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Nexus X HumectressBiden May Restart Construction Of Trump’s Wall
Democrats are now the Wall Party. Republicans are now the Kids in Cages Party. Right on cue. It’s almost like someone is scripting all of this. “We have always been at war with….someone or other.”
Officials investigating child sex abuse, neglect allegations at Texas migrant shelter
By Jesse O’Neill, New York Post Texas officials are investigating allegations of child sex abuse and neglect at San Antonio’s Freeman Expo Center, where thousands of migrant children who crossed the border are being held. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made the alarming announcement at the center Wednesday night, […]
Meet the Censored: The U.S. Right to Know
By Matt Taibbi A nonprofit that investigates Genetically Modified Organisms and the origins of Covid-19 is the latest to see its traffic plunge after a search engine update. In July of 2020, a nonprofit watchdog group called the U.S. Right to Know — which describes its mission as […]
An ounce of marijuana and limited home cultivation will be legal in Virginia starting July 1
By Mel Leonor, Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia will legalize the use of recreational marijuana among adults this summer, an acceleration in the timeline that is meant to curb the disparate impact of prohibition on people of color in a Southern state remade by its Democratic legislative majority. The General […]
Investigator changes mind about what George Floyd said in video
Video of George Floyd while he was being detained by police led to a significant exchange in the courtroom with witness Special Agent James Reyerson. CNN’s Omar Jimenez reports.
Use-of-force expert testifies at Chauvin trial
A Los Angeles Police Department use-of-force expert testified Wednesday that former police officer Derek Chauvin used “deadly force” by holding his knee on the neck of George Floyd for more than 9 minutes in a situation where no force was necessary.
Derek Chauvin Trial for George Floyd Death – Day 8
Watch daily live coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, faces charges of manslaughter, second-degree murder, and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd.
Gaetz Sought BLANKET Pardon From Trump In Last Days Of Office
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that Matt Gaetz asked Trump for a pardon before he left office.
CDC says variant first found in the U.K. is now the most common strain circulating in the U.S.
The more contagious variant first found in the United Kingdom is now the dominant strain in the U.S., according to the CDC. As CBS News’ Nikki Battiste reports, experts say this variant is fueling clusters of infections in Americans under the age of 17. Dr. Len Horovitz, a […]
HEARTBREAKING Video Emerges of Migrant Boy Abandoned at Border
It’s rather fascinating how the parties have done an about-face on the migrant kids issue right on cue. It’s almost like all of this is completely scripted. A viral video has been released of a 10-year-old migrant boy approaching an off-duty Border Patrol agent asking for help. Will […]
Former police officer accused of sexual abuse while working as school D.A.R.E officer
A former Bucks County police officer is facing charges after authorities say he sexually abused four teens while he worked as a D.A.R.E officer, officials said. Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub announced the charges Wednesday against former Warminster Township Police Officer James Carey, 52.
New Fox News Comedy Show Is WORST THING You Will Ever See
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Greg Gutfeld’s new comedy show on Fox News, Gutfeld!
Billionaire WEALTH Explodes In 2020
Host of Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, discusses the rise in billionaires in 2020.
McConnell Says Get CEOs Out Of Politics While SELLING OUT Harder Than Anyone
Krystal Ball breaks down Sen. Mitch McConnell’s hypocritical comments on corporations involvement in politics.
Dan Crenshaw’s IDIOTIC Argument Against Stimulus Checks On Joe Rogan
Saagar Enjeti reacts to Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s attack on populism in his latest interview with Joe Rogan.
Bezos BACKS Corporate Tax Hike, Revealing That It’s All FAKE
Team Rising reacts to Jeff Bezos endorsing President Biden’s infrastructure bill.
Future of Virginia’s 113-year-old electric chair and lethal injection gurney in limbo
By Frank Green, Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia’s ultimate sanction was carried out for more than a century on an oak chair from Trenton, N.J. used to execute 267 people who were deemed too vile or dangerous to live among us. Their limbs and torsos bound by straps and heads […]
How Amazon Union Drive Could TRANSFORM Every Worker In America
Senior reporter at ProPublica, Alec MacGillis, discusses the latest updates on the Amazon workers’ union vote in Alabama.
Public Interest In Trump PLUMMETS To Pre-Presidency Levels, GOP In Catastrophe
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss lack of public interest in Donald Trump since his deplatforming on social media.
Orbán, Salvini and Morawiecki form new right-wing European alliance
Whatever. These guys are just glorified governors of what amounts to de facto red states. There is only one system, the global capitalist empire. The Atlanticist-Zionist-Wahhabi axis is the ruling party (like Democrats), with the BRICS/Resistance axis being the opposition party (like Republicans). These dudes are just Kristi […]
UH-OH: Matt Gaetz Could Face Life in Prison
–Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz could face life in prison if convicted of child sex trafficking
I Was Offered a Lucrative Job to Become a Conservative
–David tells the story of when he was offered a lucrative job if he were to have a political awakening and become a conservative.
Church membership in the U.S. has fallen below the majority for the first time in nearly a century
But traditional religion is being replaced with political religions and free-for-all occultic and/or conspiratorial beliefs. Nietzsche would have predicted as much. So would Dostoevsky. By Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post The proportion of Americans who consider themselves members of a church, synagogue or mosque has dropped below 50 […]
Derek Chauvin Trial for George Floyd Death – Day 7
Watch daily live coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, faces charges of manslaughter, second-degree murder, and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd.
Melissa Chen on Fighting Wokeness at Home and Radicalism Abroad
Chen is New York editor for The Spectator and managing director of Ideas Beyond Borders, a nonprofit that translates new and classic texts about science, history, and liberal political philosophy into Arabic and distributes them as free ebooks throughout the Middle East. Born and raised in Singapore, Chen […]
Chile Battling Record Surge Even After Sweeping Vaccine Rollout
2 weeks to flatten the curve. Safe and effective. Neverending waves. Limitless variants. 3 masks. Quarterly shots.
Caitlyn Jenner To Challenge Gavin Newsom For California Governor
Good luck with this, Caitlyn.
Kamala Harris Warns New Wars Will Be Fought Over WATER Not Oil
Welcome to water imperialism.
The Meaning of the Democrats’ Spending Spree
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, New York Judging from last year’s Democratic primaries, few would have believed that former Vice-President Joe Biden would be leading the Democratic Party out of the political wilderness armed with some of the most expensive bills in American history. In a crowded primary field, Biden […]
Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds
By Alan Feuer, New York Times Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic white population were the most likely to be homes to people who stormed the Capitol. When the political scientist Robert Pape began studying the issues that motivated the 380 or so people arrested […]
What an analysis of 377 Americans arrested or charged in the Capitol insurrection tells us
By Robert A. Pape, Washington Post The Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by a violent mob at the behest of former president Donald Trump was an act of political violence intended to alter the outcome of a legitimate democratic election. That much was always evident. What we […]
Biden Compared To Karl Marx On Fox
Comparing Biden to Marx is like trying to compare apples to motor oil…
Yes, Vaccine Passports Are Fascism
Not quite “fascism” but…
New York Legal Weed Law EXPLAINED
Since so many of my neighbors have started to smoke “recreational” weed, the area is much more quiet since they’re usually munching or sleeping.
Anarchist Supervillains
Anarchist News For all our talk of solidarity, there are some anarchists who other anarchists just love to hate. In every milieu there are larger than life figures who’ve transgressed in one way or another – either through something they said, or wrote, or did – and who […]
REVIEW: On Anarchism and the Black Revolution
Black Agenda Report “The principles of anarchism appear to be growing in some corners of the Black community,” due largely to the work and thought of former Black Panther Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. In our opening post, the Black Agenda Review described its objective to provide a longer historical and more explicitly […]
Experts Gives BLEAK Covid Outlook
He said “another lockdown.” As if we’ve had one successful lockdown.
Biden’s CONFUSING Foreign Policy Flop
Biden promised that “nothing would fundamentally change” He is only keeping his promise.
Mobile Homelessness Is the Highest It Has Ever Been
By Cynthia Griffith, Invisible People On the Heels of the Pandemic, the Growing Population of Unsheltered People Are Forced to Live in Their Vehicles A friend of mine who works in the criminal justice system once said to me in confidence, “I know incarceration is a scam because […]
Remembering Leo Strauss
One of the neocons’ intellectual godfathers. Know your enemy. By Grant Haver The political theorist Leo Strauss (1899-1973) is perhaps an unlikely subject for Chronicles’ “Remembering the Right” series. Although no one can deny the extensive influence of his ideas on the conservative (and later, neoconservative) movement in […]
The Uneasy Alliance of Evangelicals and Conservatism
Trumpism is dividing the evangelicals. By D.G. Hart, The American Conservatism Since Ronald Reagan’s defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980, evangelical Protestants have been a seemingly solid segment within American conservatism. “Seemingly” is important, because conservatives often scratch their heads at evangelical habits of mind. Some of the […]
Quite a Day in the Right Turn Against Corporate America
Now that “woke capitalism” is becoming hegemonic, the right-wing is developing anti-capitalist ideas. Hilarious. By Curt Mills, The American Conservative Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Justice Clarence Thomas signaled camaraderie Monday with those who would check corporate power. Two events came to pass Monday that, for now, […]
Woke Capitalism & Decadent Republicans
The fact that this legislation could not pass even in Arkansas, with a governor who is a former head of the DEA, indicates that the “cultural left” (or at least cultural liberalism) is now almost completely hegemonic, with the exception of peripheral institutional, socioeconomic, subcultural, and geographical sectors. […]
The Coming Counter-Coup Against the GOP
This article contains a fairly interesting critique of the police/carceral state from a “culturally conservative” perspective. If we can get the Left and Right hating the prison-industrial complex with equal fervor, then we’ve got something. By Stephen Baskerville, Chronicles The left’s new monopoly cannot be resisted without breaking […]
Deaths in the U.S. rose 23% because of the pandemic in 2020, VCU study finds
By Eric Kolenich, Richmond Times Dispatch In the first 10 months of the pandemic, 2.8 million people died in the United States, a 23% increase over a typical timespan, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University study published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The number […]
Juxtaposing Anarchy: From Chaos to Cause
By Colin Jenkins Anarchy is synonymous with chaos and disorder. It is a term that stands in direct contrast to the archetype of society we have become accustomed to: hierarchical, highly structured, and authoritative. Because of this, it carries negative connotations. Merriam-Webster, the consensus source of meaning within […]
The Next Housing CRISIS Is Here And The Villains Are Exactly Who You’d Expect
Krystal Ball explains why the housing market is booming for those in the upper middle class and breaks down what it means for costs of homes in the future.
Black flag mapping: emerging themes in anarchist geography
Anthony Ince, Kulturgeografiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet Forthcoming (2014) in Levy C and Newman S (eds.) The Anarchist Imagination: Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and Social Sciences. London: Routledge. I first realized that I wanted to become a geographer when I read Tearing Down the Streets , by the anarchist Jeff […]
On the Miserable Necessity of Doing Censorship Stories in Pairs
By Matt Taibbi “Meet the Censored” will now come out in sets of left and right bans, in the (probably vain) hope that fewer people will cheer news of deletions and suspensions. For roughly half a year, I’ve been running a series of interviews here on TK called […]
‘It’s The Little Things” – That Set Me Off!
By Peter R. Quinones As I was coming out of the grocery store today I saw one of the blue, “will not provide protection against COVID” masks on the ground. I see them discarded on the ground all the time and I ask myself, if this virus is […]
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