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Nexus X HumectressCongress Might FINALLY Pass Build Back Better, Does Dem’s CRUSHING VA Loss Change Things?
Team Rising debates whether the Build Back Better budget reconciliation package will really reach a vote this week.
Does VA Gov Race Show TRUMP Will Win In 2024?
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff look at the Virginia election results in the context of what the GOP’s future will be especially as Trump continues to loom large over the 2024 election
‘They See Climate Change As A Religion’: Kennedy Slams Green New Deal Supporters
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) went after proponents of the Green New Deal and the Biden administration during Wednesday’s press conference on American energy independence, the climate, and oil and gas.
MSNBC LOSES IT LIVE As GOP Wins In VA Gov Election
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff respond to the media reactions that took place during the live coverage of election night where narratives about why the GOP won already began to unfold
Resistance Dems Fell For Lincoln Project’s Tiki Torch Stunt, This Is The REAL Problem
Ryan Grim breaks down the story behind the tiki torch-touting ‘protestors’ at a Youngkin campaign event late last week.
TOP Takeaways From VA, NJ Dem Election Night SLAUGHTER
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff give their top takeaways from election night as Dems were slaughtered up and down the ballot in multiple states including in Virginia where Glenn Youngkin came out victorious.
Democrats And MSM Want To CRIMINALIZE “Let’s Go Brandon” Chants
Robby Soave details the origin of the “let’s go Brandon” chant by protestors.
The NEW Culture War Is Here And Its BAD For Dems
This analysis is right on the money and represents something I’ve been noticing for a while. The framework of the “culture war” has started to shift where it is no longer a matter of “liberals” vs the “religious right” but “wokesters” vs “normies.” The “Hidden Tribes” study published […]
NIH HELPED EcoHealth Evade Gain Of Function Restrictions, Fauci DOUBLES DOWN On School Closures
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Rahm Emanuel’s future as Ambassador to Japan, plus new reporting from The Intercept on the NIH’s role in helping Ecohealth Alliance police its own funding of risky bat coronavirus research.
Here’s What Workers REALLY Want From Unions
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff are joined by public policy expert Oren Cass to better understand what workers want from unions that they are currently not receiving
Technofeudalism: Explaining to Slavoj Zizek why I think capitalism has evolved into something worse
Some interesting economic analysis from Yanis Varoufakis. I think at least his basic argument is correct. The tech revolution, digital capitalism, the debt economy, financialization, globalization, the expansion of the professional-managerial class, and neoliberalism, along with other forces, have converged to create a new kind of economy.
Breaking Points: 11/4/21 Full UNCUT Show
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff talk about the election night takeaways, mainstream media melting down, GOP 2024 possibilities, Dems SALT tax cut for the rich, foreign money in elections, the new culture war, Biden’s mandate, what American workers want with Oren Cass, and more!
Revisiting Spanish Memory: George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia
By Dolores Martín Moruno This article explores the way in which the Spanish Civil War has been traditionally shaped in the collective memory as a Manicheanconflict fought between two well-defined sides, the Republicans and the Nationalists, in order to demythologize this common representation in contemporary Spanish society. According to […]
Make it a Christian town’: the ultra-conservative church on the rise in Idaho
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian A Guardian investigation has revealed that a controversial church whose leader has openly expressed the ambition of creating a “theocracy” in America has accumulated significant influence in the city of Moscow, Idaho. Christ Church has a stated goal to “make Moscow a Christian […]
Pentagon watchdog finds no misconduct in mistaken Afghan airstrike
The usual “we have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong” line. By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war […]
‘Defund the police’ is dead. Long live police reform.
By Joel Mathis, The Week Defund the police” is a dead idea. That’s actually been true for some months now, but any doubts about the notion’s viability should be ended entirely after Tuesday’s election results in Minneapolis, where voters rejected an opportunity to replace the police department with […]
America caught the presidential democracy disease
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Now the fate of American democracy depends on proving me wrong. On election night in 2012, Republican nominee Mitt Romney conceded defeat around 1 a.m. After calling then-President Barack Obama to offer his congratulations on re-election, Romney gave a speech to his supporters. […]
Are the Democrats doomed?
By David Faris, The Week Why poor showings in Virginia and New Jersey elections are a bad omen for 2022 Voters went to the polls Tuesday in off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey that have long served as the first reliable preview of the country’s political mood […]
The winners and losers of election night 2021
By Jeva Lange, The Week Tuesday was a night of upsets, shoo-ins, nailbiters, and way too many cats. Here’s our scorecard for the 2021 elections. Winner: New York City night owls The 110th mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, called it “almost silly” to suggest he shouldn’t have […]
The Red-Pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia
By Matt Taibbi Notes on a “realigning” election. The drama that played out in upscale Loudoun County, Virginia over the last year or so, and cost Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe the governorship last night, is a book waiting to be written. In fact, if companies like HBO or […]
Reeling Democrats see threat to House and Senate control as Republicans crack their 2020 coalition
By Sean Sullivan Washington Post Democrats reeling from the party’s showing on Tuesday night were sharply critical of its direction and agenda — already the subject of months of infighting on Capitol Hill — concluding it threatens to devastate their efforts to hold on to the House and […]
‘World capital of anti-fascism’? The making –and breaking– of a global left in Spain, 1936-39
By Hugo Garcia Fernandez As the source of one of the broadest movements of solidarity in history, the Spanish Civil War represents an ideal laboratory for the culture-oriented and increasingly transnational historiography that has developed since the turn of the century. This chapter examines the discourse and actions […]
Boosted by the pandemic, ‘constitutional sheriffs’ are a political force
By Kimberly Kindy Washington Post As Mark Lomax campaigns for the top law enforcement position in Bucks County, Pa., there’s one question some voters keep asking: Will he be a “constitutional sheriff”? The 62-year-old former state trooper has largely avoided the polarizing label, which refers to a movement […]
The 1890’s ~ Amazing Rare Footage of Cities Around the World
The start of motion pictures, late 1890’s. Rare film of cities, towns and countries. High-quality remastered prints from the Lumiere archives and EYE Film Museum. Clips listed in order below. Music Tracks: “Dream Walking” & “What Must Be” by Dhruva Aliman Timestamps: 0:00 April 1897 – Jaffa Gate […]
U.S. STATE GETS BORED WITH BLUE CENTRIST GOVERNOR, VOTES IN RED CENTRIST GOVERNOR
Trad News Voters in a U.S. state have got bored with their Blue Centrist governor of a few years and have voted in a Red Centrist governor. A few years later they will quite possibly vote in another Blue centrist, in what may be described as a “daring […]
GOP Voters Cite Immigration As Country’s TOP Concern While Dems Say Covid, Climate Change
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds that a plurality of voters consider coronavirus to be the most important issue today.
Elon Musk Could Save 42M From STARVING To Death, Will He & Other Billionaires Sign Up?
Kim Iversen breaks down the controversy surrounding Elon Musk and the head of the UN’s World Food Programme.
Sinema Supports TRIMMED DOWN Drug Pricing Deal, Sanders BLASTS Dem’s Tax Giveaway To The Rich
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave detail the prescription drug pricing deal Democrats reached as part of their effort to pass President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda.
FEC Met W/ Bipartisan BACKLASH After Ruling FOREIGN ENTITIES Can Donate To U.S. Referendum Campaigns
So what? It’s not like the US never interferes in the internal politics of other countries. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the FEC ruling that would legalize foreign contributions to U.S. referendum campaigns.
Minneapolis REJECTS Defund Police In Wake Of George Floyd, MAJOR Blow To Police Abolition Movement
Normies aren’t going to vote to abolish the fuzz during a time of rising violent crime and in the immediate aftermath of a wave of riots. Most people prefer safety and security above all else. See Maslow. Team Rising discusses the failure of Question 2 in Minneapolis.
Terry McAuliffe Lost Because Virginia Dems Had NOTHING To Run On
In Virginia, Democrats are acting like we just had a March on Rome, and Republicans are acting like the Berlin Wall just fell. Youngkin is a moderate Republican “pro-business” type whose only real issue is taxes. He’s light years away from being a right-wing populist or far-right. Youngkin […]
If Dems Can’t Figure Out Why Parents Hate CRT, Youngkin’s Win Is Just The Beginning
Youngkin ran a very shrewd campaign. He knew exactly what buttons to push. He made opposition to CRT, mask/vaccine mandates, and being pro-“parents rights” and “tough on crime” the centerpiece of his campaign. Meanwhile, the Democrats got caught with their pants down. But Youngkin is just a Mitt […]
Youngkin DOMINATES In VA, Breaking GOP Losing Streak. Progressive Victories In Boston, NY Elections
Some of the discussion of the rural/urban divide and state/city divide in this is interesting. Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and national director of the Working Families Party, Maurice Mitchell, discuss last night’s election results.
Who is Joe Biden and Who Are the Republicans?
Joe is within the Rockefeller Democrat tradition, i.e. a representative of the northeastern banking establishment. That’s light-years removed from “communism.” Nowadays, a lot of FOXtards are comparing Biden to Jimmy Carter, which isn’t entirely inaccurate, as Carter was also a David Rockefeller protege. During the “Communism” era, there […]
Neofascist seizure of America’s state governments
There is a lot of wild hyperbole in this. What Hedges is describing in this is not “fascism” but good old-fashioned American Protestant bourgeois-liberal know-nothing populism. Nothing new under the sun. This guy Paul Street being interviewed by Hedges is a perfect illustration of what I call a […]
Tracking a Journalistic Cliché: “The Worst Attack on Our Democracy Since the Civil War”
By Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea In the first installment of “TK Mashup,” a piece of a Joe Biden speech quickly becomes the ostensibly original thoughts of cable news anchors. On April 28th of this year, Joe Biden gave one of the first big speeches of his presidency, […]
Best Places I Would Live with $1,000 per Month
https://nomadcapitalist.com/internati… Where are affordable places for new nomads to live? In this video, Andrew discusses the top cities for new nomads to live for just $1,000 a month. 0:00 Start 1:31 Tbilisi, Georgia 4:44 Istanbul, Turkey 5:25 Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 6:37 Phnom Penh, Cambodia 7:19 Antalya, Turkey 7:49 […]
“Can the US Keep Going Like This?”
What is America going to look like if its current ways persist? In this video, Andrew shares an article from zerohedge.com to discuss his thoughts and prediction on what can happen in America if its situation doesn’t change.
Path to Extinction or Path to a Livable Future?
by Don Fitz As climate change leads humanity’s march to Armageddon, data surfacing during late 2021 suggests that the march could be much briefer than previously thought. “Nature is starting to emit greenhouse gases in competition with cars, planes, trains, and factories,” asserts Robert Hunziker. The Amazon has […]
NYC Taxi Drivers’ HUNGER STRIKE: Officials Join, DEMAND City-Backed Guarantee on Medallion Debt
New York State Assembly Member, Zohran Mamdani, explains his support of the hunger strike to #EndCabbieDebt.
Katie Couric Accidentally TELLS ON MEDIA and Herself
Krystal goes over the important lessons about the mainstream media’s culture and business model that were present in famed journalist Katie Couric’s new memoir
Are Unvaxxed MORE DANGEROUS Than A FIRE? 9k+ NYC Public Workers CALL OUT Over Mandate
Kim Iversen expands her case against vaccine mandates.
Journalist EXPOSES How NRA Grift Robs Ordinary Americans
Krystal and Saagar are joined by investigative journalist Tim Mak to better understand how corruption and grifting led to the downfall of the NRA at the expense of ordinary Americans
Ghislaine Maxwell MAINTAINS “I Have Not Committed Any Crime.” Barclays CEO Resigns Over Epstein Ties
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to Ghislaine Maxwell’s series of legal losses leading up to her trial for alleged sex crimes committed with Jeffrey Epstein.
GOP LEADS POLLS In VA Gov Race As Dems PANIC
Krystal and Saagar go over the final polling and messaging in the Virginia Governor’s race as voters head to the polls to choose between the GOP’s Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe
Squad, Congressional Progressives FLINCH In Showdown With Manchin & CONCEDE On Infrastructure Bill
Team Rising discusses new developments in the negotiations to pass President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda.
POLLS: Dems Predict Biden Will LOSE In 2024
Krystal and Saagar cover some shocking polling ahead of the 2024 Democratic primary that shows Democrats in disarray and how bitter the partisan divides are in America
Deadly Blasts In Afghanistan, State Dept & Pentagon BLASTED For Sitting On Critical Information
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-Harris poll reveals that only 29% of voters approve of how the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was executed.
Jon Stewart EXPOSES Wall Street CEO’s Lies To His Face
Krystal and Saagar review the hard hitting interview Jon Stewart did on his new Apple show with JP Morgan Chase CEO, Democratic party Donor, and general wall street tycoon Jamie Dimon
The Senate Parliamentarian Was A Deportation Prosecutor Because Of Course She Was
Ryan Grim breaks down the conflict of interest that could come back to bite Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough.
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