History

Red Flags or Green Lights?

When you hear the term “red flag law” today, you think of rules or regulations that allow governments to seize guns from people who pose a danger to others. But back in the late 1800s, its meaning was very different. The first red flag law in…

Exposing the NSA – The Stream

By The Stream Published on November 9, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6BkG7eGKY In this 2-hour and 10-minute video from O’Keefe Media Group, National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Drake exposes how our nation’s most elite…

I, Smartphone – The Stream

Make mine a cup of praseodymium with a terbium or two on the side, please. Make it snappy! Beautiful blue cobalt, a ferromagnetic metal with atomic number 27, is inside your smartphone, too. Presently, almost all of it comes from the African…

You Can Just DO Things

In the subculture of the vibe-driven new right that suffuses much of MAGA world in the northeastern corridor, one of the commonplaces is the assurance that, whatever the putative obstacles at hand, “you can just do things.” It’s an invocation at…