Jacob Weindling

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Folks have had a lot of fun with the Republican Party’s latest insane fever dream, as the notion that Haitian immigrants are terrorizing Springfield, Ohio by eating people’s cats and dogs is so manifestly absurd that ridicule and laughter is the only logical response to these weirdos (but it should be noted that the lie originated with

It has long been obvious that the right-wing media ecosystem is one giant bullshit factory where grievance is the only social currency (possibly funded in part by Russian intelligence, according to the Department of Justice ), but they were able to maintain a patina of truthfulness by at least pretending to participate in civil society with the rest of us while

Sean Payton, famed offensive football guru, won a Super Bowl over Peyton Manning fourteen years ago, and he has not made it back since. Granted, if the worst non-call in NFL history had not happened, Sean Payton in 2018 likely would have had the opportunity to join the large fraternity of coaches who have lost Super Bowls to Tom Brady. Despite his illustrious status as an NFL legend, he has won AP Coach of the Year just one time in his career, his first in New Orleans in 2006.

This time he was one two-putt away from walking into range of another shooter at a manageable distance, and had a Secret Service agent not seen the barrel of a gun poking through the bushes one hole ahead of Trump, who knows what kind of world we’d be living in right now.

Today the Senate held a committee hearing on the rise in hate crimes, and Republican Senator John Kennedy provided a perfect example of the kind of wretched people behind this dismaying trend. The Republican from Louisiana accused the Arab American Institute’s Executive Director Maya Berry of supporting Hamas and then ended his racist drivel with a quote that sent gasps throughout the room. Maya Berry’s thoughtful and heartfelt response to this racist attack is as good of an example as you will find of the vast gulf between the humanity of the right-wing and everyone else in America.

While there is some humor in JD Vance’s comedic timing with this quote, I want to make clear up front I don’t want to make light of political violence. I wrote yesterday about the second assassination attempt on Trump that “this year’s comparisons to 1968 are beginning to get extremely uncomfortable,” and literally the last thing our rage-filled

Details are still scant as to what specifically occurred, but graphic videos have surfaced of pagers blowing up in people’s pockets in supermarkets, as the Lebanese minister of health says eight people were killed and over 2,800 were wounded by explosions in Lebanon and Syria today. The Israeli Defense Forces are widely assumed to be behind the attack, although they have not commented on the record yet.

Perhaps there is no subject with a wider gap between its immense importance and the sheer boredom it induces than monetary policy. It’s literally the price of money, but if I wrote a more sober headline of “Fed cuts 50 basis points and expects another 150 basis points of cuts by next year” then no one would click on this and I wouldn’t blame you. I know this because I already ran this experiment back at Paste Business in 2016 and I set all time internet records for least clicked articles every time I wrote about the Federal Reserve.