Politics

Powerful images and the enigmatic tales they tell. — It’s easy to think of famous people as being immortal, but in reality, behind all the fame and glamor, they are just as human as the rest of us. They might live in a different world compared to most, but when the time comes, they end up in the same…

How Many People Think Things Are Doing Well? Go Ahead and Guess — There are numbers, and then there are numbers. I came across one lately that should have made more waves. What percentage of people would you say think the economy’s in excellent shape? Go ahead, guess. Now guess again. Just 1%. That’s not a typo, that’s a real finding. Go ahead…

California’s deep political bench means Governor Newsom doesn’t have to pick Oprah. — Senator Dianne Feinstein is an icon and trailblazer in American politics. She is also nearly 90 years old and has recently been absent from the U.S. Senate while recovering from shingles. Initially elected in the “Year of the Woman” in 1992, Feinstein has announced she is not running for reelection…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Today in tyranny we’ve got three stories on the rapidly increasing authoritarian abuses in western “free democracies”. Let’s dig in. 1. Grayzone reporter detained by British counter-terrorism police for doing journalism. The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg was detained by “six anonymous plainclothes counter-terror officers” who “grilled him for over…

The list just continues to grow. — Donald Trump has certainly come to be known for handling things like a mob boss, hasn’t he? If we learned anything throughout his Presidency, it’s that the man expected absolute, unquestioned loyalty from the people in his inner circle and wasn’t shy about refusing to return that loyalty. As a…

Remember Tara Reade, the pro-Putin grifter who lied in 2020 and said that Biden sexually assaulted her when she worked for him when he was a senator? She’s back in the headlines again for defecting to Russia. She announced it on Russian state TV during a press conference alongside convicted…

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Psychologists are not typically supposed to clinically evaluate people from afar, but Donald Trump has toxically injected himself so deeply into America’s daily consciousness with ludicrous egomania that it’s impossible even for amateur psychologists to inaccurately evaluate Trump’s lead-soaked, dumb, little brain based on his public, sociopathic behavior: When he…

But why? What’s the Point? I don‘t know if Ukraine is directly or indirectly responsible for the attacks on Moscow on 30 May 2023. As usual, there are multiple possible suspects, and I put the Ukrainian Armed Forces in last place as very unlikely. 1) Russian Government Most Likely. Russian public support for…