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November 18 Update: Late Eisenhower Holocausts; Big Oil's Methane Coverup; Drought in the Northeast; Buckle Up, It'll Get Rough; Clean Energy's Resilience; Apartheid's Gift to D.C.; Military Deportations?

Long time, no see. All that's old is new again in the emerging American Reich, as yet another feckless, hamstrung, Beltway & DNC insider-run trainwreck that was the Harris campaign founded in the face of rampant disinformation, voter discontent at worsening economic conditions and the Ukraine/Gaza wars

Kyle Benton, Terrorgram Collective Member, Army Vet & Longtime PNW Nazi, Jailed on Federal Firearms Charges

October 27 update: Israel Hits UN Troops w/White Phosphorus; Sheriff Extremists & Election Interference; Deportation Machine Go Brrrr; Chauncey Bailey Factcheck; Israel's West Bank Landgrab

Hope everyone enjoyed last night's shitshow for the ages at Madison Square Garden, which Knicks owner and candidate along with Eric Adams for Most Hated New Yorker decided to make available to a certain disgraced former president to re-enact the 1939 German-American Bund's Hitler worship pageant.

October 21 Update: Elon's Election Ratfucking; American Vets & the Far Right; Can Forests Absorb More Carbon?; 'Weaponized Autism', Extremism & Adolescence; Russia's Journalist Mole

In case you haven't heard, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is dead after a confrontation with regular Israeli ground troops in the Gaza Strip last week. Yet the IDF's assault on not just Gaza, but Lebanon proceeds apace. All pretense of recovering the October 7 hostages is

October 13 Update: Crypto Radicalism; Welcome to the Pyrocene; Bibi Baffles Befuddled Biden; Oligarchs Outwit UK Regulators; Bannon Against Empire; The Patriot Wing

Autumn or Fall? The latter term feels a lot more appropriate this year, with Israel not only pursuing a genocide but a broader regional war where United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon are apparently fair game, Kamala doing precisely what Californians became so familiar during her terms in office and refusing

The Vicious Circle

September 29 Update: FELON MAYOR EDITION

In case you haven't heard, New York City's Cop Mayor Eric Adams is formally under federal indictment as of September 26 for a slew of corruption and straw donor allegations that New Yorkers saw play out in real time over the past three years of news

September 14 Update: Feds Close in on Eric & the NYPD; Inside La Eme; Chiapas Narco-wars; Oligarchs Bankroll Climate Revanchism; Federal Firefighters Flee Labor Disputes; Turkey's African Bonanza

There you have it: the days are rapidly getting shorter, the leaves are changing, and if you're in the Eastern half of the United States or Western Europe, the barometer is (finally) dropping after the hottest summer on record. Apologies if you're in Central Europe and

August 19 Update: Tipping Points; Pantsuit Mussolini; Yosemite's Contracting Chaos; HRW Hammers LA, CA on Homelessness; An Afrikaner's Digital Coup; the BBC Goes Long on Mister Bone SAW; Soak the (Super) Rich

First off, I hate to disappoint anyone here for convention coverage but I'm not about that. The entire point of Bleeding Edge, and my reporting in general, is to run away from the pack. That means not only drilling down into weird and obscure shit like Satanist FBI

Oakland's Summer of Discontent

The past several months have brought major developments in Oakland, particularly for the city's political landscape and police department, which is heading into its twenty-second year of court-ordered reforms with no end in sight. A number of local outlets have done a stellar job covering this story -

August 11th Update: Britain's Far Right Riots; Crypto's Love Affairs with Trump; Twitter Embraces Incitement as Telegram Moderates; America's Forgotten Environmental Awakening; Memes Pollute; The AI Bubble Bursts

It's been a few weeks of radio silence, for which I apologize (in part). Everyone's gotta take a break now and then, and vacation is a rare but deeply enjoyable occasion for me. Particularly this year as current affairs continue their morose drift. I don'

July 22 Update: DDOS Robot Dog; Project 2025 & Wall Street Dark Money; California's Solar Wars; The Oil Firms Knew; ICJ Declares Israeli Occupation Unlawful; Silicon Valley's Apartheid Ties; The Ex-LA Sheriff's Thin Skin

Some weeks it's so hot that the basic daily tasks seem like a chore. Guess we can firmly say the second half of summer is well and truly upon us, if not the dog days and hurricane season (cross your fingers though: Hurricane Beryl gave us an early

July 16 Update: Phillippine Death Squads Target Environmentalists; Meta Scoffs at News as Anecdote to Disinfo; Bibi Sabotages Peace Talks (Again); Mining on Colorado's Stolen Land; Clarence Thomas, Legal Arsonist

The United States had our modern day John Hinckley Jr. moment last weekend: a gun-crazy kid from Western Pennsylvania took and missed his shot, sparking a two day media cycle (crazy how quick that happens). The wild speculation about the shooter's motivation will take some time to settle,

Observations from Atomwaffen Division Samuel Woodward's Murder Trial