Let’s talk about…Trump’s Inauguration Day
Editor
Today is the day – Trump 2.0 officially kicks off, and the drama began ahead of schedule. Over the weekend there was what we’ll chose to call “The Tiktok...
Trump’s Indictment and the Downfall of America
Karen hunt I arrived at Lake Arenal, Costa Rica, this little hideaway paradise, last Thursday. The next day, I found that, sure enough, Trump has been indicted by a New York...
19 Memes to get you through the Day – Part 31
…and we’re back. We know you missed this, even if you hated the memes before, you felt the lack. To quote the prophet Mitchell, you don’t know what you’ve...
This Week in the New Normal #47
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
“Political Protest Is Not a White Collar Crime”
Diana West
On July 30, 2002, President George W. Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a post-Enron law “aimed at fraud in corporations,” as summed up in a headline in the New...
January 6: The show trial, the movie…and Liz Cheney’s dyspepsia
Michael Lesher Not every piece of political theater openly presents itself as political theater. But these aren’t ordinary times, heaven knows – and the show trial that goes under...
The shot that was NOT heard ‘round the World
Michael Lesher More than seven months have passed since an unarmed protester named Ashli Babbitt was shot dead inside the US Capitol while attempting to climb through an opening...
Manufacturing (New Normal) “Reality”
CJ Hopkins The ultimate goal of every totalitarian system is to establish complete control over society and every individual within it in order to achieve ideological uniformity and eliminate...
