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1) Palestine: Majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign as peace Gaza peace talks continue
2) EU to curb Russian diplomats’ travel as suspected spy attacks mount
3) FAA reports staffing issues at airports as government shutdown continues
4) Crypto funds smash records with $5.95 billion inflows amid shutdown concerns
5) Judge denies US regime’s request to delay Abrego Gargia’s legal proceedings
6) ME: State auditor launches primary challenge to congresscritter who voted with Republicans on shutdown
7) US CDC announces change in COVID-19 and chickenpox vaccine recommendations
8) Judge halts National Guard occupation of Portland from any state
9) OpenAI and chipmaker AMD sign chip supply partnership for AI infrastructure
10) Israel: Regime deports piracy abduction victims
11) SCOTUS Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell Appeal
12) SC: House of Judge Criticized by Trump Regime Set Ablaze
13) American, Japanese scientists win Nobel prize in medicine
14) SCOTUS to hear arguments in First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban
15) UN refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law
16) Georgia: Regime Charges Five Protest Leaders for Plotting Government Overthrow, Promises More Arrests
17) IL: Regime sues to block Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago
18) ICE gang plans social media surveillance team to search for new abuction victims
19) Venezuela: Regime denounces alleged “extremist” plan to attack shuttered US Embassy complex
20) Iran: Regime says nuclear cooperation with IAEA “no longer relevant”
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Nightfall
22) America’s Democratic Tyranny
23) Solving the Mind-Body Problem: Dualism vs. Searle, Part 1
24) Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles
25) The Trump “Peace Plan” is Itself a War Crime
26) In the Autumn of America’s Empire
27) Abolish the Bureau of Labor Statistics
28) Tony Blair and the Gaza Trap: Continued Colonial Control Disguised as “Transition”
29) In Virginia gov race, Abigail Spanberger exposes Dems’ woke weakness
30) Housing’s Deep Freeze: Existing Home Sales at 25-Year Lows
31) They Really Think They’ll Be Able To Propagandize The World Into Liking Israel Again
32) The UK’s Speech Problem
33) A 20-Point Peace Plan Without US-UK Colonialism
34) Wealth is green
35) The Rational Bull Elk
36) End the President’s Caribbean Murder Spree
37) Trump stops Biden’s Euro-style solution to flight delays and paves way to lower fares
38) Immoderate Bullets
39) Quantum Vibe, 10/06/25
40) Why Trump won’t get Afghanistan’s Bagram base back
41) To Win the Shutdown, Democrats Need a Big Switch
42) The Link Between Bad Bunny and Pete Seeger
43) Will the TVA Survive Trump’s New Deal?
44) The Most Dangerous “Invasion” We Face
45) Is Being Insanely Stupid Actually a Cunning Democrat Strategy?
46) Illegal [sic] Immigrants Are Already Getting Health Care Under Donald Trump
47) Tame the TSA
48) Eventually You’re Going to Have to Stand for Something
49) The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
50) The Lost Vocation of Medicine: From Calling to Commodity
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1) Palestine: Majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign as peace Gaza peace talks continue
Source: Independent [UK]
“Israelis on Tuesday marked two years since Hamas’ October 7 incursion plunged the region into conflict, as onlookers waited for developments on fragile peace talks in Egypt. … Sixty-six per cent of Israelis now say the time has come to end the war, as sixty-four per cent said they wanted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take responsibility for October 7 and resign. Israel continued to pound Gaza with deadly airstrikes despite the US president’s order to stop. The IDF said on Tuesday a missile from Gaza landed in Israel.” (10/07/25)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-live-trump-netanyahu-october-7-attack-hamas-hostages-b2840648.html
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2) EU to curb Russian diplomats’ travel as suspected spy attacks mount
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“EU governments have agreed to limit the travel of Russian diplomats within the bloc, in response to a surge in sabotage attempts that intelligence agencies say are often led by spies operating under diplomatic cover. Moscow-sponsored intelligence operatives have been blamed for escalating provocations against Nato states — from arson and cyber attacks to infrastructure sabotage and drone incursions — in what EU security services call a co-ordinated campaign to destabilise Kyiv’s European allies. The proposed rules will force Russian diplomats posted in EU capitals to inform other governments of their travel plans before crossing beyond the border of their host country.” (10/05/25)
https://archive.is/JCoVH
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3) FAA reports staffing issues at airports as government shutdown continues
Source: NBC News
“The Federal Aviation Administration was experiencing staffing issues or anticipating shortages at airports and other air traffic control facilities in the United States on Monday night. Reports of the staffing shortfalls came hours after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said there has been a slight increase in sick calls since the government shutdown began on Wednesday. No air traffic controllers were expected at the tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport in the Los Angeles area for hours Monday night because of staffing issues, a source familiar with the situation said. … Because of the federal government shutdown, air traffic controllers were working without pay Monday. … The National Air Traffic Controllers Association union pointed to a national shortage of air traffic controllers. Officials have warned about the shortage since before the government shut down.” (10/06/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-reports-staffing-issues-airports-government-shutdown-continues-rcna236049
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4) Crypto funds smash records with $5.95 billion inflows amid shutdown concerns
Source: CoinTelegraph
“Cryptocurrency investment products recorded their highest-ever inflows last week, as the US government shutdown fueled a rally in spot crypto markets. Global crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded $5.95 billion of inflows in the week ending Friday — the largest ever seen — CoinShares reported on Monday. … With inflows reaching $5.95 billion, crypto ETPs surpassed the previous $4.4 billion record from mid-July by 35%. Unlike the previous record inflows, which were almost equally distributed between Bitcoin and Ether, the latest gains were heavily dominated by BTC, with Bitcoin funds attracting a record-breaking $3.6 billion.” (10/06/25)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-funds-record-5-95-billion-inflows-amid-shutdown-concerns
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5) Judge denies US regime’s request to delay Abrego Gargia’s legal proceedings
Source: ABC News
“The judge overseeing the Maryland deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Monday denied the government’s request to delay proceedings because of the government shutdown. The ruling came Monday during a status conference held in the case of Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man deported in error to El Salvador last March and then returned back to the United States in June to face criminal charges in Tennessee. … The judge gave the government until Wednesday afternoon to file any evidence about steps taken to remove Abrego Garcia to Eswatini. She also asked the government to provide witnesses who can speak firsthand to those efforts.” (10/06/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/kilmar-abrego-garcias-deportation-case-back-maryland-judge/story?id=126237666
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6) ME: State auditor launches primary challenge to congresscritter who voted with Republicans on shutdown
Source: Boston Globe
“Representative Jared Golden, the Maine Democrat known for his maverick streak, has for the first time drawn a serious Democratic primary challenger — setting up an intra-party battle with potentially significant implications for the balance of power in the U.S. House. On Monday, State Auditor Matt Dunlap, who has been active in Maine politics for decades, launched his campaign for the Second Congressional District. He first announced in May that he was interested in challenging Golden and began filing necessary paperwork last month. … ‘Jared Golden has shown a consistent pattern of voting with the Republican conference on significant issues that affect people in Maine,’ Dunlap said, citing Golden’s vote last month for the Republican-backed government funding bill. He was the only Democrat to do so, as his party coalesced behind a strategy to oppose the stopgap bill unless the GOP negotiated on expiring Affordable Care Act premium subsidies.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/pRsya
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7) US CDC announces change in COVID-19 and chickenpox vaccine recommendations
Source: Los Angeles Times
“The new acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced changes to the recommended vaccination schedule for adults against COVID-19 and for kids against chickenpox. … The CDC is now recommending that children under the age of 4 no longer get a combination vaccine that protects against four diseases: the chickenpox (also known as varicella), measles, mumps and rubella. Instead, the CDC now recommends two separate shots, one just against chickenpox, and the other that protects against measles, mumps and rubella. The CDC has also now officially lifted its recommendation that adults under age 65 get the updated COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC now says the decision on whether an adult under age 65 gets a COVID-19 vaccine should be based on ‘individual-based decision-making’ in consultation with health professionals like a physician, nurse or pharmacist.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/8wijF
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8) Judge halts National Guard occupation of Portland from any state
Source: Salem Statesman Journal
“U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut issued an order Oct. 5 barring any National Guard troops from any state from deploying to Portland to perform federal duties. The order comes after Oregon and the city of Portland filed a motion Oct. 5 asking the court to block the federalization of California National Guard troops in Portland. The U.S. military reassigned around 200 California National Guard troops to Portland after Immergut on Oct. 4 blocked the federal government’s deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troop to Portland. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced the move and amended lawsuit Oct. 5, which added California as a party in the suit.” (10/05/25)
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2025/10/05/judge-blocks-national-guard-deployment-to-portland-oregon/86543443007/
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9) OpenAI and chipmaker AMD sign chip supply partnership for AI infrastructure
Source: Associated Press
“Semiconductor maker AMD will supply its chips to artificial intelligence company OpenAI as part of an agreement to team up on building AI infrastructure, the companies said Monday. OpenAI will also get the option to buy as much as a 10% stake in AMD, according to a joint statement announcing the deal. It’s the latest deal for the ChatGPT maker as it races to beef up its AI computing resources. Under the terms of the deal, OpenAI will buy the latest version of the company’s high performance graphics chips, the Instinct MI450, which is expected to debut next year. The agreement calls for supplying 6 gigawatts of computing power for OpenAI’s ‘next generation’ AI infrastructure, with the first batch of chips worth 1 gigawatt to be deployed in the second half of 2026.” (10/06/25)
https://apnews.com/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-chips-a4714748ede46621863f4860f608ac98
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10) Israel: Regime deports piracy abduction victims
Source: Reuters
“Israel said it deported on Monday campaigner Greta Thunberg and another 170 activists from an international flotilla it prevented last week from delivering aid to Gaza, sending them to Greece and Slovakia. Earlier, Swiss and Spanish activists from the flotilla said they were subjected to inhumane conditions during their [abduction] by Israeli [pirates]. Monday’s expulsions brought the total number deported to 341, from 479 detained.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/wip/lXsiC
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11) SCOTUS Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell Appeal
Source: New York Times
“The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of the criminal conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein. The court’s action ends Ms. Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction, meaning her only chance of an early release from prison is likely to be clemency from President Trump, with whom she used to socialize in the Florida and New York party scenes. Ms. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2021 on federal charges related to facilitating the crimes of Mr. Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Federal prosecutors have opposed her release.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/s3j4i
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12) SC: House of Judge Criticized by Trump Regime Set Ablaze
Source: Time
“The home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein was set on fire after she had reportedly received death threats. State law enforcement is investigating the house fire on Edisto Beach which began at around 11:30 a.m. E.T. on Saturday, sources told local news outlet FITSNews. Goodstein was reportedly not at home at the time of the fire, but at least three members of her family, including her husband, former Democratic state senator Arnold Goodstein, and their son, have been hospitalized with serious injuries. … Law enforcement have not disclosed whether the fire is being investigated as an arson attack. … Last month, Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice, a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and later reversed by the state Supreme Court.” (10/06/25)
https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/
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13) American, Japanese scientists win Nobel prize in medicine
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for ‘their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance,’ the award-giving body said on Monday. This year’s prize ‘relates to how we keep our immune system under control so we can fight all imaginable microbes and still avoid autoimmune disease,’ said Marie Wahren-Herlenius, a rheumatology professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.” (10/06/25)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nobel-sweden-medicine-1.7651903
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14) SCOTUS to hear arguments in First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban
Source: Denver Post
“A Colorado case going before the U.S. Supreme Court this week could set nationwide precedent for whether states can bar licensed medical professionals from performing the widely discredited practice of conversion therapy on LGBTQ+ kids. On Tuesday, the conservative-majority court will hear oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case brought by Colorado Springs counselor Kaley Chiles, who alleges the state’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates her First Amendment rights. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office will argue that trying to change a young patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity is substandard medical care, and that greenlighting such care under the umbrella of free speech would ‘open Pandora’s box’ to a litany of licensed professional malpractice. Nearly half of U.S. states have prohibited the practice of conversion therapy on minors.” (10/05/25)
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/10/05/colorado-conversion-therapy-ban-supreme-court/
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15) UN refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law
Source: SFGate
“The head of the U.N. refugee agency suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law, and criticized a wider ‘backlash’ in some countries against migrants and refugees. Filippo Grandi, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, used a speech to lament that drastic funding cuts and shortages have forced his agency, UNHCR, to slash nearly 5,000 jobs this year, or nearly a quarter of its workforce. The cuts may not be finished, he said. ‘This was certainly not an easy year for any of us,’ Grandi told the opening of UNHCR’s executive committee. ‘But remember, please: There has never been an easy year to be a refugee – and there never will be.’ He did cite some bright spots and praised the Trump administration-led peace efforts in Congo, where conflict has displaced millions of people.” (10/06/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/un-refugee-agency-chief-suggests-that-us-21086764.php
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16) Georgia: Regime Charges Five Protest Leaders for Plotting Government Overthrow, Promises More Arrests
Source: US News & World Report
“Georgian prosecutors on Monday charged five opposition figures with attempting to overthrow the government, after protests on Saturday culminated in clashes between police and demonstrators in the capital of the South Caucasus country of 3.7 million. Georgian opposition supporters rallied in central Tbilisi on Saturday, with some leaders promising a ‘peaceful revolution’ on the day of local elections that were boycotted by the largest opposition blocs. Minutes before polls closed, a smaller group of protesters attempted to seize the presidential palace, before being repelled by riot police using gas and water cannon. The charges against the five men carry a maximum prison sentence of nine years. Officials have said the protests represented an attempt to seize power.” (10/06/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-06/georgia-charges-five-protest-leaders-for-plotting-government-overthrow-promises-more-arrests
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17) IL: Regime sues to block Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago
Source: Reuters
“Illinois filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump from deploying hundreds of federalized National Guard troops into the streets of Chicago. The Democratic-led state and the city of Chicago filed the lawsuit hours after a federal judge in Oregon on Sunday temporarily blocked Trump’s administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, Oregon. The lawsuit took aim at a decision by the Trump administration over the weekend to federalize up to 300 members of the Illinois National Guard over the objections of Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker and another 400 from Texas to deploy into Chicago.” (10/06/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/illinois-sues-block-trump-deploying-national-guard-troops-chicago-2025-10-06/
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18) ICE gang plans social media surveillance team to search for new abuction victims
Source: Engadget
“The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has plans to build out a 24/7/365 surveillance team that focuses on scouring social media for case leads, as revealed in documents first discovered by Wired. According to public records, ICE has put out a request for information — which allows the agency to detail its preliminary scope of work to gauge any interest from contractors — that details using social media platforms like Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and YouTube to develop leads on wanted individuals. … According to the documents, ICE wants at least 12 full-time staff to work at its National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center in Williston, Vermont …. On the other side of the country, ICE is looking for a minimum staff of 16 full-time contractors for its Pacific Enforcement Response Center in Santa Ana, California …” (10/05/25)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/ice-is-planning-to-create-a-surveillance-team-that-hunts-for-leads-on-social-media-163743143.html?src=rss
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19) Venezuela: Regime denounces alleged “extremist” plan to attack shuttered US Embassy complex
Source: SFGate
“Venezuela warned Monday of an alleged plan by extremists to attack the shuttered U.S. Embassy complex in Caracas with explosives, coming as bilateral tensions simmer over Washington’s military deployment in the Caribbean. Jorge Rodríguez, head of the National Assembly and of Venezuela’s delegation for dialogue with the U.S., said in a statement that through ‘three different channels,’ the United States had been warned ‘of a serious threat’ from right-wing groups posing as followers of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. ‘Through a false-flag operation prepared by extremist sectors of the local right, there are attempts to plant lethal explosives at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas,’ Rodríguez said. The Associated Press requested comment from the U.S. State Department and was awaiting a reply.” (10/06/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/venezuela-denounces-alleged-extremist-plan-to-21086725.php
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20) Iran: Regime says nuclear cooperation with IAEA “no longer relevant”
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Iran’s foreign minister has declared that cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog is ‘no longer relevant’ after Western countries reinstated international sanctions on the country. ‘The Cairo agreement is no longer relevant for our cooperation with the IAEA,’ Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday, referring to a deal signed last month with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). That agreement had laid out a framework for renewed inspections and monitoring after Tehran suspended cooperation following Israeli and United States attacks on its nuclear facilities in June. However, the deal lost significance after Britain, France and Germany – all signatories to the 2015 nuclear accord – triggered the return of UN sanctions, accusing Iran of breaching its commitments, claims which Tehran has rejected.” (10/05/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/5/iran-says-nuclear-cooperation-with-iaea-no-longer-relevant
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21) Nightfall
Source: The Honest Courtesan
by Maggie McNeill
“The way people of later times view a dark age is, due once again to the lack of reliable records, not at all the same as the way people living in such an age view it; the only people who are in a position to recognize that they’re living in such an age are those who understand what the term means in the first place. So it’s doubtful that the authoritarian rulers of countries like India and the United States recognize (or care) what they’re doing to future history; what’s important to this discussion is that they are using modern computer technology to do it. In the last century, it would’ve been impossible for a Trump, Modi, or Xi to eliminate every single instance of a fact or opinion they disliked …. when physical media are no longer the norm, universal censorship of a work enters the realm of the possible.” (10/06/25)
https://maggiemcneill.com/2025/10/06/nightfall/
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22) America’s Democratic Tyranny
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Throughout history, there have been tyrannies that have been imposed on the citizenry through non-democratic means. Monarchies have been one example. Another example have been communist regimes in the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, and Cuba. Still other examples have been U.S.-supported national-security-state coups in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile. What many Americans fail to realize, however, is that it is entirely possible to have tyranny with a democratically elected system.” (10/06/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/06/americas-democratic-tyranny/
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23) Solving the Mind-Body Problem: Dualism vs. Searle, Part 1
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“When John Searle exposes the errors of materialists, dualists can only be delighted. Searle and dualists, both minorities in academic philosophy of mind, have something crucial in common: Namely, they agree that mental states as standardly conceived exist; they are not ‘really’ illusions, behavior, functions, or computer programs. Denial of the reality of the mental, rather than being the necessary implication of science, is in fact a profoundly unscientific attempt to say that reality can only contain what our theories adequately account for. Despite these points of agreement, Searle’s solution to the mind-body problem is avowedly anti-dualistic; and even if he requested admission to the dualist camp, it is likely that they should be uneasy to receive him.” (10/06/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/solving-the-mind-body-problem-dualism
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24) Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles
Source: Reason
by CJ Ciaramella
“When the second Trump administration issued an order threatening to strip federal funding from K-12 schools that teach children ‘anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies’ related to gender and race, it was lifting from Florida’s playbook. Likewise, the administration’s campaign against universities on such issues as anti-Israel protests, transgender athletes, and critical race theory were all preceded by Florida, where a powerful executive branch, Republican-controlled Legislature, and conservative state Supreme Court allowed Gov. Ron DeSantis to apply intense pressure to public universities and school districts. … In March, Maria Rojas, a Texas midwife who operated four clinics for low-income women in Harris and Waller counties, became the first person in the state arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions. Rojas'[s] case was the first opportunity for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office to flex its new criminal and civil powers under a trio of anti-abortion bills passed in 2021.” (for publication 11/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/06/culture-war-police-state/
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25) The Trump “Peace Plan” is Itself a War Crime
Source: CounterPunch
by Jeff Cohen & Richard Eskow
“Parts of the plan are uncontroversial. All sane people want the war to end quickly. And few would object to point 18, which calls for ‘an interfaith dialogue …based on the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence.’ And yet, I wonder how many Americans noticed that #5 calls on Israel to release the 1,700 people it has seized from Gaza since 2023, ‘including all women and children …’ How many Americans even knew that Israel routinely imprisons children before they saw that sentence? Our media doesn’t mention it much. … Under international law, the United States and other countries should condemn this child abuse and demand that the children be released. however, the Trump plan uses this longstanding criminal practice as leverage, saying that the children will only be released when Hamas accedes to the demands in this proposal.” (10/06/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/06/the-trump-peace-plan-is-itself-a-war-crime/
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26) In the Autumn of America’s Empire
Source: TomDispatch
by Alfred McCoy
“In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat ‘discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth, [and] became convinced … that the only livable life was one of show.’ In amassing unchecked power spiced with unimaginable cruelty, that fictional dictator extinguished any flicker of opposition in his imaginary Caribbean country, reducing its elite to a craven set of courtiers. Even though he butchered opponents, plundered the treasury, raped the young, and reduced his nation to penury, ‘lettered politicians and dauntless adulators … proclaimed him the corrector of earthquakes, eclipses, leap years and other errors of God.'” (10/06/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/in-the-autumn-of-americas-empire/
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27) Abolish the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Patrick Carroll
“With the Bureau of Labor Statistics generating all this attention, many are taking the opportunity to highlight its perceived shortcomings and ways that it might be reformed and improved. But there is a much more foundational question that we ought to be asking: Should the BLS even exist in the first place?” (10/06/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/abolish-bureau-labor-statistics
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28) Tony Blair and the Gaza Trap: Continued Colonial Control Disguised as “Transition”
Source: Antiwar.com
by Dennis Kucinich & Elizabeth Kucinich
“Western governments are preparing a plan for Gaza’s postwar administration. The proposal, advanced through quiet coordination between Washington, London, and Jerusalem, would establish a new international body called the Gaza International Transitional Authority to govern the territory for several years following the conflict. The concept, promoted as a stabilization effort, is said to draw inspiration from earlier foreign-led missions in Kosovo and Lebanon. At the center of this ‘plan’ is the risible suggestion that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair should lead the authority, overseeing Gaza’s reconstruction, policing, and governance on behalf of the self-proclaimed international community.” (10/06/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/kucinich/2025/10/05/tony-blair-and-the-gaza-trap-continued-colonial-control-disguised-as-transition/
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29) In Virginia gov race, Abigail Spanberger exposes Dems’ woke weakness
Source: New York Post
by Ben Domenech
“The off-year governor’s election in purple Virginia is almost always a win for the party that doesn’t hold the White House, but this year the race is showing how much Democrats have refused to learn their lessons from their massive culture-war losses of 2024. The battle in the Old Dominion has all the hallmarks of Democrats’ White House defeat in November. An uninspiring political-insider candidate, hand-picked by the party establishment, is running a campaign that relies on hype from friendly media. She’s dodging questions about hot-button cultural issues — including trans athletes in school sports and men [sic] in girls’ dressing rooms — and betting she can coast to victory on resistance-fueled backlash to President Donald Trump.” (10/05/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/05/opinion/in-virginia-gov-race-spanberger-exposes-dems-woke-weaknesses/
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30) Housing’s Deep Freeze: Existing Home Sales at 25-Year Lows
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle
“Buyers are sidelined by high prices, while owners cling to historically cheap loans and high equity. The freeze is reshaping labor markets and family formation.” (10/06/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/housings-deep-freeze-existing-home-sales-at-25-year-lows/
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31) They Really Think They’ll Be Able To Propagandize The World Into Liking Israel Again
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s cute how the Zionists think they’ll be able to manipulate and propagandize the world into liking Israel again. Yeah, saturate all online platforms with weird-faced influencers telling us Israel is awesome. That’ll make us forget those years of genocidal atrocities. Sure, buy up the social media platforms that young people are using so you can censor criticism of Israel. That’ll convince them that Zionism is cool. Go on, take control of CBS and make Bari Weiss the boss. That’ll make us forget all those videos of mutilated Palestinian children. Right, use Zionist oligarchs and influence operations to manipulate governments and institutions into crushing free speech which opposes a genocidal apartheid state. That’ll get everyone supporting the genocidal apartheid state. Propaganda is an effective tool of mass-scale psychological manipulation, but it isn’t magic. It isn’t going to miraculously erase what people know in their bones to be true.” (10/06/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/06/they-really-think-theyll-be-able-to-propagandize-the-world-into-liking-israel-again/
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32) The UK’s Speech Problem
Source: Law & Liberty
by Adam Tomkins
“If free speech is broken in Britain, here’s how to fix it.” (10/06/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-uks-speech-problem/
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33) A 20-Point Peace Plan Without US-UK Colonialism
Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffrey D Sachs & Sybil Fares
“President Trump’s 20-point plan offers some constructive proposals on hostages, humanitarian aid, and reconstruction. Yet it is marred by an unmistakable colonial framework: Gaza is to be overseen by Trump himself, with Tony Blair and other outsiders cast as trustees for Palestinian governance — while Palestinian statehood is deferred indefinitely. This logic is not new. It reprises the century-long Anglo-American approach to Palestine since the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, when Britain acquired the Mandate over Palestine, and through successive U.S. interventions, direct and indirect, in the region since 1945. A real peace plan must eliminate the colonial scaffolding.” (10/06/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/20-point-peace-plan-for-gaza
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34) Wealth is green
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Pedro Urso
“Rather than viewing the environmental agenda as an obstacle to growth, it should be seen as a strategic alliance for development. Sustainability, when integrated into market logic, does not restrict, but expands, the possibilities for the enrichment of nations. Through innovation and economic openness, poor countries can adapt to climate change and thrive, transforming themselves into global providers of sustainable solutions.” (10/06/25)
https://fee.org/articles/wealth-is-green/
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35) The Rational Bull Elk
Source: EconLog
by Richard B McKenzie
“I love elk, but I confess that I use elk mating to develop a larger point: that rational decision making happens in a setting — mating battles — Darwinians might not expect. If elk have evolved even limited rational capacity, contrary to what many Darwinians presume, why not expect lower-order species, such as voles and even ants, to exhibit limited rationality? If my evolutionary perspective is accepted, Darwinian theory needs a revision to accommodate economic thinking. Rational decision making, dictated by scarcity constraints, can (at least marginally) divert species from their Darwinian evolutionary paths.” (10/06/25)
https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2025/mckenziedarwinian.html
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36) End the President’s Caribbean Murder Spree
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The president and his appointees are using the military to commit serious crimes. Unfortunately, they appear to have some willing executioners to do their dirty work. It doesn’t really matter why they are doing it or what they think those crimes will get them. The president is openly trampling on U.S. and international law and killing people because he feels like it.” (10/06/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/end-the-presidents-caribbean-murder
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37) Trump stops Biden’s Euro-style solution to flight delays and paves way to lower fares
Source: Fox News
by Stephen Moore
“The Biden administration spent four years placing a record level of new regulatory impediments on the nation’s airlines. An analysis by the Office of Management and Budget estimates that Biden’s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, nearly tripled the number of transportation-related rules and regulations. There’s no evidence that all this added red tape made airline travel safer or reduced flight delays. Biden should have learned from the airline deregulations of the late 1970s, which liberated airlines from government controls on pricing and flight routes.” (10/06/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-stops-bidens-euro-style-solution-flight-delays-paves-way-lower-fares
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38) Immoderate Bullets
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“‘What began as a quiet October Friday in Virginia politics,’ reports Markus Schmidt for the Virginia Mercury, ‘erupted into a full-blown national scandal when screenshots of private, three-year old text messages showing Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones fantasizing about shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children were made public.’ With 280,000 people having already voted in Virginia’s race for attorney general, polls show Jones leading. ‘Like all people,’ Jones excused himself, ‘I’ve sent text messages that I regret.’ Have all of us sent texts such as these?” (10/06/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/06/immoderate-bullets/
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39) Quantum Vibe, 10/06/25
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (10/06/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2555
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40) Why Trump won’t get Afghanistan’s Bagram base back
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Tanya Goudsouzian
“While the Taliban have of course objected, Russia and China would have something to say too.” (10/06/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-bagram-afghanistan/
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41) To Win the Shutdown, Democrats Need a Big Switch
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“I have consistently expressed my frustration with the different ways that Democrats are talking about the shutdown in public, compared with what they’re asking for in private. In public, this is just a fight about a looming health care cliff, using the leverage of needing Democratic votes (at least under current Senate rules) to pass government funding to demand that Republicans avert a crisis of millions of people losing their insurance coverage or seeing the price of it double. In private, this is a fight about extreme executive power and autocracy, with Democrats demanding that any government funding they pass must actually be spent, not withheld or rescinded. A No Kings Budget, in other words. That private conversation is becoming somewhat more public.” (10/06/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-10-06-win-shutdown-democrats-need-big-switch/
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42) The Link Between Bad Bunny and Pete Seeger
Source: Foreign Policy
by Julian E Zelizer
“Bad Bunny is the latest entertainer to endure a conservative backlash in the United States. This past weekend the 2026 Superbowl headliner mocked MAGA critics while hosting ‘Saturday Night Live.’ Meanwhile, last month, ABC temporarily suspended late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel after political pressure. … Unfortunately, popular entertainers have been prime targets for U.S. government officials who didn’t like their views before.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/fHh3H
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43) Will the TVA Survive Trump’s New Deal?
Source: The American Conservative
by James P Pinkerton
“‘Tennessee River’ = Tennessee Valley Authority, the giant public operation, established in 1933 during the New Deal, stretching across Tennessee and parts of six adjoining states. History buffs also know that TVA’s status as a government-run entity has been sacrosanct. After all, in 1964, Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater mused about selling off TVA, and he was clobbered in the November election, losing 44 states, including the Volunteer State. So with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe, it has seemed that the idea of privatizing TVA would forever be met with a dark and stark nevermore. Yet … a century ago, in the cheery days before the 1929 Crash and the subsequent Depression, the idea of private development was ripe.” (10/06/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/will-the-tva-survive-trumps-new-deal/
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44) The Most Dangerous “Invasion” We Face
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“‘Invasions on the rights of the people.’ That phrase isn’t hyperbole; it’s straight out of the Declaration of Independence. Say ‘invasion,’ and people picture foreign armies crossing a border. To the Founders, a far more dangerous invasion came from within. They used that same word for what happens when government violates your liberty and seizes power it was never given. To them, that wasn’t a mere policy debate. It was the most dangerous ‘invasion’ we face.” (10/05/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/05/the-most-dangerous-invasion-we-face/
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45) Is Being Insanely Stupid Actually a Cunning Democrat Strategy?
Source: Town Hall
by Kurt Schlichter
“I think I am going to form a hip-hop group with some of my retired officer friends that we will call the Phat Generalzzz – dibs on being the human beatbox! That is, of course, a ridiculous idea, but you know how it differs from the nonsense the Dems keep trying to sell us? The difference is that I don’t mean it. I am not actually going to form a hip-hop group with some of my retired officer friends that we will call the Phat Generalzzz, though if I did, I would call dibs on being the human beatbox. But the Dems are serious about the ridiculous stuff they say and seek to put in effect as policy …” (10/06/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/10/06/is-being-insanely-stupid-actually-a-cunning-democrat-strategy-n2664479
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46) Illegal [sic] Immigrants Are Already Getting Health Care Under Donald Trump
Source: The Bulwark
by Jonathan Cohn
“Democrats are demanding a reversal of Medicaid cuts that Donald Trump and the Republicans enacted over the summer — and a renewal of a temporary boost to Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire in December. Trump and the Republicans are not inclined to take either step. And to get the public on their side, they’ve been arguing the real Democratic agenda is different — that, as Vice President JD Vance posted on X Thursday, ‘Democrats shut down the government to give health care money to illegal [sic] aliens.’ The problem for Republicans is that most of the Democratic demands have nothing to do with immigration, while the portion that does deals almost entirely with people here lawfully [sic]. As critics have called out the lie, Vance and his allies have retreated to a narrower argument about one tiny item on the list of cuts Democrats would reverse.” (10/05/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/government-shutdown-emergency-medical-care-illegal-immigrants
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47) Tame the TSA
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Thus far, [Kristi] Noem’s biggest reform is that travelers no longer need remove their shoes at TSA checkpoints. This is progress, but not quite the equivalent of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. What about other TSA vexations such as the pointless prying patdowns that do nothing for security? It takes less than a minute to find busloads of women bitterly complaining on X/Twitter about heavy-handed TSA screeners grabbing their vaginas (‘I swear it’s not a bomb!’) or breasts. But screeners have legal immunity almost no matter how brazenly they abuse travelers. If a woman pushes a TSA screener’s hands away from her breasts, she can placed on the TSA ’95 list’ of potentially troublesome travelers. The agency’s official watchlist defines troublemaker to include someone who merely ‘loiters’ near a TSA checkpoint or demonstrates any ‘concerning behavior.'” (10/05/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/10/05/n-y-post-tame-the-tsa/
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48) Eventually You’re Going to Have to Stand for Something
Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon
“The nature of [Ezra] Klein’s quote (above) is an admonishment …. to people who are opposed to this authoritarian supremacist movement, for not being willing enough in his view to live with authoritarian supremacists. This is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of my ire, because ‘we are going to have to live here with each other’ is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree with any of us about, and while Klein in his remarks pays lip service to some of the recent proofs of this clear fact, his analysis of what to do about it he excises this reality entirely. … In the Klein world, moral clarity about abuse is polarizing, and polarization, not abuse, is the problem to solve.” (10/05/25)
https://www.the-reframe.com/eventually-youre-going-to-have-to-stand-for-something-2
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49) The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
Source: In These Times
by Sarah Lazare & Lindsay Koshgarian
“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Spain — and just below Israel. That bloated force is due to a massive funding increase in President Donald Trump’s budget bill that went into effect October 1, and it comes as Chicagoland faces an escalation of violence from ICE and other federal agencies. Agents are tear gassing and beating protesters, raiding and ransacking communities across the area, and detaining people at homeless shelters and hospitals. They are roaming the city and surrounding suburbs in masks, sometimes in plain clothes and unmarked cars, and other times — especially near protests — in armored vehicles, wearing the militarized, camouflage uniforms that are the hallmark of soldiers.” (10/05/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ice-immigration-chicago-trump-broadview
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50) The Lost Vocation of Medicine: From Calling to Commodity
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“The decline of vocation did not happen overnight. It was gradual, almost imperceptible at first, like a slow leak in the hull of a ship. Administrators multiplied until they outnumbered physicians. Insurance companies dictated what treatments were permissible, not based on medical judgment but on actuarial tables. Pharmaceutical firms turned research into marketing, blurring the line between scientific discovery and sales strategy. Hospitals transformed into corporations with CEOs, branding departments, and profit margins to defend. The physician’s desk became a computer terminal, and the patient was no longer a soul in need of healing but a data point to be coded and billed. Even the language betrayed the transformation: patients became ‘units of care,’ outcomes became ‘deliverables,’ and clinical judgment was rebranded as ‘adherence to protocol.’ This hollowing out of medicine’s soul reached its most devastating climax during Covid.” (10/05/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-lost-vocation-of-medicine-from-calling-to-commodity/
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51) Reason Roundtable, 10/06/25
Source: Reason
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52) The Political Orphanage, 10/06/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Rogue Judges and Birthright Citizenship.” (10/06/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/rogue-judges-and-birthright-citizenship
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53) EconTalk, 10/06/25
Source: EconTalk
“The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart).” (10/06/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/the-invisible-hierarchies-that-rule-our-world-with-toby-stuart/
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54) Finding Freedom, 10/06/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Defending Liberty Through Local Authority with Sheriff Mack.” (10/06/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/ff-defending-liberty-through-local-authority-with-sheriff-mack
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55) Fountainhead Forum, episode 368
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Vinny Eastwood on corruption in New Zealand.” (10/06/25)
https://rumble.com/v6zxgu0-ff-368-vinny-eastwood-on-corruption-in-new-zealand.html
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56) The Dispatch Podcast, 10/06/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Abundance Democrats Are Turning Right | Interview: Philip Rossetti.” (10/06/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/abundance-democrats-are-turning-right-interview-philip-rossetti/
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/06/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Says No Ceasefire Despite Trump Call To Stop Bombing, Trump Threatens To Bomb Iran, and More.” (10/06/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLm-_v5plrg
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58) Zooming In, 10/05/25
Source: The UnPopulist
“China’s Authoritarian Regime Is Censoring American Universities: A Conversation with Sarah McLaughlin.” (10/05/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/chinas-authoritarian-regime-is-censoring
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59) Ted Snider on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Ted Snider on the Conditions Necessary for the War in Ukraine to End.” (10/05/25)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/10-3-25-ted-snider-on-the-conditions-necessary-for-the-war-in-ukraine-to-end/
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60) LPALive, episode 51
Source: LP Alliance
“Watch the LNC meeting, with commentary!” (10/05/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ToH50E1img
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1) Palestine: Majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign as peace Gaza peace talks continue
2) EU to curb Russian diplomats’ travel as suspected spy attacks mount
3) FAA reports staffing issues at airports as government shutdown continues
4) Crypto funds smash records with $5.95 billion inflows amid shutdown concerns
5) Judge denies US regime’s request to delay Abrego Gargia’s legal proceedings
6) ME: State auditor launches primary challenge to congresscritter who voted with Republicans on shutdown
7) US CDC announces change in COVID-19 and chickenpox vaccine recommendations
8) Judge halts National Guard occupation of Portland from any state
9) OpenAI and chipmaker AMD sign chip supply partnership for AI infrastructure
10) Israel: Regime deports piracy abduction victims
11) SCOTUS Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell Appeal
12) SC: House of Judge Criticized by Trump Regime Set Ablaze
13) American, Japanese scientists win Nobel prize in medicine
14) SCOTUS to hear arguments in First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban
15) UN refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law
16) Georgia: Regime Charges Five Protest Leaders for Plotting Government Overthrow, Promises More Arrests
17) IL: Regime sues to block Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago
18) ICE gang plans social media surveillance team to search for new abuction victims
19) Venezuela: Regime denounces alleged “extremist” plan to attack shuttered US Embassy complex
20) Iran: Regime says nuclear cooperation with IAEA “no longer relevant”
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Nightfall
22) America’s Democratic Tyranny
23) Solving the Mind-Body Problem: Dualism vs. Searle, Part 1
24) Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles
25) The Trump “Peace Plan” is Itself a War Crime
26) In the Autumn of America’s Empire
27) Abolish the Bureau of Labor Statistics
28) Tony Blair and the Gaza Trap: Continued Colonial Control Disguised as “Transition”
29) In Virginia gov race, Abigail Spanberger exposes Dems’ woke weakness
30) Housing’s Deep Freeze: Existing Home Sales at 25-Year Lows
31) They Really Think They’ll Be Able To Propagandize The World Into Liking Israel Again
32) The UK’s Speech Problem
33) A 20-Point Peace Plan Without US-UK Colonialism
34) Wealth is green
35) The Rational Bull Elk
36) End the President’s Caribbean Murder Spree
37) Trump stops Biden’s Euro-style solution to flight delays and paves way to lower fares
38) Immoderate Bullets
39) Quantum Vibe, 10/06/25
40) Why Trump won’t get Afghanistan’s Bagram base back
41) To Win the Shutdown, Democrats Need a Big Switch
42) The Link Between Bad Bunny and Pete Seeger
43) Will the TVA Survive Trump’s New Deal?
44) The Most Dangerous “Invasion” We Face
45) Is Being Insanely Stupid Actually a Cunning Democrat Strategy?
46) Illegal [sic] Immigrants Are Already Getting Health Care Under Donald Trump
47) Tame the TSA
48) Eventually You’re Going to Have to Stand for Something
49) The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
50) The Lost Vocation of Medicine: From Calling to Commodity
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56) The Dispatch Podcast, 10/06/25
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1) Palestine: Majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign as peace Gaza peace talks continue
Source: Independent [UK]
“Israelis on Tuesday marked two years since Hamas’ October 7 incursion plunged the region into conflict, as onlookers waited for developments on fragile peace talks in Egypt. … Sixty-six per cent of Israelis now say the time has come to end the war, as sixty-four per cent said they wanted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take responsibility for October 7 and resign. Israel continued to pound Gaza with deadly airstrikes despite the US president’s order to stop. The IDF said on Tuesday a missile from Gaza landed in Israel.” (10/07/25)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-live-trump-netanyahu-october-7-attack-hamas-hostages-b2840648.html
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2) EU to curb Russian diplomats’ travel as suspected spy attacks mount
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“EU governments have agreed to limit the travel of Russian diplomats within the bloc, in response to a surge in sabotage attempts that intelligence agencies say are often led by spies operating under diplomatic cover. Moscow-sponsored intelligence operatives have been blamed for escalating provocations against Nato states — from arson and cyber attacks to infrastructure sabotage and drone incursions — in what EU security services call a co-ordinated campaign to destabilise Kyiv’s European allies. The proposed rules will force Russian diplomats posted in EU capitals to inform other governments of their travel plans before crossing beyond the border of their host country.” (10/05/25)
https://archive.is/JCoVH
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3) FAA reports staffing issues at airports as government shutdown continues
Source: NBC News
“The Federal Aviation Administration was experiencing staffing issues or anticipating shortages at airports and other air traffic control facilities in the United States on Monday night. Reports of the staffing shortfalls came hours after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said there has been a slight increase in sick calls since the government shutdown began on Wednesday. No air traffic controllers were expected at the tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport in the Los Angeles area for hours Monday night because of staffing issues, a source familiar with the situation said. … Because of the federal government shutdown, air traffic controllers were working without pay Monday. … The National Air Traffic Controllers Association union pointed to a national shortage of air traffic controllers. Officials have warned about the shortage since before the government shut down.” (10/06/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-reports-staffing-issues-airports-government-shutdown-continues-rcna236049
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4) Crypto funds smash records with $5.95 billion inflows amid shutdown concerns
Source: CoinTelegraph
“Cryptocurrency investment products recorded their highest-ever inflows last week, as the US government shutdown fueled a rally in spot crypto markets. Global crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded $5.95 billion of inflows in the week ending Friday — the largest ever seen — CoinShares reported on Monday. … With inflows reaching $5.95 billion, crypto ETPs surpassed the previous $4.4 billion record from mid-July by 35%. Unlike the previous record inflows, which were almost equally distributed between Bitcoin and Ether, the latest gains were heavily dominated by BTC, with Bitcoin funds attracting a record-breaking $3.6 billion.” (10/06/25)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-funds-record-5-95-billion-inflows-amid-shutdown-concerns
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5) Judge denies US regime’s request to delay Abrego Gargia’s legal proceedings
Source: ABC News
“The judge overseeing the Maryland deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Monday denied the government’s request to delay proceedings because of the government shutdown. The ruling came Monday during a status conference held in the case of Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man deported in error to El Salvador last March and then returned back to the United States in June to face criminal charges in Tennessee. … The judge gave the government until Wednesday afternoon to file any evidence about steps taken to remove Abrego Garcia to Eswatini. She also asked the government to provide witnesses who can speak firsthand to those efforts.” (10/06/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/kilmar-abrego-garcias-deportation-case-back-maryland-judge/story?id=126237666
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6) ME: State auditor launches primary challenge to congresscritter who voted with Republicans on shutdown
Source: Boston Globe
“Representative Jared Golden, the Maine Democrat known for his maverick streak, has for the first time drawn a serious Democratic primary challenger — setting up an intra-party battle with potentially significant implications for the balance of power in the U.S. House. On Monday, State Auditor Matt Dunlap, who has been active in Maine politics for decades, launched his campaign for the Second Congressional District. He first announced in May that he was interested in challenging Golden and began filing necessary paperwork last month. … ‘Jared Golden has shown a consistent pattern of voting with the Republican conference on significant issues that affect people in Maine,’ Dunlap said, citing Golden’s vote last month for the Republican-backed government funding bill. He was the only Democrat to do so, as his party coalesced behind a strategy to oppose the stopgap bill unless the GOP negotiated on expiring Affordable Care Act premium subsidies.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/pRsya
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7) US CDC announces change in COVID-19 and chickenpox vaccine recommendations
Source: Los Angeles Times
“The new acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced changes to the recommended vaccination schedule for adults against COVID-19 and for kids against chickenpox. … The CDC is now recommending that children under the age of 4 no longer get a combination vaccine that protects against four diseases: the chickenpox (also known as varicella), measles, mumps and rubella. Instead, the CDC now recommends two separate shots, one just against chickenpox, and the other that protects against measles, mumps and rubella. The CDC has also now officially lifted its recommendation that adults under age 65 get the updated COVID-19 vaccine. The CDC now says the decision on whether an adult under age 65 gets a COVID-19 vaccine should be based on ‘individual-based decision-making’ in consultation with health professionals like a physician, nurse or pharmacist.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/8wijF
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8) Judge halts National Guard occupation of Portland from any state
Source: Salem Statesman Journal
“U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut issued an order Oct. 5 barring any National Guard troops from any state from deploying to Portland to perform federal duties. The order comes after Oregon and the city of Portland filed a motion Oct. 5 asking the court to block the federalization of California National Guard troops in Portland. The U.S. military reassigned around 200 California National Guard troops to Portland after Immergut on Oct. 4 blocked the federal government’s deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troop to Portland. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced the move and amended lawsuit Oct. 5, which added California as a party in the suit.” (10/05/25)
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2025/10/05/judge-blocks-national-guard-deployment-to-portland-oregon/86543443007/
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9) OpenAI and chipmaker AMD sign chip supply partnership for AI infrastructure
Source: Associated Press
“Semiconductor maker AMD will supply its chips to artificial intelligence company OpenAI as part of an agreement to team up on building AI infrastructure, the companies said Monday. OpenAI will also get the option to buy as much as a 10% stake in AMD, according to a joint statement announcing the deal. It’s the latest deal for the ChatGPT maker as it races to beef up its AI computing resources. Under the terms of the deal, OpenAI will buy the latest version of the company’s high performance graphics chips, the Instinct MI450, which is expected to debut next year. The agreement calls for supplying 6 gigawatts of computing power for OpenAI’s ‘next generation’ AI infrastructure, with the first batch of chips worth 1 gigawatt to be deployed in the second half of 2026.” (10/06/25)
https://apnews.com/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-chips-a4714748ede46621863f4860f608ac98
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10) Israel: Regime deports piracy abduction victims
Source: Reuters
“Israel said it deported on Monday campaigner Greta Thunberg and another 170 activists from an international flotilla it prevented last week from delivering aid to Gaza, sending them to Greece and Slovakia. Earlier, Swiss and Spanish activists from the flotilla said they were subjected to inhumane conditions during their [abduction] by Israeli [pirates]. Monday’s expulsions brought the total number deported to 341, from 479 detained.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/wip/lXsiC
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11) SCOTUS Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell Appeal
Source: New York Times
“The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of the criminal conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein. The court’s action ends Ms. Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction, meaning her only chance of an early release from prison is likely to be clemency from President Trump, with whom she used to socialize in the Florida and New York party scenes. Ms. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2021 on federal charges related to facilitating the crimes of Mr. Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Federal prosecutors have opposed her release.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/s3j4i
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12) SC: House of Judge Criticized by Trump Regime Set Ablaze
Source: Time
“The home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein was set on fire after she had reportedly received death threats. State law enforcement is investigating the house fire on Edisto Beach which began at around 11:30 a.m. E.T. on Saturday, sources told local news outlet FITSNews. Goodstein was reportedly not at home at the time of the fire, but at least three members of her family, including her husband, former Democratic state senator Arnold Goodstein, and their son, have been hospitalized with serious injuries. … Law enforcement have not disclosed whether the fire is being investigated as an arson attack. … Last month, Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice, a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and later reversed by the state Supreme Court.” (10/06/25)
https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/
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13) American, Japanese scientists win Nobel prize in medicine
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for ‘their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance,’ the award-giving body said on Monday. This year’s prize ‘relates to how we keep our immune system under control so we can fight all imaginable microbes and still avoid autoimmune disease,’ said Marie Wahren-Herlenius, a rheumatology professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.” (10/06/25)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nobel-sweden-medicine-1.7651903
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14) SCOTUS to hear arguments in First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban
Source: Denver Post
“A Colorado case going before the U.S. Supreme Court this week could set nationwide precedent for whether states can bar licensed medical professionals from performing the widely discredited practice of conversion therapy on LGBTQ+ kids. On Tuesday, the conservative-majority court will hear oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case brought by Colorado Springs counselor Kaley Chiles, who alleges the state’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates her First Amendment rights. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office will argue that trying to change a young patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity is substandard medical care, and that greenlighting such care under the umbrella of free speech would ‘open Pandora’s box’ to a litany of licensed professional malpractice. Nearly half of U.S. states have prohibited the practice of conversion therapy on minors.” (10/05/25)
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/10/05/colorado-conversion-therapy-ban-supreme-court/
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15) UN refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law
Source: SFGate
“The head of the U.N. refugee agency suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law, and criticized a wider ‘backlash’ in some countries against migrants and refugees. Filippo Grandi, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, used a speech to lament that drastic funding cuts and shortages have forced his agency, UNHCR, to slash nearly 5,000 jobs this year, or nearly a quarter of its workforce. The cuts may not be finished, he said. ‘This was certainly not an easy year for any of us,’ Grandi told the opening of UNHCR’s executive committee. ‘But remember, please: There has never been an easy year to be a refugee – and there never will be.’ He did cite some bright spots and praised the Trump administration-led peace efforts in Congo, where conflict has displaced millions of people.” (10/06/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/un-refugee-agency-chief-suggests-that-us-21086764.php
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16) Georgia: Regime Charges Five Protest Leaders for Plotting Government Overthrow, Promises More Arrests
Source: US News & World Report
“Georgian prosecutors on Monday charged five opposition figures with attempting to overthrow the government, after protests on Saturday culminated in clashes between police and demonstrators in the capital of the South Caucasus country of 3.7 million. Georgian opposition supporters rallied in central Tbilisi on Saturday, with some leaders promising a ‘peaceful revolution’ on the day of local elections that were boycotted by the largest opposition blocs. Minutes before polls closed, a smaller group of protesters attempted to seize the presidential palace, before being repelled by riot police using gas and water cannon. The charges against the five men carry a maximum prison sentence of nine years. Officials have said the protests represented an attempt to seize power.” (10/06/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-06/georgia-charges-five-protest-leaders-for-plotting-government-overthrow-promises-more-arrests
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17) IL: Regime sues to block Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago
Source: Reuters
“Illinois filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump from deploying hundreds of federalized National Guard troops into the streets of Chicago. The Democratic-led state and the city of Chicago filed the lawsuit hours after a federal judge in Oregon on Sunday temporarily blocked Trump’s administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, Oregon. The lawsuit took aim at a decision by the Trump administration over the weekend to federalize up to 300 members of the Illinois National Guard over the objections of Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker and another 400 from Texas to deploy into Chicago.” (10/06/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/illinois-sues-block-trump-deploying-national-guard-troops-chicago-2025-10-06/
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18) ICE gang plans social media surveillance team to search for new abuction victims
Source: Engadget
“The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has plans to build out a 24/7/365 surveillance team that focuses on scouring social media for case leads, as revealed in documents first discovered by Wired. According to public records, ICE has put out a request for information — which allows the agency to detail its preliminary scope of work to gauge any interest from contractors — that details using social media platforms like Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and YouTube to develop leads on wanted individuals. … According to the documents, ICE wants at least 12 full-time staff to work at its National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center in Williston, Vermont …. On the other side of the country, ICE is looking for a minimum staff of 16 full-time contractors for its Pacific Enforcement Response Center in Santa Ana, California …” (10/05/25)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/ice-is-planning-to-create-a-surveillance-team-that-hunts-for-leads-on-social-media-163743143.html?src=rss
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19) Venezuela: Regime denounces alleged “extremist” plan to attack shuttered US Embassy complex
Source: SFGate
“Venezuela warned Monday of an alleged plan by extremists to attack the shuttered U.S. Embassy complex in Caracas with explosives, coming as bilateral tensions simmer over Washington’s military deployment in the Caribbean. Jorge Rodríguez, head of the National Assembly and of Venezuela’s delegation for dialogue with the U.S., said in a statement that through ‘three different channels,’ the United States had been warned ‘of a serious threat’ from right-wing groups posing as followers of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. ‘Through a false-flag operation prepared by extremist sectors of the local right, there are attempts to plant lethal explosives at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas,’ Rodríguez said. The Associated Press requested comment from the U.S. State Department and was awaiting a reply.” (10/06/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/venezuela-denounces-alleged-extremist-plan-to-21086725.php
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20) Iran: Regime says nuclear cooperation with IAEA “no longer relevant”
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Iran’s foreign minister has declared that cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog is ‘no longer relevant’ after Western countries reinstated international sanctions on the country. ‘The Cairo agreement is no longer relevant for our cooperation with the IAEA,’ Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday, referring to a deal signed last month with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). That agreement had laid out a framework for renewed inspections and monitoring after Tehran suspended cooperation following Israeli and United States attacks on its nuclear facilities in June. However, the deal lost significance after Britain, France and Germany – all signatories to the 2015 nuclear accord – triggered the return of UN sanctions, accusing Iran of breaching its commitments, claims which Tehran has rejected.” (10/05/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/5/iran-says-nuclear-cooperation-with-iaea-no-longer-relevant
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21) Nightfall
Source: The Honest Courtesan
by Maggie McNeill
“The way people of later times view a dark age is, due once again to the lack of reliable records, not at all the same as the way people living in such an age view it; the only people who are in a position to recognize that they’re living in such an age are those who understand what the term means in the first place. So it’s doubtful that the authoritarian rulers of countries like India and the United States recognize (or care) what they’re doing to future history; what’s important to this discussion is that they are using modern computer technology to do it. In the last century, it would’ve been impossible for a Trump, Modi, or Xi to eliminate every single instance of a fact or opinion they disliked …. when physical media are no longer the norm, universal censorship of a work enters the realm of the possible.” (10/06/25)
https://maggiemcneill.com/2025/10/06/nightfall/
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22) America’s Democratic Tyranny
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Throughout history, there have been tyrannies that have been imposed on the citizenry through non-democratic means. Monarchies have been one example. Another example have been communist regimes in the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, and Cuba. Still other examples have been U.S.-supported national-security-state coups in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile. What many Americans fail to realize, however, is that it is entirely possible to have tyranny with a democratically elected system.” (10/06/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/06/americas-democratic-tyranny/
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23) Solving the Mind-Body Problem: Dualism vs. Searle, Part 1
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“When John Searle exposes the errors of materialists, dualists can only be delighted. Searle and dualists, both minorities in academic philosophy of mind, have something crucial in common: Namely, they agree that mental states as standardly conceived exist; they are not ‘really’ illusions, behavior, functions, or computer programs. Denial of the reality of the mental, rather than being the necessary implication of science, is in fact a profoundly unscientific attempt to say that reality can only contain what our theories adequately account for. Despite these points of agreement, Searle’s solution to the mind-body problem is avowedly anti-dualistic; and even if he requested admission to the dualist camp, it is likely that they should be uneasy to receive him.” (10/06/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/solving-the-mind-body-problem-dualism
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24) Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles
Source: Reason
by CJ Ciaramella
“When the second Trump administration issued an order threatening to strip federal funding from K-12 schools that teach children ‘anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies’ related to gender and race, it was lifting from Florida’s playbook. Likewise, the administration’s campaign against universities on such issues as anti-Israel protests, transgender athletes, and critical race theory were all preceded by Florida, where a powerful executive branch, Republican-controlled Legislature, and conservative state Supreme Court allowed Gov. Ron DeSantis to apply intense pressure to public universities and school districts. … In March, Maria Rojas, a Texas midwife who operated four clinics for low-income women in Harris and Waller counties, became the first person in the state arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions. Rojas'[s] case was the first opportunity for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office to flex its new criminal and civil powers under a trio of anti-abortion bills passed in 2021.” (for publication 11/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/06/culture-war-police-state/
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25) The Trump “Peace Plan” is Itself a War Crime
Source: CounterPunch
by Jeff Cohen & Richard Eskow
“Parts of the plan are uncontroversial. All sane people want the war to end quickly. And few would object to point 18, which calls for ‘an interfaith dialogue …based on the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence.’ And yet, I wonder how many Americans noticed that #5 calls on Israel to release the 1,700 people it has seized from Gaza since 2023, ‘including all women and children …’ How many Americans even knew that Israel routinely imprisons children before they saw that sentence? Our media doesn’t mention it much. … Under international law, the United States and other countries should condemn this child abuse and demand that the children be released. however, the Trump plan uses this longstanding criminal practice as leverage, saying that the children will only be released when Hamas accedes to the demands in this proposal.” (10/06/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/06/the-trump-peace-plan-is-itself-a-war-crime/
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26) In the Autumn of America’s Empire
Source: TomDispatch
by Alfred McCoy
“In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat ‘discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth, [and] became convinced … that the only livable life was one of show.’ In amassing unchecked power spiced with unimaginable cruelty, that fictional dictator extinguished any flicker of opposition in his imaginary Caribbean country, reducing its elite to a craven set of courtiers. Even though he butchered opponents, plundered the treasury, raped the young, and reduced his nation to penury, ‘lettered politicians and dauntless adulators … proclaimed him the corrector of earthquakes, eclipses, leap years and other errors of God.'” (10/06/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/in-the-autumn-of-americas-empire/
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27) Abolish the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Patrick Carroll
“With the Bureau of Labor Statistics generating all this attention, many are taking the opportunity to highlight its perceived shortcomings and ways that it might be reformed and improved. But there is a much more foundational question that we ought to be asking: Should the BLS even exist in the first place?” (10/06/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/abolish-bureau-labor-statistics
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28) Tony Blair and the Gaza Trap: Continued Colonial Control Disguised as “Transition”
Source: Antiwar.com
by Dennis Kucinich & Elizabeth Kucinich
“Western governments are preparing a plan for Gaza’s postwar administration. The proposal, advanced through quiet coordination between Washington, London, and Jerusalem, would establish a new international body called the Gaza International Transitional Authority to govern the territory for several years following the conflict. The concept, promoted as a stabilization effort, is said to draw inspiration from earlier foreign-led missions in Kosovo and Lebanon. At the center of this ‘plan’ is the risible suggestion that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair should lead the authority, overseeing Gaza’s reconstruction, policing, and governance on behalf of the self-proclaimed international community.” (10/06/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/kucinich/2025/10/05/tony-blair-and-the-gaza-trap-continued-colonial-control-disguised-as-transition/
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29) In Virginia gov race, Abigail Spanberger exposes Dems’ woke weakness
Source: New York Post
by Ben Domenech
“The off-year governor’s election in purple Virginia is almost always a win for the party that doesn’t hold the White House, but this year the race is showing how much Democrats have refused to learn their lessons from their massive culture-war losses of 2024. The battle in the Old Dominion has all the hallmarks of Democrats’ White House defeat in November. An uninspiring political-insider candidate, hand-picked by the party establishment, is running a campaign that relies on hype from friendly media. She’s dodging questions about hot-button cultural issues — including trans athletes in school sports and men [sic] in girls’ dressing rooms — and betting she can coast to victory on resistance-fueled backlash to President Donald Trump.” (10/05/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/05/opinion/in-virginia-gov-race-spanberger-exposes-dems-woke-weaknesses/
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30) Housing’s Deep Freeze: Existing Home Sales at 25-Year Lows
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle
“Buyers are sidelined by high prices, while owners cling to historically cheap loans and high equity. The freeze is reshaping labor markets and family formation.” (10/06/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/housings-deep-freeze-existing-home-sales-at-25-year-lows/
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31) They Really Think They’ll Be Able To Propagandize The World Into Liking Israel Again
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s cute how the Zionists think they’ll be able to manipulate and propagandize the world into liking Israel again. Yeah, saturate all online platforms with weird-faced influencers telling us Israel is awesome. That’ll make us forget those years of genocidal atrocities. Sure, buy up the social media platforms that young people are using so you can censor criticism of Israel. That’ll convince them that Zionism is cool. Go on, take control of CBS and make Bari Weiss the boss. That’ll make us forget all those videos of mutilated Palestinian children. Right, use Zionist oligarchs and influence operations to manipulate governments and institutions into crushing free speech which opposes a genocidal apartheid state. That’ll get everyone supporting the genocidal apartheid state. Propaganda is an effective tool of mass-scale psychological manipulation, but it isn’t magic. It isn’t going to miraculously erase what people know in their bones to be true.” (10/06/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/06/they-really-think-theyll-be-able-to-propagandize-the-world-into-liking-israel-again/
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32) The UK’s Speech Problem
Source: Law & Liberty
by Adam Tomkins
“If free speech is broken in Britain, here’s how to fix it.” (10/06/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-uks-speech-problem/
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33) A 20-Point Peace Plan Without US-UK Colonialism
Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffrey D Sachs & Sybil Fares
“President Trump’s 20-point plan offers some constructive proposals on hostages, humanitarian aid, and reconstruction. Yet it is marred by an unmistakable colonial framework: Gaza is to be overseen by Trump himself, with Tony Blair and other outsiders cast as trustees for Palestinian governance — while Palestinian statehood is deferred indefinitely. This logic is not new. It reprises the century-long Anglo-American approach to Palestine since the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, when Britain acquired the Mandate over Palestine, and through successive U.S. interventions, direct and indirect, in the region since 1945. A real peace plan must eliminate the colonial scaffolding.” (10/06/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/20-point-peace-plan-for-gaza
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34) Wealth is green
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Pedro Urso
“Rather than viewing the environmental agenda as an obstacle to growth, it should be seen as a strategic alliance for development. Sustainability, when integrated into market logic, does not restrict, but expands, the possibilities for the enrichment of nations. Through innovation and economic openness, poor countries can adapt to climate change and thrive, transforming themselves into global providers of sustainable solutions.” (10/06/25)
https://fee.org/articles/wealth-is-green/
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35) The Rational Bull Elk
Source: EconLog
by Richard B McKenzie
“I love elk, but I confess that I use elk mating to develop a larger point: that rational decision making happens in a setting — mating battles — Darwinians might not expect. If elk have evolved even limited rational capacity, contrary to what many Darwinians presume, why not expect lower-order species, such as voles and even ants, to exhibit limited rationality? If my evolutionary perspective is accepted, Darwinian theory needs a revision to accommodate economic thinking. Rational decision making, dictated by scarcity constraints, can (at least marginally) divert species from their Darwinian evolutionary paths.” (10/06/25)
https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2025/mckenziedarwinian.html
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36) End the President’s Caribbean Murder Spree
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The president and his appointees are using the military to commit serious crimes. Unfortunately, they appear to have some willing executioners to do their dirty work. It doesn’t really matter why they are doing it or what they think those crimes will get them. The president is openly trampling on U.S. and international law and killing people because he feels like it.” (10/06/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/end-the-presidents-caribbean-murder
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37) Trump stops Biden’s Euro-style solution to flight delays and paves way to lower fares
Source: Fox News
by Stephen Moore
“The Biden administration spent four years placing a record level of new regulatory impediments on the nation’s airlines. An analysis by the Office of Management and Budget estimates that Biden’s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, nearly tripled the number of transportation-related rules and regulations. There’s no evidence that all this added red tape made airline travel safer or reduced flight delays. Biden should have learned from the airline deregulations of the late 1970s, which liberated airlines from government controls on pricing and flight routes.” (10/06/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-stops-bidens-euro-style-solution-flight-delays-paves-way-lower-fares
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38) Immoderate Bullets
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“‘What began as a quiet October Friday in Virginia politics,’ reports Markus Schmidt for the Virginia Mercury, ‘erupted into a full-blown national scandal when screenshots of private, three-year old text messages showing Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones fantasizing about shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children were made public.’ With 280,000 people having already voted in Virginia’s race for attorney general, polls show Jones leading. ‘Like all people,’ Jones excused himself, ‘I’ve sent text messages that I regret.’ Have all of us sent texts such as these?” (10/06/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/06/immoderate-bullets/
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39) Quantum Vibe, 10/06/25
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (10/06/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2555
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40) Why Trump won’t get Afghanistan’s Bagram base back
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Tanya Goudsouzian
“While the Taliban have of course objected, Russia and China would have something to say too.” (10/06/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-bagram-afghanistan/
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41) To Win the Shutdown, Democrats Need a Big Switch
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“I have consistently expressed my frustration with the different ways that Democrats are talking about the shutdown in public, compared with what they’re asking for in private. In public, this is just a fight about a looming health care cliff, using the leverage of needing Democratic votes (at least under current Senate rules) to pass government funding to demand that Republicans avert a crisis of millions of people losing their insurance coverage or seeing the price of it double. In private, this is a fight about extreme executive power and autocracy, with Democrats demanding that any government funding they pass must actually be spent, not withheld or rescinded. A No Kings Budget, in other words. That private conversation is becoming somewhat more public.” (10/06/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-10-06-win-shutdown-democrats-need-big-switch/
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42) The Link Between Bad Bunny and Pete Seeger
Source: Foreign Policy
by Julian E Zelizer
“Bad Bunny is the latest entertainer to endure a conservative backlash in the United States. This past weekend the 2026 Superbowl headliner mocked MAGA critics while hosting ‘Saturday Night Live.’ Meanwhile, last month, ABC temporarily suspended late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel after political pressure. … Unfortunately, popular entertainers have been prime targets for U.S. government officials who didn’t like their views before.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/fHh3H
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43) Will the TVA Survive Trump’s New Deal?
Source: The American Conservative
by James P Pinkerton
“‘Tennessee River’ = Tennessee Valley Authority, the giant public operation, established in 1933 during the New Deal, stretching across Tennessee and parts of six adjoining states. History buffs also know that TVA’s status as a government-run entity has been sacrosanct. After all, in 1964, Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater mused about selling off TVA, and he was clobbered in the November election, losing 44 states, including the Volunteer State. So with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe, it has seemed that the idea of privatizing TVA would forever be met with a dark and stark nevermore. Yet … a century ago, in the cheery days before the 1929 Crash and the subsequent Depression, the idea of private development was ripe.” (10/06/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/will-the-tva-survive-trumps-new-deal/
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44) The Most Dangerous “Invasion” We Face
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“‘Invasions on the rights of the people.’ That phrase isn’t hyperbole; it’s straight out of the Declaration of Independence. Say ‘invasion,’ and people picture foreign armies crossing a border. To the Founders, a far more dangerous invasion came from within. They used that same word for what happens when government violates your liberty and seizes power it was never given. To them, that wasn’t a mere policy debate. It was the most dangerous ‘invasion’ we face.” (10/05/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/05/the-most-dangerous-invasion-we-face/
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45) Is Being Insanely Stupid Actually a Cunning Democrat Strategy?
Source: Town Hall
by Kurt Schlichter
“I think I am going to form a hip-hop group with some of my retired officer friends that we will call the Phat Generalzzz – dibs on being the human beatbox! That is, of course, a ridiculous idea, but you know how it differs from the nonsense the Dems keep trying to sell us? The difference is that I don’t mean it. I am not actually going to form a hip-hop group with some of my retired officer friends that we will call the Phat Generalzzz, though if I did, I would call dibs on being the human beatbox. But the Dems are serious about the ridiculous stuff they say and seek to put in effect as policy …” (10/06/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/10/06/is-being-insanely-stupid-actually-a-cunning-democrat-strategy-n2664479
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46) Illegal [sic] Immigrants Are Already Getting Health Care Under Donald Trump
Source: The Bulwark
by Jonathan Cohn
“Democrats are demanding a reversal of Medicaid cuts that Donald Trump and the Republicans enacted over the summer — and a renewal of a temporary boost to Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire in December. Trump and the Republicans are not inclined to take either step. And to get the public on their side, they’ve been arguing the real Democratic agenda is different — that, as Vice President JD Vance posted on X Thursday, ‘Democrats shut down the government to give health care money to illegal [sic] aliens.’ The problem for Republicans is that most of the Democratic demands have nothing to do with immigration, while the portion that does deals almost entirely with people here lawfully [sic]. As critics have called out the lie, Vance and his allies have retreated to a narrower argument about one tiny item on the list of cuts Democrats would reverse.” (10/05/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/government-shutdown-emergency-medical-care-illegal-immigrants
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47) Tame the TSA
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Thus far, [Kristi] Noem’s biggest reform is that travelers no longer need remove their shoes at TSA checkpoints. This is progress, but not quite the equivalent of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. What about other TSA vexations such as the pointless prying patdowns that do nothing for security? It takes less than a minute to find busloads of women bitterly complaining on X/Twitter about heavy-handed TSA screeners grabbing their vaginas (‘I swear it’s not a bomb!’) or breasts. But screeners have legal immunity almost no matter how brazenly they abuse travelers. If a woman pushes a TSA screener’s hands away from her breasts, she can placed on the TSA ’95 list’ of potentially troublesome travelers. The agency’s official watchlist defines troublemaker to include someone who merely ‘loiters’ near a TSA checkpoint or demonstrates any ‘concerning behavior.'” (10/05/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/10/05/n-y-post-tame-the-tsa/
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48) Eventually You’re Going to Have to Stand for Something
Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon
“The nature of [Ezra] Klein’s quote (above) is an admonishment …. to people who are opposed to this authoritarian supremacist movement, for not being willing enough in his view to live with authoritarian supremacists. This is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of my ire, because ‘we are going to have to live here with each other’ is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree with any of us about, and while Klein in his remarks pays lip service to some of the recent proofs of this clear fact, his analysis of what to do about it he excises this reality entirely. … In the Klein world, moral clarity about abuse is polarizing, and polarization, not abuse, is the problem to solve.” (10/05/25)
https://www.the-reframe.com/eventually-youre-going-to-have-to-stand-for-something-2
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49) The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
Source: In These Times
by Sarah Lazare & Lindsay Koshgarian
“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Spain — and just below Israel. That bloated force is due to a massive funding increase in President Donald Trump’s budget bill that went into effect October 1, and it comes as Chicagoland faces an escalation of violence from ICE and other federal agencies. Agents are tear gassing and beating protesters, raiding and ransacking communities across the area, and detaining people at homeless shelters and hospitals. They are roaming the city and surrounding suburbs in masks, sometimes in plain clothes and unmarked cars, and other times — especially near protests — in armored vehicles, wearing the militarized, camouflage uniforms that are the hallmark of soldiers.” (10/05/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ice-immigration-chicago-trump-broadview
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50) The Lost Vocation of Medicine: From Calling to Commodity
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“The decline of vocation did not happen overnight. It was gradual, almost imperceptible at first, like a slow leak in the hull of a ship. Administrators multiplied until they outnumbered physicians. Insurance companies dictated what treatments were permissible, not based on medical judgment but on actuarial tables. Pharmaceutical firms turned research into marketing, blurring the line between scientific discovery and sales strategy. Hospitals transformed into corporations with CEOs, branding departments, and profit margins to defend. The physician’s desk became a computer terminal, and the patient was no longer a soul in need of healing but a data point to be coded and billed. Even the language betrayed the transformation: patients became ‘units of care,’ outcomes became ‘deliverables,’ and clinical judgment was rebranded as ‘adherence to protocol.’ This hollowing out of medicine’s soul reached its most devastating climax during Covid.” (10/05/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-lost-vocation-of-medicine-from-calling-to-commodity/
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51) Reason Roundtable, 10/06/25
Source: Reason
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52) The Political Orphanage, 10/06/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Rogue Judges and Birthright Citizenship.” (10/06/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/rogue-judges-and-birthright-citizenship
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53) EconTalk, 10/06/25
Source: EconTalk
“The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart).” (10/06/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/the-invisible-hierarchies-that-rule-our-world-with-toby-stuart/
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54) Finding Freedom, 10/06/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Defending Liberty Through Local Authority with Sheriff Mack.” (10/06/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/ff-defending-liberty-through-local-authority-with-sheriff-mack
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55) Fountainhead Forum, episode 368
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Vinny Eastwood on corruption in New Zealand.” (10/06/25)
https://rumble.com/v6zxgu0-ff-368-vinny-eastwood-on-corruption-in-new-zealand.html
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56) The Dispatch Podcast, 10/06/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Abundance Democrats Are Turning Right | Interview: Philip Rossetti.” (10/06/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/abundance-democrats-are-turning-right-interview-philip-rossetti/
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/06/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Says No Ceasefire Despite Trump Call To Stop Bombing, Trump Threatens To Bomb Iran, and More.” (10/06/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLm-_v5plrg
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58) Zooming In, 10/05/25
Source: The UnPopulist
“China’s Authoritarian Regime Is Censoring American Universities: A Conversation with Sarah McLaughlin.” (10/05/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/chinas-authoritarian-regime-is-censoring
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59) Ted Snider on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Ted Snider on the Conditions Necessary for the War in Ukraine to End.” (10/05/25)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/10-3-25-ted-snider-on-the-conditions-necessary-for-the-war-in-ukraine-to-end/
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60) LPALive, episode 51
Source: LP Alliance
“Watch the LNC meeting, with commentary!” (10/05/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ToH50E1img
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