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Nexus X HumectressNY Gov Takes Real Estate Dollars, FLIPS On Remote Work
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster journalist Walker Bragman to go over how real estate money has influenced NY Gov Kathy Hochul as part of an ongoing collaborative series
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
By Aaron Sankin, Dhruv Mehrotra for Gizmodo, Surya Mattu, and Annie Gilbertson The Markup Between 2018 and 2021, more than one in 33 U.S. residents were potentially subject to police patrol decisions directed by crime prediction software called PredPol. The company that makes it sent more than 5.9 […]
The Rise of the New Stoics
By Michael Warren David, Spectator World Meet the new generation of social conservatives, not necessarily religious but trying to be good men. Every day around noon, a white pickup truck comes barreling down my street. It’s one of those big-boy toys: jacked-up suspension, aftermarket muffler, turbo…the works. It’s […]
What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong?
By Jennifer Schuessler New York Times One August night in 2020, David Graeber — the anthropologist and anarchist activist who became famous as an early organizer of Occupy Wall Street — took to Twitter to make a modest announcement. “My brain feels bruised with numb surprise,” he wrote, […]
NEW: 42% Say Pfizer & Moderna 2 Shot, J&J 1 Shot Regimen Sufficient
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals how Americans define “fully vaccinated.” The survey was conducted online within the United States from November 29-30 among 924 registered voters by Harris X.
NEW: Alec Baldwin Claims He NEVER Pulled Trigger On Set
Krystal and Saagar cover the claim made by Alec Baldwin ahead of his first primetime interview since the tragedy on the Rust film set that he did not pull the trigger that killed a woman
Liberal Media Fuels White Terror Narrative After Detroit Shooter Identified
Kim Iversen discusses the media coverage of the charges against accused school shooter, Ethan Crumbley.
OMICRON: Biden RACES To Contain With New TRAVEL RULES
Krystal and Saagar break down the new coronavirus travel guidelines implemented by the Biden administration in response to the Omicron variant being detected in the United States
Symone Sanders RESIGNS As VP’s Chief Spokeswoman, Joins MASS EXODUS From Kamala Harris’s Office
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the announcement that Symone Sanders will be leaving the Biden Administration.
STUDY: How Culture War KILLS Class Politics
Krystal and Saagar are joined by economist and researcher Amory Gethin to look at how cultural divides caused by education have weakened class politics in America and elsewhere
Just LIVE WITH Covid? Dr. Fauci Answers Questions About Omicron At CNN Town Hall
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Dr. Fauci’s most recent appearance at a CNN global town hall.
CNN SUSPENDS Cuomo, MSNBC Corruption REVEALED
Krystal and Saagar follow up on their coverage of the Chris Cuomo situation at CNN now that he has been suspended for aiding his brother’s response to sexual misconduct claims
Fauci Accused Of Overseeing Experiments On Beagles AND Monkeys, WaPo Runs DEFENSE
Journalist Glenn Greenwald details the newest round of criticism facing Dr. Fauci regarding NIH-funded experimentation on animals.
CAUGHT: Trump Had COVID BEFORE Biden Debate, Hid Results
Krystal and Saagar cover the newly revealed story from the 2020 Presidential campaign that Trump knowingly had covid and went into a debate with Biden anyway
SCOTUS Hears Roe V. Wade Challenge, Scale Tipped In Favor Of Pro-Life Advocates?
Team Rising breaks down yesterday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
New Twitter CEO NUKES Journalism ON HIS FIRST DAY
Saagar breaks down the significance of Twitter for our current media environment now that the new CEO of the company has created rules that could damage journalism in a major way
Rittenhouse ASU Expulsion Protests Are LAUGHABLE, He’s Not Even A Student
Robby Soave details ASU students’ efforts to bar Kyle Rittenhouse from attending school there.
Women’s Tennis Tells China To SHOVE IT As WALL ST Bootlicks
Krystal and Saagar cover how the Women’s Tennis Association has responded to China disappearing tennis star Peng Shuai with defiance in contrast to the Wall Street tycoons who bend the knee
Biden Has The Chance To Do The Right AND Smart Thing This Time Around In Honduras
Ryan Grim makes the case against further U.S. intelligence intervention in Latin America.
MAXWELL TRIAL UPDATE: Victims Reveal Ties To Trump, Clinton
Krystal and Saagar give viewers all of the latest news from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial as victims of she and Jeffrey Epstein’s serial pedophilia and sex trafficking testify in court
Fauci Confirms FIRST Omicron Case In CA, Trump BLAMES Gold Star Families For HIS Covid Infection
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the latest developments on the emerging Omicron variant.
DYSTOPIAN GOLD RUSH – Big Money Buys Fake Real Estate for MILLIONS
Krystal covers the real estate gold rush happening in the Metaverse among the wealthy and well connected who have enough excess money to spend millions on virtual reality
Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Growing Gulf Between Ordinary Americans and the Progressive Journalists Who Cover Them
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Newsweek editor Batya Ungar-Sargon about her new book, Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy—and her political voyage from doctrinaire progressive to self-described “left-wing populist.” LISTEN HERE
The reason we’re becoming more extreme
The psychology of extremism can help explain how our society has turned into a 24/7 culture war. The latest “Reality Check with John Avlon: Extremist Beat” examines the science between what’s causing people on the left and right to grow more extreme – with social psychology professor Jonathan […]
Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization
Anarchist News From CrimethInc. 22 Years after N30—What It Can Teach Us Today Twenty-two years ago today, anarchists and other protesters successfully blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. This was the dramatic debut of what journalists dubbed the “anti-globalization movement”—in fact, […]
Announcing “Coronavirus & Anarchism, pandemic’s anthology”
Anarchist News November 30, 2021 Anarchistische Groep Amsterdam We are proud to announce our up and coming compendium of corona criticism! You can find the forward below in which we summarize and prepare you for a plethora of anarchist analysis. The following collection attempts to gather as many […]
On the Rise of Our Technocratic Biosecurity Surveillance Regime
By Aaron Kheriaty, MD Vaccine mandates and passports are an early and opportunistic step toward new modes of governance and social control. Readers of this newsletter may recall, if they glanced at the “About Human Flourishing” page, that I included the following descriptor when I launched: The real […]
Poll Finds Most Young Americans Say US Democracy Is “In Trouble” Or “Failed”
By Sharon Zhang, Truthout As the U.S. faces converging existential issues perpetuated largely by establishment politicians and the right wing, new polling released on Monday finds that a majority of young Americans believe that U.S. democracy is on the brink of failure — or that it has already failed. The […]
Read Your Enemies
By James Walker Quillette With the passing of the idea of the canon into the dustbin of history, the notion of a “required reading” list for all humanity has become seen as something quaint. In our “post-postmodern” condition, even the idea of revising the canon, entering new masterpieces […]
America Without Abortion
By Matthew Walther, The American Conservative Of all the forms of divination condemned by the Church and rejected by our natural faculties of reason, logomancy is the most obviously absurd. Hobbes, the wittiest of English philosophers, tells us that words “are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon […]
Trump AXES Pence As VP For 2024 |
Conservatives: We value a president with strong moral values, is good with money, etc. Also Conservatives: Vote Trump
Olympic committee says 2nd call with tennis star Peng Shuai ‘reconfirmed’ that she ‘appeared to be safe’
By Brendan Morrow The Week The International Olympic Committee says it has held another video call with tennis star Peng Shuai after the Women’s Tennis Association again expressed “serious doubts” that she’s safe. The IOC said on Thursday that it had a Wednesday video call with Peng, the tennis […]
Abolitionists Are Fighting Against the Surveillance State in Their Neighborhoods
By Kelly Hayes, Truthout Why would police want a multi-million dollar gunshot detection system that doesn’t work? “ShotSpotter manufactures the urgency of an active threat, offering situations where there is likely no risk, but where police can operate within a narrative of extreme risk,” says Kelly Hayes. In this […]
BIDEN TO PENTAGON: KEEP THE WAR MACHINE RUNNING
By Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept AFTER TWO DECADES of unceasing warfare in the Middle East and Central Asia, the Biden administration has unveiled its first comprehensive review of the deployment of U.S. forces globally — and it envisions a virtually unchanged military footprint, with a sharpened commitment to the bipartisan policy […]
The Return of the Postmodern Pedophile
Some of the major culture war issues of the future are going to be polygamy/polyamory, prostitution/sex work, and “minor-attracted persons.” And these issues are going to be just as contentious on the Left as they are between the Left and Right. Meanwhile, it looks like the abortion wars […]
The Theranos Trial: What to Know as Elizabeth Holmes Finishes Her Testimony
Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University at 19 years old to start the company that became Theranos Inc., a startup that promised to revolutionize the blood-testing industry. After operating largely in secret for a decade, Theranos began in 2013 publicizing its technology, which it […]
Everything to Know About Jussie Smollett’s Trial
By Bindu Bansinath and Amanda Arnold The Cut In January 2019, Empire actor Jussie Smollett was beaten by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs at him, and put his head in a noose — an attack that was first investigated as a violent hate crime but […]
The Betrayal of Roe
By Rebecca Traister New York Mag, Intelligencer The aftermath of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments this week on the fate of Roe v. Wade — in which a phalanx of right-wing justices made plain their disdain for the law — has been a festival of finger-pointing and recrimination […]
Abortion remarks show how justices lean: Is it time to overturn Roe?
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court heard arguments in which it was asked to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years. The fate of the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States and its 1992 […]
Breaking Points: 12/2/21 Full UNCUT Show
Krystal and Saagar talk about the new Omicron travel restrictions, Trump’s covid coverup, Chris Cuomo’s suspension, China’s relationship with Wall St, Ghislaine Maxwell trial, Meta gold rush, new Twitter rules, culture war vs class war, and more!
Debating “Woke” Elites & Free College w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon
Briahna Joy Gray speaks with Batya Ungar-Sargon, Deputy Opinion Editor of Newsweek & author of a provocative new book titled Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy. A self-described “former woke,” Batya is now skeptical of left media culture that feels increasingly elite & distant from journalisms […]
On Abortion Rights and the Supreme Court
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce Will Roe v. Wade be reversed, or simply defanged? Today the Supreme Court signaled that it will uphold an abortion ban in Mississippi (not to be confused with the law in Texas that caused an uproar earlier this year). For that law to stay […]
People Furious at Robot Serving Pancakes at Denny’s
Futurism Imagine sitting down at your favorite breakfast restaurant only to be greeted by a robot, which brings your pancakes and sides instead of a human server. Well, that’s not exactly what happened at one Denny’s location, but to hear the comments tell it, our robot overlords are […]
How the fall of Roe v. Wade could change traveling for an abortion
My guess is that if Roe v. Wade falls it will be another escalation of the culture wars on the level of the two Trump elections, the pandemic, the George Floyd protests/riots, and January 6. Some states will move to liberalize abortion rights even further, while others will […]
The question that may determine the future of abortion rights
By Damon Linker The Week The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday morning in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a case with the potential to gut Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the court’s landmark decisions establishing and upholding a constitutional right to abortion. […]
Biden nearly ended the drone war, and nobody noticed
By Ryan Cooper The Week Our infamous drone war has largely faded from the headlines. Aside from one strike that went horribly wrong during the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, there has been vanishingly little coverage of what’s going on with the signature American tactic of the war […]
Jon Ronson and Adam Curtis on the culture wars: ‘How has this happened? Where is the escape hatch?’
by Fiona Sturges The Guardian As Ronson’s BBC podcast Things Fell Apart begins, the documentary-makers and old friends discuss conspiracy theories, the problem of ‘activist journalists’ and what happened to Ceaușescu’s socks. Jon Ronson and Adam Curtis became friends in the late 1990s, having bonded over their shared […]
More Evil Shit From Fauci’s Past… That He’ll Never Answer For
By Peter R Quinones This article from 2005 is additional evidence that the NIH has engaged in experiments with sometimes no oversight. While the treatment may have been beneficial, the fact that there was no oversight or accountability, a recurring theme when it comes to Publicly Funded Medical […]
First Case of Omicron Virus Variant Detected in US: Officials
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times The first U.S. case of the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus has been detected in California, officials said on Nov. 30. Genomic sequencing conducted at the University of California–San Francisco and reviewed by scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and […]
Lauren Boebert Compares Ilhan To TERRORISTS, Refuses To Apologize
Our entire political system is a total parody at this point.
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