Source: Antiwar.com
by Jonathan Cook
“Israel has penned us all into a ‘debate,’ one entirely divorced from reality, that relates only to those killed directly by its bombs and gunfire – not the genocide it is waging by other means.” (12/12/25)
Source: The Intercept
“Trump Has Appointed Himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner.” (12/12/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/12/venezuela-boat-strikes-video-press-coverage/
Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“Break out the popcorn and a jumbo box of Raisinets, because just when we thought the Warner Bros. Discovery drama was over, it turned out we had barely gotten started. The suspense over the company’s pending sale is mounting, and new questions are developing faster than writers can resolve old ones. Which suitor will shareholders choose? Will regulators block the deal? Will any of these characters find happily ever after? … Eventually writers might resolve the biggest mystery: Why does anyone want to buy this company, anyway?” (12/12/25)
Source: New York Post
“They’re clicking taboos to the curb. Pornhub has released its annual Year in Review report, revealing women are tuning in to X-rated videos at record rates. In 2025, the fairer sex made up a sizable 38 percent of all visitors to the adult website, a 14 percent surge since 2015. ‘Over the last decade, our statisticians have been tracing the proportion of female visitors to Pornhub,’ the company stated. ‘They have noticed an upward trend over the years, putting into question the dated umbrella statement: ‘It’s only men who watch porn.” In the Philippines, Colombia, and Argentina, women now make up a majority of Pornhub visitors. In Mexico, the stats were almost split: 48 percent of all visitors to the site this year were female. Meanwhile, American men are still more likely than their female counterparts to peruse porn, with just over a quarter of all searches (28 percent) conducted by women.” (12/13/25)
Source: LP Alliance
“Your source for stories inside the [Libertarian Party], across the country, and around the world!” (12/12/25)
Source: Persuasion
by Quico Toro
“In bullying Maduro, Trump aspires to nothing loftier than the principle that, within any given sphere of influence, the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. … Having gone through the horrors we have gone through, I don’t begrudge Venezuelans their revenge fantasies against Maduro’s genuinely evil regime. Smart, sane Venezuelans I know will read this column, agree with every word in it, and still want Trump to start dropping bombs on Maduro and his cronies. At this point, the hatreds in Venezuela are tribal — once you’ve seen a government destroy not just your life but the life of everyone you care about, you will side with its enemies, whoever they may be. But we should at least have the presence of mind to grasp what we’re supporting.” (12/12/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/trump-wants-to-dominate-venezuela
Source: The American Prospect
by Natalie Note
“Community colleges are a critical component of American higher education. For many working adults and lower-income students, these institutions provide an accessible, affordable pathway to obtaining a bachelor’s degree. A four-year college is an increasingly expensive proposition. For the 2025-2026 academic year, the average annual in-state tuition and fees at a public college totals $10,340; at a private college, it’s $39,307. With these financial pressures weighing heavily on young adults and their families, the opportunity to enroll in community college classes and transfer to a four-year institution is a cost-saving option well worth considering. But there’s a major issue facing the transfer students who choose this path: Many of them aren’t ready to do the work that their new schools demand.” (12/13/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/12/13/continuing-community-college-conundrum/
Source: United Press International
“The German Foreign Ministry said it summoned the Russian ambassador Friday after accusing Moscow’s military intelligence of a cyberattack on air traffic control and attempted election interference. A spokesperson for the ministry said a hacker group behind the 2024 cyberattack likely has ties to GRU, Russia’s military intelligence. … A Russian propaganda group called Storm-1516 is accused of launching a targeted disinformation campaign to influence the election. The group allegedly spread misinformation about ballot manipulation, Green Party candidate Robert Habeck and now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the BBC reported.” (12/12/25)
Source: The Atlantic
“How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV.” (12/12/25)
Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Dr. Edward W Younkins
“In her 2023 work The Two Moralities, social psychologist Ronnie Janoff-Bulman presents a framework for understanding political differences rooted in the most fundamental motivational distinction in psychology: approach and avoidance. She argues that these basic motivational systems give rise to two distinct moralities: a proscriptive morality that defends against negative outcomes and focuses on what we should not do, and a prescriptive morality that moves us toward positive outcomes and focuses on what we should do. The former can be viewed as a morality of justice that emphasizes rules, impartiality, law, order, universal principles, retributive justice, and equality of opportunity whereas the latter can be viewed as a morality of care that is rooted in empathy, connection, compassion, responsiveness, safety nets, and equality of outcomes.” (12/12/25)
https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2025/12/can-polarized-moral-politics-be-bridged.html