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Snuggle in with us for another Cocoon Session where we give you a really cool and easy trick to hack your anxiety, talk about the way the quarantine is changing the world good and bad, and finally Caitlin

The hashtag #ChinaLiedPeopleDied was recently sent trending on Twitter by "new right" pundit Michael Courdrey with the amplification of all the usual Trump bootlickers and their sheep-like followers,

Hey everyone, we're back in your earphones with a special series of Going Rogue, The Cocoon Sessions. Let's hang out, eat ALL the snacks and quarantine together. This episode is all about the 16 lessons

Missing the cute, innocent days of early 2020 when our biggest concern was just that the continent of Australia would burn to ashes and Trump would start a full-scale war with Iran. ~ Everyone's been primed

This gig is kinda weird at the moment. I write about what's going on in the world for a living, and there's certainly plenty going on in the world to be written about. But also there's this acute awareness

In the likely event that you need some news to give you a bit of faith in humanity today, you should know that supporters of whistleblower Chelsea Manning have raised over a quarter million dollars to

During a "virtual town hall" staged to avoid public gatherings amid COVID-19 fears, former vice president Joe Biden advanced a disgusting, ageist, ableist conspiracy theory about the Democratic

A federal judge has released whistleblower Chelsea Manning from jail following a suicide attempt and a year behind bars, while ordering her to pay more than a quarter-million dollars in contempt of court

In an attempt to contain the Covid-19 pandemic the president of the United States has just announced a 30-day travel ban between the US and Europe, the super-rich are flying off to disaster bunkers, and

The primary race is not looking good for Bernie Sanders. After Obama worked behind the scenes to coalesce the entire Democratic establishment behind former working brain owner and vice president Joe Biden

Gaffelighting¹, noun. Meaning: When narrative managers insist that obvious signs of serious mental deterioration are just innocuous "gaffes". E.g. "I know what dementia symptoms look like,

Heyyy America. Rest of the world here. How's it goin'? How are the kids? Are you still making those Marvel movies? Those are fun. So, I know you don't like us to bother you during an election year, but

CNN's Hilary Rosen has been rightly taking a hammering for lecturing Sanders surrogate Nina Turner, who is black, on how she is and is not permitted to use Martin Luther King Jr's words (and for subsequently

Today I just want to make the simple observation that America's two-headed one-party political system is a lot like an old stand-up bit Bill Cosby once did about beating his children. The bit I'd like

On a CNN panel on Monday, host John King spoke with Politico reporter Alex Thompson about the possibility of Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard qualifying on Super Tuesday for the party's

Back in January, well before the Democratic primary race had taken on its current composition, independent journalist Ruth Ann Oskolkoff reported that a source had heard from high-level Democratic Party

I wear my mother's dress and shake the earth with bare feet. I spurn the -ists and -isms of dead men. I have an obsessive attraction to elephants in rooms. I think unauthorized thoughts and feel unauthorized

The propagandists have all gone dead silent on the WikiLeaks founder they previously were smearing with relentless viciousness, because they no longer have an argument. The facts are all in, and yes, it

Assange, verb. Use: To be assanged. Meaning: when the nationless alliance of elites imprison a dissident by using their power to manipulate vagaries in the laws of their respective nations. Eg "I

The first week of the Julian Assange extradition trial has concluded, to be resumed on May 18th. If you haven't been following to proceedings closely, let me sum up what you missed: The prosecution is