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This week, on The Independents, Carla Gericke explores a growing breakdown in trust between individuals and large institutions—especially around health, risk, and personal experience. This is a conversation about: This episode is not about telling you what to think. It’s about asking better questions. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent … Read more
Ilhan Omar is no stranger to controversy. Like many a Squad member, she invites it. It amps her Q rating with cat-litter-lugging divorced liberal wine moms. Karens, AWFLs, they love that stuff. It makes someone committed to creating an American Despotism, possibly even a Theocratic one, look like she’s a rebel fighting the system. The … Read more
Another Breakfast With Claude A unscripted conversation between one-old-conservative and Claude (Anthropic) — April 2026 Backgrounder: This is another in a series of original GraniteGrok articles on Artificial Intelligence (AI), written by one old conservative and Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 from an unscripted chat over breakfast. Before beginning the chat, I uploaded a 250-word text file … Read more
Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither “fact-checked” nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
Sometimes you hear a story, and it snaps you back in time to the old supermarket tabloids where aliens were overtaking Mother Earth every week. Today’s story falls into the bizarre category, and you have to wonder if every elected official, from school board to city council, has lost their collective minds. According to multiple … Read more
Free speech champion Elon Musk is once again leading an effort to protect commercial speech from government control. His company, xAI, filed suit on April 9 against the state of Colorado, seeking to block the enforcement of a Democrat bill that regulates the content of artificial intelligence applications to prevent unlawful discrimination. xAI asserts that … Read more
Eric Swalwell is gone, and the Democrats need a new jester. There is stiff competition for the top clown, and the leading candidates are Tim Walz, Chris Murphy, and, on the outside, we have Ro Khanna. Walz and Murphy are sharing the stage in Barcelona, Spain, bashing America and our President, Donald Trump. There has … Read more
Today on the Morning Update, an Alabama Grand Jury dropped an earthquake on the left with a massive indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Financial Fraud, Wire Fraud, with receipts, OH!, and they were using donor money to pay hate groups to create manufactured hate to justify their existence, but they never offered to … Read more
Jocelyn is back with her guest, Robbie Stewart, for another installment of Justice 4 All. Watch here if the embedded video does not load. More Justice 4 All Check out all of our podcasts. Get More Morning Update Here! – Or watch it where you hang out on Spotify, TikTok, Rumble, YouTube, Instagram/Reels, and Steve’s … Read more
My dad used to commandeer the television to watch 60 Minutes back in the day. I’m talking late sixties, early seventies, when the thing was just getting started. I was just a kid, but I watched it too. Hailed as hardcore investigative journalism, it demonstrated that networks could make money on news as entertainment. The … Read more
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Today, on the Morning Update, there has been a decades-long war between the secular left and people of faith. Well, not exactly. While the Separation of Church and State retards have been inculcating that lie into the culture, making it a hill to die on, it only applies if the “church” is Christian or Jewish. … Read more
No Ever-Living Podcast this week, so I rolled out one of our more popular installments from Feb, 2026. Has a reckoning (wreckoning?) finally arrived for all those therapists, doctors, and maybe even the public-school groomers who created the mental illness, encouraged it, and then convinced kids they were in the wrong body (for politics, fun, … Read more
Maybe Trump Derangement Syndrome is a convenient excuse to overlook the years of Eric Swalwell committing sexual crimes against God knows how many women. Maybe looking like total fools, telling their followers that we are losing the effort in Iran, is a distraction for Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, stealing $5M in FEMA funds meant for … Read more
Small Colleges closing might seem like a problem when large colleges probably need to close, but maybe some will. Last week, I spent a few minutes on an episode of the morning update about a rural Vermont College shuttering its operation. Declining student enrollment was clearly a result of a shift toward trade schools and … Read more
Hank Johnson has been a member of Congress since 2007 and lives in the Atlanta area. I say he lives there rather than represents the people of Atlanta because Hank Johnson is a despicable human being. If the folks of Atlanta paid attention to his actions, they may choose someone else to represent them. I … Read more
Today on the Morning Update, some wingnut has called for a national divorce, while EV makers continue to write off tens of billions in losses. It occurs to me that these two matters are, or could be, connected, solving not just both but a good deal more. Free EV* – conditions apply. Transcript below Watch … Read more
The Democrats love to claim that they are the keepers of Democracy and that they are the Party of the working class. Maybe they were 60 years ago, though it seems like some of the senior Dems have been in office since the Kennedy years; they could not be more removed from my parents’ Democrat … Read more
I am responsible for a flurry of recent content on wealth taxes. Rich Democrats like to play class warfare games, using emotion, envy, not of them, but of the other rich people. It’s an easy move, though not typically as effective in America, but it has found more traction on the left thanks to years … Read more
Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither “fact-checked” nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more