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Nexus X HumectressElizabeth Holmes Claims #MeToo Made Her Defraud Millions
Krystal and Saagar give their thoughts on the abuse claims made by Silicon Valley darling turned fraud CEO Elizabeth Holmes in preparation for her trial
GOP BECLOWNS Itself With Afghan Criticism Showing ‘America First’ Was Always Fake
Saagar offers his perspective on the criticism from the supposed America First GOP of Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and what that means about the future of the right.
EVERYTHING You Need To Know About SCOTUS Texas Abortion Decision
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff provide a quick rundown of the Texas abortion law and the Supreme Court’s handling of it. Just as a reminder, Krystal is on vacation and she will be back next Thursday.
LEAKED Biden Afghan Call Spurs Calls For IMPEACHMENT
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff look at the leaked call Biden made to the former Afghanistan president and how some Republicans have responded to it. Just as a reminder, Krystal is on vacation and she will return next Thursday.
Reforming the State or Transforming Society? – The Spanish 15M Movement and Anarchism
By Pablo Rodero The present work studies those aspects of contemporary social movements that could produce long-term changes in society. To do so, it examines the extent to which contemporary social movements can be considered as a part of a global anarchist re-emergence since the late 1990s. The […]
Joe Rogan COVID Diagnosis Triggers Media FIRESTORM, Creating CONTROVERSY Over Alternative Treatments
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Alyssa Farah react to news that Joe Rogan has tested positive for COVID-19.
Environmental Activist CALLS OUT Failure To BLOCK Line 3 Pipeline Project, ‘This Impacts EVERYONE’
Protestor Quiiroi Co details ongoing resistance to the construction of the Line 3 pipeline slated for construction in Minnesota.
SCOTUS Fails To BLOCK Heartbeat Law, Texas Now An Abortion SURVEILLANCE State?
Team Rising weighs in on the newly implemented Texas Heartbeat Act. It is one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation and allows private citizens to sue providers for abortions administered as early as six weeks after conception.
CEO Canceled For Calling Out Role Of Obesity In Covid Pandemic
Kim Iversen breaks down the relationship between widespread obesity and the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. European Travel Restrictions Are UNREASONABLE, Impede Case For Covid Vaccine
Alyssa Farah makes the case for ending travel restrictions between the U.S. and Europe.
The Cost of the Post-9/11 Security State Is $21 Trillion, Report Finds
By AJ Vicens, Mother Jones The war on terror has fueled 20 years of massive military and other spending. The war in Afghanistan is coming to a close just days before the 20th anniversary of its preceding event: the 9/11 attacks. Even as the US government pledges to […]
The Government Is Broken Beyond Belief, Can’t Add Basic Dental To Medicare
Ryan Grim reacts to reporting that the Biden administration wants Congress to approve the expansion of Medicare to cover dental treatments.
BOMBSHELL Report: Biden Advised Afghan President To LIE About Strength Of Taliban
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Alyssa Farah discuss leaked transcripts from a call between President Biden and former Afhan President Ghani.
Plan Z for Immigration: Let the states sort it out.
I’ve suggested this many times, much to the disdain of liberals, conservatives, fascists, and libertarians alike. By Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic A moral failing and a national shame.” During his 2020 campaign, that was how Joe Biden characterized America’s immigration policies in the Trump era. On his first […]
Is rural America becoming a new Confederacy?
By Damon Linker, The Week What if the polarization of American politics and rise of right-wing populism in the Republican Party are a function of rural parts of the country becoming more like the historic South? That is the surprising suggestion of Will Wilkinson in a fruitfully provocative […]
Breaking Points: 9/2/21 Full UNCUT Show
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff talk about Joe Biden’s leaked phone call, California’s recall election, Trump’s next move on social media, China’s crackdown on video games & celebrities, Biden’s approval ratings going down, the pro-war rhetoric from ‘America First’ conservatives, the problem with Theranos, woke capital with […]
The Real Class War
This Julius Krein article is interesting. It’s somewhat similar to Howard Zinn’s call for the “revolt of the guards.” I think we largely see what Krein is describing playing out in the Democratic Party now, where the social democrats and progressive liberals have created a de facto opposition […]
Supreme Court allows Texas abortion law. It’s the most restrictive in the nation.
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press A deeply divided Supreme Court is allowing a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in force, stripping most women of the right to an abortion in the nation’s second-largest state. The court voted 5-4 early Thursday to deny an emergency appeal […]
Biden Admin Wants To Reenter In Nuclear Talks With North Korea As Country REACTIVATES Key Reactor
There is a considerable amount of continuity in US foreign policy regardless of the partisan basis of individual administrations. Bush launched the war on terrorism, and Obama continued it. Trump negotiated a peace deal with the Taliban, and Biden implemented it. Trump opened nuclear talks with the DPRK, […]
Madison Cawthorn WARNS OF ‘Blood Bath’ Over U.S. Elections, DEMANDS Release Of Jan 6 Rioters
Team Rising discuss the role the January 6 Capital riots will play during the 2022 midterm elections.
Trump ABANDONED By Establishment GOP Donors, On His Own For 2024?
I think the future of the GOP is to become the US equivalent of the Le Penists. A right-wing populist party that functions as a permanent opposition party (and given our bicameral system, a permanent obstructionist party) that can never really achieve full state power and is opposed […]
How The Left And Right Get America WRONG
Alyssa Farah details how politically trying times bring out the best in Americans.
Our DYSTOPIAN Climate Future Is HERE As Big Oil PUSHES Line 3 Pipeline
Ryan Grim breaks down the fight between indigenous communities in Minnesota and the corporation attempting to build a tar sands pipeline through their land.
ENRAGED Marine’s VIRAL Video Shows What’s WRONG with the Military Industrial Complex
Kim Iversen explains how the viral clips shared by Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller reveal a breakdown of trust between servicemen and women and their civilian commanders.
TX Heartbeat Act Effectively STRIKES DOWN Roe V. Wade, Hillary Stans SWARM Bernie Left
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, all it means is that individual states will have their own abortion policies. That’s more or less how it is now. The deep red states more or less regulate abortion to death even if they can’t ban it outright. And some deep […]
Top FDA Vaccine Officials RESIGN Over Fast-Tracked Booster Shot Approval By CDC, White House
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Alyssa Farah react to the resignation of two senior FDA officials and discuss the rollout of COVID vaccine booster shots.
NPR Trashes Free Speech. A Brief Response
When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, liberals were often lambasted by conservatives as being defenders of the right to burn the flag, say bad words in rock/pop/rap songs, publish pornographic magazines, or even hold Nazi/Communist public rallies. Nowadays, it seems liberals have gained enough […]
Is Libertarianism Still Relevant or DEAD?
This clip with Michael Lind lays out what the major parties are about nowadays pretty well. The mainstream Democrats are the new Rockefeller Republicans. The academic left is their left flank, and the Republicans are becoming more like the old-style protectionist Democrats. Although at one point in this […]
Iceland’s Chief Epidemiologist Says Herd Immunity Cannot Be Achieved Through Vaccines
“The vaccine should be tested on politicians first. If they survive, the vaccine is safe. If they don’t, then the country is safe.” — Monika Wiśniewska
Was Kim RIGHT About Joe Biden’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan?
It’s amazing how pro-war EVERY SINGLE MEDIA OUTLET is right now! VERY clear they’re ALL mouthpieces of the military-industrial complex!
Hurricane Ida Leaves 1 MILLION Powerless in Louisiana, Mississippi Residents EVICTED Amid Storm
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Alyssa Farah break down how the pandemic and climate change could create a major housing crisis.
Could The Withdraw From Afghanistan Been Done Better?
Matt Stoller, Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah, and Matt Stoller have a heated discussion on whether or not the withdrawal from Afghanistan was successful.
McKinsey Class Has A TEMPER TANTRUM Over Biden Actually Ending War In Afghanistan
Matt Stoller explains why he has hope that the consultant class will learn from their mistakes in Afghanistan.
Civil Rights SHOWDOWN over school mask mandates, should children be forced to wear them?
Team Rising discusses news that the Department of Education has opened investigations into five states with bans on in-school mask mandates.
The CIA Needs To Be PROSECUTED Now That The War In Afghanistan Is Over
Ryan Grim makes the case for holding former administrations accountable for the forever war in Afghanistan.
Secret Big Tech Contracts With NSA, DOD Should SCARE You
Kim Iversen explains why a collaboration between the U.S. government and big tech is concerning.
War Hawks Predict FUTURE U.S. Involvement In Afghanistan, PRIMED For MORE Conflict
Alyssa Farah explains why the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was unsuccessful, and predicts future involvement in the region.
America’s Longest War ENDS With Removal Of All U.S. Troops, About 200 Citizens Left Behind
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Alyssa Farah break down the future of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan as the war formally comes to a close.
Joe Biden’s Critics Lost Afghanistan
By Ross Douthat, New York Times A month ago I thought I was a cynic about our 20-year war in Afghanistan. Today, after watching our stumbling withdrawal and the swift collapse of practically everything we fought for, my main feeling is that I wasn’t cynical enough. My cynicism […]
Matt Taibbi Calls FOR THIRD PARTY To End Forever Wars
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Matt Taibbi to discuss reigning in the Pentagon and whether either of the two parties are capable of doing so
Chinese HEIST OF THE CENTURY Shows Why US Elites Are Fools
Saagar covers the important story of how China pulled off the semiconductor heist of the century and what it tells us about US elites more broadly
Maddow Show is ENDING! Is MSNBC SCREWED?
Krystal looks at the new contract Rachel Maddow signed with MSNBC and what that means for the future of the network
Mass EVICTIONS BEGIN With 750K In Immediate Danger
Krystal and Saagar go over the immediate consequences of the supreme court’s decision to end Biden’s eviction moratorium and why rental relief funds from congress failed to get distributed
The View’s New CRINGE Lineup Is EVEN WORSE Than You Think
How could it get any worse? Krystal and Saagar cringe at the list of potential replacements for Meghan McCain on The View as the conservative pundit
Judge STRIPS CUSTODY From Mom For Not Being Vaccinated
Krystal and Saagar weigh in on the story of a mom losing custody of her child for not being vaccinated and other instances of the worsening covid mania
Afghan War Is OFFICIALLY OVER But Trump Demands Reinvasion?
Krystal and Saagar give their thoughts on the war in Afghanistan ending after 20 long years and how Trump reacted to the news
Krystal and Saagar DEBATE: Should States Ban Masks In Schools?
Krystal and Saagar debate whether masks should be banned in schools or not following a push by the DOE to prevent states from overruling local governments and banning masks
Joe Biden Has Officially Ended a 20-Year War
–With the departure of the final flight out, President Joe Biden has officially ended the 20-year war in Afghanistan
U.S. confirms 2 ‘high-profile ISIS targets’ killed in retaliatory strike in Afghanistan
By Tim O’Donnell, The Week The United States is now able to confirm that “two high-profile” Islamic State leaders in Afghanistan who allegedly played a role in planning the deadly attack at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport earlier this week have been killed in a U.S. military retaliatory […]
The bloodlust of Joe Biden’s Afghanistan critics
By Ryan Cooper, The Week There was a tragic suicide bombing at the Kabul airport on Thursday. At time of writing 169 people were confirmed killed, including 13 American soldiers. This caused an instant frenzy of denunciation on cable news and from Republican neoconservatives. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) […]
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