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The Blood Bag Economy

Now that Trump and, as some have termed it, the broligarchy, are firmly in power, it might make sense to look at what conditions made this possible...

29.01.2025 10

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Kathleen Wallace

The Red (Note) White and Blue

The impending ban on TikTok pushed many in that oh so American way to do the opposite of what those in charge wanted them to do. Americans are a...

21.01.2025 7

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The Empathy Inequality Index

There is something of a loose, informal social contract inherent to a successful human society, and that is the condition of reciprocal empathy. When...

14.01.2025 10

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Half a Trillion Reasons for Shame

A report released on December 27 from hud.gov dropped an extremely startling new statistic. In the last year the number of homeless individuals in...

01.01.2025 6

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Perp Walk 101: Don’t Make the Guy Look Amazing

It really shouldn't come as a surprise that the ruling class failed in their attempt to make CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione look terrifying in that...

25.12.2024 5

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The New Jersey Drone Flap: Why None of the Explanations are Acceptable

The military expenditures for the US every year come in at around 820 billion. I won’t lie and say I truly understand that number or can grasp all...

16.12.2024 10

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The Clown Car Horns of the Apocalypse

The commercial background music for the MSNBC coverage of Election Day 2024 comes swelling in, orchestral and important, with a hint of...

04.11.2024 3

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Settler Colonial Contagion: A Long Simmering Plague

Ownership entitlement barrels into neighboring bodies and lands. The literal tanks that crush bodies move forward. It is as if the world couldn't...

29.10.2024 10

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Tech Bro-Monarchy vs. Lucy and Her Football

I’m sure it’s something of a trick of memory, of recalling a history that never truly was, but even so……. have the presidential elections ever been...

22.10.2024 2

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Lethal Joy Dances with Lethal Idiocy

It’s been a pretty rough last year or so for those in the reality-based community here in the United States. I’m sure we’ve had some mental health...

04.09.2024 5

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