06/10 -- US, Iranian regimes escalate strikes; Rip Van Trumple Contradicts His Own Ballroom Argument
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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
1) US, Iranian regimes escalate strikes
2) Platner wins Maine US Senate primary; Mace concedes in South Carolina gubernatorial race
3) Russia: Moscow car bomb reportedly kills general
4) Libertarian Party of New Hampshire to Appeal National Committee Disaffiliation
5) Bolivia: Protesters, police clash in Bolivia after president signs law enabling a harsher crackdown
6) TX: Paxton’s former lawyer endorses Talarico in US Senate race
7) Sweden: Regime set to ban mobile phones in schools
8) Vance demands Justice Department probe of Minnesota officials as White House presses “war on fraud”
9) Apple withholds new Siri AI from European devices; bureaucrats whine
10) Crew rescued after US military helicopter goes down near Iran
11) German, French regimes scrap joint fighter jet program
12) US small business sentiment falls in May as inflation worries mount
13) Banned group’s call for strike halts business & transport across Pakistan-administered Kashmir
14) Congo: Colonel Sentenced to Death Over Murder of UN Experts
15) Sudanese migrant arrested for allegedly trying to behead victim in middle of Irish street
16) Judge blocks $100k H-1B visa fee imposed by Trump
17) Despite Republican revolt, SAVE America Act shows signs of life in Senate
18) Italy: Ben-Gvir under investigation over Gaza flotilla abuses
19) 300 migrants bound for UK kidnapped and threatened with kidney removal
20) CA: Democrat Secures Second LA Mayor Spot and Ends Pratt’s Run
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Rip Van Trumple Contradicts His Own Ballroom Argument
22) We Should Not “Integrate” Our Military With Any Foreign Nation!
23) Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey
24) The Prussian Assembly Line: Praxeological Sovereignty and the Separation of School and State
25) The Historian Who Explained the True Meaning of the Revolution to Americans
26) California proves voters get the government they tolerate
27) A study isn’t “worthless” because it’s incomplete
28) Promising & Not
29) Armenia’s journey to redefine itself
30) Beyond AP: The College Credit Opportunity Few People Know About
31) The Skid Row vote cries out for investigation
32) Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty
33) How To Create A Custom News Feed Free From Algorithm Manipulation
34) Are We Back to 1914?
35) Recessions as Murder Mysteries: Are Business Cycles Just a Myth?
36) Kentucky’s open door on government transparency is closing
37) Trump’s Critics Dead Wrong (Again) on the Economy
38) Chilling Effects of Trump’s War on Free Speech Extend Far Beyond Campus Walls and That’s the Point
39) Section 224 and the “Tunisia Test” in Foreign Policy
40) Market Failure and the Market Process
41) The Iran Test: An Identity Crisis at the Heart of Trumpism
42) Did CNN just out Azerbaijan as Israel’s secret military partner?
43) Hunter Biden’s New High: “The MAGA Whisperer”
44) The War in Iran Is Coming for Insulin Markets
45) Public Schools Are in a Downward Spiral
46) Spotting “concrete boats”: Why solicitation sins doom contracts to struggle
47) The White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Apparently Can’t Do Math
48) Quantum Vibe, 06/08/26
49) Why That Next Hamburger Is Going to Cost You
50) Life Comes at You in Waves — And Sometimes It Brings Early Retirement
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51) Cato Podcast, 06/09/26
52) The Corbett Report, 06/09/26
53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/09/26
54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 06/09/26
55) The Good Fight, 06/09/26
56) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 06/09/26
57) The Dispatch Podcast, 06/09/26
58) The Libertarian Angle, 06/08/26
59) Fountainhead Forum, episode 458
60) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 06/08/26
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1) US, Iranian regimes escalate strikes
Source: NBC News
“The United States launched new attacks against Iran after President Donald Trump said Tehran shot down an American military helicopter patrolling the Strait of Hormuz. A U.S. official said the Apache was hit by an Iranian drone. Tehran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said it hit back with strikes on U.S. targets across the Middle East, including bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait. Iran’s top diplomat said foreign forces near its territory ‘are at constant risk’ but did not mention any role in downing the helicopter.” (06/10/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/us-attacks-iran-rcna349305
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2) Platner wins Maine US Senate primary; Mace concedes in South Carolina gubernatorial race
Source: USA Today
“Results are rolling in for closely watched primary contests in Maine and South Carolina on Tuesday, June 9. In the day’s most high-profile race, Maine Democrat Graham Platner − for whom embarrassing revelations about his personal life are threaten to upend his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins − has won the Democratic Senate primary. Platner bested Gov. Janet Mills, who suspended her Senate campaign on April 30, and will face Incumbent Sen. Susan Collins who ran for the Republican nomination unopposed. … South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace’s bid for governor failed after she lost President Donald Trump’s favor by joining House Democrats to compel the release of Justice Department files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The president endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette. Evette will head to a runoff with Alan Wilson, and Mace conceded the race.” (06/09/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/06/09/primary-election-results-updates-maine-south-carolina-nevada–live/90459953007/
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3) Russia: Moscow car bomb reportedly kills general
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A car bomb in the Moscow region killed a general in charge of heavy ammunition supplies for the Russian army, reports said. The car exploded in Balashikha, killing its driver. He was named in reports as Damir Davydov, head of the Russian defence ministry’s missile and artillery wing. A second car bomb was discovered and blown up by authorities in south-west Moscow, reports said. Throughout the war several audacious assassinations have taken place of senior figures involved in Moscow’s war effort, with Ukrainian security services either claiming responsibility or being blamed by Russian authorities.” (06/10/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/10/ukraine-war-briefing-moscow-car-bomb-kills-russian-ammunition-chief-reports
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4) Libertarian Party of New Hampshire to Appeal National Committee Disaffiliation
Source: Independent Political Report
“The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire is taking first steps to appeal its disaffiliation by the Libertarian National Committee, authorizing its state chair to petition the national party’s Judicial Committee on its behalf. In a resolution adopted June 4 and later shared to the LNC’s public Business List, the New Hampshire party’s Executive Committee repudiated a prior endorsement of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, reaffirmed its compliance with the Libertarian Party’s bylaws and Statement of Principles, and authorized Chair Jeremy Kauffman to formally petition the Judicial Committee on behalf of the disaffiliated state party. … Under Libertarian Party bylaws, the Judicial Committee will have 20 to 40 days after receiving the appeal from Kauffman to hold a hearing.” (06/08/26)
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2026/06/libertarian-party-of-new-hampshire-appeals-national-committee-disaffiliation/
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5) Bolivia: Protesters, police clash in Bolivia after president signs law enabling a harsher crackdown
Source: ABC News
“Protesters in Bolivia demanding the resignation of conservative President Rodrigo Paz hurled firecrackers, stones and sticks at police who responded with tear gas on Monday, leading to dozens of arrests as road blockades continue to paralyze the Andean nation. The renewed clashes in the central city of Cochabamba erupted after President Paz signed a measure that could pave the way for a hard-line government crackdown on the demonstrations that have roiled Bolivia over the past five weeks, disrupting transportation and causing shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies. Bolivia’s national workers’ union, peasant farmers and Indigenous groups from the highlands — outraged over Paz’s scrapping of fuel subsidies and frustrated with his failure in the last seven months to resolve Bolivia’s persistent economic problems — have set up 90 blockades on key routes nationwide, effectively isolating major cities, especially La Paz, the seat of government and neighboring El Alto.” (06/09/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/protesters-police-clash-bolivia-after-president-signs-law-133698869
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6) TX: Paxton’s former lawyer endorses Talarico in US Senate race
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A lawyer who represented Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, for nearly a decade over accusations of corruption and securities fraud is supporting Democrat James Talarico – and not his former client – in one of the biggest US Senate races. Talarico on Monday drew attention to his campaign winning the endorsement of Houston attorney Dan Cogdell, who was part of Paxton’s defense team during the Republican’s historic impeachment trial in 2023 that ended in acquittal. The legal troubles that shadowed Paxton in public office in Texas are a central attack line of Talarico’s campaign, though in his endorsement, Cogdell didn’t cite concerns about his client’s past. Cogdell said he didn’t dislike Paxton as a person and felt that Texas lawmakers were right to eventually acquit the attorney general. But as a politician, Cogdell said, Paxton is too focused on appeasing Donald Trump.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/09/ken-paxton-lawyer-endorses-james-talarico
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7) Sweden: Regime set to ban mobile phones in schools
Source: Seattle Times
“Long championed as a leader in adopting digital technology, Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools beginning in the fall for the next academic year as part of a broad, international reversal on the use of screens in classrooms. Since 2023, the Scandinavian country’s center-right coalition government has pursued a policy prioritizing more reading time and less screen time, particularly among preschool students, by favoring books and other traditional learning tools.” [editor’s note: The story hints, but doesn’t say, that mobile phones will NOT be banned in schools generally … just for students. Teachers and administrators will likely still be allowed to doomscroll to their hearts’ content – TLK] (06/09/26)
https://archive.is/ZfWHM
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8) Vance demands Justice Department probe of Minnesota officials as White House presses “war on fraud”
Source: Associated Press
“Vice President JD Vance is pressing federal prosecutors to investigate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison over allegations they failed to stop widespread social services fraud, amplifying concerns the White House will use a new Justice Department division to target political rivals. Vance, who has been tapped to lead the Republican Trump administration’s anti-fraud efforts as he seeks to raise his political profile as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, cited in a letter to the Justice Department a report from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee that alleges Walz and Ellison were aware of pervasive misuse of government programs for years and let it flourish.” (06/09/26)
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-fraud-vance-minnesota-walz-ellison-d990cc620565459564ba545afcd629f7
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9) Apple withholds new Siri AI from European devices; bureaucrats whine
Source: Politico
“Apple has said it would not ship its overhauled AI assistant on its devices in the EU, pinning the holdout squarely on Europe’s Big Tech market dominance rules. The iPhone maker on Monday announced its redesigned AI-enabled assistant, branded Siri AI, at its developer conference in Cupertino, California. Shortly afterwards, Apple confirmed that EU users will not get Siri AI on iPhones and iPads when its latest update ships this fall, with no timeline for when or whether that changes. … ‘We’re deeply disappointed that our EU users won’t have Siri AI on iPhone or iPad,’ said Craig Federighi, Apple’s software engineering chief, adding that the company hopes to bring it to the bloc eventually and will keep engaging with regulators. It’s the second time that Apple has held AI features back from the EU over the DMA, after withholding the original Apple Intelligence suite at its 2024 launch.” (06/09/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-blames-eu-rules-as-it-withholds-new-siri-ai-from-european-devices/
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10) Crew rescued after US military helicopter goes down near Iran
Source: Axios
“A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache went down near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, and officials are investigating whether Iranian fire brought it down, two American officials and a third source with knowledge tell Axios. … Both crew members were rescued around 7:30pm ET, about two hours after the helicopter went down off the coast of Oman, U.S. Central Command said in a post on X. They are in stable condition.” (06/09/26)
https://archive.is/SCZNx
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11) German, French regimes scrap joint fighter jet program
Source: Deutsche Welle [German state media]
“After years of infighting, the Franco-German project to build a joint next-generation fighter jet has collapsed. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed last week that manufacturers Dassault and Airbus failed to resolve key disputes, officials in Berlin and Paris confirmed on Monday. The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, launched in 2017, aimed to build a next-generation fighter to replace Eurofighters and Rafales by around 2040. The move to scrap one of Europe’s largest defense projects comes as Western military officials warn of a mounting threat from Russia and the United States intensifies pressure on Europe to take care of its own defense.” (06/09/26)
https://www.dw.com/en/franco-german-fighter-jet-project-collapses-after-industry-dispute/a-77466897
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12) US small business sentiment falls in May as inflation worries mount
Source: Yahoo! Finance
“U.S. small-business sentiment fell in May and the share of owners planning to raise prices over the next three months increased to the highest level in nearly four years, suggesting inflation could remain elevated for a while. The National Federation of Independent Business said on Tuesday its Small Business Optimism Index slipped 0.6 to 95.3 last month, falling further below its 52-year average of 98.0. The survey’s uncertainty index rose three points to 91. It is running well above its historical average of 68.” (06/09/26)
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/us-small-business-sentiment-falls-100437294.html
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13) Banned group’s call for strike halts business & transport across Pakistan-administered Kashmir
Source: SFGate
“Shops and businesses shut down, and public transport halted across Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Tuesday after a call for a strike by a recently banned group, known for violent protests. The Joint Awami Action Committee ‘s call follows clashes on Sunday in the city of Rawalakot between the group’s supporters and security personnel that left seven dead. The violence erupted after the Supreme Court of Pakistan-administered Kashmir ruled that 12 legislative seats reserved for Kashmiri refugees living in Pakistan are constitutionally protected and cannot be abolished without a constitutional amendment. The JAAC, formed in 2003, demands greater political rights for the people of Kashmir and the abolition of the refugee seats. Residents of the regional capital, Muzaffarabad, and other towns told The Associated Press markets were largely empty and bus terminals deserted on Tuesday.” (06/09/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/a-banned-group-s-call-for-a-strike-halts-22297237.php
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14) Congo: Colonel Sentenced to Death Over Murder of UN Experts
Source: US News & World Report
“A Congolese military court has sentenced an army colonel to death for taking part in a conspiracy to murder two U.N. experts in central Congo nearly a decade ago, in a case that continues to raise questions about state involvement. At his first trial in 2022, Colonel Jean de Dieu Mambweni received a 10-year term for failing to assist persons in danger and disobeying orders. Military prosecutors appealed, arguing that he bore greater responsibility. The High Military Court in Kinshasa agreed, finding Mambweni guilty on Friday of the war crime of murder for actively orchestrating the killings, and sentencing him to death, according to a ruling reviewed by Reuters and the sister of one of the victims. Congo has not carried out an execution since 2003, meaning the sentence will in practice become life imprisonment.” (06/09/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-06-09/congo-colonel-sentenced-to-death-over-murder-of-un-experts
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15) Sudanese migrant arrested for allegedly trying to behead victim in middle of Irish street
Source: New York Post
“A Sudanese migrant has been arrested after a barbaric video shows someone seemingly trying to behead another man in the middle of a UK street in scenes likened to ‘something out of a horror movie’. The horrific footage shows the blood-soaked knifeman pinning down his victim in Northern Ireland late Monday in an attack a local politician also branded ‘barbaric’ and ‘medieval.’ The bloodied victim desperately kicked his legs before the knifeman repeatedly stabbed him in the head and neck, the video shared by Turning Point UK shows. ‘Get off him you f–king rat!’ one woman shouted as the deranged attacker showed off his weapon — as a man yelled, ‘He’s trying to cut his head off. He’s slicing his head off!'” (06/09/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/world-news/sudanese-migrant-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-behead-victim-in-middle-of-northern-ireland-street/
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16) Judge blocks $100k H-1B visa fee imposed by Trump
Source: United Press International
“A federal judge ruled Monday that a $100,000 visa fee for U.S.companies seeking highly skilled workers from other countries is illegal. This voids the requirement set by President Donald Trump by a presidential proclamation in September. Judge Leo Sorokin said the policy violated the U.S. Constitution and the federal Administrative Procedure Act and that only Congress has the authority to change federal immigration policy to require the fee. The Trump administration says it will appeal the ruling.” (06/08/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/06/08/judge-ends-trump-visa-fee/1001780961521/
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17) Despite Republican revolt, SAVE America Act shows signs of life in Senate
Source: Fox News
“Senate Republicans have struggled to move the ball on President Donald Trump’s voter ID and citizenship verification bill, but a late-night vote in the upper chamber breathed some life into an issue once thought dead. During the Senate’s marathon ‘vote-a-rama’ to advance the GOP’s $70 billion immigration enforcement package, Republicans tried twice to attach the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the massive bill. They failed both times, with a cohort of Republicans joining Senate Democrats to stymie the effort, which was destined to fail either way given that the amendments from Sen. Lindsey Graham [R-SC] and Mike Lee [R-UT] had to break through the filibuster.” (06/09/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-save-america-act-shows-signs-life-senate-despite-republican-revolt
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18) Italy: Ben-Gvir under investigation over Gaza flotilla abuses
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Italian prosecutors put Israel’s fanatical National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir under investigation over the treatment of activists who were part of a Gaza flotilla last month, a judicial source said on Monday. The source, who asked not to be named, confirmed earlier reports by Italian news agencies and said Ben-Gvir was being investigated on suspicion of torture and kidnapping of Italian citizens who were among the activists. If the probe determines charges are warranted, prosecutors could lodge a formal request for trial. … Israel and Ben-Gvir have faced mounting international criticism after the minister, in late May, released a video showing abducted Gaza activists kneeling with their hands bound after Israel kidnapped members of the aid flotilla in international waters.” (06/09/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/ben-gvir-under-investigation-italy-over-gaza-flotilla-abuses
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19) 300 migrants bound for UK kidnapped and threatened with kidney removal
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“More than 300 migrants heading to the UK last summer were kidnapped, tortured and threatened with forced organ removal, the BBC has learned. The young men, all from Iraqi Kurdistan, were captured in Libya by a militia who demanded a ransom of $5,000 (£3,700) from each of their families, and threatened to harvest the captives’ kidneys if payment was not made promptly. We have spoken to some hostages who have since been released, and seen photo evidence suggesting that forced operations did take place. The former captives showed us evidence of torture, and said they had been kept in cramped conditions, with nearly 180 people sharing a cell. At least one hostage is known to have died, and it is unclear how many remain captive.” (06/09/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xwxdgvx8lo
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20) CA: Democrat Secures Second LA Mayor Spot and Ends Pratt’s Run
Source: New York Times
“Nithya Raman, a progressive Democrat who has drawn comparisons to New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, will face Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles in a two-person race in November, The Associated Press determined on Monday. Ms. Raman, 44, a City Council member and former Bass ally, was behind in the initial vote count but came back in later returns to edge out Spencer Pratt, a Republican reality TV star who lost his home in the 2025 wildfires that devastated Pacific Palisades, a wealthy coastal enclave. Mr. Pratt had jumped out to an early lead in a field of more than a dozen contenders, in part because Republicans, who make up about 15 percent of the city’s electorate, had coalesced behind him. But his margin shrank as ballots from thousands of liberals [sic] who voted closer to Election Day were processed.” (06/08/26)
https://archive.is/FDZ6F
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21) Rip Van Trumple Contradicts His Own Ballroom Argument
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“‘This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House,’ US president Donald Trump claimed the day after an armed would-be assassin attempted to charge through a security barricade at the Washington Hilton. ‘“It cannot be built fast enough!’ US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) agreed: ‘America has a problem. That problem is, it is very difficult to have a bunch of important people in the same place unless it is really, really secure.’ … Trump clearly didn’t believe his own claims concerning presidential security, or he wouldn’t have decided to catch 40 winks in front of thousands of angry basketball fans.” (06/09/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20691
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22) We Should Not “Integrate” Our Military With Any Foreign Nation!
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“Not since the notorious 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provided for indefinite detention of American citizens, has the annual funding bill been as misused as this year. Embedded in the bill is an insult to every American who values our national sovereignty. The NDAA’s Section 224, the ‘United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,’ would ‘integrate’ the Israeli military with our own, fusing technology, production, intelligence-sharing, and more. … It is hard to think of a more ‘America last’ position than handing the keys to the Pentagon (and our intelligence community) to a foreign country.” (06/09/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2026/06/08/we-should-not-integrate-our-military-with-any-foreign-nation
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23) Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey
Source: Reason
by Joel Miller
“For those of us who like to think literacy is a form of liberation, there’s a troubling counterpoint: Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler wasn’t interested in people thinking for themselves; he insisted they think like him. Propaganda, he recognized, is an assault on reflection: avoid abstraction, parrot slogans, abandon objectivity, and scapegoat your enemies. In forms like Mein Kampf, books contributed to the poison. But for the German theologian and anti-Nazi conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer, they could also serve as an antidote.” (06/09/26)
https://reason.com/2026/06/09/reading-the-quietest-way-to-disobey/
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24) The Prussian Assembly Line: Praxeological Sovereignty and the Separation of School and State
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ely Valentino Binet Batista
“There are two types of human beings in this world: those who wait for someone to tell them what to do, and those who build structures that force the world to move at their rhythm. Modern state-monopolized education is engineered exclusively for the former. The contemporary school system operates as a direct administrative descendant of the nineteenth-century Prussian factory model.” (06/09/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/prussian-assembly-line-praxeological-sovereignty-and-separation-school-and-state
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25) The Historian Who Explained the True Meaning of the Revolution to Americans
Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig
“The famed historian Gordon S. Wood died on Sunday, struck by a car in a parking lot at the age of 92. He was his generation’s foremost scholar of the American Revolution and the early Republic, and for decades he pressed a single argument with alacrity. The argument was this: the American Revolution was the most radical event in American history, and the men who made it neither intended nor controlled the radicalism they unleashed.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-historian-who-explained-the-true
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26) California proves voters get the government they tolerate
Source: Fox News
by Jonathan Turley
“This week, the nation watched as California grappled again with the ordinarily straightforward task of counting votes in an election. While large states such as Florida declare election winners within 24 hours, California may take up to two weeks to count all the votes. Even Los Angeles cannot count its votes in the time of large states despite giving the Clerk an annual budget of $336 million and a $448,179 a year salary with the help of 1,100 budgeted positions. In most states, voters would be outraged by the incompetence, waste and inefficiency. However, in the Golden State, voters shrug, as if they can demand no more from their elected officials than subpar performance. Call it the Politics of Low Expectations, and California is the model for the nation.” (06/09/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-california-proves-voters-get-government-tolerate
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27) A study isn’t “worthless” because it’s incomplete
Source: Expression
by Samuel J Abrams
“The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) recently released a study by David Primo measuring faculty viewpoint diversity through campaign-contribution data. The average faculty donor scored only slightly to the right of progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The findings and criticism traveled quickly. John K. Wilson, writing in Inside Higher Ed, pronounced the study ‘worthless’ because most faculty never make campaign contributions, so a sample of donors cannot describe the average professor. On the narrow point he is right: a sample of donors is not a sample of all faculty. ‘Worthless’ is a serious conclusion — a verdict that, applied consistently, would discard nearly every measure we have.” (06/09/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/a-study-isnt-worthless-because-its
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28) Promising & Not
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“‘We are capitalist, not socialist.’ Those words are from the ‘Promise to America’ pledge promoted by a new group of the same name and unveiled last week by Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-New York) and Rep. Adam Gray (D-California). … they declare: ‘We are proud, not ashamed of America.’ The Post suggests, however, that this slogan ‘could be polarizing on the left.’ Sure, it is a much different message than Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner has expressed.” (06/09/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/06/09/promising-not/
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29) Armenia’s journey to redefine itself
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Though smaller than most U.S. states, the landlocked nation of Armenia plays a key geopolitical role at the continental crossroads of Eurasia. With few natural resources, it is aiming to recalibrate regional and global relations and become a hub for international tech, finance, and transport services. So, its parliamentary elections Sunday have been of interest not just to next-door Azerbaijan and Turkey, but also to Iran, Russia, Europe, and the distant United States. The ruling Civil Contract party garnered 49.8% of the vote, Reuters reported, while the two main opposition parties together took in 33.1%. The degree to which both sides can find some common ground will determine how fast and how far this former Soviet republic can move out of history’s long shadow of ethnic conflict and external interference into an era of regional cooperation and progress.” (06/08/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0608/Armenia-s-journey-to-redefine-itself
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30) Beyond AP: The College Credit Opportunity Few People Know About
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kerry McDonald
“When Santana Cruz graduates from high school this spring, she will have over 100 college credits and two associate degrees. A public school student in Bristol, Virginia, that sits along the Tennessee border, Cruz began accumulating college credits as a 14-year-old freshman when she took her first College-Level Examination Program or CLEP exam. The program enables students of any age to demonstrate mastery in 34 subject areas, ranging from American government to world languages.” (06/09/26)
https://fee.org/articles/beyond-ap-the-college-credit-opportunity-few-people-know-about/
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31) The Skid Row vote cries out for investigation
Source: New York Post
by Joel Pollak
“Nearly 1,200 people registered to vote at a homeless shelter on Skid Row with 132 beds. 185 people registered at a homeless drop-in center — with no beds at all. That is likely illegal, and it is likely a key to the story of how socialist City Councilmember Nithya Raman overtook Palisades Fire victim Spencer Pratt for second place in the LA mayoral race. Under California law, homeless people can register to vote, even though they do not have a fixed residence. They can use their last fixed address as their voting domicile; they can even specify a geographic location, as long as it is where they live, or where they intend to return. If they do not return there within a year, it is no longer their voting domicile.” (06/09/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/opinion/the-skid-row-vote-cries-out-for-investigation/
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32) Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“The case of a young child at Texas Children’s Hospital following a near-drowning incident has reignited a debate that medicine has struggled with for more than half a century. According to multiple media reports, the family sought judicial intervention to obtain additional time, explore transfer options, and investigate alternative therapeutic approaches before any final determination regarding brain death would foreclose those possibilities. As so often happens in the modern United States of America, the story quickly moved beyond the walls of the hospital. Lawyers became involved. … this is not an argument against brain death. Nor is it an attempt to overturn decades of neurological science. The neurological criteria for death emerged from legitimate clinical challenges and remain accepted by most physicians, hospitals, and courts. Rather, this is a reflection on what happens when medicine becomes so confident in its conclusions that it stops listening to those most affected by them.” (06/09/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/reflections-on-brain-death-hope-and-the-limits-of-certainty/
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33) How To Create A Custom News Feed Free From Algorithm Manipulation
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Today the Twitter algorithm served me up a bunch of Zionist tweets from accounts I’ve never followed, right at the top of my ‘For You’ feed. Elon and company decided on my behalf that this is the kind of information I need to be consuming, so they’ve taken it upon themselves to shove it down my throat without my permission. As Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation gets more and more aggressive in force-feeding us the official narrative of the day, we have to get a bit clever in making sure we see the information our rulers don’t want us to see. I like to use Twitter Lists for this, because for all its flaws Twitter is still where the journalists hang out and remains a great place for staying on top of the news if you can figure out how to cut through all the bullshit.” (06/09/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/06/09/how-to-create-a-custom-news-feed-free-from-algorithm-manipulation/
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34) Are We Back to 1914?
Source: Law & Liberty
by Ralph L DeFalco III
“In our present moment of global upheaval, it’s becoming fashionable to invoke parallels to previous episodes of global crisis. Commentators routinely compare the United States’ political situation to the late Roman Republic just before its slide into Caesarism. Others suggest 1920s Weimar Germany is a more apt comparison with its violent factionalism and loose morals. At the international level, one can find as many comparisons to the Cold War as one can to nineteenth-century Europe. Some, however, are now suggesting that the international situation bears a more striking resemblance to the years preceding the First World War.” (06/09/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/are-we-back-to-1914/
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35) Recessions as Murder Mysteries: Are Business Cycles Just a Myth?
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller
“In his new book ‘Recession,’ economist Tyler Goodspeed argues that economic downturns are caused by real shocks, not predictable business cycles.” (06/09/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/recessions-as-murder-mysteries-are-business-cycles-just-a-myth/
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36) Kentucky’s open door on government transparency is closing
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Caleb O Brown, Amye L Bensenhaver, Kate Miller, & Heather Lemire
“Kentucky built its Open Records Act on a simple, powerful premise: that free and open examination of public records is in the public interest. For nearly 50 years, that premise provided a basic guarantee that Kentuckians could see what their government was doing in their name. That premise is now under a growing threat — from the legislature, and increasingly from the courts.” (06/09/26)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/open-door-transparency/
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37) Trump’s Critics Dead Wrong (Again) on the Economy
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“Last week’s blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the Left who throughout Donald Trump’s now-five-and-a-half years in the White House keep getting the economy dead wrong. Just a few months ago a gaggle of economists on the Left, led by Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, started warning of ‘stagflation,’ a witch’s brew of high inflation and high unemployment at the same time. He wrote that ‘any statement that things aren’t as bad as they were in the 1970s should come with the caveat ‘so far.” … These are the same false claims made during Trump’s first term, when some critics warned his policies would cause ‘a second Great Depression.'” (06/09/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2026/06/09/trumps-critics-dead-wrong-again-on-the-economy-n2677457
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38) Chilling Effects of Trump’s War on Free Speech Extend Far Beyond Campus Walls and That’s the Point
Source: CounterPunch
by Bruce Schneier & Jon Penney
“Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent. This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has involved lawsuits, arrests, deportations and expulsions. … It’s increasingly clear to us that these impacts are not incidental or ancillary to Trump administration policy. Rather, the chilling effects are the point. This is the closest thing to a consistent governing strategy in Trump’s second term.” (06/09/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/09/chilling-effects-of-trumps-war-on-free-speech-extend-far-beyond-campus-walls-and-thats-the-point/
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39) Section 224 and the “Tunisia Test” in Foreign Policy
Source: Libertarian Institute
by RT Hadley
“Imagine Congress debating a bill to integrate Tunisia into the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB). Shared military supply chains, joint research, and development, linked battlefield data, and a U.S. executive agent coordinating defense-technology cooperation between Washington with Tunis. Presented plainly, the proposal forces the reaction before the argument even begins. The instinctive question: Why Tunisia? Arrives uninvited. Yet that is precisely what Congress has already begun to normalize.” (06/09/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/section-224-and-the-tunisia-test-in-foreign-policy/
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40) Market Failure and the Market Process
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“Market failure, which I am defining here as a market not reaching the equilibrium condition where quantity supplied equals quantity demanded, is ubiquitous. Every time we walk into stores, we see market failure happening: shelves and shelves of goods sit, waiting for buyers. This is excess supply (surplus), a market failure. If the market were in equilibrium and perfectly clearing, then when you (the marginal consumer) walk into a store, you should see only the good(s) in the precise quantity you want to buy at the price that precisely equals your willingness to pay for the marginal unit. Nothing else should remain. … Obviously, such an outcome does not exist. Some of the goods we want exist in surplus. Some exist in shortage. And, consequently, the market has failed. But this failure is vital to the workings of the market, broadly called the ‘market process.'” (06/09/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/market-failure-and-the-market-process
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41) The Iran Test: An Identity Crisis at the Heart of Trumpism
Source: Common Dreams
by Brian Hudson
“The Republican revolt against President Donald Trump began over an issue that was never supposed to become a crisis: another war in the Middle East. In recent weeks, a group of Republican members of Congress has openly challenged the White House — not over taxes, immigration, or even the budget, but over the most fundamental power of any president: the authority to lead the country into war. When several Republicans chose to stand alongside Democrats and support efforts to limit the president’s war powers, something greater than a routine legislative vote took place. This was not merely a legal disagreement over the interpretation of the Constitution; it was a sign of a deeper fracture emerging at the core of a movement that was once united around Trump’s leadership.” (06/09/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/iran-war-gop-identity-crisis
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42) Did CNN just out Azerbaijan as Israel’s secret military partner?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Eldar Mamedov
“A new report suggests someone wants to burn Baku’s plausible deniability, which puts it in hot water with its Iranian neighbor.” (06/09/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-azerbaijan/
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43) Hunter Biden’s New High: “The MAGA Whisperer”
Source: The American Conservative
by Spencer Neale
“I get it, I’m not supposed to like Hunter. In fact, I’d wager that my name is on some list in the catacombs of an FBI vault for purchasing the Marco Polo hardcover copy of Hunter’s laptop files in 2022, the darkest days. But what can I say? I do like Hunter. And I’m certainly not the only one. On X, many right-wing accounts, which usually spend their days defending the sleepiest of Sleepy Don’s final days, were mesmerized by the younger Biden’s fever dream this week, liking and resharing his honest accounting of the sort of drug addiction and degeneracy that was once used to attack the elder Biden’s shivering and quivering administration. … Authenticity is the only currency left in American politics, and it’s ideologically neutral. Trump proved that a decade ago. Hunter is proving it now from the opposite side.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/hunter-bidens-new-high-the-maga-whisperer/
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44) The War in Iran Is Coming for Insulin Markets
Source: Independent Institute
by Raymond J March
“Gas prices have increased 50% since the war began. Food prices have followed. The Consumer Price Index jumped 3.3% this April. Grocery bills jumped 0.7% in April. Such figures have not been seen since the peak of post-pandemic inflation. While it’s hard to ignore these costs, many Americans are not noticing the warning signs that higher prices and shortages for vital medications they rely on may soon be next, especially insulin. Supply chain experts at Stanford Health Care have flagged insulin syringes, generic drugs, and petroleum-based medical supplies as products at risk as oil prices rise and shipping costs climb. One logistics firm warned that consumers could see drug costs affected within four to six weeks of sustained disruption — a window that has already opened.” (06/08/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/06/08/war-iran-insulin-markets/
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45) Public Schools Are in a Downward Spiral
Source: American Greatness
by Larry Sand
“After decades of steady growth, attendance in U.S. K–12 public schools has shifted drastically. Over the past five years, registration has fallen by 2.3 percent, or 1.18 million students, and schools show no signs of rebounding. Lower birth rates are the primary driver of the downturn. The number of births in the U.S. has decreased steadily in recent years, with 690,000 fewer children born in 2024 than in 2007. California lost nearly 75,000 TK–12 students as of the 2025–26 school year, a slide more than twice as steep as the previous year’s. Since 2017–18, the Golden State has seen a 10 percent decline. New York City has also been hard hit. As of the 2025–26 school year, 793,300 students are enrolled in K–12 schools, down nearly 10 percent since 2020. The loss of enrolled students has prompted some desperate measures.” (06/09/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/09/public-schools-are-in-a-downward-spiral/
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46) Spotting “concrete boats”: Why solicitation sins doom contracts to struggle
Source: Niskanen Center
by Neil Miller
“Long-term planning can be admirable. Some contracts — say, for construction — will genuinely take five or more years to finish up. Or when vendors need to make huge upfront investments, a long payoff timeline can entice qualified competition. Locking in five-year tech contracts, however, just allows the solicitation sins of the father to be visited upon their children a decade later: Between now and 2031 (or 2033), needs will change, technology will advance, and the project budgets will rise and fall.” (06/08/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/spotting-concrete-boats-why-solicitation-sins-doom-contracts-to-struggle-2/
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47) The White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Apparently Can’t Do Math
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“Congress can’t come close to balancing the budget by eliminating fraud in federal programs.” (06/08/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/the-white-house-deputy-chief-of-staff
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48) Quantum Vibe, 06/08/26
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (06/08/26)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2592
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49) Why That Next Hamburger Is Going to Cost You
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“TLast week, the flesh-eating parasite known as the New World screwworm was found in a calf in Texas; a second case was identified about five miles away shortly thereafter. (A third case was found in a dog.) Screwworm flies lay their eggs in the live tissue of warm-blooded animals, from livestock to pets to humans. These larvae ‘screw’ into the animal’s flesh, and while they are not very harmful to humans, in that the horrifying effects of maggots chewing into your skin are relatively easy to notice and address, they can kill a livestock host if not treated. In a widespread infestation, one of the last resorts would be mass culling, which would obviously have huge impacts on a diminished U.S. cattle herd.” (06/09/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/06/09/why-that-next-hamburger-is-going-to-cost-you-new-world-screwworm/
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50) Life Comes at You in Waves — And Sometimes It Brings Early Retirement
Source: Show-Me Institute
by James V Shuls
“Life comes at you in waves. You graduate high school, watch friends start careers, get married, and have kids. Then social media shows you their children repeating the cycle. As a member of the Pacific High School Class of 1999, I didn’t expect to reach the retirement wave so soon. Yet a recent post stopped me: a high school classmate, still in his mid-40s, announced his retirement after 25 years in Missouri public schools. … He is retiring at exactly the age when most professionals hit their career peak—when experience, leadership, and judgment are most valuable. And that’s the problem. Missouri’s Public School Retirement System (PSRS) is pushing talented educators out of the classroom at the very moment students and schools need them most.” (06/08/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/life-comes-at-you-in-waves-and-sometimes-it-brings-early-retirement/
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Cato Podcast, 06/09/26
Source: Cato Institute
“When the President Sues the Government He Controls.” (06/09/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/when-president-sues-government-he-controls
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52) The Corbett Report, 06/09/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“Do you know the documented history of decades of illegal Israeli government spying on Washington? Do you know who was involved in the nuclear smuggling ring that stole America’s nuclear secrets to build Israel’s illegal and still undeclared nuclear arsenal? Do you know about Unit 8200 and the inescapable web of cyber spying operations that leads from Tel Aviv to Washington right through Epstein Island? Well, you’re about to! Strap in and get ready.” (06/09/26)
https://corbettreport.com/israel-caught-spying-on-us/
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53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/09/26
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“I’m joined by Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos today. We talk about the word ‘democracy’ and how it has become a magical incantation to lead gullible voters into captivity.” (06/09/26)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-rjdjs-1ae4bc6
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54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 06/09/26
Source: The New Republic
“Angry Trump Storms Out of On-Air Interview for Unnervingly Dark Reason.” (06/09/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/211525/angry-trump-storms-on-air-interview-unnervingly-dark-reason
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55) The Good Fight, 06/09/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Rebecca Haw Allensworth on How Professional Licenses are Rigging the Game for Insiders.” (06/09/26)
https://writing.yaschamounk.com/p/rebecca-haw-allensworth
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56) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 06/09/26
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Is America Family Unfriendly? with Tim Carney.” (06/09/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/state-and-local-government/is-america-family-unfriendly-with-tim-carney/
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57) The Dispatch Podcast, 06/09/26
Source: The Dispatch
“The Decline of Donald Trump.” (06/09/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/the-decline-of-donald-trump/
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58) The Libertarian Angle, 06/08/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Disastrous Effects of FDR’s New Deal.” (06/08/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53D7QttOAJA
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59) Fountainhead Forum, episode 458
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Olivia Hayse on marketing and promotion and the Libertarian Party.” (06/08/26)
https://rumble.com/v7azrvs-ff-458-olivia-hayse-on-marketing-and-promotion-and-the-libertarian-party.html
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60) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 06/08/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Jim Webb: Trump to Netanyahu: ‘You’re F**king Crazy.’” (06/08/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/guest-jim-webb-trump-to-netanyahu-youre-fking-crazy
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Today's Freedom News:
1) US, Iranian regimes escalate strikes
2) Platner wins Maine US Senate primary; Mace concedes in South Carolina gubernatorial race
3) Russia: Moscow car bomb reportedly kills general
4) Libertarian Party of New Hampshire to Appeal National Committee Disaffiliation
5) Bolivia: Protesters, police clash in Bolivia after president signs law enabling a harsher crackdown
6) TX: Paxton’s former lawyer endorses Talarico in US Senate race
7) Sweden: Regime set to ban mobile phones in schools
8) Vance demands Justice Department probe of Minnesota officials as White House presses “war on fraud”
9) Apple withholds new Siri AI from European devices; bureaucrats whine
10) Crew rescued after US military helicopter goes down near Iran
11) German, French regimes scrap joint fighter jet program
12) US small business sentiment falls in May as inflation worries mount
13) Banned group’s call for strike halts business & transport across Pakistan-administered Kashmir
14) Congo: Colonel Sentenced to Death Over Murder of UN Experts
15) Sudanese migrant arrested for allegedly trying to behead victim in middle of Irish street
16) Judge blocks $100k H-1B visa fee imposed by Trump
17) Despite Republican revolt, SAVE America Act shows signs of life in Senate
18) Italy: Ben-Gvir under investigation over Gaza flotilla abuses
19) 300 migrants bound for UK kidnapped and threatened with kidney removal
20) CA: Democrat Secures Second LA Mayor Spot and Ends Pratt’s Run
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Rip Van Trumple Contradicts His Own Ballroom Argument
22) We Should Not “Integrate” Our Military With Any Foreign Nation!
23) Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey
24) The Prussian Assembly Line: Praxeological Sovereignty and the Separation of School and State
25) The Historian Who Explained the True Meaning of the Revolution to Americans
26) California proves voters get the government they tolerate
27) A study isn’t “worthless” because it’s incomplete
28) Promising & Not
29) Armenia’s journey to redefine itself
30) Beyond AP: The College Credit Opportunity Few People Know About
31) The Skid Row vote cries out for investigation
32) Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty
33) How To Create A Custom News Feed Free From Algorithm Manipulation
34) Are We Back to 1914?
35) Recessions as Murder Mysteries: Are Business Cycles Just a Myth?
36) Kentucky’s open door on government transparency is closing
37) Trump’s Critics Dead Wrong (Again) on the Economy
38) Chilling Effects of Trump’s War on Free Speech Extend Far Beyond Campus Walls and That’s the Point
39) Section 224 and the “Tunisia Test” in Foreign Policy
40) Market Failure and the Market Process
41) The Iran Test: An Identity Crisis at the Heart of Trumpism
42) Did CNN just out Azerbaijan as Israel’s secret military partner?
43) Hunter Biden’s New High: “The MAGA Whisperer”
44) The War in Iran Is Coming for Insulin Markets
45) Public Schools Are in a Downward Spiral
46) Spotting “concrete boats”: Why solicitation sins doom contracts to struggle
47) The White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Apparently Can’t Do Math
48) Quantum Vibe, 06/08/26
49) Why That Next Hamburger Is Going to Cost You
50) Life Comes at You in Waves — And Sometimes It Brings Early Retirement
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Cato Podcast, 06/09/26
52) The Corbett Report, 06/09/26
53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/09/26
54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 06/09/26
55) The Good Fight, 06/09/26
56) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 06/09/26
57) The Dispatch Podcast, 06/09/26
58) The Libertarian Angle, 06/08/26
59) Fountainhead Forum, episode 458
60) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 06/08/26
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1) US, Iranian regimes escalate strikes
Source: NBC News
“The United States launched new attacks against Iran after President Donald Trump said Tehran shot down an American military helicopter patrolling the Strait of Hormuz. A U.S. official said the Apache was hit by an Iranian drone. Tehran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said it hit back with strikes on U.S. targets across the Middle East, including bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait. Iran’s top diplomat said foreign forces near its territory ‘are at constant risk’ but did not mention any role in downing the helicopter.” (06/10/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/us-attacks-iran-rcna349305
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2) Platner wins Maine US Senate primary; Mace concedes in South Carolina gubernatorial race
Source: USA Today
“Results are rolling in for closely watched primary contests in Maine and South Carolina on Tuesday, June 9. In the day’s most high-profile race, Maine Democrat Graham Platner − for whom embarrassing revelations about his personal life are threaten to upend his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins − has won the Democratic Senate primary. Platner bested Gov. Janet Mills, who suspended her Senate campaign on April 30, and will face Incumbent Sen. Susan Collins who ran for the Republican nomination unopposed. … South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace’s bid for governor failed after she lost President Donald Trump’s favor by joining House Democrats to compel the release of Justice Department files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The president endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette. Evette will head to a runoff with Alan Wilson, and Mace conceded the race.” (06/09/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/06/09/primary-election-results-updates-maine-south-carolina-nevada–live/90459953007/
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3) Russia: Moscow car bomb reportedly kills general
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A car bomb in the Moscow region killed a general in charge of heavy ammunition supplies for the Russian army, reports said. The car exploded in Balashikha, killing its driver. He was named in reports as Damir Davydov, head of the Russian defence ministry’s missile and artillery wing. A second car bomb was discovered and blown up by authorities in south-west Moscow, reports said. Throughout the war several audacious assassinations have taken place of senior figures involved in Moscow’s war effort, with Ukrainian security services either claiming responsibility or being blamed by Russian authorities.” (06/10/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/10/ukraine-war-briefing-moscow-car-bomb-kills-russian-ammunition-chief-reports
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4) Libertarian Party of New Hampshire to Appeal National Committee Disaffiliation
Source: Independent Political Report
“The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire is taking first steps to appeal its disaffiliation by the Libertarian National Committee, authorizing its state chair to petition the national party’s Judicial Committee on its behalf. In a resolution adopted June 4 and later shared to the LNC’s public Business List, the New Hampshire party’s Executive Committee repudiated a prior endorsement of Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, reaffirmed its compliance with the Libertarian Party’s bylaws and Statement of Principles, and authorized Chair Jeremy Kauffman to formally petition the Judicial Committee on behalf of the disaffiliated state party. … Under Libertarian Party bylaws, the Judicial Committee will have 20 to 40 days after receiving the appeal from Kauffman to hold a hearing.” (06/08/26)
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2026/06/libertarian-party-of-new-hampshire-appeals-national-committee-disaffiliation/
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5) Bolivia: Protesters, police clash in Bolivia after president signs law enabling a harsher crackdown
Source: ABC News
“Protesters in Bolivia demanding the resignation of conservative President Rodrigo Paz hurled firecrackers, stones and sticks at police who responded with tear gas on Monday, leading to dozens of arrests as road blockades continue to paralyze the Andean nation. The renewed clashes in the central city of Cochabamba erupted after President Paz signed a measure that could pave the way for a hard-line government crackdown on the demonstrations that have roiled Bolivia over the past five weeks, disrupting transportation and causing shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies. Bolivia’s national workers’ union, peasant farmers and Indigenous groups from the highlands — outraged over Paz’s scrapping of fuel subsidies and frustrated with his failure in the last seven months to resolve Bolivia’s persistent economic problems — have set up 90 blockades on key routes nationwide, effectively isolating major cities, especially La Paz, the seat of government and neighboring El Alto.” (06/09/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/protesters-police-clash-bolivia-after-president-signs-law-133698869
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6) TX: Paxton’s former lawyer endorses Talarico in US Senate race
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A lawyer who represented Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, for nearly a decade over accusations of corruption and securities fraud is supporting Democrat James Talarico – and not his former client – in one of the biggest US Senate races. Talarico on Monday drew attention to his campaign winning the endorsement of Houston attorney Dan Cogdell, who was part of Paxton’s defense team during the Republican’s historic impeachment trial in 2023 that ended in acquittal. The legal troubles that shadowed Paxton in public office in Texas are a central attack line of Talarico’s campaign, though in his endorsement, Cogdell didn’t cite concerns about his client’s past. Cogdell said he didn’t dislike Paxton as a person and felt that Texas lawmakers were right to eventually acquit the attorney general. But as a politician, Cogdell said, Paxton is too focused on appeasing Donald Trump.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/09/ken-paxton-lawyer-endorses-james-talarico
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7) Sweden: Regime set to ban mobile phones in schools
Source: Seattle Times
“Long championed as a leader in adopting digital technology, Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools beginning in the fall for the next academic year as part of a broad, international reversal on the use of screens in classrooms. Since 2023, the Scandinavian country’s center-right coalition government has pursued a policy prioritizing more reading time and less screen time, particularly among preschool students, by favoring books and other traditional learning tools.” [editor’s note: The story hints, but doesn’t say, that mobile phones will NOT be banned in schools generally … just for students. Teachers and administrators will likely still be allowed to doomscroll to their hearts’ content – TLK] (06/09/26)
https://archive.is/ZfWHM
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8) Vance demands Justice Department probe of Minnesota officials as White House presses “war on fraud”
Source: Associated Press
“Vice President JD Vance is pressing federal prosecutors to investigate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison over allegations they failed to stop widespread social services fraud, amplifying concerns the White House will use a new Justice Department division to target political rivals. Vance, who has been tapped to lead the Republican Trump administration’s anti-fraud efforts as he seeks to raise his political profile as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, cited in a letter to the Justice Department a report from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee that alleges Walz and Ellison were aware of pervasive misuse of government programs for years and let it flourish.” (06/09/26)
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-fraud-vance-minnesota-walz-ellison-d990cc620565459564ba545afcd629f7
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9) Apple withholds new Siri AI from European devices; bureaucrats whine
Source: Politico
“Apple has said it would not ship its overhauled AI assistant on its devices in the EU, pinning the holdout squarely on Europe’s Big Tech market dominance rules. The iPhone maker on Monday announced its redesigned AI-enabled assistant, branded Siri AI, at its developer conference in Cupertino, California. Shortly afterwards, Apple confirmed that EU users will not get Siri AI on iPhones and iPads when its latest update ships this fall, with no timeline for when or whether that changes. … ‘We’re deeply disappointed that our EU users won’t have Siri AI on iPhone or iPad,’ said Craig Federighi, Apple’s software engineering chief, adding that the company hopes to bring it to the bloc eventually and will keep engaging with regulators. It’s the second time that Apple has held AI features back from the EU over the DMA, after withholding the original Apple Intelligence suite at its 2024 launch.” (06/09/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-blames-eu-rules-as-it-withholds-new-siri-ai-from-european-devices/
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10) Crew rescued after US military helicopter goes down near Iran
Source: Axios
“A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache went down near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, and officials are investigating whether Iranian fire brought it down, two American officials and a third source with knowledge tell Axios. … Both crew members were rescued around 7:30pm ET, about two hours after the helicopter went down off the coast of Oman, U.S. Central Command said in a post on X. They are in stable condition.” (06/09/26)
https://archive.is/SCZNx
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11) German, French regimes scrap joint fighter jet program
Source: Deutsche Welle [German state media]
“After years of infighting, the Franco-German project to build a joint next-generation fighter jet has collapsed. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed last week that manufacturers Dassault and Airbus failed to resolve key disputes, officials in Berlin and Paris confirmed on Monday. The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, launched in 2017, aimed to build a next-generation fighter to replace Eurofighters and Rafales by around 2040. The move to scrap one of Europe’s largest defense projects comes as Western military officials warn of a mounting threat from Russia and the United States intensifies pressure on Europe to take care of its own defense.” (06/09/26)
https://www.dw.com/en/franco-german-fighter-jet-project-collapses-after-industry-dispute/a-77466897
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12) US small business sentiment falls in May as inflation worries mount
Source: Yahoo! Finance
“U.S. small-business sentiment fell in May and the share of owners planning to raise prices over the next three months increased to the highest level in nearly four years, suggesting inflation could remain elevated for a while. The National Federation of Independent Business said on Tuesday its Small Business Optimism Index slipped 0.6 to 95.3 last month, falling further below its 52-year average of 98.0. The survey’s uncertainty index rose three points to 91. It is running well above its historical average of 68.” (06/09/26)
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/us-small-business-sentiment-falls-100437294.html
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13) Banned group’s call for strike halts business & transport across Pakistan-administered Kashmir
Source: SFGate
“Shops and businesses shut down, and public transport halted across Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Tuesday after a call for a strike by a recently banned group, known for violent protests. The Joint Awami Action Committee ‘s call follows clashes on Sunday in the city of Rawalakot between the group’s supporters and security personnel that left seven dead. The violence erupted after the Supreme Court of Pakistan-administered Kashmir ruled that 12 legislative seats reserved for Kashmiri refugees living in Pakistan are constitutionally protected and cannot be abolished without a constitutional amendment. The JAAC, formed in 2003, demands greater political rights for the people of Kashmir and the abolition of the refugee seats. Residents of the regional capital, Muzaffarabad, and other towns told The Associated Press markets were largely empty and bus terminals deserted on Tuesday.” (06/09/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/a-banned-group-s-call-for-a-strike-halts-22297237.php
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14) Congo: Colonel Sentenced to Death Over Murder of UN Experts
Source: US News & World Report
“A Congolese military court has sentenced an army colonel to death for taking part in a conspiracy to murder two U.N. experts in central Congo nearly a decade ago, in a case that continues to raise questions about state involvement. At his first trial in 2022, Colonel Jean de Dieu Mambweni received a 10-year term for failing to assist persons in danger and disobeying orders. Military prosecutors appealed, arguing that he bore greater responsibility. The High Military Court in Kinshasa agreed, finding Mambweni guilty on Friday of the war crime of murder for actively orchestrating the killings, and sentencing him to death, according to a ruling reviewed by Reuters and the sister of one of the victims. Congo has not carried out an execution since 2003, meaning the sentence will in practice become life imprisonment.” (06/09/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-06-09/congo-colonel-sentenced-to-death-over-murder-of-un-experts
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15) Sudanese migrant arrested for allegedly trying to behead victim in middle of Irish street
Source: New York Post
“A Sudanese migrant has been arrested after a barbaric video shows someone seemingly trying to behead another man in the middle of a UK street in scenes likened to ‘something out of a horror movie’. The horrific footage shows the blood-soaked knifeman pinning down his victim in Northern Ireland late Monday in an attack a local politician also branded ‘barbaric’ and ‘medieval.’ The bloodied victim desperately kicked his legs before the knifeman repeatedly stabbed him in the head and neck, the video shared by Turning Point UK shows. ‘Get off him you f–king rat!’ one woman shouted as the deranged attacker showed off his weapon — as a man yelled, ‘He’s trying to cut his head off. He’s slicing his head off!'” (06/09/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/world-news/sudanese-migrant-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-behead-victim-in-middle-of-northern-ireland-street/
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16) Judge blocks $100k H-1B visa fee imposed by Trump
Source: United Press International
“A federal judge ruled Monday that a $100,000 visa fee for U.S.companies seeking highly skilled workers from other countries is illegal. This voids the requirement set by President Donald Trump by a presidential proclamation in September. Judge Leo Sorokin said the policy violated the U.S. Constitution and the federal Administrative Procedure Act and that only Congress has the authority to change federal immigration policy to require the fee. The Trump administration says it will appeal the ruling.” (06/08/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/06/08/judge-ends-trump-visa-fee/1001780961521/
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17) Despite Republican revolt, SAVE America Act shows signs of life in Senate
Source: Fox News
“Senate Republicans have struggled to move the ball on President Donald Trump’s voter ID and citizenship verification bill, but a late-night vote in the upper chamber breathed some life into an issue once thought dead. During the Senate’s marathon ‘vote-a-rama’ to advance the GOP’s $70 billion immigration enforcement package, Republicans tried twice to attach the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the massive bill. They failed both times, with a cohort of Republicans joining Senate Democrats to stymie the effort, which was destined to fail either way given that the amendments from Sen. Lindsey Graham [R-SC] and Mike Lee [R-UT] had to break through the filibuster.” (06/09/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-save-america-act-shows-signs-life-senate-despite-republican-revolt
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18) Italy: Ben-Gvir under investigation over Gaza flotilla abuses
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Italian prosecutors put Israel’s fanatical National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir under investigation over the treatment of activists who were part of a Gaza flotilla last month, a judicial source said on Monday. The source, who asked not to be named, confirmed earlier reports by Italian news agencies and said Ben-Gvir was being investigated on suspicion of torture and kidnapping of Italian citizens who were among the activists. If the probe determines charges are warranted, prosecutors could lodge a formal request for trial. … Israel and Ben-Gvir have faced mounting international criticism after the minister, in late May, released a video showing abducted Gaza activists kneeling with their hands bound after Israel kidnapped members of the aid flotilla in international waters.” (06/09/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/ben-gvir-under-investigation-italy-over-gaza-flotilla-abuses
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19) 300 migrants bound for UK kidnapped and threatened with kidney removal
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“More than 300 migrants heading to the UK last summer were kidnapped, tortured and threatened with forced organ removal, the BBC has learned. The young men, all from Iraqi Kurdistan, were captured in Libya by a militia who demanded a ransom of $5,000 (£3,700) from each of their families, and threatened to harvest the captives’ kidneys if payment was not made promptly. We have spoken to some hostages who have since been released, and seen photo evidence suggesting that forced operations did take place. The former captives showed us evidence of torture, and said they had been kept in cramped conditions, with nearly 180 people sharing a cell. At least one hostage is known to have died, and it is unclear how many remain captive.” (06/09/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xwxdgvx8lo
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20) CA: Democrat Secures Second LA Mayor Spot and Ends Pratt’s Run
Source: New York Times
“Nithya Raman, a progressive Democrat who has drawn comparisons to New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, will face Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles in a two-person race in November, The Associated Press determined on Monday. Ms. Raman, 44, a City Council member and former Bass ally, was behind in the initial vote count but came back in later returns to edge out Spencer Pratt, a Republican reality TV star who lost his home in the 2025 wildfires that devastated Pacific Palisades, a wealthy coastal enclave. Mr. Pratt had jumped out to an early lead in a field of more than a dozen contenders, in part because Republicans, who make up about 15 percent of the city’s electorate, had coalesced behind him. But his margin shrank as ballots from thousands of liberals [sic] who voted closer to Election Day were processed.” (06/08/26)
https://archive.is/FDZ6F
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21) Rip Van Trumple Contradicts His Own Ballroom Argument
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“‘This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House,’ US president Donald Trump claimed the day after an armed would-be assassin attempted to charge through a security barricade at the Washington Hilton. ‘“It cannot be built fast enough!’ US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) agreed: ‘America has a problem. That problem is, it is very difficult to have a bunch of important people in the same place unless it is really, really secure.’ … Trump clearly didn’t believe his own claims concerning presidential security, or he wouldn’t have decided to catch 40 winks in front of thousands of angry basketball fans.” (06/09/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20691
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22) We Should Not “Integrate” Our Military With Any Foreign Nation!
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“Not since the notorious 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provided for indefinite detention of American citizens, has the annual funding bill been as misused as this year. Embedded in the bill is an insult to every American who values our national sovereignty. The NDAA’s Section 224, the ‘United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,’ would ‘integrate’ the Israeli military with our own, fusing technology, production, intelligence-sharing, and more. … It is hard to think of a more ‘America last’ position than handing the keys to the Pentagon (and our intelligence community) to a foreign country.” (06/09/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2026/06/08/we-should-not-integrate-our-military-with-any-foreign-nation
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23) Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey
Source: Reason
by Joel Miller
“For those of us who like to think literacy is a form of liberation, there’s a troubling counterpoint: Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler wasn’t interested in people thinking for themselves; he insisted they think like him. Propaganda, he recognized, is an assault on reflection: avoid abstraction, parrot slogans, abandon objectivity, and scapegoat your enemies. In forms like Mein Kampf, books contributed to the poison. But for the German theologian and anti-Nazi conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer, they could also serve as an antidote.” (06/09/26)
https://reason.com/2026/06/09/reading-the-quietest-way-to-disobey/
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24) The Prussian Assembly Line: Praxeological Sovereignty and the Separation of School and State
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ely Valentino Binet Batista
“There are two types of human beings in this world: those who wait for someone to tell them what to do, and those who build structures that force the world to move at their rhythm. Modern state-monopolized education is engineered exclusively for the former. The contemporary school system operates as a direct administrative descendant of the nineteenth-century Prussian factory model.” (06/09/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/prussian-assembly-line-praxeological-sovereignty-and-separation-school-and-state
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25) The Historian Who Explained the True Meaning of the Revolution to Americans
Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig
“The famed historian Gordon S. Wood died on Sunday, struck by a car in a parking lot at the age of 92. He was his generation’s foremost scholar of the American Revolution and the early Republic, and for decades he pressed a single argument with alacrity. The argument was this: the American Revolution was the most radical event in American history, and the men who made it neither intended nor controlled the radicalism they unleashed.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-historian-who-explained-the-true
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26) California proves voters get the government they tolerate
Source: Fox News
by Jonathan Turley
“This week, the nation watched as California grappled again with the ordinarily straightforward task of counting votes in an election. While large states such as Florida declare election winners within 24 hours, California may take up to two weeks to count all the votes. Even Los Angeles cannot count its votes in the time of large states despite giving the Clerk an annual budget of $336 million and a $448,179 a year salary with the help of 1,100 budgeted positions. In most states, voters would be outraged by the incompetence, waste and inefficiency. However, in the Golden State, voters shrug, as if they can demand no more from their elected officials than subpar performance. Call it the Politics of Low Expectations, and California is the model for the nation.” (06/09/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-california-proves-voters-get-government-tolerate
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27) A study isn’t “worthless” because it’s incomplete
Source: Expression
by Samuel J Abrams
“The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) recently released a study by David Primo measuring faculty viewpoint diversity through campaign-contribution data. The average faculty donor scored only slightly to the right of progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The findings and criticism traveled quickly. John K. Wilson, writing in Inside Higher Ed, pronounced the study ‘worthless’ because most faculty never make campaign contributions, so a sample of donors cannot describe the average professor. On the narrow point he is right: a sample of donors is not a sample of all faculty. ‘Worthless’ is a serious conclusion — a verdict that, applied consistently, would discard nearly every measure we have.” (06/09/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/a-study-isnt-worthless-because-its
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28) Promising & Not
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“‘We are capitalist, not socialist.’ Those words are from the ‘Promise to America’ pledge promoted by a new group of the same name and unveiled last week by Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-New York) and Rep. Adam Gray (D-California). … they declare: ‘We are proud, not ashamed of America.’ The Post suggests, however, that this slogan ‘could be polarizing on the left.’ Sure, it is a much different message than Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner has expressed.” (06/09/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/06/09/promising-not/
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29) Armenia’s journey to redefine itself
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Though smaller than most U.S. states, the landlocked nation of Armenia plays a key geopolitical role at the continental crossroads of Eurasia. With few natural resources, it is aiming to recalibrate regional and global relations and become a hub for international tech, finance, and transport services. So, its parliamentary elections Sunday have been of interest not just to next-door Azerbaijan and Turkey, but also to Iran, Russia, Europe, and the distant United States. The ruling Civil Contract party garnered 49.8% of the vote, Reuters reported, while the two main opposition parties together took in 33.1%. The degree to which both sides can find some common ground will determine how fast and how far this former Soviet republic can move out of history’s long shadow of ethnic conflict and external interference into an era of regional cooperation and progress.” (06/08/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0608/Armenia-s-journey-to-redefine-itself
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30) Beyond AP: The College Credit Opportunity Few People Know About
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kerry McDonald
“When Santana Cruz graduates from high school this spring, she will have over 100 college credits and two associate degrees. A public school student in Bristol, Virginia, that sits along the Tennessee border, Cruz began accumulating college credits as a 14-year-old freshman when she took her first College-Level Examination Program or CLEP exam. The program enables students of any age to demonstrate mastery in 34 subject areas, ranging from American government to world languages.” (06/09/26)
https://fee.org/articles/beyond-ap-the-college-credit-opportunity-few-people-know-about/
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31) The Skid Row vote cries out for investigation
Source: New York Post
by Joel Pollak
“Nearly 1,200 people registered to vote at a homeless shelter on Skid Row with 132 beds. 185 people registered at a homeless drop-in center — with no beds at all. That is likely illegal, and it is likely a key to the story of how socialist City Councilmember Nithya Raman overtook Palisades Fire victim Spencer Pratt for second place in the LA mayoral race. Under California law, homeless people can register to vote, even though they do not have a fixed residence. They can use their last fixed address as their voting domicile; they can even specify a geographic location, as long as it is where they live, or where they intend to return. If they do not return there within a year, it is no longer their voting domicile.” (06/09/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/opinion/the-skid-row-vote-cries-out-for-investigation/
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32) Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“The case of a young child at Texas Children’s Hospital following a near-drowning incident has reignited a debate that medicine has struggled with for more than half a century. According to multiple media reports, the family sought judicial intervention to obtain additional time, explore transfer options, and investigate alternative therapeutic approaches before any final determination regarding brain death would foreclose those possibilities. As so often happens in the modern United States of America, the story quickly moved beyond the walls of the hospital. Lawyers became involved. … this is not an argument against brain death. Nor is it an attempt to overturn decades of neurological science. The neurological criteria for death emerged from legitimate clinical challenges and remain accepted by most physicians, hospitals, and courts. Rather, this is a reflection on what happens when medicine becomes so confident in its conclusions that it stops listening to those most affected by them.” (06/09/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/reflections-on-brain-death-hope-and-the-limits-of-certainty/
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33) How To Create A Custom News Feed Free From Algorithm Manipulation
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Today the Twitter algorithm served me up a bunch of Zionist tweets from accounts I’ve never followed, right at the top of my ‘For You’ feed. Elon and company decided on my behalf that this is the kind of information I need to be consuming, so they’ve taken it upon themselves to shove it down my throat without my permission. As Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation gets more and more aggressive in force-feeding us the official narrative of the day, we have to get a bit clever in making sure we see the information our rulers don’t want us to see. I like to use Twitter Lists for this, because for all its flaws Twitter is still where the journalists hang out and remains a great place for staying on top of the news if you can figure out how to cut through all the bullshit.” (06/09/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/06/09/how-to-create-a-custom-news-feed-free-from-algorithm-manipulation/
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34) Are We Back to 1914?
Source: Law & Liberty
by Ralph L DeFalco III
“In our present moment of global upheaval, it’s becoming fashionable to invoke parallels to previous episodes of global crisis. Commentators routinely compare the United States’ political situation to the late Roman Republic just before its slide into Caesarism. Others suggest 1920s Weimar Germany is a more apt comparison with its violent factionalism and loose morals. At the international level, one can find as many comparisons to the Cold War as one can to nineteenth-century Europe. Some, however, are now suggesting that the international situation bears a more striking resemblance to the years preceding the First World War.” (06/09/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/are-we-back-to-1914/
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35) Recessions as Murder Mysteries: Are Business Cycles Just a Myth?
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller
“In his new book ‘Recession,’ economist Tyler Goodspeed argues that economic downturns are caused by real shocks, not predictable business cycles.” (06/09/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/recessions-as-murder-mysteries-are-business-cycles-just-a-myth/
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36) Kentucky’s open door on government transparency is closing
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Caleb O Brown, Amye L Bensenhaver, Kate Miller, & Heather Lemire
“Kentucky built its Open Records Act on a simple, powerful premise: that free and open examination of public records is in the public interest. For nearly 50 years, that premise provided a basic guarantee that Kentuckians could see what their government was doing in their name. That premise is now under a growing threat — from the legislature, and increasingly from the courts.” (06/09/26)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/open-door-transparency/
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37) Trump’s Critics Dead Wrong (Again) on the Economy
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“Last week’s blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the Left who throughout Donald Trump’s now-five-and-a-half years in the White House keep getting the economy dead wrong. Just a few months ago a gaggle of economists on the Left, led by Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, started warning of ‘stagflation,’ a witch’s brew of high inflation and high unemployment at the same time. He wrote that ‘any statement that things aren’t as bad as they were in the 1970s should come with the caveat ‘so far.” … These are the same false claims made during Trump’s first term, when some critics warned his policies would cause ‘a second Great Depression.'” (06/09/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2026/06/09/trumps-critics-dead-wrong-again-on-the-economy-n2677457
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38) Chilling Effects of Trump’s War on Free Speech Extend Far Beyond Campus Walls and That’s the Point
Source: CounterPunch
by Bruce Schneier & Jon Penney
“Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent. This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has involved lawsuits, arrests, deportations and expulsions. … It’s increasingly clear to us that these impacts are not incidental or ancillary to Trump administration policy. Rather, the chilling effects are the point. This is the closest thing to a consistent governing strategy in Trump’s second term.” (06/09/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/09/chilling-effects-of-trumps-war-on-free-speech-extend-far-beyond-campus-walls-and-thats-the-point/
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39) Section 224 and the “Tunisia Test” in Foreign Policy
Source: Libertarian Institute
by RT Hadley
“Imagine Congress debating a bill to integrate Tunisia into the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB). Shared military supply chains, joint research, and development, linked battlefield data, and a U.S. executive agent coordinating defense-technology cooperation between Washington with Tunis. Presented plainly, the proposal forces the reaction before the argument even begins. The instinctive question: Why Tunisia? Arrives uninvited. Yet that is precisely what Congress has already begun to normalize.” (06/09/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/section-224-and-the-tunisia-test-in-foreign-policy/
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40) Market Failure and the Market Process
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“Market failure, which I am defining here as a market not reaching the equilibrium condition where quantity supplied equals quantity demanded, is ubiquitous. Every time we walk into stores, we see market failure happening: shelves and shelves of goods sit, waiting for buyers. This is excess supply (surplus), a market failure. If the market were in equilibrium and perfectly clearing, then when you (the marginal consumer) walk into a store, you should see only the good(s) in the precise quantity you want to buy at the price that precisely equals your willingness to pay for the marginal unit. Nothing else should remain. … Obviously, such an outcome does not exist. Some of the goods we want exist in surplus. Some exist in shortage. And, consequently, the market has failed. But this failure is vital to the workings of the market, broadly called the ‘market process.'” (06/09/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/market-failure-and-the-market-process
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41) The Iran Test: An Identity Crisis at the Heart of Trumpism
Source: Common Dreams
by Brian Hudson
“The Republican revolt against President Donald Trump began over an issue that was never supposed to become a crisis: another war in the Middle East. In recent weeks, a group of Republican members of Congress has openly challenged the White House — not over taxes, immigration, or even the budget, but over the most fundamental power of any president: the authority to lead the country into war. When several Republicans chose to stand alongside Democrats and support efforts to limit the president’s war powers, something greater than a routine legislative vote took place. This was not merely a legal disagreement over the interpretation of the Constitution; it was a sign of a deeper fracture emerging at the core of a movement that was once united around Trump’s leadership.” (06/09/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/iran-war-gop-identity-crisis
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42) Did CNN just out Azerbaijan as Israel’s secret military partner?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Eldar Mamedov
“A new report suggests someone wants to burn Baku’s plausible deniability, which puts it in hot water with its Iranian neighbor.” (06/09/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-azerbaijan/
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43) Hunter Biden’s New High: “The MAGA Whisperer”
Source: The American Conservative
by Spencer Neale
“I get it, I’m not supposed to like Hunter. In fact, I’d wager that my name is on some list in the catacombs of an FBI vault for purchasing the Marco Polo hardcover copy of Hunter’s laptop files in 2022, the darkest days. But what can I say? I do like Hunter. And I’m certainly not the only one. On X, many right-wing accounts, which usually spend their days defending the sleepiest of Sleepy Don’s final days, were mesmerized by the younger Biden’s fever dream this week, liking and resharing his honest accounting of the sort of drug addiction and degeneracy that was once used to attack the elder Biden’s shivering and quivering administration. … Authenticity is the only currency left in American politics, and it’s ideologically neutral. Trump proved that a decade ago. Hunter is proving it now from the opposite side.” (06/09/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/hunter-bidens-new-high-the-maga-whisperer/
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44) The War in Iran Is Coming for Insulin Markets
Source: Independent Institute
by Raymond J March
“Gas prices have increased 50% since the war began. Food prices have followed. The Consumer Price Index jumped 3.3% this April. Grocery bills jumped 0.7% in April. Such figures have not been seen since the peak of post-pandemic inflation. While it’s hard to ignore these costs, many Americans are not noticing the warning signs that higher prices and shortages for vital medications they rely on may soon be next, especially insulin. Supply chain experts at Stanford Health Care have flagged insulin syringes, generic drugs, and petroleum-based medical supplies as products at risk as oil prices rise and shipping costs climb. One logistics firm warned that consumers could see drug costs affected within four to six weeks of sustained disruption — a window that has already opened.” (06/08/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/06/08/war-iran-insulin-markets/
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45) Public Schools Are in a Downward Spiral
Source: American Greatness
by Larry Sand
“After decades of steady growth, attendance in U.S. K–12 public schools has shifted drastically. Over the past five years, registration has fallen by 2.3 percent, or 1.18 million students, and schools show no signs of rebounding. Lower birth rates are the primary driver of the downturn. The number of births in the U.S. has decreased steadily in recent years, with 690,000 fewer children born in 2024 than in 2007. California lost nearly 75,000 TK–12 students as of the 2025–26 school year, a slide more than twice as steep as the previous year’s. Since 2017–18, the Golden State has seen a 10 percent decline. New York City has also been hard hit. As of the 2025–26 school year, 793,300 students are enrolled in K–12 schools, down nearly 10 percent since 2020. The loss of enrolled students has prompted some desperate measures.” (06/09/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/09/public-schools-are-in-a-downward-spiral/
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46) Spotting “concrete boats”: Why solicitation sins doom contracts to struggle
Source: Niskanen Center
by Neil Miller
“Long-term planning can be admirable. Some contracts — say, for construction — will genuinely take five or more years to finish up. Or when vendors need to make huge upfront investments, a long payoff timeline can entice qualified competition. Locking in five-year tech contracts, however, just allows the solicitation sins of the father to be visited upon their children a decade later: Between now and 2031 (or 2033), needs will change, technology will advance, and the project budgets will rise and fall.” (06/08/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/spotting-concrete-boats-why-solicitation-sins-doom-contracts-to-struggle-2/
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47) The White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Apparently Can’t Do Math
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“Congress can’t come close to balancing the budget by eliminating fraud in federal programs.” (06/08/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/the-white-house-deputy-chief-of-staff
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48) Quantum Vibe, 06/08/26
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (06/08/26)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2592
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49) Why That Next Hamburger Is Going to Cost You
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“TLast week, the flesh-eating parasite known as the New World screwworm was found in a calf in Texas; a second case was identified about five miles away shortly thereafter. (A third case was found in a dog.) Screwworm flies lay their eggs in the live tissue of warm-blooded animals, from livestock to pets to humans. These larvae ‘screw’ into the animal’s flesh, and while they are not very harmful to humans, in that the horrifying effects of maggots chewing into your skin are relatively easy to notice and address, they can kill a livestock host if not treated. In a widespread infestation, one of the last resorts would be mass culling, which would obviously have huge impacts on a diminished U.S. cattle herd.” (06/09/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/06/09/why-that-next-hamburger-is-going-to-cost-you-new-world-screwworm/
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50) Life Comes at You in Waves — And Sometimes It Brings Early Retirement
Source: Show-Me Institute
by James V Shuls
“Life comes at you in waves. You graduate high school, watch friends start careers, get married, and have kids. Then social media shows you their children repeating the cycle. As a member of the Pacific High School Class of 1999, I didn’t expect to reach the retirement wave so soon. Yet a recent post stopped me: a high school classmate, still in his mid-40s, announced his retirement after 25 years in Missouri public schools. … He is retiring at exactly the age when most professionals hit their career peak—when experience, leadership, and judgment are most valuable. And that’s the problem. Missouri’s Public School Retirement System (PSRS) is pushing talented educators out of the classroom at the very moment students and schools need them most.” (06/08/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/life-comes-at-you-in-waves-and-sometimes-it-brings-early-retirement/
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51) Cato Podcast, 06/09/26
Source: Cato Institute
“When the President Sues the Government He Controls.” (06/09/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/when-president-sues-government-he-controls
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52) The Corbett Report, 06/09/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“Do you know the documented history of decades of illegal Israeli government spying on Washington? Do you know who was involved in the nuclear smuggling ring that stole America’s nuclear secrets to build Israel’s illegal and still undeclared nuclear arsenal? Do you know about Unit 8200 and the inescapable web of cyber spying operations that leads from Tel Aviv to Washington right through Epstein Island? Well, you’re about to! Strap in and get ready.” (06/09/26)
https://corbettreport.com/israel-caught-spying-on-us/
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53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 06/09/26
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“I’m joined by Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos today. We talk about the word ‘democracy’ and how it has become a magical incantation to lead gullible voters into captivity.” (06/09/26)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-rjdjs-1ae4bc6
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54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 06/09/26
Source: The New Republic
“Angry Trump Storms Out of On-Air Interview for Unnervingly Dark Reason.” (06/09/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/211525/angry-trump-storms-on-air-interview-unnervingly-dark-reason
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55) The Good Fight, 06/09/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Rebecca Haw Allensworth on How Professional Licenses are Rigging the Game for Insiders.” (06/09/26)
https://writing.yaschamounk.com/p/rebecca-haw-allensworth
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56) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 06/09/26
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Is America Family Unfriendly? with Tim Carney.” (06/09/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/state-and-local-government/is-america-family-unfriendly-with-tim-carney/
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57) The Dispatch Podcast, 06/09/26
Source: The Dispatch
“The Decline of Donald Trump.” (06/09/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/the-decline-of-donald-trump/
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58) The Libertarian Angle, 06/08/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Disastrous Effects of FDR’s New Deal.” (06/08/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53D7QttOAJA
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59) Fountainhead Forum, episode 458
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Olivia Hayse on marketing and promotion and the Libertarian Party.” (06/08/26)
https://rumble.com/v7azrvs-ff-458-olivia-hayse-on-marketing-and-promotion-and-the-libertarian-party.html
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60) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 06/08/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Jim Webb: Trump to Netanyahu: ‘You’re F**king Crazy.’” (06/08/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/guest-jim-webb-trump-to-netanyahu-youre-fking-crazy
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