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Nexus X HumectressFauci ADMITS CDC Cut Isolation From 10 To 5 Days In Some Covid Infections So Workers Return Faster
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the CDC’s shortening of Covid-19 isolation guidelines.
How Disgust Explains Everything
By Molly Young, New York Times Two distinguished academics walk into a restaurant in Manhattan. It is their first meeting — their first date, in fact — and the year is 2015. The man wears a down jacket against the icy winter evening. The woman has a shock […]
Manufacturing Contempt for Assange: How Corporate Media Made WikiLeaks Founder into a Scapegoat
Free Thought Project (MPN) — The High Court in London has upheld the U.S. government’s appeal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a key step towards his rendition to the United States. The Australian publisher faces up to 175 years in prison once he sets foot on American […]
Breaking Points: 12/28/21 Full UNCUT Show
Krystal and Saagar talk about the Biden administration’s meetings with reporters, Pentagon covering up war crimes, re-entry into the Iran nuclear deal, Customs & Border Protection spying on people, and more! Krystal and Saagar talk about the Biden administration’s meetings with reporters, Pentagon covering up war crimes, re-entry […]
Ted Kaczynski, the 79-year-old Unabomber, transferred to prison medical facility
By Matt Zapotosky Washington Post Theodore Kaczynski — who came to be known as the “Unabomber” for killing three people and injuring many more in a series of mail bombings over 17 years — has been transferred to a federal prison medical facility known for treating inmates with […]
Charles Sykes: How the Right Lost its Mind
From 2017. The rise of the neo-know-nothings is in part a pushback against the rise of the alliance between digital capitalism, the traditional financial elites, and the professional-managerial class, with totalitarian humanism its ideological superstructure, along with the parallel cultural and demographic decline of traditionally hegemonic WASP culture, […]
The End of White Christian America: A Conversation with E. J. Dionne and Robert P. Jones
From 2018. Today, the USA is basically the European Union of North America, a currency union and trade zone presided over by transnational elites who identify with their class and other international elites more than with “America” either as an ideal or entity. Meanwhile, the USA is moving […]
The Democrats’ Education Lunacies Will Bring Back Trump
US political culture, particularly elite culture, has experienced a sharp leftward lurch in recent years. Hardcore wokesters are actually a very small minority compared to the general public, but they tend to be concentrated in sectors where they have a platform and influence that is greatly disproportional to […]
Where do you fit in the political typology?
Depending on how I answer some of these questions, I test out as either “Outsider Left” or “Ambivalent Right.” Pew Research Center Are you a Faith and Flag Conservative? Progressive Left? Or somewhere in between? Take our quiz to find out which one of our nine political typology […]
A Ukraine War and the End of Russia
By Peter Zeihan All anyone can talk about in Europe these days is Russia. Russia is constricting natural gas flows to Europe in order to drive energy prices higher and extract geopolitical concessions. Russia is using irregular state tools — think cyber — to manipulate European politics and […]
Pacifism, Nonviolence, and the Reinvention of Anarchist Tactics in the Twentieth Century
By Benjamin Pauli This article highlights the ways in which anarcho-pacifists in the years during and after World War II reconceptualized anarchist tactics like “propaganda of the deed” and “direct action” in a manner that reconciled them with principles of nonviolence. In order to contextualize this extraordinary shift […]
Candace Owens claims Trump supports COVID vaccines because he’s ‘old’ and ‘came from a time before TV’
By Peter Weber, The Week Conservative millennial commentator Candace Owens spent Christmas weekend arguing on Twitter with less-conservative millennial commentator Meghan McCain over an interview Owens conducted with former President Donald Trump last week. In the interview, Trump stood up for the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines after Owens […]
Trump takes on the fringe?
As I’ve always said, Trump is a Nixon-Rockefeller moderate Republican at heart. By Joel Mathis, The Week He’s actively promoting vaccination. Will the GOP’s right-wing turn on him? In the early days of his 2016 campaign, former President Donald Trump famously boasted of the hold he had over his […]
The case for empowering Americans to vote with their feet
By Ilya Somin The Week Realistically, your ballot doesn’t matter. ‘Foot voting’ does. American democratic institutions are in crisis. One of the worst flaws of the status quo is the near-powerlessness of the individual voter over the policies which determine so much of daily life. Closely related is […]
Kamala Harris, Charlamagne tha God CRINGE Interview Is Just What Dems Want
Kim Iversen speculates about how Vice President Kamala Harris can boost her failing poll numbers.
New York Times BARRED From Publishing Project Veritas Docs, Calls Ruling THREAT To Press Freedom
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the greenlighting of prior restraint in Project Veritas’ lawsuit against the New York Times.
Viral “Let’s Go Brandon” Caller WASTED OPPORTUNITY To Ask Biden REAL Questions
Deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, reacts to liberal outrage at the ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ comments made towards Joe and Jill Biden.
Biden Admin BUCKLES On Student Loan Payments, RE-EXTENDS Freeze To May. Is Debt Cancellation Next?
Team Rising discusses the re-extension of the student loan repayment freeze, and whether student loan debt will ever be cancelled.
Hillary CHARGES People To Watch Her CRY
Krystal and Saagar offer their views on the Masterclass being offered by failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that shows her crying while reading her planned 2016 victory speech
Joe Manchin Has A Path To The White House, But He’s Too Blinkered By Coal To See It
Ryan Grim imagines an alternate future in which Senator Joe Manchin was more like Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Meet New TOO BIG TO FAIL Wall Street Giants
Krystal and Saagar are joined by American Prospect writer Lee Harris to dive into the future of financial regulation given the presence of new giants on Wall Street
CIA Covered Up CHILD SEX CRIMES To Protect Secrets
Krystal and Saagar review the in depth investigation of how the CIA covered up crimes including child sex by employees within the agency to ensure that its secrets stayed hidden
OMICRON Is Coming For The Righteous AND The Sinners
Robby Soave makes the case that trying to stop the spread of the Omicron variant is an impossible and pointless endeavor.
POLL: Young People DESPONDENT About State Of US, Biden
Krystal and Saagar look at the polling data among young Americans of all political views showing how they feel about America and it is overwhelmingly negative
Biden Administration REJECTED Plan To Send MILLIONS Of At-Home Covid Tests Ahead Of Holiday Outbreak
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the chaotic state of mass coronavirus testing, and consider what role the Biden administration may have had in hindering rollout.
Greta Thunberg on the State of the Climate Movement
Interview by KK Ottesen, Washington Post Student and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 18, burst improbably onto the world stage in late 2018 when what began as a one-person school strike outside the Swedish parliament ended up galvanizing a global climate movement to demand immediate action to prevent environmental […]
Breaking Points: 12/27/21 FULL UNCUT SHOW
Krystal and Saagar talk about despondent young people, CIA covering up crimes, the future of financial regulation, Hillary Clinton’s tears, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Timestamps: Young People: 0:00 – 8:47 CIA: 8:48 – 14:22 Finance: 14:23 – 22:25 Hillary: 22:26 – 29:39
Gen Y vs. Z
Like their parents, the American Millennial cohort is defined by their size. Making up a larger share of the US population than either the preceding (and dare I say, cooler?) Gen X and younger Gen Z, they are having their own outsized impact on American society. Millennials and […]
World’s first space hotel scheduled to open in 2027
By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — If you’re daydreaming of future travels while stuck at home during the pandemic, why fantasize about the beaches of Bali or the canals of Venice when vacationing in space could be in your future? Back in 2019, Californian company the Gateway Foundation […]
Christmas 2021: AOC Shames the Evangelicals
Proto-Protestant https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2021/12/09/ocasio-cortez-slams-republicans-over-gun-toting-christmas-photos/ What a sad moment. Ocasio-Cortez the much vilified Democratic representative from New York and member of the hated ‘Squad’ has spoken truth – and a truth that puts Evangelicals to shame. The Right has made too much of Ocasio-Cortez. Some commentators suggest that ‘The Squad’ in […]
Eugenics without the state: anarchism in Catalonia, 1900–1937
By Richard Cleminson Current historiography has considered eugenics to be an emanation from state structures or a movement which sought to appeal to the state in order to implement eugenic reform. This paper examines the limitations of that view and argues that it is necessary to expand our […]
The fake struggle between workers and consumers
This week, we’re joined on KK&F by Maximillian Alvarez, host of Working People podcast and editor-in-chief at The Real News. In the wake of recent news about the tragic, needless deaths of six workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer this year, Krystal sat down with Max for […]
Vaccine mandate protesters slam Trump as a ‘fraud’ after being turned away from Trump Grill
By Jeva Lange The Week The Trump Grill, located inside Trump Tower in New York City, refused to allow a group of vaccine mandate protesters to eat at the restaurant on Thursday after they failed to provide proof of vaccination. In response, the group slammed former President Donald […]
This extraordinary telescope might change everything we know about the universe
By Jeva Lange, The Week As Santa makes his way back to the North Pole in the early hours of Saturday morning, another extraordinary flight will be about to begin. The James Webb Space Telescope — “the most powerful observatory ever sent into space,” and having the humble […]
Former FBI informant who thwarted KKK-law enforcement murder plots goes public for his own safety
By Peter Weber, The Week From 2007 to 2018, Joseph Moore was an undercover informant for the FBI embedded in Florida chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, working to identify and expose law enforcement officials who moonlighted as Klansmen. After he testified against three state prison guards who […]
LAPD officer kills 14-year-old girl while opening fire on suspect in clothing store
By Jeva Lange The Week A 14-year-old girl was reportedly shot and killed by a Los Angeles police officer who opened fire on a suspect in a Burlington clothing store in North Hollywood on Thursday, The Associated Press reports. The police were responding to a report of a […]
Digging for Utopia
By Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Review of Books Reviewed: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 692 pp., $35.00 In The Dawn of Everything David Graeber and David Wengrow search for historical examples of nonhierarchical […]
The Roots of Inequality: An Exchange
By David Wengrow, reply by Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Review of Books In response to: Digging for Utopia from the December 16, 2021 issue To the Editors: In The Dawn of Everything David Graeber and I present a new history of humanity, based on the latest findings […]
Drone wars: U.S. imposes new sanctions on China
The Week Staff The U.S. cuts its reliance on a rival’s technology. The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: New restrictions on a key dronemaker show how serious the U.S. is about cutting its reliance on Chinese technology, said Bruce Einhorn […]
Desmond Tutu, Anglican archbishop who helped end apartheid, dead at 90
By Grayson Quay The Week Desmond Tutu — the South African civil rights campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and retired Anglican archbishop — died Sunday in Cape Town at the age of 90, Reuters reports. No cause of death was provided, but according to The New York Times, […]
World marks 30th anniversary of Soviet Union’s collapse
By Grayson Quay The Week On Christmas night, 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and relinquished his powers, including the nuclear codes, to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The flag of the USSR that flew over the Kremlin was lowered, never to be raised again. The next day, the […]
MORE FBI Criminality Revealed In Whitmer Kidnapping Plot
Krystal and Saagar dive into the most recent reporting on how much the FBI was involved in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer right before the 2020 election
Bill Burr SOUNDS OFF On Mainstream Media AGAIN
Krystal and Saagar cover the hilarious and insightful comments made by comedian Bill Burr about mainstream media during a recent podcast appearance
DON’T LOOK UP PRODUCER: Inside the Movie
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster journalist David Sirota to talk about his new blockbuster Netflix film ‘Don’t Look Up’ featuring a loaded cast and a message about our future
Cuomo COVERED-UP Nursing Home Deaths. Of Course, He Should FORFEIT Memoir Profits
Katie Halper reacts to a new decision from NY state’s ethics panel that would see former Governor Andrew Cuomo forfeit his pandemic book deal profits.
Work and Don’t Lose Hope’: Republican Forced Labour Camps during the Spanish Civil War
By Julius Ruiz This article examines the use of forced labour in Republican Spain during the civil war. Althoughmuch has recently been written on Francoist camps, very little research has been undertaken ontheir Republican counterparts. As a consequence the significance of Republican camps has not been recognised. Although some […]
Breaking Points: Christmas Special Full UNCUT Show
Krystal and Saagar talk about the Don’t Look Up Netflix film, warmongering on Tucker Carlson’s show, Bill Burr roasting cable news, Fed involvement in Whitmer kidnapping plot, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Warrior Met Fund: https://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund/ Daily Poster: https://www.dailyposter.com/ Timestamps: Don’t Look Up: 0:00 – 11:47 Tucker: 11:48 – […]
Eleven People Who Didn’t Suck In 2021
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Let’s face it, dearest motherfuckers, this year sucked. From start to finish, 2021 was a hard year for hope. The Pandemic that never ends never ended. To the surprise of only the gullible, Joe Biden turned out to […]
The Shock of Victory
This is a 2009 article from the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber, who died last year, and who was probably as influential as any anarchist in the 21st century so far. I am posting this because the third section of this piece, the discussion of anarchism in the […]
Kim Potter found guilty on all charges for shooting of Daunte Wright
The jury deliberating whether to find Kim Potter guilty or not guilty of the manslaughter of Black man Daunte Wright in April have reached an “outcome”, it has been announced. Ms Potter, 49, shot and killed Mr Wright during a traffic stop in Minnesota, and said she mistook […]
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