High Class Thieves and Satanists: How Central Banks Stole the Last 30 years
Today the Fed is Gutting the Future of Gen-Z The Canadian left, which self-identifies as workers of-the-world-wobblies-ready-to-storm-any-barricade, last week elected a central banker whose activities over the past twenty years have systematically crushed the class they claim to support. Turns out that pretending to be a fierce fighter for the working class has cashed the […]
Economy
What’s “Normal” in a Hyper-Normalized World?
Now that the entire economy depends on these hyper-normalized speculative bubbles for its “growth” and “wealth,” there is a profound fear of a future based not on artifice but on the real world. Humans are quick to habituate to current conditions, i.e. consider them normal. This rapid normalization has advantages and disadvantages. Normalization is an adaptive […]
Empire
Not Taking A Position On Gaza IS Taking A Position On Gaza
It’s not okay to claim ignorance or uncertainty about what’s happening in Gaza in 2025. You’re an adult. You have internet access. If you don’t know, learn. You can’t just go “it too compwicated, me no understandy, googoo gaga.” It’s not cute and it’s not okay. Grow the fuck up. Notes From The Edge Of […]
Activism
The ADL Wasn’t Founded to Fight Antisemitism. But To Do PR.
What the ADL’s origins can tell us about what’s holding it back now Over a hundred years ago a lawyer stopped by a Chicago vaudeville theater to see a show. The ethnic comedy on display offended him so much that he helped create the ADL. Both the ADL and antisemites like Candace Owens like to […]
Health
EXCLUSIVE: Newly Released Records Confirm Houston, Texas is the Largest U.S. City to Stop Water Fluoridation
As the state of Utah and numerous cities end water fluoridation programs, the City of Houston, Texas has quietly become the largest city in the United States to halt the addition of fluoride to the water supply. According to newly obtained emails between Houston officials, and a confirmed statement from the Public Works Department, the […]
Tech
Goodbye Jury Trials, Hello Digital ID: 10 “recommendations” from the Crime and Justice Commission
The Times Crime and Justice Commission was established last year, with its mission statement being to… consider the future of policing and the criminal justice system, in the light of the knife crime crisis, a shoplifting epidemic, the growing threat of cybercrime, concerns about the culture of the police, court backlogs, problems with legal aid and […]
Crypto
Unpacking the DOJ’s Crypto Enforcement Memo
Legal experts say it may not significantly alter the types of cases the DOJ brings. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice disbanded its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and said it would no longer pursue what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche described as “regulation by prosecution.” You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking […]
Podcasts
Solutions
Calling Things By Their Right Name – #SolutionsWatch
“Globalism.” “Free Trade.” “Sustainability.” The Powers That Shouldn’t Be recognize that words have power. They weaponize words to use against the public all the time. Today on #SolutionsWatch, James raises the possibility of turning the tables. How can we use words to break the spell of the tyrants and free ourselves from the clutches of […]