Author: nick

The Party cannot defend workers, voting rights, and Confederate traitors at the same damn time. Desi Cortez LA Progressive Democrat?” Hell no. That’s an endangered species of public nuisance: the Lesser Spotted Spine-Free Liberal, migrating toward donors and nesting in bad decisions. Democrat In Name Only, i.e., DINO The Left remains sadly trifling, fractured, childishly debating whether to rescue the last polka-dot-plaid unicorn while the Make America White/Great Again cult marches with Confederate-fueled clarity down Broadway. MAGA’s grand theory is third-grade simple: they hate us. Not dislike. Not policy disagreement. Hate. They hate the “wrong” race, class, gender, faith, culture, and the outrageously unattainable utopian demand that…

A grim medical reality is unfolding across Middle America, predominantly Iowa’s farmland. In the land of pesticides and industrial agriculture, where policies have made farming dependent on cancer causing chemicals, cancer rates are rising faster than any other place in the nation. While federal regulators and agricultural conglomerates continue to insist that chemical-intensive farming practices pose no threat to human health, a growing coalition of oncologists, cancer survivors and investigative journalists is challenging that official narrative with data that is becoming impossible to ignore. The convergence of multiple environmental carcinogens is turning Iowa into a public health warning for the…

Blood is rolling down the shins of Mitchell Hooper. The two-time World’s Strongest Man has just deadlifted 475 kilograms – equivalent to a young hippo – and now he has a shot at the world record. Source link

In a recent interview, veteran journalist Katie Couric asked California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, whether being “so ridiculously good-looking” made it harder for him to be taken seriously. For podcaster and former Comedy Central host Adam Carolla, that exchange captured much of what’s wrong with media and politics today. In a March conversation with Nick Gillespie, Carolla talks about how legacy media traded skepticism for access and how California’s dysfunction makes everything more expensive and time consuming. Q: Let’s start by talking about Katie Couric. Why did that interview set you off? A:…

Ellen Brown Part 1 of this “Abundance Paradigm” series discussed predictions that artificial intelligence and robotics will in the relatively near future produce an economy of extraordinary abundance – one in which most labor is automated. The contention of Elon Musk is that this development will require some form of government-issued “Universal High Income” (UHI) to provide the consumer demand necessary to keep the economy functioning in a world where machines do most of the work.  Based on those projections, I argued that if a UHI were to become necessary, it could not realistically be financed through taxes or…

Photograph Source: Alexander Hatley – CC BY 2.0 On Wednesday, the Washington Post ran a short piece with the headline, “Musk’s SpaceX Discloses Massive Losses Ahead of Expected Record-Breaking IPO.” The first sentence told readers: SpaceX, the rocket company led by Elon Musk set to debut on the stock market in coming weeks, has recorded $13 billion worth of losses since the beginning of 2023, according to a financial filing made public Wednesday by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Later in the article, we learn that the implied market capitalization, based on the SpaceX IPO, is $1 trillion. Maybe it’s…

Balancing Growth: A Right-Sized Approach to Data Centers Source link

Pope Leo's Encyclical on AI Is Right To Put Humanity First Source link

Max Blumenthal The Grayzone A mastermind of Trump’s hardline Latin American policies, Mauricio Claver-Carone no longer serves in the administration. But according to well-placed sources, he’s “picking who can operate” in Venezuela, controlling access to the government, and creating conflicts of interest. Speaking with reporters on May 21, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez was on her way to New Delhi to discuss energy issues, and that he would be in India as well. “This is an important trip, I’m glad we’re able to do it,” Rubio chirped after explaining the trio of…

Oriana points through her living room window at the bombing site where President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores were abducted, January 2026. Photograph by Celina della Croce. In mid-January, a young Venezuelan mother named Oriana invited me into her home in Ciudad Tiuna, a government-built housing project with thousands of apartments and roughly 20,000 residents. With her five- and twelve- year-old sons in the other room, she pointed through the window at the charred earth where the United States military had abducted President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores two weeks earlier. A few buildings down, Oriana’s…