Posts by Kim Browne
Video: What to Know About the ICE Raid at a Hyundai Plant
new video loaded: What to Know About the ICE Raid at a Hyundai Plant ICE and other law enforcement agencies detained nearly 500 workers in Georgia in September. Farah Stockman, who covers manufacturing for The New York Times, describes the fallout from the incident and what could be next for foreign factory investments in the…
Read MoreTrump Suddenly Changes His Tune on Ukraine After Disaster Meeting
“The old societies of Europe are collapsing,” he said, “and the United States is applauding its new Hitler. It’s not listening to its own young people, or its older people who died in the battlefields of Europe, fighting against Hitler and against his criminal ideology. Today, the same thing is being done as Hitler did,…
Read MoreTrump’s Fury at Dems Goes Nuclear as Crushing New Shutdown Poll Hits
President Trump’s fury at Democrats over the government shutdown is escalating. First he angrily announced that he’s “terminated” the big tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey, basically saying he’d done this to punish Chuck Schumer, an extraordinarily deranged act of direct retribution. Then he unleashed a rambling tirade filled with lies about “mentally…
Read MoreChina’s Sany Heavy Industry seeking up to HK$12.4 billion in HK listing
[BENGALURU] Sany Heavy Industry is seeking to raise as much as HK$12.4 billion (S$2.1 billion) through its Hong Kong listing, a filing showed on Monday (Oct 20), as the machinery maker taps into renewed investor appetite for Chinese listings in the city. The company is selling 580.4 million shares in a price range of HK$20.30…
Read MoreNo Kings: How Mass Protests Weaken Unhinged Autocrats Like Trump
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. There were 2700 No Kings events across the country, with at least 7 million participating, according to Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the groups that helped coordinate the protests. It was…
Read MoreRepublicans Should Be Afraid—Just Look at Who Joined No Kings Protests
Listening to anyone from the Trump administration talk about the No Kings protest would have had you expecting complete anarchy. Masked men with Molotov cocktails, smoke in the air, American flags burning, police and National Guard in full riot gear—something more akin to January 6. “This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna…
Read MoreThe Crime Is Nationcide
The first mention I was able to find in that search came from 1794, when Gracchus Babeuf, a French revolutionary, used the term in his The War of the Vendée and the System of Depopulation. In August 2024, American Political Science Review published an article about how, after the defeat in 1867 of their French…
Read MoreZohran Mamdani Gets It. So Does Marjorie Taylor Greene.
It’s a message that sounds strikingly similar to one being pushed by a decidedly different politician: Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist who is poised to become New York City’s next mayor. A lot of coverage of Mamdani’s rise understandably focuses on his style. He’s a charismatic and compelling politician with an invaluable gift in…
Read MoreThe Infamy of the “Kavanaugh Stop”
Believe it or not, there was a time when the Supreme Court’s emergency docket rulings did not regularly garner controversy; they were simply the means by which the court could consider time-sensitive legal crises, such as motions related to capital punishment. But a key feature of the Trump era is the transformation of the emergency…
Read MorePrince Andrew Forced to Give Up Royal Titles Over Epstein Ties
And just like that, Prince Andrew is no longer a duke. The second son of Queen Elizabeth II has been on the outs with the rest of the British royal family since the late Virginia Giuffre, one of pedophilic sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, first claimed in the 2010s that she had been…
Read MoreTop DOJ Official Delivers Ominous Warning to “No Kings” Protesters
The Justice Department has joined the Republican campaign to discredit Saturday’s No Kings protests, going so far as to describe the event as an attempt to “destabilize” the U.S. government. No Kings demonstrations—which last swept the country in June—protest the monarchical nature of the Trump presidency by invoking the nation’s founding. They also explicitly name…
Read MoreTrump Confusingly Brags About Constantly Getting Played
“As we talk about protection, drone use, counter-drones and counter-UAS, medical modernization, aviation modernization, we have something going on in almost every domain of modernization in Korea, right? AI is one thing that, as a commander, it’s been very, very interesting for me. Obviously, I’ve been in the Army for a long time, right? And…
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