April 19, 2021                                             

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: The most significant Trump-era alliance is between corporate outlets and security state agencies, whose evidence-free claims they unquestioningly disseminate.

fromTheFederalist: The anonymously sourced story claimed Russia offered members of the Taliban bounties in exchange for killing American soldiers.

fromReason: Our culture seems to think nothing of depriving the people we ostensibly love the most—children—of the chance to be fully alive when they are young.

fromJohnMcWhorter/Substack: When things get tense, cops are quite okay with depriving white people of life. 

fromAmericanGreatness: People who compare Georgia’s efforts to ensure the integrity of the electoral process to Jim Crow—an evil, unconstitutional, and inhumane monstrosity­­—are engaged in slander, pure and simple.

fromTexasTribune: House Bill 1927 would nix the requirement for Texas residents to obtain a license to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun.

 April 17, 2021                                             

fromReason: Politicians on the right and the left are coming for your free speech. 

fromCreators: We have an obligation to the truth that must outweigh our obligations to our tribes. 

fromSpiked: Big businesses are aggressively interfering in politics – and liberals are egging them on. 

fromEpochTimes: What does an unpopular totalitarian oligarchy do when faced with the prospect of losing their power?  There is no shame among the corrupt.

fromAIER: CS Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” 

fromNYPost: Censored on Facebook. Unflattering news violates their community standards.

 April 16, 2021                                             

fromAmericanGreatness: Conservative state legislators are taking a page from the playbook of pro-immigration activists and the marijuana legalization movement. 

fromRealClearMarkets: Last week the CDC announced that the risk of contracting the virus by touching a “contaminated” surface was near impossible. Another myth born of Covid-hysteria has bitten the dust. 

fromGlennGreenwald/Substack: By draping itself in the finery of political activism, the corporatist class consolidates political power, corrupts democracy and distracts from its real functions. 

fromReason: Conservative state legislators are taking a page from the playbook of pro-immigration activists and the marijuana legalization movement. 

fromTheFederalist: 'Dirty Jobs' and 'Six Degrees' host Mike Rowe is correct about the negative economic and social effects of the minimum wage. 

fromRealClearPolicy: The Internal Revenue Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Social Security Administration, and many others were found to have spent taxpayer money on weapons. 
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