About That Bipartisanship…
What kind of bipartisanship do we want? Smooth-as-silk to grow our Pentagon and Praetorian Guard? Or disruptive to fight against all that?
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I Tried to Pay My Taxes in Cash – Here’s What Happened, and Why the IRS Should Make It Easier To Do So
A shaggy dog story on trying to get the IRS to accept cash….
Read more...Vaccine Effectiveness and Scientific Communication During COVID-19
Scientists and public health officials didn’t do a great job of explaining Covid vaccine efficacy. Laziness? Arrognace? Obfusction?
Read more...Saudi- U.S. Relations Sour Further On Huge OPEC+ Surprise Cut
Yes, sports fans, the Administration blew it with Saudis. Dealings may have been set to sour, but Team Biden accelerated the process.
Read more...Pentagon in Panic as Second Set of Leaked Documents Gains Traction, Revealing Spying on Allies and Deteriorating Ukraine Capabilities
The Pentagon and intel chiefs are in a tizzy over a major documents leak. How serious is it?
Read more...Freida Berrigan: 90 Seconds to Midnight – The Doomsday Clock and Me
The potency of the warning of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock seems to be fading….when the urgency is high.
Read more...Why Do Mainstream Democrats Hate Matt Taibbi?
In which the Democrats show their true colors as vicious discipliniarians.
Read more...Now Is the Time for a Federal Ban on Facial Recognition Surveillance
Please support a bill in Congress that would block federal agencies from using facial recognition to track and misidentify millions of people.
Read more...Telegram Leak of US/NATO Document Paints Grim Picture of Condition of Ukraine’s Military
In a bit of synchronicity, after pointing out that the Collective West was more free with information with respect to Ukraine than was ideal during a war, today we have the US government het up about an apparent leak. The New York Times reported that some US and NATO plans for building up the third […]
Read more...U.S. Interference in the Middle East – 20 Years Since the U.S. Invasion of Iraq – Col. Larry Wilkerson
Col. Larry Wilkerson describes how the media barely covered the damage wrought by the U.S.-led “coalition of the willing” in Iraq
Read more...Waiting for that Too-Much-Discussed Ukraine Counteroffensive
Ukraine and the collective West talk too much.
Read more...How Union Workers Are Fighting to Save America’s Beleaguered Health Care System
Yves here. This post confirms something Lambert has highlighted in the context of elections: that nurses are one of the most effective union groups. Here they are combatting abusively low hospital staffing levels. Not only will this campaign help slow the decline of the quality of care, it should help slow the exodus of nurses, […]
Read more...Warning Lights Flashing Red for Italian Economy
Already dealing with rate and energy hikes, Meloni government eliminates two programs that were effectively providing stimulus just as Italy becomes country with lowest employment rate in the bloc. Now billions of EU recovery funds are at stake too.
Read more...Your Political Rivals Aren’t as Bad as You Think – Here’s How Misunderstandings Amplify Hostility
Some ideas for how to dial down your political hostility.
Read more...The Shambolic Criminal Case Against Donald Trump
Is there a there there in the Trump indictment?
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