Skip to main content
Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it.

Friday Nite Videos | June 3, 2022

Portside
Jordan Klepper Debunks the 'Good Guy With a Gun' Argument. Rocks: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. Theaters of War (2022): Movie. We Gave a Speech to Wayne LaPierre at the NRA Convention. The AI That Creates Any Picture You Want.

Elon Musk and Smell of BS

Edward Niedermeyer Slate
The Tesla CEO’s mythmaking often obscures an uglier truth. The public is finally reckoning with it.

The Problem Is the Guns. The Guns. The Guns. The Guns.

Chuck Idelson Common Dreams
It's not school security or mental illness or anything else—it’s just guns. President Biden said on the night of the Uvalde massacre, "when we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled."

Why Ukraine Matters for the Left

Matthew Duss The New Republic
Opposition to U.S. adventurism is principled. But this is Putin’s adventurism, and the left must stand firmly against it....Supporting the defense of Ukraine is the right thing for the global left to do. Even if our own government is doing it.

Let Them Eat (Jubilee) Cake

Laura Clancy Red Pepper (UK)
It is not just that inequalities are being sharpened alongside the existence of monarchy, but rather that the inequality inherent to systems of monarchy provide the conditions for inequality within wider society. 
Subscribe to Portside