01/27 -- "Border Patrol" gang shot-caller, some gang members flee Minneapolis in wake of murders; Republicans and MAGA: Carrying a Gun Is a Bad Thing Now
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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
1) “Border Patrol” gang shot-caller, some gang members flee Minneapolis in wake of murders
2) Ukraine: Russian attack on Kharkiv causes mass power outages
3) Bitcoin remains coiled under $88,500 as gold tops $5,000, silver gives back gains
4) ICC judges find former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial
5) Lebanon: Regime files UN complaint against Israeli regime’s daily ceasefire violations
6) FL: Regime seeks to ban “West Bank” from official vocabulary
7) Myanmar: Military-backed party secures “election” “win” with opposition excluded
8) SCOTUS to take up 1988 privacy law case
9) Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts after employee leaked Trump tax records; stock falls
10) AZ: Idiot pol whines at AG for her support of lawful self-defense
11) Palestine: Israeli regime confirms recovery of last hostage’s remains from Gaza
12) Mexico: Gunmen open fire at soccer field, killing 11 people and wounding 12
13) Appeals court won’t reconsider Habba disqualification, paving way to SCOTUS
14) UK: Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform
15) Nigeria: Officers to face trial over coup plot allegations
16) USA Rare Earth shares jump 20% on Trump regime’s socialist nationalization scheme
17) Sydney Sweeney sparks backlash after scaling Hollywood sign for after-dark photo shoot
18) Yemen: Houthis Threaten New Red Sea Attack as US Aircraft Carrier Heads Toward Iran
19) 31,000 Kaiser health care workers walk out in major, open-ended strike
20) WA: Homeowner reports shooting intruder
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Republicans and MAGA: Carrying a Gun Is a Bad Thing Now
22) Two cities under siege
23) The Alex Pretti shooting and the growing strain on the First Amendment
24) From Bush to Trump
25) Embrace Cultural Creative Destruction
26) No Healthy Person Wants To Rule The World Or Become A Billionaire
27) Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target
28) On the Very Idea of a “Heritage American”
29) The Trump-Vance-Noem-Bovino Message to Americans: Obey or Die
30) Capping Card Interest Rates Won’t Make Credit Cheaper
31) Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
32) Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Lies Begin: On the Execution of Alex Pretti
33) The Trump Administration Wants Dead ICE Officers
34) Reining in the Courts
35) Insect Loss As an Early Warning of Systemic Biological Failure
36) The US Must Return to a Gold Standard
37) Today In Republicans Being Useless: GOPers Cower To Anti-ICE Info Ops
38) Not This King?
39) “Chairman Trump” and a Dystopian Vision for Gaza Without Gazans
40) What Kent State Taught the Country About State Violence
41) Memphis’s different take on a federal surge
42) Quantum Vibe, 01/26/26
43) Immigration: The Federal Solution
44) Radically Confronting America’s Federal Gang War Will Require Civilian Militias
45) Team Trump moves to ban traffic cameras in DC — as NYC’s set to quadruple the dangerous devices
46) Governing at gunpoint: ICE in Minneapolis
47) Trump’s Credit Card Rate Cap
48) An America First Case for Ending the Cuban Embargo
49) Immigration and the Invasion Story
50) They Keep Lying To Us
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51) Reason Roundtable, 01/26/26
52) The Kyle Anzalon Show, 01/26/26
53) Bulwark Takes, 01/26/26
54) Rising, 01/26/26
55) Parallax Views, 01/26/26
56) The Brian Nichols Show, 01/26/26
57) Zooming In, 01/26/26
58) EconTalk, 01/26/26
59) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 01/26/26
60) Free Talk Live, 01/25/26
61) The Chris Spangle Show, 01/25/26
62) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 01/25/26
63) Fountainhead Forum, episode 411
64) System Update, episode 570
65) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 01/25/26
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1) “Border Patrol” gang shot-caller, some gang members flee Minneapolis in wake of murders
Source: New York Post
“The US Border Patrol’s chief Greg Bovino and some agents have been ordered out of Minneapolis in a stunning turnaround after a second US citizen was [murdered] by federal agents in the city this month, according to reports. The order does not extend to ICE and it does not include all Border Patrol agents. However, Bovino will be joining the agents ‘imminently’ marching out of the state, Fox reported. … Chaos has reigned in the Minnesota city since Jan. 7 when anti-ICE protestor and mother-of-three Renee Good, 37, was murdered] by an ICE agent …. A second American, armed ICU nurse Pretti, was [murdered] Saturday …” (01/26/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/26/us-news/border-patrol-chief-greg-bovino-some-agents-pull-out-of-minneapolis-in-wake-of-alex-pretti-shooting/
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2) Ukraine: Russian attack on Kharkiv causes mass power outages
Source: Reuters
“Russian drones and missile strikes on Monday hit Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, knocking out power to 80% of the city and surrounding region and striking apartment buildings, a school and a kindergarten, local officials said. Two people were injured, Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app.” (01/27/26)
https://archive.is/4DVZG
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3) Bitcoin remains coiled under $88,500 as gold tops $5,000, silver gives back gains
Source: CoinDesk
“Bitcoin slipped to about $88,400 in early-week trading, extending a roughly 4% decline over the past week as major cryptocurrencies softened. The token’s underperformance versus rising equities and surging gold underscores that crypto is trading more like a high-beta risk asset than a safe-haven hedge. Traders are cautious and volumes muted ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision and a wave of Big Tech earnings, events seen as key catalysts for bitcoin’s next move.” (01/27/26)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/27/bitcoin-remains-coiled-under-usd88-500-as-gold-tops-usd5-000-silver-gives-back-gains
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4) ICC judges find former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial
Source: Seattle Times
“Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled on Monday that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial, after postponing an earlier hearing over concerns about the octogenarian’s health. Duterte is facing charges of crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in dozens of killings as part of his so-called war on drugs when in office, first as the mayor of a southern city and later as president. Lawyers for the 80-year old had argued Duterte was in frail health and his condition was deteriorating in the court’s detention unit.” (01/26/26)
https://archive.is/pVqlq
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5) Lebanon: Regime files UN complaint against Israeli regime’s daily ceasefire violations
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Lebanon has filed a complaint with the United Nations about repeated Israeli violations of a November 2024 ceasefire, calling on the Security Council to push Israel to end its attacks and fully withdraw from the country. The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants said the complaint, sent on Monday, stressed that Israeli abuses are a ‘clear’ violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. … Despite the 2024 ceasefire, the Israeli military has been launching near-daily attacks in Lebanon, which have killed hundreds of people. In November last year, the UN put the number of civilians killed in Israeli attacks at at least 127.” (01/26/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/26/lebanon-files-un-complaint-against-israels-daily-ceasefire-violations
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6) FL: Regime seeks to ban “West Bank” from official vocabulary
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“A measure is being advanced in the Florida legislature to officially recognise the term ‘Judea and Samaria’ and ban ‘West Bank’ in official state documents. The name change, which has strong support in both chambers of the Florida state legislature, would mean that all official documents, including press releases, school textbooks, and library materials, would refer to the area west of the Jordan River by its biblical names, Judea and Samaria. … Supporters of the bill say it seeks to recognise a historic location, while critics say it is a tactic to erase Palestinian identity—and possibly further Israeli control over the West Bank, which it has occupied since 1967 (and expanding illegal settlements ever since).” (01/26/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/florida-aims-ban-west-bank-official-vocabulary
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7) Myanmar: Military-backed party secures “election” “win” with opposition excluded
Source: ABC News
“Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party claimed Monday that it had won the country’s first election since the army seized power in 2021, paving the way for a new government. The victory of the party led by a former general was widely expected after the vote excluded major opposition parties and dissent was tightly restricted. Also, 25% of parliamentary seats were automatically reserved for the military — effectively guaranteeing control by the armed forces and its favored parties. Critics say the polls organized by the military government were neither free nor fair, but an effort to legitimize its rule after seizing power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The takeover triggered widespread opposition that dragged Myanmar into a civil war.” (01/26/26)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/military-backed-party-secures-myanmar-election-win-opposition-129558469
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8) SCOTUS to take up 1988 privacy law case
Source: USA Today
“The Supreme Court will decide whether a 1988 privacy law spurred by the disclosure of a high court nominee’s video rental history should be applied to digital videos watched on a free website. The court on Jan. 26 agreed to review a lower court’s ruling that the Video Privacy Protection Act can’t be used to sue a sports website for sharing a user’s video-watching history with Facebook. After President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the high court in 1987, a journalist obtained from his local video store a list of films Bork had rented. Congress responded by creating stiff penalties for any ‘video tape service provider’ who discloses personal information about their customers without consent.” (01/26/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/26/supreme-court-video-privacy-law/88302348007/
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9) Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts after employee leaked Trump tax records; stock falls
Source: CNBC
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday said he had cancelled all Treasury Department contracts with the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, one of whose employees leaked the tax records of President Donald Trump, and the billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, to media outlets. Booz Allen Hamilton’s stock price dropped by 8% on the heels of the Treasury Department’s announcement. The department said it currently has 31 separate contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, totaling $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in total obligations. … The department noted that between 2018 and 2020, Booz Allen employee Charles Edward Littlejohn ‘stole and leaked the confidential tax returns and return information of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers.’ The data breach affected about 406,000 taxpayers, according to the IRS. Littlejohn, 40, pleaded guilty in October 2023 to one count of disclosure of tax return information.” (01/26/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/trump-tax-records-treasury-cancels-booz-allen-contracts.html
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10) AZ: Idiot pol whines at AG for her support of lawful self-defense
Source: St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
“Senate Majority Leader John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, called on Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes to resign after she said people who feel [sic] they are in danger are legally allowed to shoot masked federal law enforcement officers. Mayes made these comments in an interview with 12News, where she said, ‘We have a Stand Your Ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.’ … Her comments are ‘putting the lives of federal and local law enforcement officers engaged in such dangerous work at risk,’ the state senator explained. ‘She needs to recant her statement and resign in disgrace,’ Kavanagh said.” [editor’s note: Well, SOMEONE does – TLK] (01/26/26)
https://www.heraldpalladium.com/news/national/kavanagh-mayes-must-resign-her-comments-endanger-ice/article_a5dcb50a-3a27-5a72-9460-101d5d5883ee.html
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11) Palestine: Israeli regime confirms recovery of last hostage’s remains from Gaza
Source: Fox News
“Israel on Monday confirmed that the remains of Staff Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage held in Gaza, have been recovered and returned home after 842 days. Gvili, who was 24 at the time of his death, served as an Israel Police officer and was killed during fighting on Oct. 7, 2023, after confronting Hamas terrorists near Kibbutz Alumim, according to a statement from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. His body was later abducted to Gaza. … The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said following the completion of an identification process conducted by Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine, in coordination with police and military authorities, that officials informed the Gvili family that their loved one’s remains had been identified and would be returned for burial.” (01/26/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-confirms-recovery-last-hostages-remains-from-gaza
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12) Mexico: Gunmen open fire at soccer field, killing 11 people and wounding 12
Source: CBS News
“Gunmen opened fire at a soccer field in central Mexico on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 12, authorities said. Salamanca Mayor Cesar Prieto said in a statement posted to social platforms that the gunmen arrived at the end of a soccer match. … Four bags containing human remains were also found Saturday night in the same town. Guanajuato had Mexico’s highest homicide total last year. Much of the violence in the state is linked to conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of the most powerful in the Latin American nation.” (01/26/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gunmen-attack-soccer-field-deaths-injuries-guanajuato-mexico/
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13) Appeals court won’t reconsider Habba disqualification, paving way to SCOTUS
Source: The Hill
“A federal appeals court has declined to reconsider a three-judge panel’s decision to uphold Alina Habba’s disqualification as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, paving the way for the Justice Department to take President Trump’s fight to retain loyalist U.S. attorneys to the Supreme Court. In a terse order Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit said the judges who ruled that Habba, a former personal attorney to Trump, was unlawfully appointed as U.S. attorney for New Jersey did not ask to rehear the case. A majority of judges voted against putting the matter in front of the full court, as well. … The decision keeps intact the panel’s ruling that Habba’s tenure became unlawful when she remained in the role after her 120-day interim term expired, despite the ‘novel series of legal and personnel moves’ the administration took to keep her in the job.” (01/26/26)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5706899-federal-appeals-court-declines-rehear
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14) UK: Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform
Source: Independent [UK]
“Controversial former home secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest ex-Tory right-winger to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform. After months of speculation, Ms Braverman, who once ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party, has joined her ally Robert Jenrick in switching parties. She was unveiled at a Reform rally for veterans in London as the party’s eighth sitting MP, having been a rare visitor to parliament in the last few months. … Speculation had been rife about Ms Braverman joining Reform since her husband Rael became a member last year, but it cooled when the party’s former chair Mr Yusuf issued a series of very personal attacks against her, which saw Mr Braverman quit the party in protest. A Tory source claimed: ‘Suella would have joined Reform sooner but the status of Rael was clearly a sticking point because they would have to let him rejoin the party as well.'” (01/26/26)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-reform-nigel-farage-defection-b2907645.html
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15) Nigeria: Officers to face trial over coup plot allegations
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A group of officers in Nigeria are set to face a military court after being accused of ‘plotting to overthrow the government’ of President Bola Tinubu last year, an armed forces’ statement has said.
Sixteen officers were arrested last October after what were described as ‘acts of indiscipline and breaches of service regulations.’ At the time the military dismissed rumours of an attempted coup, but following an investigation, the authorities have acknowledged that some of the 16 will go before a military judicial panel. Nigeria has a complex history of military involvement in politics, with multiple coups between 1966 and 1993, which has made allegations of coup‑plotting highly sensitive.” (01/26/26)
https://archive.is/x1YNX
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16) USA Rare Earth shares jump 20% on Trump regime’s socialist nationalization scheme
Source: CNBC
“USA Rare Earth shares rallied on Monday after the critical minerals startup announced that the Department of Commerce will take an equity stake. Commerce has issued a letter of intent that would provide USA Rare Earth with a $1.3 billion loan and $277 million in federal funding. USA Rare Earth will issue Commerce 16.1 million shares of common stock and 17.6 million in warrants. The U.S. government will have an 8% to 16% stake in the company depending on whether the warrants are exercised, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.” (01/26/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/usa-rare-earth-shares-jump-20percent-as-commerce-department-takes-equity-stake.html
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17) Sydney Sweeney sparks backlash after scaling Hollywood sign for after-dark photo shoot
Source: Fox News
“It seems Sydney Sweeney will do almost anything to promote her upcoming lingerie line. In a video obtained by TMZ, the ‘Euphoria’ actress appeared to climb the iconic Hollywood sign in the dead of night in an effort to share a message ahead of the upcoming launch. Sweeney — wearing black cargo pants, a black hoodie and a black hat — hung a clothesline of bras over the sign all while being filmed. According to TMZ, Sweeney and her team received a permit from FilmLA to shoot near the Hollywood sign. However, they did not have permission to climb or touch the sign. In an email sent to TMZ, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce — which owns the intellectual property rights to use the image of the Hollywood sign — confirmed that Sweeney did not have clearance to go that far.” (01/26/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sydney-sweeney-sparks-backlash-after-scaling-hollywood-sign-after-dark-photo-shoot
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18) Yemen: Houthis Threaten New Red Sea Attack as US Aircraft Carrier Heads Toward Iran
Source: US News & World Report
“Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels [sic] threatened new attacks on ships traveling through the Red Sea corridor, likely trying to back Iran as it worried Monday about an approaching U.S. aircraft carrier after President Donald Trump threatened military action over its crackdown on nationwide protests. … The Houthi threat come as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and other guided missile destroyers with it move toward the region. Trump has said the ships are being moved ‘just in case’ he decides to take action against Iran.” (01/25/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-26/yemen-rebels-threaten-new-red-sea-attack-as-us-aircraft-carrier-heads-toward-iran
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19) 31,000 Kaiser health care workers walk out in major, open-ended strike
Source: SFGate
“Kaiser Permanente unionized nurses and other workers began an open-ended strike on Monday at dozens of locations in California and Hawaii, citing staffing shortages, workplace safety and wages. … About 31,000 employees represented by the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) plan to take part in the work stoppage, which will include picketing at several Kaiser locations, including some in Northern California and the Bay Area.” (01/26/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/regional-kaiser-workers-walk-out-begin-21315992.php
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20) WA: Homeowner reports shooting intruder
Source: KIRO 7 News
“Lake Forest Park police are investigating a residential burglary that left a suspected intruder hospitalized after a homeowner reported shooting them, according to the Lake Forest Park Police Department. Police said officers were called to a home in the 19100 block of Ballinger Way Northeast at about 5:02 a.m. Sunday after a homeowner dialed 911 to report that someone inside the home had just shot an intruder. Officers arrived within minutes and secured the scene. Police provided lifesaving aid to the injured person until Shoreline Fire Department crews arrived.” (01/25/26)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/homeowner-reports-shooting-intruder-during-210052657.html
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21) Republicans and MAGA: Carrying a Gun Is a Bad Thing Now
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken
“It’s increasingly difficult to imagine anything the Trump administration can do that conservatives and Republicans will not make excuses for. There is apparently no federal power and no act by the US’s standing army of federal cops that Trump supporters won’t endorse. The latest example is Republicans new assault on the Second Amendment and against private citizens carrying firearms. GOP mouthpieces are informing us that Americans are not allowed to be armed with a gun at a protest.” (01/26/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/republicans-and-maga-carrying-gun-bad-thing-now
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22) Two cities under siege
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.” (01/26/26)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities-under-siege
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23) The Alex Pretti shooting and the growing strain on the First Amendment
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Aaron Terr
“The drumbeat of statements from the administration that are openly hostile to basic First Amendment rights should disturb every American. And when Americans see someone shot dead in the street shortly after recording federal agents — and then hear top government officials immediately justify the shooting before any investigation can begin — they will reasonably fear that exercising these rights carries not just legal risk but physical danger.” (01/26/26)
https://www.thefire.org/news/alex-pretti-shooting-and-growing-strain-first-amendment
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24) From Bush to Trump
Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“As I have argued, Trump’s project is less about controlling crime, and more about deporting those ‘illegals’ who don’t fit into his vision of a country dominated by white identity politics. … The irony of all this is that Trump once decried the administration of George W. Bush as ‘failed and uninspiring.’ But if it were not for the ‘innovations’ of Bush’s presidency, crafted nearly a quarter-century ago, Trump would not have had the instruments of domestic warfare and ethnic cleansing that he’s been using with impunity.” (01/26/26)
https://notablog.net/2026/01/25/from-bush-to-trump/
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25) Embrace Cultural Creative Destruction
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Almost everyone embraces ‘cultural’ critiques of capitalism. The left has ‘cultural studies;’;the right has the mantra, ‘We’re a country, not an economy.’ The upshot, in both cases, is that government ought to do something about culture. Freeze it in place? Force it to progress? Turn back the clock? My latest book of essays, You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition, flips this narrative. All of these demands for ‘reshaping culture’ are thinly-veiled calls for coercing humans.” (01/26/26)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/embrace-cultural-creative-destruction
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26) No Healthy Person Wants To Rule The World Or Become A Billionaire
Source: Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone
“No mentally healthy person wants to rule the world. Nobody with a functioning conscience and a working empathy center in their brain is interested in becoming a billionaire. We are ruled by the most dysfunctional members of our species. The most wounded, neurotic and sociopathic among us. The least wise, caring and insightful. What drives a person to claw their way to the top of a wildly sick society and become a lord of the dystopia?” (01/26/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/01/26/no-healthy-person-wants-to-rule-the-world-or-become-a-billionaire/
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27) Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul
“The Justice Department recently launched a criminal investigation into whether Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell lied to Congress about the costs of renovating the Federal Reserve’s offices. Many believe this investigation was launched in order to support President Trump’s effort to replace Powell, who he nominated to be Fed chairman in 2017, with a Fed chairman who will accommodate President Trump’s demands for lower interest rates. Almost all observers believe that President Trump’s desire to stack the Federal Reserve board with loyalists who will tailor monetary policy to his liking motivated the investigation of Federal Reserve Board Member Lisa Cook. President Trump is using allegations that Cook lied on a mortgage application as a justification to fire her.” (01/26/26)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/trumps-latest-regime-change-target
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28) On the Very Idea of a “Heritage American”
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“The NatCons are modern day Tories with a heavy dose of Southern Traditionalism. Most of what they call for belongs at the community level or private sphere, not the nation.” (01/26/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/on-the-very-idea-of-a-heritage-american
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29) The Trump-Vance-Noem-Bovino Message to Americans: Obey or Die
Source: Common Dreams
by Thom Hartmann
“Good and Pretti weren’t accidents, and they weren’t about immigration: these murders were unambiguous messages as clear as could be: ‘Get in our way and we will kill you, and nobody will do anything about it.'” (01/26/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-trump-vance-noem-bovino-message-to-americans-obey-or-die
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30) Capping Card Interest Rates Won’t Make Credit Cheaper
Source: The Daily Economy
by John Phelan
“APR caps may sound consumer-friendly, but price caps just serve to cut off vulnerable households from legitimate lenders.” (01/26/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/capping-card-interest-rates-wont-make-credit-cheaper/
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31) Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
Source: Townhall
by Derek Hunter
“The entire ‘protest’ movement seems like a mating dance for people who otherwise wouldn’t ever get laid (not that they’re getting laid, but marching with people is about as close to the prospect of it as they’re likely to get). It’s hard for people who pay attention to what’s going on to care when someone gets hurt, or worse, when you know these people have taken to the street for what amounts to performance art.” (01/26/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/01/26/play-stupid-games-win-stupid-prizes-n2670053
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32) Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Lies Begin: On the Execution of Alex Pretti
Source: CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair
“The lies aren’t even creative. They’re pro forma. They tell them to cloak the impunity given to the murderous agents of the state, who’ve been unshackled from the Constitution and given license to raid and ransack, detain and kill at will. But how long will even the most slavish devotees of this regime be willing to swallow the lies without convulsing from deep-welling nausea? The right-to-lifers? The evangelicals? The NRA? How much will they tolerate? After all, federal agents disarmed Alex Pretti, then they shot him. You couldn’t script a more harrowing parable for the NRA’s warnings about the sanctity of gun rights for all these years. Will this heinous killing finally make them turn on Trump? Don’t count on it.” (01/26/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/26/where-the-sidewalk-ends-the-lies-begin-on-the-execution-of-alex-pretti/
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33) The Trump Administration Wants Dead ICE Officers
Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper
“An important mythical figure in Nazi Germany was a man named Horst Wessel. He was a mid-level Nazi street thug who was killed by communists over an unpaid rent dispute. Nazi propaganda turned him into a hero of the German nation, and the ‘Horst Wessel Song’ became the official Nazi anthem. The Trump administration is doing all in its power to create a similar fake martyr in the form of dead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers. It’s central to the conservative victimhood complex: In order to violently dominate others, they must create a false narrative in which they are also the victim at the same time.” (01/26/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/01/26/ice-trump-minnesota-renee-good-alex-pretti/
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34) Reining in the Courts
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jay Cost
“What is the proper role of the judiciary in American political life? There has never been a clear answer to that question, even among the founders. The Constitution itself has relatively little to say about the judiciary, delegating most of its design and much of its authority to congressional action. Alexander Hamilton in Federalist #78 argued that the judiciary could resolve disputes arising under the Constitution. But James Madison in Federalist #51 suggested that many such questions should be settled by the political process. Thomas Jefferson, in retirement, was aghast at the sweeping rhetoric of McCulloch v. Maryland, in which his cousin, Chief Justice John Marshall, employed Hamiltonian reasoning to legitimize the Bank of the United States.” (01/26/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/reining-in-the-courts/
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35) Insect Loss As an Early Warning of Systemic Biological Failure
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“n medicine, silence can be more alarming than noise. For example, a patient who abruptly stops voicing discomfort or a monitor that ceases activity may signal system failure rather than resolution. Ecology presents a similar scenario, and currently, the silence is deeply concerning. Insects are disappearing across vast regions globally. This is not a modest decline or a simple geographic shift, but a rapid vanishing of beetles, butterflies, moths, flies, mosquitoes, bees, and entire functional groups. This phenomenon is not speculative or anecdotal; it is among the most consistently documented biological trends of the past 50 years and remains insufficiently addressed.” (01/26/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/insect-loss-as-an-early-warning-of-systemic-biological-failure/
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36) The US Must Return to a Gold Standard
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Patrick Barron
“The purchasing power of the US dollar has been debased by over 99 percent since the foundation of the Federal Reserve. (An ounce of gold cost $20.67 in 1913. According to the Wall Street Journal as of Friday, January 16 its price was $4,588.40. That means that the dollar is worth less than one half of one percent of its 1913 purchasing power [$20.67/$4,588.40=.0045]). Its remaining purchasing power may eventually become zero. There is no discipline in US spending and the Fed has become a willing accomplice to this crime.” (01/26/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/us-must-return-gold-standard
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37) Today In Republicans Being Useless: GOPers Cower To Anti-ICE Info Ops
Source: The Federalist
by Shawn Fleetwood
“Donald Trump ran on a platform of mass deporting illegal aliens from the United States during the 2024 election, and as such, the voters of Oklahoma supported his efforts to do so. In fact, every single county in the Sooner State backed Trump and his policies over the open border approach of Democrat Kamala Harris. So, if Oklahoma voters have made their support for enforcing America’s immigration laws abundantly clear, why is their ‘Republican’ governor going on legacy media to cower before the left’s latest anti-ICE info op?” [editor’s note: I’m old enough to remember a time when the Federalist Society at least occasionally pretended to be kinda-sorta, a little bit, in a way, federalist – TLK] (01/26/26)
https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/26/today-in-republicans-being-useless-gopers-cower-to-anti-ice-info-ops/
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38) Not This King?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Throughout President Donald Trump’s first term, I recall shouts that he had overstepped his authority under the law only to discover, oftentimes, that the power he was wielding had been bestowed upon our president by a feckless Congress. What I found even more disconcerting was that at no time did those complaining seek to limit these excessive presidential powers. It appears, as Sarah Isgur suggested, that their concern was not with an imperial presidency, only with this current person as that imperial president.” (01/26/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/01/26/not-this-king/
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39) “Chairman Trump” and a Dystopian Vision for Gaza Without Gazans
Source: Antiwar.com
by Alan Mosley
“When Donald Trump strode into the World Economic Forum in Davos this January flanked by Jared Kushner and other confidants, it was ostensibly to sign a charter establishing a ‘Board of Peace.’ The document, hailed by its backers as a technocratic alternative to decades of dead‑end diplomacy, promises ‘pragmatic judgment’ and a ‘nimble and effective’ institution to rebuild war‑torn Gaza. The preamble reads like an attempt to imitate the United Nations Charter without its collective obligations. Beneath that veneer, the charter sets up a structure that concentrates virtually all authority in the hands of its chairman, Donald J. Trump, and relegates Palestinians to spectators while foreign investors draw up the blueprints for their homeland.” (01/26/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/alan_mosley/2026/01/25/chairman-trump-and-a-dystopian-vision-for-gaza-without-gazans/
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40) What Kent State Taught the Country About State Violence
Source: Foreign Policy
by Julian E Zelizer
“The horror of watching a U.S. citizen die at the hands of federal or state officials transcends ordinary politics. Such a ruthless deployment of power not only evokes deep and widespread human emotion but also collides directly with fundamental U.S. values rooted in the Constitution, especially the commitment to protecting individual liberties from government abuse.” (01/26/26)
https://archive.is/LCQk1
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41) Memphis’s different take on a federal surge
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by the editorial board
“Americans have long struggled with notions of ‘local justice.’ Should state or federal laws sometimes bend to a community’s sensibilities and priorities? In Minneapolis, recent instances of violence by immigration enforcement agents, and sometimes by protesters, point to a federal-local split over immigration policies, not to mention which branch of law enforcement should investigate the violent acts. … Yet, for every standoff like the current one in Minneapolis, there are today examples of cooperation in implementing law – whether federal, state, or local.” (01/26/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0126/Memphis-different-take-on-a-federal-surge
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42) Quantum Vibe, 01/26/26
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (01/26/26)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2572
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43) Immigration: The Federal Solution
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“The conflict over immigration has become something close to a civil war, with the federal government blocking state action against federal agents arguably guilty of murder. The immediate source of the conflict is a sharp difference in attitudes to illegal immigration between the inhabitants of Minneapolis, possibly of Minnesota, and the executive arm of the federal government. The less immediate source is a broader political split between left and right, blue tribe and red tribe. The accepted way to deal with that situation is through the electoral system. … A better solution is federalism. For the current conflict, that means deporting illegal immigrants from Florida, where the state government supports doing so, ignoring them in Minnesota and California, where the state government and, I suspect, a substantial majority of the population, do not.” (01/25/26)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/immigration-the-federal-solution
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44) Radically Confronting America’s Federal Gang War Will Require Civilian Militias
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“America is in the grips of an epic gang war the likes of which it has never seen before. Masked and heavily armed thugs stock the streets of some of America’s biggest cities with total impunity, thousands of them, tossing houses door to door, dragging unarmed civilians screaming from their vehicles before shoving them into unmarked vans, lighting up anyone who dares to resist and straight up murdering people on camera before sauntering off from the scene of the crime like swaggering cowboys and daring shocked bystanders to do something about it … The gangs I’m talking about are not the Crips or the Bloods or MS-13. The gangs I’m talking about are far worse.” (01/25/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/01/radically-confronting-americas-federal.html
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45) Team Trump moves to ban traffic cameras in DC — as NYC’s set to quadruple the dangerous devices
Source: New York Post
by James Bovard
“The Trump administration may soon reduce highway robbery by 95% in Washington, DC. The Big Apple needs the same silver bullet because the city’s drivers could speedily be victimized by the biggest bureaucratic looting spree of the century. Trump’s Transportation Department proposes to ‘prohibit the operation of automated traffic camera enforcement in the District of Columbia,’ which would ban red-light, speed and stop-sign cameras. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is attaching a similar provision to congressional transportation legislation. The dispute over red-light and speed cameras goes to the heart of the question of how much harm politicians are entitled to inflict while they shake money out of citizens’ pockets.” (01/26/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/26/opinion/team-trump-moves-to-ban-traffic-cameras-in-dc-as-nycs-set-to-quadruple-the-dangerous-devices/
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46) Governing at gunpoint: ICE in Minneapolis
Source: Orange County Register
by Abigail R Hall & Patrick S Ward
“Minneapolis is reeling as masked, heavily armed ICE agents flood immigrant neighborhoods, pulling people from cars, entering homes, and clashing with protesters and observers. Businesses have shuttered, school districts have shifted online, and candlelight memorials mark civilians killed during federal operations. Now President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy federal troops, framing the unrest as an ‘insurrection’ led by ‘professional agitators.’ The message is clear: escalating force is being cast as governance. But we have been here before.” (01/25/26)
https://archive.is/6CLdg
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47) Trump’s Credit Card Rate Cap
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Louis Rouanet
“On January 9, President Donald Trump called for a 10% cap on credit card interest rates — a drop from the 2025 average of 19.7%. This reflects growing political support within the fringes of both the Republican and Democratic Parties for such anti-market policies. In February 2025, Senators Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley also introduced legislation mirroring Trump’s proposal. Supporters of price controls like to blame ‘greedy’ corporations. Trump told reporters that credit card companies ‘really abused the public.’ Unfortunately, his proposal treats symptoms while ignoring the disease, and that will ultimately harm the very consumers it claims to protect.” (01/25/26)
https://fee.org/articles/trumps-credit-card-rate-cap/
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48) An America First Case for Ending the Cuban Embargo
Source: The American Conservative
by Reed Lindsay
“For decades, Washington’s economic war on Cuba has weakened a government that has arguably been our most reliable security partner in the Caribbean. Instead of increasing America’s leverage, tougher sanctions have made Cuba less stable—and the United States less secure—by destabilizing the island’s economy, accelerating unprecedented migration to the U.S. border, undermining counternarcotics efforts, hurting U.S. companies, and incentivizing closer relations with Russia and China. A truly failed Cuban state just 90 miles from our coast would probably generate even greater blowback. Current Cuba policy is rooted not in our core national interests, but in Cold War nostalgia and Florida politics.” (01/25/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/an-america-first-case-for-ending-the-cuban-embargo/
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49) Immigration and the Invasion Story
Source: TomDispatch
by Patrick Strickland
“After a year of gutting the United States government, deploying armed jackboots to American cities, and bombing at least seven countries, the Trump administration kicked off 2026 by invading Venezuela and kidnapping its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. In the wake of that assault, President Trump doubled down on his abandonment of the isolationist positions he once supposedly held, threatening military action against Colombia, Cuba, Iran, and Mexico. He then vowed that the U.S. would come to “own” Greenland either ‘the easy way’ or ‘the hard way.’ In truth, American imperialism defines much of this country’s history, but the latest escalation comes at a time when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have also been deployed around the nation to grab immigrants off the streets and whisk them to detention centers.” (01/26/26)
https://tomdispatch.com/immigration-and-the-invasion-story/
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50) They Keep Lying To Us
Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn
“Who are you gonna believe: Kristi Noem in a bomber jacket or your own lyin’ eyes? In the wake of the second killing this month of a U.S. citizen in the streets of Minneapolis, what’s become completely clear is the extent to which statements by federal agencies are unmoored from any sort of reality as glimpsed by eyewitness cell phone footage.” (01/25/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/they-keep-lying-to-us
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Reason Roundtable, 01/26/26
Source: Reason
"When Did Republicans Stop Caring About Gun Rights?" (01/26/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/01/26/when-did-republicans-stop-caring-about-gun-rights/
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52) The Kyle Anzalon Show, 01/26/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“ICE Using AI to ID Targets, Breaking Down Trump’s WEF Speech.” (01/26/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-ice-using-ai-to-id-targets-breaking-down-trumps-wef-speech/
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53) Bulwark Takes, 01/26/26
Source: The Bulwark
“Sarah Longwell: The Alex Pretti Killing is Actually Breaking Through.” (01/26/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bYR3b7ReXI
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54) Rising, 01/26/26
Source: The Hill
“Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, slammed by gun owners after Alex Pretti killing: Robby Soave.” (01/26/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5705592-rising-january-26-2026/
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55) Parallax Views, 01/26/26
Source: Parallax Views
“Trump’s ICE Age: The Killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti w/ Sheldon Richman.” (01/26/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijdUi8bleEQ
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56) The Brian Nichols Show, 01/26/26
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Harris County Crime, Flooding, Taxes — Voters FED UP With Failed Leadership.” (01/26/26)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/tbns-harris-county-crime-flooding-taxes-voters-fed-up-with-failed-leadership
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57) Zooming In, 01/26/26
Source: The UnPopulist
“Does America Need a Deeper State to Save It? A Conversation with Tyler Cowen and Francis Fukuyama.” (01/26/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/does-america-need-a-deeper-state
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58) EconTalk, 01/26/26
Source: EconTalk
“Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell).” (01/26/26)
https://www.econtalk.org/zionism-the-melting-pot-and-the-galveston-project-with-rachel-cockerell/
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59) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 01/26/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs in 3 Crazed Tirades.” (01/26/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/205652/trump-accidentally-wrecks-case-tariffs-3-crazed-tirades
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60) Free Talk Live, 01/25/26
Source: Free Talk Live
“Energy crisis! Texas grid monopoly and the California rolling brown outs that have become normal :: Winter storm over half of country :: Renee Good vieo and other ICE murders :: Which ICE is more dangerous? :: Biden ALSO wanted federal police in cities …. David from NM calls about getting attacked and his phone being thrown :: Hawaii tries to subvert the 2nd ammendment :: Restaurants closed because of ICE. Democrats didn’t care about small businesses having to close when it was due to covid :: Too many cop brutality videos leads to depression. Having libertarian community is the antidote :: 2026-01-25 :: Bonnie, Colin, Angelo.” (01/25/26)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2026-01-25
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61) The Chris Spangle Show, 01/25/26
Source: We Are Libertarians
“ICE, State Power and the Imago Dei.” (01/25/26)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/ice-state-power-and-the-imago-dei
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62) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 01/25/26
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“John Sneisen (The Economic Truth) comes on the show to discuss Outerr.net, Blink (TryBlink.me), decentralized communication, economic and market conditions, precious metals, world news, etc.” (01/25/26)
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/390303-2026-01-24-2026-01-25-ernest-hancock-interviews-john-sneisen-mp3-4.htm
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63) Fountainhead Forum, episode 411
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Ezequiel Barbara on Javier Milei’s speech at Liberty International.” (01/25/26)
https://rumble.com/v74uzfm-ff-411-ezequiel-barbara-on-javier-mileis-speech-at-liberty-international.html
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64) System Update, episode 570
Source: System Update
“Why Are U.S. Officials LYING About the Latest ICE Killing?” (01/25/26)
https://rumble.com/v74uj78-why-are-u.s.-officials-lying-about-the-latest-ice-killing-system-update-570.html
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65) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 01/25/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Is Pam Bondi Miriam Adelson’s Tool to Censor Americans?” (01/25/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-is-pam-bondi-miriam-adelsons-tool-to-censor-americans/
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Today's Freedom News:
1) “Border Patrol” gang shot-caller, some gang members flee Minneapolis in wake of murders
2) Ukraine: Russian attack on Kharkiv causes mass power outages
3) Bitcoin remains coiled under $88,500 as gold tops $5,000, silver gives back gains
4) ICC judges find former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial
5) Lebanon: Regime files UN complaint against Israeli regime’s daily ceasefire violations
6) FL: Regime seeks to ban “West Bank” from official vocabulary
7) Myanmar: Military-backed party secures “election” “win” with opposition excluded
8) SCOTUS to take up 1988 privacy law case
9) Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts after employee leaked Trump tax records; stock falls
10) AZ: Idiot pol whines at AG for her support of lawful self-defense
11) Palestine: Israeli regime confirms recovery of last hostage’s remains from Gaza
12) Mexico: Gunmen open fire at soccer field, killing 11 people and wounding 12
13) Appeals court won’t reconsider Habba disqualification, paving way to SCOTUS
14) UK: Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform
15) Nigeria: Officers to face trial over coup plot allegations
16) USA Rare Earth shares jump 20% on Trump regime’s socialist nationalization scheme
17) Sydney Sweeney sparks backlash after scaling Hollywood sign for after-dark photo shoot
18) Yemen: Houthis Threaten New Red Sea Attack as US Aircraft Carrier Heads Toward Iran
19) 31,000 Kaiser health care workers walk out in major, open-ended strike
20) WA: Homeowner reports shooting intruder
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Republicans and MAGA: Carrying a Gun Is a Bad Thing Now
22) Two cities under siege
23) The Alex Pretti shooting and the growing strain on the First Amendment
24) From Bush to Trump
25) Embrace Cultural Creative Destruction
26) No Healthy Person Wants To Rule The World Or Become A Billionaire
27) Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target
28) On the Very Idea of a “Heritage American”
29) The Trump-Vance-Noem-Bovino Message to Americans: Obey or Die
30) Capping Card Interest Rates Won’t Make Credit Cheaper
31) Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
32) Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Lies Begin: On the Execution of Alex Pretti
33) The Trump Administration Wants Dead ICE Officers
34) Reining in the Courts
35) Insect Loss As an Early Warning of Systemic Biological Failure
36) The US Must Return to a Gold Standard
37) Today In Republicans Being Useless: GOPers Cower To Anti-ICE Info Ops
38) Not This King?
39) “Chairman Trump” and a Dystopian Vision for Gaza Without Gazans
40) What Kent State Taught the Country About State Violence
41) Memphis’s different take on a federal surge
42) Quantum Vibe, 01/26/26
43) Immigration: The Federal Solution
44) Radically Confronting America’s Federal Gang War Will Require Civilian Militias
45) Team Trump moves to ban traffic cameras in DC — as NYC’s set to quadruple the dangerous devices
46) Governing at gunpoint: ICE in Minneapolis
47) Trump’s Credit Card Rate Cap
48) An America First Case for Ending the Cuban Embargo
49) Immigration and the Invasion Story
50) They Keep Lying To Us
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Reason Roundtable, 01/26/26
52) The Kyle Anzalon Show, 01/26/26
53) Bulwark Takes, 01/26/26
54) Rising, 01/26/26
55) Parallax Views, 01/26/26
56) The Brian Nichols Show, 01/26/26
57) Zooming In, 01/26/26
58) EconTalk, 01/26/26
59) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 01/26/26
60) Free Talk Live, 01/25/26
61) The Chris Spangle Show, 01/25/26
62) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 01/25/26
63) Fountainhead Forum, episode 411
64) System Update, episode 570
65) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 01/25/26
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1) “Border Patrol” gang shot-caller, some gang members flee Minneapolis in wake of murders
Source: New York Post
“The US Border Patrol’s chief Greg Bovino and some agents have been ordered out of Minneapolis in a stunning turnaround after a second US citizen was [murdered] by federal agents in the city this month, according to reports. The order does not extend to ICE and it does not include all Border Patrol agents. However, Bovino will be joining the agents ‘imminently’ marching out of the state, Fox reported. … Chaos has reigned in the Minnesota city since Jan. 7 when anti-ICE protestor and mother-of-three Renee Good, 37, was murdered] by an ICE agent …. A second American, armed ICU nurse Pretti, was [murdered] Saturday …” (01/26/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/26/us-news/border-patrol-chief-greg-bovino-some-agents-pull-out-of-minneapolis-in-wake-of-alex-pretti-shooting/
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2) Ukraine: Russian attack on Kharkiv causes mass power outages
Source: Reuters
“Russian drones and missile strikes on Monday hit Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, knocking out power to 80% of the city and surrounding region and striking apartment buildings, a school and a kindergarten, local officials said. Two people were injured, Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app.” (01/27/26)
https://archive.is/4DVZG
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3) Bitcoin remains coiled under $88,500 as gold tops $5,000, silver gives back gains
Source: CoinDesk
“Bitcoin slipped to about $88,400 in early-week trading, extending a roughly 4% decline over the past week as major cryptocurrencies softened. The token’s underperformance versus rising equities and surging gold underscores that crypto is trading more like a high-beta risk asset than a safe-haven hedge. Traders are cautious and volumes muted ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision and a wave of Big Tech earnings, events seen as key catalysts for bitcoin’s next move.” (01/27/26)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/27/bitcoin-remains-coiled-under-usd88-500-as-gold-tops-usd5-000-silver-gives-back-gains
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4) ICC judges find former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial
Source: Seattle Times
“Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled on Monday that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial, after postponing an earlier hearing over concerns about the octogenarian’s health. Duterte is facing charges of crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in dozens of killings as part of his so-called war on drugs when in office, first as the mayor of a southern city and later as president. Lawyers for the 80-year old had argued Duterte was in frail health and his condition was deteriorating in the court’s detention unit.” (01/26/26)
https://archive.is/pVqlq
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5) Lebanon: Regime files UN complaint against Israeli regime’s daily ceasefire violations
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Lebanon has filed a complaint with the United Nations about repeated Israeli violations of a November 2024 ceasefire, calling on the Security Council to push Israel to end its attacks and fully withdraw from the country. The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants said the complaint, sent on Monday, stressed that Israeli abuses are a ‘clear’ violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. … Despite the 2024 ceasefire, the Israeli military has been launching near-daily attacks in Lebanon, which have killed hundreds of people. In November last year, the UN put the number of civilians killed in Israeli attacks at at least 127.” (01/26/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/26/lebanon-files-un-complaint-against-israels-daily-ceasefire-violations
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6) FL: Regime seeks to ban “West Bank” from official vocabulary
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“A measure is being advanced in the Florida legislature to officially recognise the term ‘Judea and Samaria’ and ban ‘West Bank’ in official state documents. The name change, which has strong support in both chambers of the Florida state legislature, would mean that all official documents, including press releases, school textbooks, and library materials, would refer to the area west of the Jordan River by its biblical names, Judea and Samaria. … Supporters of the bill say it seeks to recognise a historic location, while critics say it is a tactic to erase Palestinian identity—and possibly further Israeli control over the West Bank, which it has occupied since 1967 (and expanding illegal settlements ever since).” (01/26/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/florida-aims-ban-west-bank-official-vocabulary
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7) Myanmar: Military-backed party secures “election” “win” with opposition excluded
Source: ABC News
“Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party claimed Monday that it had won the country’s first election since the army seized power in 2021, paving the way for a new government. The victory of the party led by a former general was widely expected after the vote excluded major opposition parties and dissent was tightly restricted. Also, 25% of parliamentary seats were automatically reserved for the military — effectively guaranteeing control by the armed forces and its favored parties. Critics say the polls organized by the military government were neither free nor fair, but an effort to legitimize its rule after seizing power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The takeover triggered widespread opposition that dragged Myanmar into a civil war.” (01/26/26)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/military-backed-party-secures-myanmar-election-win-opposition-129558469
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8) SCOTUS to take up 1988 privacy law case
Source: USA Today
“The Supreme Court will decide whether a 1988 privacy law spurred by the disclosure of a high court nominee’s video rental history should be applied to digital videos watched on a free website. The court on Jan. 26 agreed to review a lower court’s ruling that the Video Privacy Protection Act can’t be used to sue a sports website for sharing a user’s video-watching history with Facebook. After President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the high court in 1987, a journalist obtained from his local video store a list of films Bork had rented. Congress responded by creating stiff penalties for any ‘video tape service provider’ who discloses personal information about their customers without consent.” (01/26/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/26/supreme-court-video-privacy-law/88302348007/
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9) Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts after employee leaked Trump tax records; stock falls
Source: CNBC
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday said he had cancelled all Treasury Department contracts with the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, one of whose employees leaked the tax records of President Donald Trump, and the billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, to media outlets. Booz Allen Hamilton’s stock price dropped by 8% on the heels of the Treasury Department’s announcement. The department said it currently has 31 separate contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, totaling $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in total obligations. … The department noted that between 2018 and 2020, Booz Allen employee Charles Edward Littlejohn ‘stole and leaked the confidential tax returns and return information of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers.’ The data breach affected about 406,000 taxpayers, according to the IRS. Littlejohn, 40, pleaded guilty in October 2023 to one count of disclosure of tax return information.” (01/26/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/trump-tax-records-treasury-cancels-booz-allen-contracts.html
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10) AZ: Idiot pol whines at AG for her support of lawful self-defense
Source: St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
“Senate Majority Leader John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, called on Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes to resign after she said people who feel [sic] they are in danger are legally allowed to shoot masked federal law enforcement officers. Mayes made these comments in an interview with 12News, where she said, ‘We have a Stand Your Ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.’ … Her comments are ‘putting the lives of federal and local law enforcement officers engaged in such dangerous work at risk,’ the state senator explained. ‘She needs to recant her statement and resign in disgrace,’ Kavanagh said.” [editor’s note: Well, SOMEONE does – TLK] (01/26/26)
https://www.heraldpalladium.com/news/national/kavanagh-mayes-must-resign-her-comments-endanger-ice/article_a5dcb50a-3a27-5a72-9460-101d5d5883ee.html
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11) Palestine: Israeli regime confirms recovery of last hostage’s remains from Gaza
Source: Fox News
“Israel on Monday confirmed that the remains of Staff Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage held in Gaza, have been recovered and returned home after 842 days. Gvili, who was 24 at the time of his death, served as an Israel Police officer and was killed during fighting on Oct. 7, 2023, after confronting Hamas terrorists near Kibbutz Alumim, according to a statement from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. His body was later abducted to Gaza. … The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said following the completion of an identification process conducted by Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine, in coordination with police and military authorities, that officials informed the Gvili family that their loved one’s remains had been identified and would be returned for burial.” (01/26/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-confirms-recovery-last-hostages-remains-from-gaza
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12) Mexico: Gunmen open fire at soccer field, killing 11 people and wounding 12
Source: CBS News
“Gunmen opened fire at a soccer field in central Mexico on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 12, authorities said. Salamanca Mayor Cesar Prieto said in a statement posted to social platforms that the gunmen arrived at the end of a soccer match. … Four bags containing human remains were also found Saturday night in the same town. Guanajuato had Mexico’s highest homicide total last year. Much of the violence in the state is linked to conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of the most powerful in the Latin American nation.” (01/26/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gunmen-attack-soccer-field-deaths-injuries-guanajuato-mexico/
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13) Appeals court won’t reconsider Habba disqualification, paving way to SCOTUS
Source: The Hill
“A federal appeals court has declined to reconsider a three-judge panel’s decision to uphold Alina Habba’s disqualification as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, paving the way for the Justice Department to take President Trump’s fight to retain loyalist U.S. attorneys to the Supreme Court. In a terse order Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit said the judges who ruled that Habba, a former personal attorney to Trump, was unlawfully appointed as U.S. attorney for New Jersey did not ask to rehear the case. A majority of judges voted against putting the matter in front of the full court, as well. … The decision keeps intact the panel’s ruling that Habba’s tenure became unlawful when she remained in the role after her 120-day interim term expired, despite the ‘novel series of legal and personnel moves’ the administration took to keep her in the job.” (01/26/26)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5706899-federal-appeals-court-declines-rehear
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14) UK: Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform
Source: Independent [UK]
“Controversial former home secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest ex-Tory right-winger to defect to Nigel Farage’s Reform. After months of speculation, Ms Braverman, who once ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party, has joined her ally Robert Jenrick in switching parties. She was unveiled at a Reform rally for veterans in London as the party’s eighth sitting MP, having been a rare visitor to parliament in the last few months. … Speculation had been rife about Ms Braverman joining Reform since her husband Rael became a member last year, but it cooled when the party’s former chair Mr Yusuf issued a series of very personal attacks against her, which saw Mr Braverman quit the party in protest. A Tory source claimed: ‘Suella would have joined Reform sooner but the status of Rael was clearly a sticking point because they would have to let him rejoin the party as well.'” (01/26/26)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-reform-nigel-farage-defection-b2907645.html
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15) Nigeria: Officers to face trial over coup plot allegations
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A group of officers in Nigeria are set to face a military court after being accused of ‘plotting to overthrow the government’ of President Bola Tinubu last year, an armed forces’ statement has said.
Sixteen officers were arrested last October after what were described as ‘acts of indiscipline and breaches of service regulations.’ At the time the military dismissed rumours of an attempted coup, but following an investigation, the authorities have acknowledged that some of the 16 will go before a military judicial panel. Nigeria has a complex history of military involvement in politics, with multiple coups between 1966 and 1993, which has made allegations of coup‑plotting highly sensitive.” (01/26/26)
https://archive.is/x1YNX
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16) USA Rare Earth shares jump 20% on Trump regime’s socialist nationalization scheme
Source: CNBC
“USA Rare Earth shares rallied on Monday after the critical minerals startup announced that the Department of Commerce will take an equity stake. Commerce has issued a letter of intent that would provide USA Rare Earth with a $1.3 billion loan and $277 million in federal funding. USA Rare Earth will issue Commerce 16.1 million shares of common stock and 17.6 million in warrants. The U.S. government will have an 8% to 16% stake in the company depending on whether the warrants are exercised, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.” (01/26/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/usa-rare-earth-shares-jump-20percent-as-commerce-department-takes-equity-stake.html
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17) Sydney Sweeney sparks backlash after scaling Hollywood sign for after-dark photo shoot
Source: Fox News
“It seems Sydney Sweeney will do almost anything to promote her upcoming lingerie line. In a video obtained by TMZ, the ‘Euphoria’ actress appeared to climb the iconic Hollywood sign in the dead of night in an effort to share a message ahead of the upcoming launch. Sweeney — wearing black cargo pants, a black hoodie and a black hat — hung a clothesline of bras over the sign all while being filmed. According to TMZ, Sweeney and her team received a permit from FilmLA to shoot near the Hollywood sign. However, they did not have permission to climb or touch the sign. In an email sent to TMZ, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce — which owns the intellectual property rights to use the image of the Hollywood sign — confirmed that Sweeney did not have clearance to go that far.” (01/26/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sydney-sweeney-sparks-backlash-after-scaling-hollywood-sign-after-dark-photo-shoot
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18) Yemen: Houthis Threaten New Red Sea Attack as US Aircraft Carrier Heads Toward Iran
Source: US News & World Report
“Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels [sic] threatened new attacks on ships traveling through the Red Sea corridor, likely trying to back Iran as it worried Monday about an approaching U.S. aircraft carrier after President Donald Trump threatened military action over its crackdown on nationwide protests. … The Houthi threat come as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and other guided missile destroyers with it move toward the region. Trump has said the ships are being moved ‘just in case’ he decides to take action against Iran.” (01/25/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-26/yemen-rebels-threaten-new-red-sea-attack-as-us-aircraft-carrier-heads-toward-iran
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19) 31,000 Kaiser health care workers walk out in major, open-ended strike
Source: SFGate
“Kaiser Permanente unionized nurses and other workers began an open-ended strike on Monday at dozens of locations in California and Hawaii, citing staffing shortages, workplace safety and wages. … About 31,000 employees represented by the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) plan to take part in the work stoppage, which will include picketing at several Kaiser locations, including some in Northern California and the Bay Area.” (01/26/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/regional-kaiser-workers-walk-out-begin-21315992.php
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20) WA: Homeowner reports shooting intruder
Source: KIRO 7 News
“Lake Forest Park police are investigating a residential burglary that left a suspected intruder hospitalized after a homeowner reported shooting them, according to the Lake Forest Park Police Department. Police said officers were called to a home in the 19100 block of Ballinger Way Northeast at about 5:02 a.m. Sunday after a homeowner dialed 911 to report that someone inside the home had just shot an intruder. Officers arrived within minutes and secured the scene. Police provided lifesaving aid to the injured person until Shoreline Fire Department crews arrived.” (01/25/26)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/homeowner-reports-shooting-intruder-during-210052657.html
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21) Republicans and MAGA: Carrying a Gun Is a Bad Thing Now
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken
“It’s increasingly difficult to imagine anything the Trump administration can do that conservatives and Republicans will not make excuses for. There is apparently no federal power and no act by the US’s standing army of federal cops that Trump supporters won’t endorse. The latest example is Republicans new assault on the Second Amendment and against private citizens carrying firearms. GOP mouthpieces are informing us that Americans are not allowed to be armed with a gun at a protest.” (01/26/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/republicans-and-maga-carrying-gun-bad-thing-now
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22) Two cities under siege
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.” (01/26/26)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities-under-siege
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23) The Alex Pretti shooting and the growing strain on the First Amendment
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Aaron Terr
“The drumbeat of statements from the administration that are openly hostile to basic First Amendment rights should disturb every American. And when Americans see someone shot dead in the street shortly after recording federal agents — and then hear top government officials immediately justify the shooting before any investigation can begin — they will reasonably fear that exercising these rights carries not just legal risk but physical danger.” (01/26/26)
https://www.thefire.org/news/alex-pretti-shooting-and-growing-strain-first-amendment
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24) From Bush to Trump
Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“As I have argued, Trump’s project is less about controlling crime, and more about deporting those ‘illegals’ who don’t fit into his vision of a country dominated by white identity politics. … The irony of all this is that Trump once decried the administration of George W. Bush as ‘failed and uninspiring.’ But if it were not for the ‘innovations’ of Bush’s presidency, crafted nearly a quarter-century ago, Trump would not have had the instruments of domestic warfare and ethnic cleansing that he’s been using with impunity.” (01/26/26)
https://notablog.net/2026/01/25/from-bush-to-trump/
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25) Embrace Cultural Creative Destruction
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Almost everyone embraces ‘cultural’ critiques of capitalism. The left has ‘cultural studies;’;the right has the mantra, ‘We’re a country, not an economy.’ The upshot, in both cases, is that government ought to do something about culture. Freeze it in place? Force it to progress? Turn back the clock? My latest book of essays, You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition, flips this narrative. All of these demands for ‘reshaping culture’ are thinly-veiled calls for coercing humans.” (01/26/26)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/embrace-cultural-creative-destruction
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26) No Healthy Person Wants To Rule The World Or Become A Billionaire
Source: Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone
“No mentally healthy person wants to rule the world. Nobody with a functioning conscience and a working empathy center in their brain is interested in becoming a billionaire. We are ruled by the most dysfunctional members of our species. The most wounded, neurotic and sociopathic among us. The least wise, caring and insightful. What drives a person to claw their way to the top of a wildly sick society and become a lord of the dystopia?” (01/26/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/01/26/no-healthy-person-wants-to-rule-the-world-or-become-a-billionaire/
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27) Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul
“The Justice Department recently launched a criminal investigation into whether Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell lied to Congress about the costs of renovating the Federal Reserve’s offices. Many believe this investigation was launched in order to support President Trump’s effort to replace Powell, who he nominated to be Fed chairman in 2017, with a Fed chairman who will accommodate President Trump’s demands for lower interest rates. Almost all observers believe that President Trump’s desire to stack the Federal Reserve board with loyalists who will tailor monetary policy to his liking motivated the investigation of Federal Reserve Board Member Lisa Cook. President Trump is using allegations that Cook lied on a mortgage application as a justification to fire her.” (01/26/26)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/trumps-latest-regime-change-target
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28) On the Very Idea of a “Heritage American”
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“The NatCons are modern day Tories with a heavy dose of Southern Traditionalism. Most of what they call for belongs at the community level or private sphere, not the nation.” (01/26/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/on-the-very-idea-of-a-heritage-american
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29) The Trump-Vance-Noem-Bovino Message to Americans: Obey or Die
Source: Common Dreams
by Thom Hartmann
“Good and Pretti weren’t accidents, and they weren’t about immigration: these murders were unambiguous messages as clear as could be: ‘Get in our way and we will kill you, and nobody will do anything about it.'” (01/26/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-trump-vance-noem-bovino-message-to-americans-obey-or-die
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30) Capping Card Interest Rates Won’t Make Credit Cheaper
Source: The Daily Economy
by John Phelan
“APR caps may sound consumer-friendly, but price caps just serve to cut off vulnerable households from legitimate lenders.” (01/26/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/capping-card-interest-rates-wont-make-credit-cheaper/
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31) Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
Source: Townhall
by Derek Hunter
“The entire ‘protest’ movement seems like a mating dance for people who otherwise wouldn’t ever get laid (not that they’re getting laid, but marching with people is about as close to the prospect of it as they’re likely to get). It’s hard for people who pay attention to what’s going on to care when someone gets hurt, or worse, when you know these people have taken to the street for what amounts to performance art.” (01/26/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/01/26/play-stupid-games-win-stupid-prizes-n2670053
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32) Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Lies Begin: On the Execution of Alex Pretti
Source: CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair
“The lies aren’t even creative. They’re pro forma. They tell them to cloak the impunity given to the murderous agents of the state, who’ve been unshackled from the Constitution and given license to raid and ransack, detain and kill at will. But how long will even the most slavish devotees of this regime be willing to swallow the lies without convulsing from deep-welling nausea? The right-to-lifers? The evangelicals? The NRA? How much will they tolerate? After all, federal agents disarmed Alex Pretti, then they shot him. You couldn’t script a more harrowing parable for the NRA’s warnings about the sanctity of gun rights for all these years. Will this heinous killing finally make them turn on Trump? Don’t count on it.” (01/26/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/26/where-the-sidewalk-ends-the-lies-begin-on-the-execution-of-alex-pretti/
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33) The Trump Administration Wants Dead ICE Officers
Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper
“An important mythical figure in Nazi Germany was a man named Horst Wessel. He was a mid-level Nazi street thug who was killed by communists over an unpaid rent dispute. Nazi propaganda turned him into a hero of the German nation, and the ‘Horst Wessel Song’ became the official Nazi anthem. The Trump administration is doing all in its power to create a similar fake martyr in the form of dead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers. It’s central to the conservative victimhood complex: In order to violently dominate others, they must create a false narrative in which they are also the victim at the same time.” (01/26/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/01/26/ice-trump-minnesota-renee-good-alex-pretti/
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34) Reining in the Courts
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jay Cost
“What is the proper role of the judiciary in American political life? There has never been a clear answer to that question, even among the founders. The Constitution itself has relatively little to say about the judiciary, delegating most of its design and much of its authority to congressional action. Alexander Hamilton in Federalist #78 argued that the judiciary could resolve disputes arising under the Constitution. But James Madison in Federalist #51 suggested that many such questions should be settled by the political process. Thomas Jefferson, in retirement, was aghast at the sweeping rhetoric of McCulloch v. Maryland, in which his cousin, Chief Justice John Marshall, employed Hamiltonian reasoning to legitimize the Bank of the United States.” (01/26/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/reining-in-the-courts/
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35) Insect Loss As an Early Warning of Systemic Biological Failure
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“n medicine, silence can be more alarming than noise. For example, a patient who abruptly stops voicing discomfort or a monitor that ceases activity may signal system failure rather than resolution. Ecology presents a similar scenario, and currently, the silence is deeply concerning. Insects are disappearing across vast regions globally. This is not a modest decline or a simple geographic shift, but a rapid vanishing of beetles, butterflies, moths, flies, mosquitoes, bees, and entire functional groups. This phenomenon is not speculative or anecdotal; it is among the most consistently documented biological trends of the past 50 years and remains insufficiently addressed.” (01/26/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/insect-loss-as-an-early-warning-of-systemic-biological-failure/
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36) The US Must Return to a Gold Standard
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Patrick Barron
“The purchasing power of the US dollar has been debased by over 99 percent since the foundation of the Federal Reserve. (An ounce of gold cost $20.67 in 1913. According to the Wall Street Journal as of Friday, January 16 its price was $4,588.40. That means that the dollar is worth less than one half of one percent of its 1913 purchasing power [$20.67/$4,588.40=.0045]). Its remaining purchasing power may eventually become zero. There is no discipline in US spending and the Fed has become a willing accomplice to this crime.” (01/26/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/us-must-return-gold-standard
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37) Today In Republicans Being Useless: GOPers Cower To Anti-ICE Info Ops
Source: The Federalist
by Shawn Fleetwood
“Donald Trump ran on a platform of mass deporting illegal aliens from the United States during the 2024 election, and as such, the voters of Oklahoma supported his efforts to do so. In fact, every single county in the Sooner State backed Trump and his policies over the open border approach of Democrat Kamala Harris. So, if Oklahoma voters have made their support for enforcing America’s immigration laws abundantly clear, why is their ‘Republican’ governor going on legacy media to cower before the left’s latest anti-ICE info op?” [editor’s note: I’m old enough to remember a time when the Federalist Society at least occasionally pretended to be kinda-sorta, a little bit, in a way, federalist – TLK] (01/26/26)
https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/26/today-in-republicans-being-useless-gopers-cower-to-anti-ice-info-ops/
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38) Not This King?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Throughout President Donald Trump’s first term, I recall shouts that he had overstepped his authority under the law only to discover, oftentimes, that the power he was wielding had been bestowed upon our president by a feckless Congress. What I found even more disconcerting was that at no time did those complaining seek to limit these excessive presidential powers. It appears, as Sarah Isgur suggested, that their concern was not with an imperial presidency, only with this current person as that imperial president.” (01/26/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/01/26/not-this-king/
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39) “Chairman Trump” and a Dystopian Vision for Gaza Without Gazans
Source: Antiwar.com
by Alan Mosley
“When Donald Trump strode into the World Economic Forum in Davos this January flanked by Jared Kushner and other confidants, it was ostensibly to sign a charter establishing a ‘Board of Peace.’ The document, hailed by its backers as a technocratic alternative to decades of dead‑end diplomacy, promises ‘pragmatic judgment’ and a ‘nimble and effective’ institution to rebuild war‑torn Gaza. The preamble reads like an attempt to imitate the United Nations Charter without its collective obligations. Beneath that veneer, the charter sets up a structure that concentrates virtually all authority in the hands of its chairman, Donald J. Trump, and relegates Palestinians to spectators while foreign investors draw up the blueprints for their homeland.” (01/26/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/alan_mosley/2026/01/25/chairman-trump-and-a-dystopian-vision-for-gaza-without-gazans/
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40) What Kent State Taught the Country About State Violence
Source: Foreign Policy
by Julian E Zelizer
“The horror of watching a U.S. citizen die at the hands of federal or state officials transcends ordinary politics. Such a ruthless deployment of power not only evokes deep and widespread human emotion but also collides directly with fundamental U.S. values rooted in the Constitution, especially the commitment to protecting individual liberties from government abuse.” (01/26/26)
https://archive.is/LCQk1
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41) Memphis’s different take on a federal surge
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by the editorial board
“Americans have long struggled with notions of ‘local justice.’ Should state or federal laws sometimes bend to a community’s sensibilities and priorities? In Minneapolis, recent instances of violence by immigration enforcement agents, and sometimes by protesters, point to a federal-local split over immigration policies, not to mention which branch of law enforcement should investigate the violent acts. … Yet, for every standoff like the current one in Minneapolis, there are today examples of cooperation in implementing law – whether federal, state, or local.” (01/26/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0126/Memphis-different-take-on-a-federal-surge
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42) Quantum Vibe, 01/26/26
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (01/26/26)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2572
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43) Immigration: The Federal Solution
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“The conflict over immigration has become something close to a civil war, with the federal government blocking state action against federal agents arguably guilty of murder. The immediate source of the conflict is a sharp difference in attitudes to illegal immigration between the inhabitants of Minneapolis, possibly of Minnesota, and the executive arm of the federal government. The less immediate source is a broader political split between left and right, blue tribe and red tribe. The accepted way to deal with that situation is through the electoral system. … A better solution is federalism. For the current conflict, that means deporting illegal immigrants from Florida, where the state government supports doing so, ignoring them in Minnesota and California, where the state government and, I suspect, a substantial majority of the population, do not.” (01/25/26)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/immigration-the-federal-solution
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44) Radically Confronting America’s Federal Gang War Will Require Civilian Militias
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“America is in the grips of an epic gang war the likes of which it has never seen before. Masked and heavily armed thugs stock the streets of some of America’s biggest cities with total impunity, thousands of them, tossing houses door to door, dragging unarmed civilians screaming from their vehicles before shoving them into unmarked vans, lighting up anyone who dares to resist and straight up murdering people on camera before sauntering off from the scene of the crime like swaggering cowboys and daring shocked bystanders to do something about it … The gangs I’m talking about are not the Crips or the Bloods or MS-13. The gangs I’m talking about are far worse.” (01/25/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/01/radically-confronting-americas-federal.html
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45) Team Trump moves to ban traffic cameras in DC — as NYC’s set to quadruple the dangerous devices
Source: New York Post
by James Bovard
“The Trump administration may soon reduce highway robbery by 95% in Washington, DC. The Big Apple needs the same silver bullet because the city’s drivers could speedily be victimized by the biggest bureaucratic looting spree of the century. Trump’s Transportation Department proposes to ‘prohibit the operation of automated traffic camera enforcement in the District of Columbia,’ which would ban red-light, speed and stop-sign cameras. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is attaching a similar provision to congressional transportation legislation. The dispute over red-light and speed cameras goes to the heart of the question of how much harm politicians are entitled to inflict while they shake money out of citizens’ pockets.” (01/26/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/26/opinion/team-trump-moves-to-ban-traffic-cameras-in-dc-as-nycs-set-to-quadruple-the-dangerous-devices/
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46) Governing at gunpoint: ICE in Minneapolis
Source: Orange County Register
by Abigail R Hall & Patrick S Ward
“Minneapolis is reeling as masked, heavily armed ICE agents flood immigrant neighborhoods, pulling people from cars, entering homes, and clashing with protesters and observers. Businesses have shuttered, school districts have shifted online, and candlelight memorials mark civilians killed during federal operations. Now President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy federal troops, framing the unrest as an ‘insurrection’ led by ‘professional agitators.’ The message is clear: escalating force is being cast as governance. But we have been here before.” (01/25/26)
https://archive.is/6CLdg
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47) Trump’s Credit Card Rate Cap
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Louis Rouanet
“On January 9, President Donald Trump called for a 10% cap on credit card interest rates — a drop from the 2025 average of 19.7%. This reflects growing political support within the fringes of both the Republican and Democratic Parties for such anti-market policies. In February 2025, Senators Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley also introduced legislation mirroring Trump’s proposal. Supporters of price controls like to blame ‘greedy’ corporations. Trump told reporters that credit card companies ‘really abused the public.’ Unfortunately, his proposal treats symptoms while ignoring the disease, and that will ultimately harm the very consumers it claims to protect.” (01/25/26)
https://fee.org/articles/trumps-credit-card-rate-cap/
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48) An America First Case for Ending the Cuban Embargo
Source: The American Conservative
by Reed Lindsay
“For decades, Washington’s economic war on Cuba has weakened a government that has arguably been our most reliable security partner in the Caribbean. Instead of increasing America’s leverage, tougher sanctions have made Cuba less stable—and the United States less secure—by destabilizing the island’s economy, accelerating unprecedented migration to the U.S. border, undermining counternarcotics efforts, hurting U.S. companies, and incentivizing closer relations with Russia and China. A truly failed Cuban state just 90 miles from our coast would probably generate even greater blowback. Current Cuba policy is rooted not in our core national interests, but in Cold War nostalgia and Florida politics.” (01/25/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/an-america-first-case-for-ending-the-cuban-embargo/
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49) Immigration and the Invasion Story
Source: TomDispatch
by Patrick Strickland
“After a year of gutting the United States government, deploying armed jackboots to American cities, and bombing at least seven countries, the Trump administration kicked off 2026 by invading Venezuela and kidnapping its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. In the wake of that assault, President Trump doubled down on his abandonment of the isolationist positions he once supposedly held, threatening military action against Colombia, Cuba, Iran, and Mexico. He then vowed that the U.S. would come to “own” Greenland either ‘the easy way’ or ‘the hard way.’ In truth, American imperialism defines much of this country’s history, but the latest escalation comes at a time when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have also been deployed around the nation to grab immigrants off the streets and whisk them to detention centers.” (01/26/26)
https://tomdispatch.com/immigration-and-the-invasion-story/
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50) They Keep Lying To Us
Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn
“Who are you gonna believe: Kristi Noem in a bomber jacket or your own lyin’ eyes? In the wake of the second killing this month of a U.S. citizen in the streets of Minneapolis, what’s become completely clear is the extent to which statements by federal agencies are unmoored from any sort of reality as glimpsed by eyewitness cell phone footage.” (01/25/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/they-keep-lying-to-us
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51) Reason Roundtable, 01/26/26
Source: Reason
"When Did Republicans Stop Caring About Gun Rights?" (01/26/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/01/26/when-did-republicans-stop-caring-about-gun-rights/
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52) The Kyle Anzalon Show, 01/26/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“ICE Using AI to ID Targets, Breaking Down Trump’s WEF Speech.” (01/26/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-ice-using-ai-to-id-targets-breaking-down-trumps-wef-speech/
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53) Bulwark Takes, 01/26/26
Source: The Bulwark
“Sarah Longwell: The Alex Pretti Killing is Actually Breaking Through.” (01/26/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bYR3b7ReXI
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54) Rising, 01/26/26
Source: The Hill
“Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, slammed by gun owners after Alex Pretti killing: Robby Soave.” (01/26/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5705592-rising-january-26-2026/
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55) Parallax Views, 01/26/26
Source: Parallax Views
“Trump’s ICE Age: The Killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti w/ Sheldon Richman.” (01/26/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijdUi8bleEQ
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56) The Brian Nichols Show, 01/26/26
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Harris County Crime, Flooding, Taxes — Voters FED UP With Failed Leadership.” (01/26/26)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/tbns-harris-county-crime-flooding-taxes-voters-fed-up-with-failed-leadership
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57) Zooming In, 01/26/26
Source: The UnPopulist
“Does America Need a Deeper State to Save It? A Conversation with Tyler Cowen and Francis Fukuyama.” (01/26/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/does-america-need-a-deeper-state
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58) EconTalk, 01/26/26
Source: EconTalk
“Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell).” (01/26/26)
https://www.econtalk.org/zionism-the-melting-pot-and-the-galveston-project-with-rachel-cockerell/
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59) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 01/26/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs in 3 Crazed Tirades.” (01/26/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/205652/trump-accidentally-wrecks-case-tariffs-3-crazed-tirades
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60) Free Talk Live, 01/25/26
Source: Free Talk Live
“Energy crisis! Texas grid monopoly and the California rolling brown outs that have become normal :: Winter storm over half of country :: Renee Good vieo and other ICE murders :: Which ICE is more dangerous? :: Biden ALSO wanted federal police in cities …. David from NM calls about getting attacked and his phone being thrown :: Hawaii tries to subvert the 2nd ammendment :: Restaurants closed because of ICE. Democrats didn’t care about small businesses having to close when it was due to covid :: Too many cop brutality videos leads to depression. Having libertarian community is the antidote :: 2026-01-25 :: Bonnie, Colin, Angelo.” (01/25/26)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2026-01-25
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61) The Chris Spangle Show, 01/25/26
Source: We Are Libertarians
“ICE, State Power and the Imago Dei.” (01/25/26)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/ice-state-power-and-the-imago-dei
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62) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 01/25/26
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“John Sneisen (The Economic Truth) comes on the show to discuss Outerr.net, Blink (TryBlink.me), decentralized communication, economic and market conditions, precious metals, world news, etc.” (01/25/26)
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/390303-2026-01-24-2026-01-25-ernest-hancock-interviews-john-sneisen-mp3-4.htm
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63) Fountainhead Forum, episode 411
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Ezequiel Barbara on Javier Milei’s speech at Liberty International.” (01/25/26)
https://rumble.com/v74uzfm-ff-411-ezequiel-barbara-on-javier-mileis-speech-at-liberty-international.html
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64) System Update, episode 570
Source: System Update
“Why Are U.S. Officials LYING About the Latest ICE Killing?” (01/25/26)
https://rumble.com/v74uj78-why-are-u.s.-officials-lying-about-the-latest-ice-killing-system-update-570.html
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65) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 01/25/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Is Pam Bondi Miriam Adelson’s Tool to Censor Americans?” (01/25/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-is-pam-bondi-miriam-adelsons-tool-to-censor-americans/
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