10/22 -- Ukraine: Russian drone, missile attacks kill at least two; Gaza: Yes, It's A War
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Thomas L. Knapp
Oct 22, 2025, 6:27:39 AM (6 days ago) Oct 22
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1) Ukraine: Russian drone, missile attacks kill at least two
2) Crypto Bulls and Bears Lose $300 Million Each as Bitcoin Climbs to $113k, Then Dumps
3) CA: Victim, gang member shot during gang abduction
4) US military buildup in Caribbean sees bombers, Marines & warships converge near Venezuela
5) Trump threatens Hamas amid push on next Gaza truce steps
6) Ecuador: Regime releases survivor of US regime murder attempt, says no evidence he committed a crime
7) Sudan: Drone attack hits capital ahead of planned airport reopening
8) Jack Nicklaus awarded $50 million in defamation lawsuit
9) India: New Delhi air quality at hazardous levels after Diwali fireworks
10) Study: GLP-1 Drugs Help Protect Against Sleep Apnea
11) NY: Defiant Curtis Sliwa refuses to drop out of NYC mayoral race
12) Comey asks court to dismiss indictment
13) With legacy on the line, Obama hitting campaign trail to boost Democrats in key governor elections
14) DeepSeek outperforms AI rivals in “real money, real market” crypto showdown
15) Anti-science [sic] bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections [sic] built over a century
16) China’s rare earth magnet exports to US fall for second month, reversing brief recovery
17) China: Regime accuses US of yearslong cyberattack on national time service
18) Slovakia: Fico’s Attacker Convicted of Terrorism, Jailed for 21 Years
19) Senate Republicans gathering at White House as shutdown effects worsen
20) IL: Judge sets opening arguments in Sonya Massey murder trial
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Gaza: Yes, It’s A War
22) The New Hero of Tribalists
23) Unbearable Wearables
24) Heckler’s veto at the turnstiles
25) Immigration Controls Destroy the Liberty and Privacy of the American People
26) Victims Without Victimizers: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era
27) How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It
28) When you shut the door on remote work, seasoned talent turns away
29) The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways
30) On Fair Prices
31) Democrats Dominate the Strawman King in Their Mind
32) US boat strikes in the Caribbean, an unclear and present danger
33) The UAW, Internationalism, and May Day 2026
34) Democracy and capitalism are mutually reinforcing
35) David Brooks Is the Last Person We Should Be Listening to Right Now
36) The Anti-Intellectual University of Northern Michigan
37) “No Kings” crowds don’t want more democracy, they want LESS
38) Trump Zelensky Finally, Trump takes a sensible turn on Ukraine
39) Israeli Scramble for Gaza’s Gas Reserves
40) Why Are People So Condescending Toward Libertarians?
41) Fed Making Key Economic Decisions Without Key Economic Data
42) Innovation is not the key driver of economic growth
43) Washington’s Long Road to Alienating Russia
44) What’s Wrong With the “No Kings” Protests?
45) Baltimore’s poverty machine thrives while the poor stay trapped
46) The engines of state capitalism
47) Tech PACs Are Closing In On The Almonds
48) The Paradox of No Kings Day
49) Chicago Day Laborer, in ICE Detention, Says He’s Facing Retaliation Because Supporters Are Protesting His Abduction
50) The fist of tyranny – tighter and tighter?
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/21/25
57) The Reconstruction Agenda, 10/20/25
58) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 10/20/25
59) Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Housing Plan Could Crash New York’s Rickety Rental Market
60) LPA Spotlight, episode 1
61) TechTank, season 5, episode 29
62) Finding Freedom, 10/20/25
63) Nonzero, 10/20/25
64) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 10/20/25
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1) Ukraine: Russian drone, missile attacks kill at least two
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Large-scale Russian attacks on Ukraine’s capital overnight have killed at least two people and injured five, including a two-year-old child, according to officials. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Wednesday that Russia launched a wave of drone and missile attacks on the capital. One person was killed and 10 rescued in the Dniprovskiy area after drone debris hit one of the floors of a residential tower. The second casualty was reported in the Dnipro district, where a building caught fire, Klitschko said …. Other areas in Ukraine were also struck overnight. … [Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin] had agreed to meet for talks, but those expectations were dashed on Tuesday when officials from both sides said the meeting would not take place any time soon.” (10/22/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/22/russia-launches-deadly-wave-of-drone-missile-attacks-across-ukraine
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2) Crypto Bulls and Bears Lose $300 Million Each as Bitcoin Climbs to $113k, Then Dumps
Source: CoinDesk
“Bitcoin’s two-way price action is squeezing both leveraged bullish and bearish plays, underscoring challenging market conditions for traders. In the past 24 hours, BTC’s price has traded back and forth between $107,000 and $113,000, wiping out roughly $600 million in market-wide bullish and bearish futures bets. … Leveraged positions on perpetual futures exchanges are automatically closed when traders’ margin levels fall below maintenance thresholds, often causing cascading price moves as positions are sold into thin liquidity.” [editor’s note: A good case for either buying and holding/spending crypto or not doing so, rather than treating the market as a casino gaming table – TLK] (10/22/25)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/22/bulls-and-bears-lose-usd300m-each-as-bitcoin-climbs-to-usd103k-then-dumps
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3) CA: Victim, gang member shot during gang abduction
Source: New York Times
“A federal marshal and a man targeted by immigration authorities were injured by gunfire during an [abduction] operation in Los Angeles on Tuesday, federal officials said. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said that during a targeted traffic stop, an undocumented immigrant who was trying to flee had rammed a law enforcement vehicle with his car. Officers with the Homeland Security [gang] fired shots, striking the man in the elbow. A federal marshal was struck in the hand by a ricochet bullet, Ms. McLaughlin said. The [kidnapping victim] and the injured [gang member] were both hospitalized, according to the Department of Homeland Security.” (10/21/25)
https://archive.is/v1zNu
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4) US military buildup in Caribbean sees bombers, Marines & warships converge near Venezuela
Source: Fox News
“The United States has significantly increased its military presence across the Caribbean under U.S. Southern Command, deploying bombers, warships and Marines as part of an expanded campaign [using supposed] drug-trafficking and so-called ‘narco-terrorist’ networks operating near Venezuela [as the basis for an attempt to distract us from other things]. In addition to seven strikes on boats [alleged without evidence] to be carrying narcotics, the Trump administration has built up thousands of troops in the region. War Secretary Pete Hegseth this month announced the creation of a new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force operating near Southern Command, saying it was established ‘to crush the cartels, stop the poison, and keep America safe.'” (10/21/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-military-buildup-caribbean-sees-bombers-marines-warships-converge-near-venezuela
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5) Trump threatens Hamas amid push on next Gaza truce steps
Source: Reuters
“U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Hamas on Tuesday with ‘FAST, FURIOUS & BRUTAL’ force if it does not ‘do what is right’ as he pushes for the next, more complex, stage of a Gaza ceasefire that has already been repeatedly [violated by Israeli forces]. Increasing the pressure on the Palestinian militant group, Trump said in a social media post that numerous U.S. allies had said they would welcome the chance to go into Gaza and hit Hamas but he had told them and Israel ‘not yet.’ … U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who arrived on Tuesday, was due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for talks Israel said would focus on security challenges and political opportunities.” (10/21/25)
https://archive.is/LTxvc
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6) Ecuador: Regime releases survivor of US regime murder attempt, says no evidence he committed a crime
Source: CBS News
“Ecuador has released a man who survived a U.S. strike on a suspected drug-trafficking submersible vessel, the attorney general’s office said Monday, adding that the authorities had found no evidence that he had committed a crime. A government official, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on the matter, told The Associated Press that the Ecuadorian man, identified as Andrés Fernando Tufiño, was in good health after medical evaluations. A U.S. Navy helicopter transported the survivors of the attack from the semi-submersible to a Navy ship, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News on Friday. The attack also killed two crew members.” (10/21/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ecuador-releases-survivor-us-strike-narco-sub-no-evidence-crime/
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7) Sudan: Drone attack hits capital ahead of planned airport reopening
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A drone attack has hit an area near the international airport in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, a day before it was set to resume domestic flights for the first time since war broke out in 2023. Residents of the city reported hearing explosions in several districts early on Tuesday morning. Social media images — yet to be verified by the BBC — appear to show a series of blasts. … Tuesday’s strike marked the third attack in the capital within a week, following strikes on two army bases in north-west Khartoum on consecutive days last week.” (10/21/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpq1lq1g431o
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8) Jack Nicklaus awarded $50 million in defamation lawsuit
Source: ESPN
“A Florida jury on Monday awarded Jack Nicklaus $50 million in his defamation lawsuit against Nicklaus Companies, which is owned by billionaire banker Howard Milstein. Nicklaus, 85, filed the lawsuit in response to statements that Milstein and other Nicklaus Companies officials made in a previous lawsuit in a New York court. In the defamation lawsuit, Nicklaus claimed the defendants suggested that he had considered a $750 million deal to become the face of the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf League and disseminated those false claims to media outlets. … Nicklaus claimed the defendants also alleged he wasn’t mentally fit to manage his business affairs and was suffering from dementia. … the jury ruled that Nicklaus Companies actively participated in the false publishing of facts that damaged the 18-time major champion’s reputation and exposed him to ‘ridicule, hatred, mistrust, distrust or contempt.'” (10/21/25)
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/46665505/jack-nicklaus-awarded-50-million-defamation-lawsuit
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9) India: New Delhi air quality at hazardous levels after Diwali fireworks
Source: ABC News
“Thick smog blanketed India’s capital Tuesday, a day after millions celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali with fireworks that sent air pollution soaring to hazardous levels. Revelers in New Delhi burst firecrackers late into Monday night, filling the air with smoke and fine particles that mixed with seasonal pollution and stagnant weather conditions. By Tuesday morning, the city’s Air Quality Index had climbed above 350 in several neighborhoods, a level considered ‘severe’ and dangerous to breathe, according to the World Health Organization’s daily recommended maximum exposure. Visibility also dropped in some parts of the city as a gray haze enveloped streets, high-rises and historical monuments.” (10/21/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/thick-smog-blankets-new-delhi-after-diwali-fireworks-126708436
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10) Study: GLP-1 Drugs Help Protect Against Sleep Apnea
Source: Killeen Daily Herald
“Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound might help protect people from health risks related to sleep apnea, a new study says. Type 2 diabetes patients taking GLP-1 drugs were overall less likely to die within the next year, but those with sleep apnea did even better, researchers reported Monday at a meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Chicago. … The results support the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision in December 2024 to approve Zepbound (tirzepetide) as the first drug to treat sleep apnea in adults with obesity.” (10/21/25)
https://kdhnews.com/living/health/glp-1-drugs-help-protect-against-sleep-apnea-study-says/article_0862a33c-66c1-5af6-8a4e-0a46f5ee48e9.html
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11) NY: Defiant Curtis Sliwa refuses to drop out of NYC mayoral race
Source: New York Post
“A defiant Curtis Sliwa forcefully rejected the growing calls for him to end his bid for New York City mayor. ‘So, let’s be very clear: I am not dropping out, under no circumstances,’ the GOP nominee for mayor said at a press conference Tuesday morning. ‘I’ve already been offered money to drop out, I said no.’ The comments come a day after his boss, influential Republican John Catsimatidis, issued a public plea for Sliwa to drop out of the race and unite behind Andrew Cuomo. … For months, the crowded field of mayoral hopefuls has been called on to coalesce behind a single candidate in an attempt to prevent proud socialist Zohran Mamdani from winning City Hall.” [editor’s note: As Tom Shillue pointed out on Gutfeld! last night, it is CUOMO (the not-chosen and thus “Independent”) who should drop out, to leave the primary-nominated Dem and GOP candidates to go head to head – SAT] [additional editor’s note: All three of these low-lifes should drop out and NYC should see how not having a mayor at all works for them! – TLK] (10/21/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/us-news/curtis-sliwa-refuses-to-drop-out-of-nyc-mayoral-race-under-no-circumstances/
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12) Comey asks court to dismiss indictment
Source: United Press International
“Former FBI Director James Comey has asked a federal judge to dismiss the Justice Department’s indictment against him, arguing he is being politically and unconstitutionally prosecuted by President Donald Trump because of their feud. Comey has pleaded not guilty to charges of making a false statement and obstruction in connection with testimony he gave before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020. The indictment against him was filed late last month by a junior prosecutor who replaced U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert, who resigned under pressure from the Trump administration. Siebert had been accused by Trump of intentionally delaying taking action against Comey. The new U.S. attorney filed the indictment against Comey just days before the statute of limitations was to expire.” (0/21/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/10/21/James-Comey-indictment-dismissal-request/8571761036618/
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13) With legacy on the line, Obama hitting campaign trail to boost Democrats in key governor elections
Source: Fox News
“With Election Day in New Jersey and Virginia’s very competitive and combustible races for governor just two weeks away, Democrats are bringing in one of their party’s best campaign trail closers. Former President Barack Obama will headline rallies in New Jersey and Virginia — the only two states in the nation to hold gubernatorial contests the year after a presidential election — on Nov. 1, the Saturday before Election Day. For Democrats, who are aiming to escape the political wilderness after last year’s stunning election setbacks when they lost the White House and Senate majority and fell short in winning back the House, the 2025 ballot box showdowns are their first major shot at redemption, and they hope that Obama’s two-state swing will energize their base voters.” (10/21/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-hits-campaign-trail-boost-democrats-weekend-before-election-day-key-governor-showdowns
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14) DeepSeek outperforms AI rivals in “real money, real market” crypto showdown
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A new real-market cryptocurrency trading experiment that pits leading artificial intelligence models against one another to evaluate their respective investing abilities has seen a DeepSeek model outperform rivals so far. In Alpha Arena, launched on Friday by US research firm Nof1, six large language models (LLMs) were given US$10,000 each to invest in six cryptocurrency perpetual contracts on the decentralised exchange Hyperliquid, including bitcoin and solana. As of 2pm on Tuesday, DeepSeek’s V3.1 had performed the best so far, with a profit of 10.11 per cent. The worst performing model was OpenAI’s GPT-5, with losses of 39.73 per cent. The other LLMs included in the first batch of models for the experiment, which runs until November 3, are Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen 3 Max, Anthropic’s Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and xAI’s Grok 4.” (10/21/25)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3329784/deepseek-outperforms-ai-rivals-real-money-real-market-crypto-showdown
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15) Anti-science [sic] bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections [sic] built over a century
Source: SFGate
“More than 420[!?] bills attacking longstanding public health protections (vaccines, milk safety and fluoride) have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law. An Associated Press investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The effort would strip away protections that have been built over a century and are integral to American lives and society. Around 30 bills have been enacted or adopted in 12 states.” [editor’s note: The “journalist” who typed this made sure to throw in that “anti-science” epithet several times, yet chose to lead with the “420” reference – SAT] (10/21/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/wave-of-anti-science-bills-pushed-by-kennedy-21111780.php
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16) China’s rare earth magnet exports to US fall for second month, reversing brief recovery
Source: CNBC
“China’s exports of rare earth magnets to the U.S. fell sharply in September, ending months of recovery as the two economic superpowers remain locked in trade disputes and Washington pushes to secure alternative supply chains. Data from China’s General Administration of Customs on Monday showed that U.S.-bound exports fell 28.7% in September from August to 420.5 tonnes. That figure was also nearly 30% lower than a year prior. It was the second consecutive monthly decline after a short-lived rebound that started in June, when Beijing had agreed to expedite rare earth export permits during trade talks with U.S. officials in London.” (10/21/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/chinas-rare-earth-magnet-exports-to-us-falls-for-second-month-reversing-brief-recovery-.html
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17) China: Regime accuses US of yearslong cyberattack on national time service
Source: Fox News
“China’s spy agency accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of hacking its national time service, alleging a yearslong cyberespionage campaign that targeted the system keeping official Beijing Time — a backbone for China’s telecommunications, finance and defense sectors. The Ministry of State Security claimed the NSA began the operation in 2022 by exploiting a text-messaging vulnerability to gain control of employee cellphones at the National Time Service Center, then used stolen credentials to access servers and implant covert tools. The alleged breach, if true, could have allowed attackers to tamper with national timekeeping — a move that experts say could disrupt communications, banking and satellite navigation across China. The NSA said in a statement it ‘does not confirm nor deny allegations in the media regarding its operations.” (10/21/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-accuses-us-yearslong-cyberattack-national-time-service
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18) Slovakia: Fico’s Attacker Convicted of Terrorism, Jailed for 21 Years
Source: US News & World Report
“A Slovak court ruled on Tuesday that a man who shot and wounded Prime Minister Robert Fico last year was guilty of terrorism charges and handed him a 21-year jail sentence. Juraj Cintula, 72, shot at Fico five times from just over a one-metre distance as the prime minister greeted people in the central Slovak town of Handlova in May 2024. The verdict of the Specialised Criminal Court in the city of Banska Bystrica closes a trial that began in July and whose main question was whether Cintula, who admitted shooting Fico, was guilty of terrorism or less serious crimes of murder or attack. Fico, 61, was struck four times and was seriously injured in his abdomen, and also suffered injuries to his hip, hand and foot. He made his first public appearance in July last year, a few months after the attack and returned to work shortly after.” (10/21/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-21/slovakia-pms-attacker-found-guilty-of-terrorism-sentenced-to-21-years
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19) Senate Republicans gathering at White House as shutdown effects worsen
Source: SFGate
“In this fourth week of the government shutdown, Senate Republicans are gathering at White House — not for urgent talks on how to end it, but for a display of unity with President Donald Trump as they refuse to negotiate on any Democratic demands. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called it ‘a pep rally’ and said it’s ‘shameful’ that House Speaker Mike Johnson has kept the House out of town during the shutdown. Schumer says his side wants to end the shutdown and fix the health care premium crisis that ‘looms over 20 million hardworking Americans’.” (10/21/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/the-latest-senate-republicans-gathering-at-white-21111614.php
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20) IL: Judge sets opening arguments in Sonya Massey murder trial
Source: State Journal-Register
“A jury has been sworn in and opening arguments are set for Oct. 22 in the murder trial of a former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy charged with killing Sonya Massey in her home just outside of Springfield in 2024. The jury includes one [b]lack man. Massey was a 36-year-old [b]lack woman and mother of two children. Presiding Judge Ryan Cadagin had set aside two days for jury selection but will take up motions centered around expert testimony in court on Oct. 21.” (10/21/25)
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/courts/2025/10/21/jury-selection-made-opening-arguments-to-begin-in-sean-grayson-trial/86797615007/
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21) Gaza: Yes, It’s A War
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“‘You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will,’ Union general William Tecumseh Sherman wrote in an 1864 letter warning the citizens of Atlanta — which his advancing army had just occupied — to evacuate. ‘War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.’ Over the last two years, Sherman’s words come to mind whenever an opponent of Israel and/or supporter of the Palestinians confidently asserts that the violence in Gaza is ‘not a war’ because it is so terrible. It IS a war, and that’s why it’s so terrible. … That many of the dead in all wars, and most of the dead in this one, are civilian non-combatants, doesn’t turn those wars into non-wars. It just turns them into worse wars.” (10/21/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20092
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22) The New Hero of Tribalists
Source: Law & Liberty
by Thomas D Howes
“Especially prominent in New Right conversations are thinkers of the right-wing European continental tradition like De Maistre, Bonald, Donoso Cortés, Maurras, and Carl Schmitt. The latter, we are told, has profound insights into politics despite his membership in the Nazi Party, and thus we should not dismiss him outright because of ideological puritanism. … There are indeed academics like Adrian Vermeule who are genuinely attracted to Schmitt’s criticisms of liberalism, his theory of history, and his views on the economic-technical rationality of liberalism, which they consider to be on the point of collapse. … Let’s not fool ourselves, however, about why the non-academic New Right appeals to Schmitt. It’s not about theoretical illumination. In popular politics, people push Carl Schmitt because he helps them rationalize their tribal politics …” (10/21/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-new-hero-of-tribalists/
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23) Unbearable Wearables
Source: National Health Federation
by Scott Tips
“Wearable technology, or ‘wearables,’ is one of the latest, hot consumer technologies. Wearable technology is any kind of electronic device designed to be worn on the user’s body, and can take many different forms, including jewelry, accessories, medical devices, and clothing. An Apple Watch, which combines fitness tracking, health monitoring, and smartphone capabilities in a wrist-worn device, is one of the earliest examples of a wearable. The advance in wearable technology has been rapid. And these devices are transmitting their information to data banks that house increasingly personal information, from how many steps you take per day to how many trips you take to the bathroom per night. Yet many public leaders are promoting wearables.” (10/21/25)
https://thenhf.com/unbearable-wearables/
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24) Heckler’s veto at the turnstiles
Source: Expression
by Jacob N Gaba
“Last week, authorities in England banned fans of Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending the team’s November 6 match against Aston Villa in Birmingham, calling the event ‘high risk.’ The ban comes on the heels of a terror attack on Jews attending Yom Kippur services about 90 miles north in Manchester. Birmingham police cited security concerns for their decision, ostensibly anticipating a repeat of last year’s violence between Maccabi fans, Ajax Amsterdam fans, and protestors before a match in Holland. … Security concerns must never become a cudgel for viewpoint discrimination. By excluding only Maccabi fans, Birmingham authorities effectively granted critics of the team, or its home nation, a heckler’s veto.” (10/21/25)
https://expression.fire.org/p/hecklers-veto-at-the-turnstiles
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25) Immigration Controls Destroy the Liberty and Privacy of the American People
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“One of the U.S. government’s most successful propaganda campaigns has been to convince Americans that its system of immigrant controls brings adverse consequences (e.g., death, arrest, incarceration, and deportation) only to foreigners. In actuality, America’s immigration-control system also operates to destroy the liberty and privacy of the American people. Thus, when anyone supports the federal government’s system of immigration controls, one is, at the same time, supporting the destruction of his own liberty and privacy.” (10/21/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/21/immigration-controls-destroy-the-liberty-and-privacy-of-the-american-people/
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26) Victims Without Victimizers: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era
Source: TomDispatch
by Norman Solomon
“The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the dominant political narratives. When someone can’t make ends meet and suffers dire consequences, the mainstream default is to see a failing individual rather than a failing system. Even when elected leaders decry inequity, they typically do more to mystify than clarify what has caused it. While ‘income inequality’ is now a familiar phrase, media coverage and political rhetoric routinely disconnect victims from their victimizers. Human-interest stories and speechifying might lament or deplore common predicaments, but their storylines rarely connect the destructive effects of economic insecurity with how corporate power plunders social resources and fleeces the working class. Yet the results are extremely far-reaching.” (10/21/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/victims-without-victimizers/
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27) How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“Progressives favor the centralization of constitutional authority in the federal courts, and therefore, as they see it, if the courts indeed willfully distorted constitutional history to achieve that goal, so be it. After all, judges are distorting the Constitution for a good cause — in the service of equality, fairness, and justice. Raoul Berger, writing about the role of the Fourteenth Amendment as a platform for the ‘continuing revision of the Constitution under the guise of interpretation,’ notes how the progressive Warren Supreme Court was hailed as ‘keeper of the national conscience.’ Therefore, when conservatives like Thomas Sowell warned about ‘the quiet repeal of the American Revolution,’ progressives saw that not as cause for alarm but as evidence that they are winning.” (10/21/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-progressives-broke-constitution-and-praised-themselves-it
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28) When you shut the door on remote work, seasoned talent turns away
Source: The Hill
by Gleb Tsipursky
“Renovated offices gleam, yet the desks you most need filled remain vacant. Experienced, highly educated professionals reject rigid schedules and migrate to employers that align with their modern expectations, according to a 2025 McKinsey study of 9,560 U.S. adults. Veteran talent walks away the moment in-office work policy clashes with autonomy. McKinsey found 43 percent of prime-age employees, between 25 and 54, already work remotely, and nearly 60 percent want the option — an expectation gap of 17 percentage points that widens resignation risk. Among recent quitters, 17 percent left specifically because employers altered working-model policies, making flexibility a top-three trigger for voluntary exits. Seasoned professionals recognize their market value; they refuse to trade control over their environment for a badge swipe.” (10/21/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5563985-remote-work-migration-mckinsey/
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29) The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Cristina on Twitter asks, ‘Can you please write another of your beautiful posts about hope. I am not sure I have any left. We need hope.’ I don’t understand how anyone can be without hope right now, personally. The imperial propaganda machine is crumbling in ways we’ve never seen in our lifetime. They wouldn’t work so hard on shoring up narrative control if they didn’t need it, and their narrative control is falling apart. Look at Israel. This is an arm of the empire that understands the importance of narrative manipulation so acutely that they’ve got their own term for the practice, ‘hasbara’, with countless systems in place for influencing the way westerners view the Zionist entity. But they’re losing.” (10/21/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/21/the-imperial-propaganda-machine-is-failing-in-unprecedented-ways/
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30) On Fair Prices
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“Discussions on what constitutes a ‘fair’ (or just) price are quite old. Classical market liberals will typically classify a fair price as any price that is voluntarily agreed upon by the parties in an exchange. That’s all well and good, but I wonder how useful the concept of ‘fair price’ is.” (10/21/25)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/on-fair-prices
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31) Democrats Dominate the Strawman King in Their Mind
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“Democrats had their party Saturday and … it doesn’t matter. Nothing came of it because nothing was supposed to come from it, the event was simply to make sure the left’s radical muscles don’t atrophy and the Brownshirts don’t turn on them. They need to keep their fringe simmering, events like that help them not boil over as quickly. Most importantly, they need to keep them from thinking, and there’s nothing like a good day of chanting a body odor to keep original thought at bay. I managed to avoid all coverage of it, and all news, until Sunday morning. ‘This Week’ loved it like George Stephanopoulos loved Jeffrey Epstein (there’s something about those Clinton people and perverts, isn’t there?), but ‘Meet the Press’ barely touched on it, instead opting for news.” (10/21/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/10/21/democrats-dominate-the-strawman-king-in-their-mind-n2665232
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32) US boat strikes in the Caribbean, an unclear and present danger
Source: Washington Post
by Jim Geraghty
“Somehow, the Trump administration’s policy toward Venezuela has managed to combine Tom Clancy’s ‘Clear and Present Danger’ with ‘Dirty Harry,’ ‘Miami Vice’ and the Keystone Cops. Make no mistake, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is a bad guy. Saturday, Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado accurately described Maduro’s policies as effectively declaring ‘war on the Venezuelan people.’ If Maduro were to slip on a banana peel and die, Venezuela would be better off. … But that doesn’t mean that every tool in the U.S. toolbox is the right one, or an effective one, to use when attempting to fix the problem.” (10/21/25)
https://archive.is/I1Lu1
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33) The UAW, Internationalism, and May Day 2026
Source: Common Dreams
by Frank Hammer
“Just two months ago, my union (the United Automobile Workers) did a remarkable thing. It made public its pledge to fight for the rights of autoworkers (not its own dues-paying members, but workers overseas), based on the slogan, ‘An injury to one is an injury to all.’ That slogan has its origins in the radical US labor formation from the last century, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the ‘Wobblies.’ The Wobblies were famous for advocating ‘One Big Union,’ uniting workers without distinction, and directly targeting the capitalist system. Its founders 120 years ago included anarchists, socialists, and Marxists.” (10/21/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/uaw-may-day-2026
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34) Democracy and capitalism are mutually reinforcing
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Alex Tabarrok
“Many people argue that democracy is incompatible with capitalism but they differ on whether democracy will kill capitalism or whether capitalism will kill democracy. … The classical economists from Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill all worried that democracy would kill capitalism. Even Marx and Engels agreed …. On the other side of the aisle we have the moderns such as Robert Reich and Joseph Stiglitz who argue in Reich’s words that Capitalism is Killing Democracy …. A third argument, consistent with the views of Hayek, Mises, Friedman and others, is that capitalism and democracy are compatible and even mutually reinforcing. Ludwig von Mises, for example, argued that ‘Liberalism must necessarily demand democracy as its political corollary.'” (10/21/25)
https://fee.org/articles/democracy-and-capitalism-are-mutually-reinforcing/
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35) David Brooks Is the Last Person We Should Be Listening to Right Now
Source: The Intercept
by Sean Bell
“A mass movement against the Trump administration is essential, but no one should take an Iraq War booster’s advice.” (10/21/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/21/david-brooks-atlantic-trump-protests/
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36) The Anti-Intellectual University of Northern Michigan
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Two weeks ago, Scott Beaulier, my co-author and former student, seemed likely to become the next president of Northern Michigan University. In 2016, he became the youngest business school dean in U.S. history at North Dakota State University. In 2022, he became the dean at the University of Wyoming. An NMU alum, he was on the short list for the presidency of his alma mater. Until activist Andrew Plocher reviewed Beaulier’s c.v. — and discovered that he co-wrote ‘Behavioral Economics and Perverse Effects of the Welfare State’ (Kyklos, 2007) with me. Beaulier’s candidacy was cancelled in a heartbeat.” (10/21/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-anti-intellectual-university?
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37) “No Kings” crowds don’t want more democracy, they want LESS
Source: New York Post
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
“Watching the ‘No Kings’ protests, a friend commented: ‘Democracy dies when the other side wins. Another rule they wouldn’t want to have turned back on them.’ That does seem to be the animating spirit not only of the various marches around the country, but of the entire anti-Trump resistance. President Trump’s crime isn’t anything he’s said, or done, or even believed (which, all too often, anti-Trump protesters can’t cogently describe anyway). It’s that he won, and he represents the other team. As Batya Ungar-Sargon put it: ‘The ‘No Kings’ rally isn’t protesting Trump but rather the agenda the majority [sic] of America voted for. The Left isn’t protesting a king but their fellow Americans. They aren’t standing up for democracy — they are protesting against it.'” [editor’s note: No “majority” voted for Trump. He received votes from only about 22.5% of Americans, and from slightly less than 50% of those who actually voted – TLK] (10/20/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/opinion/no-kings-crowds-dont-want-more-democracy-they-want-less/
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38) Trump Zelensky Finally, Trump takes a sensible turn on Ukraine
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Anatol Lieven
“Claims that President Trump bullied President Zelensky and urged him to withdraw from the whole of the Donbas at their latest meeting in Washington will doubtless cause the usual furore in the Western media and commentariat, but they cannot be substantiated and are a distraction from the really important issue concerning U.S. and NATO strategy, which is whether the alliance should continue support to Ukraine at existing levels or seek radically to escalate. Here, President Trump made the right decision by pulling back from his previous suggestion that the U.S. might provide Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine — presumably as a result of his recent telephone discussion with President Putin.” (10/21/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ukraine-zelensky-2674216108/
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39) Israeli Scramble for Gaza’s Gas Reserves
Source: Antiwar.com
by Dan Steinbock
“For 25 years, Israel’s Gaza policies have been motivated not just by security concerns, but by efforts to exploit the Palestinians’ energy reserves. With the ceasefire, these attempts are rapidly escalating.” (10/21/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/dan_steinbock/2025/10/20/israeli-scramble-for-gazas-gas-reserves/
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40) Why Are People So Condescending Toward Libertarians?
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Patrick Carroll
“As someone who has been a staunch libertarian for many years, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to witness dialogues about liberty, both as a participant and as an observer. I’ve noticed a recurring theme in these conversations: non-libertarians almost inevitably call libertarian ideas childish and talk down to us in a condescending tone. In a word, they become patronizing. It’s as if there’s a Godwin’s law for libertarians. … ‘As a discussion about libertarianism increases in length, the probability that the non-libertarian will make a patronizing remark approaches one.'” (10/21/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/why-are-people-so-condescending-toward-libertarians
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41) Fed Making Key Economic Decisions Without Key Economic Data
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Next week, the Federal Open Market Committee will assemble to determine the future direction of interest rates. Analysts expect the Fed to lower the rate by another quarter-point, after a quarter-point drop in September. FOMC meetings also yield statements about the state of the economy and predictions for future growth and unemployment rates. This time, there’s one problem: The Federal Reserve lacks certain key economic data that can help in decision-making, because of the government shutdown. And while this is happening, an apparent snafu involving a collector of private jobs data has blinded the central bank even more. The payroll company ADP appears to have cut off the delivery of timely data encompassing 20 percent of all payrolls, which Fed governor Christopher Waller disclosed in an August speech.” (10/21/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/10/21/fed-making-key-economic-decisions-without-data/
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42) Innovation is not the key driver of economic growth
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak
“This year the Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for having explained how innovation drives economic growth. According to the Laureates, in particular Mokyr, the period of Enlightenment set the foundation for the Industrial Revolution and sustained economic growth. Note that the period of Enlightenment gave birth to Capitalism, a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. It is capitalism through the free-market environment that made it possible for strong and sustained economic growth.” (10/21/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/10/innovation-is-not-the-key-driver-of-economic-growth/
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43) Washington’s Long Road to Alienating Russia
Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“The focus on Ukraine during the post-2014 period is understandable, given that a full-scale proxy war between NATO and Russia over Ukraine’s geopolitical status is now taking place and alarming threats are being hurled from various capitals. But the deterioration of relations with Moscow on the part of the United States and its key European allies began long before 2014 and has involved issues not directly related to Ukraine. Moreover, policymakers in Washington deserve most of the blame for the onset of the second cold war, an outcome that is doubly tragic because it was so unnecessary.” (10/21/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/washingtons-long-road-to-alienating-russia/
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44) What’s Wrong With the “No Kings” Protests?
Source: Chasing Liberty
by Jeff Charles
“The ‘No Kings’ organizers frame their movement as a stand against presidential authoritarianism and the notion that a president would try to rule as a monarch. But where were these people over the past five years?” (10/20/25)
https://www.libertychasers.com/p/the-predictable-hypocrisy-of-the
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45) Baltimore’s poverty machine thrives while the poor stay trapped
Source: Fox News
by Corey Brooks
“After six weeks of walking from New York City on my Walk Across America, I’ve arrived in Baltimore. This city is one of contrasts. On one side, you have the beautiful Inner Harbor with its shops and eateries; on the other, the rowhouses of Sandtown-Winchester and the public housing towers of East Baltimore. The same despair I fight on the South Side of Chicago is found here — families trapped by a system that profits from their pain. Walk these streets, and it’s clear somebody’s getting rich off the poor. There are plenty of grants, programs and press conferences to go around. But where is the transformation? I didn’t see much. When the system thrives and profits off brokenness, who’s truly there for those caught in it? This is how the poverty industrial complex works, and it’s time we dismantled it, so individuals can climb the ladders of opportunity.” (10/21/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/baltimores-poverty-machine-thrives-poor-stay-trapped
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46) The engines of state capitalism
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“The central function and mission of the United States government today is to maintain a system of corporate welfare and corporate domination, to use the coercive power and cachet of the state, the law, and other symbolic expressions of seemingly valid power to redistribute massive amounts of wealth to state-backed favorites (and they are not regular folks). Both political parties are charged with shepherding this system and ensuring its continuity.” (10/20/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/the-engines-of-state-capitalism
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47) Tech PACs Are Closing In On The Almonds
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“In my 2019 post Too Much Dark Money In Almonds, I asked: why is there so little money in politics During the 2018 election, Americans — candidates, parties, PACs, and small donors like you — spent a combined $5 billion pushing their preferred candidates. Although that sounds like a lot of money, Americans spent $12 billion on almonds that same year. Why the imbalance? … if some billionaire wanted to spend an actually relevant percent of his net worth on politics, could he just take over everything? I recently talked to some Silicon Valley political consultants who updated me on the status of this issue: Marc Andreessen tried this in 2024 and it basically worked. Now he is trying it a second time, it will probably work again, and Marc Andreessen will probably own every politician twice over.” (10/20/25)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/tech-pacs-are-closing-in-on-the-almonds
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48) The Paradox of No Kings Day
Source: Persuasion
by Barrett Fife
“It was an outburst of catharsis. But will it lead to change?” (10/20/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-mad-chaotic-cathartic-no-kings
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49) Chicago Day Laborer, in ICE Detention, Says He’s Facing Retaliation Because Supporters Are Protesting His Abduction
Source: In These Times
by Sarah Lazare
“Willian Giménez González, a known advocate for the rights of day laborers who was abducted by federal agents on September 12, is speaking out from ICE detention. He says that federal authorities transferred him from the Broadview, Ill., ICE facility, to a detention center in Michigan, to move him away from his supporters. ‘I believe I was moved to Michigan at the last minute because I had the support of the community, and because my lawyer and politicians were protesting outside the jail,’ he said, referring to the Broadview ICE facility. ‘I believe that because I had people fighting for me, I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me.’ The statement was passed to me by his lawyer, Kevin Herrera, who is also the legal director of Raise the Floor Alliance, a legal clinic and worker advocacy organization.” (10/20/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/chicago-day-laborer-in-ice-detention-says-hes-facing-retaliation-because-supporters-are-protesting-his-abduction
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50) The fist of tyranny – tighter and tighter?
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Most readers are familiar with the saying (apparently attributed to Thomas Merton), The more you squeeze, the less you have. When it comes to the Imperial regime of the District of Criminals, this certainly appears to be the case. The FedGov is no longer content with the enemies it claims to have long had: The Donald and his minions seem to be searching out for – and making – more.” (10/20/25)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/10/20/the-fist-of-tyranny-tighter-and-tighter/
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51) Rising, 10/21/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his take on Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey’s endorsement of Rep. Thomas Massie (R – Ky.) for president amid partisan gridlock over the budget.” (10/21/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5564940-rising-october-21-2025/
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52) The Good Fight, 10/21/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Randall Kennedy on Racism in America.” (10/21/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/randall-kennedy
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53) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/21/25
Source: The New Republic
“Deep in Texas Trump Country, a ‘No Kings’ Display Brutally Shames MAGA.” (10/21/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202038/deep-texas-maga-country-no-kings-display-brutally-shames-maga
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54) Law & Liberty Podcast, 10/21/25
Source: Law & Liberty
“Byzantines, Bishops, and Bolsheviks.” (10/21/25)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/byzantines-bishops-and-bolsheviks/
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55) Advisory Opinions, 10/21/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Euphemisms, Political Speech, and the First Amendment.” (10/21/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/euphemisms-political-speech-and-the-first-amendment/
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/21/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Witkoff Says CIA Told Him Hamas Didn’t Want Deal, IDF Has Killed 80 in Gaza Under Truce, and More.” (10/21/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3smLe5wOgj8
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57) The Reconstruction Agenda, 10/20/25
Source: The UnPopulist
“The Founders Never Meant to Give the President Unchecked Removal Powers: A Conversation with Noah Rosenblum.” (10/20/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-founders-never-meant-to-give
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58) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 10/20/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“The Future of Federal Education Policy with Christy Wolfe.” (10/20/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/education/the-future-of-federal-education-policy-with-christy-wolfe/
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59) Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Housing Plan Could Crash New York’s Rickety Rental Market
Source: Reason
“The city has the nation’s most regulated housing sector and the largest stock of government-owned and subsidized housing, and yet progressives blame its real estate troubles on the free market.” (10/20/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/20/zohran-mamdanis-socialist-housing-plan-could-crash-new-yorks-rickety-rental-market/
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60) LPA Spotlight, episode 1
Source: LP Alliance
“Charlie Larkin.” (10/20/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBdOUjS3uaI
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61) TechTank, season 5, episode 29
Source: Brookings Institution
“On European digital sovereignty and platform regulation with Marietje Schaake.” (10/20/25)
https://shows.acast.com/tech-tank/episodes/on-european-digital-sovereignty-and-platform-regulation-with
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62) Finding Freedom, 10/20/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Apricot Seeds vs. Cancer: The Natural Power Big Pharma Fears with John A. Richardson Jr.” (10/20/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/ff-apricot-seeds-vs-cancer-the-natural-power-big-pharma-fears-with-john-a-richardson-jr
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63) Nonzero, 10/20/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The US-China Microchip-Minerals Showdown | Robert Wright & Paul Triolo.” (10/20/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69075
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64) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 10/20/25
Source: Freedom Works
“Jeremy Nighohossianr ‘The Problem with Obamacare is Obamacare.'” (10/20/25)
https://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2025-10-20_zfw10202025.mp3
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65) System Update, episode 534
Source: System Update
“No Kings Protests: A Partisan Pro-DNC Circus; The Trump Admin’s Escalating Strikes on ‘Drug Boats’ and Militarization of the Caribbean.” (10/20/25)
https://rumble.com/v70kc7w-system-update-show-534.html
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1) Ukraine: Russian drone, missile attacks kill at least two
2) Crypto Bulls and Bears Lose $300 Million Each as Bitcoin Climbs to $113k, Then Dumps
3) CA: Victim, gang member shot during gang abduction
4) US military buildup in Caribbean sees bombers, Marines & warships converge near Venezuela
5) Trump threatens Hamas amid push on next Gaza truce steps
6) Ecuador: Regime releases survivor of US regime murder attempt, says no evidence he committed a crime
7) Sudan: Drone attack hits capital ahead of planned airport reopening
8) Jack Nicklaus awarded $50 million in defamation lawsuit
9) India: New Delhi air quality at hazardous levels after Diwali fireworks
10) Study: GLP-1 Drugs Help Protect Against Sleep Apnea
11) NY: Defiant Curtis Sliwa refuses to drop out of NYC mayoral race
12) Comey asks court to dismiss indictment
13) With legacy on the line, Obama hitting campaign trail to boost Democrats in key governor elections
14) DeepSeek outperforms AI rivals in “real money, real market” crypto showdown
15) Anti-science [sic] bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections [sic] built over a century
16) China’s rare earth magnet exports to US fall for second month, reversing brief recovery
17) China: Regime accuses US of yearslong cyberattack on national time service
18) Slovakia: Fico’s Attacker Convicted of Terrorism, Jailed for 21 Years
19) Senate Republicans gathering at White House as shutdown effects worsen
20) IL: Judge sets opening arguments in Sonya Massey murder trial
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Gaza: Yes, It’s A War
22) The New Hero of Tribalists
23) Unbearable Wearables
24) Heckler’s veto at the turnstiles
25) Immigration Controls Destroy the Liberty and Privacy of the American People
26) Victims Without Victimizers: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era
27) How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It
28) When you shut the door on remote work, seasoned talent turns away
29) The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways
30) On Fair Prices
31) Democrats Dominate the Strawman King in Their Mind
32) US boat strikes in the Caribbean, an unclear and present danger
33) The UAW, Internationalism, and May Day 2026
34) Democracy and capitalism are mutually reinforcing
35) David Brooks Is the Last Person We Should Be Listening to Right Now
36) The Anti-Intellectual University of Northern Michigan
37) “No Kings” crowds don’t want more democracy, they want LESS
38) Trump Zelensky Finally, Trump takes a sensible turn on Ukraine
39) Israeli Scramble for Gaza’s Gas Reserves
40) Why Are People So Condescending Toward Libertarians?
41) Fed Making Key Economic Decisions Without Key Economic Data
42) Innovation is not the key driver of economic growth
43) Washington’s Long Road to Alienating Russia
44) What’s Wrong With the “No Kings” Protests?
45) Baltimore’s poverty machine thrives while the poor stay trapped
46) The engines of state capitalism
47) Tech PACs Are Closing In On The Almonds
48) The Paradox of No Kings Day
49) Chicago Day Laborer, in ICE Detention, Says He’s Facing Retaliation Because Supporters Are Protesting His Abduction
50) The fist of tyranny – tighter and tighter?
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/21/25
57) The Reconstruction Agenda, 10/20/25
58) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 10/20/25
59) Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Housing Plan Could Crash New York’s Rickety Rental Market
60) LPA Spotlight, episode 1
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1) Ukraine: Russian drone, missile attacks kill at least two
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Large-scale Russian attacks on Ukraine’s capital overnight have killed at least two people and injured five, including a two-year-old child, according to officials. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Wednesday that Russia launched a wave of drone and missile attacks on the capital. One person was killed and 10 rescued in the Dniprovskiy area after drone debris hit one of the floors of a residential tower. The second casualty was reported in the Dnipro district, where a building caught fire, Klitschko said …. Other areas in Ukraine were also struck overnight. … [Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin] had agreed to meet for talks, but those expectations were dashed on Tuesday when officials from both sides said the meeting would not take place any time soon.” (10/22/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/22/russia-launches-deadly-wave-of-drone-missile-attacks-across-ukraine
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2) Crypto Bulls and Bears Lose $300 Million Each as Bitcoin Climbs to $113k, Then Dumps
Source: CoinDesk
“Bitcoin’s two-way price action is squeezing both leveraged bullish and bearish plays, underscoring challenging market conditions for traders. In the past 24 hours, BTC’s price has traded back and forth between $107,000 and $113,000, wiping out roughly $600 million in market-wide bullish and bearish futures bets. … Leveraged positions on perpetual futures exchanges are automatically closed when traders’ margin levels fall below maintenance thresholds, often causing cascading price moves as positions are sold into thin liquidity.” [editor’s note: A good case for either buying and holding/spending crypto or not doing so, rather than treating the market as a casino gaming table – TLK] (10/22/25)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/22/bulls-and-bears-lose-usd300m-each-as-bitcoin-climbs-to-usd103k-then-dumps
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3) CA: Victim, gang member shot during gang abduction
Source: New York Times
“A federal marshal and a man targeted by immigration authorities were injured by gunfire during an [abduction] operation in Los Angeles on Tuesday, federal officials said. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said that during a targeted traffic stop, an undocumented immigrant who was trying to flee had rammed a law enforcement vehicle with his car. Officers with the Homeland Security [gang] fired shots, striking the man in the elbow. A federal marshal was struck in the hand by a ricochet bullet, Ms. McLaughlin said. The [kidnapping victim] and the injured [gang member] were both hospitalized, according to the Department of Homeland Security.” (10/21/25)
https://archive.is/v1zNu
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4) US military buildup in Caribbean sees bombers, Marines & warships converge near Venezuela
Source: Fox News
“The United States has significantly increased its military presence across the Caribbean under U.S. Southern Command, deploying bombers, warships and Marines as part of an expanded campaign [using supposed] drug-trafficking and so-called ‘narco-terrorist’ networks operating near Venezuela [as the basis for an attempt to distract us from other things]. In addition to seven strikes on boats [alleged without evidence] to be carrying narcotics, the Trump administration has built up thousands of troops in the region. War Secretary Pete Hegseth this month announced the creation of a new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force operating near Southern Command, saying it was established ‘to crush the cartels, stop the poison, and keep America safe.'” (10/21/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-military-buildup-caribbean-sees-bombers-marines-warships-converge-near-venezuela
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5) Trump threatens Hamas amid push on next Gaza truce steps
Source: Reuters
“U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Hamas on Tuesday with ‘FAST, FURIOUS & BRUTAL’ force if it does not ‘do what is right’ as he pushes for the next, more complex, stage of a Gaza ceasefire that has already been repeatedly [violated by Israeli forces]. Increasing the pressure on the Palestinian militant group, Trump said in a social media post that numerous U.S. allies had said they would welcome the chance to go into Gaza and hit Hamas but he had told them and Israel ‘not yet.’ … U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who arrived on Tuesday, was due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for talks Israel said would focus on security challenges and political opportunities.” (10/21/25)
https://archive.is/LTxvc
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6) Ecuador: Regime releases survivor of US regime murder attempt, says no evidence he committed a crime
Source: CBS News
“Ecuador has released a man who survived a U.S. strike on a suspected drug-trafficking submersible vessel, the attorney general’s office said Monday, adding that the authorities had found no evidence that he had committed a crime. A government official, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on the matter, told The Associated Press that the Ecuadorian man, identified as Andrés Fernando Tufiño, was in good health after medical evaluations. A U.S. Navy helicopter transported the survivors of the attack from the semi-submersible to a Navy ship, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News on Friday. The attack also killed two crew members.” (10/21/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ecuador-releases-survivor-us-strike-narco-sub-no-evidence-crime/
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7) Sudan: Drone attack hits capital ahead of planned airport reopening
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A drone attack has hit an area near the international airport in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, a day before it was set to resume domestic flights for the first time since war broke out in 2023. Residents of the city reported hearing explosions in several districts early on Tuesday morning. Social media images — yet to be verified by the BBC — appear to show a series of blasts. … Tuesday’s strike marked the third attack in the capital within a week, following strikes on two army bases in north-west Khartoum on consecutive days last week.” (10/21/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpq1lq1g431o
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8) Jack Nicklaus awarded $50 million in defamation lawsuit
Source: ESPN
“A Florida jury on Monday awarded Jack Nicklaus $50 million in his defamation lawsuit against Nicklaus Companies, which is owned by billionaire banker Howard Milstein. Nicklaus, 85, filed the lawsuit in response to statements that Milstein and other Nicklaus Companies officials made in a previous lawsuit in a New York court. In the defamation lawsuit, Nicklaus claimed the defendants suggested that he had considered a $750 million deal to become the face of the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf League and disseminated those false claims to media outlets. … Nicklaus claimed the defendants also alleged he wasn’t mentally fit to manage his business affairs and was suffering from dementia. … the jury ruled that Nicklaus Companies actively participated in the false publishing of facts that damaged the 18-time major champion’s reputation and exposed him to ‘ridicule, hatred, mistrust, distrust or contempt.'” (10/21/25)
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/46665505/jack-nicklaus-awarded-50-million-defamation-lawsuit
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9) India: New Delhi air quality at hazardous levels after Diwali fireworks
Source: ABC News
“Thick smog blanketed India’s capital Tuesday, a day after millions celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali with fireworks that sent air pollution soaring to hazardous levels. Revelers in New Delhi burst firecrackers late into Monday night, filling the air with smoke and fine particles that mixed with seasonal pollution and stagnant weather conditions. By Tuesday morning, the city’s Air Quality Index had climbed above 350 in several neighborhoods, a level considered ‘severe’ and dangerous to breathe, according to the World Health Organization’s daily recommended maximum exposure. Visibility also dropped in some parts of the city as a gray haze enveloped streets, high-rises and historical monuments.” (10/21/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/thick-smog-blankets-new-delhi-after-diwali-fireworks-126708436
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10) Study: GLP-1 Drugs Help Protect Against Sleep Apnea
Source: Killeen Daily Herald
“Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound might help protect people from health risks related to sleep apnea, a new study says. Type 2 diabetes patients taking GLP-1 drugs were overall less likely to die within the next year, but those with sleep apnea did even better, researchers reported Monday at a meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Chicago. … The results support the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision in December 2024 to approve Zepbound (tirzepetide) as the first drug to treat sleep apnea in adults with obesity.” (10/21/25)
https://kdhnews.com/living/health/glp-1-drugs-help-protect-against-sleep-apnea-study-says/article_0862a33c-66c1-5af6-8a4e-0a46f5ee48e9.html
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11) NY: Defiant Curtis Sliwa refuses to drop out of NYC mayoral race
Source: New York Post
“A defiant Curtis Sliwa forcefully rejected the growing calls for him to end his bid for New York City mayor. ‘So, let’s be very clear: I am not dropping out, under no circumstances,’ the GOP nominee for mayor said at a press conference Tuesday morning. ‘I’ve already been offered money to drop out, I said no.’ The comments come a day after his boss, influential Republican John Catsimatidis, issued a public plea for Sliwa to drop out of the race and unite behind Andrew Cuomo. … For months, the crowded field of mayoral hopefuls has been called on to coalesce behind a single candidate in an attempt to prevent proud socialist Zohran Mamdani from winning City Hall.” [editor’s note: As Tom Shillue pointed out on Gutfeld! last night, it is CUOMO (the not-chosen and thus “Independent”) who should drop out, to leave the primary-nominated Dem and GOP candidates to go head to head – SAT] [additional editor’s note: All three of these low-lifes should drop out and NYC should see how not having a mayor at all works for them! – TLK] (10/21/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/us-news/curtis-sliwa-refuses-to-drop-out-of-nyc-mayoral-race-under-no-circumstances/
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12) Comey asks court to dismiss indictment
Source: United Press International
“Former FBI Director James Comey has asked a federal judge to dismiss the Justice Department’s indictment against him, arguing he is being politically and unconstitutionally prosecuted by President Donald Trump because of their feud. Comey has pleaded not guilty to charges of making a false statement and obstruction in connection with testimony he gave before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020. The indictment against him was filed late last month by a junior prosecutor who replaced U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert, who resigned under pressure from the Trump administration. Siebert had been accused by Trump of intentionally delaying taking action against Comey. The new U.S. attorney filed the indictment against Comey just days before the statute of limitations was to expire.” (0/21/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/10/21/James-Comey-indictment-dismissal-request/8571761036618/
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13) With legacy on the line, Obama hitting campaign trail to boost Democrats in key governor elections
Source: Fox News
“With Election Day in New Jersey and Virginia’s very competitive and combustible races for governor just two weeks away, Democrats are bringing in one of their party’s best campaign trail closers. Former President Barack Obama will headline rallies in New Jersey and Virginia — the only two states in the nation to hold gubernatorial contests the year after a presidential election — on Nov. 1, the Saturday before Election Day. For Democrats, who are aiming to escape the political wilderness after last year’s stunning election setbacks when they lost the White House and Senate majority and fell short in winning back the House, the 2025 ballot box showdowns are their first major shot at redemption, and they hope that Obama’s two-state swing will energize their base voters.” (10/21/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-hits-campaign-trail-boost-democrats-weekend-before-election-day-key-governor-showdowns
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14) DeepSeek outperforms AI rivals in “real money, real market” crypto showdown
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A new real-market cryptocurrency trading experiment that pits leading artificial intelligence models against one another to evaluate their respective investing abilities has seen a DeepSeek model outperform rivals so far. In Alpha Arena, launched on Friday by US research firm Nof1, six large language models (LLMs) were given US$10,000 each to invest in six cryptocurrency perpetual contracts on the decentralised exchange Hyperliquid, including bitcoin and solana. As of 2pm on Tuesday, DeepSeek’s V3.1 had performed the best so far, with a profit of 10.11 per cent. The worst performing model was OpenAI’s GPT-5, with losses of 39.73 per cent. The other LLMs included in the first batch of models for the experiment, which runs until November 3, are Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen 3 Max, Anthropic’s Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and xAI’s Grok 4.” (10/21/25)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3329784/deepseek-outperforms-ai-rivals-real-money-real-market-crypto-showdown
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15) Anti-science [sic] bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections [sic] built over a century
Source: SFGate
“More than 420[!?] bills attacking longstanding public health protections (vaccines, milk safety and fluoride) have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law. An Associated Press investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The effort would strip away protections that have been built over a century and are integral to American lives and society. Around 30 bills have been enacted or adopted in 12 states.” [editor’s note: The “journalist” who typed this made sure to throw in that “anti-science” epithet several times, yet chose to lead with the “420” reference – SAT] (10/21/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/wave-of-anti-science-bills-pushed-by-kennedy-21111780.php
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16) China’s rare earth magnet exports to US fall for second month, reversing brief recovery
Source: CNBC
“China’s exports of rare earth magnets to the U.S. fell sharply in September, ending months of recovery as the two economic superpowers remain locked in trade disputes and Washington pushes to secure alternative supply chains. Data from China’s General Administration of Customs on Monday showed that U.S.-bound exports fell 28.7% in September from August to 420.5 tonnes. That figure was also nearly 30% lower than a year prior. It was the second consecutive monthly decline after a short-lived rebound that started in June, when Beijing had agreed to expedite rare earth export permits during trade talks with U.S. officials in London.” (10/21/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/chinas-rare-earth-magnet-exports-to-us-falls-for-second-month-reversing-brief-recovery-.html
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17) China: Regime accuses US of yearslong cyberattack on national time service
Source: Fox News
“China’s spy agency accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of hacking its national time service, alleging a yearslong cyberespionage campaign that targeted the system keeping official Beijing Time — a backbone for China’s telecommunications, finance and defense sectors. The Ministry of State Security claimed the NSA began the operation in 2022 by exploiting a text-messaging vulnerability to gain control of employee cellphones at the National Time Service Center, then used stolen credentials to access servers and implant covert tools. The alleged breach, if true, could have allowed attackers to tamper with national timekeeping — a move that experts say could disrupt communications, banking and satellite navigation across China. The NSA said in a statement it ‘does not confirm nor deny allegations in the media regarding its operations.” (10/21/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-accuses-us-yearslong-cyberattack-national-time-service
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18) Slovakia: Fico’s Attacker Convicted of Terrorism, Jailed for 21 Years
Source: US News & World Report
“A Slovak court ruled on Tuesday that a man who shot and wounded Prime Minister Robert Fico last year was guilty of terrorism charges and handed him a 21-year jail sentence. Juraj Cintula, 72, shot at Fico five times from just over a one-metre distance as the prime minister greeted people in the central Slovak town of Handlova in May 2024. The verdict of the Specialised Criminal Court in the city of Banska Bystrica closes a trial that began in July and whose main question was whether Cintula, who admitted shooting Fico, was guilty of terrorism or less serious crimes of murder or attack. Fico, 61, was struck four times and was seriously injured in his abdomen, and also suffered injuries to his hip, hand and foot. He made his first public appearance in July last year, a few months after the attack and returned to work shortly after.” (10/21/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-21/slovakia-pms-attacker-found-guilty-of-terrorism-sentenced-to-21-years
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19) Senate Republicans gathering at White House as shutdown effects worsen
Source: SFGate
“In this fourth week of the government shutdown, Senate Republicans are gathering at White House — not for urgent talks on how to end it, but for a display of unity with President Donald Trump as they refuse to negotiate on any Democratic demands. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called it ‘a pep rally’ and said it’s ‘shameful’ that House Speaker Mike Johnson has kept the House out of town during the shutdown. Schumer says his side wants to end the shutdown and fix the health care premium crisis that ‘looms over 20 million hardworking Americans’.” (10/21/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/the-latest-senate-republicans-gathering-at-white-21111614.php
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20) IL: Judge sets opening arguments in Sonya Massey murder trial
Source: State Journal-Register
“A jury has been sworn in and opening arguments are set for Oct. 22 in the murder trial of a former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy charged with killing Sonya Massey in her home just outside of Springfield in 2024. The jury includes one [b]lack man. Massey was a 36-year-old [b]lack woman and mother of two children. Presiding Judge Ryan Cadagin had set aside two days for jury selection but will take up motions centered around expert testimony in court on Oct. 21.” (10/21/25)
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/courts/2025/10/21/jury-selection-made-opening-arguments-to-begin-in-sean-grayson-trial/86797615007/
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21) Gaza: Yes, It’s A War
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“‘You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will,’ Union general William Tecumseh Sherman wrote in an 1864 letter warning the citizens of Atlanta — which his advancing army had just occupied — to evacuate. ‘War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.’ Over the last two years, Sherman’s words come to mind whenever an opponent of Israel and/or supporter of the Palestinians confidently asserts that the violence in Gaza is ‘not a war’ because it is so terrible. It IS a war, and that’s why it’s so terrible. … That many of the dead in all wars, and most of the dead in this one, are civilian non-combatants, doesn’t turn those wars into non-wars. It just turns them into worse wars.” (10/21/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20092
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22) The New Hero of Tribalists
Source: Law & Liberty
by Thomas D Howes
“Especially prominent in New Right conversations are thinkers of the right-wing European continental tradition like De Maistre, Bonald, Donoso Cortés, Maurras, and Carl Schmitt. The latter, we are told, has profound insights into politics despite his membership in the Nazi Party, and thus we should not dismiss him outright because of ideological puritanism. … There are indeed academics like Adrian Vermeule who are genuinely attracted to Schmitt’s criticisms of liberalism, his theory of history, and his views on the economic-technical rationality of liberalism, which they consider to be on the point of collapse. … Let’s not fool ourselves, however, about why the non-academic New Right appeals to Schmitt. It’s not about theoretical illumination. In popular politics, people push Carl Schmitt because he helps them rationalize their tribal politics …” (10/21/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-new-hero-of-tribalists/
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23) Unbearable Wearables
Source: National Health Federation
by Scott Tips
“Wearable technology, or ‘wearables,’ is one of the latest, hot consumer technologies. Wearable technology is any kind of electronic device designed to be worn on the user’s body, and can take many different forms, including jewelry, accessories, medical devices, and clothing. An Apple Watch, which combines fitness tracking, health monitoring, and smartphone capabilities in a wrist-worn device, is one of the earliest examples of a wearable. The advance in wearable technology has been rapid. And these devices are transmitting their information to data banks that house increasingly personal information, from how many steps you take per day to how many trips you take to the bathroom per night. Yet many public leaders are promoting wearables.” (10/21/25)
https://thenhf.com/unbearable-wearables/
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24) Heckler’s veto at the turnstiles
Source: Expression
by Jacob N Gaba
“Last week, authorities in England banned fans of Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending the team’s November 6 match against Aston Villa in Birmingham, calling the event ‘high risk.’ The ban comes on the heels of a terror attack on Jews attending Yom Kippur services about 90 miles north in Manchester. Birmingham police cited security concerns for their decision, ostensibly anticipating a repeat of last year’s violence between Maccabi fans, Ajax Amsterdam fans, and protestors before a match in Holland. … Security concerns must never become a cudgel for viewpoint discrimination. By excluding only Maccabi fans, Birmingham authorities effectively granted critics of the team, or its home nation, a heckler’s veto.” (10/21/25)
https://expression.fire.org/p/hecklers-veto-at-the-turnstiles
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25) Immigration Controls Destroy the Liberty and Privacy of the American People
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“One of the U.S. government’s most successful propaganda campaigns has been to convince Americans that its system of immigrant controls brings adverse consequences (e.g., death, arrest, incarceration, and deportation) only to foreigners. In actuality, America’s immigration-control system also operates to destroy the liberty and privacy of the American people. Thus, when anyone supports the federal government’s system of immigration controls, one is, at the same time, supporting the destruction of his own liberty and privacy.” (10/21/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/21/immigration-controls-destroy-the-liberty-and-privacy-of-the-american-people/
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26) Victims Without Victimizers: How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era
Source: TomDispatch
by Norman Solomon
“The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the dominant political narratives. When someone can’t make ends meet and suffers dire consequences, the mainstream default is to see a failing individual rather than a failing system. Even when elected leaders decry inequity, they typically do more to mystify than clarify what has caused it. While ‘income inequality’ is now a familiar phrase, media coverage and political rhetoric routinely disconnect victims from their victimizers. Human-interest stories and speechifying might lament or deplore common predicaments, but their storylines rarely connect the destructive effects of economic insecurity with how corporate power plunders social resources and fleeces the working class. Yet the results are extremely far-reaching.” (10/21/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/victims-without-victimizers/
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27) How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“Progressives favor the centralization of constitutional authority in the federal courts, and therefore, as they see it, if the courts indeed willfully distorted constitutional history to achieve that goal, so be it. After all, judges are distorting the Constitution for a good cause — in the service of equality, fairness, and justice. Raoul Berger, writing about the role of the Fourteenth Amendment as a platform for the ‘continuing revision of the Constitution under the guise of interpretation,’ notes how the progressive Warren Supreme Court was hailed as ‘keeper of the national conscience.’ Therefore, when conservatives like Thomas Sowell warned about ‘the quiet repeal of the American Revolution,’ progressives saw that not as cause for alarm but as evidence that they are winning.” (10/21/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-progressives-broke-constitution-and-praised-themselves-it
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28) When you shut the door on remote work, seasoned talent turns away
Source: The Hill
by Gleb Tsipursky
“Renovated offices gleam, yet the desks you most need filled remain vacant. Experienced, highly educated professionals reject rigid schedules and migrate to employers that align with their modern expectations, according to a 2025 McKinsey study of 9,560 U.S. adults. Veteran talent walks away the moment in-office work policy clashes with autonomy. McKinsey found 43 percent of prime-age employees, between 25 and 54, already work remotely, and nearly 60 percent want the option — an expectation gap of 17 percentage points that widens resignation risk. Among recent quitters, 17 percent left specifically because employers altered working-model policies, making flexibility a top-three trigger for voluntary exits. Seasoned professionals recognize their market value; they refuse to trade control over their environment for a badge swipe.” (10/21/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5563985-remote-work-migration-mckinsey/
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29) The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Cristina on Twitter asks, ‘Can you please write another of your beautiful posts about hope. I am not sure I have any left. We need hope.’ I don’t understand how anyone can be without hope right now, personally. The imperial propaganda machine is crumbling in ways we’ve never seen in our lifetime. They wouldn’t work so hard on shoring up narrative control if they didn’t need it, and their narrative control is falling apart. Look at Israel. This is an arm of the empire that understands the importance of narrative manipulation so acutely that they’ve got their own term for the practice, ‘hasbara’, with countless systems in place for influencing the way westerners view the Zionist entity. But they’re losing.” (10/21/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/21/the-imperial-propaganda-machine-is-failing-in-unprecedented-ways/
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30) On Fair Prices
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“Discussions on what constitutes a ‘fair’ (or just) price are quite old. Classical market liberals will typically classify a fair price as any price that is voluntarily agreed upon by the parties in an exchange. That’s all well and good, but I wonder how useful the concept of ‘fair price’ is.” (10/21/25)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/on-fair-prices
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31) Democrats Dominate the Strawman King in Their Mind
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“Democrats had their party Saturday and … it doesn’t matter. Nothing came of it because nothing was supposed to come from it, the event was simply to make sure the left’s radical muscles don’t atrophy and the Brownshirts don’t turn on them. They need to keep their fringe simmering, events like that help them not boil over as quickly. Most importantly, they need to keep them from thinking, and there’s nothing like a good day of chanting a body odor to keep original thought at bay. I managed to avoid all coverage of it, and all news, until Sunday morning. ‘This Week’ loved it like George Stephanopoulos loved Jeffrey Epstein (there’s something about those Clinton people and perverts, isn’t there?), but ‘Meet the Press’ barely touched on it, instead opting for news.” (10/21/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/10/21/democrats-dominate-the-strawman-king-in-their-mind-n2665232
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32) US boat strikes in the Caribbean, an unclear and present danger
Source: Washington Post
by Jim Geraghty
“Somehow, the Trump administration’s policy toward Venezuela has managed to combine Tom Clancy’s ‘Clear and Present Danger’ with ‘Dirty Harry,’ ‘Miami Vice’ and the Keystone Cops. Make no mistake, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is a bad guy. Saturday, Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado accurately described Maduro’s policies as effectively declaring ‘war on the Venezuelan people.’ If Maduro were to slip on a banana peel and die, Venezuela would be better off. … But that doesn’t mean that every tool in the U.S. toolbox is the right one, or an effective one, to use when attempting to fix the problem.” (10/21/25)
https://archive.is/I1Lu1
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33) The UAW, Internationalism, and May Day 2026
Source: Common Dreams
by Frank Hammer
“Just two months ago, my union (the United Automobile Workers) did a remarkable thing. It made public its pledge to fight for the rights of autoworkers (not its own dues-paying members, but workers overseas), based on the slogan, ‘An injury to one is an injury to all.’ That slogan has its origins in the radical US labor formation from the last century, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the ‘Wobblies.’ The Wobblies were famous for advocating ‘One Big Union,’ uniting workers without distinction, and directly targeting the capitalist system. Its founders 120 years ago included anarchists, socialists, and Marxists.” (10/21/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/uaw-may-day-2026
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34) Democracy and capitalism are mutually reinforcing
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Alex Tabarrok
“Many people argue that democracy is incompatible with capitalism but they differ on whether democracy will kill capitalism or whether capitalism will kill democracy. … The classical economists from Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill all worried that democracy would kill capitalism. Even Marx and Engels agreed …. On the other side of the aisle we have the moderns such as Robert Reich and Joseph Stiglitz who argue in Reich’s words that Capitalism is Killing Democracy …. A third argument, consistent with the views of Hayek, Mises, Friedman and others, is that capitalism and democracy are compatible and even mutually reinforcing. Ludwig von Mises, for example, argued that ‘Liberalism must necessarily demand democracy as its political corollary.'” (10/21/25)
https://fee.org/articles/democracy-and-capitalism-are-mutually-reinforcing/
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35) David Brooks Is the Last Person We Should Be Listening to Right Now
Source: The Intercept
by Sean Bell
“A mass movement against the Trump administration is essential, but no one should take an Iraq War booster’s advice.” (10/21/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/21/david-brooks-atlantic-trump-protests/
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36) The Anti-Intellectual University of Northern Michigan
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Two weeks ago, Scott Beaulier, my co-author and former student, seemed likely to become the next president of Northern Michigan University. In 2016, he became the youngest business school dean in U.S. history at North Dakota State University. In 2022, he became the dean at the University of Wyoming. An NMU alum, he was on the short list for the presidency of his alma mater. Until activist Andrew Plocher reviewed Beaulier’s c.v. — and discovered that he co-wrote ‘Behavioral Economics and Perverse Effects of the Welfare State’ (Kyklos, 2007) with me. Beaulier’s candidacy was cancelled in a heartbeat.” (10/21/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-anti-intellectual-university?
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37) “No Kings” crowds don’t want more democracy, they want LESS
Source: New York Post
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
“Watching the ‘No Kings’ protests, a friend commented: ‘Democracy dies when the other side wins. Another rule they wouldn’t want to have turned back on them.’ That does seem to be the animating spirit not only of the various marches around the country, but of the entire anti-Trump resistance. President Trump’s crime isn’t anything he’s said, or done, or even believed (which, all too often, anti-Trump protesters can’t cogently describe anyway). It’s that he won, and he represents the other team. As Batya Ungar-Sargon put it: ‘The ‘No Kings’ rally isn’t protesting Trump but rather the agenda the majority [sic] of America voted for. The Left isn’t protesting a king but their fellow Americans. They aren’t standing up for democracy — they are protesting against it.'” [editor’s note: No “majority” voted for Trump. He received votes from only about 22.5% of Americans, and from slightly less than 50% of those who actually voted – TLK] (10/20/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/opinion/no-kings-crowds-dont-want-more-democracy-they-want-less/
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38) Trump Zelensky Finally, Trump takes a sensible turn on Ukraine
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Anatol Lieven
“Claims that President Trump bullied President Zelensky and urged him to withdraw from the whole of the Donbas at their latest meeting in Washington will doubtless cause the usual furore in the Western media and commentariat, but they cannot be substantiated and are a distraction from the really important issue concerning U.S. and NATO strategy, which is whether the alliance should continue support to Ukraine at existing levels or seek radically to escalate. Here, President Trump made the right decision by pulling back from his previous suggestion that the U.S. might provide Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine — presumably as a result of his recent telephone discussion with President Putin.” (10/21/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ukraine-zelensky-2674216108/
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39) Israeli Scramble for Gaza’s Gas Reserves
Source: Antiwar.com
by Dan Steinbock
“For 25 years, Israel’s Gaza policies have been motivated not just by security concerns, but by efforts to exploit the Palestinians’ energy reserves. With the ceasefire, these attempts are rapidly escalating.” (10/21/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/dan_steinbock/2025/10/20/israeli-scramble-for-gazas-gas-reserves/
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40) Why Are People So Condescending Toward Libertarians?
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Patrick Carroll
“As someone who has been a staunch libertarian for many years, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to witness dialogues about liberty, both as a participant and as an observer. I’ve noticed a recurring theme in these conversations: non-libertarians almost inevitably call libertarian ideas childish and talk down to us in a condescending tone. In a word, they become patronizing. It’s as if there’s a Godwin’s law for libertarians. … ‘As a discussion about libertarianism increases in length, the probability that the non-libertarian will make a patronizing remark approaches one.'” (10/21/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/why-are-people-so-condescending-toward-libertarians
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41) Fed Making Key Economic Decisions Without Key Economic Data
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Next week, the Federal Open Market Committee will assemble to determine the future direction of interest rates. Analysts expect the Fed to lower the rate by another quarter-point, after a quarter-point drop in September. FOMC meetings also yield statements about the state of the economy and predictions for future growth and unemployment rates. This time, there’s one problem: The Federal Reserve lacks certain key economic data that can help in decision-making, because of the government shutdown. And while this is happening, an apparent snafu involving a collector of private jobs data has blinded the central bank even more. The payroll company ADP appears to have cut off the delivery of timely data encompassing 20 percent of all payrolls, which Fed governor Christopher Waller disclosed in an August speech.” (10/21/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/10/21/fed-making-key-economic-decisions-without-data/
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42) Innovation is not the key driver of economic growth
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak
“This year the Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for having explained how innovation drives economic growth. According to the Laureates, in particular Mokyr, the period of Enlightenment set the foundation for the Industrial Revolution and sustained economic growth. Note that the period of Enlightenment gave birth to Capitalism, a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. It is capitalism through the free-market environment that made it possible for strong and sustained economic growth.” (10/21/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/10/innovation-is-not-the-key-driver-of-economic-growth/
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43) Washington’s Long Road to Alienating Russia
Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“The focus on Ukraine during the post-2014 period is understandable, given that a full-scale proxy war between NATO and Russia over Ukraine’s geopolitical status is now taking place and alarming threats are being hurled from various capitals. But the deterioration of relations with Moscow on the part of the United States and its key European allies began long before 2014 and has involved issues not directly related to Ukraine. Moreover, policymakers in Washington deserve most of the blame for the onset of the second cold war, an outcome that is doubly tragic because it was so unnecessary.” (10/21/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/washingtons-long-road-to-alienating-russia/
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44) What’s Wrong With the “No Kings” Protests?
Source: Chasing Liberty
by Jeff Charles
“The ‘No Kings’ organizers frame their movement as a stand against presidential authoritarianism and the notion that a president would try to rule as a monarch. But where were these people over the past five years?” (10/20/25)
https://www.libertychasers.com/p/the-predictable-hypocrisy-of-the
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45) Baltimore’s poverty machine thrives while the poor stay trapped
Source: Fox News
by Corey Brooks
“After six weeks of walking from New York City on my Walk Across America, I’ve arrived in Baltimore. This city is one of contrasts. On one side, you have the beautiful Inner Harbor with its shops and eateries; on the other, the rowhouses of Sandtown-Winchester and the public housing towers of East Baltimore. The same despair I fight on the South Side of Chicago is found here — families trapped by a system that profits from their pain. Walk these streets, and it’s clear somebody’s getting rich off the poor. There are plenty of grants, programs and press conferences to go around. But where is the transformation? I didn’t see much. When the system thrives and profits off brokenness, who’s truly there for those caught in it? This is how the poverty industrial complex works, and it’s time we dismantled it, so individuals can climb the ladders of opportunity.” (10/21/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/baltimores-poverty-machine-thrives-poor-stay-trapped
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46) The engines of state capitalism
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“The central function and mission of the United States government today is to maintain a system of corporate welfare and corporate domination, to use the coercive power and cachet of the state, the law, and other symbolic expressions of seemingly valid power to redistribute massive amounts of wealth to state-backed favorites (and they are not regular folks). Both political parties are charged with shepherding this system and ensuring its continuity.” (10/20/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/the-engines-of-state-capitalism
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47) Tech PACs Are Closing In On The Almonds
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“In my 2019 post Too Much Dark Money In Almonds, I asked: why is there so little money in politics During the 2018 election, Americans — candidates, parties, PACs, and small donors like you — spent a combined $5 billion pushing their preferred candidates. Although that sounds like a lot of money, Americans spent $12 billion on almonds that same year. Why the imbalance? … if some billionaire wanted to spend an actually relevant percent of his net worth on politics, could he just take over everything? I recently talked to some Silicon Valley political consultants who updated me on the status of this issue: Marc Andreessen tried this in 2024 and it basically worked. Now he is trying it a second time, it will probably work again, and Marc Andreessen will probably own every politician twice over.” (10/20/25)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/tech-pacs-are-closing-in-on-the-almonds
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48) The Paradox of No Kings Day
Source: Persuasion
by Barrett Fife
“It was an outburst of catharsis. But will it lead to change?” (10/20/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-mad-chaotic-cathartic-no-kings
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49) Chicago Day Laborer, in ICE Detention, Says He’s Facing Retaliation Because Supporters Are Protesting His Abduction
Source: In These Times
by Sarah Lazare
“Willian Giménez González, a known advocate for the rights of day laborers who was abducted by federal agents on September 12, is speaking out from ICE detention. He says that federal authorities transferred him from the Broadview, Ill., ICE facility, to a detention center in Michigan, to move him away from his supporters. ‘I believe I was moved to Michigan at the last minute because I had the support of the community, and because my lawyer and politicians were protesting outside the jail,’ he said, referring to the Broadview ICE facility. ‘I believe that because I had people fighting for me, I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me.’ The statement was passed to me by his lawyer, Kevin Herrera, who is also the legal director of Raise the Floor Alliance, a legal clinic and worker advocacy organization.” (10/20/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/chicago-day-laborer-in-ice-detention-says-hes-facing-retaliation-because-supporters-are-protesting-his-abduction
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50) The fist of tyranny – tighter and tighter?
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Most readers are familiar with the saying (apparently attributed to Thomas Merton), The more you squeeze, the less you have. When it comes to the Imperial regime of the District of Criminals, this certainly appears to be the case. The FedGov is no longer content with the enemies it claims to have long had: The Donald and his minions seem to be searching out for – and making – more.” (10/20/25)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/10/20/the-fist-of-tyranny-tighter-and-tighter/
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51) Rising, 10/21/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his take on Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey’s endorsement of Rep. Thomas Massie (R – Ky.) for president amid partisan gridlock over the budget.” (10/21/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5564940-rising-october-21-2025/
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52) The Good Fight, 10/21/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Randall Kennedy on Racism in America.” (10/21/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/randall-kennedy
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53) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/21/25
Source: The New Republic
“Deep in Texas Trump Country, a ‘No Kings’ Display Brutally Shames MAGA.” (10/21/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202038/deep-texas-maga-country-no-kings-display-brutally-shames-maga
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54) Law & Liberty Podcast, 10/21/25
Source: Law & Liberty
“Byzantines, Bishops, and Bolsheviks.” (10/21/25)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/byzantines-bishops-and-bolsheviks/
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55) Advisory Opinions, 10/21/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Euphemisms, Political Speech, and the First Amendment.” (10/21/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/euphemisms-political-speech-and-the-first-amendment/
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/21/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Witkoff Says CIA Told Him Hamas Didn’t Want Deal, IDF Has Killed 80 in Gaza Under Truce, and More.” (10/21/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3smLe5wOgj8
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57) The Reconstruction Agenda, 10/20/25
Source: The UnPopulist
“The Founders Never Meant to Give the President Unchecked Removal Powers: A Conversation with Noah Rosenblum.” (10/20/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-founders-never-meant-to-give
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58) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 10/20/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“The Future of Federal Education Policy with Christy Wolfe.” (10/20/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/education/the-future-of-federal-education-policy-with-christy-wolfe/
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59) Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Housing Plan Could Crash New York’s Rickety Rental Market
Source: Reason
“The city has the nation’s most regulated housing sector and the largest stock of government-owned and subsidized housing, and yet progressives blame its real estate troubles on the free market.” (10/20/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/20/zohran-mamdanis-socialist-housing-plan-could-crash-new-yorks-rickety-rental-market/
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60) LPA Spotlight, episode 1
Source: LP Alliance
“Charlie Larkin.” (10/20/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBdOUjS3uaI
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61) TechTank, season 5, episode 29
Source: Brookings Institution
“On European digital sovereignty and platform regulation with Marietje Schaake.” (10/20/25)
https://shows.acast.com/tech-tank/episodes/on-european-digital-sovereignty-and-platform-regulation-with
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62) Finding Freedom, 10/20/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Apricot Seeds vs. Cancer: The Natural Power Big Pharma Fears with John A. Richardson Jr.” (10/20/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/ff-apricot-seeds-vs-cancer-the-natural-power-big-pharma-fears-with-john-a-richardson-jr
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63) Nonzero, 10/20/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The US-China Microchip-Minerals Showdown | Robert Wright & Paul Triolo.” (10/20/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69075
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64) Freedom Works with Paul Molloy, 10/20/25
Source: Freedom Works
“Jeremy Nighohossianr ‘The Problem with Obamacare is Obamacare.'” (10/20/25)
https://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2025-10-20_zfw10202025.mp3
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65) System Update, episode 534
Source: System Update
“No Kings Protests: A Partisan Pro-DNC Circus; The Trump Admin’s Escalating Strikes on ‘Drug Boats’ and Militarization of the Caribbean.” (10/20/25)
https://rumble.com/v70kc7w-system-update-show-534.html
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