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Police tape hangs from a barricade at the corner of South and 3rd streets in Philadelphia on June 5, 2022, the day after three people were killed and 11 others wounded by gunfire all within a few blocks
Police tape hangs from a barricade at the corner of South and 3rd streets in Philadelphia on June 5, 2022, the day after three people were killed and 11 others wounded by gunfire all within a few blocks
Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks with reporters outside the Capitol Building
Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks with reporters outside the Capitol Building
The U.S. Government Is Funding Chinese Spy Technology in America’s Backyard
byLars Erik Schönander
Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks with reporters outside the Capitol Building
Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks with reporters outside the Capitol Building
Did Washington Ignore Warnings About Fentanyl?
byJonathan Alpeyrie
The U.S. Government Is Funding Chinese Spy Technology in America’s Backyard
byLars Erik Schönander
Did Washington Ignore Warnings About Fentanyl?
byJonathan Alpeyrie

Number of the Day

33

Percentage of mothers who feel that motherhood is “a lot harder than they expected,” according to a Pew poll--a finding that jives with a growing body of research that sees mothers strained by the demands of always-on careers coupled with the responsibilities of motherhood.

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Housing News from The Scroll

Looking to boost its quarterly profits, the private equity firm Blackstone, one of the nation’s largest landlords, has been busy firing off hundreds of eviction lawsuits against tenants all across the country. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Blackstone spent billions of dollars to scoop up thousands of residential apartment buildings, suburban homes, and other properties.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass touring an affordable housing project construction site in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass touring an affordable housing project construction site in Los Angeles

Number of the Day: $176,746

That’s the daily compensation paid to Geoff Morrell for four months of work at Disney, where he was hired as the top corporate affairs executive before he left amid a public relations nightmare when the company feuded with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over an education bill.

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What determines leadership-level decisions, including those made by the Supreme Court? Personal attitudes, albeit somewhat constrained by individual rules and norms.
What determines leadership-level decisions, including those made by the Supreme Court? Personal attitudes, albeit somewhat constrained by individual rules and norms.
Former FBI General Counsel James A. Baker
Former FBI General Counsel James A. Baker

Quote of the Day

Recent developments confirm that the [Democratic Socialists of America] leadership has been thoroughly captured by middle-class careerists, opportunists, and Democratic Party-adjacent political operatives. The DSA is an appendage of the Democratic Party & an obstacle to the formation of a true workers’ party.

—From a faction known as Class Unity as it announced its split with the DSA, bringing into stark relief the ongoing divide within the socialist or socialist-ish flank of the Democratic Party.

The outcome of the new global conflict rests largely on economic competition
The outcome of the new global conflict rests largely on economic competition

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  • Three Big Questions That the American Establishment Got Wrong

    Who benefited from the obvious nonsense that became post-Cold War America’s trade, foreign, and federal deficit policies?

  • The End of Progressive Intellectual Life

    How the Foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center-left

  • Labor’s Lost

    In America today, we have informal labor cartels for the college-educated elite, while private sector unions for the working class are all but annihilated

Beware the Do-Gooders

How a new class of capitalists couched their profit-seeking in the language of social justice and altruism

bySean Cooper
‘Kids deserve to see COVID-era school closures litigated again and again until there is a full accounting of who was responsible’
‘Kids deserve to see COVID-era school closures litigated again and again until there is a full accounting of who was responsible’

Ye’s narrative of sinister Jewish control emerged from the same media ecosystem that now proclaims itself protector of the Jews.

‘Kids deserve to see COVID-era school closures litigated again and again until there is a full accounting of who was responsible’
‘Kids deserve to see COVID-era school closures litigated again and again until there is a full accounting of who was responsible’

Ye’s narrative of sinister Jewish control emerged from the same media ecosystem that now proclaims itself protector of the Jews.

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Former City Council President Nury Martinez
Former City Council President Nury Martinez
How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie

By ‘ratioing’ NBC’s Dasha Burns for questioning John Fetterman’s health, her fellow journalists hid the truth from the public but exposed how they manufacture consent

byLeighton Woodhouse

A narrative of this scope is never the product of an article or two. Rather, it’s the result of sustained, coordinated effort.

How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie

By ‘ratioing’ NBC’s Dasha Burns for questioning John Fetterman’s health, her fellow journalists hid the truth from the public but exposed how they manufacture consent

byLeighton Woodhouse

A narrative of this scope is never the product of an article or two. Rather, it’s the result of sustained, coordinated effort.

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