Biden visits East Palestine, “Where’s Hamas? Where’s Arafat?”
Biden said, “You’re not going to rope me into a discussion of hazmat terrorist attacks. The whole point of my conference with Hamas is de-escalating violence in the region. We still have friends in Israel, you know.”
The Ruling Class of the Retirement Home
Instead of heading to Tuesday night Bingo or enjoying a nice bowl of Jello, Grandma and Grandpa are going drag racing. They’re using your money to fix the car, and they’ll lecture you about their virtue after they drive it into the lake.
Welcome to America’s Racialized Medical Schools
Under the new ideological regime that has taken power both inside the federal bureaucracy and in institutions like UCSF, even medical research has become yet another front in a larger ideological battle.
Pat Conroy on Teachers, Censorship, and Banned Books
Violence has always been a part of my world. I write about it in my books and make no apology to anyone.
The Trump-Russia Saga: The Death Spiral of American Journalism
The failure to report accurately on the Trump-Russia saga for the four years of the Trump presidency is bad enough. Worse, major media organizations, which produced thousands of stories and reports that were false, refuse to engage in a serious postmortem.
The Culling: The War on Birds
This war on birds affects us in many ways. It feeds the “viral” lie and allows for the justification of utterly insane countermeasures to be utilized to protect us from an unseen foe.
Right-to-repair laws: Pushback against corporate power
For farmers, few examples of those corporate constraints are more frustrating than repair restrictions and patent rights that prevent them from saving seeds from their own crops for future planting.
Corruption and COVID: We Are Not ‘All In This Together’
Beware overtures to ‘personal responsibility’ for the response to COVID, at either the individual or national level. They may be used to deflect from corruption.
A Manual on Removing the Yoke From Your Neck
We are at a juncture of history where the great resetters are attempting a massive new power grab, and they are putting a lot of work into confusing us and making us forget that we were born free.
Manufacturing ignorance: Agnotology vs. misinformation studies
Most people think of ignorance as the absence of knowledge. Proctor and others in the field of agnotology argue the opposite — that ignorance is socially constructed in the same way that knowledge is.
The War on Insensitivity
This one is about the global-capitalist thoughtpolice and their ongoing efforts to purge society of “insensitivity.” Yes, that’s right, insensitivity. If there is anything the global-capitalist thoughtpolice can’t stand, it is insensitivity.
WEF: Here’s how experts see AI developing over the coming years
We who dedicate our attention to AI find it plausible that one of the biggest transformations in humanity’s history is likely to happen within our lifetimes.