Salonflipped into News & Politics2 hours agoTrump's Venezuela oil deal is even sleazier than you thinkSalon - Heather Digby PartonDuring the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump talked a lot about Venezuela. He claimed that country had emptied all its asylums and prisons and sent the convicts and patients to America to kill us all in our beds. He was definitely not impressed with the Venezuelan government, nor did he think much of its …
Salonflipped into News & Politics2 hours agoThroughout Latin America, US backs autocrats in the name of libertySalon - Medea BenjaminSimón Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” For 200 years, U.S. leaders have never proved him wrong. In the early 1800s, Bolivar led what is now Venezuela and …
Salonflipped into News & Politics2 hours agoThe Trump administration’s plan for protecting consumers? Politely ask companies to behaveSalon - Andy KrollIn mid-July testimony before Congress, Russell Vought boasted that, as the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he’d refashioned the agency’s approach to pursuing banks and other financial companies accused of exploiting Americans — the role Congress had created for the agency …
Salonflipped into News & Politics15 hours agoKalshi kicks out George Santos foreverSalon - Troy FarahKalshi, the online prediction market platform, has finally had enough of George Santos, issuing the company’s first-ever lifetime ban to the former Republican congressman. He is accused of violating Kalshi’s rules regarding insider trading and market manipulation, fining him more than $71,000. …
Salonflipped into Culture20 hours agoHBO’s "Lanterns" illuminates a familiar double standardSalon - Melanie McFarlandTrauma creates superheroes, we’re told. Bruce Wayne witnessed his parents’ murder and made vengeance his life’s mission. Superman survived his planet’s destruction. “Lanterns” opens with the shocking scene of John Stewart’s father, John Sr. (J. Alphonse Nicholson), aiming a gun at him and shooting …
Salonflipped into Food22 hours agoA brownie-muffin for zucchini seasonSalon - Ashlie D. StevensA slice of zucchini bread was not just zucchini bread. It was a number I would have to account for later. My grandmother never argued. She would accept my answer gamely, continue whatever she was doing and, after a little while, offer once more. If I still said no, she put the bread back in the …
