08/27 -- Denmark: Regime summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation; Libertarians: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Denmark: Regime summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation
2) SpaceX makes comeback with Starship test launch after fiery setbacks
3) Trump says US DOJ will sue California regime for acting like Texas regime
4) Ukraine war: Russian troops inside Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyiv regime says
5) Temu resumes direct shipping from China to US after Trump truce
6) AZ: Haboob plunges Phoenix into darkness
7) Federal Court Orders Pennsylvania Regime to Stop Throwing Out Mail Ballots Over the Handwritten Date
8) France plunges back into crisis after PM Bayrou’s confidence-vote backfires
9) UK: Rising egg prices push food costs to 18-month high
10) Court tosses Trump regime’s lawsuit against Maryland judges
11) Trump, GOP senators fight over a century-old tradition for judicial nominees
12) Australia: Regime expels Iranian diplomats, accuses country of directing antisemitic arson attacks
13) DC: Man arrested for damaging piece of cloth he owns
14) Hochul says NYC sees 12% drop in shoplifting as state’s retail theft crackdown takes effect
15) Korean Air to buy 103 Boeing jets as Trump pressures trading partners
16) SpaceX Again Scrubs Critical 10th Test Launch of Mars Rocket
17) Czech Republic: Ancient civilization’s gold coins, luxury artifacts unearthed during “unprecedented” dig
18) Norway: Regime fund divests from US firm Caterpillar over Gaza, West Bank abuses
19) Avocado Ponzi scheme defrauds victims of close to $200k, California woman charged
20) Trump says he’s firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Libertarians: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
22) Trump’s Flag-Burning Order: Nothing New, Just The Same Old Contempt For Freedom
23) Why prices will always matter
24) President Trump Should Return to an “America First” Foreign Policy
25) Feudalism Was Hell for the Poor
26) Where Is There to Run To? The Bully in Donald Trump’s Bully Pulpit
27) The Price of Cheap Fuel
28) How Scholarly Theories Impede the Search for Historical Truth
29) Those Who Condemn Hamas Lack Empathy And Humility
30) A warning from a friend
31) Welfare by Any Other Name Is Still Welfare
32) We Get the Government We Deserve
33) Trump’s Art of the Deal Collides with Modi’s “India First” Policy
34) She Couldn’t Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students But Fail Society
35) Beware the Trump-GOP Junk Health Insurance Plans
36) What Did President Biden Know, and How Long Did He Remember It?
37) End the Toxic US-Israel Relationship
38) In Search Of AI Psychosis
39) Letters from World War II, part 3
40) Are President Trump’s tariffs actually working?
41) The Forever Bank Wars
42) Trump’s India problem could become a Global South crisis
43) Donkeys Can’t Sleep in Bathtubs
44) Trump’s Epstein Problem is Real
45) Federal Policing of DC Has Made Us Less Safe
46) The Bronze Age Energy Crisis
47) Will the Fed Lowering Rates Reduce Government Borrowing Costs?
48) Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism
49) Why Republicans keep making anonymous liberals a problem for Democrats
50) If Trump plays hardball, oil holds the key to Ukraine war’s end
51) My Fabric, My Choice: On Trump’s EO Banning Flag Burning
52) Politicians Multiply Mental Illnesses
53) Central Bank Digital Currencies Clash with Progressive Values
54) Trump Attempts to Take Over Fed
55) Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
56) (Re)Imagining Liberty, episode 87
57) Rising, 08/26/25
58) The Bryan Hyde Show, 08/26/25
59) Advisory Opinions, 08/26/25
60) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 08/26/25
61) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/26/25
62) Finding Freedom, episode 504
63) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 08/25/25
64) System Update, episode 504
65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/25/25
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1) Denmark: Regime summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen, following a report that American citizens have been conducting ‘covert influence operations’ in Greenland. Denmark’s public broadcaster DR quoted sources as saying the aim was to infiltrate Greenland’s society and promote its secession from Denmark to the US, although it was unable to clarify who the men were working for. Danish intelligence warned Greenland was being targeted by ‘various kinds of influence campaigns.’ Rasmussen said ‘any attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the Kingdom [of Denmark] will of course be unacceptable,’ and the US charge d’affaires had been summoned in that light.” (08/27/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo
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2) SpaceX makes comeback with Starship test launch after fiery setbacks
Source: CNBC
“SpaceX on Tuesday launched its mammoth Starship rocket, breaking a string of explosive failed attempts earlier this year to deploy its first batch of dummy Starlink satellites and notch key developmental milestones. The more-than 400-feet rocket, critical for SpaceX’s commercial dominance and NASA’s ambitions to return astronauts to the Moon, took off from the company’s Starbase facilities at 6:30 p.m. local time in Texas for a roughly one-hour nail-biting flight. Throughout the test flight — the rocket’s 10th — it made its first successful payload deployment of eight mock Starlink satellites, relit its Raptor engine in orbit and stress trialed its heat shield. … Following a state separation, the rocket’s reusable Super Heavy booster — which thrusts the Starship into the orbit — made a controlled splashdown in the Gulf Coast waters, with the spacecraft following to its own splashdown point in the Indian Ocean after completing its run.” (08/27/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/spacex-makes-comeback-with-starship-test-launch-after-fiery-setbacks.html
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3) Trump says US DOJ will sue California regime for acting like Texas regime
Source: CNBC
“President Donald Trump said Monday that the Department of Justice will sue California over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to draw a new, Democratic-leaning congressional map. The redistricting push in California was ignited by a similar effort underway in Texas to gerrymander key House districts to more heavily favor Republicans. ‘I think I’m going to be filing a lawsuit pretty soon, and I think we’re going to be very successful in it,’ Trump said of Newsom’s redistricting push during a lengthy press event in the Oval Office. ‘We’re going to be filing it through the Department of Justice. That’s going to happen,’ he said. Newsom promptly responded on social media: ‘BRING IT.'” (08/26/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/trump-california-lawsuit-texas-redistricting-newsom.html
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4) Ukraine war: Russian troops inside Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyiv regime says
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Ukraine acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that Russia’s army had entered the Dnipropetrovsk region, a central administrative area previously spared from intense fighting. ‘Yes, they have entered, and fighting is ongoing as of now,’ said Viktor Tregubov, a spokesperson for Ukrainian forces in Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city. Russian forces have slowly gained ground in costly battles for largely devastated areas in [former] eastern and southern Ukraine, normally with few inhabitants or intact buildings left. Separately, Ukraine’s military general staff rejected Moscow’s claims to have fully captured the villages of Zaporizke and Novogeorgiivka just inside Dnipropetrovsk oblast.” (08/27/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/27/ukraine-war-briefing-russian-troops-inside-dnipropetrovsk-region-ukraine-says
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5) Temu resumes direct shipping from China to US after Trump truce
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Bargain ecommerce platform Temu has resumed shipping goods from Chinese factories directly to US consumers and increased its advertising spending in the country, following a trade truce between Washington and Beijing. Multiple Temu suppliers, partners and investors said the company had restored so-called fully managed shipments — where it handles most of the logistics and customs formalities on behalf of suppliers — in July. It had suspended the service in May.” [editor’s note: Don’t relax just yet. Trump still plans to rape US consumers with an end to the “de minimis exemption” on small parcels as of August 29 – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://archive.is/iA2ea
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6) AZ: Haboob plunges Phoenix into darkness
Source: Washington Post
“A massive dust storm swept through Phoenix and other parts of Arizona on Monday, casting an apocalyptic pall over the region as the towering wall sank the city into darkness and caused heavy rain and lightning. The haboob — an intense, fast-moving weather phenomenon formed when powerful winds rush outward from collapsing thunderstorms — hit the state during the evening commute, and the National Weather Service urged drivers to ‘pull aside stay alive’ as visibility dropped to as low as 50 feet. … The haboob and the deluge that followed caused flight delays at Sky Harbor and widespread power outages, downing trees and utility poles. Police in Gilbert, just southeast of Phoenix, said the storms knocked out some of the town’s traffic lights.” (08/26/25)
https://archive.is/gxe5j
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7) Federal Court Orders Pennsylvania Regime to Stop Throwing Out Mail Ballots Over the Handwritten Date
Source: US News & World Report
“A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that it is unconstitutional for the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania to throw out mail-in ballots simply because the voter didn’t write an accurate date on the return envelope. The unanimous decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Pennsylvania to stop throwing out such ballots and upheld the decision earlier this year by a federal judge in Pittsburgh. … The panel wrote that it was ‘unable to justify’ the practice of discarding such ballots ‘that has resulted in the disqualification of thousands of presumably proper ballots.’ Under Pennsylvania law, voters are required to write the date on the return envelope for their mail ballot. However, thousands of voters, confused by the request to write the date, might skip it or write another date, such as their birth date.” (08/26/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-08-26/court-orders-pennsylvania-to-stop-throwing-out-mail-ballots-over-the-handwritten-date
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8) France plunges back into crisis after PM Bayrou’s confidence-vote backfires
Source: Reuters
“France found itself mired in yet another crisis on Tuesday, after Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s gamble to win backing for his deeply unpopular debt-reduction plan backfired, plunging the country deeper into political and financial instability. French markets tumbled after Bayrou jolted the political establishment out of its summer slumber on Monday with his unexpected move to seek a September 8 confidence vote on his debt-cutting plan. His proposal was roundly rejected by opposition parties, who said they would relish the opportunity to cut short his minority government’s time in office. … The confidence vote will be held two days before protests called by various groups on social media and backed by leftist parties and some unions, recalling the Yellow Vest unrest that erupted in 2018 over fuel price hikes and the cost of living.” (08/26/25)
https://archive.is/GITIG
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9) UK: Rising egg prices push food costs to 18-month high
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The rising cost of chocolate, butter and eggs has helped drive food price inflation to its highest in 18 months, a survey says. Food inflation hit 4.2% in the year to August, up from 4% in July, according to the British Retail Consortium’s latest shop price monitor. It said food prices were rising at the fastest rate since February of last year. The figure echoes separate recent data from the Office for National Statistics, which found the cost of everyday food items rising by a similar amount over the last year.” (08/26/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly4eme0284o
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10) Court tosses Trump regime’s lawsuit against Maryland judges
Source: The Hill
“A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit against all 15 federal district judges in Maryland over an order slowing down speedy deportation efforts …. U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, an appointee of President Trump who sits on a federal court in Virginia, dismissed the lawsuit challenging a May standing order that automatically blocks the deportation of migrants in Maryland who file legal challenges over their detention for two business days. The Trump administration had argued that the order … interferes with the executive branch’s powers and violate various rules. ‘Fair enough, as far as it goes,’ Cullen wrote. ‘If these arguments were made in the proper forum, they might well get some traction.’ But the judge explained that, instead of challenging the standing order through the proper channels, it chose a ‘different, and more confrontational, path entirely’ by suing the entire Maryland bench.” (08/26/25)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5470641-maryland-deportation-lawsuit-dismissed
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11) Trump, GOP senators fight over a century-old tradition for judicial nominees
Source: Boston Herald
“President Donald Trump says the Senate’s century-old tradition of allowing home state senators to sign off on some federal judge and U.S. attorney nominees is ‘old and outdated.’ Republican senators disagree. Trump has been complaining about what’s called the blue slip process for weeks and has pushed Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to abandon the practice. But the veteran senator hasn’t budged. On Monday, Trump said he may sue, arguing that he can only get ‘weak’ judges approved in states that have at least one Democratic senator. ‘This is based on an old custom. It’s not based on a law. And I think it’s unconstitutional,’ Trump told reporters. ‘And I’ll probably be filing a suit on that pretty soon.'” [editor’s note: The Constitution expressly provides that the Sneate “may determine the Rules of its Proceedings;” case closed – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text
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12) Australia: Regime expels Iranian diplomats, accuses country of directing antisemitic arson attacks
Source: CBS News
“Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of organizing two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said the country was cutting off diplomatic relations with Tehran in response on Tuesday. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization concluded the Iranian government had directed arson attacks on the Lewis Continental Kitchen, a kosher food company, in Sydney in October last year and on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne in December last year, Albanese said. Iran’s government denied the allegations.” (08/26/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-iran-antisemitic-arson-attacks-diplomats-expelled/
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13) DC: Man arrested for damaging piece of cloth he owns
Source: United Press International
“A man has been arrested near the White House for setting an American flag on fire shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to prosecute acts of flag ‘desecration.’ The Secret Service confirmed the arrest in a statement to Newsweek, stating the suspect was detained in Lafayette Park for ‘igniting an object’ at about 6:15 p.m. EDT Monday. The suspect was turned over to U.S. Park Police, which told NBC News that the person had violated a statute that bans fires in public parks. In a video of the incident published on social media by The Bulwark news organization, the suspect identified himself as a 20-year combat veteran who said he was burning the flag ‘as a protest to that illegal fascist president that sits in that House.'” (08/26/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/26/flag-burning-arrest/8091756193837/
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14) Hochul says NYC sees 12% drop in shoplifting as state’s retail theft crackdown takes effect
Source: New York Post
“New York City has seen a 12% drop in shoplifting, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday — crediting the double-digit dip on Albany’s retail theft crackdown passed last year. Speaking on a street corner in Harlem, the governor touted the 12% year-on-year drop in retail theft cases in the Big Apple, and a 5% drop statewide, following a surge of such incidents hitting New York in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. … Hochul and the state Legislature included several measures to crack down on the retail theft wave in last year’s sprawling state budget package. The provisions included legal tweaks meant to boost the seriousness of cases against repeat offenders and organized retail theft rings, such as allowing prosecutors to combine the values of goods stolen from multiple stores to slap heavier charges on defendants.” (08/26/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/26/us-news/nyc-sees-12-drop-in-shoplifting-as-states-retail-theft-crackdown-takes-effect-hochul/
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15) Korean Air to buy 103 Boeing jets as Trump pressures trading partners
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“US aviation giant Boeing and Korean Air announced a deal worth about $36bn (£24bn) on Monday for 103 planes as President Donald Trump presses trading partners to do more business with American firms. The deal includes 787, 777 and 737 passenger jets, according to a joint statement from the two companies. The new jets will come at a ‘pivotal moment’ and modernise the South Korean flag carrier’s fleet, ensuring it stays competitive as it merges with Asiana Airlines, said Korean Air boss Walter Cho. The agreement was announced just hours after South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met Trump in Washington to discuss the 15% tariffs imposed by the US on the Asian country in July.” (08/26/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm2kv2erxlo
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16) SpaceX Again Scrubs Critical 10th Test Launch of Mars Rocket
Source: New York Times
“SpaceX scrubbed the 10th test flight of Starship, the mammoth rocket that Elon Musk hopes to use to take people to Mars, for the second night in a row on Monday. The vehicle was fully loaded with propellants on the launchpad in Starbase, Texas. But persistent weather problems, particularly clouds that could put the vehicle at risk during flight, led to the launch being called off not long after 8 p.m. Eastern time. That will further delay to another night a launch that sought to make up for several disappointing failures in earlier flights. The test is highly important for Mr. Musk and SpaceX, which hopes to show that the spacecraft is capable of achieving key goals. It’s also critical for NASA, which needs Starship to land its astronauts on the moon.” (08/25/25)
https://archive.is/yxEI6
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17) Czech Republic: Ancient civilization’s gold coins, luxury artifacts unearthed during “unprecedented” dig
Source: Fox News
“Archaeologists unearthed a massive trove of gold coins in the Czech Republic, minted by a long-lost civilization — with the site described by officials as ‘exceptional.’ The discovery was announced by the Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové. The Celtic settlement was found along the route of a future highway, the July release said. The site dates back to the La Tène period, with archaeologists finding that the settlement peaked in roughly the second century B.C. … It served as a ‘supra-regional trade and production center’ that linked Central Europe to far-flung corners of the ancient world. The La Tène period marked the height of Celtic power in Europe, shortly before Roman expansion into the region.” (08/26/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/ancient-civilizations-gold-coins-luxury-artifacts-unearthed-during-unprecedented-dig
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18) Norway: Regime fund divests from US firm Caterpillar over Gaza, West Bank abuses
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Norway’s $2-trillion wealth fund, the largest in the world, has divested from US construction equipment giant Caterpillar over the firm’s purported involvement in rights violations perpetrated by Israel in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The Norwegian central bank said on Monday that it had decided to exclude Caterpillar from the fund, which it manages, ‘due to an unacceptable risk that the companies contribute to serious violations of the rights of individuals in situations of war and conflict.’ The fund also announced that it had divested from five Israeli banks, based on the recommendation of its council on ethics.” (08/26/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/26/norway-fund-divests-from-us-firm-caterpillar-over-gaza-west-bank-abuses
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19) Avocado Ponzi scheme defrauds victims of close to $200k, California woman charged
Source: SFGate
“A Hemet woman allegedly defrauded at least seven people of nearly $200,000 through what the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office described as a ‘wholesale avocado business’ scam. Deputies from the Perris Sheriff’s Station were called in on April 23 for a fraud investigation, according to a news release. After speaking with a fraud victim, deputies found that seven people had been affected by the scheme. Between 2023 and 2025, the victims had been duped in a Ponzi scheme, investing thousands of dollars into the ‘business.’ Instead of investing the funds, which collectively amounted to an estimated $195,000, the suspect allegedly used the money for ‘personal benefit.'” (08/26/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-woman-alleged-avocado-ponzi-scheme-21014714.php
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20) Trump says he’s firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook
Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump on Monday said he is firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, escalating his pressure campaign on the Central Bank to lower interest rates. In a social media post, Trump shared a letter addressed to Cook asserting the Department of Justice’s inquiry into whether Cook lied on mortgage applications amounted to ‘sufficient cause’ to remove her from the fed board. … Cook argued that Trump’s cause for removing her is illegitimate, and her attorney pledged to challenge the president’s action. ‘President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign.'” (08/25/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/25/trump-says-hes-firing-federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook-00523841
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21) Libertarians: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Like Hayek and the Big C moniker, I have long wished not to have my tunic emblazoned with the Scarlet L. It’s not because I’m closer to progressives, conservatives, moderates, or authoritarians in my outlook; it’s because the label has become a liability. With the following, I want to tell you why. But first, I want to explore what’s still valuable to me about libertarianism.” (08/26/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/libertarians-the-good-bad-and-ugly
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22) Trump’s Flag-Burning Order: Nothing New, Just The Same Old Contempt For Freedom
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“If you burn someone else’s flag without permission, that’s theft and destruction of property. If you burn a flag you own, well, you own it and you’re entitled by right to do anything with it you darn well please, so long as you don’t damage other people or other people’s property. And by ‘damage other people,’ I don’t mean ‘hurt someone’s feelings.’ According to Trump, ‘[o]ur great American Flag is the most sacred and cherished symbol of the United States of America, and of American freedom.’ Whether something is ‘sacred’ is a matter of opinion. Whether you ‘cherish’ the flag, or don’t, is entirely up to you to decide. As for Trump, he routinely — if metaphorically — defecates on everything he claims the flag stands for, then wipes his posterior with it … while also wrapping himself in it.” (08/26/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19885
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23) Why prices will always matter
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Tim Worstall
“Any one thing — any economic resource, fresh water, human labour, cash, capital itself and so on — can be used for a multitude of different things. At any one time, the market price for that thing is the balance between the supply of it and the value in using it to do — in aggregate — all those multitudinous things. Yes, we can even mutter that perhaps the information doesn’t flow here instantaneously and perfectly efficiently. Nevertheless, in its simplest terms, what something costs reflects the value of whatever uses we can put it to. If we decide that we want to do something new, we need a measure of whether we should or not.” (08/26/25)
https://fee.org/articles/why-prices-will-always-matter/
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24) President Trump Should Return to an “America First” Foreign Policy
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“After four years of unnecessarily confrontational foreign policy under President Biden, Americans elected Donald Trump in part for his promise to put America first at home and overseas. He promised a war-weary America that he would start no new wars and would get us out of the existing ones. Eight months into his second Administration it appears his promise remains to be fulfilled, as his approval rating continues to slip.” (08/26/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2025/08/25/president-trump-should-return-to-an-america-first-foreign-policy/
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25) Feudalism Was Hell for the Poor
Source: The Dispatch
by Marian L Tupy
“On a recent podcast, Tucker Carlson praised feudalism as ‘so much better than what we have now’ because a ruler is ‘vested in the prosperity of the people he rules.’ This romantic view of medieval hierarchy ignores a brutal reality: For most people, feudalism meant grinding poverty, disease, and early death. As Gale L. Pooley and I found in our 2022 book Superabundance, society in preindustrial Europe was bifurcated between a small minority of the very rich and the vast majority of the very poor. … The Great Enrichment, a phrase coined by my Cato Institute colleague Deirdre McCloskey, of the past 200 years or so lifted billions from the misery that defined human existence for millennia. It was driven by market economies and limits on the rulers’ arbitrary power, not feudal hierarchy.” (08/26/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/peasants-feudalism-maga-carlson/
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26) Where Is There to Run To? The Bully in Donald Trump’s Bully Pulpit
Source: TomDispatch
by Andrea Mazzarino
“President Trump, his cabinet, and those who have profited from his rise seem to revel in public displays of cruelty. Take former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, holding a chainsaw at a televised event to celebrate the firing of civil servants. Or Trump’s White House sharing a video featuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers marching handcuffed immigrants onto a deportation flight, with Jess Glynne’s musical hit ‘Hold My Hand’ playing in the background. Or how about ICE allowing right-wing TV host Dr. Phil to film its sweeping immigration raids for public consumption? And don’t forget those federal agents tackling California Senator Alex Padilla to the floor (and handcuffing him!) when he asked a question at a Department of Homeland Security press conference.” (08/26/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-bully-in-donald-trumps-bully-pulpit/
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27) The Price of Cheap Fuel
Source: Cobden Centre
by Elias Sánchez
“Stepping out of Potosí’s new bus terminal—gateway to one of the world’s highest cities and, once, one of the richest in the Spanish Empire — I was met not with crisp mountain air but with a gritty breeze thick with diesel. Black exhaust curled from the engines of buses and trufis, their motors straining up Andean slopes at over 4,000 metres. … Two bolivianos bought me a seat …. In the rear-view mirror another trufi shadowed us, belching soot into the thin air — a convoy of combustion. Even with my nose covered, the stench clung. The haze has a cause. In 2005 Bolivia introduced sweeping hydrocarbon subsidies, halving diesel and petrol prices. Nearly two decades on, these subsidies have metastasised into a fiscal burden.” (08/26/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/08/the-price-of-cheap-fuel/
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28) How Scholarly Theories Impede the Search for Historical Truth
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“History does not always conform to what the dominant scholarly theories of court historians may lead us to expect. In his essay ‘The Task of the Modern Historian,’ Thomas Babington Macaulay observes that historians may formulate valid theories of what they would logically expect to have happened in a particular era, but unfortunately their theories soon displace any interest in the truth about what did in fact happen. They have been ‘seduced from truth, not by their imagination, but by their reason.’ In today’s context, the dominant narratives explain history by reference to theories of race relations. Historical explanations which do not fit comfortably within these theories are treated with skepticism or dismissed as false.” (08/26/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-scholarly-theories-impede-search-historical-truth
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29) Those Who Condemn Hamas Lack Empathy And Humility
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Whenever I see someone going out of their way to denounce the Palestinian resistance while expressing some vaguely pro-Palestine sentiment, I take it as an admission that they aren’t capable of basic human empathy. They look at October 7, think ‘I can’t imagine myself doing that,’ and conclude from this that the perpetrators of October 7 must be worse people than they are. They stop their examination there. They never ask themselves what it would have been like to live the life of a young man who ended up joining Hamas. They never ask themselves what it would have been like to live one’s entire life in a giant concentration camp under the thumb [of] a genocidal apartheid state which routinely murders and abuses your countrymen.” [editor’s note: The people Johnstone refers to are as much victims of Hamas as of the Israeli regime — and were trying to overthrow Hamas leading up to October 7 – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/08/26/those-who-condemn-hamas-lack-empathy-and-humility/
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30) A warning from a friend
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“He might be the most well-read person I know. He’s a scholar who has studied authoritarianism for decades, but he’s also an activist who has provided aid and support for dissident movements fighting authoritarian governments dating back to the Cold War — at times at some risk to himself. Because of that work, he’s seen the abuses of authoritarian states firsthand. So he’s been scornful over the years when Americans have hyperbolically likened their political opponents to Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pinochet, or some other totalitarian figure. I suspect that once you’ve seen real authoritarianism on the ground, that sort of posturing probably seems insulting. In other words, I’ve always found him to be a sober realist about these things. So at the conference I asked him straight up, on a scale of one to ten, how worried he is about what’s happening in the U.S. right now.” (08/26/25)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/a-warning-from-a-friend
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31) Welfare by Any Other Name Is Still Welfare
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M Vance
“Welfare is the common term for government relief and assistance programs for low-income Americans, although the word itself has largely been displaced from government documents. The two terms generally in vogue now are income security and entitlement programs. These are programs that provide benefits to any American citizen who qualifies. The programs are open-ended. Instead of spending levels being set every year by congressional appropriation bills, the federal government must spend as much money as necessary to provide benefits to everyone who qualifies for them. … These programs are just as much welfare programs as any of the means-tested welfare programs and should be called as such, for welfare by any other name is still welfare.” (08/26/25)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/welfare-by-any-other-name-is-still-welfare/
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32) We Get the Government We Deserve
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“Recent headline: ‘Judge Releases Illegal [sic] Migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.’ Another: ‘Trump Administration Seals Landmark Deal: U.S. Government Holds 10% Stake in Intel.’ I didn’t vote for illegal [sic] criminals to remain in the country, nor did I vote for a government takeover of business. One illegal [sic] criminal in the country is one too many, and one-tenth of government ownership of Intel is one-tenth socialism, and that’s 100% too much. But we get the government we deserve. We, the people, have let the country head towards the toilet, and we have no one to blame but ourselves.” [editor’s note: Nice try at fobbing off blame to people who never supported his idiotic ideas. No sale – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2025/08/26/we-get-the-government-we-deserve-n2662340
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33) Trump’s Art of the Deal Collides with Modi’s “India First” Policy
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Ramesh Thakur
“For the purposes of containing China’s influence and aggressive behaviour across the Indo-Pacific theatre, there is no more important partner for the US than India. And vice versa. Unfortunately, that strategic partnership is under threat from an explosive combination of American arrogance and unilateralism and Indian hubris and prickliness. There is no future in attempts to ground the relationship by relegating India to a US vassal state instead of a respected partner. Matters have not been helped by the propensity of the two countries’ leaders to braggadocio and narcissism.” (08/26/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/trumps-art-of-the-deal-collides-with-modis-india-first-policy/
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34) She Couldn’t Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students But Fail Society
Source: The Daily Economy
by Hannah Frankman Hood
“Even with record-higher per-student spending, the broken status quo has left 1 in 5 Americans is functionally illiterate. Schools refuse to reform.” (08/26/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/she-couldnt-read-her-own-diploma-why-public-schools-pass-students-but-fail-society/
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35) Beware the Trump-GOP Junk Health Insurance Plans
Source: Informed Comment
by F Douglas Stephenson
“With the Trump administration rolling back essential health insurance protections and rejecting a national, single-payer health insurance program, America’s race to the bottom continues full steam ahead for millions of Americans with preexisting health conditions. The administration will now amend the Biden-era rule that limited the duration of short-term plans to no more than four months, and says it will not enforce the current rule, including the time restrictions and new consumer notification requirements, in the interim. It is refusing to enforce a Biden-era rule limiting junk short-term health plans that are notorious for charging more or denying coverage altogether for people with conditions like asthma, diabetes, and cancer.” (08/26/25)
https://www.juancole.com/2025/08/enforce-health-insurance.html
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36) What Did President Biden Know, and How Long Did He Remember It?
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Debra Saunders
“What did the president know, and when did he know it? That used to be the eventual question for most administrations. When it comes to former President Joe Biden, however, the question is: Did the president know much of anything?” (08/26/25)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/26/what_did_president_biden_know_and_how_long_did_he_remember_it_153219.html
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37) End the Toxic US-Israel Relationship
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“As Sina Toosi has rightly argued before, Israel is a liability. This isn’t a case where the U.S. has compelling interests at stake that require it to continue supporting a terrible client. U.S. interests dictate putting much greater distance between our countries. The prudent course of action is for the U.S. to disentangle itself from its client1 as much as it possibly can. That means an end to subsidizing Israel’s defense and a halt to any future weapons transfers, and it definitely means no more shielding Israel from the consequences of its own aggressive actions.” (08/26/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/end-the-toxic-us-israel-relationship
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38) In Search Of AI Psychosis
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“AI psychosis (NYT, PsychologyToday) is an apparent phenomenon where people go crazy after talking to chatbots too much. There are some high-profile anecdotes, but still many unanswered questions. For example, how common is it really? Are the chatbots really driving people crazy, or just catching the attention of people who were crazy already? Isn’t psychosis supposed to be a biological disease? Wouldn’t that make chatbot-induced psychosis the same kind of category error as chatbot-induced diabetes? I don’t have all the answers, so think of this post as an exploration of possible analogies and precedents rather than a strongly-held thesis.” (08/26/25)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-search-of-ai-psychosis
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39) Letters from World War II, part 3
Source: Chris Matthew Sciabarra
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“Two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the war had taken a deep emotional toll on the entire family, not just those on the battlefield but everyone at home as well. Mom was trying to keep a positive outlook, at least in her letter writing, in her hopes for an early Allied victory. In a letter dated December 5, 1943, [my uncle] George replied: ‘I see you are still trying to predict when the war will be over with. I gave that up, not that I am discouraged but I guess I may as well get used to taking things the way they come.'” (08/26/25)
https://medium.com/@cms10_7549/letters-from-world-war-ii-3-ae612c66c609
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40) Are President Trump’s tariffs actually working?
Source: Fox News
by Hugh Hewitt
“A new report released Friday from the Congressional Budget Office is surprising, even stunning. The ‘CBO’ is not thought to be a friend of Republican presidents and Congresses. Questions always arise from ‘supply-siders’ about whether CBO rejects serious ‘dynamic scoring’ of developments in the law and in major regulatory actions. Whatever the agency’s methodology, it issued a report on the Trump tariffs at the close of last week. ‘We project that increases in tariffs implemented during the period from January 6, 2025, to August 19, 2025 will decrease primary deficits (which exclude net outlays for interest) by $3.3 trillion if the higher tariffs persist for the 2025‒2035 period,’ Phillip Swagel, CBO’s director wrote. ‘By reducing the need for federal borrowing, those tariff collections will also reduce federal outlays for interest by an additional $0.7 trillion.'” [editor’s note: So under perfect conditions, over a ten-year period, tariffs would reduce the politicians’ deficits by about 20% at the expense of American consumers? Big whoop – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/morning-glory-president-trumps-tariffs-actually-working
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41) The Forever Bank Wars
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Moreno
“Banking is probably the most highly regulated industry in America, especially after the 2008 ‘financial crisis.’ Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta have produced the first comprehensive account of how our system came to be. This may be the best book ever written about bank regulation. For those inclined to say ‘That’s like being the tallest building in Topeka, Kansas,’ the absence of competition is significant. Banking has been conspicuously missing from scholarship on the administrative state.” [editor’s note: If you’re interested in trivia, the tallest building in Topeka, the state capitol building, is only three feet shorter than the tallest building in Washington, DC, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-forever-bank-wars/
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42) Trump’s India problem could become a Global South crisis
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Adam Gallagher
“Tariffs are pushing BRICS countries to rally around the idea that the US-led world economy is a rigged game.” (08/26/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-india/
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43) Donkeys Can’t Sleep in Bathtubs
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“When I was in 5th grade, I read a fun little book called Donkey’s Can’t Sleep in Bathtubs and Other Crazy Laws. Since I didn’t know any economics at the time, the idea of “crazy laws” was novel to me. My mature reaction: Even today, it’s striking how almost all of the book’s crazy laws are full prohibitions — the titular law aside, other examples include ‘You can’t keep ice cream cones in your back pocket,’ ‘You can’t wake a sleeping bear to take a picture,’ and ‘Women can’t drive in housecoats.’ The same mentality that looks at petty problems and thinks, ‘There ought to be a law’ almost never thinks, ‘This calls for a $.37 Pigovian tax.'” (08/26/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/donkeys-cant-sleep-in-bathtubs
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44) Trump’s Epstein Problem is Real
Source: CounterPunch
by Tatishe Nteta, Adam Eichen, Alexander Theodoridis, Jesse Rhodes, & Raymond La Raja
“Americans are paying close attention to the prolonged Epstein controversy. Our polling finds that 3 in 4 respondents have heard, read or seen ‘a lot’ or ‘some’ about Epstein. Moreover, most believe that Trump is fumbling the matter. … When we drill down on the 47% of 2024 Trump voters who disapprove of Trump’s handling of the Epstein controversy, we find significant cracks in the MAGA facade. Among members of this group, 28% now disapprove of Trump as president.” (08/26/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/26/trumps-epstein-problem-is-real/
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45) Federal Policing of DC Has Made Us Less Safe
Source: Common Dreams
by Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler
“In my 50-some years of community and political ministry, and organizing that resisted Boston’s test with ‘stop and frisk’ after the hoax of Charles Stuart murdering his wife and blaming it on a Black man, I thought I had seen it all. Then when Edward Coristine (a 19-year-old former Department of Government Efficiency worker and software engineer known online as ‘Big Balls’) was assaulted in Dupont Circle in reportedly a carjacking incident it was deja vu of Boston and the neighborhood where I lived, Roxbury, being turned upside down again. I thought I had already seen the worst of white reaction to Blackness, but again I was wrong.” (08/26/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-makes-dc-less-safe
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46) The Bronze Age Energy Crisis
Source: Quillette
by Joseph Zeller
“How a supply chain failure brought down an ancient civilisation: a tale with disturbing implications for present day societies with their brittle energy logistics.” (08/26/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/08/26/the-bronze-age-energy-crisis-logistics-collapse/
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47) Will the Fed Lowering Rates Reduce Government Borrowing Costs?
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“Short version: no. … US Treasury interest rates are set in the market, not by the Federal Reserve. Like most prices (and an interest rate is a price), the rate emerges from the intersection of supply and demand. The rate is not set by the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve tries to influence rates through its monetary policy, but it does not set rates. If the Federal Reserve lowers its rates but the fundamental supply and demand in the marketplace does not change, neither will Treasury rates. It’d be like pushing on a rope: no matter how much you push, it’ll just coil in on itself.” (08/26/25)
https://www.econlib.org/will-the-fed-lowering-rates-reduce-government-borrowing-costs
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48) Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism
Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov
“The Trump administration’s deployment of more than 4,000 sailors and Marines to the southern Caribbean — reportedly to combat drug cartels — marks a dangerous escalation in its policy toward Venezuela. While President Donald Trump is right to identify transnational criminal networks as a threat to the health and safety of the American people, this militarized approach ignores strategic realities, contradicts intelligence assessments, and risks repeating the errors of past interventionist failures.” (08/26/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-doomed-venezuela-militarism/
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49) Why Republicans keep making anonymous liberals a problem for Democrats
Source: Semafor
by David Weigel
“Throughout the summer, Republican candidates and campaigns have repeatedly tried to link Democrats to decisions made and opinions aired by liberals [sic] who are nowhere near elected office. It’s all about capitalizing on the nervousness inside a party that’s increasingly concerned about being viewed by voters as over-educated culture police. For instance: No Democrat with any power criticized American Eagle for a jeans ad starring the blonde actress Sydney Sweeney, which made a pun about her genes. None endorsed a re-brand by Cracker Barrel, a restaurant chain that hired a new CEO after its stock plunged in 2023. (The Democratic National Committee’s X account, reacting to anger at the re-brand, posted that it ‘sucks.’) Yet Republicans all the way up to President Donald Trump mocked liberal [sic] posters and pundits who were offended by the Sweeney ad. The GOP also blamed left-wing culture for Cracker Barrel’s bland makeover.” (08/25/25)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/25/2025/why-republicans-keep-making-anonymous-liberals-a-problem-for-democrats
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50) If Trump plays hardball, oil holds the key to Ukraine war’s end
Source: New York Post
by Richard Goldberg & John Hardie
“President Donald Trump wants to stop the killing in Ukraine, but Russia’s foot-dragging is making it abundantly clear that he’ll need to apply far more pressure before any serious negotiations can begin. To do so, Trump will have to squeeze Russia’s primary source of income, its oil revenues — without upending the global energy market in the process. In an interview that aired Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected US-backed security guarantees for Ukraine and balked at Trump’s push for direct talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Putin insists that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the Kyiv-controlled parts of the country’s eastern Donbas region — an idea Ukraine has rightly dismissed as a non-starter — and demands a host of other concessions aimed at making what’s left of Ukraine a vassal state.” (08/25/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/opinion/oil-holds-the-key-to-ukraine-wars-end-if-trump-plays-hardball/
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51) My Fabric, My Choice: On Trump’s EO Banning Flag Burning
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Alan Mosley
“Punishing flag burning is misguided for reasons that extend beyond case law. The act is dramatic but non‑violent; conflating a symbolic gesture with violence collapses the distinction between protest and harm. The flag represents the ideals of liberty and equality; compelling people to revere it under threat of imprisonment turns patriotism into a coerced ritual and trivializes the flag’s meaning. History shows that suppressing dissent galvanizes opposition. Efforts to ban flag desecration during the Vietnam era, the civil‑rights movement, and the leadup to the Iraq war did not quash those protests; they underscored the protesters’ point that the government cares more about symbols than about justice.” (08/25/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/my-fabric-my-choice-on-trumps-eo-banning-flag-burning
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52) Politicians Multiply Mental Illnesses
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Almost 25% of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring ‘universal mental health screening’ to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot to parents across the nation. Manhattan Institute fellow Abigail Shrier warned that the new Illinois law will mean ‘tens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or most will be false positives.’ Many young people are left worse off thanks to schools’ mental health interventions.” (08/25/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/08/25/politicians-multiply-mental-illnesses/
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53) Central Bank Digital Currencies Clash with Progressive Values
Source: Cato Institute
by Nicholas Anthony
“Across the political spectrum, there is growing recognition that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can be a force for good by expanding economic freedom and challenging entrenched systems. But conversations around central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, have not made the same progress. Efforts to slow or block the creation of a CBDC have received little support among congressional Democrats — even though the risks involved strike at the heart of core progressive values. Indeed, for a movement that has consistently fought against surveillance, discrimination, and the abuse of government power, CBDCs should raise especially sharp concerns.” [editor’s note: Wait, what? Democrats and “progressives” have always been huge boosters of surveillance, discrimination, and government power (which is inherently “abusive”)! – TLK] (08/25/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/central-bank-digital-currencies-clash-progressive-values
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54) Trump Attempts to Take Over Fed
Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
“Last night, in a letter posted to social media, President Trump tried to deliver on his threat to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook on trumped-up charges of mortgage fraud. Except that Trump doesn’t have the authority to fire a sitting governor with a term appointment, and Cook made clear that she is not going anywhere. The Supreme Court, in Trump v. Wilcox, recently indicated that it considers Fed appointees as sacrosanct, unlike other independent agencies where the Court held that a president can replace even term appointees. This is of course ludicrous: As Georgetown Law’s Josh Chafetz explains, the Roberts Court’s extreme effort to split the baby by claiming that Federal Reserve appointees hold some special status … is ‘transparent bullshit designed to simultaneously serve the conservative legal movement’s interest in deregulation via the ‘unitary executive’ and corporate interests in not crashing the economy.'” (08/26/25)
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-26-trump-attempts-take-over-fed-lisa-cook/
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55) Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism
Source: The Atlantic
by David A Graham
“‘The era of big government is over,’ Bill Clinton declared 29 years ago. Donald Trump never got the memo. In his second term, the president is embracing perhaps the most sweeping expansion of federal power since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt: bullying state governments, using military force if necessary; telling private institutions, including media corporations and universities, how to operate; extorting law firms into doing free work for the government; and, in the latest escalation, taking a stake in the tech firm Intel. … The debate in America is no longer about whether socialism can gain a foothold. It’s whether the socialism that dominates will be progressive or right-wing.” [editor’s note: It’s not just Intel — the US regime also has “stakes” in US Steel and other companies – TLK] (08/25/25)
https://archive.is/C4viM
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
56) (Re)Imagining Liberty, episode 87
Source: Aaron Ross Powell
“The Values of Radical Liberalism (w/ Cory Massimino).” (08/26/25)
https://pod.link/1614436300/episode/ZjljNGJjZDQtMDgxOC00MzdmLThkYWYtZjkyNzI4YjFlOGQ0
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57) Rising, 08/26/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers radar on new executive order from President Trump banning the burning of the American flag.” (08/26/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5470531-rising-august-26-2025/
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58) The Bryan Hyde Show, 08/26/25
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos drops by to catch up on the latest happenings. We talk about freedom, horsepower and the necessity of thinking before jumping on the bandwagon.” (08/26/25)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-2a42z-1946303
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59) Advisory Opinions, 08/26/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Political Retribution? | Interview: Saikrishna Prakash.” (08/26/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/political-retribution-interview-saikrishna-prakash/
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60) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 08/26/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Fury Erupts in Many Directions, Unnerving Experts: ‘Insanity!'” (08/26/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/199576/trump-fury-erupts-many-directions-unnerving-experts-insanity
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61) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/26/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“IDF Double-Tap Strike on Gaza Hospital Kills 5 Journalists, US Launches Strikes in Somalia, and More.” (08/26/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RbOQnal84
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62) Finding Freedom, episode 504
Source: Lions of Liberty
“The Corporate Revolution: Redefining Careers with Amanda Goodall.” (08/25/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/the-corporate-revolution-redefining-careers-with-amanda-goodall
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63) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 08/25/25
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“John Rodgers (LINE PRODUCER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, CEO of Communication by Captivation) on using art to convey meaningful storytelling.” (08/25/25)
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/383433-2025-08-24-2025-08-25-ernest-hancock-interviews-john-rodgers-communication-by.htm
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64) System Update, episode 504
Source: System Update
“Israel Slaughters More Journalists, Hiding War Crimes; Trump’s Unconstitutional Flag Burning Ban; Glenn Takes Your Questions.” (08/25/25)
https://rumble.com/v6y2my2-system-update-show-504.html
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65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/25/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“US Stake In Intel Is A Very Bad Idea.” (08/25/25)
https://rumble.com/v6y25e2-us-stake-in-intel-is-a-very-bad-idea.html
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Denmark: Regime summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation
2) SpaceX makes comeback with Starship test launch after fiery setbacks
3) Trump says US DOJ will sue California regime for acting like Texas regime
4) Ukraine war: Russian troops inside Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyiv regime says
5) Temu resumes direct shipping from China to US after Trump truce
6) AZ: Haboob plunges Phoenix into darkness
7) Federal Court Orders Pennsylvania Regime to Stop Throwing Out Mail Ballots Over the Handwritten Date
8) France plunges back into crisis after PM Bayrou’s confidence-vote backfires
9) UK: Rising egg prices push food costs to 18-month high
10) Court tosses Trump regime’s lawsuit against Maryland judges
11) Trump, GOP senators fight over a century-old tradition for judicial nominees
12) Australia: Regime expels Iranian diplomats, accuses country of directing antisemitic arson attacks
13) DC: Man arrested for damaging piece of cloth he owns
14) Hochul says NYC sees 12% drop in shoplifting as state’s retail theft crackdown takes effect
15) Korean Air to buy 103 Boeing jets as Trump pressures trading partners
16) SpaceX Again Scrubs Critical 10th Test Launch of Mars Rocket
17) Czech Republic: Ancient civilization’s gold coins, luxury artifacts unearthed during “unprecedented” dig
18) Norway: Regime fund divests from US firm Caterpillar over Gaza, West Bank abuses
19) Avocado Ponzi scheme defrauds victims of close to $200k, California woman charged
20) Trump says he’s firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Libertarians: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
22) Trump’s Flag-Burning Order: Nothing New, Just The Same Old Contempt For Freedom
23) Why prices will always matter
24) President Trump Should Return to an “America First” Foreign Policy
25) Feudalism Was Hell for the Poor
26) Where Is There to Run To? The Bully in Donald Trump’s Bully Pulpit
27) The Price of Cheap Fuel
28) How Scholarly Theories Impede the Search for Historical Truth
29) Those Who Condemn Hamas Lack Empathy And Humility
30) A warning from a friend
31) Welfare by Any Other Name Is Still Welfare
32) We Get the Government We Deserve
33) Trump’s Art of the Deal Collides with Modi’s “India First” Policy
34) She Couldn’t Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students But Fail Society
35) Beware the Trump-GOP Junk Health Insurance Plans
36) What Did President Biden Know, and How Long Did He Remember It?
37) End the Toxic US-Israel Relationship
38) In Search Of AI Psychosis
39) Letters from World War II, part 3
40) Are President Trump’s tariffs actually working?
41) The Forever Bank Wars
42) Trump’s India problem could become a Global South crisis
43) Donkeys Can’t Sleep in Bathtubs
44) Trump’s Epstein Problem is Real
45) Federal Policing of DC Has Made Us Less Safe
46) The Bronze Age Energy Crisis
47) Will the Fed Lowering Rates Reduce Government Borrowing Costs?
48) Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism
49) Why Republicans keep making anonymous liberals a problem for Democrats
50) If Trump plays hardball, oil holds the key to Ukraine war’s end
51) My Fabric, My Choice: On Trump’s EO Banning Flag Burning
52) Politicians Multiply Mental Illnesses
53) Central Bank Digital Currencies Clash with Progressive Values
54) Trump Attempts to Take Over Fed
55) Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
56) (Re)Imagining Liberty, episode 87
57) Rising, 08/26/25
58) The Bryan Hyde Show, 08/26/25
59) Advisory Opinions, 08/26/25
60) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 08/26/25
61) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/26/25
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63) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 08/25/25
64) System Update, episode 504
65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/25/25
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1) Denmark: Regime summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen, following a report that American citizens have been conducting ‘covert influence operations’ in Greenland. Denmark’s public broadcaster DR quoted sources as saying the aim was to infiltrate Greenland’s society and promote its secession from Denmark to the US, although it was unable to clarify who the men were working for. Danish intelligence warned Greenland was being targeted by ‘various kinds of influence campaigns.’ Rasmussen said ‘any attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the Kingdom [of Denmark] will of course be unacceptable,’ and the US charge d’affaires had been summoned in that light.” (08/27/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo
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2) SpaceX makes comeback with Starship test launch after fiery setbacks
Source: CNBC
“SpaceX on Tuesday launched its mammoth Starship rocket, breaking a string of explosive failed attempts earlier this year to deploy its first batch of dummy Starlink satellites and notch key developmental milestones. The more-than 400-feet rocket, critical for SpaceX’s commercial dominance and NASA’s ambitions to return astronauts to the Moon, took off from the company’s Starbase facilities at 6:30 p.m. local time in Texas for a roughly one-hour nail-biting flight. Throughout the test flight — the rocket’s 10th — it made its first successful payload deployment of eight mock Starlink satellites, relit its Raptor engine in orbit and stress trialed its heat shield. … Following a state separation, the rocket’s reusable Super Heavy booster — which thrusts the Starship into the orbit — made a controlled splashdown in the Gulf Coast waters, with the spacecraft following to its own splashdown point in the Indian Ocean after completing its run.” (08/27/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/spacex-makes-comeback-with-starship-test-launch-after-fiery-setbacks.html
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3) Trump says US DOJ will sue California regime for acting like Texas regime
Source: CNBC
“President Donald Trump said Monday that the Department of Justice will sue California over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to draw a new, Democratic-leaning congressional map. The redistricting push in California was ignited by a similar effort underway in Texas to gerrymander key House districts to more heavily favor Republicans. ‘I think I’m going to be filing a lawsuit pretty soon, and I think we’re going to be very successful in it,’ Trump said of Newsom’s redistricting push during a lengthy press event in the Oval Office. ‘We’re going to be filing it through the Department of Justice. That’s going to happen,’ he said. Newsom promptly responded on social media: ‘BRING IT.'” (08/26/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/trump-california-lawsuit-texas-redistricting-newsom.html
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4) Ukraine war: Russian troops inside Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyiv regime says
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Ukraine acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that Russia’s army had entered the Dnipropetrovsk region, a central administrative area previously spared from intense fighting. ‘Yes, they have entered, and fighting is ongoing as of now,’ said Viktor Tregubov, a spokesperson for Ukrainian forces in Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city. Russian forces have slowly gained ground in costly battles for largely devastated areas in [former] eastern and southern Ukraine, normally with few inhabitants or intact buildings left. Separately, Ukraine’s military general staff rejected Moscow’s claims to have fully captured the villages of Zaporizke and Novogeorgiivka just inside Dnipropetrovsk oblast.” (08/27/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/27/ukraine-war-briefing-russian-troops-inside-dnipropetrovsk-region-ukraine-says
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5) Temu resumes direct shipping from China to US after Trump truce
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Bargain ecommerce platform Temu has resumed shipping goods from Chinese factories directly to US consumers and increased its advertising spending in the country, following a trade truce between Washington and Beijing. Multiple Temu suppliers, partners and investors said the company had restored so-called fully managed shipments — where it handles most of the logistics and customs formalities on behalf of suppliers — in July. It had suspended the service in May.” [editor’s note: Don’t relax just yet. Trump still plans to rape US consumers with an end to the “de minimis exemption” on small parcels as of August 29 – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://archive.is/iA2ea
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6) AZ: Haboob plunges Phoenix into darkness
Source: Washington Post
“A massive dust storm swept through Phoenix and other parts of Arizona on Monday, casting an apocalyptic pall over the region as the towering wall sank the city into darkness and caused heavy rain and lightning. The haboob — an intense, fast-moving weather phenomenon formed when powerful winds rush outward from collapsing thunderstorms — hit the state during the evening commute, and the National Weather Service urged drivers to ‘pull aside stay alive’ as visibility dropped to as low as 50 feet. … The haboob and the deluge that followed caused flight delays at Sky Harbor and widespread power outages, downing trees and utility poles. Police in Gilbert, just southeast of Phoenix, said the storms knocked out some of the town’s traffic lights.” (08/26/25)
https://archive.is/gxe5j
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7) Federal Court Orders Pennsylvania Regime to Stop Throwing Out Mail Ballots Over the Handwritten Date
Source: US News & World Report
“A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that it is unconstitutional for the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania to throw out mail-in ballots simply because the voter didn’t write an accurate date on the return envelope. The unanimous decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Pennsylvania to stop throwing out such ballots and upheld the decision earlier this year by a federal judge in Pittsburgh. … The panel wrote that it was ‘unable to justify’ the practice of discarding such ballots ‘that has resulted in the disqualification of thousands of presumably proper ballots.’ Under Pennsylvania law, voters are required to write the date on the return envelope for their mail ballot. However, thousands of voters, confused by the request to write the date, might skip it or write another date, such as their birth date.” (08/26/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-08-26/court-orders-pennsylvania-to-stop-throwing-out-mail-ballots-over-the-handwritten-date
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8) France plunges back into crisis after PM Bayrou’s confidence-vote backfires
Source: Reuters
“France found itself mired in yet another crisis on Tuesday, after Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s gamble to win backing for his deeply unpopular debt-reduction plan backfired, plunging the country deeper into political and financial instability. French markets tumbled after Bayrou jolted the political establishment out of its summer slumber on Monday with his unexpected move to seek a September 8 confidence vote on his debt-cutting plan. His proposal was roundly rejected by opposition parties, who said they would relish the opportunity to cut short his minority government’s time in office. … The confidence vote will be held two days before protests called by various groups on social media and backed by leftist parties and some unions, recalling the Yellow Vest unrest that erupted in 2018 over fuel price hikes and the cost of living.” (08/26/25)
https://archive.is/GITIG
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9) UK: Rising egg prices push food costs to 18-month high
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The rising cost of chocolate, butter and eggs has helped drive food price inflation to its highest in 18 months, a survey says. Food inflation hit 4.2% in the year to August, up from 4% in July, according to the British Retail Consortium’s latest shop price monitor. It said food prices were rising at the fastest rate since February of last year. The figure echoes separate recent data from the Office for National Statistics, which found the cost of everyday food items rising by a similar amount over the last year.” (08/26/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly4eme0284o
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10) Court tosses Trump regime’s lawsuit against Maryland judges
Source: The Hill
“A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit against all 15 federal district judges in Maryland over an order slowing down speedy deportation efforts …. U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, an appointee of President Trump who sits on a federal court in Virginia, dismissed the lawsuit challenging a May standing order that automatically blocks the deportation of migrants in Maryland who file legal challenges over their detention for two business days. The Trump administration had argued that the order … interferes with the executive branch’s powers and violate various rules. ‘Fair enough, as far as it goes,’ Cullen wrote. ‘If these arguments were made in the proper forum, they might well get some traction.’ But the judge explained that, instead of challenging the standing order through the proper channels, it chose a ‘different, and more confrontational, path entirely’ by suing the entire Maryland bench.” (08/26/25)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5470641-maryland-deportation-lawsuit-dismissed
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11) Trump, GOP senators fight over a century-old tradition for judicial nominees
Source: Boston Herald
“President Donald Trump says the Senate’s century-old tradition of allowing home state senators to sign off on some federal judge and U.S. attorney nominees is ‘old and outdated.’ Republican senators disagree. Trump has been complaining about what’s called the blue slip process for weeks and has pushed Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to abandon the practice. But the veteran senator hasn’t budged. On Monday, Trump said he may sue, arguing that he can only get ‘weak’ judges approved in states that have at least one Democratic senator. ‘This is based on an old custom. It’s not based on a law. And I think it’s unconstitutional,’ Trump told reporters. ‘And I’ll probably be filing a suit on that pretty soon.'” [editor’s note: The Constitution expressly provides that the Sneate “may determine the Rules of its Proceedings;” case closed – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text
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12) Australia: Regime expels Iranian diplomats, accuses country of directing antisemitic arson attacks
Source: CBS News
“Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of organizing two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said the country was cutting off diplomatic relations with Tehran in response on Tuesday. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization concluded the Iranian government had directed arson attacks on the Lewis Continental Kitchen, a kosher food company, in Sydney in October last year and on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne in December last year, Albanese said. Iran’s government denied the allegations.” (08/26/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-iran-antisemitic-arson-attacks-diplomats-expelled/
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13) DC: Man arrested for damaging piece of cloth he owns
Source: United Press International
“A man has been arrested near the White House for setting an American flag on fire shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to prosecute acts of flag ‘desecration.’ The Secret Service confirmed the arrest in a statement to Newsweek, stating the suspect was detained in Lafayette Park for ‘igniting an object’ at about 6:15 p.m. EDT Monday. The suspect was turned over to U.S. Park Police, which told NBC News that the person had violated a statute that bans fires in public parks. In a video of the incident published on social media by The Bulwark news organization, the suspect identified himself as a 20-year combat veteran who said he was burning the flag ‘as a protest to that illegal fascist president that sits in that House.'” (08/26/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/26/flag-burning-arrest/8091756193837/
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14) Hochul says NYC sees 12% drop in shoplifting as state’s retail theft crackdown takes effect
Source: New York Post
“New York City has seen a 12% drop in shoplifting, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday — crediting the double-digit dip on Albany’s retail theft crackdown passed last year. Speaking on a street corner in Harlem, the governor touted the 12% year-on-year drop in retail theft cases in the Big Apple, and a 5% drop statewide, following a surge of such incidents hitting New York in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. … Hochul and the state Legislature included several measures to crack down on the retail theft wave in last year’s sprawling state budget package. The provisions included legal tweaks meant to boost the seriousness of cases against repeat offenders and organized retail theft rings, such as allowing prosecutors to combine the values of goods stolen from multiple stores to slap heavier charges on defendants.” (08/26/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/26/us-news/nyc-sees-12-drop-in-shoplifting-as-states-retail-theft-crackdown-takes-effect-hochul/
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15) Korean Air to buy 103 Boeing jets as Trump pressures trading partners
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“US aviation giant Boeing and Korean Air announced a deal worth about $36bn (£24bn) on Monday for 103 planes as President Donald Trump presses trading partners to do more business with American firms. The deal includes 787, 777 and 737 passenger jets, according to a joint statement from the two companies. The new jets will come at a ‘pivotal moment’ and modernise the South Korean flag carrier’s fleet, ensuring it stays competitive as it merges with Asiana Airlines, said Korean Air boss Walter Cho. The agreement was announced just hours after South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met Trump in Washington to discuss the 15% tariffs imposed by the US on the Asian country in July.” (08/26/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm2kv2erxlo
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16) SpaceX Again Scrubs Critical 10th Test Launch of Mars Rocket
Source: New York Times
“SpaceX scrubbed the 10th test flight of Starship, the mammoth rocket that Elon Musk hopes to use to take people to Mars, for the second night in a row on Monday. The vehicle was fully loaded with propellants on the launchpad in Starbase, Texas. But persistent weather problems, particularly clouds that could put the vehicle at risk during flight, led to the launch being called off not long after 8 p.m. Eastern time. That will further delay to another night a launch that sought to make up for several disappointing failures in earlier flights. The test is highly important for Mr. Musk and SpaceX, which hopes to show that the spacecraft is capable of achieving key goals. It’s also critical for NASA, which needs Starship to land its astronauts on the moon.” (08/25/25)
https://archive.is/yxEI6
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17) Czech Republic: Ancient civilization’s gold coins, luxury artifacts unearthed during “unprecedented” dig
Source: Fox News
“Archaeologists unearthed a massive trove of gold coins in the Czech Republic, minted by a long-lost civilization — with the site described by officials as ‘exceptional.’ The discovery was announced by the Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové. The Celtic settlement was found along the route of a future highway, the July release said. The site dates back to the La Tène period, with archaeologists finding that the settlement peaked in roughly the second century B.C. … It served as a ‘supra-regional trade and production center’ that linked Central Europe to far-flung corners of the ancient world. The La Tène period marked the height of Celtic power in Europe, shortly before Roman expansion into the region.” (08/26/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/ancient-civilizations-gold-coins-luxury-artifacts-unearthed-during-unprecedented-dig
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18) Norway: Regime fund divests from US firm Caterpillar over Gaza, West Bank abuses
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Norway’s $2-trillion wealth fund, the largest in the world, has divested from US construction equipment giant Caterpillar over the firm’s purported involvement in rights violations perpetrated by Israel in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The Norwegian central bank said on Monday that it had decided to exclude Caterpillar from the fund, which it manages, ‘due to an unacceptable risk that the companies contribute to serious violations of the rights of individuals in situations of war and conflict.’ The fund also announced that it had divested from five Israeli banks, based on the recommendation of its council on ethics.” (08/26/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/26/norway-fund-divests-from-us-firm-caterpillar-over-gaza-west-bank-abuses
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19) Avocado Ponzi scheme defrauds victims of close to $200k, California woman charged
Source: SFGate
“A Hemet woman allegedly defrauded at least seven people of nearly $200,000 through what the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office described as a ‘wholesale avocado business’ scam. Deputies from the Perris Sheriff’s Station were called in on April 23 for a fraud investigation, according to a news release. After speaking with a fraud victim, deputies found that seven people had been affected by the scheme. Between 2023 and 2025, the victims had been duped in a Ponzi scheme, investing thousands of dollars into the ‘business.’ Instead of investing the funds, which collectively amounted to an estimated $195,000, the suspect allegedly used the money for ‘personal benefit.'” (08/26/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-woman-alleged-avocado-ponzi-scheme-21014714.php
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20) Trump says he’s firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook
Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump on Monday said he is firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, escalating his pressure campaign on the Central Bank to lower interest rates. In a social media post, Trump shared a letter addressed to Cook asserting the Department of Justice’s inquiry into whether Cook lied on mortgage applications amounted to ‘sufficient cause’ to remove her from the fed board. … Cook argued that Trump’s cause for removing her is illegitimate, and her attorney pledged to challenge the president’s action. ‘President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign.'” (08/25/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/25/trump-says-hes-firing-federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook-00523841
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21) Libertarians: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Like Hayek and the Big C moniker, I have long wished not to have my tunic emblazoned with the Scarlet L. It’s not because I’m closer to progressives, conservatives, moderates, or authoritarians in my outlook; it’s because the label has become a liability. With the following, I want to tell you why. But first, I want to explore what’s still valuable to me about libertarianism.” (08/26/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/libertarians-the-good-bad-and-ugly
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22) Trump’s Flag-Burning Order: Nothing New, Just The Same Old Contempt For Freedom
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“If you burn someone else’s flag without permission, that’s theft and destruction of property. If you burn a flag you own, well, you own it and you’re entitled by right to do anything with it you darn well please, so long as you don’t damage other people or other people’s property. And by ‘damage other people,’ I don’t mean ‘hurt someone’s feelings.’ According to Trump, ‘[o]ur great American Flag is the most sacred and cherished symbol of the United States of America, and of American freedom.’ Whether something is ‘sacred’ is a matter of opinion. Whether you ‘cherish’ the flag, or don’t, is entirely up to you to decide. As for Trump, he routinely — if metaphorically — defecates on everything he claims the flag stands for, then wipes his posterior with it … while also wrapping himself in it.” (08/26/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19885
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23) Why prices will always matter
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Tim Worstall
“Any one thing — any economic resource, fresh water, human labour, cash, capital itself and so on — can be used for a multitude of different things. At any one time, the market price for that thing is the balance between the supply of it and the value in using it to do — in aggregate — all those multitudinous things. Yes, we can even mutter that perhaps the information doesn’t flow here instantaneously and perfectly efficiently. Nevertheless, in its simplest terms, what something costs reflects the value of whatever uses we can put it to. If we decide that we want to do something new, we need a measure of whether we should or not.” (08/26/25)
https://fee.org/articles/why-prices-will-always-matter/
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24) President Trump Should Return to an “America First” Foreign Policy
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“After four years of unnecessarily confrontational foreign policy under President Biden, Americans elected Donald Trump in part for his promise to put America first at home and overseas. He promised a war-weary America that he would start no new wars and would get us out of the existing ones. Eight months into his second Administration it appears his promise remains to be fulfilled, as his approval rating continues to slip.” (08/26/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2025/08/25/president-trump-should-return-to-an-america-first-foreign-policy/
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25) Feudalism Was Hell for the Poor
Source: The Dispatch
by Marian L Tupy
“On a recent podcast, Tucker Carlson praised feudalism as ‘so much better than what we have now’ because a ruler is ‘vested in the prosperity of the people he rules.’ This romantic view of medieval hierarchy ignores a brutal reality: For most people, feudalism meant grinding poverty, disease, and early death. As Gale L. Pooley and I found in our 2022 book Superabundance, society in preindustrial Europe was bifurcated between a small minority of the very rich and the vast majority of the very poor. … The Great Enrichment, a phrase coined by my Cato Institute colleague Deirdre McCloskey, of the past 200 years or so lifted billions from the misery that defined human existence for millennia. It was driven by market economies and limits on the rulers’ arbitrary power, not feudal hierarchy.” (08/26/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/peasants-feudalism-maga-carlson/
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26) Where Is There to Run To? The Bully in Donald Trump’s Bully Pulpit
Source: TomDispatch
by Andrea Mazzarino
“President Trump, his cabinet, and those who have profited from his rise seem to revel in public displays of cruelty. Take former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, holding a chainsaw at a televised event to celebrate the firing of civil servants. Or Trump’s White House sharing a video featuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers marching handcuffed immigrants onto a deportation flight, with Jess Glynne’s musical hit ‘Hold My Hand’ playing in the background. Or how about ICE allowing right-wing TV host Dr. Phil to film its sweeping immigration raids for public consumption? And don’t forget those federal agents tackling California Senator Alex Padilla to the floor (and handcuffing him!) when he asked a question at a Department of Homeland Security press conference.” (08/26/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-bully-in-donald-trumps-bully-pulpit/
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27) The Price of Cheap Fuel
Source: Cobden Centre
by Elias Sánchez
“Stepping out of Potosí’s new bus terminal—gateway to one of the world’s highest cities and, once, one of the richest in the Spanish Empire — I was met not with crisp mountain air but with a gritty breeze thick with diesel. Black exhaust curled from the engines of buses and trufis, their motors straining up Andean slopes at over 4,000 metres. … Two bolivianos bought me a seat …. In the rear-view mirror another trufi shadowed us, belching soot into the thin air — a convoy of combustion. Even with my nose covered, the stench clung. The haze has a cause. In 2005 Bolivia introduced sweeping hydrocarbon subsidies, halving diesel and petrol prices. Nearly two decades on, these subsidies have metastasised into a fiscal burden.” (08/26/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/08/the-price-of-cheap-fuel/
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28) How Scholarly Theories Impede the Search for Historical Truth
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“History does not always conform to what the dominant scholarly theories of court historians may lead us to expect. In his essay ‘The Task of the Modern Historian,’ Thomas Babington Macaulay observes that historians may formulate valid theories of what they would logically expect to have happened in a particular era, but unfortunately their theories soon displace any interest in the truth about what did in fact happen. They have been ‘seduced from truth, not by their imagination, but by their reason.’ In today’s context, the dominant narratives explain history by reference to theories of race relations. Historical explanations which do not fit comfortably within these theories are treated with skepticism or dismissed as false.” (08/26/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-scholarly-theories-impede-search-historical-truth
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29) Those Who Condemn Hamas Lack Empathy And Humility
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Whenever I see someone going out of their way to denounce the Palestinian resistance while expressing some vaguely pro-Palestine sentiment, I take it as an admission that they aren’t capable of basic human empathy. They look at October 7, think ‘I can’t imagine myself doing that,’ and conclude from this that the perpetrators of October 7 must be worse people than they are. They stop their examination there. They never ask themselves what it would have been like to live the life of a young man who ended up joining Hamas. They never ask themselves what it would have been like to live one’s entire life in a giant concentration camp under the thumb [of] a genocidal apartheid state which routinely murders and abuses your countrymen.” [editor’s note: The people Johnstone refers to are as much victims of Hamas as of the Israeli regime — and were trying to overthrow Hamas leading up to October 7 – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/08/26/those-who-condemn-hamas-lack-empathy-and-humility/
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30) A warning from a friend
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“He might be the most well-read person I know. He’s a scholar who has studied authoritarianism for decades, but he’s also an activist who has provided aid and support for dissident movements fighting authoritarian governments dating back to the Cold War — at times at some risk to himself. Because of that work, he’s seen the abuses of authoritarian states firsthand. So he’s been scornful over the years when Americans have hyperbolically likened their political opponents to Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pinochet, or some other totalitarian figure. I suspect that once you’ve seen real authoritarianism on the ground, that sort of posturing probably seems insulting. In other words, I’ve always found him to be a sober realist about these things. So at the conference I asked him straight up, on a scale of one to ten, how worried he is about what’s happening in the U.S. right now.” (08/26/25)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/a-warning-from-a-friend
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31) Welfare by Any Other Name Is Still Welfare
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M Vance
“Welfare is the common term for government relief and assistance programs for low-income Americans, although the word itself has largely been displaced from government documents. The two terms generally in vogue now are income security and entitlement programs. These are programs that provide benefits to any American citizen who qualifies. The programs are open-ended. Instead of spending levels being set every year by congressional appropriation bills, the federal government must spend as much money as necessary to provide benefits to everyone who qualifies for them. … These programs are just as much welfare programs as any of the means-tested welfare programs and should be called as such, for welfare by any other name is still welfare.” (08/26/25)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/welfare-by-any-other-name-is-still-welfare/
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32) We Get the Government We Deserve
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“Recent headline: ‘Judge Releases Illegal [sic] Migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.’ Another: ‘Trump Administration Seals Landmark Deal: U.S. Government Holds 10% Stake in Intel.’ I didn’t vote for illegal [sic] criminals to remain in the country, nor did I vote for a government takeover of business. One illegal [sic] criminal in the country is one too many, and one-tenth of government ownership of Intel is one-tenth socialism, and that’s 100% too much. But we get the government we deserve. We, the people, have let the country head towards the toilet, and we have no one to blame but ourselves.” [editor’s note: Nice try at fobbing off blame to people who never supported his idiotic ideas. No sale – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2025/08/26/we-get-the-government-we-deserve-n2662340
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33) Trump’s Art of the Deal Collides with Modi’s “India First” Policy
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Ramesh Thakur
“For the purposes of containing China’s influence and aggressive behaviour across the Indo-Pacific theatre, there is no more important partner for the US than India. And vice versa. Unfortunately, that strategic partnership is under threat from an explosive combination of American arrogance and unilateralism and Indian hubris and prickliness. There is no future in attempts to ground the relationship by relegating India to a US vassal state instead of a respected partner. Matters have not been helped by the propensity of the two countries’ leaders to braggadocio and narcissism.” (08/26/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/trumps-art-of-the-deal-collides-with-modis-india-first-policy/
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34) She Couldn’t Read Her Own Diploma: Why Public Schools Pass Students But Fail Society
Source: The Daily Economy
by Hannah Frankman Hood
“Even with record-higher per-student spending, the broken status quo has left 1 in 5 Americans is functionally illiterate. Schools refuse to reform.” (08/26/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/she-couldnt-read-her-own-diploma-why-public-schools-pass-students-but-fail-society/
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35) Beware the Trump-GOP Junk Health Insurance Plans
Source: Informed Comment
by F Douglas Stephenson
“With the Trump administration rolling back essential health insurance protections and rejecting a national, single-payer health insurance program, America’s race to the bottom continues full steam ahead for millions of Americans with preexisting health conditions. The administration will now amend the Biden-era rule that limited the duration of short-term plans to no more than four months, and says it will not enforce the current rule, including the time restrictions and new consumer notification requirements, in the interim. It is refusing to enforce a Biden-era rule limiting junk short-term health plans that are notorious for charging more or denying coverage altogether for people with conditions like asthma, diabetes, and cancer.” (08/26/25)
https://www.juancole.com/2025/08/enforce-health-insurance.html
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36) What Did President Biden Know, and How Long Did He Remember It?
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Debra Saunders
“What did the president know, and when did he know it? That used to be the eventual question for most administrations. When it comes to former President Joe Biden, however, the question is: Did the president know much of anything?” (08/26/25)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/26/what_did_president_biden_know_and_how_long_did_he_remember_it_153219.html
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37) End the Toxic US-Israel Relationship
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“As Sina Toosi has rightly argued before, Israel is a liability. This isn’t a case where the U.S. has compelling interests at stake that require it to continue supporting a terrible client. U.S. interests dictate putting much greater distance between our countries. The prudent course of action is for the U.S. to disentangle itself from its client1 as much as it possibly can. That means an end to subsidizing Israel’s defense and a halt to any future weapons transfers, and it definitely means no more shielding Israel from the consequences of its own aggressive actions.” (08/26/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/end-the-toxic-us-israel-relationship
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38) In Search Of AI Psychosis
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“AI psychosis (NYT, PsychologyToday) is an apparent phenomenon where people go crazy after talking to chatbots too much. There are some high-profile anecdotes, but still many unanswered questions. For example, how common is it really? Are the chatbots really driving people crazy, or just catching the attention of people who were crazy already? Isn’t psychosis supposed to be a biological disease? Wouldn’t that make chatbot-induced psychosis the same kind of category error as chatbot-induced diabetes? I don’t have all the answers, so think of this post as an exploration of possible analogies and precedents rather than a strongly-held thesis.” (08/26/25)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-search-of-ai-psychosis
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39) Letters from World War II, part 3
Source: Chris Matthew Sciabarra
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“Two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the war had taken a deep emotional toll on the entire family, not just those on the battlefield but everyone at home as well. Mom was trying to keep a positive outlook, at least in her letter writing, in her hopes for an early Allied victory. In a letter dated December 5, 1943, [my uncle] George replied: ‘I see you are still trying to predict when the war will be over with. I gave that up, not that I am discouraged but I guess I may as well get used to taking things the way they come.'” (08/26/25)
https://medium.com/@cms10_7549/letters-from-world-war-ii-3-ae612c66c609
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40) Are President Trump’s tariffs actually working?
Source: Fox News
by Hugh Hewitt
“A new report released Friday from the Congressional Budget Office is surprising, even stunning. The ‘CBO’ is not thought to be a friend of Republican presidents and Congresses. Questions always arise from ‘supply-siders’ about whether CBO rejects serious ‘dynamic scoring’ of developments in the law and in major regulatory actions. Whatever the agency’s methodology, it issued a report on the Trump tariffs at the close of last week. ‘We project that increases in tariffs implemented during the period from January 6, 2025, to August 19, 2025 will decrease primary deficits (which exclude net outlays for interest) by $3.3 trillion if the higher tariffs persist for the 2025‒2035 period,’ Phillip Swagel, CBO’s director wrote. ‘By reducing the need for federal borrowing, those tariff collections will also reduce federal outlays for interest by an additional $0.7 trillion.'” [editor’s note: So under perfect conditions, over a ten-year period, tariffs would reduce the politicians’ deficits by about 20% at the expense of American consumers? Big whoop – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/morning-glory-president-trumps-tariffs-actually-working
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41) The Forever Bank Wars
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Moreno
“Banking is probably the most highly regulated industry in America, especially after the 2008 ‘financial crisis.’ Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta have produced the first comprehensive account of how our system came to be. This may be the best book ever written about bank regulation. For those inclined to say ‘That’s like being the tallest building in Topeka, Kansas,’ the absence of competition is significant. Banking has been conspicuously missing from scholarship on the administrative state.” [editor’s note: If you’re interested in trivia, the tallest building in Topeka, the state capitol building, is only three feet shorter than the tallest building in Washington, DC, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception – TLK] (08/26/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-forever-bank-wars/
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42) Trump’s India problem could become a Global South crisis
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Adam Gallagher
“Tariffs are pushing BRICS countries to rally around the idea that the US-led world economy is a rigged game.” (08/26/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-india/
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43) Donkeys Can’t Sleep in Bathtubs
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“When I was in 5th grade, I read a fun little book called Donkey’s Can’t Sleep in Bathtubs and Other Crazy Laws. Since I didn’t know any economics at the time, the idea of “crazy laws” was novel to me. My mature reaction: Even today, it’s striking how almost all of the book’s crazy laws are full prohibitions — the titular law aside, other examples include ‘You can’t keep ice cream cones in your back pocket,’ ‘You can’t wake a sleeping bear to take a picture,’ and ‘Women can’t drive in housecoats.’ The same mentality that looks at petty problems and thinks, ‘There ought to be a law’ almost never thinks, ‘This calls for a $.37 Pigovian tax.'” (08/26/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/donkeys-cant-sleep-in-bathtubs
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44) Trump’s Epstein Problem is Real
Source: CounterPunch
by Tatishe Nteta, Adam Eichen, Alexander Theodoridis, Jesse Rhodes, & Raymond La Raja
“Americans are paying close attention to the prolonged Epstein controversy. Our polling finds that 3 in 4 respondents have heard, read or seen ‘a lot’ or ‘some’ about Epstein. Moreover, most believe that Trump is fumbling the matter. … When we drill down on the 47% of 2024 Trump voters who disapprove of Trump’s handling of the Epstein controversy, we find significant cracks in the MAGA facade. Among members of this group, 28% now disapprove of Trump as president.” (08/26/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/26/trumps-epstein-problem-is-real/
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45) Federal Policing of DC Has Made Us Less Safe
Source: Common Dreams
by Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler
“In my 50-some years of community and political ministry, and organizing that resisted Boston’s test with ‘stop and frisk’ after the hoax of Charles Stuart murdering his wife and blaming it on a Black man, I thought I had seen it all. Then when Edward Coristine (a 19-year-old former Department of Government Efficiency worker and software engineer known online as ‘Big Balls’) was assaulted in Dupont Circle in reportedly a carjacking incident it was deja vu of Boston and the neighborhood where I lived, Roxbury, being turned upside down again. I thought I had already seen the worst of white reaction to Blackness, but again I was wrong.” (08/26/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-makes-dc-less-safe
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46) The Bronze Age Energy Crisis
Source: Quillette
by Joseph Zeller
“How a supply chain failure brought down an ancient civilisation: a tale with disturbing implications for present day societies with their brittle energy logistics.” (08/26/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/08/26/the-bronze-age-energy-crisis-logistics-collapse/
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47) Will the Fed Lowering Rates Reduce Government Borrowing Costs?
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“Short version: no. … US Treasury interest rates are set in the market, not by the Federal Reserve. Like most prices (and an interest rate is a price), the rate emerges from the intersection of supply and demand. The rate is not set by the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve tries to influence rates through its monetary policy, but it does not set rates. If the Federal Reserve lowers its rates but the fundamental supply and demand in the marketplace does not change, neither will Treasury rates. It’d be like pushing on a rope: no matter how much you push, it’ll just coil in on itself.” (08/26/25)
https://www.econlib.org/will-the-fed-lowering-rates-reduce-government-borrowing-costs
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48) Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism
Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov
“The Trump administration’s deployment of more than 4,000 sailors and Marines to the southern Caribbean — reportedly to combat drug cartels — marks a dangerous escalation in its policy toward Venezuela. While President Donald Trump is right to identify transnational criminal networks as a threat to the health and safety of the American people, this militarized approach ignores strategic realities, contradicts intelligence assessments, and risks repeating the errors of past interventionist failures.” (08/26/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-doomed-venezuela-militarism/
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49) Why Republicans keep making anonymous liberals a problem for Democrats
Source: Semafor
by David Weigel
“Throughout the summer, Republican candidates and campaigns have repeatedly tried to link Democrats to decisions made and opinions aired by liberals [sic] who are nowhere near elected office. It’s all about capitalizing on the nervousness inside a party that’s increasingly concerned about being viewed by voters as over-educated culture police. For instance: No Democrat with any power criticized American Eagle for a jeans ad starring the blonde actress Sydney Sweeney, which made a pun about her genes. None endorsed a re-brand by Cracker Barrel, a restaurant chain that hired a new CEO after its stock plunged in 2023. (The Democratic National Committee’s X account, reacting to anger at the re-brand, posted that it ‘sucks.’) Yet Republicans all the way up to President Donald Trump mocked liberal [sic] posters and pundits who were offended by the Sweeney ad. The GOP also blamed left-wing culture for Cracker Barrel’s bland makeover.” (08/25/25)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/25/2025/why-republicans-keep-making-anonymous-liberals-a-problem-for-democrats
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50) If Trump plays hardball, oil holds the key to Ukraine war’s end
Source: New York Post
by Richard Goldberg & John Hardie
“President Donald Trump wants to stop the killing in Ukraine, but Russia’s foot-dragging is making it abundantly clear that he’ll need to apply far more pressure before any serious negotiations can begin. To do so, Trump will have to squeeze Russia’s primary source of income, its oil revenues — without upending the global energy market in the process. In an interview that aired Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected US-backed security guarantees for Ukraine and balked at Trump’s push for direct talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Putin insists that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the Kyiv-controlled parts of the country’s eastern Donbas region — an idea Ukraine has rightly dismissed as a non-starter — and demands a host of other concessions aimed at making what’s left of Ukraine a vassal state.” (08/25/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/opinion/oil-holds-the-key-to-ukraine-wars-end-if-trump-plays-hardball/
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51) My Fabric, My Choice: On Trump’s EO Banning Flag Burning
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Alan Mosley
“Punishing flag burning is misguided for reasons that extend beyond case law. The act is dramatic but non‑violent; conflating a symbolic gesture with violence collapses the distinction between protest and harm. The flag represents the ideals of liberty and equality; compelling people to revere it under threat of imprisonment turns patriotism into a coerced ritual and trivializes the flag’s meaning. History shows that suppressing dissent galvanizes opposition. Efforts to ban flag desecration during the Vietnam era, the civil‑rights movement, and the leadup to the Iraq war did not quash those protests; they underscored the protesters’ point that the government cares more about symbols than about justice.” (08/25/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/my-fabric-my-choice-on-trumps-eo-banning-flag-burning
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52) Politicians Multiply Mental Illnesses
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Almost 25% of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring ‘universal mental health screening’ to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot to parents across the nation. Manhattan Institute fellow Abigail Shrier warned that the new Illinois law will mean ‘tens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or most will be false positives.’ Many young people are left worse off thanks to schools’ mental health interventions.” (08/25/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/08/25/politicians-multiply-mental-illnesses/
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53) Central Bank Digital Currencies Clash with Progressive Values
Source: Cato Institute
by Nicholas Anthony
“Across the political spectrum, there is growing recognition that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can be a force for good by expanding economic freedom and challenging entrenched systems. But conversations around central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, have not made the same progress. Efforts to slow or block the creation of a CBDC have received little support among congressional Democrats — even though the risks involved strike at the heart of core progressive values. Indeed, for a movement that has consistently fought against surveillance, discrimination, and the abuse of government power, CBDCs should raise especially sharp concerns.” [editor’s note: Wait, what? Democrats and “progressives” have always been huge boosters of surveillance, discrimination, and government power (which is inherently “abusive”)! – TLK] (08/25/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/central-bank-digital-currencies-clash-progressive-values
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54) Trump Attempts to Take Over Fed
Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
“Last night, in a letter posted to social media, President Trump tried to deliver on his threat to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook on trumped-up charges of mortgage fraud. Except that Trump doesn’t have the authority to fire a sitting governor with a term appointment, and Cook made clear that she is not going anywhere. The Supreme Court, in Trump v. Wilcox, recently indicated that it considers Fed appointees as sacrosanct, unlike other independent agencies where the Court held that a president can replace even term appointees. This is of course ludicrous: As Georgetown Law’s Josh Chafetz explains, the Roberts Court’s extreme effort to split the baby by claiming that Federal Reserve appointees hold some special status … is ‘transparent bullshit designed to simultaneously serve the conservative legal movement’s interest in deregulation via the ‘unitary executive’ and corporate interests in not crashing the economy.'” (08/26/25)
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-26-trump-attempts-take-over-fed-lisa-cook/
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55) Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism
Source: The Atlantic
by David A Graham
“‘The era of big government is over,’ Bill Clinton declared 29 years ago. Donald Trump never got the memo. In his second term, the president is embracing perhaps the most sweeping expansion of federal power since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt: bullying state governments, using military force if necessary; telling private institutions, including media corporations and universities, how to operate; extorting law firms into doing free work for the government; and, in the latest escalation, taking a stake in the tech firm Intel. … The debate in America is no longer about whether socialism can gain a foothold. It’s whether the socialism that dominates will be progressive or right-wing.” [editor’s note: It’s not just Intel — the US regime also has “stakes” in US Steel and other companies – TLK] (08/25/25)
https://archive.is/C4viM
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56) (Re)Imagining Liberty, episode 87
Source: Aaron Ross Powell
“The Values of Radical Liberalism (w/ Cory Massimino).” (08/26/25)
https://pod.link/1614436300/episode/ZjljNGJjZDQtMDgxOC00MzdmLThkYWYtZjkyNzI4YjFlOGQ0
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57) Rising, 08/26/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers radar on new executive order from President Trump banning the burning of the American flag.” (08/26/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5470531-rising-august-26-2025/
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58) The Bryan Hyde Show, 08/26/25
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos drops by to catch up on the latest happenings. We talk about freedom, horsepower and the necessity of thinking before jumping on the bandwagon.” (08/26/25)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-2a42z-1946303
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59) Advisory Opinions, 08/26/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Political Retribution? | Interview: Saikrishna Prakash.” (08/26/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/political-retribution-interview-saikrishna-prakash/
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60) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 08/26/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Fury Erupts in Many Directions, Unnerving Experts: ‘Insanity!'” (08/26/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/199576/trump-fury-erupts-many-directions-unnerving-experts-insanity
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61) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/26/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“IDF Double-Tap Strike on Gaza Hospital Kills 5 Journalists, US Launches Strikes in Somalia, and More.” (08/26/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RbOQnal84
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62) Finding Freedom, episode 504
Source: Lions of Liberty
“The Corporate Revolution: Redefining Careers with Amanda Goodall.” (08/25/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/the-corporate-revolution-redefining-careers-with-amanda-goodall
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63) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 08/25/25
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“John Rodgers (LINE PRODUCER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, CEO of Communication by Captivation) on using art to convey meaningful storytelling.” (08/25/25)
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/383433-2025-08-24-2025-08-25-ernest-hancock-interviews-john-rodgers-communication-by.htm
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64) System Update, episode 504
Source: System Update
“Israel Slaughters More Journalists, Hiding War Crimes; Trump’s Unconstitutional Flag Burning Ban; Glenn Takes Your Questions.” (08/25/25)
https://rumble.com/v6y2my2-system-update-show-504.html
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65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/25/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“US Stake In Intel Is A Very Bad Idea.” (08/25/25)
https://rumble.com/v6y25e2-us-stake-in-intel-is-a-very-bad-idea.html
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