Weekend Special Edition, 10/25 -- Pentagon orders carrier to Caribbean, escalating "Operation Forget About the Epstein Files;" A Trumpian Headache
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Today's Freedom News:
0) Weekend Special Edition (and Year-End Fundraiser Update)
1) Pentagon orders carrier to Caribbean, escalating "Operation Forget About the Epstein Files"
2) Lebanon: Two murdered in Israeli ceasefire violations
3) Hegseth publicly confesses to conspiring with Trump in six more Caribbean murders
4) EU lays groundwork for new bribe demands to Meta, TikTok
5) Letitia James pleads not guilty on federal bank fraud charges
Today's Freedom Commentary:
6) A Trumpian Headache
7) Obamacare Was Never Affordable
8) Is the Argentina Bailout a Glimpse Into the Future of the United States?
9) The Real Trump Doctrine: “We’re Gonna Kill Them”
10) The Libertarian Apostle of Peace
11) When ICE came for a US citizen and Army veteran
12) Quit Banging on Brits
13) A Religious Revival Could Help Reinvigorate the Liberal West
14) Imagine That Growth: Lessons from a Tariff-Free Timeline
15) Diplomacy Watch: Trump turns the screws on Moscow
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
16) Fountainhead Forum, episode 380
17) The Dispatch Podcast, 10/24/25
18) Rising, 10/24/25
19) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/24/25
20) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/24/25
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0) Weekend Special Edition (and Year-End Fundraiser Update)
Hey, everyone ...
We've got a short (20-item) "weekend special edition" for you this morning.
And, of course, a year-end fundraiser update.
Friday was a "zero-dollar day," with our total so far remaining at $785.50 (as of 5am on Saturday) versus our goal of $5,501.
Once we've raised half our total ($2,750.50), reader GL will "match funds" for the rest. But to get that SECOND half, we have to raise the FIRST half, and that's where you come in. We're a reader-supported publication; you're a reader; please support us at:
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Setting "mini-goals" seems to help, so here's one: $131.34 by Monday morning.
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1) Pentagon orders carrier to Caribbean, escalating "Operation Forget About the Epstein Files"
Source: Washington Post
"The Pentagon on Friday signaled a major expansion of its military campaign against 'Transnational Criminal Organizations' in Latin America, saying it will deploy the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its associated warships to the region in coming days. ... The carrier will join an armada that has been assembled in the Caribbean in recent weeks. Other vessels there include the destroyers USS Jason Dunham, USS Gravely, USS Stockdale, the guided-missile cruiser Lake Erie, and the littoral combat ship Wichita. The Navy and Marine Corps also have combined to deploy the Iwo Jima amphibious ready group, a three-ship task force that includes more sailors and Marines, off the coast of Venezuela." (10/24/25)
https://archive.is/LNUZK
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2) Lebanon: Two murdered in Israeli ceasefire violations
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“An Israeli drone strike has killed two people in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s Ministry of Public Health, a day after Israeli warplanes launched a series of deadly strikes on the country’s eastern mountain range and south. It’s the latest in near-daily Israeli violations of the United States-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that began in November. The attack in the town of Toul in the Nabatieh district on Friday also injured two people, the ministry said. It did not provide details on their condition.” (10/24/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/24/israeli-strikes-in-southern-lebanon-kill-two-in-latest-truce-violation
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3) Hegseth publicly confesses to conspiring with Trump in six more Caribbean murders
Source: United Press International
“The United States attacked a boat allegedly operated by a Venezuelan drug-smuggling operation, [murdering] six people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday. He said the attack happened overnight ‘along a known narco-trafficking route’ in the Caribbean Sea under the direction of President Donald Trump. Hegseth added that the vessel was operated by Tren de Aragua, a Venezuela criminal organization considered a terror organization by the U.S. government. … Hegseth posted what appeared to be a night-vision video taken from the air of the attack on the boat. It was the 10th attack the United States has carried on alleged drug boats, bringing the [murder spree body count] in such attacks to 43 since Sept. 2. The eighth and ninth strikes took place Wednesday.” (10/24/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/10/24/drug-boat-Pete-Hegseth-Venezuela/8481761317162/
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4) EU lays groundwork for new bribe demands to Meta, TikTok
Source: Politico
“The European Commission on Friday accused Meta and TikTok of breaching the bloc’s landmark social media regulation. The EU executive said Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, and TikTok all failed in their obligations to give researchers access to data from their platforms. The two Meta platforms also failed on three obligations to empower users in flagging illegal content and challenging moderation decisions, it said. The platforms now have the right to reply to the Commission’s allegations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). Should they fail to convince the EU executive, they risk fines of up to 6 percent of annual global revenue.” (10/24/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-accuses-meta-tiktok-of-breaching-digital-rules/
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5) Letitia James pleads not guilty on federal bank fraud charges
Source: Axios
“New York Attorney General Letitia James pleaded not guilty on Friday morning to federal bank fraud charges, multiple outlets reported. President Trump publicly demanded James'[s] prosecution, and went as far as firing a federal prosecutor who refused to pursue charges. James has called the case ‘baseless’ and motivated by political retribution over the civil fraud case she brought against Trump. A tentative trial date was set for Jan. 26, per the New York Times. Prosecutors said they expect the trial to take about a week.” (10/24/25)
https://archive.is/brdFh
_____ Today's Freedom Commentary _____
6) A Trumpian Headache
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano
“President Donald Trump’s use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations – all 1,500 miles from the U.S. – has posed grave issues of due process. The Constitution’s guarantee of due process requires it for every person, not just Americans. … The Trump administration has claimed that it can kill whomever it designates as an unlawful enemy combatant … and the due process it provides is the intelligence gathered by American spies and the White House analysis of that intelligence. This secret analysis, the government’s argument goes, satisfies the president that the folks he has ordered killed are engaging in serious and harmful criminal behavior, and somehow is a lawful and constitutional substitute for the jury trial and its attendant procedural protections that the Constitution commands.” (10/24/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2025/10/23/a-trumpian-headache/
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7) Obamacare Was Never Affordable
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Gary M Galles
“The focus of the current government shutdown circus has increasingly narrowed to Democrat demands to undo proposed reductions in very large, supposedly temporary, Covid-era Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) subsidy boosts. A major part of their public push is the claim that they are trying to save citizens money, though what they are actually demanding is that we shift the burden to future generations via increased federal debt, backed by the threat of demonizing Republicans as heartless for taking away any benefits. They emphasize the need to maintain the ‘great deal’ the ACA offered. The problem with their emphasis was revealed by a recent Washington Post editorial that admitted that ‘The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] was never actually affordable,’ because ‘policies cost more than expected.'” (10/24/25)
https://fee.org/articles/obamacare-was-never-affordable/
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8) Is the Argentina Bailout a Glimpse Into the Future of the United States?
Source: The Bulwark
by Ben Raderstorf
“After Donald Trump’s $40 Bbillion of Argentina, the United States is now tied to the economic fortunes of a country that was once the wealthiest in the world but now ranks just below Kazakhstan. The American taxpayer will be on the hook for a government that has defaulted on its sovereign debt nine times, three of those in the last twenty-five years. But let’s set aside for now the question of whether the bailout is a good idea or a bad one. What strikes me about the Argentina story is how much that country’s history holds up an uncomfortable mirror to our own history of the last few years. … the parallels go back to Juan and Eva Perón, and the Perónism that Trumpism is slowly [sic] beginning [sic] to resemble.” (10/24/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/is-the-argentina-bailout-a-glimpse-of-american-future-peronism-trumpism
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9) The Real Trump Doctrine: “We’re Gonna Kill Them”
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The president repeated his promise to continue murdering people in his made-up ‘conflict’: ‘Well, I don’t think we will necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we are just gonna kill people who are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re gonna kill them. They’re gonna be, like, dead.’ Trump’s statement sums up the core of his foreign policy and how he wields power in general. He is going to unleash death and destruction because he feels like it and because no one is stopping him, and he isn’t bothering with any pretense of respecting the law. The president will order U.S. forces to commit murder without end, and he makes no secret of it. He thinks it is something to boast about. It is the perfect encapsulation of Trump’s tyrannical rule.” (10/24/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-real-trump-doctrine-were-gonna
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10) The Libertarian Apostle of Peace
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“With Donald Trump furiously, ineptly, and fraudulently campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, it may interest liberals — the classical variety, libertarians — to know that the first Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in 1901, was shared by one of their own. This was a man who espoused the same political-economic philosophy as his fellow Frenchman Frédéric Bastiat and Englishman Richard Cobden. Its pillars were freedom, unrestricted trade, and peace. That man was Frédéric Passy (1822-1912). Passy shared the prize with Henry Dunant, founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross and originator of the Geneva Convention.” (10/24/25)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2025/10/tgif-libertarian-apostle-of-peace.html
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11) When ICE came for a US citizen and Army veteran
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“One Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s knee was on his neck, another’s was grinding his back. Drenched with tear gas and pepper spray, George Retes might have wished that his 137 pounds were back in Kirkuk, Iraq, one of his Army deployments. Herewith a glimpse of your tax dollars at work.” (10/24/25)
https://archive.is/3tRPU
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12) Quit Banging on Brits
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“We hear so much bad news about censorship coming out of the United Kingdom that it’s almost shocking when something good happens instead. That good news is a retreat from harassing innocent people for posting online too freely for the taste of British police enforcers. In the big picture, the change in policy by the Metropolitan Police Service is but a minor tactical withdrawal in the pursuit of a censorship agenda that is otherwise proceeding on all fronts. It’s not so minor for people like, say, comedy writer Graham Linehan.” (10/24/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/24/quit-banging-on-brits/
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13) A Religious Revival Could Help Reinvigorate the Liberal West
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“Atheist though I am, my wife’s rabbi insisted on parading me around on his shoulders as part of recent Simchat Torah festivities. As a volunteer security guard for the synagogue, I was weighed down with weapons and body armor, so it’s good he doesn’t skip leg day during his trips to the gym. Less vigorous was my adult son’s baptism at a Tucson church earlier this year. My Jewish wife, Wendy, and I were bemused by congratulations from members of the congregation on Anthony’s thoughtful pre-dousing speech. We knew we’d raised a good man, but we had little to do with his faith. For that matter, I’m not really sure how an atheist married to a once-secular woman ended up in a multi-faith household. But I’m not alone in seeing changes in the religious landscape and (maybe) a religious revival.” (10/24/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/24/a-religious-revival-could-help-reinvigorate-the-liberal-west/
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14) Imagine That Growth: Lessons from a Tariff-Free Timeline
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle
“Explore a counterfactual world in which the trade war ends abruptly, setting off a cascade of economic renewal.” (10/24/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/imagine-that-growth-lessons-from-a-tariff-free-timeline/
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15) Diplomacy Watch: Trump turns the screws on Moscow
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols
“President Donald Trump announced new sanctions on Russia’s leading oil producers in a move aimed at turning the screws on Moscow — and countries that continue to buy Russian oil, like India and Turkey. The decision surprised many Ukraine war observers, who have struggled to discern the logic behind Trump’s approach to the conflict in recent weeks. Just days before the sanctions announcement, Trump had held a seemingly cordial phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, after which the U.S. leader had started to lean hard on Ukraine to make concessions. Trump had even suggested an imminent, in-person meeting in Budapest, where he and Putin were expected to make progress toward a peace deal. But now Trump appears to have grown frustrated with the Russian leader.” (10/24/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-russia-sanctions-2674227626/
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
16) Fountainhead Forum, episode 380
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Adam Dubove on Argentina’s currency swap with the USA and the upcoming elections.” (10/24/25)
https://rumble.com/v70pzgo-ff-380-adam-dubove-on-argentinas-currency-swap-with-the-usa-and-the-upcomin.html
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17) The Dispatch Podcast, 10/24/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Trump Can’t Bomb That, Can He? | Roundtable.” (10/24/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/trump-cant-bomb-that-can-he-roundtable/
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18) Rising, 10/24/25
Source: The Hill
“Lindsey Granger delivers her lens on the rise of inflation, and decline in trust in President Trump on his historically best issue: the economy.” (10/24/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5571391-rising-october-24-2025/
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19) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/24/25
Source: The New Republic
“Jamie Raskin’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Reveals MAGA’s Dark New Aim.” (10/24/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202203/jamie-raskin-harsh-new-takedown-trump-exposes-maga-darkest-aim
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20) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/24/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Considers Splitting Gaza into Two, US Bombs Another Boat, Putin Brushes Off Sanctions, and More.” (10/24/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z1HeiTTjZk
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Today's Freedom News:
0) Weekend Special Edition (and Year-End Fundraiser Update)
1) Pentagon orders carrier to Caribbean, escalating "Operation Forget About the Epstein Files"
2) Lebanon: Two murdered in Israeli ceasefire violations
3) Hegseth publicly confesses to conspiring with Trump in six more Caribbean murders
4) EU lays groundwork for new bribe demands to Meta, TikTok
5) Letitia James pleads not guilty on federal bank fraud charges
Today's Freedom Commentary:
6) A Trumpian Headache
7) Obamacare Was Never Affordable
8) Is the Argentina Bailout a Glimpse Into the Future of the United States?
9) The Real Trump Doctrine: “We’re Gonna Kill Them”
10) The Libertarian Apostle of Peace
11) When ICE came for a US citizen and Army veteran
12) Quit Banging on Brits
13) A Religious Revival Could Help Reinvigorate the Liberal West
14) Imagine That Growth: Lessons from a Tariff-Free Timeline
15) Diplomacy Watch: Trump turns the screws on Moscow
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
16) Fountainhead Forum, episode 380
17) The Dispatch Podcast, 10/24/25
18) Rising, 10/24/25
19) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/24/25
20) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/24/25
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Tyranny Demands AN ACT OF SELF-DEFENSE: A NOVEL BY ERNE LEWIS
https://tinyurl.com/actofselfdefense
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_____ Today's Freedom News _____
0) Weekend Special Edition (and Year-End Fundraiser Update)
Hey, everyone ...
We've got a short (20-item) "weekend special edition" for you this morning.
And, of course, a year-end fundraiser update.
Friday was a "zero-dollar day," with our total so far remaining at $785.50 (as of 5am on Saturday) versus our goal of $5,501.
Once we've raised half our total ($2,750.50), reader GL will "match funds" for the rest. But to get that SECOND half, we have to raise the FIRST half, and that's where you come in. We're a reader-supported publication; you're a reader; please support us at:
https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd
Setting "mini-goals" seems to help, so here's one: $131.34 by Monday morning.
That would get us to $916.84, the 1/3 mark, putting us a few days ahead of schedule to hit the goal before December 31. If you value the freedom movement's daily newspaper at $131.34, or some fraction thereof, please kick in at:
https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd
Enjoy your weekend!
Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
-----
1) Pentagon orders carrier to Caribbean, escalating "Operation Forget About the Epstein Files"
Source: Washington Post
"The Pentagon on Friday signaled a major expansion of its military campaign against 'Transnational Criminal Organizations' in Latin America, saying it will deploy the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its associated warships to the region in coming days. ... The carrier will join an armada that has been assembled in the Caribbean in recent weeks. Other vessels there include the destroyers USS Jason Dunham, USS Gravely, USS Stockdale, the guided-missile cruiser Lake Erie, and the littoral combat ship Wichita. The Navy and Marine Corps also have combined to deploy the Iwo Jima amphibious ready group, a three-ship task force that includes more sailors and Marines, off the coast of Venezuela." (10/24/25)
https://archive.is/LNUZK
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2) Lebanon: Two murdered in Israeli ceasefire violations
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“An Israeli drone strike has killed two people in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s Ministry of Public Health, a day after Israeli warplanes launched a series of deadly strikes on the country’s eastern mountain range and south. It’s the latest in near-daily Israeli violations of the United States-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that began in November. The attack in the town of Toul in the Nabatieh district on Friday also injured two people, the ministry said. It did not provide details on their condition.” (10/24/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/24/israeli-strikes-in-southern-lebanon-kill-two-in-latest-truce-violation
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3) Hegseth publicly confesses to conspiring with Trump in six more Caribbean murders
Source: United Press International
“The United States attacked a boat allegedly operated by a Venezuelan drug-smuggling operation, [murdering] six people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday. He said the attack happened overnight ‘along a known narco-trafficking route’ in the Caribbean Sea under the direction of President Donald Trump. Hegseth added that the vessel was operated by Tren de Aragua, a Venezuela criminal organization considered a terror organization by the U.S. government. … Hegseth posted what appeared to be a night-vision video taken from the air of the attack on the boat. It was the 10th attack the United States has carried on alleged drug boats, bringing the [murder spree body count] in such attacks to 43 since Sept. 2. The eighth and ninth strikes took place Wednesday.” (10/24/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/10/24/drug-boat-Pete-Hegseth-Venezuela/8481761317162/
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4) EU lays groundwork for new bribe demands to Meta, TikTok
Source: Politico
“The European Commission on Friday accused Meta and TikTok of breaching the bloc’s landmark social media regulation. The EU executive said Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, and TikTok all failed in their obligations to give researchers access to data from their platforms. The two Meta platforms also failed on three obligations to empower users in flagging illegal content and challenging moderation decisions, it said. The platforms now have the right to reply to the Commission’s allegations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). Should they fail to convince the EU executive, they risk fines of up to 6 percent of annual global revenue.” (10/24/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-accuses-meta-tiktok-of-breaching-digital-rules/
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5) Letitia James pleads not guilty on federal bank fraud charges
Source: Axios
“New York Attorney General Letitia James pleaded not guilty on Friday morning to federal bank fraud charges, multiple outlets reported. President Trump publicly demanded James'[s] prosecution, and went as far as firing a federal prosecutor who refused to pursue charges. James has called the case ‘baseless’ and motivated by political retribution over the civil fraud case she brought against Trump. A tentative trial date was set for Jan. 26, per the New York Times. Prosecutors said they expect the trial to take about a week.” (10/24/25)
https://archive.is/brdFh
_____ Today's Freedom Commentary _____
6) A Trumpian Headache
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano
“President Donald Trump’s use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations – all 1,500 miles from the U.S. – has posed grave issues of due process. The Constitution’s guarantee of due process requires it for every person, not just Americans. … The Trump administration has claimed that it can kill whomever it designates as an unlawful enemy combatant … and the due process it provides is the intelligence gathered by American spies and the White House analysis of that intelligence. This secret analysis, the government’s argument goes, satisfies the president that the folks he has ordered killed are engaging in serious and harmful criminal behavior, and somehow is a lawful and constitutional substitute for the jury trial and its attendant procedural protections that the Constitution commands.” (10/24/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2025/10/23/a-trumpian-headache/
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7) Obamacare Was Never Affordable
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Gary M Galles
“The focus of the current government shutdown circus has increasingly narrowed to Democrat demands to undo proposed reductions in very large, supposedly temporary, Covid-era Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) subsidy boosts. A major part of their public push is the claim that they are trying to save citizens money, though what they are actually demanding is that we shift the burden to future generations via increased federal debt, backed by the threat of demonizing Republicans as heartless for taking away any benefits. They emphasize the need to maintain the ‘great deal’ the ACA offered. The problem with their emphasis was revealed by a recent Washington Post editorial that admitted that ‘The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] was never actually affordable,’ because ‘policies cost more than expected.'” (10/24/25)
https://fee.org/articles/obamacare-was-never-affordable/
-----
8) Is the Argentina Bailout a Glimpse Into the Future of the United States?
Source: The Bulwark
by Ben Raderstorf
“After Donald Trump’s $40 Bbillion of Argentina, the United States is now tied to the economic fortunes of a country that was once the wealthiest in the world but now ranks just below Kazakhstan. The American taxpayer will be on the hook for a government that has defaulted on its sovereign debt nine times, three of those in the last twenty-five years. But let’s set aside for now the question of whether the bailout is a good idea or a bad one. What strikes me about the Argentina story is how much that country’s history holds up an uncomfortable mirror to our own history of the last few years. … the parallels go back to Juan and Eva Perón, and the Perónism that Trumpism is slowly [sic] beginning [sic] to resemble.” (10/24/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/is-the-argentina-bailout-a-glimpse-of-american-future-peronism-trumpism
-----
9) The Real Trump Doctrine: “We’re Gonna Kill Them”
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The president repeated his promise to continue murdering people in his made-up ‘conflict’: ‘Well, I don’t think we will necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we are just gonna kill people who are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re gonna kill them. They’re gonna be, like, dead.’ Trump’s statement sums up the core of his foreign policy and how he wields power in general. He is going to unleash death and destruction because he feels like it and because no one is stopping him, and he isn’t bothering with any pretense of respecting the law. The president will order U.S. forces to commit murder without end, and he makes no secret of it. He thinks it is something to boast about. It is the perfect encapsulation of Trump’s tyrannical rule.” (10/24/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-real-trump-doctrine-were-gonna
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10) The Libertarian Apostle of Peace
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“With Donald Trump furiously, ineptly, and fraudulently campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, it may interest liberals — the classical variety, libertarians — to know that the first Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in 1901, was shared by one of their own. This was a man who espoused the same political-economic philosophy as his fellow Frenchman Frédéric Bastiat and Englishman Richard Cobden. Its pillars were freedom, unrestricted trade, and peace. That man was Frédéric Passy (1822-1912). Passy shared the prize with Henry Dunant, founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross and originator of the Geneva Convention.” (10/24/25)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2025/10/tgif-libertarian-apostle-of-peace.html
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11) When ICE came for a US citizen and Army veteran
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“One Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s knee was on his neck, another’s was grinding his back. Drenched with tear gas and pepper spray, George Retes might have wished that his 137 pounds were back in Kirkuk, Iraq, one of his Army deployments. Herewith a glimpse of your tax dollars at work.” (10/24/25)
https://archive.is/3tRPU
-----
12) Quit Banging on Brits
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“We hear so much bad news about censorship coming out of the United Kingdom that it’s almost shocking when something good happens instead. That good news is a retreat from harassing innocent people for posting online too freely for the taste of British police enforcers. In the big picture, the change in policy by the Metropolitan Police Service is but a minor tactical withdrawal in the pursuit of a censorship agenda that is otherwise proceeding on all fronts. It’s not so minor for people like, say, comedy writer Graham Linehan.” (10/24/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/24/quit-banging-on-brits/
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13) A Religious Revival Could Help Reinvigorate the Liberal West
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“Atheist though I am, my wife’s rabbi insisted on parading me around on his shoulders as part of recent Simchat Torah festivities. As a volunteer security guard for the synagogue, I was weighed down with weapons and body armor, so it’s good he doesn’t skip leg day during his trips to the gym. Less vigorous was my adult son’s baptism at a Tucson church earlier this year. My Jewish wife, Wendy, and I were bemused by congratulations from members of the congregation on Anthony’s thoughtful pre-dousing speech. We knew we’d raised a good man, but we had little to do with his faith. For that matter, I’m not really sure how an atheist married to a once-secular woman ended up in a multi-faith household. But I’m not alone in seeing changes in the religious landscape and (maybe) a religious revival.” (10/24/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/24/a-religious-revival-could-help-reinvigorate-the-liberal-west/
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14) Imagine That Growth: Lessons from a Tariff-Free Timeline
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle
“Explore a counterfactual world in which the trade war ends abruptly, setting off a cascade of economic renewal.” (10/24/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/imagine-that-growth-lessons-from-a-tariff-free-timeline/
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15) Diplomacy Watch: Trump turns the screws on Moscow
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols
“President Donald Trump announced new sanctions on Russia’s leading oil producers in a move aimed at turning the screws on Moscow — and countries that continue to buy Russian oil, like India and Turkey. The decision surprised many Ukraine war observers, who have struggled to discern the logic behind Trump’s approach to the conflict in recent weeks. Just days before the sanctions announcement, Trump had held a seemingly cordial phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, after which the U.S. leader had started to lean hard on Ukraine to make concessions. Trump had even suggested an imminent, in-person meeting in Budapest, where he and Putin were expected to make progress toward a peace deal. But now Trump appears to have grown frustrated with the Russian leader.” (10/24/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-russia-sanctions-2674227626/
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16) Fountainhead Forum, episode 380
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Adam Dubove on Argentina’s currency swap with the USA and the upcoming elections.” (10/24/25)
https://rumble.com/v70pzgo-ff-380-adam-dubove-on-argentinas-currency-swap-with-the-usa-and-the-upcomin.html
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17) The Dispatch Podcast, 10/24/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Trump Can’t Bomb That, Can He? | Roundtable.” (10/24/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/trump-cant-bomb-that-can-he-roundtable/
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18) Rising, 10/24/25
Source: The Hill
“Lindsey Granger delivers her lens on the rise of inflation, and decline in trust in President Trump on his historically best issue: the economy.” (10/24/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5571391-rising-october-24-2025/
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19) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/24/25
Source: The New Republic
“Jamie Raskin’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Reveals MAGA’s Dark New Aim.” (10/24/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202203/jamie-raskin-harsh-new-takedown-trump-exposes-maga-darkest-aim
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20) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/24/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Considers Splitting Gaza into Two, US Bombs Another Boat, Putin Brushes Off Sanctions, and More.” (10/24/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z1HeiTTjZk
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