandemic outlook in the United States is brightening: Cases are dropping […]
By Marisa Iati Steven Rich and Jennifer Jenkins Police shot and killed at least 1,055 people nationwide last year, the highest total since The Washington Post began tracking fatal shootings by officers in 2015 — underscoring the difficulty of reducing such incidents despite sustained public attention to […]
By Mark Bowes Richmond Times Dispatch Richmond patrol officer has pleaded no contest to felony animal cruelty stemming from an October incident in which he fatally shot his fiancée’s dog at a home they shared in Powhatan County. He then fabricated a story claiming he accidentally killed the […]
By Joseph M. Hanneman, Epoch Times Internal Affairs Bureau conducted probe in response to a police-brutality complaint The beating of an unconscious Trump supporter by a DC Metropolitan Police Department officer on January 6 was deemed to be “objectively reasonable” after an investigation by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, […]
By Jack Phillips, Epoch Maupin The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has declared a heightened terrorism threat because of “false and misleading narratives,” misinformation, and “conspiracy theories.” “The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week Prices in the U.S. are soaring at the fastest rate in decades. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday the consumer price index increased 7.5 percent over the last 12 months, the fastest pace in 40 years, The Washington Post reports. This was higher […]
By W. James Antle III The Week The White House fended off numerous questions at Wednesday’s press briefing about blue state governors easing COVID-19 restrictions, especially mask mandates, earlier than President Biden recommended. The answers were always the same: We’re going to follow the Centers for Disease Control […]
By James Pethokoukis The Week During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, so the story goes, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sent President John F. Kennedy a letter offering to remove missiles from Cuba if the U.S. pledged not to invade the island nation. But before Kennedy could respond, Khrushchev […]
By Grayson Quay The Week White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that the Biden administration “never” intended for federal funds to be spent on pipes for drug use, The Associated Press reported. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and Office of National Drug Control […]
By The Associated Press, Washington Post RICHMOND — A deputy Virginia attorney general resigned Thursday, a state official said, after The Washington Post raised questions about social media comments the newspaper reported she made about the 2020 election, Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and other matters. According to The […]
By Matthew Vadum, Epoch Times The Missouri Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended the law licenses of a Missouri couple convicted of misdemeanors for holding guns outside of their St. Louis home in 2020, when a group of protesters, including Black Lives Matter activists, demonstrated in their gated community. […]
Is something fundamentally changing in how Americans think about work? Jonathan Malesic on the causes and consequences of the Great Resignation. The U.S. economy has been gripped since early 2021 by the phenomenon of the Great Resignation: American employers logged 47 million employee resignations last year, which equates to […]
By Matt Taibbi Denouncing truckers for “unacceptable views,” Canada’s Prime Minister skipped town rather than face evidence of his own unpopularity. Is neoliberalism finally cracking? On the morning of the 21st of December, 1989, Romanian General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu was in a foul mood. The Berlin Wall had […]
By Caitlin Johnstone “China is a freakish, backwards nation,” say the media in a nation whose government has spent the 21st century slaughtering people by the millions in military operations overseas so that it can literally rule the world like a comic book supervillain. “China is a freakish, […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Geopolitical tensions are casting a pall over the Olympics in China amid rising fears of war with Russia. As nations prepare for conflict, investors should brace for potential fallout in asset markets. Both China and Russia play hugely important roles […]
This post, from an Antifa-friendly blogsite, points out the interesting situation presently happening where many people increasingly regard the “left” as the establishment, with the “right” as the opposition. This is happening not merely in response to pandemic-related mandates, but within the political context spanning across the Western […]
By David Ng, Breitbart Left-wing Hollywood star Ron Perlman has given up on the United States, calling for secession in the form of a national divorce between red and blue states. Perlman laid out his proposal in a typically gruff tweet on Thursday. “It’s time that every state […]
By Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter and Andrea Cavallier and Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com Rep. Elissa Slotkin, from Michigan, suggested the Canadian government say ‘uncle’ to the truckers in a bid to get trade going again Six auto factories across Michigan and Canada are closing or partially closing Toyota […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about legislation being proposed to ban insider trading in Congress, an expansion of the federal police state, GOP in disarray, the administration’s lack of transparency on Ukraine, differing covid viewpoints within the Democratic party, Joe Rogan’s political views, a billion dollar Bitcoin heist, woke […]
By Sarah Fefer, Talk Diplomacy China’s increasing engagement with African states, as well as its growing militancy in the global arena, has sparked a polarizing debate among all parties engaged about how to conceptualize China’s presence in Africa. Indeed, China’s African policy, as part of the Communist Party […]
By Nick Turse, The Intercept New research offers an alternative to the war on terror as the Biden administration rethinks its counterterrorism playbook. On September 19, 2001, CIA officers collected cardboard boxes filled with $3 million in nonsequential $100 bills to buy off Afghan warlords, beginning America’s martial […]
So the question would be: Are these disparities attributable to rank misogyny or to other social, cultural, economic, or biological causes, or to some of each? By Megan Friedman, Jenny Hollander The feminist movement has made huge strides over the years. Still, more than a century since women […]
By J. C. Lester To explain the correct libertarian approach to immigration, a thought–experiment posits a minimal–state libertarian UK and then the introduction of several relevantanti–libertarian policies with their increasingly disastrous effects. It is argued that the reverse of these imagined policies, as far as is politically possible, […]
By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative The NYT reports that Viktor Orban is doing bad, very bad, things by going to Moscow and making nice with Vladimir Putin. Excerpts: Mr. Orban has long been seen as a political chameleon — and reviled by foes as a brazen opportunist […]
By Alexander Dugin, Anti-Empire “Once the world changes, new horizons and opportunities will open themselves. The main thing is to get down to business” The Russia-NATO talks have taken the confrontation to a new level. Russia is firmly insisting on a formal refusal to accept the post-Soviet countries […]
By Joe Scotchie Chronicles In 1920 a group of writers gathered at the home of playwright Sidney Hirsch in Nashville for bi-weekly sessions of reading and dissecting each other’s prose and poetry. It was the beginning of an outpouring of creativity from a group that would try to […]
German Foreign Policy Russia and China fortify their ties even stronger than ever against western aggression. Media warns against a “mega-east block”, which could “look down on the West.” BERLIN/MOSCOW/BEIJING (Own report) – Germany and other western powers are reacting to the fortification of Russian-Chinese cooperation with plans […]
By Jerry Barnett Quillette One of the early signs of trouble for the British anti-racism movement was a tweet sent by Lee Jasper in April 2013, in which he declared that black people are incapable of being racist, and offered to publicly debate anybody who disagreed. I offered […]
By Timothy Snyder It is uncanny to watch two proud North American capitals stormed by their own citizens in the space of about a year. Just last January, no government authority was able to protect the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Now, just a bit more than […]
By Christine Hitt, SFGATE Over the last seven years, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have purchased 1,500 acres worth of land on Hawaii’s island of Kauai. They now own more of the island than the government of Kauai itself (975 acres). Zuckerberg and Chan spent more […]
By Hunter P. Thompson, Peoples Samizdat How does one determine his purpose in his life? How does a man seek out finding his life mission or vocation? In today’s society, these are largely left as open questions, at least by most Western Governments. On the surface, this decision […]
By Richard Hanania Class and elites, on the right and left I recently spoke with Rob Henderson about the HBO show Succession. We both have found the series a smart and compelling take on our contemporary politics. Some themes we touch on: differences between conservative and liberal elites; […]
By Gábor T. Rittersporn TELOS The Western ballyhoo about the danger of Russian occupation of Ukraine is preposterous. We can sleep soundly, the Russians will not attack. They did not abandon their obsession with reconquering as much as they can of the defunct Soviet empire. But they cannot […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Propaganda isn’t just about manufacturing consent for wars and ridiculous governmental measures we’d never normally accept. That’s what most people think of when they hear that word, but there’s so very, very much more to it than that. The lion’s share of propaganda goes not […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss quarantine conditions at the Olympic village.
Kim has been right since the beginning.. she followed the real science and other countries.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss Dr. Fauci’s latest comments about the ‘end’ of the pandemic.
This is rich. Trudeau’s father, who also was a Canadian prime minister drove around Canada on a motorcycle wearing a German World War II helmet. Current prime minister Trudeau has a love for wearing blackface. Who can take this guy seriously anymore?
Kim Iversen breaks down concerning new language in a Department of Homeland Security bulletin about domestic terrorism.
“When the chips are down, these fine people will eat each other” – The Joker.
Video journalist for Rebel News, Lincoln Jay, reports on-the-ground from Ottawa that the anti-vaccine mandate Freedom Convoy shows no signs of stopping.
Afghans: “Please, give us our money back, so we can buy food!” Rand Paul: “Sorry, we already paid you back, and then some, in bombs. Those things aren’t cheap, you know!” By the way, there’s no need to give the Taliban the money in cash. It can be […]
Briahna Joy Gray makes the case that the Biden administration’s failure to deliver on promises of a re-expanding the child tax credit and free community college will come to hurt Democrats during midterms.
Finally, a story that doesn’t have to do with Joe Rogan.
Team Rising debates harm-reduction measures in dealing with drug addiction, and discuss backlash to the Biden administration’s distribution of clean drug paraphernalia.
Breach of contract or not, Rogan keeps some portion of his Spotify income if he leaves. So the deal might be really sweet for him. That said, I doubt he leaves Spotify.
Ryan Grim discusses the role the private sector could play in mitigating the climate crisis, if forced to by the SEC.
I still think it’s funny how Trump releases these little tweets as “presidential statements” lmao
Robby Soave details a shift among liberals and the school mask debate.
Bleeping out the word is still censorship. Editing out the Kanye quote is also censorship. Where are the George Carlin’s when we need them? They’ve been politically corrected to death.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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