Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Eminem Purchases Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT for $462K

What Military Budget Expansion Says About Our Broken Financial System

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

The Vaccine Scientist Spreading Vaccine Misinformation

Robert Malone claims to have invented mRNA technology. Why is he trying so hard to undermine its use?

Israel Approves Fourth Dose of Covid Vaccine for Some

Fox News’ Worst Lies About the Pandemic In 2021

Politics:

Anatomy of a death threat

Trump supporters have waged a campaign of intimidation against the state and local officials who administer U.S. elections. This visual analysis explores hundreds of menacing messages - and explains why they’re difficult to counter.

This is the backdrop of 2022: A period of procession on the way to a showdown which will either uphold or overturn America’s democratic order.

We have a major political party which is now explicitly anti-democratic. In 2024, this party will have the support of at least 44 percent of voters. This level of support might be enough to win a legitimate victory via the Electoral College. But if not, this party is openly preparing a series of novel legal maneuvers to seize the executive branch through alternative means.

Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election

Capitol Police officer says it’s a ‘disgrace’ that Pence is dismissing January 6: ‘We did everything possible to prevent him from being hanged and killed in front of his daughter and his wife’

‘Moderate’ Has Become The Most Meaningless Term In Politics

Kamala Harris says ‘democracy’ is biggest national security threat in CBS interview

The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family

Every Day Is January 6 Now

Our political life seems more or less normal these days, as the president pardons turkeys and Congress quarrels over spending bills. But peel back a layer, and things are far from normal. Jan. 6 is not in the past; it is every day.
It is regular citizens who threaten election officials and other public servants, who ask, ‘When can we use the guns?’ and who vow to murder politicians who dare to vote their conscience. It is Republican lawmakers scrambling to make it harder for people to vote and easier to subvert their will if they do. It is Donald Trump who continues to stoke the flames of conflict with his rampant lies and limitless resentments and whose twisted version of reality still dominates one of the nation’s two major political parties.
In short, the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends. No self-governing society can survive such a threat by denying that it exists. Rather, survival depends on looking back and forward at the same time.

Serendipity:

Critics of “Don’t Look Up” Are Missing the Entire Point

It’s not about Americans being dumb sheep, but about how billionaires manipulate us into trusting them, how the reckless pursuit of profit can have catastrophic consequences, and the need to come together to fight those who prevent us from solving our problems.

Each state's population center, visualized

Scotland Moves to Pardon Thousands Executed as Witches

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