10/28 -- Venezuela: Regime claims CIA "false flag" attack foiled; Open Societies Are Stronger Than They Appear
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Thomas L. Knapp
Oct 28, 2025, 6:24:28 AM (7 days ago) Oct 28
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0) Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning (Fundraiser Update)
1) Venezuela: Regime claims CIA “false flag” attack foiled
2) Melissa set to slam Jamaica as its strongest hurricane on record
3) Ukraine: Russian troops cut off by flooding after Belgorod dam strike
4) IN: Braun Calls Special Legislative Session to Re-Gerrymander US House Districts
5) Israel: Saar whines that Turkey’s regime is “unfair,” can’t have troops in Gaza
6) Cameroon: World’s Oldest Ruler Wins “Reelection” at 92
7) Madagascar: Rajoelina stripped of citizenship after military takeover
8) CA: Violent gang abducts British journalist at San Francisco airport
9) Report: Antonio Gates allegedly hosted and played in rigged Miami poker game
10) China’s industrial profits surge 21.6% in September, biggest jump in nearly two years
11) Trump in Japan to meet with Takaichi
12) US government shutdown triggers 8,000 flight delays amid air traffic controller shortage
13) House Republicans accuse Biden’s FBI of retaliating against whistleblower who exposed misconduct
14) Turkey: Prosecutors File New Espionage Charges Against Istanbul’s Politically Imprisoned Mayor
15) Students trek across Serbia to campaign for station collapse victims ahead of anniversary
16) US Navy helicopter and fighter jet crash in separate incidents in area where they had no business being
17) Mexico: Sheinbaum says she and Trump agreed to extend trade deadline
18) Mali: Regime shuts schools as fuel blockade imposed by fighters paralyses country
19) Turkish Regime signs multibillion-dollar deal with British regime for 20 Eurofighter jets
20) VA: Man fleeing gang abduction attempt fatally struck by vehicle
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Open Societies Are Stronger Than They Appear
22) The Battle of Midway in the Caribbean
23) Accusing Jordan Silverman
24) How China Remade Global Trade — and Then Broke It
25) AI’s Truth Problem
26) No Kings, the Second Time Around
27) The New Medievals
28) Trump is a Wartime President
29) We Protested, Now What?
30) A Better Path Forward for Infant Adoption
31) Capitalism Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can’t Give Us What We Actually Want
32) Recognizing the Roots of the Current US Political Turmoil
33) The US Wants to Bury the Gaza Genocide, But the World Will Not Allow It
34) Trump’s Pivot to the Americas
35) First Brands: Are The Cockroaches Coming Home to Roost?
36) True Crime: Murder on the High Seas
37) Trump Admin Helping America Kick Its Addiction to Big Pharma
38) How Stockholm Used a $3 Toll To Tame Its Traffic Congestion
39) Quantum Vibe, 10/27/25
40) Inflating Russian missile costs hides US weapons crisis
41) Politicians Aren’t Heroes
42) Having a Ball
43) The Neocons Have Finally Found a Way Into MAGA Hearts
44) Scott Bessent is wrong. Tariffs are taxes that hurt Americans.
45) TDS has morphed into something far more lethal: Trump Projection Disorder
46) A False and Toxic Peace Spreads Across the Middle East from the West
47) Massachusetts Voters Support Unions for Uber Drivers
48) The engines of state capitalism, part 5: An arrow against all patents
49) Eviction By ICE?
50) Why Fentanyl Smuggling isn’t War and Cannot Justify Extrajudicial Killing
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52) Rising, 10/27/25
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56) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/27/25
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58) Pink Flame of Liberty, 10/26/25
59) Free Talk Live, 10/26/25
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1) Venezuela: Regime claims CIA “false flag” attack foiled
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Venezuelan authorities said they uncovered an operation targeting the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer that docked Sunday in Trinidad and Tobago — within firing distance of the Venezuelan mainland. The ship’s arrival sparked outrage in Caracas, which called it a ‘provocation’ …. Maduro on Monday evening announced he had suspended a gas agreement with Trinidad and Tobago …. Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said Monday that a cell ‘financed by the CIA’ planned to attack the USS Gravely and frame Caracas. Four people were arrested, Cabello said, without providing details of the alleged suspects. Venezuela regularly claims to have arrested US-backed mercenaries working to destabilize Maduro’s administration. … Tensions rose further Monday as two US B-1B bombers flew over the Caribbean near Venezuela, the third such show of force in recent weeks.” (10/27/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251027-venezuela-claims-cia-false-flag-attack-foiled-as-us-deploys-bombers
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2) Melissa set to slam Jamaica as its strongest hurricane on record
Source: CBS News
“Hurricane Melissa was about to pummel Jamaica on Tuesday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. The storm was expected to make landfall early Tuesday and slice diagonally across the island, entering near St. Elizabeth parish in the south and exiting around St. Ann parish in the north, forecasters said. Hours before the storm, the government said it had done all it could to prepare as it warned of catastrophic damage. … The storm already was blamed for seven deaths in the Caribbean, including three in Jamaica, three in Haiti and one in the Dominican Republic, where another person was missing.” (10/28/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-its-strongest-recorded-history/
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3) Ukraine: Russian troops cut off by flooding after Belgorod dam strike
Source: The Telegraph [UK]
“Ukraine has carried out a drone strike on Belgorod dam that led to flooding in the southern Russian region and cut off several Moscow units. Water gushed from the damaged reservoir, disrupting Russian logistics and stranding troops stationed on the Ukrainian side of the border in Vovchansk. … Before the dam strike, Ukraine’s 16 Army Corps said Russian activity near Vovchansk had increased owing to warm weather. This hardened the ground and led to shallower rivers in the region, making logistics easier for the Russians. But after the strike, the water surged into the Siverskyi Donets River, reportedly flooding Russian bunkers and trenches and complicating logistics for the forward positions of Moscow’s troops.” (10/27/25)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/27/russian-troops-cut-off-flooding-ukraine-hits-belgorod-dam/
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4) IN: Braun Calls Special Legislative Session to Re-Gerrymander US House Districts
Source: US News & World Report
“Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Braun called Monday for state lawmakers to return to Indianapolis for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries, escalating a national fight over midcycle redistricting. President Donald Trump has ramped up pressure on Republican governors to draw new maps that give the party an easier path to maintain control of the House in the midterms. While Republicans in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina have moved quickly to enact new districts and California Democrats are seeking to counter with their own redistricting plan, Indiana lawmakers have been far more hesitant. Braun called for the General Assembly to convene Nov. 3 for the special session. It’s unclear whether enough of the GOP majority Senate will back new maps. The White House held multiple meetings with Indiana lawmakers who have held out for months.” (10/27/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-10-27/indiana-gov-mike-braun-calls-a-special-session-to-redraw-the-states-congressional-boundaries
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5) Israel: Saar whines that Turkey’s regime is “unfair,” can’t have troops in Gaza
Source: Reuters
“Israel won’t accept the presence of Turkish armed forces in Gaza under a U.S. plan to end war in the Palestinian territory for good, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan includes an international force in Gaza to help secure a fragile ceasefire which began this month, halting two years of war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. But it remains unclear whether Arab and other states will be ready to commit troops to the international force. ‘Countries that want or are ready to send armed forces should be at least fair to Israel,’ Saar said at a news conference in Budapest. Once warm Turkish-Israeli relations soured drastically during the Gaza war, with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan lambasting Israel’s devastating air and ground campaign in the small Palestinian enclave.” (10/27/25)
https://archive.is/P5qr1
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6) Cameroon: World’s Oldest Ruler Wins “Reelection” at 92
Source: Bloomberg
“Cameroonian President Paul Biya was declared the winner of Oct. 12 elections that were marred by the disqualification of his main challenger, and is set to rule the central African nation until the age of 99 if he completes his eighth term. Biya, 92, won 53.7% of the vote and his closest rival, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who resigned from the cabinet in June, 35.2%, Clement Atangana, president of the Constitutional Council, said on Monday. … The nonagenarian has ruled Cameroon for 43 years and most citizens, whose median age is 18, have never known another leader.” (10/27/25)
https://archive.is/H2t89
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7) Madagascar: Rajoelina stripped of citizenship after military takeover
Source: ABC News
“Former Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has been stripped of his citizenship by [sic] after he was ousted during a military takeover just over a week ago. Rajoelina, whose whereabouts remains unknown after he fled the country following protests that demanded his resignation, also holds French citizenship. The country’s new prime minister, Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo, has signed a decree invoking laws which strip all Madagascans of their citizenship if they have citizenship of another country. Rajoelina’s possession of French nationality had previously caused a debate about his eligibility to run for the president in the 2023 polls, an election he won.” (10/27/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/former-madagascar-president-andry-rajoelina-stripped-citizenship-after-126890877
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8) CA: Violent gang abducts British journalist at San Francisco airport
Source: Independent [UK]
“Sami Hamdi, a British journalist and activist and outspoken critic of the Israeli war in Gaza, was [abducted] by U.S. immigration agents Sunday at San Francisco International Airport. ‘Earlier this morning, ICE agents abducted British Muslim journalist and political commentator Sami Hamdi at San Francisco Airport, apparently in response to his vocal criticism of the Israeli government during his ongoing speaking tour,’ the Council on American-Islamic Relations civil rights group wrote on X. Hamdi had spoken at a gala for the group on Saturday in California and was heading to Florida for another event prior to his [abduction].” (10/27/25)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/sami-hamdi-arrest-ice-san-francisco-b2852613.html
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9) Report: Antonio Gates allegedly hosted and played in rigged Miami poker game
Source: New York Post
“NFL Hall of Famer Antonio Gates allegedly hosted and played in a rigged Miami poker game, according to a new report. Sports investigative journalist Pablo Torre reported on Sunday that the Hall of Fame tight end hosted and participated in an allegedly rigged game that was organized by Curtis Meeks, who was indicted by federal prosecutors as part of the massive gambling scandal that rocked the NBA. Details were limited, but Torre’s report follows a report by The Post on Saturday, where one purported victim said that he and his friends had been scammed of nearly $1 million, with an ex-NFL player serving as the ‘face card’ for a game in which Meeks was a main participant.” (10/27/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/27/sports/antonio-gates-allegedly-hosted-and-played-in-rigged-miami-poker-game-report/
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10) China’s industrial profits surge 21.6% in September, biggest jump in nearly two years
Source: CNBC
“China’s industrial profits soared 21.6% in September from a year ago, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday, as Beijing’s campaign to curb price wars helped ease pressure on manufacturers despite persistent trade tensions with the U.S. That sharp jump, extending a strong rebound that began in August when the industrial profits jumped 20.4% year-on-year, marked the biggest gain since November 2023. For the first nine months of the year, profits at major industrial firms grew 3.2%, the official data showed, accelerating from a 0.9% rise in the January to August period.” (10/27/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/chinas-industrial-profits-surge-21point6percent-september-biggest-jump-in-nearly-two-years-.html
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11) Trump in Japan to meet with Takaichi
Source: SFGate
“U.S. President Donald Trump is now in Japan for his first meeting with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, an early diplomatic test for the first woman to lead Japan, who took office only last week, backed by a tenuous coalition. Trade is the focus of Trump’s Asia trip. In Malaysia, he participated in a regional summit, seeking to realign the international economy with his ‘America First’ vision. A trade deal between the U.S. and China is drawing closer, officials from the world’s two largest economies said Sunday as they reached an initial consensus for Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to aim to finalize during their high-stakes meeting.” (10/27/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/the-latest-trump-set-to-arrive-in-japan-where-21121587.php
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12) US government shutdown triggers 8,000 flight delays amid air traffic controller shortage
Source: mint [India]
“More than 8,000 flights were delayed across the United States on Sunday as the country grappled with a shortage of air traffic controllers amid the US government shutdown that has now stretched into its 26th day. The absence of air traffic control staff at airports continues to disrupt travel, and officials expect more flight delays and cancellations in the days ahead. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported air traffic control staffing issues at 22 locations on Saturday. Duffy told Fox News that the figure was among the highest seen in the system since the federal government shutdown began on 1 October, adding, ‘The controllers are wearing thin.'” (10/27/25)
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/us-government-shutdown-triggers-8-000-flight-delays-amid-air-traffic-controller-shortage-11761539911850.html
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13) House Republicans accuse Biden’s FBI of retaliating against whistleblower who exposed misconduct
Source: Fox News
“According to the House Judiciary Committee, the Biden administration’s FBI used a security-clearance process to potentially retaliate against a whistleblower, and even tried to interrogate his wife while denying her repeated requests for an attorney. In a letter signed by Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Jen Kiggans, R-Va., the committee on Monday informed FBI Director Kash Patel that the Biden administration used a security-clearance interview process to skirt whistleblower protections and investigate Special Agent Valentine Fertitta in 2024. Fertitta had blown the whistle on the FBI’s misuse of ‘law-enforcement authorities.’ After that, his security clearance evaluation process became unusually prolonged. During that time, the FBI made attempts to interrogate his wife, Emily Fertitta, and asked her to participate in a two-day interview.” (10/27/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-accuse-bidens-fbi-retaliating-against-whistleblower-who-exposed-misconduct
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14) Turkey: Prosecutors File New Espionage Charges Against Istanbul’s Politically Imprisoned Mayor
Source: US News & World Report
“Prosecutors filed new espionage charges against Istanbul’s jailed mayor on Monday, intensifying the judicial pressure on the opposition politician seen as a top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The new charges against Ekrem Imamoglu stem from an investigation launched last week into alleged links between his political campaign and a businessman arrested in July for reportedly carrying out intelligence activities on behalf of foreign governments. Imamoglu’s former campaign manager, Necati Ozkan, and journalist Merdan Yanardag were also charged. … Imamoglu rejected the accusations as ‘nonsense’ in a statement posted on social media.” (10/27/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-27/turkish-prosecutors-file-new-espionage-charges-against-istanbuls-jailed-mayor
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15) Students trek across Serbia to campaign for station collapse victims ahead of anniversary
Source: SFGate
“Nine students from southwestern Serbia who have been trekking across the country for nearly two weeks said Monday they’re tired but determined to walk to the country’s north to keep attention focused on a deadly railway station disaster a year ago. They hope to reach Novi Sad on Nov. 1 when a major rally is planned to mark one year since a canopy collapsed in the northern city’s train station, killing 16 people. They believe the victims died because government corruption led to sloppy renovations at the station. The group, which has been joined by a handful of additional students since departing from the southwestern town of Novi Pazar on Oct. 16, headed out Monday from the central Serbian town of Ub after spending the night there.” (10/27/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/students-trek-across-serbia-to-campaign-for-21122430.php
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16) US Navy helicopter and fighter jet crash in separate incidents in area where they had no business being
Source: CNN
“A US Navy helicopter and a fighter jet both crashed in the same half hour on Sunday during separate routine operations over the South China Sea, with all crew members safely rescued, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said. The Navy has launched an investigation into the cause of both incidents that occurred over strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint for global conflict. … US President Donald Trump called the back-to-back crashes ‘very unusual’ and raised the possibility of a fuel problem while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, en route from Malaysia to Japan on Monday. ‘They think it might be bad fuel. We’re gonna find out. Nothing to hide, sir,’ Trump said in response to a question.” (10/26/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/politics/navy-aircraft-crash-south-china-sea
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17) Mexico: Sheinbaum says she and Trump agreed to extend trade deadline
Source: Reuters
“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday she spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday and that the two agreed to extend a looming trade deadline ‘for a few more weeks’ to discuss pending issues with Washington. The U.S. agreed in July to pause for 90 days an increase in tariffs on some [American buyers of] Mexican goods to 30% — from 25% — as the two countries continued talks aimed at reaching a new trade deal. That pause was set to end this week.” (10/27/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexicos-sheinbaum-trump-spoke-about-pending-trade-demands-2025-10-27/
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18) Mali: Regime shuts schools as fuel blockade imposed by fighters paralyses country
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Mali’s military government has announced schools and universities nationwide will be closed for two weeks, as the landlocked country continues to suffer from the effects of a crippling blockade on fuel imports imposed by an armed group in September. Education Minister Amadou Sy Savane said on Sunday the suspension until November 9 was ‘due to disruptions in fuel supplies that are affecting the movement of school staff.’ … It comes nearly two months after the Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) armed group, one of the several operating in the Sahel, declared a blockade on fuel imported from neighbouring countries. Since then, the al-Qaeda affiliate has been targeting fuel tankers coming mainly from Senegal and the Ivory Coast, through which most imported goods transit.” (10/27/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/27/mali-shuts-schools-as-fuel-blockade-imposed-by-fighters-paralyses-country
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19) Turkish Regime signs multibillion-dollar deal with British regime for 20 Eurofighter jets
Source: SFGate
“Turkey and Britain on Monday signed a deal worth 8 billion pounds ($10.7 billion) for 20 Eurofighter Typhoon jets. The agreement to enhance Turkey’s air capabilities was signed in Ankara during British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s first visit to the country. It marks the first new order of U.K. Typhoons since 2017. ‘Our countries may sit at either end of Europe, but we’re strong partners, working more closely together now than ever before,’ Starmer said during a signing ceremony alongside Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ‘This will bolster security across NATO, deepen our bilateral defense cooperation and boost economic growth here and in the United Kingdom, securing 20,000 British jobs,’ Starmer added. ‘I am proud that British typhoons will form a vital part of the Turkish Air Force for many years to come.’ Erdogan hailed the agreement as ‘a new symbol of the strategic relationship between us as two close allies’.” (10/27/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/british-pm-starmer-arrives-in-turkey-to-discuss-21121857.php
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20) VA: Man fleeing gang abduction attempt fatally struck by vehicle
Source: Seattle Times
“A 24-year-old Honduran man who was fleeing federal immigration agents in Virginia died on a highway after being struck by a vehicle. The death of Josué Castro Rivera follows recent incidents in which three other immigrants in Chicago and California were killed during [gang abduction attempts] under the Trump administration’s crackdown. Castro Rivera was headed to a gardening job Thursday when his vehicle was pulled over by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, brother Henry Castro said. [Gang members tried to abduct] Castro Rivera and the three other passengers, and he fled on foot, tried to cross Interstate 264 in Norfolk and was fatally struck, according to state and federal authorities.” (10/26/25)
https://archive.is/YBsJf
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21) Open Societies Are Stronger Than They Appear
Source: Persuasion
by Ben Connelly
“Across the modern New Right, or the climate-activist left, there is a widespread belief that the very characteristics which were once hailed as America’s strengths are weaknesses. Pluralism, it’s often said, makes our society disparate and fractious. The rule of law hampers the government’s ability to solve big problems. And erratic election results remove leaders before they have a chance to implement lasting change. Some populists, fearing weakness more than totalitarianism, want to eliminate the diversity of our society in favor of unity. There’s a tendency among environmental activists to believe that the scale of the climate crisis requires doing away with free choice and democratic governance. But in all cases, these critics mistake strength for weakness.” (10/27/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/open-societies-are-stronger-than
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22) The Battle of Midway in the Caribbean
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Similar to the Battle of Midway, the fierce military battles currently taking place in the Caribbean involve the naval forces of the United States and those of South American drug cartels. So far, U.S. forces have achieved the same level of military success as their predecessors at Midway. U.S. forces in the Caribbean have succeeded in destroying 10 enemy vessels. So far, enemy forces have failed to destroy even one American military vessel. Moreover, while U.S. forces have killed more than 40 enemy drug-cartel terrorist troops, the Pentagon has been quick to reassure Americans that so far there have been no casualties among U.S. troops. Despite these major military victories, however, the naval battles obviously continue to be fierce and precarious because President Trump and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are now summoning a massive naval reinforcement to the Caribbean.” (10/27/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/27/the-battle-of-midway-in-the-caribbean/
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23) Accusing Jordan Silverman
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“Between 2018 and 2019, Silverman was accused of sexually abusing as many as 15 children. (It still isn’t clear exactly how many accusations there were.) The alleged abuse took place at a preschool operated by the Washington Hebrew Congregation (WHC), a large and influential synagogue …. For 18 months, three law enforcement agencies thoroughly investigated Silverman. They went through every electronic device he owned, scoured his past, and interviewed friends and family up and down the East Coast. Then, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. and the D.C. Metro Police Department cleared him with an unusual, strongly-worded public statement: ‘After exhausting all investigative avenues, the universal determination of the investigative team was that there was insufficient probable cause to establish that an offense occurred or to make an arrest.’ … But the statement didn’t persuade Silverman’s accusers. It only further infuriated them.” (10/27/25)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/accusing-jordan-silverman
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24) How China Remade Global Trade — and Then Broke It
Source: The Daily Economy
by Donavan Lingerfelt & Ma Junjie
“Trade has made us wealthy and resilient, but also vulnerable to coercion. As China’s economic power peaks, its political model may be reaching its limits.” (10/27/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-china-remade-global-trade-and-then-broke-it/
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25) AI’s Truth Problem
Source: Law & Liberty
by James Andrews
“AI is a language engine. It does not invent meaning; it predicts plausibility. Trained on vast stores of text, it reproduces the judgments, insights, and blind spots of sources that no one, least of all its builders, fully understands. What it produces is not truth but a statistical echo of human choices about data and rules. That limitation reveals something fundamental about how it works. The model learns by detecting and reproducing statistical patterns in language, predicting which words are most likely to follow others based on training data. … The result is a system that can reproduce the language of knowledge but not the reasoning that makes knowledge possible. AI threatens our grasp of truth not because it lies, but because it lacks any shared framework for determining what truth is.” (10/27/25)
https://lawliberty.org/ais-truth-problem/
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26) No Kings, the Second Time Around
Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“Yes, in the ever more ominously unsettled (dis-)United States of Donald J. Trump, I recently went to the ‘hate America’ rally in New York City. Or at least that’s what Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson insisted it was. Who knew that so unbelievably many Americans, millions of us across the United States, would ‘hate’ this country enough to go out and march in the recent No Kings demonstrations, even in places where we might have feared being in distinct danger from the troops of ‘our’ president? In the days before the latest No Kings demonstrations, no matter whom I talked to or where they lived, they seemed to be planning to go to their local version of that march/rally. My neighbors, other city people, suburbanites, even friends living in the countryside.” (10/27/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/no-kings-the-second-time-around/
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27) The New Medievals
Source: The Dispatch
by Claire Lehmann
“Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, podcaster and influencer Candace Owens has floated a succession of conspiracy theories implicating everyone in the murder, from the Israeli government to Kirk’s own organization, Turning Point USA. This week, her speculation reached its apogee when she suggested that Donald Trump himself was involved. In a recent broadcast, Owens linked the commemorations of Kirk’s death to a supposed plot, remarking that ‘when they give you a holiday and a boulevard … they definitely killed you.’ Owens’[s] wild theorizing isn’t an anomaly; it’s part of something older and darker. There’s a distinctly medieval quality to much of the conspiratorial right — a world animated by unseen cabals, moral corruption, and divine punishment disguised as politics.” (10/27/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/medieval-candace-owens-conspiracy-kirk/
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28) Trump is a Wartime President
Source: Washington Monthly
by Garrett Epps
“Last week, Donald Trump dropped virtual ‘bombs’ on American citizens, demolished a prized symbol of American democracy and leadership, and demanded $230 million in reparations from taxpayers for what he calls unlawful attacks on him. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Trump does not wish to rule as a king or impose an authoritarian regime. People around him very much want the latter. He may think that this is his aim. But it is not. Some have suggested that the MAGA movement is creating a civil war between the red and blue states. But not Trump. The president is at war with the United States — the entire country — all of us. He seeks not to rule but to destroy.” (10/27/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/27/trump-is-a-wartime-president/
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29) We Protested, Now What?
Source: Our Future
by Sulma Arias
“My heart swells as I think of the more than 7 million people who poured into the streets for No Kings rallies last Sunday. In every corner of our country, in more than 2,500 communities, people showed up to say they will not let authoritarians decide our fate or our future. From the tens of thousands who marched in New York and Chicago to the lone woman who stood on her streetcorner in Beckley, West Virginia with handmade signs and a broad smile for all to see, people are saying loud and clear we will not give in to tyrants or masked goons. ‘I think you need to show your face to your actual neighbors,’ said the West Virginian, Kendra Sullivan. ‘We’re just like everybody else: We are America.’ Like Kendra, these protesters share what People’s Action calls the spirit of Joyous Rebellion.” (10/26/25)
https://ourfuture.org/20251026/we-protested-now-what
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30) A Better Path Forward for Infant Adoption
Source: Bet On It
by Elizabeth Kirk & Ryan Hanlon
“Bryan Caplan is right about one big thing: the collapse of intercountry adoption is tragic, given that there remain hundreds of thousands of children in need of families – and there are plenty of families open to adopting them. The demographics of who is being placed for intercountry adoption have changed in recent years (trending older, most have medically complex special needs) as infants are no longer available, but as Caplan’s post made clear, the big change has been the 95+% decline in the overall number of adoptions. That is not a rounding error — it is a policy failure that has left children waiting and families in limbo. … He proposes we ‘drastically curtail or abolish the welfare state’ so that more women would place infants for adoption. Against the backdrop of our research, it’s not clear that this would have such an effect.” (10/27/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/a-better-path-forward-for-infant
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31) Capitalism Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can’t Give Us What We Actually Want
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“At some point capitalism lost the ability to give us new things that we need and started giving us new things we don’t need, and now it’s giving us new things we never needed and don’t even really want. Nobody needs all this generative AI crap. We were doing fine with online search functions and the ability to write and make art for ourselves. Only the most shallow and vapid of individuals find any appeal in the idea of talking to a chatbot like a companion, consuming ‘art’ generated by a computer program, or letting the technology of some plutocratic megacorporation do their thinking, researching and expressing for them.” [editor’s note: At least AI can probably write better poetry than Johnstone – TLK] (10/26/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/26/capitalism-is-shoving-ai-down-our-throats-because-it-cant-give-us-what-we-actually-want/
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32) Recognizing the Roots of the Current US Political Turmoil
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Lipton Matthews
“Lawrence Mead’s Political Breakdown (2025) is not a book of partisan skirmishing or quick diagnoses. It is instead a cultural meditation on why the United States, a society that once seemed uniquely dynamic, confident, and cohesive, now struggles to maintain the very norms that powered its rise. For Mead, the story of American decline is not simply about inequality, polarization, or stagnant wages, though these are real enough. It is about the erosion of the ethic of individualism that once held the society together. The United States — unlike many other nations — thrived because it demanded that its citizens take responsibility for themselves. … The problem today, Mead insists, is that these norms no longer command the same authority. What was once a shared cultural foundation has fractured, and the resulting void has left Americans unable to sustain progress or govern themselves effectively.” (10/27/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/recognizing-roots-current-us-political-turmoil
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33) The US Wants to Bury the Gaza Genocide, But the World Will Not Allow It
Source: Common Dreams
Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“On October 4th, 2025, in an interview with Axios, President Donal Trump stressed that one of the main goals behind his Gaza plan was to restore Israel’s international standing. ‘Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world,’ Trump said. ‘Now I am gonna get all that support back.’ Under Trump’ s plan, a supposed ceasefire took effect on October 10th. But Israel only withdrew from less than half of the Gaza strip, and killed at least 93 people in the next two weeks, after killing at least that many per day for the previous two years. Israel has only allowed 15% of the humanitarian aid called for in the plan to enter Gaza, and has kept the critical Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza closed.” (10/27/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-gaza-genocide-complicity
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34) Trump’s Pivot to the Americas
Source: The American Conservative
by Leon Hadar
“The Trump administration’s apparent pivot toward the Western Hemisphere — most vividly displayed in the massive military buildup and maritime strikes around Latin America — represents a rare moment of strategic clarity in contemporary U.S. foreign policy, even if the specific bellicose actions getting attention are misguided. Whether intentional or not, this reorientation aligns with basic geopolitical logic that should have guided U.S. policy all along. The Western Hemisphere, after all, is where America’s genuine strategic interests lie. This isn’t jingoism or imperial nostalgia — it’s simple geography and economics.” [editor’s note: The simple geography extends to a brownstone in New York and a private island; the economics to their wealthy owner; both those things, added to Donald Trump’s desire to distract from his long, close, personal relationship with that owner, the late Jeffrey Epstein, they explain the entire theatrical production – TLK] (10/27/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-pivot-to-the-americas/
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35) First Brands: Are The Cockroaches Coming Home to Roost?
Source: Racket News
by Eric Salzman
“There are still two months left in 2025 but unless something intergalactically stupid happens soon, the collapse of First Brands Group Holdings will take home the prize of 2025’s most embarrassing moment of the year for Wall Street. First Brands, an owner of 24 auto-supply companies, including Fram oil filters, Anco windshield wipers, Autolite spark plugs, and Centric brakes, managed to create a financial disaster that might exceed $10 billion in losses. Major players in commercial bank lending, private credit lending, investment banking, fund management, credit insurance and public accounting have taken a bite of the rotten apple.” (10/27/25)
https://www.racket.news/p/first-brands-are-the-cockroaches
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36) True Crime: Murder on the High Seas
Source: CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs
“In the past few weeks, the US military has killed around thirty people in cold blood. The murders occurred on boats traveling in waters on both sides of Latin America and were undertaken without any warning to the crews on the boats. The rulers in Washington DC claim that those in the boats were involved in drug smuggling; they make this claim without showing any proof …. The former president of the Philippines Jose Duterte is currently in prison in the Hague after being charged with being an ‘indirect co-perpetrator’ in the murders of hundreds of alleged drug dealers by Philippine military and law enforcement during his time in office. If we apply this same reasoning to the aforementioned murders by the US military, then Donald Trump, Marc Rubio, Pete Hegseth and others should be arrested on similar charges.” (10/27/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/27/true-crime-murder-on-the-high-seas/
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37) Trump Admin Helping America Kick Its Addiction to Big Pharma
Source: Town Hall
by Rachel Alexander
“Big Pharma is panicking. The Trump administration’s probe into international pharmaceutical pricing and its executive order to reduce the cost of drugs by up to 80 percent come as both President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urge Americans to put fitness and lifestyle ahead of popping pills. Big Pharma is responsible for setting the price of drugs. So, in order to maintain this power, it’s no wonder the industry has promised to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure here in the U.S. It also pledged to provide financial assistance to millions of patients who have been ‘failed by a broken health insurance system’ and to launch a new consumer-focused website that allows Americans to buy drugs directly from manufacturers.” (10/27/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2025/10/27/the-trump-administration-is-helping-america-kick-its-addiction-to-big-pharma-n2665494
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38) How Stockholm Used a $3 Toll To Tame Its Traffic Congestion
Source: Reason
by Katarina Hall
“If you love walking, Stockholm was built just for you. Spread across 14 islands linked by bridges, the city brims with waterfront promenades, ferries gliding through inlets, the whir of bicycle wheels, and pedestrians spilling into lively café-lined squares. Not long ago, traffic clogged the bridges between the city’s neighborhoods. Despite a world-class public transit system and a relatively small population, Stockholm’s congestion rivaled that of London and Paris. For decades, city leaders proposed fixes, but nothing stuck until 2002, when Sweden’s parliament approved congestion pricing. The idea was simple: Charge a small fee for vehicles entering and exiting the city center to reduce traffic, improve accessibility, and clean the air.” (for publication 11/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/27/how-stockholm-tamed-traffic/
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39) Quantum Vibe, 10/27/25
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (10/27/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2558
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40) Inflating Russian missile costs hides US weapons crisis
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Mike Fredenburg
“The West likes to inflate the cost of Russian weapons as a way to suggest Moscow is in a financial bind and manipulate the narrative of a looming Ukraine victory — while also masking real inefficiencies in the U.S. defense industry. By assuming Russian weapons have input costs similar to U.S. systems or conflating export prices with Russia’s internal costs, Western estimates produce misleading figures. These inflated costs bolster the narrative that the strain on Moscow is tremendous, while downplaying the increasing challenges for Ukraine and NATO to effectively counter Russia’s relatively inexpensive missiles and drones.” (10/27/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/cost-russian-missiles/
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41) Politicians Aren’t Heroes
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Seth Moulton is not a progressive; he will tell you that himself. He’s a New Democrat Coalition member, he rather prominently picked a fight by opposing trans participation in youth sports right after the 2024 elections, and he’s generally a down-the-line, center-left Democrat. Yet the moment he jumped into a U.S. Senate primary against progressive Ed Markey, he essentially kicked off his campaign with the announcement that he would be returning all donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and would refuse any further contributions from them. ‘AIPAC has aligned itself too closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government’, Moulton wrote in a statement. This is far from an isolated incident. Mallory McMorrow, running for Senate in Michigan, has called Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide, and after appearing to solicit support from AIPAC in a leaked message, said she would not accept any.” (10/27/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/10/27/politicians-arent-heroes/
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42) Having a Ball
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Live long enough and everything will happen, at some point. Even bizarre, incomprehensible things, such as Saturday’s Washington Post editorial, ‘In defense of the White House ballroom.’ In short, a defense of, ahem … Trump. The paper began by noting the ballroom was something of a Rorschach test, with Trump’s opponents viewing his actions as ‘reckless’ while his supporters see ‘a change agent unafraid to decisively take on the status quo.’ But the editors add that ‘it has become far too difficult to build anything in America,’ before concluding: ‘Trump’s undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere.'” (10/27/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/27/having-a-ball/
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43) The Neocons Have Finally Found a Way Into MAGA Hearts
Source: Antiwar.com
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
“‘Neocon’ may have become a dirty word, but after a few years, their agenda is back in play. And no doubt many of their players, too. After being banished to the wilderness for plunging the nation into a 20-year war, the neocons fell flat with the Trump base in Ukraine and lost the thread with MAGA in Israel. Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere are another matter. The neocons have evolved, and regime change is back on the menu. How? Rather than pushing ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ like George W. Bush’s famous second inaugural speech at the height of the Iraq War, neoconservatives have adopted the prevailing MAGA/New Right language of ‘America First’ to inject regime change back into fashion.” (10/27/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/kelley_beaucar_vlahos/2025/10/26/the-neocons-have-finally-found-a-way-into-maga-hearts/
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44) Scott Bessent is wrong. Tariffs are taxes that hurt Americans.
Source: Orange County Register
by Matt Fleming
“Throughout his time as Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent has regularly fought against claims that the tariffs adored by his boss, President Donald Trump, are really just taxes on consumers. ‘Tariffs are a surcharge, not a tax,’ Bessent told a reporter this week. ‘They could be paid by the exporter, they could be paid by the country.’ Bessent likely thinks that’s a great point, but he shouldn’t drop the mic just yet. Regardless of the word games, Americans are suffering from the end result. We are paying higher prices as a result of Trump’s tariffs. According to analysis from the Tax Foundation, Trump’s tariffs have raised consumer prices by 4.9 percentage points. … make no mistake: tariffs are taxes.” (10/26/25)
https://archive.is/QlDtV
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45) TDS has morphed into something far more lethal: Trump Projection Disorder
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Democrats have lost their minds. This time last year, the conversation was about what is the acceptable number of apartment complexes in Colorado that we can tolerate being taken over by Venezuelan gangs of illegal migrants. Now the big issue is the president’s big, beautiful ballroom. The ‘No Kings’ folk are melting down. In just two days last week, there were 10,000 comments on The Washington Post’s website railing against the ballroom, which is being built at a cost to the taxpayer of zero dollars. ‘I can’t wait for the day they hold Trump’s funeral in that gaudy ballroom,’ was a typical ‘recommended’ comment from someone calling herself CindyintheSuburbs. Donald Trump is living inside their heads.” [editor’s note: He’s obviously living in Devine’s head. Alone, with nothing else in there – TLK] (10/26/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/opinion/miranda-devine-trump-derangement-syndrome-has-morphed-into-something-far-more-lethal-trump-projection-disorder/
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46) A False and Toxic Peace Spreads Across the Middle East from the West
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“To put it bluntly, this wasn’t a peace deal; it was an attempt to cover up an ongoing genocide by dressing the tombstones of the killing fields in shiny yellow ribbons, and Trump’s supposed opponents in the EU and on the mainstream liberal media backed it because they are all just as complicit in this heinous slaughter as the man they pretend to oppose in front of the cameras. While the US is by far the largest financier of Benjamin Netanyahu’s crusade against impoverished infants, kicking up $22 billion in military aid to his regime since October 2023, the rest of the ‘free’ world did their part too.” (10/26/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-false-and-toxic-peace-spreads-across.html
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47) Massachusetts Voters Support Unions for Uber Drivers
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Michael Alcorn
“A ballot measure passed in Massachusetts last November gives [sic] rideshare drivers the right to unionize. At first glance, this sounds good. After all, ‘supporting workers’ is a message that resonates with many of us, but the reality is worrisome for rideshare drivers who value flexibility and independence. … I saw firsthand at Trader Joe’s what happens when a union inserts itself where it isn’t wanted. If Massachusetts wants to help rideshare drivers, it should protect their flexibility, not undermine it by forcing independent rideshare drivers into a union they never voted for.” [editor’s note: All workers always have a right to join a union. Whether they can get other workers to also join it, or get an employer to bargain exclusively with it, isn’t a matter of the unionized workers’ rights, it’s a matter of everyone else’s – TLK] (10/26/25)
https://fee.org/articles/massachusetts-voters-support-unions-for-uber-drivers/
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48) The engines of state capitalism, part 5: An arrow against all patents
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“It may be that there is today no feature of our legal or our economic system more misunderstood than patents. They are the premier example of a policy where there is a fathomless breach between its public reputation and its real purpose. These special state-granted powers are among the most freedom-limiting counterfeit rights the modern age has ever produced, and they should be abolished completely, with not a one left. We can’t even open a conversation about something like ‘free markets’ or ‘economic freedom’ before that step has been taken.” (10/26/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/the-engines-of-state-capitalism-part-a50
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49) Eviction By ICE?
Source: In These Times
by Rebecca Burns
“Rodrick Johnson, 67, had just returned home from a trip to the hospital and was trying to get some rest. But in the early hours of September 30, bright lights suddenly flooded his apartment. A fleet of Black Hawk helicopters descended on his five-story building — a 130-unit apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive — shortly before armed, masked men stormed past the doors of the ground floor. ‘The next thing I knew, they were kicking my door in,’ Johnson says. He and dozens of his neighbors were marched outside at gunpoint during the multiagency raid carried out by some 300 federal agents in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. Black and Latino residents were zip-tied, separated by race and detained inside cargo vans, as South Side Weekly reported in the raid’s aftermath.” (10/27/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/eviction-by-ice-on-chicago-tenants-landlord-renters-immigrants
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50) Why Fentanyl Smuggling isn’t War and Cannot Justify Extrajudicial Killing
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“Donald Trump continues to order strikes on boats carrying supposed drug traffickers in the Carribean and the Pacific, killing an estimated 43 people so far. I have previously written about why these attacks are both illegal and unjust. … Drug smuggling is, at most, a criminal law issue, not an act of war. And, in many cases, the people targeted either were not actually smuggling drugs or were not on their way to the US (US law cannot and does not forbid mere possession of drugs in international waters). … This equation of drug overdoses with terrorist attacks overlooks the fundamental moral and legal difference between deaths that occur as a result of violent attack and those that occur because consumers voluntarily imbibed a dangerous drug.” (10/26/25)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/26/why-fentanyl-smuggling-isnt-war-and-cannot-justify-extrajudicial-killing/
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51) Reason Roundtable, 10/27/25
Source: Reason
"Javier Milei's Libertarian Policies Win Shock Election." (10/27/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/27/javier-mileis-libertarian-policies-win-shock-election/
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52) Rising, 10/27/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his take on Kamala Harris’s flirtation with another presidential bid in 2028, and what it could mean for Democrats’ chances in the contest.” (10/27/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5574657-rising-october-27-2025/
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53) The Chris Spangle Show, 10/27/25
Source: We Are Libertarians
“Who cares about political hypocrisy? Plus, The East Wing, Venezuelan Boats, and No Kings on WJOB.” (10/27/25)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/who-cares-about-political-hypocrisy
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54) EconTalk, 10/27/25
Source: EconTalk
“A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis).” (10/27/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/a-mind-blowing-way-of-looking-at-math-with-david-bessis/
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55) The Dispatch Podcast, 10/27/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Retribution | Interview: Jonathan Karl and Declan Garvey.” (10/27/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/retribution-interview-jonathan-karl-and-declan-garvey/
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56) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/27/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Nixing of Dem State Disaster Aid Backfires, Screwing MAGA Voters.” (10/27/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202263/trump-nixing-dem-state-disaster-aid-backfires-screwing-maga-voters
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/27/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Deploys Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Near Venezuela, US OKs Israeli Airstrike in Gaza, and More.” (10/27/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaivefDrL7k
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58) Pink Flame of Liberty, 10/26/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Fear and Loathing on the LNC — JC Edition.” (10/26/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqTpK4p-GU
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59) Free Talk Live, 10/26/25
Source: Free Talk Live
“SNAP funding to end November 1st :: messed up healthcare system :: whiskey rebellion :: individual rights :: Sarah from NM calls about automated police tech :: Skeeter calls to ‘destroy’ libertarianism, fails again :: China pays too much for water plant in Nashua NH? :: Parker from CT calls about Chinese buying mineral rights and ‘national security’ :: Dave Ridley calls about AI risk, was asked to submit an article to reason magazine :: $14 billion in bitcoin seized from Cambodian ‘pig butchering’ scam operation :: 2025-10-26 Hosts: Stu, Penguin, Angelo.” (10/26/25)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2025-10-26
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60) LPALive, episode 55
Source: LP Alliance
“The SIC JC Appeal.” (10/26/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Pm5hS-CX4
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1) Venezuela: Regime claims CIA “false flag” attack foiled
2) Melissa set to slam Jamaica as its strongest hurricane on record
3) Ukraine: Russian troops cut off by flooding after Belgorod dam strike
4) IN: Braun Calls Special Legislative Session to Re-Gerrymander US House Districts
5) Israel: Saar whines that Turkey’s regime is “unfair,” can’t have troops in Gaza
6) Cameroon: World’s Oldest Ruler Wins “Reelection” at 92
7) Madagascar: Rajoelina stripped of citizenship after military takeover
8) CA: Violent gang abducts British journalist at San Francisco airport
9) Report: Antonio Gates allegedly hosted and played in rigged Miami poker game
10) China’s industrial profits surge 21.6% in September, biggest jump in nearly two years
11) Trump in Japan to meet with Takaichi
12) US government shutdown triggers 8,000 flight delays amid air traffic controller shortage
13) House Republicans accuse Biden’s FBI of retaliating against whistleblower who exposed misconduct
14) Turkey: Prosecutors File New Espionage Charges Against Istanbul’s Politically Imprisoned Mayor
15) Students trek across Serbia to campaign for station collapse victims ahead of anniversary
16) US Navy helicopter and fighter jet crash in separate incidents in area where they had no business being
17) Mexico: Sheinbaum says she and Trump agreed to extend trade deadline
18) Mali: Regime shuts schools as fuel blockade imposed by fighters paralyses country
19) Turkish Regime signs multibillion-dollar deal with British regime for 20 Eurofighter jets
20) VA: Man fleeing gang abduction attempt fatally struck by vehicle
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Open Societies Are Stronger Than They Appear
22) The Battle of Midway in the Caribbean
23) Accusing Jordan Silverman
24) How China Remade Global Trade — and Then Broke It
25) AI’s Truth Problem
26) No Kings, the Second Time Around
27) The New Medievals
28) Trump is a Wartime President
29) We Protested, Now What?
30) A Better Path Forward for Infant Adoption
31) Capitalism Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can’t Give Us What We Actually Want
32) Recognizing the Roots of the Current US Political Turmoil
33) The US Wants to Bury the Gaza Genocide, But the World Will Not Allow It
34) Trump’s Pivot to the Americas
35) First Brands: Are The Cockroaches Coming Home to Roost?
36) True Crime: Murder on the High Seas
37) Trump Admin Helping America Kick Its Addiction to Big Pharma
38) How Stockholm Used a $3 Toll To Tame Its Traffic Congestion
39) Quantum Vibe, 10/27/25
40) Inflating Russian missile costs hides US weapons crisis
41) Politicians Aren’t Heroes
42) Having a Ball
43) The Neocons Have Finally Found a Way Into MAGA Hearts
44) Scott Bessent is wrong. Tariffs are taxes that hurt Americans.
45) TDS has morphed into something far more lethal: Trump Projection Disorder
46) A False and Toxic Peace Spreads Across the Middle East from the West
47) Massachusetts Voters Support Unions for Uber Drivers
48) The engines of state capitalism, part 5: An arrow against all patents
49) Eviction By ICE?
50) Why Fentanyl Smuggling isn’t War and Cannot Justify Extrajudicial Killing
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1) Venezuela: Regime claims CIA “false flag” attack foiled
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Venezuelan authorities said they uncovered an operation targeting the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer that docked Sunday in Trinidad and Tobago — within firing distance of the Venezuelan mainland. The ship’s arrival sparked outrage in Caracas, which called it a ‘provocation’ …. Maduro on Monday evening announced he had suspended a gas agreement with Trinidad and Tobago …. Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said Monday that a cell ‘financed by the CIA’ planned to attack the USS Gravely and frame Caracas. Four people were arrested, Cabello said, without providing details of the alleged suspects. Venezuela regularly claims to have arrested US-backed mercenaries working to destabilize Maduro’s administration. … Tensions rose further Monday as two US B-1B bombers flew over the Caribbean near Venezuela, the third such show of force in recent weeks.” (10/27/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251027-venezuela-claims-cia-false-flag-attack-foiled-as-us-deploys-bombers
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2) Melissa set to slam Jamaica as its strongest hurricane on record
Source: CBS News
“Hurricane Melissa was about to pummel Jamaica on Tuesday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since recordkeeping began 174 years ago. The storm was expected to make landfall early Tuesday and slice diagonally across the island, entering near St. Elizabeth parish in the south and exiting around St. Ann parish in the north, forecasters said. Hours before the storm, the government said it had done all it could to prepare as it warned of catastrophic damage. … The storm already was blamed for seven deaths in the Caribbean, including three in Jamaica, three in Haiti and one in the Dominican Republic, where another person was missing.” (10/28/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-its-strongest-recorded-history/
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3) Ukraine: Russian troops cut off by flooding after Belgorod dam strike
Source: The Telegraph [UK]
“Ukraine has carried out a drone strike on Belgorod dam that led to flooding in the southern Russian region and cut off several Moscow units. Water gushed from the damaged reservoir, disrupting Russian logistics and stranding troops stationed on the Ukrainian side of the border in Vovchansk. … Before the dam strike, Ukraine’s 16 Army Corps said Russian activity near Vovchansk had increased owing to warm weather. This hardened the ground and led to shallower rivers in the region, making logistics easier for the Russians. But after the strike, the water surged into the Siverskyi Donets River, reportedly flooding Russian bunkers and trenches and complicating logistics for the forward positions of Moscow’s troops.” (10/27/25)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/27/russian-troops-cut-off-flooding-ukraine-hits-belgorod-dam/
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4) IN: Braun Calls Special Legislative Session to Re-Gerrymander US House Districts
Source: US News & World Report
“Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Braun called Monday for state lawmakers to return to Indianapolis for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries, escalating a national fight over midcycle redistricting. President Donald Trump has ramped up pressure on Republican governors to draw new maps that give the party an easier path to maintain control of the House in the midterms. While Republicans in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina have moved quickly to enact new districts and California Democrats are seeking to counter with their own redistricting plan, Indiana lawmakers have been far more hesitant. Braun called for the General Assembly to convene Nov. 3 for the special session. It’s unclear whether enough of the GOP majority Senate will back new maps. The White House held multiple meetings with Indiana lawmakers who have held out for months.” (10/27/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-10-27/indiana-gov-mike-braun-calls-a-special-session-to-redraw-the-states-congressional-boundaries
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5) Israel: Saar whines that Turkey’s regime is “unfair,” can’t have troops in Gaza
Source: Reuters
“Israel won’t accept the presence of Turkish armed forces in Gaza under a U.S. plan to end war in the Palestinian territory for good, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan includes an international force in Gaza to help secure a fragile ceasefire which began this month, halting two years of war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. But it remains unclear whether Arab and other states will be ready to commit troops to the international force. ‘Countries that want or are ready to send armed forces should be at least fair to Israel,’ Saar said at a news conference in Budapest. Once warm Turkish-Israeli relations soured drastically during the Gaza war, with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan lambasting Israel’s devastating air and ground campaign in the small Palestinian enclave.” (10/27/25)
https://archive.is/P5qr1
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6) Cameroon: World’s Oldest Ruler Wins “Reelection” at 92
Source: Bloomberg
“Cameroonian President Paul Biya was declared the winner of Oct. 12 elections that were marred by the disqualification of his main challenger, and is set to rule the central African nation until the age of 99 if he completes his eighth term. Biya, 92, won 53.7% of the vote and his closest rival, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who resigned from the cabinet in June, 35.2%, Clement Atangana, president of the Constitutional Council, said on Monday. … The nonagenarian has ruled Cameroon for 43 years and most citizens, whose median age is 18, have never known another leader.” (10/27/25)
https://archive.is/H2t89
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7) Madagascar: Rajoelina stripped of citizenship after military takeover
Source: ABC News
“Former Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has been stripped of his citizenship by [sic] after he was ousted during a military takeover just over a week ago. Rajoelina, whose whereabouts remains unknown after he fled the country following protests that demanded his resignation, also holds French citizenship. The country’s new prime minister, Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo, has signed a decree invoking laws which strip all Madagascans of their citizenship if they have citizenship of another country. Rajoelina’s possession of French nationality had previously caused a debate about his eligibility to run for the president in the 2023 polls, an election he won.” (10/27/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/former-madagascar-president-andry-rajoelina-stripped-citizenship-after-126890877
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8) CA: Violent gang abducts British journalist at San Francisco airport
Source: Independent [UK]
“Sami Hamdi, a British journalist and activist and outspoken critic of the Israeli war in Gaza, was [abducted] by U.S. immigration agents Sunday at San Francisco International Airport. ‘Earlier this morning, ICE agents abducted British Muslim journalist and political commentator Sami Hamdi at San Francisco Airport, apparently in response to his vocal criticism of the Israeli government during his ongoing speaking tour,’ the Council on American-Islamic Relations civil rights group wrote on X. Hamdi had spoken at a gala for the group on Saturday in California and was heading to Florida for another event prior to his [abduction].” (10/27/25)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/sami-hamdi-arrest-ice-san-francisco-b2852613.html
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9) Report: Antonio Gates allegedly hosted and played in rigged Miami poker game
Source: New York Post
“NFL Hall of Famer Antonio Gates allegedly hosted and played in a rigged Miami poker game, according to a new report. Sports investigative journalist Pablo Torre reported on Sunday that the Hall of Fame tight end hosted and participated in an allegedly rigged game that was organized by Curtis Meeks, who was indicted by federal prosecutors as part of the massive gambling scandal that rocked the NBA. Details were limited, but Torre’s report follows a report by The Post on Saturday, where one purported victim said that he and his friends had been scammed of nearly $1 million, with an ex-NFL player serving as the ‘face card’ for a game in which Meeks was a main participant.” (10/27/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/27/sports/antonio-gates-allegedly-hosted-and-played-in-rigged-miami-poker-game-report/
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10) China’s industrial profits surge 21.6% in September, biggest jump in nearly two years
Source: CNBC
“China’s industrial profits soared 21.6% in September from a year ago, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday, as Beijing’s campaign to curb price wars helped ease pressure on manufacturers despite persistent trade tensions with the U.S. That sharp jump, extending a strong rebound that began in August when the industrial profits jumped 20.4% year-on-year, marked the biggest gain since November 2023. For the first nine months of the year, profits at major industrial firms grew 3.2%, the official data showed, accelerating from a 0.9% rise in the January to August period.” (10/27/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/chinas-industrial-profits-surge-21point6percent-september-biggest-jump-in-nearly-two-years-.html
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11) Trump in Japan to meet with Takaichi
Source: SFGate
“U.S. President Donald Trump is now in Japan for his first meeting with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, an early diplomatic test for the first woman to lead Japan, who took office only last week, backed by a tenuous coalition. Trade is the focus of Trump’s Asia trip. In Malaysia, he participated in a regional summit, seeking to realign the international economy with his ‘America First’ vision. A trade deal between the U.S. and China is drawing closer, officials from the world’s two largest economies said Sunday as they reached an initial consensus for Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to aim to finalize during their high-stakes meeting.” (10/27/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/the-latest-trump-set-to-arrive-in-japan-where-21121587.php
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12) US government shutdown triggers 8,000 flight delays amid air traffic controller shortage
Source: mint [India]
“More than 8,000 flights were delayed across the United States on Sunday as the country grappled with a shortage of air traffic controllers amid the US government shutdown that has now stretched into its 26th day. The absence of air traffic control staff at airports continues to disrupt travel, and officials expect more flight delays and cancellations in the days ahead. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported air traffic control staffing issues at 22 locations on Saturday. Duffy told Fox News that the figure was among the highest seen in the system since the federal government shutdown began on 1 October, adding, ‘The controllers are wearing thin.'” (10/27/25)
https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/us-government-shutdown-triggers-8-000-flight-delays-amid-air-traffic-controller-shortage-11761539911850.html
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13) House Republicans accuse Biden’s FBI of retaliating against whistleblower who exposed misconduct
Source: Fox News
“According to the House Judiciary Committee, the Biden administration’s FBI used a security-clearance process to potentially retaliate against a whistleblower, and even tried to interrogate his wife while denying her repeated requests for an attorney. In a letter signed by Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Jen Kiggans, R-Va., the committee on Monday informed FBI Director Kash Patel that the Biden administration used a security-clearance interview process to skirt whistleblower protections and investigate Special Agent Valentine Fertitta in 2024. Fertitta had blown the whistle on the FBI’s misuse of ‘law-enforcement authorities.’ After that, his security clearance evaluation process became unusually prolonged. During that time, the FBI made attempts to interrogate his wife, Emily Fertitta, and asked her to participate in a two-day interview.” (10/27/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-accuse-bidens-fbi-retaliating-against-whistleblower-who-exposed-misconduct
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14) Turkey: Prosecutors File New Espionage Charges Against Istanbul’s Politically Imprisoned Mayor
Source: US News & World Report
“Prosecutors filed new espionage charges against Istanbul’s jailed mayor on Monday, intensifying the judicial pressure on the opposition politician seen as a top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The new charges against Ekrem Imamoglu stem from an investigation launched last week into alleged links between his political campaign and a businessman arrested in July for reportedly carrying out intelligence activities on behalf of foreign governments. Imamoglu’s former campaign manager, Necati Ozkan, and journalist Merdan Yanardag were also charged. … Imamoglu rejected the accusations as ‘nonsense’ in a statement posted on social media.” (10/27/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-27/turkish-prosecutors-file-new-espionage-charges-against-istanbuls-jailed-mayor
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15) Students trek across Serbia to campaign for station collapse victims ahead of anniversary
Source: SFGate
“Nine students from southwestern Serbia who have been trekking across the country for nearly two weeks said Monday they’re tired but determined to walk to the country’s north to keep attention focused on a deadly railway station disaster a year ago. They hope to reach Novi Sad on Nov. 1 when a major rally is planned to mark one year since a canopy collapsed in the northern city’s train station, killing 16 people. They believe the victims died because government corruption led to sloppy renovations at the station. The group, which has been joined by a handful of additional students since departing from the southwestern town of Novi Pazar on Oct. 16, headed out Monday from the central Serbian town of Ub after spending the night there.” (10/27/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/students-trek-across-serbia-to-campaign-for-21122430.php
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16) US Navy helicopter and fighter jet crash in separate incidents in area where they had no business being
Source: CNN
“A US Navy helicopter and a fighter jet both crashed in the same half hour on Sunday during separate routine operations over the South China Sea, with all crew members safely rescued, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said. The Navy has launched an investigation into the cause of both incidents that occurred over strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint for global conflict. … US President Donald Trump called the back-to-back crashes ‘very unusual’ and raised the possibility of a fuel problem while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, en route from Malaysia to Japan on Monday. ‘They think it might be bad fuel. We’re gonna find out. Nothing to hide, sir,’ Trump said in response to a question.” (10/26/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/politics/navy-aircraft-crash-south-china-sea
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17) Mexico: Sheinbaum says she and Trump agreed to extend trade deadline
Source: Reuters
“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday she spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday and that the two agreed to extend a looming trade deadline ‘for a few more weeks’ to discuss pending issues with Washington. The U.S. agreed in July to pause for 90 days an increase in tariffs on some [American buyers of] Mexican goods to 30% — from 25% — as the two countries continued talks aimed at reaching a new trade deal. That pause was set to end this week.” (10/27/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexicos-sheinbaum-trump-spoke-about-pending-trade-demands-2025-10-27/
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18) Mali: Regime shuts schools as fuel blockade imposed by fighters paralyses country
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Mali’s military government has announced schools and universities nationwide will be closed for two weeks, as the landlocked country continues to suffer from the effects of a crippling blockade on fuel imports imposed by an armed group in September. Education Minister Amadou Sy Savane said on Sunday the suspension until November 9 was ‘due to disruptions in fuel supplies that are affecting the movement of school staff.’ … It comes nearly two months after the Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) armed group, one of the several operating in the Sahel, declared a blockade on fuel imported from neighbouring countries. Since then, the al-Qaeda affiliate has been targeting fuel tankers coming mainly from Senegal and the Ivory Coast, through which most imported goods transit.” (10/27/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/27/mali-shuts-schools-as-fuel-blockade-imposed-by-fighters-paralyses-country
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19) Turkish Regime signs multibillion-dollar deal with British regime for 20 Eurofighter jets
Source: SFGate
“Turkey and Britain on Monday signed a deal worth 8 billion pounds ($10.7 billion) for 20 Eurofighter Typhoon jets. The agreement to enhance Turkey’s air capabilities was signed in Ankara during British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s first visit to the country. It marks the first new order of U.K. Typhoons since 2017. ‘Our countries may sit at either end of Europe, but we’re strong partners, working more closely together now than ever before,’ Starmer said during a signing ceremony alongside Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ‘This will bolster security across NATO, deepen our bilateral defense cooperation and boost economic growth here and in the United Kingdom, securing 20,000 British jobs,’ Starmer added. ‘I am proud that British typhoons will form a vital part of the Turkish Air Force for many years to come.’ Erdogan hailed the agreement as ‘a new symbol of the strategic relationship between us as two close allies’.” (10/27/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/british-pm-starmer-arrives-in-turkey-to-discuss-21121857.php
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20) VA: Man fleeing gang abduction attempt fatally struck by vehicle
Source: Seattle Times
“A 24-year-old Honduran man who was fleeing federal immigration agents in Virginia died on a highway after being struck by a vehicle. The death of Josué Castro Rivera follows recent incidents in which three other immigrants in Chicago and California were killed during [gang abduction attempts] under the Trump administration’s crackdown. Castro Rivera was headed to a gardening job Thursday when his vehicle was pulled over by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, brother Henry Castro said. [Gang members tried to abduct] Castro Rivera and the three other passengers, and he fled on foot, tried to cross Interstate 264 in Norfolk and was fatally struck, according to state and federal authorities.” (10/26/25)
https://archive.is/YBsJf
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21) Open Societies Are Stronger Than They Appear
Source: Persuasion
by Ben Connelly
“Across the modern New Right, or the climate-activist left, there is a widespread belief that the very characteristics which were once hailed as America’s strengths are weaknesses. Pluralism, it’s often said, makes our society disparate and fractious. The rule of law hampers the government’s ability to solve big problems. And erratic election results remove leaders before they have a chance to implement lasting change. Some populists, fearing weakness more than totalitarianism, want to eliminate the diversity of our society in favor of unity. There’s a tendency among environmental activists to believe that the scale of the climate crisis requires doing away with free choice and democratic governance. But in all cases, these critics mistake strength for weakness.” (10/27/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/open-societies-are-stronger-than
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22) The Battle of Midway in the Caribbean
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Similar to the Battle of Midway, the fierce military battles currently taking place in the Caribbean involve the naval forces of the United States and those of South American drug cartels. So far, U.S. forces have achieved the same level of military success as their predecessors at Midway. U.S. forces in the Caribbean have succeeded in destroying 10 enemy vessels. So far, enemy forces have failed to destroy even one American military vessel. Moreover, while U.S. forces have killed more than 40 enemy drug-cartel terrorist troops, the Pentagon has been quick to reassure Americans that so far there have been no casualties among U.S. troops. Despite these major military victories, however, the naval battles obviously continue to be fierce and precarious because President Trump and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are now summoning a massive naval reinforcement to the Caribbean.” (10/27/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/27/the-battle-of-midway-in-the-caribbean/
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23) Accusing Jordan Silverman
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“Between 2018 and 2019, Silverman was accused of sexually abusing as many as 15 children. (It still isn’t clear exactly how many accusations there were.) The alleged abuse took place at a preschool operated by the Washington Hebrew Congregation (WHC), a large and influential synagogue …. For 18 months, three law enforcement agencies thoroughly investigated Silverman. They went through every electronic device he owned, scoured his past, and interviewed friends and family up and down the East Coast. Then, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. and the D.C. Metro Police Department cleared him with an unusual, strongly-worded public statement: ‘After exhausting all investigative avenues, the universal determination of the investigative team was that there was insufficient probable cause to establish that an offense occurred or to make an arrest.’ … But the statement didn’t persuade Silverman’s accusers. It only further infuriated them.” (10/27/25)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/accusing-jordan-silverman
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24) How China Remade Global Trade — and Then Broke It
Source: The Daily Economy
by Donavan Lingerfelt & Ma Junjie
“Trade has made us wealthy and resilient, but also vulnerable to coercion. As China’s economic power peaks, its political model may be reaching its limits.” (10/27/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-china-remade-global-trade-and-then-broke-it/
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25) AI’s Truth Problem
Source: Law & Liberty
by James Andrews
“AI is a language engine. It does not invent meaning; it predicts plausibility. Trained on vast stores of text, it reproduces the judgments, insights, and blind spots of sources that no one, least of all its builders, fully understands. What it produces is not truth but a statistical echo of human choices about data and rules. That limitation reveals something fundamental about how it works. The model learns by detecting and reproducing statistical patterns in language, predicting which words are most likely to follow others based on training data. … The result is a system that can reproduce the language of knowledge but not the reasoning that makes knowledge possible. AI threatens our grasp of truth not because it lies, but because it lacks any shared framework for determining what truth is.” (10/27/25)
https://lawliberty.org/ais-truth-problem/
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26) No Kings, the Second Time Around
Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“Yes, in the ever more ominously unsettled (dis-)United States of Donald J. Trump, I recently went to the ‘hate America’ rally in New York City. Or at least that’s what Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson insisted it was. Who knew that so unbelievably many Americans, millions of us across the United States, would ‘hate’ this country enough to go out and march in the recent No Kings demonstrations, even in places where we might have feared being in distinct danger from the troops of ‘our’ president? In the days before the latest No Kings demonstrations, no matter whom I talked to or where they lived, they seemed to be planning to go to their local version of that march/rally. My neighbors, other city people, suburbanites, even friends living in the countryside.” (10/27/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/no-kings-the-second-time-around/
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27) The New Medievals
Source: The Dispatch
by Claire Lehmann
“Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, podcaster and influencer Candace Owens has floated a succession of conspiracy theories implicating everyone in the murder, from the Israeli government to Kirk’s own organization, Turning Point USA. This week, her speculation reached its apogee when she suggested that Donald Trump himself was involved. In a recent broadcast, Owens linked the commemorations of Kirk’s death to a supposed plot, remarking that ‘when they give you a holiday and a boulevard … they definitely killed you.’ Owens’[s] wild theorizing isn’t an anomaly; it’s part of something older and darker. There’s a distinctly medieval quality to much of the conspiratorial right — a world animated by unseen cabals, moral corruption, and divine punishment disguised as politics.” (10/27/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/medieval-candace-owens-conspiracy-kirk/
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28) Trump is a Wartime President
Source: Washington Monthly
by Garrett Epps
“Last week, Donald Trump dropped virtual ‘bombs’ on American citizens, demolished a prized symbol of American democracy and leadership, and demanded $230 million in reparations from taxpayers for what he calls unlawful attacks on him. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Trump does not wish to rule as a king or impose an authoritarian regime. People around him very much want the latter. He may think that this is his aim. But it is not. Some have suggested that the MAGA movement is creating a civil war between the red and blue states. But not Trump. The president is at war with the United States — the entire country — all of us. He seeks not to rule but to destroy.” (10/27/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/27/trump-is-a-wartime-president/
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29) We Protested, Now What?
Source: Our Future
by Sulma Arias
“My heart swells as I think of the more than 7 million people who poured into the streets for No Kings rallies last Sunday. In every corner of our country, in more than 2,500 communities, people showed up to say they will not let authoritarians decide our fate or our future. From the tens of thousands who marched in New York and Chicago to the lone woman who stood on her streetcorner in Beckley, West Virginia with handmade signs and a broad smile for all to see, people are saying loud and clear we will not give in to tyrants or masked goons. ‘I think you need to show your face to your actual neighbors,’ said the West Virginian, Kendra Sullivan. ‘We’re just like everybody else: We are America.’ Like Kendra, these protesters share what People’s Action calls the spirit of Joyous Rebellion.” (10/26/25)
https://ourfuture.org/20251026/we-protested-now-what
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30) A Better Path Forward for Infant Adoption
Source: Bet On It
by Elizabeth Kirk & Ryan Hanlon
“Bryan Caplan is right about one big thing: the collapse of intercountry adoption is tragic, given that there remain hundreds of thousands of children in need of families – and there are plenty of families open to adopting them. The demographics of who is being placed for intercountry adoption have changed in recent years (trending older, most have medically complex special needs) as infants are no longer available, but as Caplan’s post made clear, the big change has been the 95+% decline in the overall number of adoptions. That is not a rounding error — it is a policy failure that has left children waiting and families in limbo. … He proposes we ‘drastically curtail or abolish the welfare state’ so that more women would place infants for adoption. Against the backdrop of our research, it’s not clear that this would have such an effect.” (10/27/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/a-better-path-forward-for-infant
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31) Capitalism Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can’t Give Us What We Actually Want
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“At some point capitalism lost the ability to give us new things that we need and started giving us new things we don’t need, and now it’s giving us new things we never needed and don’t even really want. Nobody needs all this generative AI crap. We were doing fine with online search functions and the ability to write and make art for ourselves. Only the most shallow and vapid of individuals find any appeal in the idea of talking to a chatbot like a companion, consuming ‘art’ generated by a computer program, or letting the technology of some plutocratic megacorporation do their thinking, researching and expressing for them.” [editor’s note: At least AI can probably write better poetry than Johnstone – TLK] (10/26/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/26/capitalism-is-shoving-ai-down-our-throats-because-it-cant-give-us-what-we-actually-want/
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32) Recognizing the Roots of the Current US Political Turmoil
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Lipton Matthews
“Lawrence Mead’s Political Breakdown (2025) is not a book of partisan skirmishing or quick diagnoses. It is instead a cultural meditation on why the United States, a society that once seemed uniquely dynamic, confident, and cohesive, now struggles to maintain the very norms that powered its rise. For Mead, the story of American decline is not simply about inequality, polarization, or stagnant wages, though these are real enough. It is about the erosion of the ethic of individualism that once held the society together. The United States — unlike many other nations — thrived because it demanded that its citizens take responsibility for themselves. … The problem today, Mead insists, is that these norms no longer command the same authority. What was once a shared cultural foundation has fractured, and the resulting void has left Americans unable to sustain progress or govern themselves effectively.” (10/27/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/recognizing-roots-current-us-political-turmoil
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33) The US Wants to Bury the Gaza Genocide, But the World Will Not Allow It
Source: Common Dreams
Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“On October 4th, 2025, in an interview with Axios, President Donal Trump stressed that one of the main goals behind his Gaza plan was to restore Israel’s international standing. ‘Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world,’ Trump said. ‘Now I am gonna get all that support back.’ Under Trump’ s plan, a supposed ceasefire took effect on October 10th. But Israel only withdrew from less than half of the Gaza strip, and killed at least 93 people in the next two weeks, after killing at least that many per day for the previous two years. Israel has only allowed 15% of the humanitarian aid called for in the plan to enter Gaza, and has kept the critical Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza closed.” (10/27/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-gaza-genocide-complicity
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34) Trump’s Pivot to the Americas
Source: The American Conservative
by Leon Hadar
“The Trump administration’s apparent pivot toward the Western Hemisphere — most vividly displayed in the massive military buildup and maritime strikes around Latin America — represents a rare moment of strategic clarity in contemporary U.S. foreign policy, even if the specific bellicose actions getting attention are misguided. Whether intentional or not, this reorientation aligns with basic geopolitical logic that should have guided U.S. policy all along. The Western Hemisphere, after all, is where America’s genuine strategic interests lie. This isn’t jingoism or imperial nostalgia — it’s simple geography and economics.” [editor’s note: The simple geography extends to a brownstone in New York and a private island; the economics to their wealthy owner; both those things, added to Donald Trump’s desire to distract from his long, close, personal relationship with that owner, the late Jeffrey Epstein, they explain the entire theatrical production – TLK] (10/27/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-pivot-to-the-americas/
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35) First Brands: Are The Cockroaches Coming Home to Roost?
Source: Racket News
by Eric Salzman
“There are still two months left in 2025 but unless something intergalactically stupid happens soon, the collapse of First Brands Group Holdings will take home the prize of 2025’s most embarrassing moment of the year for Wall Street. First Brands, an owner of 24 auto-supply companies, including Fram oil filters, Anco windshield wipers, Autolite spark plugs, and Centric brakes, managed to create a financial disaster that might exceed $10 billion in losses. Major players in commercial bank lending, private credit lending, investment banking, fund management, credit insurance and public accounting have taken a bite of the rotten apple.” (10/27/25)
https://www.racket.news/p/first-brands-are-the-cockroaches
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36) True Crime: Murder on the High Seas
Source: CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs
“In the past few weeks, the US military has killed around thirty people in cold blood. The murders occurred on boats traveling in waters on both sides of Latin America and were undertaken without any warning to the crews on the boats. The rulers in Washington DC claim that those in the boats were involved in drug smuggling; they make this claim without showing any proof …. The former president of the Philippines Jose Duterte is currently in prison in the Hague after being charged with being an ‘indirect co-perpetrator’ in the murders of hundreds of alleged drug dealers by Philippine military and law enforcement during his time in office. If we apply this same reasoning to the aforementioned murders by the US military, then Donald Trump, Marc Rubio, Pete Hegseth and others should be arrested on similar charges.” (10/27/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/27/true-crime-murder-on-the-high-seas/
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37) Trump Admin Helping America Kick Its Addiction to Big Pharma
Source: Town Hall
by Rachel Alexander
“Big Pharma is panicking. The Trump administration’s probe into international pharmaceutical pricing and its executive order to reduce the cost of drugs by up to 80 percent come as both President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urge Americans to put fitness and lifestyle ahead of popping pills. Big Pharma is responsible for setting the price of drugs. So, in order to maintain this power, it’s no wonder the industry has promised to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure here in the U.S. It also pledged to provide financial assistance to millions of patients who have been ‘failed by a broken health insurance system’ and to launch a new consumer-focused website that allows Americans to buy drugs directly from manufacturers.” (10/27/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2025/10/27/the-trump-administration-is-helping-america-kick-its-addiction-to-big-pharma-n2665494
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38) How Stockholm Used a $3 Toll To Tame Its Traffic Congestion
Source: Reason
by Katarina Hall
“If you love walking, Stockholm was built just for you. Spread across 14 islands linked by bridges, the city brims with waterfront promenades, ferries gliding through inlets, the whir of bicycle wheels, and pedestrians spilling into lively café-lined squares. Not long ago, traffic clogged the bridges between the city’s neighborhoods. Despite a world-class public transit system and a relatively small population, Stockholm’s congestion rivaled that of London and Paris. For decades, city leaders proposed fixes, but nothing stuck until 2002, when Sweden’s parliament approved congestion pricing. The idea was simple: Charge a small fee for vehicles entering and exiting the city center to reduce traffic, improve accessibility, and clean the air.” (for publication 11/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/27/how-stockholm-tamed-traffic/
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39) Quantum Vibe, 10/27/25
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (10/27/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2558
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40) Inflating Russian missile costs hides US weapons crisis
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Mike Fredenburg
“The West likes to inflate the cost of Russian weapons as a way to suggest Moscow is in a financial bind and manipulate the narrative of a looming Ukraine victory — while also masking real inefficiencies in the U.S. defense industry. By assuming Russian weapons have input costs similar to U.S. systems or conflating export prices with Russia’s internal costs, Western estimates produce misleading figures. These inflated costs bolster the narrative that the strain on Moscow is tremendous, while downplaying the increasing challenges for Ukraine and NATO to effectively counter Russia’s relatively inexpensive missiles and drones.” (10/27/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/cost-russian-missiles/
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41) Politicians Aren’t Heroes
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Seth Moulton is not a progressive; he will tell you that himself. He’s a New Democrat Coalition member, he rather prominently picked a fight by opposing trans participation in youth sports right after the 2024 elections, and he’s generally a down-the-line, center-left Democrat. Yet the moment he jumped into a U.S. Senate primary against progressive Ed Markey, he essentially kicked off his campaign with the announcement that he would be returning all donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and would refuse any further contributions from them. ‘AIPAC has aligned itself too closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government’, Moulton wrote in a statement. This is far from an isolated incident. Mallory McMorrow, running for Senate in Michigan, has called Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide, and after appearing to solicit support from AIPAC in a leaked message, said she would not accept any.” (10/27/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/10/27/politicians-arent-heroes/
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42) Having a Ball
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Live long enough and everything will happen, at some point. Even bizarre, incomprehensible things, such as Saturday’s Washington Post editorial, ‘In defense of the White House ballroom.’ In short, a defense of, ahem … Trump. The paper began by noting the ballroom was something of a Rorschach test, with Trump’s opponents viewing his actions as ‘reckless’ while his supporters see ‘a change agent unafraid to decisively take on the status quo.’ But the editors add that ‘it has become far too difficult to build anything in America,’ before concluding: ‘Trump’s undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere.'” (10/27/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/27/having-a-ball/
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43) The Neocons Have Finally Found a Way Into MAGA Hearts
Source: Antiwar.com
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
“‘Neocon’ may have become a dirty word, but after a few years, their agenda is back in play. And no doubt many of their players, too. After being banished to the wilderness for plunging the nation into a 20-year war, the neocons fell flat with the Trump base in Ukraine and lost the thread with MAGA in Israel. Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere are another matter. The neocons have evolved, and regime change is back on the menu. How? Rather than pushing ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ like George W. Bush’s famous second inaugural speech at the height of the Iraq War, neoconservatives have adopted the prevailing MAGA/New Right language of ‘America First’ to inject regime change back into fashion.” (10/27/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/kelley_beaucar_vlahos/2025/10/26/the-neocons-have-finally-found-a-way-into-maga-hearts/
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44) Scott Bessent is wrong. Tariffs are taxes that hurt Americans.
Source: Orange County Register
by Matt Fleming
“Throughout his time as Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent has regularly fought against claims that the tariffs adored by his boss, President Donald Trump, are really just taxes on consumers. ‘Tariffs are a surcharge, not a tax,’ Bessent told a reporter this week. ‘They could be paid by the exporter, they could be paid by the country.’ Bessent likely thinks that’s a great point, but he shouldn’t drop the mic just yet. Regardless of the word games, Americans are suffering from the end result. We are paying higher prices as a result of Trump’s tariffs. According to analysis from the Tax Foundation, Trump’s tariffs have raised consumer prices by 4.9 percentage points. … make no mistake: tariffs are taxes.” (10/26/25)
https://archive.is/QlDtV
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45) TDS has morphed into something far more lethal: Trump Projection Disorder
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Democrats have lost their minds. This time last year, the conversation was about what is the acceptable number of apartment complexes in Colorado that we can tolerate being taken over by Venezuelan gangs of illegal migrants. Now the big issue is the president’s big, beautiful ballroom. The ‘No Kings’ folk are melting down. In just two days last week, there were 10,000 comments on The Washington Post’s website railing against the ballroom, which is being built at a cost to the taxpayer of zero dollars. ‘I can’t wait for the day they hold Trump’s funeral in that gaudy ballroom,’ was a typical ‘recommended’ comment from someone calling herself CindyintheSuburbs. Donald Trump is living inside their heads.” [editor’s note: He’s obviously living in Devine’s head. Alone, with nothing else in there – TLK] (10/26/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/opinion/miranda-devine-trump-derangement-syndrome-has-morphed-into-something-far-more-lethal-trump-projection-disorder/
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46) A False and Toxic Peace Spreads Across the Middle East from the West
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“To put it bluntly, this wasn’t a peace deal; it was an attempt to cover up an ongoing genocide by dressing the tombstones of the killing fields in shiny yellow ribbons, and Trump’s supposed opponents in the EU and on the mainstream liberal media backed it because they are all just as complicit in this heinous slaughter as the man they pretend to oppose in front of the cameras. While the US is by far the largest financier of Benjamin Netanyahu’s crusade against impoverished infants, kicking up $22 billion in military aid to his regime since October 2023, the rest of the ‘free’ world did their part too.” (10/26/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-false-and-toxic-peace-spreads-across.html
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47) Massachusetts Voters Support Unions for Uber Drivers
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Michael Alcorn
“A ballot measure passed in Massachusetts last November gives [sic] rideshare drivers the right to unionize. At first glance, this sounds good. After all, ‘supporting workers’ is a message that resonates with many of us, but the reality is worrisome for rideshare drivers who value flexibility and independence. … I saw firsthand at Trader Joe’s what happens when a union inserts itself where it isn’t wanted. If Massachusetts wants to help rideshare drivers, it should protect their flexibility, not undermine it by forcing independent rideshare drivers into a union they never voted for.” [editor’s note: All workers always have a right to join a union. Whether they can get other workers to also join it, or get an employer to bargain exclusively with it, isn’t a matter of the unionized workers’ rights, it’s a matter of everyone else’s – TLK] (10/26/25)
https://fee.org/articles/massachusetts-voters-support-unions-for-uber-drivers/
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48) The engines of state capitalism, part 5: An arrow against all patents
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“It may be that there is today no feature of our legal or our economic system more misunderstood than patents. They are the premier example of a policy where there is a fathomless breach between its public reputation and its real purpose. These special state-granted powers are among the most freedom-limiting counterfeit rights the modern age has ever produced, and they should be abolished completely, with not a one left. We can’t even open a conversation about something like ‘free markets’ or ‘economic freedom’ before that step has been taken.” (10/26/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/the-engines-of-state-capitalism-part-a50
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49) Eviction By ICE?
Source: In These Times
by Rebecca Burns
“Rodrick Johnson, 67, had just returned home from a trip to the hospital and was trying to get some rest. But in the early hours of September 30, bright lights suddenly flooded his apartment. A fleet of Black Hawk helicopters descended on his five-story building — a 130-unit apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive — shortly before armed, masked men stormed past the doors of the ground floor. ‘The next thing I knew, they were kicking my door in,’ Johnson says. He and dozens of his neighbors were marched outside at gunpoint during the multiagency raid carried out by some 300 federal agents in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. Black and Latino residents were zip-tied, separated by race and detained inside cargo vans, as South Side Weekly reported in the raid’s aftermath.” (10/27/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/eviction-by-ice-on-chicago-tenants-landlord-renters-immigrants
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50) Why Fentanyl Smuggling isn’t War and Cannot Justify Extrajudicial Killing
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“Donald Trump continues to order strikes on boats carrying supposed drug traffickers in the Carribean and the Pacific, killing an estimated 43 people so far. I have previously written about why these attacks are both illegal and unjust. … Drug smuggling is, at most, a criminal law issue, not an act of war. And, in many cases, the people targeted either were not actually smuggling drugs or were not on their way to the US (US law cannot and does not forbid mere possession of drugs in international waters). … This equation of drug overdoses with terrorist attacks overlooks the fundamental moral and legal difference between deaths that occur as a result of violent attack and those that occur because consumers voluntarily imbibed a dangerous drug.” (10/26/25)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/26/why-fentanyl-smuggling-isnt-war-and-cannot-justify-extrajudicial-killing/
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51) Reason Roundtable, 10/27/25
Source: Reason
"Javier Milei's Libertarian Policies Win Shock Election." (10/27/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/27/javier-mileis-libertarian-policies-win-shock-election/
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52) Rising, 10/27/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his take on Kamala Harris’s flirtation with another presidential bid in 2028, and what it could mean for Democrats’ chances in the contest.” (10/27/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5574657-rising-october-27-2025/
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53) The Chris Spangle Show, 10/27/25
Source: We Are Libertarians
“Who cares about political hypocrisy? Plus, The East Wing, Venezuelan Boats, and No Kings on WJOB.” (10/27/25)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/who-cares-about-political-hypocrisy
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54) EconTalk, 10/27/25
Source: EconTalk
“A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis).” (10/27/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/a-mind-blowing-way-of-looking-at-math-with-david-bessis/
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55) The Dispatch Podcast, 10/27/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Retribution | Interview: Jonathan Karl and Declan Garvey.” (10/27/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/retribution-interview-jonathan-karl-and-declan-garvey/
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56) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/27/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Nixing of Dem State Disaster Aid Backfires, Screwing MAGA Voters.” (10/27/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202263/trump-nixing-dem-state-disaster-aid-backfires-screwing-maga-voters
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/27/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Deploys Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Near Venezuela, US OKs Israeli Airstrike in Gaza, and More.” (10/27/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaivefDrL7k
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58) Pink Flame of Liberty, 10/26/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Fear and Loathing on the LNC — JC Edition.” (10/26/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqTpK4p-GU
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59) Free Talk Live, 10/26/25
Source: Free Talk Live
“SNAP funding to end November 1st :: messed up healthcare system :: whiskey rebellion :: individual rights :: Sarah from NM calls about automated police tech :: Skeeter calls to ‘destroy’ libertarianism, fails again :: China pays too much for water plant in Nashua NH? :: Parker from CT calls about Chinese buying mineral rights and ‘national security’ :: Dave Ridley calls about AI risk, was asked to submit an article to reason magazine :: $14 billion in bitcoin seized from Cambodian ‘pig butchering’ scam operation :: 2025-10-26 Hosts: Stu, Penguin, Angelo.” (10/26/25)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2025-10-26
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60) LPALive, episode 55
Source: LP Alliance
“The SIC JC Appeal.” (10/26/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Pm5hS-CX4
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