Monday, July 7, 2025

Why Do Mainstream Democrats Hate Matt Taibbi?

In which the Democrats show their true colors as vicious discipliniarians.

Book Review: “The Great Displacement” Is a Must-Read

“The Great Displacement” argues that mass migration triggered by climate change will fundamentally rock U.S. society.

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/7/2023

~ Today’s Water Cooler: 🌡️ We are at 371 donors. 371 donors / goal of 375 = 98.93%. So there’s still time to move the needle on that last 0.07%! ~

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.

Links 4/7/2023

As US and Canada Threaten to Sue Mexico Over Energy Policies, Mexico “Nationalises” Sizable Chunk of Electrical Grid

After years of confrontation and souring relations with Spanish energy giant Iberdrola, Mexico’s AMLO government has just agreed to purchase 80% of the company’s Mexican operations.

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 […]

The Impact of Inflation

The IMF takes a wee look at who is hurt by and benefits from inflation.

Last Chance for the 2023 Water Cooler Fundraiser, plus Your Plants, ***PLUS*** Challenge!

🌡️ we are at 289 donors. 289 donors / goal of 375 = 77.07%. Can we get to 100%?

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/6/2023

🌡️ We are at 289 donors. 289 donors / goal of 375 = 77.07%.

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

Links 4/6/2023

Waiting for that Too-Much-Discussed Ukraine Counteroffensive

Ukraine and the collective West talk too much.

The GOP’s Big Bold Plan to Bring Back Child Labor

Back to the era of child labor? Paging Charles Dickens…

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, […]