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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
0) Year-End Fundraiser Update
1) IL: Federalized occupation troops arrive in Chicago
2) Mediterranean Sea: Israeli pirates continue attacks on international shipping, abduct 145
3) Gold price reaches $4,000 an ounce for the first time ever
4) Putin says Russian forces have occupied nearly 5,000 square kilometers in Ukraine this year
5) SCOTUS appears poised to overturn Colorado ban on “conversion therapy”
6) UK: Prosecutors Appeal Dismissal of Terrorism Charge Against Kneecap Rapper
7) Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three scientists based in US for work on quantum technology
8) EU to set 50 percent steel tariff as opening bid to Trump
9) Jury orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million in talc cancer case
10) OMB says federal employees not entitled to back pay after shutdown
11) Leo to Visit Lebanon and Turkey in First Trip Abroad as Pope
12) Report: US regime has given at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israeli regime since Gaza genocide began
13) CA: Newsom signs law banning loud commercials on streaming platforms
14) German: Pol critically injured in stabbing attack, police say
15) UK: Shoppers at popular marketplace walked over “vile” dungeon as archaeologists cite “remarkable” finds
16) Trump regime weighs selling parts of $1.6 trillion federal student loan portfolio
17) Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
18) Madagascar: President appoints army general as PM to defuse protests
19) Costa Rica: Electoral tribunal urges National Assembly to strip President Chaves of immunity
20) TX: Man shot by cop after disarming shooter asks Fifth Circuit to restore suit
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Should Healthcare Be a Commodity? Depends on Whether You Actually Want Healthcare
22) Digital ID in the Cradle of Liberty
23) Are You on a Secret TSA Watchlist?
24) US Now Violating Long-Standing Informal Proxy War Rules
25) Will Bitcoin Strengthen or Weaken US Dollar Dominance?
26) The “groups” have learned nothing
27) Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
28) Legalize Drugs and Open the Borders: The Way Out of Tyranny
29) A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere
30) The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act
31) Spectrum Sale Enhances Economy and National Security
32) The Power Theory of Free Speech
33) Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened
34) Solving the Mind-Body Problem: Dualism vs. Searle, Part 2
35) A case over a case
36) Americans Are Turning Against Sports Betting — But It’s Not Going Anywhere
37) “Schumer shutdown” could be Trump’s best chance to drain the swamp
38) What Does the US Want in Venezuela?
39) Tracking the Lower Courts’ Tariff Decisions
40) Mostly Democratic
41) From Nagasaki, a Prescription for Survival
42) Why Taxes Were So Hated in the Middle Ages
43) America’s Bread and Circuses: Faux Populism and the Spectacle of Control
44) Who Called the Constitutional Convention? The Commonwealth of Virginia
45) Democrats have only themselves to blame for Trump’s National Guard patrols
46) Price Discrimination
47) Trump Is Destroying the US Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities
48) Aluminium in Vaccines Is Harmful
49) How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy
50) Gaza plan: Looks Like peace, acts like occupation
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56) The Climate Realism Show, episode 176
57) Quillette Podcast, episode 305
58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/07/25
59) Tech Tank, season 5, episode 28
60) The Opposition Report, episode 6
61) Free Speech Unmuted, 10/06/25
62) System Update, episode 527
63) Conflicts of Interest, episode 843
64) Bulwark Takes, 10/06/25
65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 10/06/25
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1) IL: Federalized occupation troops arrive in Chicago
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Texas national guard troops have arrived in the Chicago area, marking an escalation of Donald Trump’s crackdown on the city. Chicago has already seen a ramping up of [ICE gang abductions] in the past few weeks, as well as increasingly violent altercations in the suburb of Broadview, where law enforcement has been filmed deploying tear gas and pepper gas against protestors. The latest military presence comes after April Perry, a US district judge, declined to immediately block troops from entering the city amid a pending lawsuit from the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago against the Trump administration’s actions.” (10/07/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/texas-national-guard-troops-chicago-trump
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2) Mediterranean Sea: Israeli pirates continue attacks on international shipping, abduct 145
Source: The Hill
“The Israeli military intercepted a nine-boat flotilla early Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and [abducted] scores of activists on board, the flotilla organizers and the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. The ministry said the 145 activists, who were in good health, were being brought to shore in Israel for processing and are expected to be deported soon. … Organizers said the boats were intercepted around 120 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza. In footage of the interceptions released by the organizers, the flotilla boats were approached by fast moving ships and then boarded by Israeli [pirates].” (10/08/25)
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-israeli-military-intercepts-another-flotilla-heading-to-gaza-and-detains-scores-of-activists/
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3) Gold price reaches $4,000 an ounce for the first time ever
Source: CNBC
“Gold prices hit $4,000 for the first time Tuesday as investors seek a safe haven from a weaker dollar, geopolitical volatility, economic uncertainty and stubborn inflation. Gold futures hit a record intraday high of $4,014.60 per ounce. Prices have gained more than 50% this year as the U.S. dollar index has dropped 10% and President Donald Trump upends the global trade system and threatens the independence of the Federal Reserve. Central banks and retail investors are buying gold at a rapid pace. China and other countries are diversifying away from U.S. Treasurys and into gold after Washington imposed stiff sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and retail investors are looking for protection against inflation.” (10/07/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/gold-4000-record.html
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4) Putin says Russian forces have occupied nearly 5,000 square kilometers in Ukraine this year
Source: Deccan Herald [India]
“Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square km (1,930 square miles) of landruss in Ukraine in 2025 and that Moscow retained complete strategic initiative on the battlefield. Russia’s 2025 gains would amount to nearly 1% of Ukraine’s land area, and the country controls nearly 20% in total.” [editor’s note: The alleged gains seem to be in the Russia-allied Donetsk region, which hasn’t been part of Ukraine since it seceded in 2014 – TLK] (10/07/25)
https://www.deccanherald.com/world/vladimir-putin-says-russia-has-captured-nearly-5000-square-km-in-ukraine-this-year-3756491
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5) SCOTUS appears poised to overturn Colorado ban on “conversion therapy”
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The US supreme court appeared ready to rule against a Colorado law that bans ‘conversion therapy’ practices that seek to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity …. The conservative justices repeatedly questioned whether the law was an unconstitutional regulation of speech and whether the conversion practices in question were harmful enough to constitute banning them. … Hashim M Mooppan, the principal deputy solicitor general in the US justice department, argued against the Colorado law before the court, saying the law didn’t meet the high standard of ‘strict scrutiny,’ a judicial test for whether a government can constitutionally impede in a given area. The law was in essence a ‘prior restraint’ on a therapist’s speech, he said. ‘The law restricts speech based on content and viewpoint,’ Mooppan said.” (10/07/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/conversion-therapy-ban-supreme-court-adf
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6) UK: Prosecutors Appeal Dismissal of Terrorism Charge Against Kneecap Rapper
Source: US News & World Report
“Britain’s prosecution service said on Tuesday it was appealing a court decision to dismiss terrorism charges against a member of Irish rap group Kneecap, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, also known as Mo Chara. The charge — relating to the alleged display of a flag of Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah during a London concert in November 2024 — was thrown out last month after the court ruled it had been brought outside the six-month statutory limit. … Kneecap, known for politically charged lyrics and pro-Palestine messaging, has previously said the case was an attempt to silence dissent. The group cancelled its U.S. tour in August, citing the legal proceedings.” (10/07/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-07/uk-prosecutors-appeal-dismissal-of-terrorism-charge-against-kneecap-rapper
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7) Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three scientists based in US for work on quantum technology
Source: CBS News
“John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research on seemingly obscure quantum tunneling that is advancing digital technology. … The Nobel committee said that the laureates’ work in the 1980s continues to provide opportunities to develop ‘the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors.'” (10/07/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nobel-prize-in-physics-2025-quantum-tunneling-technology/
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8) EU to set 50 percent steel tariff as opening bid to Trump
Source: Politico
“The EU announced Tuesday it would double its tariffs on [European buyers of US] steel to 50 percent, in line with U.S. levels, in a bid to bring the Trump administration to the negotiating table and hammer out a deal to get them back down again. The proposal, details of which were already reported by POLITICO, would also slash tariff-free quotas by 47 percent to 18.3 million metric tons — in a bid to address global overproduction and a slump in European output that has left a third of its steel production capacity idle.” (10/07/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-set-50-percent-steel-tariff-opening-bid-donald-trump/
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9) Jury orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million in talc cancer case
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $966m to the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma, finding the company liable in the latest lawsuit alleging its baby powder products cause cancer. The court in Los Angeles handed down the ruling late on Monday. The pharmaceutical giant has to pay the family of Mae Moore, who died in 2021. The family sued the company the same year, claiming Johnson & Johnson’s talc baby powder products contained asbestos fibres that caused her rare cancer. The jury ordered the company to pay $16m in compensatory damages and $950m in punitive damages, according to court filings. The verdict could be reduced on appeal as the United States Supreme Court has found that punitive damages should generally be no more than nine times compensatory damages.” (10/07/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/10/7/jury-orders-johnson-johnson-to-pay-966m-in-talc-cancer-case
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10) OMB says federal employees not entitled to back pay after shutdown
Source: Washington Post
“Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up tensions in Washington over the week-long closure. The top lawyer at the White House Office of Management and Budget argued in the draft that the law Congress passed and Trump signed guaranteeing back pay to furloughed workers in 2019 does no such thing. Mark Paoletta, the office’s general counsel, wrote to White House budget director Russell Vought that the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act and subsequent legislation merely create conditions for Congress to authorize those payments. Lawmakers must also specifically set aside additional money to compensate workers returning from furloughs, he wrote.” (10/07/25)
https://archive.is/gmBku
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11) Leo to Visit Lebanon and Turkey in First Trip Abroad as Pope
Source: New York Times
“The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV will go to Lebanon and Turkey next month, his first trip abroad as leader of the Roman Catholic Church. The choices signal that the American pope means to press his repeated appeals for peace and diplomacy in the Middle East and to convey his concerns about the Christians who live there. … Since being elected pontiff, Leo has made peace and dialogue a central theme at audiences and in other addresses to the faithful. He has also vowed to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the Eastern Rite churches, the Catholic communities rooted in the Middle East and Eastern Europe that have struggled to survive during decades of persecution and war.” (10/07/25)
https://archive.is/7ax0M
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12) Report: US regime has given at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israeli regime since Gaza genocide began
Source: Orange County Register
“he United States under the Biden and Trump administrations has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of the Gaza war two years ago, according to a new academic study published Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel that provoked the conflict. Another study, also published by the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs, says the U.S. has spent roughly $10 billion more on security aid and operations in the broader Middle East in the past two years. While the reports rely on open source material for most of their findings, they offer some of the most comprehensive accountings of U.S. military aid to close ally Israel and estimated costs of direct American military involvement in the Middle East.” (10/07/25)
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/10/07/israel-us-funding/
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13) CA: Newsom signs law banning loud commercials on streaming platforms
Source: Engadget
“California has passed a law to ban loud commercials on streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu. … Governor Gavin Newsom just signed the law and the ban goes into effect on July 1, 2026. On that date, streaming services won’t be allowed to ‘transmit the audio of commercial advertisements louder than the video content the advertisements accompany.’ … Newsom said that California is ‘dialing down this inconvenience across streaming platforms, which had previously not been subject to commercial volume regulations passed by Congress in 2010.’ He’s referring to the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, which barred the audio of TV commercials from being broadcast louder than the TV program being aired. California’s new law makes streaming platforms comply with those same volume regulations.” (10/07/25)
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/california-bans-loud-commercials-on-streaming-platforms-155809660.html
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14) German: Pol critically injured in stabbing attack, police say
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A newly-elected mayor in western Germany has been stabbed and left critically injured near her home, police say. Iris Stalzer, 57, is a member of the centre-left Social Democratic party (SPD) and became the mayor of Herdecke in the North-Rhine Westphalia state in September. Local police say a major operation is under way in the small town. Investigators say all avenues are being explored, but they are not ruling out a family connection. … This summer there was an incident of domestic violence in the family, which was recorded by the police, security sources said.” (10/07/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrpz5e8mgyo
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15) UK: Shoppers at popular marketplace walked over “vile” dungeon as archaeologists cite “remarkable” finds
Source: Fox News
“Archaeologists in the United Kingdom recently unearthed ancient relics beneath a bustling marketplace — including the remains of a ‘vile’ dungeon. Announcing the discovery in a Sept. 23 press release, officials at the University of Leicester said the dig yielded ‘extraordinary evidence of 2,000 years of human activity’ in Leicester’s marketplace. Archaeologists uncovered the finds while working alongside construction crews who are redeveloping the market square. ‘Among the most poignant finds is the grave of a Roman infant, buried beneath a floor of a timber building dating back nearly 1,800 years,’ the university’s statement said. ‘Nearby, the team uncovered rarely found Roman pottery kilns, offering new insights into domestic life and industry in Roman Leicester.'” (10/07/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/shoppers-popular-marketplace-walked-over-vile-dungeon-archaeologists-cite-remarkable-finds
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16) Trump regime weighs selling parts of $1.6 trillion federal student loan portfolio
Source: Politico
“Trump administration officials are exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market, according to three people familiar with the matter. The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials and have focused on selling high-performing portions of the government’s massive portfolio of student debt, which is owed by about 45 million Americans. Trump administration officials have also discussed the issue with finance industry executives, including potential buyers of the debt.” [editor’s note: If that debt is “taken private,” does it become eligible to be discharged in bankruptcy? – TLK] (10/07/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/trump-administration-selling-federal-student-loan-portfolio-00595456
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17) Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
Source: Reuters
“U.S. President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Monday that an insurrection is taking place in Portland, Oregon, as he seeks to deploy National Guard troops to the city amid what he describes as surging crime. He made the comments during an interview on Newsmax. Earlier on Monday, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he might invoke the Insurrection Act of 1792, which would allow troops to directly participate in civilian law enforcement, for which there is little recent precedent.” (10/07/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-threat-invoke-insurrection-act-escalates-showdown-with-democratic-cities-2025-10-07/
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18) Madagascar: President appoints army general as PM to defuse protests
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina on Monday appointed an army general as prime minister, hoping to quell surging protests against his leadership that have plunged the country into crisis. In the latest in days of youth-led marches, security forces dispersed hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, injuring at least one, AFP reporters saw. Sparked by anger against persistent water and power cuts in the impoverished Indian Ocean island, the demonstrations started on September 25 and have grown into an angry campaign for Rajoelina to resign.” (10/07/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251006-madagascar-president-general-protests
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19) Costa Rica: Electoral tribunal urges National Assembly to strip President Chaves of immunity
Source: SFGate
“Costa Rica ’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal asked the country’s National Assembly on Tuesday to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his immunity so he can face charges that he has been using his bully pulpit to meddle in upcoming elections. The request came just two weeks after a historic vote by the congress to reject another attempt to lift the president’s immunity so that he could be prosecuted on corruption charges. Costa Rica’s Supreme Court had made that request of the congress. The electoral court says that Chaves has repeatedly violated the prohibition on public officials participating in or referencing issues related to the election. Chaves did not immediately comment publicly Tuesday. Chaves has been backing his party’s candidate for the Feb. 1 presidential election.” (10/07/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/costa-rica-s-electoral-tribunal-urges-national-21088863.php
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20) TX: Man shot by cop after disarming shooter asks Fifth Circuit to restore suit
Source: Courthouse News Service
“A Texas man who was shot by a police officer after disarming a gunman who broke into his home is challenging a federal judge’s ruling that the officer’s actions were objectively reasonable. Jorge Martinez asked a U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel Monday to reverse the judge’s ruling and send the case back to the lower court for a trial. His attorney, David Flores, told the panel U.S. District Judge John Kazen wrongly discounted evidence Martinez had presented showing that Laredo Police Officer David Hinojosa should have been able to hear him saying he wasn’t the shooter as he exited the house holding the disarmed rifle. He pointed to testimony from Martinez’s neighbors, including one who was inside her home, that they could hear what he was shouting.” (10/06/25)
https://www.courthousenews.com/man-shot-by-police-after-disarming-shooter-asks-fifth-circuit-to-restore-suit/
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21) Should Healthcare Be a Commodity? Depends on Whether You Actually Want Healthcare
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“For any good or service, there are two alternatives to commodification: First, do without that thing. In a world where doctors and other health practitioners do their work just because they love it, subsisting on whatever alms grateful patients happen to throw their way, the number of healthcare workers available will dwindle, not grow. More people will receive less care. More people will die younger. Second, enslave those who can provide that thing and force them to provide it. … Slavery is wrong. It’s wrong if you expect the slaves to pick cotton, and it’s wrong if you expect the slaves to perform surgery. A nearly as obvious problem is that slaves tend to care less about, and put in less effort to achieve, positive results from their forced labor. Would YOU hand a slave a scalpel and demand a heart bypass?” (10/07/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20072
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22) Digital ID in the Cradle of Liberty
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“Digital ID is even more dangerous than photo ID, precisely because it further diminishes the cost of tyranny for the government. What about, as in China, attaching social-credit points to digital IDs to reward obedient citizens? There is always another good reason for Leviathan to increase its power and to make citizens believe that granting it is in their own individual interests. Some readers may question my mention of Leviathan. But I ask them to reflect on how the general power of the state has, despite the correction of injustices against some minorities, grown to the point where it seems nobody can stop it. The fact that more and more people support it for different reasons makes its growth more dangerous, not less.” (10/07/25)
https://www.econlib.org/digital-id-in-the-cradle-of-liberty-my-last-econlog-post/
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23) Are You on a Secret TSA Watchlist?
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized in that the ”constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.’ Unless federal agents secretly disapprove of you, your beliefs, or your suspected connections. Or unless those agents are feeling ornery and simply want to harass or taunt hapless people passing through TSA Whole Body Scanners. The Transportation Security Administration has vexed Americans ever since it was created in 2002. Last week, three separate idiotic TSA surveillance programs were exposed by Congress and the Trump administration.” (10/07/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/10/07/are-you-on-a-secret-tsa-watchlist/
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24) US Now Violating Long-Standing Informal Proxy War Rules
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is attracting growing attention as it threatens to spiral out of control. There is ample reason for concern. What began as a limited military assistance program to Kyiv from the United States and its European allies following Moscow’s expanded invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has morphed into something much larger and more dangerous. NATO members are no longer just supplying Ukraine with weaponry that could arguably be described as purely defensive; they are equipping their Ukrainian proxy with far more destructive, long-range weapons capable of reaching targets deep inside Russia. In addition, the United States and other NATO governments are assisting Ukrainian attacks by providing crucial military intelligence, including targeting data. By engaging in that conduct, the United States is violating some informal but very real rules governing previous proxy wars that Washington has waged against adversaries.” (10/07/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2025/10/06/us-now-violating-long-standing-informal-proxy-war-rules/
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25) Will Bitcoin Strengthen or Weaken US Dollar Dominance?
Source: The Daily Economy
by Thomas L Hogan
“he reported death of US dollar dominance has been greatly exaggerated. The dollar’s demise has been repeatedly prophesied, supposedly threatened by any number of currencies including the euro, the yuan, and recent hints of a gold-backed currency from the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Will the US dollar maintain its global dominance? Is there a role for bitcoin in US policy?” (10/07/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/will-bitcoin-strengthen-or-weaken-us-dollar-dominance/
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26) The “groups” have learned nothing
Source: Slow Boring
by Matthew Yglesias
“I know many people find discourse about ‘the groups’ — a conversation that I’m probably largely responsible for elevating — to be annoyingly vague and non-specific. But I worry that digging in too much on individual cases will create a misleading impression that some specific group is unusually influential or pernicious, when the relevant dynamic is quite general. The non-specific phrase ‘the groups’ is itself something that I picked up from talking to people who work on Capitol Hill. They often invoke the concept to explain Democratic Party decision-making, and they normally do it in precisely those terms — what matters is not one group (that’s easy to blow off) but a collective of groups who form a pseudo-consensus. Still, specifics can be illustrative.” (10/06/25)
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups-have-learned-nothing
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27) Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Dave Maass & Rindala Alajaji
“New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety’s surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was ‘being searched for as a missing person,’ and that ‘it was about her safety.’ The new information shows that deputies had initiated a ‘death investigation’ of a ‘non-viable fetus’ …. Johnson County Sheriff Adam King repeatedly denied the automated license plate reader (ALPR) search was related to enforcing Texas’s abortion ban, and Flock Safety called media accounts ‘false,’ ‘misleading’ and ‘clickbait.’ However, according to a sworn affidavit by the lead detective, the case was in fact a death investigation in response to a report of an abortion, and deputies collected documentation of the abortion from the ‘reporting person,’ her alleged romantic partner.” (10/07/25)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it
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28) Legalize Drugs and Open the Borders: The Way Out of Tyranny
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“By now, it should be obvious to everyone that a nation cannot have drug laws and an immigration-control system and, at the same time, be considered to be a genuinely free society. Oh sure, people who are living under these two systems can convince themselves that they are living in a free society, but that’s totally different from actually living in a free society. The former, entailing a denial of reality, inevitably leads to psychosis, which can then lead to drug addiction, alcoholism, off-kilter killings, and even suicide, which are all major characteristics of modern-day American society.” (10/07/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/07/legalize-drugs-and-open-borders-the-way-out-of-tyranny/
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29) A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere
Source: TomDispatch
by Andrea Mazzarino
“One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national election that no one in my little community yet knew exactly how to respond to. In my rush out the door, I’d grabbed my baseball cap, with the logo for my preferred presidential candidate on it, to shield my eyes from the sun’s glare. The bus arrived and left. I collected my charges and, just as we were preparing to walk home, a tall young man leapt from the passenger seat of a battered Chevy pickup truck parked at the side of the road. He shook one sunburned finger at my hat and yelled, ‘Traitor! Traitor!’ his face red with rage, or possibly alcohol — who knew?” (10/07/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/maga-men-rage-and-the-road-to-nowhere/
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30) The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act
Source: The Intercept
by Natasha Lennard
“Trump’s interest in the Insurrection Act is hardly new. He toyed with invoking the law in his first term. He was itching to use it to send in the military to crush the 2020 George Floyd uprisings but faced opposition at the time from then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper. No such problem for the president with loyalist goon Pete Hegseth in the so-called secretary of war position. And Trump allies called on the president to invoke the law to illegally hold onto power after the 2020 election. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump vowed to use the Insurrection Act to suppress unrest and dissent. … In the Trumpist imagination — committed to the lie and/or delusion of a well-funded network of criminal leftists — no real pretext is required for a further collapsing of the police and military state.” (10/07/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/07/trump-insurrection-act/
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31) Spectrum Sale Enhances Economy and National Security
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“A great but unheralded feature of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July was an authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to raise $88 billion to $100 billion through electronic spectrum auctions. Selling this additional 600 to 800 megahertz of bandwidth to the private sector will enable the U.S. to expand 5G and even 6G technology, ensuring American dominance in internet, artificial intelligence and satellite technologies. President Donald Trump gets this …. Sen. Ted Cruz had proposed a spectrum deal twice as large: raising as much as $200 billion and creating a wireless ‘pipeline’ that would provide 5G reception and services to nearly all households and businesses.” (10/07/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2025/10/07/spectrum-sale-enhances-economy-and-national-security-n2664559
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32) The Power Theory of Free Speech
Source: The Dispatch
by Yascha Mounk
“Especially during dark times, it is important to be a realist about politics without succumbing to knee-jerk cynicism. A realistic view of free speech predicts that many people who invoke this principle when it serves their interests will abandon it as soon as it hampers their power. But the cynical conclusion that this makes it impossible for anybody to have a principled commitment to free speech is not nearly as clever as it seems.” (10/07/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/free-speech-hypocrisy-principle-partisanship-charlie-kirk/
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33) Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Everything before October 7 explains why October 7 happened, and so does everything that’s happened since. Look at what happened before October 7 and you’ll see year after year of murder, oppression and abuse. Look at everything that’s happened since October 7 and you’ll understand the kind of sadistic, psychopathic regime the Palestinians have been living under this entire time. Israel supporters don’t want you looking at what happened before October 7, and they don’t want you looking at anything that’s happened since. They just want you to pretend history began and ended with a bunch of Hitlerite savages attacking innocent Jews for no reason. And they don’t even want you looking at the day of October 7 too closely, either.” (10/07/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/07/everything-before-and-after-october-7-explains-why-october-7-happened/
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34) Solving the Mind-Body Problem: Dualism vs. Searle, Part 2
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Unlike other philosophers who intellectually accept determinism, Searle admits that free will seems to be an obvious fact. After all of his philosophizing, he continues to act on the assumption of free will. In a rather disheartened admission Searle tells us, ‘the experience of the sense of alternative possibilities is built into the very structure of conscious, voluntary, intentional human behavior. For that reason, I believe, neither this discussion nor any other will ever convince us that our behavior is unfree.’ At the end of his reflections, Searle finds himself driven to pragmatism: he cannot see how free will is consistent with everything he knows, but he continues to believe that he is free all the same.” (10/07/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/solving-the-mind-body-problem-dualism-5b4
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35) A case over a case
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Katrina Gulliver
“A case has been slowly making its way to the Supreme Court hinging on one question: Can the government take this guy’s plane? The story began in 2012, when Ken Jouppi, a pilot in Alaska, was taking a passenger from the city of Fairbanks to the town of Beaver (population: 48). … Among the passenger’s groceries were 3 cases of beer, intended as a gift for her husband. Unfortunately, Beaver is a dry town; thus Ken and his passenger were breaking the law by bringing in alcohol. State troopers searched the plane, and found the beer. But rather than just seizing the Budweiser, and hitting Ken and his passenger with a fine or a citation (they did that too: Ken paid a $1,500 penalty and spent 3 days in jail), prosecutors also decided to seize the whole plane, a 1969 Cessna U206D. A $95,000 aircraft, over 3 cases of beer.” (10/07/25)
https://fee.org/articles/a-case-over-a-case/
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36) Americans Are Turning Against Sports Betting — But It’s Not Going Anywhere
Source: Reason
by Jason Russell
“The public’s vibes are turning against sports betting. But if you’re an avid sports bettor, I wouldn’t worry too much about it getting banned again. … Consider the politics of this, and why I don’t think bettors or sportsbooks should be all that worried: 43 percent of the country thinks something is bad, 7 percent think it’s good, and 50 percent don’t have strong feelings about it. I’m guessing the 43 percent who think sports betting is bad for society have many other political priorities, and the 7 percent who think it’s good are probably bettors who feel quite strongly about that. Politicians are going to hear a lot from the strong-opinioned 7 percent. They’re going to hear a lot from the sportsbooks that want to keep betting legal. In most states, there’s not an organized or well-funded interest group in favor of undoing legalization.” (10/07/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/07/americans-are-turning-against-sports-betting-but-its-not-going-anywhere/
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37) “Schumer shutdown” could be Trump’s best chance to drain the swamp
Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek
“President Donald Trump is threatening significant layoffs of federal workers unless talks aimed at ending the ‘Schumer shutdown’ show some progress. They’re not even close; as Senator John Kennedy posted on X: ‘You’d need an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of all the Senate Democrats’ demands for re-opening the government.’ After all, Team Trump has been encouraging the downsizing of federal agencies since it took office. Just eight days after the president was inaugurated, the Office of Personnel Management sent an email inviting almost the entire federal workforce to resign. As of today, some 150,000 federal employees have taken advantage of the offer; most will be leaving their positions in coming weeks.” [editor’s note: The Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. The government is “shut down” because the Republicans want it “shut down” – TLK] (10/07/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/schumer-shutdown-could-trumps-best-chance-drain-swamp
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38) What Does the US Want in Venezuela?
Source: The American Conservative
by Jude Russo
“Let’s lay aside the somewhat dubious legal reasoning behind ‘determining’ that the U.S. is at ‘war’ with non-state actors, and the specious claim that such non-state actors are under the direct control of the Caracas regime, all of which seems like a clumsy and even embarrassing effort to get around Congress’s residual war powers. … Venezuelan aliens entering the country illegally have fallen to negligible numbers, so it seems unlikely that this is about the administration’s immigration policy, either. Chinese, Russian, and Iranian cooperation with Venezuela has been on the rocks these past few years, due to the Venezuelan regime being a terrible business partner on pretty much every metric …. So if it’s not about drugs, and it’s not about immigration, and it’s not about cooperation with American adversaries, what’s it about?” (10/07/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-does-the-u-s-want-in-venezuela/
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39) Tracking the Lower Courts’ Tariff Decisions
Source: Law & Liberty
by James R Rogers
“While the media focus on the political and policy implications of the recent federal appellate court decision upholding in-part (and remanding in-part) a lower court summary judgment against President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, there are both legal and judicial aspects of the case that merit attention as the case wends its way to expedited consideration by the Supreme Court. (The tariffs remain in place pending the Supreme Court’s decision; oral arguments are scheduled for early November.) First, it bears underscoring that while the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals endorsed the substantive aspects of the lower court’s decision, it nonetheless remanded the court’s remedy in the case — a permanent injunction — back to the court to apply the subsequently released Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Casa, Inc. regarding the authority of lower courts to issue ‘universal injunctions.'” (10/07/25)
https://lawliberty.org/tracking-the-lower-courts-tariff-decisions/
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40) Mostly Democratic
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“An email from Voters Not Politicians (VNP) predicts that if a certain popular ballot measure gets enough signatures ‘it’s likely to pass.’ Great! Wonderful to see democracy in action, eh? Not so much for this leftwing political action committee, however. ‘We have to keep this proposal off of Michigan’s ballot in 2026,’ the email went on. The initiative petition in question is Michigan’s Citizen Only Voting Amendment, which (1) clearly establishes that ‘only’ U.S. citizens are eligible voters in all state and local elections, (2) mandates that the Secretary of State check the voter rolls for citizenship status, and (3) requires photo ID to vote.” (10/07/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/07/mostly-democratic/
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41) From Nagasaki, a Prescription for Survival
Source: Common Dreams
by Robert Dodge
“80 years following the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nobel Peace Prize Group, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, or IPPNW, has just completed their 24th World Congress in Nagasaki. This congress brought together 324 intergenerational health professionals, medical students, and activists from the Global South and North from 34 of IPPNW‘s 56 member nations. The theme of this meeting was: ‘A World Without Nuclear Weapons—Nagasaki as the Last A-bombed City’. The timing of this year’s congress in Nagasaki is significant. Our nuclear world at 80 stands at the brink of nuclear war either by intent, miscalculation, or from disruptive technology. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the minute hand of their infamous Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has been since the atomic bombings.” (10/07/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/physicians-against-nuclear-war
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42) Why Taxes Were So Hated in the Middle Ages
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken
“It was not the Renaissance or the Enlightenment that gave us ideas about limiting state power, opposing taxes, or protecting private property. Indeed, the best political ideas of the Renaissance — those that called for limits on political power — were holdovers from earlier medieval thought. In contrast, the late Renaissance is more characterized by innovations in political thought that asserted taxation is a good thing, and that kings ought to be able to raise taxes more easily for the good of a new thing we now call the sovereign state. … during the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a last resort. Kings were expected to subsist on revenues from their own private property, and to respect the private property of others.” (10/07/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-taxes-were-so-hated-middle-ages
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43) America’s Bread and Circuses: Faux Populism and the Spectacle of Control
Source: CounterPunch
by William Matthew McCarter
“The decline of Rome has been used to justify everything from military expansion to moral crusades, from welfare cuts to tax reforms. But amid the noise of comparisons, one of Rome’s sharpest critiques — delivered not by a statesman or historian, but by a satirical poet — has been largely ignored. In Satire X, Juvenal decries a citizenry that once chose consuls and generals but now hungers only for bread and circuses. It was not invading hordes or economic collapse that signaled the end of civic virtue, but a populace seduced into apathy by free grain and gladiatorial spectacle. That Americans so often cite Rome’s fall without invoking its most damning metaphor may reveal more about our condition than we care to admit.” (10/07/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/07/americas-bread-and-circuses-faux-populism-and-the-spectacle-of-control/
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44) Who Called the Constitutional Convention? The Commonwealth of Virginia
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Rob Natelson
“A ‘call’ to an interstate convention is an invitation for state representatives to meet at a particular time and place to discuss prescribed issues. During the Founding Era, convention calls were issued by the Continental and Confederation Congresses, by prior conventions and — most frequently — by individual states. Who gets the credit for calling the most important convention of all — the gathering that drafted our U.S. Constitution? Writers most often claim the Confederation Congress did, citing its resolution of February 21, 1787. However, the honor also has been claimed for the New Jersey legislature, the Virginia legislature, and the 1786 Annapolis Convention. Ironically, the most common assertion — that Congress called the convention — is the most obviously wrong.” (10/06/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/06/who-called-the-constitutional-convention-the-commonwealth-of-virginia/
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45) Democrats have only themselves to blame for Trump’s National Guard patrols
Source: New York Post
by Rich Lowry
“President Trump wanted an excuse to send National Guard troops to Chicago, and now he’s got one. The Windy City in recent days has done its best imitation of Los Angeles, where resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations created the justification for a Guard deployment a couple months ago. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hate the notion of the National Guard in the streets of the city, but have failed to rally Chicago residents to do the one thing necessary to avoid the deployment — let federal officers do their job. The word should have gone out long ago: Don’t riot outside ICE facilities. Don’t ram cars into ICE vehicles.” [editor’s note: The word should have gon out long ago to beat the ICE thugs down hard so they quit being thugs and get real jobs – TLK] (10/07/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/opinion/dems-have-only-themselves-to-blame-for-national-guard-patrols/
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46) Price Discrimination
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“A firm engaged in this sort of discriminatory pricing faces two practical problems. The first is the problem of distinguishing customers who will buy the good at a high price from those who will not. In the examples I have given that is done indirectly by characteristics of the buyer or the product. The second problem is preventing resale. It does no good to offer your product at a low price to poor customers if they then turn around and resell it to rich ones, thus depriving you of high price sales. This is why discriminatory pricing is so often observed with regard to goods that are consumed on the premises, transportation, movies, speeches, and the like. If GM sells cars at a high price to rich customers and at a low price to poor ones, Rockefeller can send his chauffeur to buy a car for him.” (10/06/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/price-discrimination
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47) Trump Is Destroying the US Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities
Source: The UnPopulist
by Chris Edelson
“Lincoln faced a real insurrection and still did not go as far as this president.” (10/06/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-destroying-the-us-constitution
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48) Aluminium in Vaccines Is Harmful
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Peter C Gøtzsche
“It has been surprisingly difficult to get an answer to a simple and highly relevant question: Is aluminium in vaccines harmful? After having studied the best evidence we have, the randomised trials, in great detail, I conclude that the answer is yes. Like lead, aluminium is a highly neurotoxic metal. We will therefore expect vaccines containing aluminium adjuvants to cause neurological harms if the aluminium enters the nervous system in neurotoxic amounts.” (10/06/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/aluminium-in-vaccines-is-harmful/
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49) How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy
Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
“After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the government began cracking down on hidden transfers of wealth. The purpose was to prevent money laundering that might finance terrorism. Some of this was codified in the USA PATRIOT Act. After the financial collapse of 2008, other safeguards were added. All this strengthened the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), with the side benefit of helping regulatory agencies track down other uses of concealed wealth, whether or not they are related to national security. But in the ensuing quarter-century, extreme wealth became ever more concentrated, and oligarchs became ever more crafty at hiding the true ownership of wealth through trusts and corporate forms that are utterly opaque to financial regulators, the IRS, and the national-security establishment, much less the public.” (10/07/25)
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-10-07-how-scott-bessent-enables-oligarchy/
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50) Gaza plan: Looks Like peace, acts like occupation
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Carol Daniel-Kasbari
“In Deir al-Balah, a mother told me her son now counts the seconds between blasts. Policy, to her, isn’t a debate; it’s whether trucks arrive and the night is quiet. Donald Trump’s 20-point plan promises ceasefire, hostages home, Israeli withdrawal, and reconstruction. It sounds complete. It isn’t. Without enforceable mechanics, maps, timelines, phased verification, and real local ownership; it risks being a short-lived show, not a durable peace.” (10/06/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/gaza-ceasefire-trump/
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51) Underthrow Podcast, 10/07/25
Source: Underthrow
“The World’s Leading Social Problem.” (10/07/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-worlds-leading-social-problem
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52) The Good Fight, 10/07/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“The Good Fight Club: Who’s a Hypocrite About Free Speech?” (10/07/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-good-fight-club-7
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53) Law & Liberty Podcast, 10/07/25
Source: Law & Liberty
“The Unfree Press.” (10/07/25)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/the-unfree-press/
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54) Rising, 10/07/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his take on Bari Weiss’ step into the Editor-In-Chief role at CBS News, and what he thinks it means for wokeness in the mainstream media.” (10/07/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5542597-rising-october-7-2025/
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55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/07/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss.” (10/07/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/201408/trump-tweet-portland-backfires-judge-deals-harsh-loss
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56) The Climate Realism Show, episode 176
Source: Heartland Institute
“Has the World Given Up on Fighting Climate Change?” (10/07/25)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/has-the-world-given-up-on-fighting-climate-change-the-climate-realism-show-176/
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57) Quillette Podcast, episode 305
Source: Quillette
“Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with Canadian Genspect director Mia Hughes about the emerging ‘gender glasnost’ — and the best way to continue rolling back the excesses of trans activism.” (10/07/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/10/07/podcast-305-managing-the-growing-gender-critical-counterrevolution/
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58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/07/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Ends Diplomacy With Venezuela’s Maduro, Israel and Hamas Start Negotiations in Egypt, and More.” (10/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wxity0JkGI
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59) Tech Tank, season 5, episode 28
Source: Brookings Institution
“Will AI democratize financial services?” (10/06/25)
https://shows.acast.com/tech-tank/episodes/will-ai-democratize-financial-services
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60) The Opposition Report, episode 6
Source: Liberal Currents
“Charlie Kirk, the shutdown, mass deportation and militarization, and more.” (10/06/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-opposition-report-6/
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61) Free Speech Unmuted, 10/06/25
Source: Hoover Institution
“From Brandenburg to Britain: Rethinking Free Speech in the Digital Era with Eric Heinze | Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer.” (10/06/25)
https://free-speech-unmuted.podbean.com/e/from-brandenburg-to-britain-rethinking-free-speech-in-the-digital-era-with-eric-heinze-eugene-volokh-and-jane-bambauer-hoover-institution/
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62) System Update, episode 527
Source: System Update
“Will the War in Gaza Finally End? Flotilla Activists Predictably Abused in Israel’s Dungeons; Van Jones’ Revealing Joke about ‘Dead Gazan Babies.'” (10/06/25)
https://rumble.com/v6zyaau-system-update-show-527.html
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63) Conflicts of Interest, episode 843
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Will Trump Let Netanyahu Destroy His Gaza Peace Deal?” (10/06/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/coi-843-will-trump-let-netanyahu-destroy-his-gaza-peace-deal
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64) Bulwark Takes, 10/06/25
Source: The Bulwark
“Stephen Miller’s Posts Are Getting UNHINGED.” (10/06/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmWl5Solb0
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65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 10/06/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Should Trump Be Able To Send California Guard Troops To Oregon?” (10/06/25)
https://rumble.com/v6zy2ca-should-trump-be-able-to-send-california-guard-troops-to-oregon.html
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1) IL: Federalized occupation troops arrive in Chicago
2) Mediterranean Sea: Israeli pirates continue attacks on international shipping, abduct 145
3) Gold price reaches $4,000 an ounce for the first time ever
4) Putin says Russian forces have occupied nearly 5,000 square kilometers in Ukraine this year
5) SCOTUS appears poised to overturn Colorado ban on “conversion therapy”
6) UK: Prosecutors Appeal Dismissal of Terrorism Charge Against Kneecap Rapper
7) Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three scientists based in US for work on quantum technology
8) EU to set 50 percent steel tariff as opening bid to Trump
9) Jury orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million in talc cancer case
10) OMB says federal employees not entitled to back pay after shutdown
11) Leo to Visit Lebanon and Turkey in First Trip Abroad as Pope
12) Report: US regime has given at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israeli regime since Gaza genocide began
13) CA: Newsom signs law banning loud commercials on streaming platforms
14) German: Pol critically injured in stabbing attack, police say
15) UK: Shoppers at popular marketplace walked over “vile” dungeon as archaeologists cite “remarkable” finds
16) Trump regime weighs selling parts of $1.6 trillion federal student loan portfolio
17) Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
18) Madagascar: President appoints army general as PM to defuse protests
19) Costa Rica: Electoral tribunal urges National Assembly to strip President Chaves of immunity
20) TX: Man shot by cop after disarming shooter asks Fifth Circuit to restore suit
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Should Healthcare Be a Commodity? Depends on Whether You Actually Want Healthcare
22) Digital ID in the Cradle of Liberty
23) Are You on a Secret TSA Watchlist?
24) US Now Violating Long-Standing Informal Proxy War Rules
25) Will Bitcoin Strengthen or Weaken US Dollar Dominance?
26) The “groups” have learned nothing
27) Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
28) Legalize Drugs and Open the Borders: The Way Out of Tyranny
29) A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere
30) The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act
31) Spectrum Sale Enhances Economy and National Security
32) The Power Theory of Free Speech
33) Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened
34) Solving the Mind-Body Problem: Dualism vs. Searle, Part 2
35) A case over a case
36) Americans Are Turning Against Sports Betting — But It’s Not Going Anywhere
37) “Schumer shutdown” could be Trump’s best chance to drain the swamp
38) What Does the US Want in Venezuela?
39) Tracking the Lower Courts’ Tariff Decisions
40) Mostly Democratic
41) From Nagasaki, a Prescription for Survival
42) Why Taxes Were So Hated in the Middle Ages
43) America’s Bread and Circuses: Faux Populism and the Spectacle of Control
44) Who Called the Constitutional Convention? The Commonwealth of Virginia
45) Democrats have only themselves to blame for Trump’s National Guard patrols
46) Price Discrimination
47) Trump Is Destroying the US Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities
48) Aluminium in Vaccines Is Harmful
49) How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy
50) Gaza plan: Looks Like peace, acts like occupation
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56) The Climate Realism Show, episode 176
57) Quillette Podcast, episode 305
58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/07/25
59) Tech Tank, season 5, episode 28
60) The Opposition Report, episode 6
61) Free Speech Unmuted, 10/06/25
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1) IL: Federalized occupation troops arrive in Chicago
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Texas national guard troops have arrived in the Chicago area, marking an escalation of Donald Trump’s crackdown on the city. Chicago has already seen a ramping up of [ICE gang abductions] in the past few weeks, as well as increasingly violent altercations in the suburb of Broadview, where law enforcement has been filmed deploying tear gas and pepper gas against protestors. The latest military presence comes after April Perry, a US district judge, declined to immediately block troops from entering the city amid a pending lawsuit from the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago against the Trump administration’s actions.” (10/07/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/texas-national-guard-troops-chicago-trump
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2) Mediterranean Sea: Israeli pirates continue attacks on international shipping, abduct 145
Source: The Hill
“The Israeli military intercepted a nine-boat flotilla early Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and [abducted] scores of activists on board, the flotilla organizers and the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. The ministry said the 145 activists, who were in good health, were being brought to shore in Israel for processing and are expected to be deported soon. … Organizers said the boats were intercepted around 120 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza. In footage of the interceptions released by the organizers, the flotilla boats were approached by fast moving ships and then boarded by Israeli [pirates].” (10/08/25)
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-israeli-military-intercepts-another-flotilla-heading-to-gaza-and-detains-scores-of-activists/
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3) Gold price reaches $4,000 an ounce for the first time ever
Source: CNBC
“Gold prices hit $4,000 for the first time Tuesday as investors seek a safe haven from a weaker dollar, geopolitical volatility, economic uncertainty and stubborn inflation. Gold futures hit a record intraday high of $4,014.60 per ounce. Prices have gained more than 50% this year as the U.S. dollar index has dropped 10% and President Donald Trump upends the global trade system and threatens the independence of the Federal Reserve. Central banks and retail investors are buying gold at a rapid pace. China and other countries are diversifying away from U.S. Treasurys and into gold after Washington imposed stiff sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and retail investors are looking for protection against inflation.” (10/07/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/gold-4000-record.html
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4) Putin says Russian forces have occupied nearly 5,000 square kilometers in Ukraine this year
Source: Deccan Herald [India]
“Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square km (1,930 square miles) of landruss in Ukraine in 2025 and that Moscow retained complete strategic initiative on the battlefield. Russia’s 2025 gains would amount to nearly 1% of Ukraine’s land area, and the country controls nearly 20% in total.” [editor’s note: The alleged gains seem to be in the Russia-allied Donetsk region, which hasn’t been part of Ukraine since it seceded in 2014 – TLK] (10/07/25)
https://www.deccanherald.com/world/vladimir-putin-says-russia-has-captured-nearly-5000-square-km-in-ukraine-this-year-3756491
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5) SCOTUS appears poised to overturn Colorado ban on “conversion therapy”
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The US supreme court appeared ready to rule against a Colorado law that bans ‘conversion therapy’ practices that seek to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity …. The conservative justices repeatedly questioned whether the law was an unconstitutional regulation of speech and whether the conversion practices in question were harmful enough to constitute banning them. … Hashim M Mooppan, the principal deputy solicitor general in the US justice department, argued against the Colorado law before the court, saying the law didn’t meet the high standard of ‘strict scrutiny,’ a judicial test for whether a government can constitutionally impede in a given area. The law was in essence a ‘prior restraint’ on a therapist’s speech, he said. ‘The law restricts speech based on content and viewpoint,’ Mooppan said.” (10/07/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/conversion-therapy-ban-supreme-court-adf
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6) UK: Prosecutors Appeal Dismissal of Terrorism Charge Against Kneecap Rapper
Source: US News & World Report
“Britain’s prosecution service said on Tuesday it was appealing a court decision to dismiss terrorism charges against a member of Irish rap group Kneecap, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, also known as Mo Chara. The charge — relating to the alleged display of a flag of Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah during a London concert in November 2024 — was thrown out last month after the court ruled it had been brought outside the six-month statutory limit. … Kneecap, known for politically charged lyrics and pro-Palestine messaging, has previously said the case was an attempt to silence dissent. The group cancelled its U.S. tour in August, citing the legal proceedings.” (10/07/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-07/uk-prosecutors-appeal-dismissal-of-terrorism-charge-against-kneecap-rapper
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7) Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three scientists based in US for work on quantum technology
Source: CBS News
“John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research on seemingly obscure quantum tunneling that is advancing digital technology. … The Nobel committee said that the laureates’ work in the 1980s continues to provide opportunities to develop ‘the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors.'” (10/07/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nobel-prize-in-physics-2025-quantum-tunneling-technology/
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8) EU to set 50 percent steel tariff as opening bid to Trump
Source: Politico
“The EU announced Tuesday it would double its tariffs on [European buyers of US] steel to 50 percent, in line with U.S. levels, in a bid to bring the Trump administration to the negotiating table and hammer out a deal to get them back down again. The proposal, details of which were already reported by POLITICO, would also slash tariff-free quotas by 47 percent to 18.3 million metric tons — in a bid to address global overproduction and a slump in European output that has left a third of its steel production capacity idle.” (10/07/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-set-50-percent-steel-tariff-opening-bid-donald-trump/
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9) Jury orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million in talc cancer case
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $966m to the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma, finding the company liable in the latest lawsuit alleging its baby powder products cause cancer. The court in Los Angeles handed down the ruling late on Monday. The pharmaceutical giant has to pay the family of Mae Moore, who died in 2021. The family sued the company the same year, claiming Johnson & Johnson’s talc baby powder products contained asbestos fibres that caused her rare cancer. The jury ordered the company to pay $16m in compensatory damages and $950m in punitive damages, according to court filings. The verdict could be reduced on appeal as the United States Supreme Court has found that punitive damages should generally be no more than nine times compensatory damages.” (10/07/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/10/7/jury-orders-johnson-johnson-to-pay-966m-in-talc-cancer-case
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10) OMB says federal employees not entitled to back pay after shutdown
Source: Washington Post
“Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up tensions in Washington over the week-long closure. The top lawyer at the White House Office of Management and Budget argued in the draft that the law Congress passed and Trump signed guaranteeing back pay to furloughed workers in 2019 does no such thing. Mark Paoletta, the office’s general counsel, wrote to White House budget director Russell Vought that the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act and subsequent legislation merely create conditions for Congress to authorize those payments. Lawmakers must also specifically set aside additional money to compensate workers returning from furloughs, he wrote.” (10/07/25)
https://archive.is/gmBku
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11) Leo to Visit Lebanon and Turkey in First Trip Abroad as Pope
Source: New York Times
“The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV will go to Lebanon and Turkey next month, his first trip abroad as leader of the Roman Catholic Church. The choices signal that the American pope means to press his repeated appeals for peace and diplomacy in the Middle East and to convey his concerns about the Christians who live there. … Since being elected pontiff, Leo has made peace and dialogue a central theme at audiences and in other addresses to the faithful. He has also vowed to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the Eastern Rite churches, the Catholic communities rooted in the Middle East and Eastern Europe that have struggled to survive during decades of persecution and war.” (10/07/25)
https://archive.is/7ax0M
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12) Report: US regime has given at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israeli regime since Gaza genocide began
Source: Orange County Register
“he United States under the Biden and Trump administrations has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of the Gaza war two years ago, according to a new academic study published Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel that provoked the conflict. Another study, also published by the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs, says the U.S. has spent roughly $10 billion more on security aid and operations in the broader Middle East in the past two years. While the reports rely on open source material for most of their findings, they offer some of the most comprehensive accountings of U.S. military aid to close ally Israel and estimated costs of direct American military involvement in the Middle East.” (10/07/25)
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/10/07/israel-us-funding/
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13) CA: Newsom signs law banning loud commercials on streaming platforms
Source: Engadget
“California has passed a law to ban loud commercials on streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu. … Governor Gavin Newsom just signed the law and the ban goes into effect on July 1, 2026. On that date, streaming services won’t be allowed to ‘transmit the audio of commercial advertisements louder than the video content the advertisements accompany.’ … Newsom said that California is ‘dialing down this inconvenience across streaming platforms, which had previously not been subject to commercial volume regulations passed by Congress in 2010.’ He’s referring to the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, which barred the audio of TV commercials from being broadcast louder than the TV program being aired. California’s new law makes streaming platforms comply with those same volume regulations.” (10/07/25)
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/california-bans-loud-commercials-on-streaming-platforms-155809660.html
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14) German: Pol critically injured in stabbing attack, police say
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A newly-elected mayor in western Germany has been stabbed and left critically injured near her home, police say. Iris Stalzer, 57, is a member of the centre-left Social Democratic party (SPD) and became the mayor of Herdecke in the North-Rhine Westphalia state in September. Local police say a major operation is under way in the small town. Investigators say all avenues are being explored, but they are not ruling out a family connection. … This summer there was an incident of domestic violence in the family, which was recorded by the police, security sources said.” (10/07/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrpz5e8mgyo
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15) UK: Shoppers at popular marketplace walked over “vile” dungeon as archaeologists cite “remarkable” finds
Source: Fox News
“Archaeologists in the United Kingdom recently unearthed ancient relics beneath a bustling marketplace — including the remains of a ‘vile’ dungeon. Announcing the discovery in a Sept. 23 press release, officials at the University of Leicester said the dig yielded ‘extraordinary evidence of 2,000 years of human activity’ in Leicester’s marketplace. Archaeologists uncovered the finds while working alongside construction crews who are redeveloping the market square. ‘Among the most poignant finds is the grave of a Roman infant, buried beneath a floor of a timber building dating back nearly 1,800 years,’ the university’s statement said. ‘Nearby, the team uncovered rarely found Roman pottery kilns, offering new insights into domestic life and industry in Roman Leicester.'” (10/07/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/shoppers-popular-marketplace-walked-over-vile-dungeon-archaeologists-cite-remarkable-finds
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16) Trump regime weighs selling parts of $1.6 trillion federal student loan portfolio
Source: Politico
“Trump administration officials are exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market, according to three people familiar with the matter. The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials and have focused on selling high-performing portions of the government’s massive portfolio of student debt, which is owed by about 45 million Americans. Trump administration officials have also discussed the issue with finance industry executives, including potential buyers of the debt.” [editor’s note: If that debt is “taken private,” does it become eligible to be discharged in bankruptcy? – TLK] (10/07/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/trump-administration-selling-federal-student-loan-portfolio-00595456
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17) Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
Source: Reuters
“U.S. President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Monday that an insurrection is taking place in Portland, Oregon, as he seeks to deploy National Guard troops to the city amid what he describes as surging crime. He made the comments during an interview on Newsmax. Earlier on Monday, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he might invoke the Insurrection Act of 1792, which would allow troops to directly participate in civilian law enforcement, for which there is little recent precedent.” (10/07/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-threat-invoke-insurrection-act-escalates-showdown-with-democratic-cities-2025-10-07/
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18) Madagascar: President appoints army general as PM to defuse protests
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina on Monday appointed an army general as prime minister, hoping to quell surging protests against his leadership that have plunged the country into crisis. In the latest in days of youth-led marches, security forces dispersed hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, injuring at least one, AFP reporters saw. Sparked by anger against persistent water and power cuts in the impoverished Indian Ocean island, the demonstrations started on September 25 and have grown into an angry campaign for Rajoelina to resign.” (10/07/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251006-madagascar-president-general-protests
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19) Costa Rica: Electoral tribunal urges National Assembly to strip President Chaves of immunity
Source: SFGate
“Costa Rica ’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal asked the country’s National Assembly on Tuesday to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his immunity so he can face charges that he has been using his bully pulpit to meddle in upcoming elections. The request came just two weeks after a historic vote by the congress to reject another attempt to lift the president’s immunity so that he could be prosecuted on corruption charges. Costa Rica’s Supreme Court had made that request of the congress. The electoral court says that Chaves has repeatedly violated the prohibition on public officials participating in or referencing issues related to the election. Chaves did not immediately comment publicly Tuesday. Chaves has been backing his party’s candidate for the Feb. 1 presidential election.” (10/07/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/costa-rica-s-electoral-tribunal-urges-national-21088863.php
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20) TX: Man shot by cop after disarming shooter asks Fifth Circuit to restore suit
Source: Courthouse News Service
“A Texas man who was shot by a police officer after disarming a gunman who broke into his home is challenging a federal judge’s ruling that the officer’s actions were objectively reasonable. Jorge Martinez asked a U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel Monday to reverse the judge’s ruling and send the case back to the lower court for a trial. His attorney, David Flores, told the panel U.S. District Judge John Kazen wrongly discounted evidence Martinez had presented showing that Laredo Police Officer David Hinojosa should have been able to hear him saying he wasn’t the shooter as he exited the house holding the disarmed rifle. He pointed to testimony from Martinez’s neighbors, including one who was inside her home, that they could hear what he was shouting.” (10/06/25)
https://www.courthousenews.com/man-shot-by-police-after-disarming-shooter-asks-fifth-circuit-to-restore-suit/
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21) Should Healthcare Be a Commodity? Depends on Whether You Actually Want Healthcare
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“For any good or service, there are two alternatives to commodification: First, do without that thing. In a world where doctors and other health practitioners do their work just because they love it, subsisting on whatever alms grateful patients happen to throw their way, the number of healthcare workers available will dwindle, not grow. More people will receive less care. More people will die younger. Second, enslave those who can provide that thing and force them to provide it. … Slavery is wrong. It’s wrong if you expect the slaves to pick cotton, and it’s wrong if you expect the slaves to perform surgery. A nearly as obvious problem is that slaves tend to care less about, and put in less effort to achieve, positive results from their forced labor. Would YOU hand a slave a scalpel and demand a heart bypass?” (10/07/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20072
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22) Digital ID in the Cradle of Liberty
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“Digital ID is even more dangerous than photo ID, precisely because it further diminishes the cost of tyranny for the government. What about, as in China, attaching social-credit points to digital IDs to reward obedient citizens? There is always another good reason for Leviathan to increase its power and to make citizens believe that granting it is in their own individual interests. Some readers may question my mention of Leviathan. But I ask them to reflect on how the general power of the state has, despite the correction of injustices against some minorities, grown to the point where it seems nobody can stop it. The fact that more and more people support it for different reasons makes its growth more dangerous, not less.” (10/07/25)
https://www.econlib.org/digital-id-in-the-cradle-of-liberty-my-last-econlog-post/
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23) Are You on a Secret TSA Watchlist?
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized in that the ”constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.’ Unless federal agents secretly disapprove of you, your beliefs, or your suspected connections. Or unless those agents are feeling ornery and simply want to harass or taunt hapless people passing through TSA Whole Body Scanners. The Transportation Security Administration has vexed Americans ever since it was created in 2002. Last week, three separate idiotic TSA surveillance programs were exposed by Congress and the Trump administration.” (10/07/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/10/07/are-you-on-a-secret-tsa-watchlist/
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24) US Now Violating Long-Standing Informal Proxy War Rules
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is attracting growing attention as it threatens to spiral out of control. There is ample reason for concern. What began as a limited military assistance program to Kyiv from the United States and its European allies following Moscow’s expanded invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has morphed into something much larger and more dangerous. NATO members are no longer just supplying Ukraine with weaponry that could arguably be described as purely defensive; they are equipping their Ukrainian proxy with far more destructive, long-range weapons capable of reaching targets deep inside Russia. In addition, the United States and other NATO governments are assisting Ukrainian attacks by providing crucial military intelligence, including targeting data. By engaging in that conduct, the United States is violating some informal but very real rules governing previous proxy wars that Washington has waged against adversaries.” (10/07/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2025/10/06/us-now-violating-long-standing-informal-proxy-war-rules/
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25) Will Bitcoin Strengthen or Weaken US Dollar Dominance?
Source: The Daily Economy
by Thomas L Hogan
“he reported death of US dollar dominance has been greatly exaggerated. The dollar’s demise has been repeatedly prophesied, supposedly threatened by any number of currencies including the euro, the yuan, and recent hints of a gold-backed currency from the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Will the US dollar maintain its global dominance? Is there a role for bitcoin in US policy?” (10/07/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/will-bitcoin-strengthen-or-weaken-us-dollar-dominance/
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26) The “groups” have learned nothing
Source: Slow Boring
by Matthew Yglesias
“I know many people find discourse about ‘the groups’ — a conversation that I’m probably largely responsible for elevating — to be annoyingly vague and non-specific. But I worry that digging in too much on individual cases will create a misleading impression that some specific group is unusually influential or pernicious, when the relevant dynamic is quite general. The non-specific phrase ‘the groups’ is itself something that I picked up from talking to people who work on Capitol Hill. They often invoke the concept to explain Democratic Party decision-making, and they normally do it in precisely those terms — what matters is not one group (that’s easy to blow off) but a collective of groups who form a pseudo-consensus. Still, specifics can be illustrative.” (10/06/25)
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-groups-have-learned-nothing
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27) Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Dave Maass & Rindala Alajaji
“New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety’s surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was ‘being searched for as a missing person,’ and that ‘it was about her safety.’ The new information shows that deputies had initiated a ‘death investigation’ of a ‘non-viable fetus’ …. Johnson County Sheriff Adam King repeatedly denied the automated license plate reader (ALPR) search was related to enforcing Texas’s abortion ban, and Flock Safety called media accounts ‘false,’ ‘misleading’ and ‘clickbait.’ However, according to a sworn affidavit by the lead detective, the case was in fact a death investigation in response to a report of an abortion, and deputies collected documentation of the abortion from the ‘reporting person,’ her alleged romantic partner.” (10/07/25)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it
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28) Legalize Drugs and Open the Borders: The Way Out of Tyranny
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“By now, it should be obvious to everyone that a nation cannot have drug laws and an immigration-control system and, at the same time, be considered to be a genuinely free society. Oh sure, people who are living under these two systems can convince themselves that they are living in a free society, but that’s totally different from actually living in a free society. The former, entailing a denial of reality, inevitably leads to psychosis, which can then lead to drug addiction, alcoholism, off-kilter killings, and even suicide, which are all major characteristics of modern-day American society.” (10/07/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/07/legalize-drugs-and-open-borders-the-way-out-of-tyranny/
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29) A Case for Nonviolent Resistance: MAGA Men, Rage, and the Road to Nowhere
Source: TomDispatch
by Andrea Mazzarino
“One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national election that no one in my little community yet knew exactly how to respond to. In my rush out the door, I’d grabbed my baseball cap, with the logo for my preferred presidential candidate on it, to shield my eyes from the sun’s glare. The bus arrived and left. I collected my charges and, just as we were preparing to walk home, a tall young man leapt from the passenger seat of a battered Chevy pickup truck parked at the side of the road. He shook one sunburned finger at my hat and yelled, ‘Traitor! Traitor!’ his face red with rage, or possibly alcohol — who knew?” (10/07/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/maga-men-rage-and-the-road-to-nowhere/
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30) The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act
Source: The Intercept
by Natasha Lennard
“Trump’s interest in the Insurrection Act is hardly new. He toyed with invoking the law in his first term. He was itching to use it to send in the military to crush the 2020 George Floyd uprisings but faced opposition at the time from then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper. No such problem for the president with loyalist goon Pete Hegseth in the so-called secretary of war position. And Trump allies called on the president to invoke the law to illegally hold onto power after the 2020 election. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump vowed to use the Insurrection Act to suppress unrest and dissent. … In the Trumpist imagination — committed to the lie and/or delusion of a well-funded network of criminal leftists — no real pretext is required for a further collapsing of the police and military state.” (10/07/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/07/trump-insurrection-act/
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31) Spectrum Sale Enhances Economy and National Security
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“A great but unheralded feature of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July was an authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to raise $88 billion to $100 billion through electronic spectrum auctions. Selling this additional 600 to 800 megahertz of bandwidth to the private sector will enable the U.S. to expand 5G and even 6G technology, ensuring American dominance in internet, artificial intelligence and satellite technologies. President Donald Trump gets this …. Sen. Ted Cruz had proposed a spectrum deal twice as large: raising as much as $200 billion and creating a wireless ‘pipeline’ that would provide 5G reception and services to nearly all households and businesses.” (10/07/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2025/10/07/spectrum-sale-enhances-economy-and-national-security-n2664559
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32) The Power Theory of Free Speech
Source: The Dispatch
by Yascha Mounk
“Especially during dark times, it is important to be a realist about politics without succumbing to knee-jerk cynicism. A realistic view of free speech predicts that many people who invoke this principle when it serves their interests will abandon it as soon as it hampers their power. But the cynical conclusion that this makes it impossible for anybody to have a principled commitment to free speech is not nearly as clever as it seems.” (10/07/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/free-speech-hypocrisy-principle-partisanship-charlie-kirk/
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33) Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Everything before October 7 explains why October 7 happened, and so does everything that’s happened since. Look at what happened before October 7 and you’ll see year after year of murder, oppression and abuse. Look at everything that’s happened since October 7 and you’ll understand the kind of sadistic, psychopathic regime the Palestinians have been living under this entire time. Israel supporters don’t want you looking at what happened before October 7, and they don’t want you looking at anything that’s happened since. They just want you to pretend history began and ended with a bunch of Hitlerite savages attacking innocent Jews for no reason. And they don’t even want you looking at the day of October 7 too closely, either.” (10/07/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/07/everything-before-and-after-october-7-explains-why-october-7-happened/
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34) Solving the Mind-Body Problem: Dualism vs. Searle, Part 2
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Unlike other philosophers who intellectually accept determinism, Searle admits that free will seems to be an obvious fact. After all of his philosophizing, he continues to act on the assumption of free will. In a rather disheartened admission Searle tells us, ‘the experience of the sense of alternative possibilities is built into the very structure of conscious, voluntary, intentional human behavior. For that reason, I believe, neither this discussion nor any other will ever convince us that our behavior is unfree.’ At the end of his reflections, Searle finds himself driven to pragmatism: he cannot see how free will is consistent with everything he knows, but he continues to believe that he is free all the same.” (10/07/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/solving-the-mind-body-problem-dualism-5b4
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35) A case over a case
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Katrina Gulliver
“A case has been slowly making its way to the Supreme Court hinging on one question: Can the government take this guy’s plane? The story began in 2012, when Ken Jouppi, a pilot in Alaska, was taking a passenger from the city of Fairbanks to the town of Beaver (population: 48). … Among the passenger’s groceries were 3 cases of beer, intended as a gift for her husband. Unfortunately, Beaver is a dry town; thus Ken and his passenger were breaking the law by bringing in alcohol. State troopers searched the plane, and found the beer. But rather than just seizing the Budweiser, and hitting Ken and his passenger with a fine or a citation (they did that too: Ken paid a $1,500 penalty and spent 3 days in jail), prosecutors also decided to seize the whole plane, a 1969 Cessna U206D. A $95,000 aircraft, over 3 cases of beer.” (10/07/25)
https://fee.org/articles/a-case-over-a-case/
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36) Americans Are Turning Against Sports Betting — But It’s Not Going Anywhere
Source: Reason
by Jason Russell
“The public’s vibes are turning against sports betting. But if you’re an avid sports bettor, I wouldn’t worry too much about it getting banned again. … Consider the politics of this, and why I don’t think bettors or sportsbooks should be all that worried: 43 percent of the country thinks something is bad, 7 percent think it’s good, and 50 percent don’t have strong feelings about it. I’m guessing the 43 percent who think sports betting is bad for society have many other political priorities, and the 7 percent who think it’s good are probably bettors who feel quite strongly about that. Politicians are going to hear a lot from the strong-opinioned 7 percent. They’re going to hear a lot from the sportsbooks that want to keep betting legal. In most states, there’s not an organized or well-funded interest group in favor of undoing legalization.” (10/07/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/07/americans-are-turning-against-sports-betting-but-its-not-going-anywhere/
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37) “Schumer shutdown” could be Trump’s best chance to drain the swamp
Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek
“President Donald Trump is threatening significant layoffs of federal workers unless talks aimed at ending the ‘Schumer shutdown’ show some progress. They’re not even close; as Senator John Kennedy posted on X: ‘You’d need an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of all the Senate Democrats’ demands for re-opening the government.’ After all, Team Trump has been encouraging the downsizing of federal agencies since it took office. Just eight days after the president was inaugurated, the Office of Personnel Management sent an email inviting almost the entire federal workforce to resign. As of today, some 150,000 federal employees have taken advantage of the offer; most will be leaving their positions in coming weeks.” [editor’s note: The Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. The government is “shut down” because the Republicans want it “shut down” – TLK] (10/07/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/schumer-shutdown-could-trumps-best-chance-drain-swamp
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38) What Does the US Want in Venezuela?
Source: The American Conservative
by Jude Russo
“Let’s lay aside the somewhat dubious legal reasoning behind ‘determining’ that the U.S. is at ‘war’ with non-state actors, and the specious claim that such non-state actors are under the direct control of the Caracas regime, all of which seems like a clumsy and even embarrassing effort to get around Congress’s residual war powers. … Venezuelan aliens entering the country illegally have fallen to negligible numbers, so it seems unlikely that this is about the administration’s immigration policy, either. Chinese, Russian, and Iranian cooperation with Venezuela has been on the rocks these past few years, due to the Venezuelan regime being a terrible business partner on pretty much every metric …. So if it’s not about drugs, and it’s not about immigration, and it’s not about cooperation with American adversaries, what’s it about?” (10/07/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-does-the-u-s-want-in-venezuela/
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39) Tracking the Lower Courts’ Tariff Decisions
Source: Law & Liberty
by James R Rogers
“While the media focus on the political and policy implications of the recent federal appellate court decision upholding in-part (and remanding in-part) a lower court summary judgment against President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, there are both legal and judicial aspects of the case that merit attention as the case wends its way to expedited consideration by the Supreme Court. (The tariffs remain in place pending the Supreme Court’s decision; oral arguments are scheduled for early November.) First, it bears underscoring that while the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals endorsed the substantive aspects of the lower court’s decision, it nonetheless remanded the court’s remedy in the case — a permanent injunction — back to the court to apply the subsequently released Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Casa, Inc. regarding the authority of lower courts to issue ‘universal injunctions.'” (10/07/25)
https://lawliberty.org/tracking-the-lower-courts-tariff-decisions/
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40) Mostly Democratic
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“An email from Voters Not Politicians (VNP) predicts that if a certain popular ballot measure gets enough signatures ‘it’s likely to pass.’ Great! Wonderful to see democracy in action, eh? Not so much for this leftwing political action committee, however. ‘We have to keep this proposal off of Michigan’s ballot in 2026,’ the email went on. The initiative petition in question is Michigan’s Citizen Only Voting Amendment, which (1) clearly establishes that ‘only’ U.S. citizens are eligible voters in all state and local elections, (2) mandates that the Secretary of State check the voter rolls for citizenship status, and (3) requires photo ID to vote.” (10/07/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/07/mostly-democratic/
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41) From Nagasaki, a Prescription for Survival
Source: Common Dreams
by Robert Dodge
“80 years following the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nobel Peace Prize Group, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, or IPPNW, has just completed their 24th World Congress in Nagasaki. This congress brought together 324 intergenerational health professionals, medical students, and activists from the Global South and North from 34 of IPPNW‘s 56 member nations. The theme of this meeting was: ‘A World Without Nuclear Weapons—Nagasaki as the Last A-bombed City’. The timing of this year’s congress in Nagasaki is significant. Our nuclear world at 80 stands at the brink of nuclear war either by intent, miscalculation, or from disruptive technology. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the minute hand of their infamous Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has been since the atomic bombings.” (10/07/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/physicians-against-nuclear-war
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42) Why Taxes Were So Hated in the Middle Ages
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken
“It was not the Renaissance or the Enlightenment that gave us ideas about limiting state power, opposing taxes, or protecting private property. Indeed, the best political ideas of the Renaissance — those that called for limits on political power — were holdovers from earlier medieval thought. In contrast, the late Renaissance is more characterized by innovations in political thought that asserted taxation is a good thing, and that kings ought to be able to raise taxes more easily for the good of a new thing we now call the sovereign state. … during the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a last resort. Kings were expected to subsist on revenues from their own private property, and to respect the private property of others.” (10/07/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-taxes-were-so-hated-middle-ages
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43) America’s Bread and Circuses: Faux Populism and the Spectacle of Control
Source: CounterPunch
by William Matthew McCarter
“The decline of Rome has been used to justify everything from military expansion to moral crusades, from welfare cuts to tax reforms. But amid the noise of comparisons, one of Rome’s sharpest critiques — delivered not by a statesman or historian, but by a satirical poet — has been largely ignored. In Satire X, Juvenal decries a citizenry that once chose consuls and generals but now hungers only for bread and circuses. It was not invading hordes or economic collapse that signaled the end of civic virtue, but a populace seduced into apathy by free grain and gladiatorial spectacle. That Americans so often cite Rome’s fall without invoking its most damning metaphor may reveal more about our condition than we care to admit.” (10/07/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/07/americas-bread-and-circuses-faux-populism-and-the-spectacle-of-control/
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44) Who Called the Constitutional Convention? The Commonwealth of Virginia
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Rob Natelson
“A ‘call’ to an interstate convention is an invitation for state representatives to meet at a particular time and place to discuss prescribed issues. During the Founding Era, convention calls were issued by the Continental and Confederation Congresses, by prior conventions and — most frequently — by individual states. Who gets the credit for calling the most important convention of all — the gathering that drafted our U.S. Constitution? Writers most often claim the Confederation Congress did, citing its resolution of February 21, 1787. However, the honor also has been claimed for the New Jersey legislature, the Virginia legislature, and the 1786 Annapolis Convention. Ironically, the most common assertion — that Congress called the convention — is the most obviously wrong.” (10/06/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/06/who-called-the-constitutional-convention-the-commonwealth-of-virginia/
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45) Democrats have only themselves to blame for Trump’s National Guard patrols
Source: New York Post
by Rich Lowry
“President Trump wanted an excuse to send National Guard troops to Chicago, and now he’s got one. The Windy City in recent days has done its best imitation of Los Angeles, where resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations created the justification for a Guard deployment a couple months ago. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hate the notion of the National Guard in the streets of the city, but have failed to rally Chicago residents to do the one thing necessary to avoid the deployment — let federal officers do their job. The word should have gone out long ago: Don’t riot outside ICE facilities. Don’t ram cars into ICE vehicles.” [editor’s note: The word should have gon out long ago to beat the ICE thugs down hard so they quit being thugs and get real jobs – TLK] (10/07/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/07/opinion/dems-have-only-themselves-to-blame-for-national-guard-patrols/
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46) Price Discrimination
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“A firm engaged in this sort of discriminatory pricing faces two practical problems. The first is the problem of distinguishing customers who will buy the good at a high price from those who will not. In the examples I have given that is done indirectly by characteristics of the buyer or the product. The second problem is preventing resale. It does no good to offer your product at a low price to poor customers if they then turn around and resell it to rich ones, thus depriving you of high price sales. This is why discriminatory pricing is so often observed with regard to goods that are consumed on the premises, transportation, movies, speeches, and the like. If GM sells cars at a high price to rich customers and at a low price to poor ones, Rockefeller can send his chauffeur to buy a car for him.” (10/06/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/price-discrimination
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47) Trump Is Destroying the US Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities
Source: The UnPopulist
by Chris Edelson
“Lincoln faced a real insurrection and still did not go as far as this president.” (10/06/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-destroying-the-us-constitution
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48) Aluminium in Vaccines Is Harmful
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Peter C Gøtzsche
“It has been surprisingly difficult to get an answer to a simple and highly relevant question: Is aluminium in vaccines harmful? After having studied the best evidence we have, the randomised trials, in great detail, I conclude that the answer is yes. Like lead, aluminium is a highly neurotoxic metal. We will therefore expect vaccines containing aluminium adjuvants to cause neurological harms if the aluminium enters the nervous system in neurotoxic amounts.” (10/06/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/aluminium-in-vaccines-is-harmful/
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49) How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy
Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
“After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the government began cracking down on hidden transfers of wealth. The purpose was to prevent money laundering that might finance terrorism. Some of this was codified in the USA PATRIOT Act. After the financial collapse of 2008, other safeguards were added. All this strengthened the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), with the side benefit of helping regulatory agencies track down other uses of concealed wealth, whether or not they are related to national security. But in the ensuing quarter-century, extreme wealth became ever more concentrated, and oligarchs became ever more crafty at hiding the true ownership of wealth through trusts and corporate forms that are utterly opaque to financial regulators, the IRS, and the national-security establishment, much less the public.” (10/07/25)
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-10-07-how-scott-bessent-enables-oligarchy/
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50) Gaza plan: Looks Like peace, acts like occupation
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Carol Daniel-Kasbari
“In Deir al-Balah, a mother told me her son now counts the seconds between blasts. Policy, to her, isn’t a debate; it’s whether trucks arrive and the night is quiet. Donald Trump’s 20-point plan promises ceasefire, hostages home, Israeli withdrawal, and reconstruction. It sounds complete. It isn’t. Without enforceable mechanics, maps, timelines, phased verification, and real local ownership; it risks being a short-lived show, not a durable peace.” (10/06/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/gaza-ceasefire-trump/
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51) Underthrow Podcast, 10/07/25
Source: Underthrow
“The World’s Leading Social Problem.” (10/07/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-worlds-leading-social-problem
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52) The Good Fight, 10/07/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“The Good Fight Club: Who’s a Hypocrite About Free Speech?” (10/07/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-good-fight-club-7
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53) Law & Liberty Podcast, 10/07/25
Source: Law & Liberty
“The Unfree Press.” (10/07/25)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/the-unfree-press/
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54) Rising, 10/07/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his take on Bari Weiss’ step into the Editor-In-Chief role at CBS News, and what he thinks it means for wokeness in the mainstream media.” (10/07/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5542597-rising-october-7-2025/
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55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/07/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss.” (10/07/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/201408/trump-tweet-portland-backfires-judge-deals-harsh-loss
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56) The Climate Realism Show, episode 176
Source: Heartland Institute
“Has the World Given Up on Fighting Climate Change?” (10/07/25)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/has-the-world-given-up-on-fighting-climate-change-the-climate-realism-show-176/
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57) Quillette Podcast, episode 305
Source: Quillette
“Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks with Canadian Genspect director Mia Hughes about the emerging ‘gender glasnost’ — and the best way to continue rolling back the excesses of trans activism.” (10/07/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/10/07/podcast-305-managing-the-growing-gender-critical-counterrevolution/
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58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/07/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Ends Diplomacy With Venezuela’s Maduro, Israel and Hamas Start Negotiations in Egypt, and More.” (10/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wxity0JkGI
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59) Tech Tank, season 5, episode 28
Source: Brookings Institution
“Will AI democratize financial services?” (10/06/25)
https://shows.acast.com/tech-tank/episodes/will-ai-democratize-financial-services
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60) The Opposition Report, episode 6
Source: Liberal Currents
“Charlie Kirk, the shutdown, mass deportation and militarization, and more.” (10/06/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-opposition-report-6/
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61) Free Speech Unmuted, 10/06/25
Source: Hoover Institution
“From Brandenburg to Britain: Rethinking Free Speech in the Digital Era with Eric Heinze | Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer.” (10/06/25)
https://free-speech-unmuted.podbean.com/e/from-brandenburg-to-britain-rethinking-free-speech-in-the-digital-era-with-eric-heinze-eugene-volokh-and-jane-bambauer-hoover-institution/
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62) System Update, episode 527
Source: System Update
“Will the War in Gaza Finally End? Flotilla Activists Predictably Abused in Israel’s Dungeons; Van Jones’ Revealing Joke about ‘Dead Gazan Babies.'” (10/06/25)
https://rumble.com/v6zyaau-system-update-show-527.html
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63) Conflicts of Interest, episode 843
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Will Trump Let Netanyahu Destroy His Gaza Peace Deal?” (10/06/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/coi-843-will-trump-let-netanyahu-destroy-his-gaza-peace-deal
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64) Bulwark Takes, 10/06/25
Source: The Bulwark
“Stephen Miller’s Posts Are Getting UNHINGED.” (10/06/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmWl5Solb0
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65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 10/06/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Should Trump Be Able To Send California Guard Troops To Oregon?” (10/06/25)
https://rumble.com/v6zy2ca-should-trump-be-able-to-send-california-guard-troops-to-oregon.html
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