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Nexus X HumectressThe WORST Moments From The Big Tech Congressional Hearing
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti weigh in on testimony by Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s CEO’s about their content policies.
Michael Moore: Why I Still Think Trump Could Win
Michael Moore sounds like he is seriously losing his marbles.
The One Truly Good Thing That A Trump Re-Elect Could Provide
Krystal Ball lays out the “best case” for another four years of Donald Trump.
GDP Shows Long Way To Go On Recovery As States Face MASSIVE Cash Crunch
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss reports that U.S. States face the biggest cash crisis since the Great Depression.
Mutual Aid Is Essential to Our Survival Regardless of Who Is in the White House
By Dean Spade, Truthout/Verso Books When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a crisis in the U.S. in early 2020, people all over the country started coordinating to deliver groceries and prescriptions to vulnerable people, making and distributing masks and hand sanitizer, and raising money for people who were […]
Trump Campaign Website Is Defaced by Hackers
By Nicole Perlroth, New York Times President Trump’s campaign website was briefly taken over by hackers who defaced the site on Tuesday. The defacement lasted less than 30 minutes, but the incident came as Mr. Trump’s campaign and that of his opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., as well […]
Progressive Groups Are Mobilizing to De-Escalate Far Right Violence at the Polls
The New Black Panthers were accused of this some years back. By Ella Fassler, Truthout In preparation for potential voter intimidation this year, the Women’s March, Working Families Party, Movement for Black Lives Electoral Justice Project, United We Dream and other organizations are mobilizing “election defenders” to de-escalate […]
NYPD Officers Blare ‘Trump 2020’ From Patrol Car Speakers, Terrorizing Majority Black Neighborhood: WATCH
Adrian Garcia, The Daily Grind At least three New York City police officers parked their patrol car on a crosswalk in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn Saturday night and repeatedly used the NYPD vehicle’s loudspeaker to blare: “Trump 2020!” According to the police department’s “prohibited conduct” patrol guide, […]
What Can You Do If Trump Stages a Coup?
By Lizzie Widdicombe, New Yorker Ah, election season. There’s a patriotic buzz in the air. Bumper stickers and lawn signs all over the neighborhood. Now comes the time when we check the location of our polling places, make a plan to vote—and pack a “go bag” in case […]
What Would Biden’s Foreign Policy Look Like? Just Look at His Supporters
The neocons and their allies now seem to be in control of all US political factions. They are directly in control of the both sections of the neoliberal centrist factions, and indirectly in control of the Trumpist faction through infiltration and manipulation, and the “progressive” and “left unity” […]
Elections Can’t Cure a Sick Political Culture
By J.C. Tuccille, Reason With November 2020 looming, Americans look forward to the end of a seemingly permanent election campaign and perhaps some reduction in the raging fever of national tensions that ail the country. Dream on. Even if we have a clear winner on election night, the […]
A Florida man stole a bulldozer, knocked down a fence and stole Biden signs, police said
By Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post Residents in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Haines City, Fla., knew something was off on Saturday when they saw a young White man driving a bulldozer on the street. As he made his way down the block, the man began running over every […]
Why the left, including left anarchists like Chomsky/Carson, will never abolish the state
The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses why the Left will never, in all likelihood, abolish the state. This is a continuation of an earlier episode we did with Keith Preston on “Does the left advocate a police state” but this time we state our own views. The left, compared […]
Political Correctness Is Destroying America! (Just Not How You Think.)
A critique of right-wing PC from a leftist writer at The Intercept. When it comes to the question of ideological dominance in American institutions, this is how I think it breaks down (more or less). What is commonly called “conservatism” (the points of view described in this article) […]
Kamala Snubs Medicare For All & Green New Deal In Infuriating Interview
“Don’t worry. I don’t really stand for anything at all except self-promotion…just like Trump.”
Why Excess Death Numbers Are Misleading
Trump Supporter Pulls Gun On Group Of Pro-Biden Teen Girls During Heated Confrontation
By Adrian Garcia, The Daily Grind A man wearing a “Trump: Keep America Great” hat was caught on camera Saturday pulling a gun on a group of teen girls showing their support for former Vice President Joe Biden after the man claims he was splashed by an unknown […]
Millennials all over the world have lost faith in democracy
Wonderful. But the big question is what comes next? By Rhys Blakely, The Times Millennials in democracies throughout the world are more disillusioned with their system of government than any young generation in living memory, a study has found. A survey of nearly five million people showed that […]
How The Progressive Caucus Is Tooling Up For A Joe Biden Presidency
D.C. Bureau Chief at The Intercept, Ryan Grim, discusses how the Congressional Progressive Caucus is restructuring in order to shape itself into a more cohesive fighting force come 2021.
HALF say WORST is YET TO COME regarding coronavirus
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds half of voters believe cases will continue to rise. Featuring Rising’s Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti. This survey was conducted online within the United States from October 19-22 among 2,822 registered voters by HarrisX. The sampling margin of […]
Dems FAILURES With Latino Voters Could Cost Them On Election Day
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti weigh in on the latest polling in the presidential race. They also discuss reporting that Joe Biden is trailing in Texas.
Jared Kushner Blames Black Voters For Not Supporting Trump
Kushner has a Bulworth moment.
Park Avenue GOES ALL IN For Joe Biden As The GOP’s Only Path Forward Becomes Clear
Saager’s class analysis in this is pretty good although Krystal points out the limitations of the de facto “Sailer Strategy” that Saager is advocating. Saagar Enjeti digs into a New York Times report that details who is donating to Joe Biden’s campaign.
Here’s The REAL Worst Case Scenario For Trump’s Second Term
Krystal nails it. Krystal Ball lays out the best and worse case scenarios of Donald Trump wins the November presidential election.
Labor Prepares for Last-Minute General Strike If Trump Tries to Steal Election
The labor aristocracy threatens a tantrum if their favorite Tweedledee doesn’t win. Why aren’t these fuckfaces organizing a general strike REGARDLESS of who wins the idiotic election? By Candice Bernd, Truthout The 100,000-member MLK Labor Council, an AFL-CIO regional body of labor groups representing more than 150 unions […]
Election 2020: The Up Side of Undivided Government
I’m of two minds on this question. Divided government is wonderful. My voting advice would be to not vote at all. If you must vote, vote third party. If you must vote major party, vote for whatever will fuel division. If you live in a red zone, vote […]
The Case for Trump?
This is a pretty good overview of what Trump’s serious fans like about him. Most of this is stuff I don’t agree with, don’t care about, and think lacks context or is rooted in ulterior motives. But it’s pretty thorough. The point is that I can’t see how […]
Trump Unbound: Visions for a Second Term
Thomas Sowell once said that a problem with intellectuals is because they are experts in certain very narrow areas, they think they are automatically qualified to give expert opinions on everything else. This article is a good example. As brilliant a military theorist as Bill Lind, this article […]
Republicans and Democrats Will Never Deliver Peace
Nothing like stating the obvious. By Jo Jorgensen, The American Conservative The 2016 Republican presidential primary debates revealed a sea change. From 2008 to 2012, then-congressman Ron Paul was routinely booed for his criticism of America’s foreign policy. It was even common to hear Republican office holders, commentators, […]
The Coming Biden-Harris Law and Order Regime
Prediction: A Biden/Harris regime will crack down harder on BLM, Antifa, left-wing protestors, and their right-wing counterparts than a Trump-Pence-Barr regime. The “Biden administration” will merely be a euphemism for a ruling class unity regime without the distraction of the Orange Man daily freak show. A certain amount […]
Is Trump the Second Coming?
An anarchist fellow on social media has a pretty good assessment of the evangelical/pro-life Trump-worshipers. “Pro-Life Republicans – stop crowing about that Barret woman. She is NEVER going to overturn Roe v. Wade. None of the GOP will EVER do that, because none of them actually care about […]
The Neocon-Maoist Axis
From a social media post. This may be the first time Trotskyists and Maoists have ever manage to get along. “The coalition behind Biden is ridiculous – Lincoln Project “Never Trumper” Republicans and most of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, Silicon Valley tech giants and […]
Summarizing the last seven months
Facebook Loves Imperialist War Crimes
The following comments were banned from Facebook as “hate speech.” I originally posted these comments in response to a news story about Yemen’s retaliatory strike against the Saudis.
What The Nigerian #ENDSARS Protests Are All About
Nigeria’s police state sounds like ours in the sense of not being something anyone paid attention to until it started spilling over into the middle class. Co-host of the Low Society podcast, Angie Speaks, weighs in on the unrest taking place in Nigeria over a police unit called […]
Belief In ‘American Exceptionalism’ PLUMMETS As Young People Reject Endless Wars
Hopefully, these young people will retain such attitudes as they get older. Senior fellow at The Eurasia Group Foundation, Mark Hannah, explains why the belief in “American exceptionalism” is dwindling.
21st Century Authoritarianism
By John Robb, Global Guerrillas Here’s a question you should be asking yourself: What does 21st Century authoritarianism look like? Given what we’ve seen so far, it isn’t likely that we’re going to see a return to the 20th Century model, with its absolute dictators, industrial scale bureaucracies, […]
Anarchy & Morality
Anarchist News Heroes go above and beyond the call of duty, acting boldly in the face of fear, defying it. Cowards fail to do what they’re expected, giving in to fear, shying away from action. Is your anarchism duty-free, or duty-bound? What are the countless duties imposed by […]
Freedom to All Beings
By Mark Petrakis A fairly long one, in response to some of the regular harangues and criticisms that I receive… Have I ever said that you or anyone should vote for Trump? Have I? Of course, I haven’t. You just ASSUME, that because I am so critical of […]
Coleman Hughes – Race & Identity Politics
Whenever I examine the laundry list of ism-archy-phobia issues (racism, patriarchy, homophobia, etc.), I try to look at these from the perspective of what the social science/economic/political science data actually shows in a way that is devoid of ideological or moral value judgments. What Coleman Hughes talks about […]
When Facts Are Not Enough | Climate Change
This is a pretty good overview of the problems with the eco-cultists and their opponents. The only viable alternative to fossil fuels is either a reduction in the use of technology, and a return to early 19th century levels of technological development (and the resulting consequences for living […]
Tipper Gore’s Revenge?
What do Trumpists, Alt-Rightists, Jacobin magazine, and Brett Weinstein all have in common? They’re all considered to be enemies of the techno-oligarch/new clerisy rising ruling class, and they’ve all been banned by certain powers that be. Jacobin is pro the “pink tide” movements in Latin America so that […]
The end of democracy? To many Americans, the future looks dark if the other side wins.
Some people are taking the WWE Smackdown a little too seriously. First, what we have going on now is not “democracy,” but an oligarchy, and a rather deeply entrenched one. Second, to call what we do “elections” is to stretch the definition of elections. What we have are […]
Between Electoral Politics and Civil War
Crimethinc As Election Day approaches in a context of anxiety about the prospect of Donald Trump attempting to hold onto power by force or cunning, the revolutionary potential that was palpable in early June has receded almost beyond the horizon. Anarchism, abolitionism, and direct action tactics have gained […]
Covid-19 could kill more people through hunger than the virus itself, warns Oxfam
By Harriet Barber, Telegraph More people will die of hunger caused by the pandemic than of coronavirus this year, according to a report from Oxfam. An estimated 122 million of the world’s poorest people could be plunged deeper into hunger and poverty, equating to 12,000 extra deaths a […]
The WASP Roots of the Social Justice Movement
I am skeptical as to whether “social justice” fundamentalism could have developed outside of the context of WASP culture. And “totalitarian humanism” generally seems to be the most heavily entrenched in historically Protestant countries (the Anglosphere, Germany, the “Lowlands,” and Scandinavia). It seems to be a substitute for […]
More Scary Movies for Anarchists to Watch in the Dark
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It has been one supremely horrific year since I wrote the virgin instillation of this list last October, what with apocalyptic plagues, dystopian police death squads, and collapsing empires. In many ways life has come to resemble many […]
Feds say far-right group coordinated attack on Minneapolis police precinct during protest
By Celine Castronuovo, The Hill The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota on Friday announced that the FBI brought charges against a member of the far-right “Boogaloo Bois” group for organizing and participating in an effort to “incite a riot” outside a Minneapolis police precinct in […]
Episode 35: Bonus episode with Keith Preston by listener request
Listen here. Mr. Preston joined us again per a listener request to cover the subject of right wing anarchism, with many famous names coming up in the discussion such as Proudhon, Kropotkin, Tucker, Stirner, Rothbard and Junger. Keith also per listener request discussed what Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas have […]
Federal Judge Allows 21 Businesses to Sue Seattle Over Harms Caused by CHOP
One thing that really annoyed me was the CHOPophobia of many on the “cold dead fingers” right-wing, including many who had been pushing secession for years. So there were a few murders and other crimes in CHOP? Big fucking deal. Like that never happens in state-controlled territory? One […]
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