Old, underground, forgotten — let’s rewatch these laugh-out-loud masterpieces. — Some movies hurt you bad; they make you cry, shudder, crawl under your weighted blanket with a bottle of scotch and wish the day had never started and you were still yesternight, innocent and unblemished by what you just watched. Other movies make you laugh. I love both kinds but…

A culture that demands purity of thought and offers no pardon for past errors either ends up in tyranny or ruin. — Alexi McCammond is a young, promising journalist who, aged 27 only, covered Joe Biden’s presidential campaign for Axios. She had been hired to serve as Teen Vogue top editor and was due to start in the coming weeks when tweets she had penned ten years ago resurfaced. They contained racist…

Billionaires are more liquid than you, me, or the Pacific Ocean, so, please, stop using this asinine argument. — Whenever the topic of taxing wealth is mentioned, someone will end up saying that we can’t tax billionaires’ wealth because “they are not liquid.” The reasoning goes that since billionaires’ wealth is “in their company, not yachts,” levying a tax on their wealth would force them to sell stocks, reducing…

Oppositions to minimum wage and unionisation tell you all about the value shareholders place in their workers. — The wealthiest Americans have added at least one trillion dollars to their wealth since the start of the pandemic. Yet, these billionaires’ companies try everything to prevent their workers from unionising. …

Trumpism just held its first ideological conference: we ought to be scared of its pro-Civil-War message and nazi symbolism. — “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou’s wisdom has always evaded political commentators. For years before his elections, experts and journalists dismissed Trump as a joke. They didn’t take his words seriously; neither did they take the man. He was nothing but a…

It started with reading responses to my Trump stories. It ended up in a wonderland of hate, self-entitlement, and racism. — “Why did I read this?” That’s the question I’ve been asking myself for the better part of the last four hours as I delved into a yet-unbeknownst-to-me part of Medium: the world of pro-Trump writers. It started with reading the responses to a recently published piece about Trump’s “Office of…

Dominion and Smartmatic defamation suits may shape the future of America, for better or worse. — Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO, has now officially joined the ranks of those sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems. Along with Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, Lindell was Dominion’s most prominent accuser, claiming the election-technology company had conspired with Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong Un to overturn the November…

What the current stock and crypto investment frenzies tell us about our societies and their inequalities. — Gamestop, weed stocks, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies: a trading frenzy driven by small retail investors has taken hold of the world in early 2021. People who had never bought stock see their friends and acquaintances become overnight millionaires and want to join in on the action. Some will become rich; many…