In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Keir Starmer claiming the Culture War is a figment of the Tory imagination, DeSantis dropping out and the House of Lords holding up the Illegal Immigration Bill.
During the past three years, the country has seen a dramatic increase in book bans at public and K-12 school libraries and in rightwing pro-censorship activism, usually targeting books that address race, gender identity, or sexuality. In Texas, Suzette Baker was fired from her job as director of a rural public library for refusing to […]
Last night, Megyn Kelly asked the Republican presidential hopefuls whether Donald Trump was right to be proud of Operation Warp Speed, which approved the mRNA Covid vaccines in record time. Here's what they said.
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When Gavin Newsom debates Ron DeSantis Thursday night on Fox News, voters might finally hear a serious discussion of an issue that most politicians have wanted to forget: the disastrous mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The headlines on climate catastrophes are becoming more informative as they become more ominous. For years the media headlines have been describing record floods, droughts, wildfires, heatwaves, hurricanes and other fossil-fueled disasters of an abused Mother Nature. The immediate human casualties are devastating. Very recently, the headlines have been steering us toward what happens in […]
In this week's London Calling, we discuss whether Paul McCartney died in 1966, the 2020 Presidential election was stolen (and the US courts were party of the cover-up) and the Covid vaccines were designed to cause harm.
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Our first memes in many a moon, and it’s fittingly space-themed. As expected, the US Congress’ “UFO hearings” sparked a rash of meme activity. Enough to spark this back to life. 1. Even the professional memers were getting in on the act. 2. Weirdly, nobody really seemed to care about the “revelations” very much… 3. …
While posing as a defender of free speech, Florida’s Ron DeSantis has played point man on the Israel lobby’s crusade to criminalize American citizens for their exercising their constitutionally-protected right to boycott Israel. Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has spent his career as an elected official pushing an array of laws attacking the free speech of American citizens who exercise their constitutionally-protected right to boycott Israel. One anti-boycott bill DeSantis championed sought to send violators to prison […]
Just viewed, for the first time, the 2012 ESPN documentary Ghosts of Ole Miss written by Wright Thompson and directed by Fritz Mitchell. The film covered the 1962 segregationist riot at the University of Mississippi in opposition to the first African American student being enrolled there, James Meredith. Interspersed into it all was the undefeated […]
The New York Times has published an angry article blaming Ron DeSantis for the "steep cost" of his Covid response, despite having to admit Florida did better than the rest of the country.
