After a quarter century of quiescence, US inflation rose sharply during COVID from an average 2.1% over 2017-2019 to 9.0% in June 2022. Then, inflation started declining and in March 2025 it stood at 2.4%, most of the way back to its pre-pandemic level. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

Belgian MEP Marc Botenga: “Let’s be absolutely clear: the people of Gaza are being executed by Israel.” “They lure starving civilians with promises of food, only to open fire on them. Hundreds have been killed while simply waiting for aid.” “These are crimes against humanity.”

Yes. Trump massively grew government, added trillions in wasteful spending and debt, expanded unauthorized military campaigns, extended unconstitutional surveillance, and brought back federal adoptive civil asset forfeiture. It’s generally much worse than I had expected in 2016.

There’s a Citations Needed episode about the horrific Democrats framing everything as a “national security” issue.

This is embarrassing. Just one day after The New York Times took 8 paragraphs to say witnesses “reported that Israeli troops opened fire Haaretz.com releases an investigation revealing that Israeli soldiers were “ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites.”

US airports could look like this, but the US spends trillions on wars instead. China, conversely hasn't had a war in more than 4 decades and its infrastructure looks like the future to folks in the west.

It seems that our rulers, here in the 'liberal' West, have homed in on a new way of turning a person into a non-person. Here is a man, Hüseyin Doğru, a German journalist (of Turkish origins, but not a dual citizen) whom the EU authorities have found a novel, immensely cruel,

“The Israeli genocide in Gaza won’t stop because it’s lucrative; there are people making money off it.” “States must impose sanctions and cut ties with Israel, but so must companies and banks.” —Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur

The summary of this war is that Iran's nuclear capabilities suffered a small delay at most, and Israelis witnessed a shocking military display unseen in three generations of settlers. Hence why the airport had to be shut to stop them fleeing and depleting the colonial population.

Open political warfare on average Americans mesmerized by Trump. nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opi…

Murder For Profit runs our government.

BREAKING: In a damning new report, Francesca Albanese accuses 60 companies of enabling apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and the mass murder of Palestinians — all for profit: “Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues because it is lucrative for many.”

Half the USAID medical vans in Africa could be carrying guns to CIA-backed guerrillas and all you'd see in the paper would be a hypothetical statistical model making up how those supply vans saved 10 million lives.

"The misery sweeping across the American landscape may have begun with Ronald Reagan, but it was accelerated and codified by Bill Clinton. He sold out the poor and the working class..." (Chris Hedges)

Musk jumped on the election train because he thought he could pull the strings for his own benefit, just like Bannon had. But Musk is far more self destructive, and is on the verge of burning it all down to avenge his ego.

“It is the responsibility of every single Jewish person in this moment to say absolutely No to Z10NISM. The entire ideology is built on racism, fascism, and anti-Semitism, and it must be dismantled....” —Rachael Shapiro (ANTI-Z10NIST JEWISH ACTIVIST )

Our hollow empire:

Bombing Iran and then muscling through a deficit-busting Zombie Reaganism legislative package is exactly the kind of Status Quo-upheaving ideological revolution we've come to expect

Foreign-born workers plunge 350,000 while native-born workers soar 830,000. In a single month. 🤯 Turns out Americans *do* want to do those jobs. zerohedge.com/markets/trump-…

Trump is overseeing the biggest mass transfer of wealth from the Middle Class to the rich in history. I will never forgive those who voted for him for ruining our country.