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1) White House sides with union as dockworker strike enters second day
2) In sharp escalation of regional conflict, Iran fires dozens of missiles into Israel
3) NYC: Adams accuses DOJ of leaking sensitive case info
4) Assange Says He Pleaded “Guilty to Journalism” in Order to Be Freed
5) Election 2024: Second Fiddle Nominees Debate
6) NJ: Couple in “life-changing” Uber car wreck can’t sue because their daughter used Uber Eats
7) LA: Abortion drugs now classified as controlled substances
8) Mexico: Sheinbaum takes office as first female president
9) Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists
10) Watchdog blasts DEA for not reporting waterboarding, torture by Latin American partners
11) Argentina: Prosecutors accuse Opus Dei leaders in South America of trafficking and labor exploitation
12) Thailand: Twenty children dead after school bus fire
13) Jeep recalls 194,000 plug-in hybrids due to fire risks
14) Youth Arrested Demanding VP Debate Question on Climate Emergency
15) Nigerians decry “anti-poor” measures in new protests against regime
16) Webb telescope detects traces of carbon dioxide on surface of Pluto’s largest moon
17) NY: Suspended Columbia student who declared “Zionists don’t deserve to live” sues university
18) Ukraine war: Russian troops reach center of Vuhledar
19) WI: Dems & GOP pick new presidential electors following 2020 “fake electors” debacle
20) UBS Warns of Further US Dollar Decline, Advises Investors to Reduce USD holdings
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Guilty
22) The Coming Vindication of the Double-Haters
23) Yes, Forced Prison Labor Is Slavery
24) “Trump-Washing” US History Endangers Our Freedom
25) An Open Society, If You Can Keep It
26) Democracy’s tail winds in Lebanon
27) Old Man Mountain Weeps
28) Here’s How To Win Undecided Voters
29) “Here, We Sell Local”: Collectivist or Tribal Protectionism
30) The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars: The War on Terror 23 Years Later
31) Don’t chicken out of eating lab-made meat. It could change the world.
32) Principles are the Antidote to Politics
33) Vance Dossier [sic] Shows Not All Hacks Are Created Equal
34) Why Liberty Depends on Taxes
35) Cultivate Solidarity?
36) Yalta’s Specter
37) Fake border hawk Kamala Harris and her faux enforcement excuses
38) Happy Birthday To … The First Reaganite?
39) What Happened to Tucker Carlson?
40) Nukes up: North Korea tests absent US policy
41) Six Things to Know as Israel Invades Lebanon
42) Destroying What Has Been
43) Ukraine Should Rush Back to Istanbul
44) Washing Machines Are Good, Actually
45) Can We All Get Along? Yes, By Letting the States Decide
46) The Real Reason JD Vance is Unqualified to Be Vice President
47) Trump Will Face Justice for Assaulting the Rule of Law Only if He Loses in November
48) Political Renewal, Intellectual Revival
49) The Threat of 1,000 Holocausts Puts Everything at Stake
50) Can the courts dismantle the imperial bureaucracy in DC?
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1) White House sides with union as dockworker strike enters second day
Source: Reuters
“President Joe Biden’s administration heaped pressure on U.S. port employers to raise their offer to secure a labor deal with dockworkers on strike for a second day on Wednesday, choking half the country’s ocean shipping. The strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union has blocked everything from food to automobile shipments across dozens of ports from Maine to Texas in a disruption analysts warn will cost the economy billions of dollars a day. … ‘Foreign ocean carriers have made record profits since the pandemic, when Longshoremen put themselves at risk to keep ports open. It’s time those ocean carriers offered a strong and fair contract that reflects ILA workers’ contribution to our economy and to their record profits,’ Biden said in a post on X late on Tuesday.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-sides-with-union-dockworker-strike-enters-second-day-2024-10-02/
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2) In sharp escalation of regional conflict, Iran fires dozens of missiles into Israel
Source: SFGate
“Iran launched dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday, sharply escalating a conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militias Hezbollah and Hamas that began nearly a year ago and threatening to push the Middle East closer toward a regionwide war. The orange glow of missiles streaked across Israel’s night sky as air raid sirens sounded across the country and millions of residents scrambled into bomb shelters. The attack raised the strong likelihood of an Israeli reprisal. Before Iran’s attack, Israel had landed a series of devastating blows in recent weeks against Hezbollah’s leadership in Lebanon. It then ratcheted up the pressure on the militant group — which has been firing rockets into Israel since the war in Gaza began — by launching what it said is a limited ground incursion in southern Lebanon.” (10/01/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/israeli-military-orders-evacuation-of-several-19806688.php
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3) NYC: Adams accuses DOJ of leaking sensitive case info
Source: Politico
“Mayor Eric Adams’[s] legal team asked a judge Tuesday to investigate nearly a year’s worth of leaks related to the New York City Democrat’s criminal case, arguing the steady drip of information has made a fair trial impossible. … [Alex] Spiro directly accused the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District in New York of being the source of leaks about raids, subpoenas and other information related to charges Adams accepted travel perks and illicit campaign donations from Turkish officials and business interests in exchange for expediting the opening of the Turkish embassy in Manhattan in 2021, after he had won the Democratic mayoral primary. The mayor was indicted last week and has pleaded not-guilty.” (10/01/24)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/01/eric-adams-accuses-doj-of-leak-00181821
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4) Assange Says He Pleaded “Guilty to Journalism” in Order to Be Freed
Source: Time
“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that he was freed after years of incarceration because he ‘pled guilty to journalism.’ Assange gave evidence of the impact of his detention and conviction to the legal affairs and human rights committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. The Parliamentary Assembly includes lawmakers from 46 European countries. Assange was released in June after five years in a British prison after he pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concluded a drawn-out legal saga. … ‘I am not free today because the system worked,’ Assange said in his first public remarks since he was released. ‘I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.'” (10/01/24)
https://time.com/7027118/wikileaks-assange-journalism-freedom/
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5) Election 2024: Second Fiddle Nominees Debate
Source: USA Today
“Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faced off on the debate stage Tuesday, laying out their pitches to voters across the country in the final stretch of the 2024 election. The vice presidential picks kicked off the debate by talking about America’s role in crises in the Middle East and how the nation should address issues like immigration, inflation and abortion rights. They also explained how they would try to lower housing prices and reduce gun violence in schools if elected. The Ohio senator and Minnesota governor actually agreed at several moments in the debate, particularly as they discussed the need to make childcare more accessible for families from coast to coast. But their sharpest disagreement came as they were asked about democracy and the deadly Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.” (10/01/24)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/01/walz-vance-vp-debate-live-updates/75449829007/
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6) NJ: Couple in “life-changing” Uber car wreck can’t sue because their daughter used Uber Eats
Source: The Mirror US
“A couple who were left injured after their Uber ride crashed aren’t able to sue the company because their daughter once used Uber Eats, the family’s legal team have claimed. Back in March 2022, New Jersey couple Georgia and John McGinty were in the back seat of a car when it ran a red light and was T-boned by another vehicle. … In 2023, the couple filed a lawsuit naming various defendants but after Uber filed a motion to compel arbitration, where a Garden State appeals court ruled in the company’s favor. It comes after a similar incident between Disney World and a husband who tried to sue after his wife’s allergy death. On September 20, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division wrote: ‘We hold that the arbitration provision contained in the agreement under review, which Georgia or her minor daughter, while using her cell phone agreed to, is valid and enforceable.'” (10/01/24)
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-couple-life-changing-719706
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7) LA: Abortion drugs now classified as controlled substances
Source: Axios
“Two drugs that can be used to induce medicated abortions are now classified as controlled substances in Louisiana as a controversial new law takes effect Oct. 1. Doctors have said the new restrictions will delay life-saving care for some patients. Louisiana becomes the first state to label the two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, as controlled substances. Abortion has been illegal in Louisiana since a trigger law went into effect with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade. The two drugs are also useful for inducing labor, preventing ulcers, and treating constipation and postpartum hemorrhages.” (10/01/24)
https://www.axios.com/local/new-orleans/2024/10/01/abortion-drugs-louisiana-controlled-substances
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8) Mexico: Sheinbaum takes office as first female president
Source: CBS News
“Claudia Sheinbaum took office Tuesday as Mexico’s first female president in the nation’s more than 200 years of independence. The 62-year-old former Mexico City mayor and lifelong leftist campaigned on a promise of continuity and of protecting and expanding the signature initiatives of her mentor, former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. … Sheinbaum is also the first president with a Jewish background in the largely Catholic country.” (10/01/24)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-first-female-president/
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9) Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists
Source: Seattle Times
“Salman Rushdie’s memoir a bout his near-fatal stabbing, ‘Knife,’ and Percival Everett’s revisionist historical novel, ‘James,’ are among the finalists for the 75th annual National Book Awards. Others nominated include author-filmmaker Miranda July for her explicit novel on middle age, ‘All Fours,’ and the celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson for ‘Wrong Norma.’ On Tuesday, the National Book Foundation announced finalists in fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature, poetry and books in translation. Judges in each category pared long lists of 10 unveiled last month to five final selections. Winners will be announced during a Nov. 20 dinner ceremony in Manhattan, when honorary prizes will be presented to novelist Barbara Kingsolver and publisher-activist W. Paul Coates.” (10/01/24)
https://archive.is/MpEgp
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10) Watchdog blasts DEA for not reporting waterboarding, torture by Latin American partners
Source: Houston Chronicle
“A federal government watchdog is blasting the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for failing to timely report human rights violations committed by Latin American law enforcement partners who admitted to waterboarding, suffocating and torturing crime suspects. The management advisory memorandum published Tuesday by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General centers on the DEA’s obligations under what’s known as the Leahy Act, which prohibits the U.S. from providing foreign assistance to security forces that violate human rights. … The Inspector General, as part of an ongoing audit of the DEA’s use of polygraph examinations as part of the vetting process, found five instances in which the DEA failed to notify the State Department of potential violations that it turned up last year.” (10/01/24)
https://www.chron.com/news/article/watchdog-blasts-dea-for-not-reporting-human-19807886.php
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11) Argentina: Prosecutors accuse Opus Dei leaders in South America of trafficking and labor exploitation
Source: ABC News
“Argentine prosecutors have concluded that there are grounds for launching a criminal investigation into the highest authorities of Opus Dei in South America between 1983 and 2015 for the crimes of human trafficking and labor exploitation against at least 44 women recruited by the religious order to perform domestic tasks in their homes. According to a document seen by The Associated Press, prosecutors sought a federal judge to summon those who served during that period as vicar or regional councilor of Opus Dei Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia to testify …. Opus Dei — Work of God in Latin — was founded by the Spanish priest Josemaria Escriva in 1928, and has 90,000 members in 70 countries. The lay group, which was greatly favored by St. John Paul II, who canonized Escriva in 2002, has a unique status in the church and reports directly to the pope.” (10/01/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/argentine-prosecutors-accuse-opus-dei-leaders-south-america-114369584
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12) Thailand: Twenty children dead after school bus fire
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The bodies of 20 children and three teachers have been recovered after a bus transporting school pupils crashed and caught fire outside Bangkok. The bus was returning to the Thai capital after a school trip to the north of the country. Videos from the scene showed flames engulfing the bus as it burned under an overpass, with huge clouds of dense black smoke billowing into the sky. The driver handed himself in to police 100km (61 miles) north of Bangkok, according to local media. Footage taken shortly after the fatal crash showed the driver attempting to extinguish the fire but he reportedly fled the scene. Witnesses say the bus crashed into the concrete barrier dividing the highway just north of Bangkok, after a front tyre burst.” (10/01/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jwqzzw986o
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13) Jeep recalls 194,000 plug-in hybrids due to fire risks
Source: Engadget
“Jeep’s owner, Stellantis, has recalled about 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs from the brand due to a risk of fire. The recall impacts specific Jeep Wrangler 4xe models from 2020 to 2024 and some Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe SUVs from 2022 to 2024 — the company estimates about five percent of the vehicles will have the defect. It discovered the issue after 13 fires were reported, all when the vehicle was parked and off. Despite the risk, Stellantis is not yet having customers bring their hybrids in for servicing. Instead, the company claims a ‘remedy is imminent,’ and owners will get notified when they can come in.” (10/01/24)
https://www.engadget.com/transportation/jeep-recalls-194000-plug-in-hybrids-due-to-fire-risks-150059282.html?src=rss
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14) Youth Arrested Demanding VP Debate Question on Climate Emergency
Source: Common Dreams
“Just hours away from the U.S. vice presidential debate on Tuesday, six members of the youth-led Sunrise Movement were arrested for blocking the street outside CBS News headquarters in New York City to demand moderator Norah O’Donnell ask both candidates what they would do to take on the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency. The sit-in and blockade came as the death toll from Hurricane Helene, which left a path of destruction across several southeastern states, hit at least 137. Sunrise has responded to the Category 4 storm with renewed calls to hold fossil fuel giants accountable.” [editor’s note: Someone else too stupid to know “climate crisis” does not cause hurricanes – SAT] (10/01/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jd-vance-climate
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15) Nigerians decry “anti-poor” measures in new protests against regime
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“For the second time in two months, angry protesters in several cities across Nigeria are trooping out to denounce biting economic hardship in the West African country and to call for change. In the capital Abuja on Tuesday, police fired tear gas canisters into crowds of demonstrators as they marched and screamed chants of ‘no more hunger’ and ‘end bad governance.’ In the first wave of protests in August, several people were shot dead and hundreds more were arrested. Yet this time, despite fears of another crackdown as police deployed heavily to potential protest locations nationwide, demonstrators were determined to be heard.” (10/01/24)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/1/nigerians-decry-anti-poor-measures-in-new-protests-against-the-government
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16) Webb telescope detects traces of carbon dioxide on surface of Pluto’s largest moon
Source: SFGate
“NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon. It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, which is about half Pluto’s size. Previous research, including a flyby from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, revealed that the moon’s surface was coated by water ice. But scientists couldn’t sense chemicals lurking at certain infrared wavelengths until the Webb telescope came around to fill in the gaps. ‘There’s a lot of fingerprints of chemicals that we otherwise wouldn’t get to see,’ said Carly Howett, a New Horizons scientist who was not involved with the new study. The research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. Pluto, a dwarf planet, and its moons are in the far fringes of our solar system in a zone known as the Kuiper Belt.” (10/01/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/nasa-s-webb-telescope-detects-traces-of-carbon-19807339.php
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17) NY: Suspended Columbia student who declared “Zionists don’t deserve to live” sues university
Source: New York Post
“One of the students who led Columbia University’s anti-Israel encampment in the spring is suing the Ivy League school for suspending him over hateful video in which he declares, ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’. Khymani James, 21, of Boston was denied due process and fair treatment when suspended — a violation of university policy, according to his Sept. 27 Manhattan Supreme Court filing. The decision to suspend James from campus in April was made mostly because of media pressure, and he also was unfairly targeted because his is black and pro-Palestine, the court document said. James’[s] suspension ‘inflamed the hatred’ toward him on the Morningside Heights campus, the lawsuit added. The student activist suggested in his suit that university officials ‘routinely privileges students who support Israel over those who do not, rewarding bad faith behavior and in fact turning a blind eye to violations of the student code by Israel supporters.'” (10/01/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/10/01/us-news/suspended-columbia-student-khymani-james-sues-university/
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18) Ukraine war: Russian troops reach center of Vuhledar
Source: US News & World Report
“Russian troops have reached the centre of Vuhledar, a bastion on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine that had resisted Russian assaults since Moscow’s full-scale invasion, the regional governor of Ukraine’s Donetsk region said on Tuesday. Footage posted to social media showed Russian soldiers waving a flag from atop a bombed-out multi-storey building and unfurling another flag on a metal spire on a roof. Reuters determined the footage matched street patterns of Vuhledar. … Vuhledar has strategic significance because of its high ground and its location near the junction of the two main fronts, in eastern and southern Ukraine. Russian forces reached the outskirts last week and intensified their offensive push in recent days.” (10/01/24)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-10-01/russian-troops-reach-centre-of-ukraines-vuhledar-in-the-east-ukrainian-governor-says
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19) WI: Dems & GOP pick new presidential electors following 2020 “fake electors” debacle
Source: SFGate
“Democrats and Republicans in Wisconsin picked new presidential electors on Tuesday, almost four years after Republicans from the state posed as fake electors for former President Donald Trump. The Democratic and Republican legislative caucuses and legislative candidates met in the state Capitol to select 10 people from each party who will represent voters in the presidential election. The winner of the popular vote in each state determines which party’s electors are sent to the Electoral College, which meets after the election in December to certify the outcome. Ten Wisconsin Republicans posed as fake electors for Trump in 2020, filing paperwork falsely saying he had won the battleground state.” (10/01/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/wisconsin-democrats-republicans-pick-new-19807983.php
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20) UBS Warns of Further US Dollar Decline, Advises Investors to Reduce USD holdings
Source: Bitcoin.com
“Financial giant UBS expects the U.S. dollar to continue to depreciate, advising investors to reevaluate their portfolios. The bank predicts a medium-term decline due to shrinking interest rate advantages and a growing fiscal deficit. With the dollar down 5% since June, UBS recommends strategies like currency hedging and diversifying into other currencies and assets like gold to reduce risk.” (10/01/24)
https://news.bitcoin.com/ubs-warns-of-further-us-dollar-decline-advises-investors-to-reduce-usd-holdings/
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21) Guilty
Source: Consent Factory, Inc.
by CJ Hopkins
[editor’s note: CJ Hopkins has been convicted on appeal of his prior acquittal — Germany allows “double jeopardy” — for criticizing the German regime’s COVID-19 authoritarianism. This is an excerpt from his statement to the court – TLK] “Go ahead. Do whatever you feel you need to do to me. Fine me. Send me to prison. Bankrupt me. Whatever. I will not pretend that I am guilty of anything to make your punishment stop. I will not lie for you. I will not obey you because you threaten me, because you have the power to hurt me. You have that power. I get it. Everyone gets it. The German authorities have the power to punish those who criticize them, who expose their hypocrisy, their lies. We all get the message. But that is not how things work in democratic societies. That is how things work in totalitarian systems. I will not cooperate with that. I refuse to live that way.” (10/01/24)
https://consentfactory.org/2024/10/01/guilty/
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22) The Coming Vindication of the Double-Haters
Source: Reason
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
“At the start of the summer, it looked like the 2024 presidential election might come down to the double-haters. Roughly 25 percent of voters told Pew pollsters they had unfavorable views of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump. (And this was before Trump’s felony conviction and Biden’s disastrous debate performance.) Some of us are longtime double-haters in good standing. But it’s worth putting those numbers in context. In 1988, only 5 percent of voters told pollsters they disapproved of both major party candidates. In 2000, that figure was 6 percent. Even the previous Trump-Biden matchup in 2020 pulled only 13 percent into the double-hater camp. … But after Kamala Harris quickly and dramatically replaced Biden on the Democratic ticket, the double-haters seem to have disappeared into thin air. … Someone will win, and that person must govern—at which point the double-haters will almost certainly be proven right.” (10/24)
https://reason.com/2024/10/01/double-hater-dead-enders/
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23) Yes, Forced Prison Labor Is Slavery
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Mandatory prison work is redistribution, to the state, of the prisoner-slaves’ property rights in their labor. It is economically manipulative insofar as wages, if paid, are set by the state rather than by the market. And it’s an attempt to establish a pattern of society which treats people as property of the state.” (10/01/24)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/18987
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24) "Trump-Washing” US History Endangers Our Freedom
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Kamala Harris seeks to capture the White House with a message built on vaporous ‘positive vibes’ and ‘joy.’ The Harris campaign is bolstering that message by portraying Donald Trump as a deadly peril to democracy unprecedented in American history. The former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who hit that theme as hard as anybody during Trump’s administration, is back in the news after he endorsed Harris for the presidency. Some media coverage is treating Flake’s declaration as another bellwether bailout for Republicans abandoning Trump. But Flake openly endorsed Joe Biden for President in 2020 and spent the last three years as Biden’s U.S. ambassador to Turkey.” (10/01/24)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2024/10/01/trump-washing-u-s-history-endangers-our-freedom/
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25) An Open Society, If You Can Keep It
Source: Liberal Currents
by Adam Gurri
“The liberal ideal is that we ought always to be striving for an open society; a society that is ‘open to ideas,’ ‘open to people,’ and ‘open to change.’ In an open society, if you hate your boss or your job, you can quit. If you hate where you live, you can move somewhere else. Artists do not need to fear offending either the church or the party. Citizens can criticize or even insult political leaders without fearing reprisal. Subcommunities can experiment with different lifestyles freely. Difference is allowed, and dynamism is the rule rather than the exception. … An open society is an achievement for which there is no one path, no formula. Once achieved, however, it must be maintained.” (10/01/24)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/an-open-society-if-you-can-keep-it/
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26) Democracy’s tail winds in Lebanon
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“The assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday achieved a strategic objective Israel had sought for nearly two decades. It diminishes at least temporarily the threat to Israel’s existence posed by Iran and its militant proxies in Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza. Yet the real basis of Israel’s security and regional stability may rest on a different development. Well before Mr. Nasrallah’s demise, the persistent democratic aspirations of Arab and Iranian citizens posed a growing challenge to the theology he and his patrons in Tehran have promoted. ‘Tehran’s pursuits and policies in the region are not ones that citizens throughout the region view positively,’ observed Arab Barometer in July, based on its latest regional survey of Arab opinion. Across the Middle East, it found, few respondents agreed that ‘It is good for the Arab region that Hezbollah is getting involved in regional politics’.” (09/30/24)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2024/0930/Democracy-s-tail-winds-in-Lebanon
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27) Old Man Mountain Weeps
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“The pictures of devastation flooding in are almost too much to bear. Areas like Lake Lure, with its hairpin turns and stunning views of the water, and Chimney Rock, with its small-town country charm, are unrecognizable. East of Asheville, the Swannanoa River claimed hundreds of lives, and idyllic towns like Black Mountain are struggling to recover amid receding waters and wreckage. Their morgues overflow, and their shop sandwich boards are chalked with plaintive cries for cooking gas and clean water. … The community spirit of mountain folk is strong. Their resolve is steeled, and surrounding regions like mine will leap to help their neighbors as we are recovering much faster here down the mountain. People in faraway places are already helping, too. And the good people on the ground will be stronger with the right resources.” (10/01/24)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/old-man-mountain-weeps
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28) Here’s How To Win Undecided Voters
Source: Our Future
by Sulma Arias
“At People’s Action, we believe in the power of our votes that ordinary people, when we put our minds together, can make good decisions for their own lives and for our country. Democracy is our guiding principle. That’s why our volunteers, all across the country, are spending these last few weeks before the election reaching out to undecided voters. Yet I often hear people say their votes don’t matter. ‘Why should I even bother?’ they say when I ask when they plan to vote. I never take the right to raise my voice through democracy for granted. So I always vote, and expect my daughters and loved ones to vote, too. So let me tell you the difference your vote can make. In 2016, many were shocked when Donald Trump won the presidency, even though he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. That’s because Trump won the Electoral College, which awards votes by state in a winner-take-all system, 304 to 227 – well more than the 270 needed to secure the White House.” (10/01/24)
https://ourfuture.org/20241001/heres-how-we-win-undecided-voters
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29) “Here, We Sell Local”: Collectivist or Tribal Protectionism
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“That nationalism is a kind of collectivism or modern-tribalism is illustrated by a current phenomenon: foreigners seem so disliked that, in some people’s views, ‘we’ should neither import from, nor export to, ‘them.’ On the import side, foreigners — foreign producers or their governments or the latter’s taxpayers — are disliked because they produce goods at such a low cost that ‘our’ producers can’t compete. As for ‘our’ greedy merchants who import things that ‘our’ consumers want, all are greedy non-patriots. Since the 17th or 18th century, an important dimension of progress has been to economically and morally smother these emotions, or so one may have thought. On the export side, consider tourism, where a new protectionism seems to be rising.” (10/01/24)
https://www.econlib.org/here-we-sell-only-local-collectivist-or-tribal-protectionism/
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30) The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars: The War on Terror 23 Years Later
Source: TomDispatch
by Karen Greenberg
“September marked the 23rd anniversary of al-Qaeda’s 2001 attacks on the United States, which left nearly 3,000 people dead. For the two decades since then, I’ve been writing, often for TomDispatch, about the ways the American response to 9/11, which quickly came to be known as the Global War on Terror, or GWOT, changed this country. As I’ve explored in several books, in the name of that war, we transformed our institutions, privileged secrecy over transparency and accountability, side-stepped and even violated longstanding laws and constitutional principles, and basically tossed aside many of the norms that had guided us as a nation for two centuries-plus, opening the way for a country now in Trumpian-style difficulty at home. Even today, more than two decades later, the question remains: Will the war on terror ever end?” (10/01/24)
https://tomdispatch.com/will-the-forever-wars-ever-end/
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31) Don’t chicken out of eating lab-made meat. It could change the world.
Source: Washington Post
by Catherine Rampell
“Last Tuesday, your fearless correspondent did some gonzo journalism and tried something that’s fast becoming illegal across red states. That’s right, readers; I ate lab-grown meat. And to answer your inevitable follow-up: Yes, it tasted like chicken. It tasted like chicken because, well, it was chicken. … Rather than promising a lab-grown chicken in every pot, red-state politicians have been picking fights with these foodie futurists — partly to feed the culture wars, partly to shield the existing agricultural industry from competition. Florida and Alabama recently made it a crime to manufacture, distribute or sell lab-cultivated meat within their borders. Upside is challenging the Florida law as unconstitutional. Taking away consumers’ choice to eat these products, including those deemed safe by the FDA, is fusty, anti-freedom and foolish.” (10/01/24)
https://archive.is/9Wbfu
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32) Principles are the Antidote to Politics
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“In his essay ‘Membership,’ contained in his collection The Weight of Glory, C. S. Lewis wrote, ‘A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion: to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other.’ Politics, Lewis explained, is not ‘the natural food of the mind’ but a ‘necessary evil.’ However, too much emphasis on politics has become ‘a new and deadly disease.’ Lewis compared fresh fruit to canned fruit. The latter can be necessary for storage, but Lewis observed he had met people who learned to prefer the tinned fruit to the fresh. Similarly, among us are those who prefer to weigh the promises of candidates as a pathway to societal advancement rather than shore up the foundations of a free society.” (10/01/24)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/principles-are-the-antidote-to-politics
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33) Vance Dossier [sic] Shows Not All Hacks Are Created Equal
Source: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
by Ari Paul
“Ken Klippenstein, an independent reporter operating on Substack and an investigative alum of the Intercept, announced (Substack, 9/26/24) that he had been kicked off Twitter (now rebranded as X). His crime, he explained, stemmed from posting the 271-page official dossier of Republican vice presidential candidate’s J.D. Vance’s campaign vulnerabilities; the US government alleges that the information was leaked through Iranian hacking. In other words, the dossier is a part of the ‘foreign meddling campaign’ of ‘enemy states.’ Klippenstein is not the first reporter to gain access to these papers (Popular Information, 9/9/24), but most of the reporting about this dossier has been on the intrigue revolving around Iranian hacking rather than the content itself.” (10/01/24)
https://fair.org/home/vance-dossier-shows-not-all-hacks-are-created-equal/
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34) Why Liberty Depends on Taxes
Source: Students For Liberty
by Sebastian Ariel Citrea
“With this provocative subtitle, Stephen Holmes and Cass Sunstein begin the debate around a revealing and novel essay in many aspects: ‘The Cost of Rights.’ The authors focus on how our individual liberties depend on state bureaucracy and the money collected by public officials, explaining the relationship between rights and budgetary costs, and seek to establish points of conversation on how to understand the collective organization of a political community. It is a direct critique of libertarian ideas (in the opening pages, they mention thinkers like Robert Nozick, Charles Murray, and David Boaz). Does our freedom depend on taxes, and ultimately on the State? What does it mean that rights have a cost? What are the implications for our cherished individual rights?” (10/01/24)
https://studentsforliberty.org/blog/why-liberty-depends-on-taxes/
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35) Cultivate Solidarity?
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“The last decade or so has seen an increase in nationalism across the globe. From Victor Orban to Christian Nationalists and MAGA fans in the US, nationalism seems to be on the rise. Even amongst those interested in reducing polarization, there are people suggesting that the way forward is to cultivate solidarity amongst co-nationals. Democrats and Republicans, we are told, should see themselves as Americans first, party-members second. While there is some truth to such claims, they too easily morph into a claim that we need some sort of national creed (or ‘creedal religion’) in order to make the country better, ending polarization and the vitriol it brings. I find such claims disturbing. Desires for national solidarity, I would suggest, are ‘nationalism light.'” (10/01/24)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/cultivate-solidarity
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36) Yalta’s Specter
Source: Law & Liberty
by Pawel Markiewicz & Maciej Olchawa
“It may seem like ancient history, but 1944 is eerily similar to 2024. Then as now, Americans chose their president as war raged in Europe. By the time votes were cast in 1944, a large swath of Central and Eastern Europe lay in the hands of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, thanks in large part to bad deals made over the heads of allies in the region. European security was divided into two camps, creating a global great power rivalry that lasted half a century. Like then, the outcome of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war will be decided not only on the battlefield — where Ukraine is seeking to gain a just peace through a show of strength by literally taking the fight to Russia, but also in voting booths across the US and the corridors of power in Washington, DC after the next president defines a foreign policy agenda.” (10/01/24)
https://lawliberty.org/yaltas-specter/
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37) Fake border hawk Kamala Harris and her faux enforcement excuses
Source: New York Post
by Rich Lowry
“Kamala Harris desperately needs to deflect responsibility for the ongoing debacle [sic] at the border, and she thinks she knows just how to do it. Whenever addressing the issue, she’s sure to accuse Donald Trump of killing the Senate border bill that, in her account, would have locked down the border and thrown away the key. ‘It was the strongest border security [sic] bill we’ve seen in decades,’ Harris intoned during her visit to the border late last week. ‘It was endorsed by the border patrol union, and it should be in effect today, producing results in real time — right now for our country.’ Alas, according to Harris, ‘Donald Trump tanked it.'” (09/30/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/09/30/opinion/fake-border-hawk-kamala-harris-faux-enforcement-excuses/
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38) Happy Birthday To … The First Reaganite?
Source: Persuasion
by Richard Aldous
“Former president Jimmy Carter turns 100 today, defying both science and actuarial odds after more than a year in hospice care. His post-presidency is widely regarded as one of the most successful in the modern era, setting a model for a meaningful life after the Oval Office. In contrast, his presidency is still considered, at best, middling. Given that most historians who rank presidents tend to lean left/liberal, the public likely views his term even less favorably. Yet, while Carter may not have been a Lincoln, neither was he a Ford. Notably, his role in laying the foundations for the Reagan Revolution that followed is often overlooked.” (10/01/24)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/happy-birthday-to-the-first-reaganite
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39) What Happened to Tucker Carlson?
Source: The Dispatch
by John McCormack
“What happened to Tucker? It’s a question you hear a lot around Washington, D.C., where the former Fox News star is usually referred to by his first name alone, not because of his fame — like Hillary or Oprah — but because pretty much everyone had some personal contact with him. … he went from being a P.J. O’Rourke libertarian in the 1990s to an Alex Jones nationalist in the 2020s. Why did it happen? There are various theories — fame, ego, power, money, ideology, lunacy. But none is satisfying by itself.” (10/01/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/what-happened-tucker-carlson/
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40) Nukes up: North Korea tests absent US policy
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Daniel Larison
“North Korea may carry out its seventh nuclear test to coincide with the U.S. presidential election, according to a briefing South Korean lawmakers received from their National Intelligence Service (NIS). The last North Korean nuclear weapon test was in September 2017 during the heightened tensions between Washington and Pyongyang that year. A new test would be viewed as a serious provocation in Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo, and it would almost certainly be a warning to the next administration that the U.S. will have to pay more attention to North Korea in the years ahead. If the test does take place this fall, it will be a reminder of the consequences of Trump’s failed North Korea policy and an indictment of the Biden administration’s neglect of this issue.” (10/01/24)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/north-korea-tests-nuke-test/
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41) Six Things to Know as Israel Invades Lebanon
Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by Khury Petersen-Smith
“As of this writing, Israel’s rampage in Lebanon has killed more than a thousand people in two weeks, wounded thousands more (including many maimed for life), and displaced hundreds of thousands. The Israeli onslaught — including the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a 2,000 pound, U.S.-made bomb that killed others too — has mostly garnered approval from American leaders, particularly the president and vice president. Continuing its genocidal assault of Gaza, bombing Yemen for the second time this year, and carrying out aerial bombardment in Lebanon at a speed and on a scale perhaps unseen in the 21st century, Israel launched a ground invasion on Tuesday, one it described as ‘limited’ in scope. … here are six key things to know about the crisis in Lebanon and how it could be resolved.” (10/01/24)
https://fpif.org/six-things-to-know-as-israel-ramps-up-its-assault-on-lebanon/
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42) Destroying What Has Been
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“One thing we should know about [Tim Walz’s] running mate, the current Vice President Kamala Harris, is that in 2020 she asked people to ‘help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.’ In jail for unpeacefully destroying the property of others. A couple of years later, she denied making the appeal … but her tweet doing so remained up on the platform and, regardless, had been screenshot. Commentators sometimes suggest that the future policies of Kamala Harris are mysterious, since she has said or half-said so many different things. What mystery?” (10/01/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/10/01/destroying-what-has-been/
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43) Ukraine Should Rush Back to Istanbul
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ‘Ukrainian Victory Plan’ has received, not unexpectedly, a very tepid reception in Washington. Biden administration officials seem to have received it as less of a ‘comprehensive strategy’ and more of a ‘repackaged request’ for Zelensky’s wish list of weapons and lifting of restrictions on their use. The plan has, reportedly, ‘dispirited Biden’s top aides’ who say that it ‘offers no clear path to a Ukraine victory.’ To succeed, Zelensky’s plan required the fulfillment of two hopes: success in his Kursk invasion into Russian territory and permission to fire long-range Western missiles deeper into Russian territory. The first has now failed and the second failed to materialize. And even if it were still to materialize soon, soon may no longer be soon enough.” (10/01/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2024/09/30/ukraine-should-rush-back-to-istanbul/
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44) Washing Machines Are Good, Actually
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Diogo Costa
“In recent social media posts, some advocates of ‘degrowth’ have suggested a return to washing clothes by hand as a solution to the perceived ills of modern consumerism. Their proposal ignores the hard-won progress of the past century and risks reversing gains in public health, gender equality, and quality of life. The late Hans Rosling, a renowned public health expert, gave a TED Talk in which he described a childhood memory illustrating the transformative power of household technology: ‘My mother explained the magic with this machine the very, very first day. She said, ‘Now, Hans, we have loaded the laundry, the machine will make the work, and now we can go to the library. Because this is the magic: You load the laundry, and what do you get out of the machine? You get books out of the machines.'” (09/30/24)
https://fee.org/articles/washing-machines-are-good-actually/
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45) Can We All Get Along? Yes, By Letting the States Decide
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“At the time of this writing, the outcome of the presidential race is pretty close to being a coin flip. So what I write is not in any way influenced by who will win in November, since that is unknowable. What is a virtual certainty is that on Nov. 6 roughly half the country will be full of joy, and the other half will be in a deep depression likely to last throughout the next four years. Don’t be surprised if the anger and despair of the losing party spills over into prolonged violent protests — especially in the streets of the major cities. Politics in America is now — regrettably — a contact sport. Whoever wins, America will be further ripped down its seams.” (10/01/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2024/10/01/can-we-all-get-along-yes-by-letting-the-states-decide-n2645551
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46) The Real Reason JD Vance is Unqualified to Be Vice President
Source: The Bulwark
by Hannah Yoest
“In the weeks leading up to his Tuesday night debate against Tim Walz, JD Vance has made headlines for a myriad of antagonistic, petty, sideshow, culture-war verbal discharges …. Vance is executing the classic Trumpian playbook of ‘flooding the zone with shit.’ And as a result, he has become remarkably disliked by the electorate. But that doesn’t mean the tactic isn’t working. Any argument against the Trump-Vance ticket based on their inflammatory rhetoric is complicit in obfuscating the core issues. For that reason, it makes sense for Walz to ignore the catnip and make a more serious case against the junior senator from Ohio. For all of Vance’s putrid ideological excretions, the most obvious and basic argument against his election to the vice presidency is that he’s 40 years old and has no substantial leadership experience.” (09/30/24)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-real-reason-jd-vance-is-unqualified
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47) Trump Will Face Justice for Assaulting the Rule of Law Only if He Loses in November
Source: The UnPopulist
by Paul Rosenzweig
“The Donald Trump experience tests our secular faith almost beyond the breaking point. He stands criminally convicted in New York for making hush-money payments to a porn star to affect the outcome of the last election but won’t be sentenced until after the election (if even then). His other criminal trials in Georgia (to thwart the certification of the state election), Florida (for illegally whisking away highly classified documents to Mar-a-Lago), and Washington D.C. (for attempting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power) have been interminably delayed. Trump has managed to convert the idea of due process — the crown jewel of the rule of law — into a weapon of destruction, laying waste to the concept of justice that undergirds our legal system’s structures. And yet there is hope. The rule of law can’t save us from Trump; for that, we must rely on the elections.” (09/30/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-will-face-justice-for-assaulting
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48) Political Renewal, Intellectual Revival
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Bert Olivier
“It is undeniable that we stand at a historical juncture where something new is in the process of being born – preferably not W.B. Yeats’s ‘rough beast, its hour come round at last, [which] Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born’ – but something that truly offers a new beginning, free from the shackles that have arguably bound us in our vaunted ‘democracies’ for so long. To be able to understand what is at stake, there are few thinkers who could match Hannah Arendt as a source of enlightenment.” (09/30/24)\
https://brownstone.org/articles/political-renewal-intellectual-revival/
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49) The Threat of 1,000 Holocausts Puts Everything at Stake
Source: Common Dreams
by Norman Solomon
“Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: ‘A hundred Holocausts’. That was in 1961. Today, with nuclear arsenals vastly larger and more powerful, scientists know that a nuclear exchange would cause ‘nuclear winter.’ And the nearly complete end of agriculture on the planet. Some estimates put the survival rate of humans on Earth at 1 or 2 percent. No longer 100 Holocausts. More than 1,000 Holocausts. If such a nuclear war happens, of course we won’t be around for any retrospective analysis. Or regrets. So, candid introspection is in a category of now or never.” (10/01/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nuclear-holocaust
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50) Can the courts dismantle the imperial bureaucracy in DC?
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“In recent months, the Nine Nazgul (or at least 5 or 6 of them) have seeming delivered major blows to the bureaucratic state and much of its power and practices. At the same time, more and more lower federal people in black robes have also been picking away at the foundations – and the powers – of the FedGov of 2024. In doing so, they are seen by many as attacking both the Executive and the Legislative Branches. That in turn is condemned as being anti-democratic. We here at TPOL disagree somewhat. First, the Judicial Branch is just as corrupt as the other two. Second, most of the black-robes believe in ‘democracy’ and therefore, by definition, not a republic. But we are very much in the minority.” (09/30/24)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2024/09/30/can-the-courts-dismantle-the-imperial-bureaucracy-in-dc/
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51) Zooming In, 10/01/24
Source: The UnPopulist
“Tracking Populist Attitudes Among Americans Going Into the Presidential Election: A Conversation with Tom Shull.” (10/01/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/tracking-populist-attitudes-among
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52) Rising, 10/01/24
Source: The Hill
“Nomiki Konst and Robby Soave preview the upcoming vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and J.D. Vance.” (10/01/24)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/4909187-rising-october-1-2024/
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53) The Bulwark Podcast, 10/01/24
Source: The Bulwark
“People Seriously Think Trump Will Make American Healthy Again? (w/ Lis Smith).” (10/01/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAkh2_PqHuk
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54) Good on Paper, 10/01/24
Source: The Atlantic
“Would You Give Up Your Kidney for $50,000?” (10/01/24)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/10/kidney-organ-donor-pay-compensation/680086
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55) Conflicts of Interest, episode 680
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Israel Invades Lebanon.” (10/01/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-680-israel-invades-lebanon
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56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 10/01/24
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly visit with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. There’s a lot to discuss today and Eric always has a thoughtful take on current happenings.” (10/01/24)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-gf3xd-16edb38
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/01/24
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Begins Invasion of Lebanon, US Sends a ‘Few Thousand’ Troops To Defend Israel, and More.” (10/01/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9SJDGQKjI
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58) Serious Trouble, 09/30/24
Source: Serious Trouble
“To Be On Safe Side, Please Delete All Messages You Send Me.” (09/30/24)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/to-be-on-safe-side-please-delete
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59) Free Talk Live, 09/30/24
Source: Free Talk Live
“Incognito mode isn’t incognito :: Libgen ordered to shut down :: IP Laws :: Telegram handing over data :: Don’t say piracy :: Can the supreme court do whatever it wants? :: Government doesn’t actually do it’s job. Shocking. :: Alaska Independence Party :: Billy the kid lore :: What do democrats and republicans look like? :: 2024-09-30 :: Lori, Penguin.” (09/30/24)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2024-09-30
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60) There’s A Policy For That With Susan Pendergrass, 09/30/24
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Federalism and The Founders’ Vision with Charles C. W. Cooke.” (09/30/24)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/state-and-local-government/federalism-and-the-founders-vision-with-charles-c-w-cooke/
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1) White House sides with union as dockworker strike enters second day
2) In sharp escalation of regional conflict, Iran fires dozens of missiles into Israel
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4) Assange Says He Pleaded “Guilty to Journalism” in Order to Be Freed
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18) Ukraine war: Russian troops reach center of Vuhledar
19) WI: Dems & GOP pick new presidential electors following 2020 “fake electors” debacle
20) UBS Warns of Further US Dollar Decline, Advises Investors to Reduce USD holdings
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Guilty
22) The Coming Vindication of the Double-Haters
23) Yes, Forced Prison Labor Is Slavery
24) “Trump-Washing” US History Endangers Our Freedom
25) An Open Society, If You Can Keep It
26) Democracy’s tail winds in Lebanon
27) Old Man Mountain Weeps
28) Here’s How To Win Undecided Voters
29) “Here, We Sell Local”: Collectivist or Tribal Protectionism
30) The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars: The War on Terror 23 Years Later
31) Don’t chicken out of eating lab-made meat. It could change the world.
32) Principles are the Antidote to Politics
33) Vance Dossier [sic] Shows Not All Hacks Are Created Equal
34) Why Liberty Depends on Taxes
35) Cultivate Solidarity?
36) Yalta’s Specter
37) Fake border hawk Kamala Harris and her faux enforcement excuses
38) Happy Birthday To … The First Reaganite?
39) What Happened to Tucker Carlson?
40) Nukes up: North Korea tests absent US policy
41) Six Things to Know as Israel Invades Lebanon
42) Destroying What Has Been
43) Ukraine Should Rush Back to Istanbul
44) Washing Machines Are Good, Actually
45) Can We All Get Along? Yes, By Letting the States Decide
46) The Real Reason JD Vance is Unqualified to Be Vice President
47) Trump Will Face Justice for Assaulting the Rule of Law Only if He Loses in November
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1) White House sides with union as dockworker strike enters second day
Source: Reuters
“President Joe Biden’s administration heaped pressure on U.S. port employers to raise their offer to secure a labor deal with dockworkers on strike for a second day on Wednesday, choking half the country’s ocean shipping. The strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union has blocked everything from food to automobile shipments across dozens of ports from Maine to Texas in a disruption analysts warn will cost the economy billions of dollars a day. … ‘Foreign ocean carriers have made record profits since the pandemic, when Longshoremen put themselves at risk to keep ports open. It’s time those ocean carriers offered a strong and fair contract that reflects ILA workers’ contribution to our economy and to their record profits,’ Biden said in a post on X late on Tuesday.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-sides-with-union-dockworker-strike-enters-second-day-2024-10-02/
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2) In sharp escalation of regional conflict, Iran fires dozens of missiles into Israel
Source: SFGate
“Iran launched dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday, sharply escalating a conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militias Hezbollah and Hamas that began nearly a year ago and threatening to push the Middle East closer toward a regionwide war. The orange glow of missiles streaked across Israel’s night sky as air raid sirens sounded across the country and millions of residents scrambled into bomb shelters. The attack raised the strong likelihood of an Israeli reprisal. Before Iran’s attack, Israel had landed a series of devastating blows in recent weeks against Hezbollah’s leadership in Lebanon. It then ratcheted up the pressure on the militant group — which has been firing rockets into Israel since the war in Gaza began — by launching what it said is a limited ground incursion in southern Lebanon.” (10/01/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/israeli-military-orders-evacuation-of-several-19806688.php
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3) NYC: Adams accuses DOJ of leaking sensitive case info
Source: Politico
“Mayor Eric Adams’[s] legal team asked a judge Tuesday to investigate nearly a year’s worth of leaks related to the New York City Democrat’s criminal case, arguing the steady drip of information has made a fair trial impossible. … [Alex] Spiro directly accused the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District in New York of being the source of leaks about raids, subpoenas and other information related to charges Adams accepted travel perks and illicit campaign donations from Turkish officials and business interests in exchange for expediting the opening of the Turkish embassy in Manhattan in 2021, after he had won the Democratic mayoral primary. The mayor was indicted last week and has pleaded not-guilty.” (10/01/24)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/01/eric-adams-accuses-doj-of-leak-00181821
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4) Assange Says He Pleaded “Guilty to Journalism” in Order to Be Freed
Source: Time
“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that he was freed after years of incarceration because he ‘pled guilty to journalism.’ Assange gave evidence of the impact of his detention and conviction to the legal affairs and human rights committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. The Parliamentary Assembly includes lawmakers from 46 European countries. Assange was released in June after five years in a British prison after he pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concluded a drawn-out legal saga. … ‘I am not free today because the system worked,’ Assange said in his first public remarks since he was released. ‘I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.'” (10/01/24)
https://time.com/7027118/wikileaks-assange-journalism-freedom/
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5) Election 2024: Second Fiddle Nominees Debate
Source: USA Today
“Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faced off on the debate stage Tuesday, laying out their pitches to voters across the country in the final stretch of the 2024 election. The vice presidential picks kicked off the debate by talking about America’s role in crises in the Middle East and how the nation should address issues like immigration, inflation and abortion rights. They also explained how they would try to lower housing prices and reduce gun violence in schools if elected. The Ohio senator and Minnesota governor actually agreed at several moments in the debate, particularly as they discussed the need to make childcare more accessible for families from coast to coast. But their sharpest disagreement came as they were asked about democracy and the deadly Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.” (10/01/24)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/01/walz-vance-vp-debate-live-updates/75449829007/
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6) NJ: Couple in “life-changing” Uber car wreck can’t sue because their daughter used Uber Eats
Source: The Mirror US
“A couple who were left injured after their Uber ride crashed aren’t able to sue the company because their daughter once used Uber Eats, the family’s legal team have claimed. Back in March 2022, New Jersey couple Georgia and John McGinty were in the back seat of a car when it ran a red light and was T-boned by another vehicle. … In 2023, the couple filed a lawsuit naming various defendants but after Uber filed a motion to compel arbitration, where a Garden State appeals court ruled in the company’s favor. It comes after a similar incident between Disney World and a husband who tried to sue after his wife’s allergy death. On September 20, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division wrote: ‘We hold that the arbitration provision contained in the agreement under review, which Georgia or her minor daughter, while using her cell phone agreed to, is valid and enforceable.'” (10/01/24)
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-couple-life-changing-719706
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7) LA: Abortion drugs now classified as controlled substances
Source: Axios
“Two drugs that can be used to induce medicated abortions are now classified as controlled substances in Louisiana as a controversial new law takes effect Oct. 1. Doctors have said the new restrictions will delay life-saving care for some patients. Louisiana becomes the first state to label the two drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, as controlled substances. Abortion has been illegal in Louisiana since a trigger law went into effect with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade. The two drugs are also useful for inducing labor, preventing ulcers, and treating constipation and postpartum hemorrhages.” (10/01/24)
https://www.axios.com/local/new-orleans/2024/10/01/abortion-drugs-louisiana-controlled-substances
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8) Mexico: Sheinbaum takes office as first female president
Source: CBS News
“Claudia Sheinbaum took office Tuesday as Mexico’s first female president in the nation’s more than 200 years of independence. The 62-year-old former Mexico City mayor and lifelong leftist campaigned on a promise of continuity and of protecting and expanding the signature initiatives of her mentor, former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. … Sheinbaum is also the first president with a Jewish background in the largely Catholic country.” (10/01/24)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-first-female-president/
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9) Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists
Source: Seattle Times
“Salman Rushdie’s memoir a bout his near-fatal stabbing, ‘Knife,’ and Percival Everett’s revisionist historical novel, ‘James,’ are among the finalists for the 75th annual National Book Awards. Others nominated include author-filmmaker Miranda July for her explicit novel on middle age, ‘All Fours,’ and the celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson for ‘Wrong Norma.’ On Tuesday, the National Book Foundation announced finalists in fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature, poetry and books in translation. Judges in each category pared long lists of 10 unveiled last month to five final selections. Winners will be announced during a Nov. 20 dinner ceremony in Manhattan, when honorary prizes will be presented to novelist Barbara Kingsolver and publisher-activist W. Paul Coates.” (10/01/24)
https://archive.is/MpEgp
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10) Watchdog blasts DEA for not reporting waterboarding, torture by Latin American partners
Source: Houston Chronicle
“A federal government watchdog is blasting the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for failing to timely report human rights violations committed by Latin American law enforcement partners who admitted to waterboarding, suffocating and torturing crime suspects. The management advisory memorandum published Tuesday by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General centers on the DEA’s obligations under what’s known as the Leahy Act, which prohibits the U.S. from providing foreign assistance to security forces that violate human rights. … The Inspector General, as part of an ongoing audit of the DEA’s use of polygraph examinations as part of the vetting process, found five instances in which the DEA failed to notify the State Department of potential violations that it turned up last year.” (10/01/24)
https://www.chron.com/news/article/watchdog-blasts-dea-for-not-reporting-human-19807886.php
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11) Argentina: Prosecutors accuse Opus Dei leaders in South America of trafficking and labor exploitation
Source: ABC News
“Argentine prosecutors have concluded that there are grounds for launching a criminal investigation into the highest authorities of Opus Dei in South America between 1983 and 2015 for the crimes of human trafficking and labor exploitation against at least 44 women recruited by the religious order to perform domestic tasks in their homes. According to a document seen by The Associated Press, prosecutors sought a federal judge to summon those who served during that period as vicar or regional councilor of Opus Dei Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia to testify …. Opus Dei — Work of God in Latin — was founded by the Spanish priest Josemaria Escriva in 1928, and has 90,000 members in 70 countries. The lay group, which was greatly favored by St. John Paul II, who canonized Escriva in 2002, has a unique status in the church and reports directly to the pope.” (10/01/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/argentine-prosecutors-accuse-opus-dei-leaders-south-america-114369584
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12) Thailand: Twenty children dead after school bus fire
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The bodies of 20 children and three teachers have been recovered after a bus transporting school pupils crashed and caught fire outside Bangkok. The bus was returning to the Thai capital after a school trip to the north of the country. Videos from the scene showed flames engulfing the bus as it burned under an overpass, with huge clouds of dense black smoke billowing into the sky. The driver handed himself in to police 100km (61 miles) north of Bangkok, according to local media. Footage taken shortly after the fatal crash showed the driver attempting to extinguish the fire but he reportedly fled the scene. Witnesses say the bus crashed into the concrete barrier dividing the highway just north of Bangkok, after a front tyre burst.” (10/01/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jwqzzw986o
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13) Jeep recalls 194,000 plug-in hybrids due to fire risks
Source: Engadget
“Jeep’s owner, Stellantis, has recalled about 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs from the brand due to a risk of fire. The recall impacts specific Jeep Wrangler 4xe models from 2020 to 2024 and some Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe SUVs from 2022 to 2024 — the company estimates about five percent of the vehicles will have the defect. It discovered the issue after 13 fires were reported, all when the vehicle was parked and off. Despite the risk, Stellantis is not yet having customers bring their hybrids in for servicing. Instead, the company claims a ‘remedy is imminent,’ and owners will get notified when they can come in.” (10/01/24)
https://www.engadget.com/transportation/jeep-recalls-194000-plug-in-hybrids-due-to-fire-risks-150059282.html?src=rss
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14) Youth Arrested Demanding VP Debate Question on Climate Emergency
Source: Common Dreams
“Just hours away from the U.S. vice presidential debate on Tuesday, six members of the youth-led Sunrise Movement were arrested for blocking the street outside CBS News headquarters in New York City to demand moderator Norah O’Donnell ask both candidates what they would do to take on the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency. The sit-in and blockade came as the death toll from Hurricane Helene, which left a path of destruction across several southeastern states, hit at least 137. Sunrise has responded to the Category 4 storm with renewed calls to hold fossil fuel giants accountable.” [editor’s note: Someone else too stupid to know “climate crisis” does not cause hurricanes – SAT] (10/01/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jd-vance-climate
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15) Nigerians decry “anti-poor” measures in new protests against regime
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“For the second time in two months, angry protesters in several cities across Nigeria are trooping out to denounce biting economic hardship in the West African country and to call for change. In the capital Abuja on Tuesday, police fired tear gas canisters into crowds of demonstrators as they marched and screamed chants of ‘no more hunger’ and ‘end bad governance.’ In the first wave of protests in August, several people were shot dead and hundreds more were arrested. Yet this time, despite fears of another crackdown as police deployed heavily to potential protest locations nationwide, demonstrators were determined to be heard.” (10/01/24)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/1/nigerians-decry-anti-poor-measures-in-new-protests-against-the-government
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16) Webb telescope detects traces of carbon dioxide on surface of Pluto’s largest moon
Source: SFGate
“NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon. It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, which is about half Pluto’s size. Previous research, including a flyby from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, revealed that the moon’s surface was coated by water ice. But scientists couldn’t sense chemicals lurking at certain infrared wavelengths until the Webb telescope came around to fill in the gaps. ‘There’s a lot of fingerprints of chemicals that we otherwise wouldn’t get to see,’ said Carly Howett, a New Horizons scientist who was not involved with the new study. The research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. Pluto, a dwarf planet, and its moons are in the far fringes of our solar system in a zone known as the Kuiper Belt.” (10/01/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/nasa-s-webb-telescope-detects-traces-of-carbon-19807339.php
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17) NY: Suspended Columbia student who declared “Zionists don’t deserve to live” sues university
Source: New York Post
“One of the students who led Columbia University’s anti-Israel encampment in the spring is suing the Ivy League school for suspending him over hateful video in which he declares, ‘Zionists don’t deserve to live’. Khymani James, 21, of Boston was denied due process and fair treatment when suspended — a violation of university policy, according to his Sept. 27 Manhattan Supreme Court filing. The decision to suspend James from campus in April was made mostly because of media pressure, and he also was unfairly targeted because his is black and pro-Palestine, the court document said. James’[s] suspension ‘inflamed the hatred’ toward him on the Morningside Heights campus, the lawsuit added. The student activist suggested in his suit that university officials ‘routinely privileges students who support Israel over those who do not, rewarding bad faith behavior and in fact turning a blind eye to violations of the student code by Israel supporters.'” (10/01/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/10/01/us-news/suspended-columbia-student-khymani-james-sues-university/
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18) Ukraine war: Russian troops reach center of Vuhledar
Source: US News & World Report
“Russian troops have reached the centre of Vuhledar, a bastion on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine that had resisted Russian assaults since Moscow’s full-scale invasion, the regional governor of Ukraine’s Donetsk region said on Tuesday. Footage posted to social media showed Russian soldiers waving a flag from atop a bombed-out multi-storey building and unfurling another flag on a metal spire on a roof. Reuters determined the footage matched street patterns of Vuhledar. … Vuhledar has strategic significance because of its high ground and its location near the junction of the two main fronts, in eastern and southern Ukraine. Russian forces reached the outskirts last week and intensified their offensive push in recent days.” (10/01/24)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-10-01/russian-troops-reach-centre-of-ukraines-vuhledar-in-the-east-ukrainian-governor-says
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19) WI: Dems & GOP pick new presidential electors following 2020 “fake electors” debacle
Source: SFGate
“Democrats and Republicans in Wisconsin picked new presidential electors on Tuesday, almost four years after Republicans from the state posed as fake electors for former President Donald Trump. The Democratic and Republican legislative caucuses and legislative candidates met in the state Capitol to select 10 people from each party who will represent voters in the presidential election. The winner of the popular vote in each state determines which party’s electors are sent to the Electoral College, which meets after the election in December to certify the outcome. Ten Wisconsin Republicans posed as fake electors for Trump in 2020, filing paperwork falsely saying he had won the battleground state.” (10/01/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/wisconsin-democrats-republicans-pick-new-19807983.php
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20) UBS Warns of Further US Dollar Decline, Advises Investors to Reduce USD holdings
Source: Bitcoin.com
“Financial giant UBS expects the U.S. dollar to continue to depreciate, advising investors to reevaluate their portfolios. The bank predicts a medium-term decline due to shrinking interest rate advantages and a growing fiscal deficit. With the dollar down 5% since June, UBS recommends strategies like currency hedging and diversifying into other currencies and assets like gold to reduce risk.” (10/01/24)
https://news.bitcoin.com/ubs-warns-of-further-us-dollar-decline-advises-investors-to-reduce-usd-holdings/
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21) Guilty
Source: Consent Factory, Inc.
by CJ Hopkins
[editor’s note: CJ Hopkins has been convicted on appeal of his prior acquittal — Germany allows “double jeopardy” — for criticizing the German regime’s COVID-19 authoritarianism. This is an excerpt from his statement to the court – TLK] “Go ahead. Do whatever you feel you need to do to me. Fine me. Send me to prison. Bankrupt me. Whatever. I will not pretend that I am guilty of anything to make your punishment stop. I will not lie for you. I will not obey you because you threaten me, because you have the power to hurt me. You have that power. I get it. Everyone gets it. The German authorities have the power to punish those who criticize them, who expose their hypocrisy, their lies. We all get the message. But that is not how things work in democratic societies. That is how things work in totalitarian systems. I will not cooperate with that. I refuse to live that way.” (10/01/24)
https://consentfactory.org/2024/10/01/guilty/
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22) The Coming Vindication of the Double-Haters
Source: Reason
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
“At the start of the summer, it looked like the 2024 presidential election might come down to the double-haters. Roughly 25 percent of voters told Pew pollsters they had unfavorable views of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump. (And this was before Trump’s felony conviction and Biden’s disastrous debate performance.) Some of us are longtime double-haters in good standing. But it’s worth putting those numbers in context. In 1988, only 5 percent of voters told pollsters they disapproved of both major party candidates. In 2000, that figure was 6 percent. Even the previous Trump-Biden matchup in 2020 pulled only 13 percent into the double-hater camp. … But after Kamala Harris quickly and dramatically replaced Biden on the Democratic ticket, the double-haters seem to have disappeared into thin air. … Someone will win, and that person must govern—at which point the double-haters will almost certainly be proven right.” (10/24)
https://reason.com/2024/10/01/double-hater-dead-enders/
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23) Yes, Forced Prison Labor Is Slavery
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Mandatory prison work is redistribution, to the state, of the prisoner-slaves’ property rights in their labor. It is economically manipulative insofar as wages, if paid, are set by the state rather than by the market. And it’s an attempt to establish a pattern of society which treats people as property of the state.” (10/01/24)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/18987
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24) "Trump-Washing” US History Endangers Our Freedom
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Kamala Harris seeks to capture the White House with a message built on vaporous ‘positive vibes’ and ‘joy.’ The Harris campaign is bolstering that message by portraying Donald Trump as a deadly peril to democracy unprecedented in American history. The former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who hit that theme as hard as anybody during Trump’s administration, is back in the news after he endorsed Harris for the presidency. Some media coverage is treating Flake’s declaration as another bellwether bailout for Republicans abandoning Trump. But Flake openly endorsed Joe Biden for President in 2020 and spent the last three years as Biden’s U.S. ambassador to Turkey.” (10/01/24)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2024/10/01/trump-washing-u-s-history-endangers-our-freedom/
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25) An Open Society, If You Can Keep It
Source: Liberal Currents
by Adam Gurri
“The liberal ideal is that we ought always to be striving for an open society; a society that is ‘open to ideas,’ ‘open to people,’ and ‘open to change.’ In an open society, if you hate your boss or your job, you can quit. If you hate where you live, you can move somewhere else. Artists do not need to fear offending either the church or the party. Citizens can criticize or even insult political leaders without fearing reprisal. Subcommunities can experiment with different lifestyles freely. Difference is allowed, and dynamism is the rule rather than the exception. … An open society is an achievement for which there is no one path, no formula. Once achieved, however, it must be maintained.” (10/01/24)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/an-open-society-if-you-can-keep-it/
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26) Democracy’s tail winds in Lebanon
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“The assassination of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday achieved a strategic objective Israel had sought for nearly two decades. It diminishes at least temporarily the threat to Israel’s existence posed by Iran and its militant proxies in Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza. Yet the real basis of Israel’s security and regional stability may rest on a different development. Well before Mr. Nasrallah’s demise, the persistent democratic aspirations of Arab and Iranian citizens posed a growing challenge to the theology he and his patrons in Tehran have promoted. ‘Tehran’s pursuits and policies in the region are not ones that citizens throughout the region view positively,’ observed Arab Barometer in July, based on its latest regional survey of Arab opinion. Across the Middle East, it found, few respondents agreed that ‘It is good for the Arab region that Hezbollah is getting involved in regional politics’.” (09/30/24)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2024/0930/Democracy-s-tail-winds-in-Lebanon
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27) Old Man Mountain Weeps
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“The pictures of devastation flooding in are almost too much to bear. Areas like Lake Lure, with its hairpin turns and stunning views of the water, and Chimney Rock, with its small-town country charm, are unrecognizable. East of Asheville, the Swannanoa River claimed hundreds of lives, and idyllic towns like Black Mountain are struggling to recover amid receding waters and wreckage. Their morgues overflow, and their shop sandwich boards are chalked with plaintive cries for cooking gas and clean water. … The community spirit of mountain folk is strong. Their resolve is steeled, and surrounding regions like mine will leap to help their neighbors as we are recovering much faster here down the mountain. People in faraway places are already helping, too. And the good people on the ground will be stronger with the right resources.” (10/01/24)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/old-man-mountain-weeps
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28) Here’s How To Win Undecided Voters
Source: Our Future
by Sulma Arias
“At People’s Action, we believe in the power of our votes that ordinary people, when we put our minds together, can make good decisions for their own lives and for our country. Democracy is our guiding principle. That’s why our volunteers, all across the country, are spending these last few weeks before the election reaching out to undecided voters. Yet I often hear people say their votes don’t matter. ‘Why should I even bother?’ they say when I ask when they plan to vote. I never take the right to raise my voice through democracy for granted. So I always vote, and expect my daughters and loved ones to vote, too. So let me tell you the difference your vote can make. In 2016, many were shocked when Donald Trump won the presidency, even though he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. That’s because Trump won the Electoral College, which awards votes by state in a winner-take-all system, 304 to 227 – well more than the 270 needed to secure the White House.” (10/01/24)
https://ourfuture.org/20241001/heres-how-we-win-undecided-voters
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29) “Here, We Sell Local”: Collectivist or Tribal Protectionism
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“That nationalism is a kind of collectivism or modern-tribalism is illustrated by a current phenomenon: foreigners seem so disliked that, in some people’s views, ‘we’ should neither import from, nor export to, ‘them.’ On the import side, foreigners — foreign producers or their governments or the latter’s taxpayers — are disliked because they produce goods at such a low cost that ‘our’ producers can’t compete. As for ‘our’ greedy merchants who import things that ‘our’ consumers want, all are greedy non-patriots. Since the 17th or 18th century, an important dimension of progress has been to economically and morally smother these emotions, or so one may have thought. On the export side, consider tourism, where a new protectionism seems to be rising.” (10/01/24)
https://www.econlib.org/here-we-sell-only-local-collectivist-or-tribal-protectionism/
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30) The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars: The War on Terror 23 Years Later
Source: TomDispatch
by Karen Greenberg
“September marked the 23rd anniversary of al-Qaeda’s 2001 attacks on the United States, which left nearly 3,000 people dead. For the two decades since then, I’ve been writing, often for TomDispatch, about the ways the American response to 9/11, which quickly came to be known as the Global War on Terror, or GWOT, changed this country. As I’ve explored in several books, in the name of that war, we transformed our institutions, privileged secrecy over transparency and accountability, side-stepped and even violated longstanding laws and constitutional principles, and basically tossed aside many of the norms that had guided us as a nation for two centuries-plus, opening the way for a country now in Trumpian-style difficulty at home. Even today, more than two decades later, the question remains: Will the war on terror ever end?” (10/01/24)
https://tomdispatch.com/will-the-forever-wars-ever-end/
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31) Don’t chicken out of eating lab-made meat. It could change the world.
Source: Washington Post
by Catherine Rampell
“Last Tuesday, your fearless correspondent did some gonzo journalism and tried something that’s fast becoming illegal across red states. That’s right, readers; I ate lab-grown meat. And to answer your inevitable follow-up: Yes, it tasted like chicken. It tasted like chicken because, well, it was chicken. … Rather than promising a lab-grown chicken in every pot, red-state politicians have been picking fights with these foodie futurists — partly to feed the culture wars, partly to shield the existing agricultural industry from competition. Florida and Alabama recently made it a crime to manufacture, distribute or sell lab-cultivated meat within their borders. Upside is challenging the Florida law as unconstitutional. Taking away consumers’ choice to eat these products, including those deemed safe by the FDA, is fusty, anti-freedom and foolish.” (10/01/24)
https://archive.is/9Wbfu
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32) Principles are the Antidote to Politics
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“In his essay ‘Membership,’ contained in his collection The Weight of Glory, C. S. Lewis wrote, ‘A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion: to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other.’ Politics, Lewis explained, is not ‘the natural food of the mind’ but a ‘necessary evil.’ However, too much emphasis on politics has become ‘a new and deadly disease.’ Lewis compared fresh fruit to canned fruit. The latter can be necessary for storage, but Lewis observed he had met people who learned to prefer the tinned fruit to the fresh. Similarly, among us are those who prefer to weigh the promises of candidates as a pathway to societal advancement rather than shore up the foundations of a free society.” (10/01/24)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/principles-are-the-antidote-to-politics
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33) Vance Dossier [sic] Shows Not All Hacks Are Created Equal
Source: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
by Ari Paul
“Ken Klippenstein, an independent reporter operating on Substack and an investigative alum of the Intercept, announced (Substack, 9/26/24) that he had been kicked off Twitter (now rebranded as X). His crime, he explained, stemmed from posting the 271-page official dossier of Republican vice presidential candidate’s J.D. Vance’s campaign vulnerabilities; the US government alleges that the information was leaked through Iranian hacking. In other words, the dossier is a part of the ‘foreign meddling campaign’ of ‘enemy states.’ Klippenstein is not the first reporter to gain access to these papers (Popular Information, 9/9/24), but most of the reporting about this dossier has been on the intrigue revolving around Iranian hacking rather than the content itself.” (10/01/24)
https://fair.org/home/vance-dossier-shows-not-all-hacks-are-created-equal/
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34) Why Liberty Depends on Taxes
Source: Students For Liberty
by Sebastian Ariel Citrea
“With this provocative subtitle, Stephen Holmes and Cass Sunstein begin the debate around a revealing and novel essay in many aspects: ‘The Cost of Rights.’ The authors focus on how our individual liberties depend on state bureaucracy and the money collected by public officials, explaining the relationship between rights and budgetary costs, and seek to establish points of conversation on how to understand the collective organization of a political community. It is a direct critique of libertarian ideas (in the opening pages, they mention thinkers like Robert Nozick, Charles Murray, and David Boaz). Does our freedom depend on taxes, and ultimately on the State? What does it mean that rights have a cost? What are the implications for our cherished individual rights?” (10/01/24)
https://studentsforliberty.org/blog/why-liberty-depends-on-taxes/
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35) Cultivate Solidarity?
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“The last decade or so has seen an increase in nationalism across the globe. From Victor Orban to Christian Nationalists and MAGA fans in the US, nationalism seems to be on the rise. Even amongst those interested in reducing polarization, there are people suggesting that the way forward is to cultivate solidarity amongst co-nationals. Democrats and Republicans, we are told, should see themselves as Americans first, party-members second. While there is some truth to such claims, they too easily morph into a claim that we need some sort of national creed (or ‘creedal religion’) in order to make the country better, ending polarization and the vitriol it brings. I find such claims disturbing. Desires for national solidarity, I would suggest, are ‘nationalism light.'” (10/01/24)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/cultivate-solidarity
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36) Yalta’s Specter
Source: Law & Liberty
by Pawel Markiewicz & Maciej Olchawa
“It may seem like ancient history, but 1944 is eerily similar to 2024. Then as now, Americans chose their president as war raged in Europe. By the time votes were cast in 1944, a large swath of Central and Eastern Europe lay in the hands of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, thanks in large part to bad deals made over the heads of allies in the region. European security was divided into two camps, creating a global great power rivalry that lasted half a century. Like then, the outcome of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war will be decided not only on the battlefield — where Ukraine is seeking to gain a just peace through a show of strength by literally taking the fight to Russia, but also in voting booths across the US and the corridors of power in Washington, DC after the next president defines a foreign policy agenda.” (10/01/24)
https://lawliberty.org/yaltas-specter/
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37) Fake border hawk Kamala Harris and her faux enforcement excuses
Source: New York Post
by Rich Lowry
“Kamala Harris desperately needs to deflect responsibility for the ongoing debacle [sic] at the border, and she thinks she knows just how to do it. Whenever addressing the issue, she’s sure to accuse Donald Trump of killing the Senate border bill that, in her account, would have locked down the border and thrown away the key. ‘It was the strongest border security [sic] bill we’ve seen in decades,’ Harris intoned during her visit to the border late last week. ‘It was endorsed by the border patrol union, and it should be in effect today, producing results in real time — right now for our country.’ Alas, according to Harris, ‘Donald Trump tanked it.'” (09/30/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/09/30/opinion/fake-border-hawk-kamala-harris-faux-enforcement-excuses/
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38) Happy Birthday To … The First Reaganite?
Source: Persuasion
by Richard Aldous
“Former president Jimmy Carter turns 100 today, defying both science and actuarial odds after more than a year in hospice care. His post-presidency is widely regarded as one of the most successful in the modern era, setting a model for a meaningful life after the Oval Office. In contrast, his presidency is still considered, at best, middling. Given that most historians who rank presidents tend to lean left/liberal, the public likely views his term even less favorably. Yet, while Carter may not have been a Lincoln, neither was he a Ford. Notably, his role in laying the foundations for the Reagan Revolution that followed is often overlooked.” (10/01/24)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/happy-birthday-to-the-first-reaganite
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39) What Happened to Tucker Carlson?
Source: The Dispatch
by John McCormack
“What happened to Tucker? It’s a question you hear a lot around Washington, D.C., where the former Fox News star is usually referred to by his first name alone, not because of his fame — like Hillary or Oprah — but because pretty much everyone had some personal contact with him. … he went from being a P.J. O’Rourke libertarian in the 1990s to an Alex Jones nationalist in the 2020s. Why did it happen? There are various theories — fame, ego, power, money, ideology, lunacy. But none is satisfying by itself.” (10/01/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/what-happened-tucker-carlson/
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40) Nukes up: North Korea tests absent US policy
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Daniel Larison
“North Korea may carry out its seventh nuclear test to coincide with the U.S. presidential election, according to a briefing South Korean lawmakers received from their National Intelligence Service (NIS). The last North Korean nuclear weapon test was in September 2017 during the heightened tensions between Washington and Pyongyang that year. A new test would be viewed as a serious provocation in Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo, and it would almost certainly be a warning to the next administration that the U.S. will have to pay more attention to North Korea in the years ahead. If the test does take place this fall, it will be a reminder of the consequences of Trump’s failed North Korea policy and an indictment of the Biden administration’s neglect of this issue.” (10/01/24)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/north-korea-tests-nuke-test/
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41) Six Things to Know as Israel Invades Lebanon
Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by Khury Petersen-Smith
“As of this writing, Israel’s rampage in Lebanon has killed more than a thousand people in two weeks, wounded thousands more (including many maimed for life), and displaced hundreds of thousands. The Israeli onslaught — including the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a 2,000 pound, U.S.-made bomb that killed others too — has mostly garnered approval from American leaders, particularly the president and vice president. Continuing its genocidal assault of Gaza, bombing Yemen for the second time this year, and carrying out aerial bombardment in Lebanon at a speed and on a scale perhaps unseen in the 21st century, Israel launched a ground invasion on Tuesday, one it described as ‘limited’ in scope. … here are six key things to know about the crisis in Lebanon and how it could be resolved.” (10/01/24)
https://fpif.org/six-things-to-know-as-israel-ramps-up-its-assault-on-lebanon/
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42) Destroying What Has Been
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“One thing we should know about [Tim Walz’s] running mate, the current Vice President Kamala Harris, is that in 2020 she asked people to ‘help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.’ In jail for unpeacefully destroying the property of others. A couple of years later, she denied making the appeal … but her tweet doing so remained up on the platform and, regardless, had been screenshot. Commentators sometimes suggest that the future policies of Kamala Harris are mysterious, since she has said or half-said so many different things. What mystery?” (10/01/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/10/01/destroying-what-has-been/
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43) Ukraine Should Rush Back to Istanbul
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ‘Ukrainian Victory Plan’ has received, not unexpectedly, a very tepid reception in Washington. Biden administration officials seem to have received it as less of a ‘comprehensive strategy’ and more of a ‘repackaged request’ for Zelensky’s wish list of weapons and lifting of restrictions on their use. The plan has, reportedly, ‘dispirited Biden’s top aides’ who say that it ‘offers no clear path to a Ukraine victory.’ To succeed, Zelensky’s plan required the fulfillment of two hopes: success in his Kursk invasion into Russian territory and permission to fire long-range Western missiles deeper into Russian territory. The first has now failed and the second failed to materialize. And even if it were still to materialize soon, soon may no longer be soon enough.” (10/01/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2024/09/30/ukraine-should-rush-back-to-istanbul/
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44) Washing Machines Are Good, Actually
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Diogo Costa
“In recent social media posts, some advocates of ‘degrowth’ have suggested a return to washing clothes by hand as a solution to the perceived ills of modern consumerism. Their proposal ignores the hard-won progress of the past century and risks reversing gains in public health, gender equality, and quality of life. The late Hans Rosling, a renowned public health expert, gave a TED Talk in which he described a childhood memory illustrating the transformative power of household technology: ‘My mother explained the magic with this machine the very, very first day. She said, ‘Now, Hans, we have loaded the laundry, the machine will make the work, and now we can go to the library. Because this is the magic: You load the laundry, and what do you get out of the machine? You get books out of the machines.'” (09/30/24)
https://fee.org/articles/washing-machines-are-good-actually/
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45) Can We All Get Along? Yes, By Letting the States Decide
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“At the time of this writing, the outcome of the presidential race is pretty close to being a coin flip. So what I write is not in any way influenced by who will win in November, since that is unknowable. What is a virtual certainty is that on Nov. 6 roughly half the country will be full of joy, and the other half will be in a deep depression likely to last throughout the next four years. Don’t be surprised if the anger and despair of the losing party spills over into prolonged violent protests — especially in the streets of the major cities. Politics in America is now — regrettably — a contact sport. Whoever wins, America will be further ripped down its seams.” (10/01/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2024/10/01/can-we-all-get-along-yes-by-letting-the-states-decide-n2645551
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46) The Real Reason JD Vance is Unqualified to Be Vice President
Source: The Bulwark
by Hannah Yoest
“In the weeks leading up to his Tuesday night debate against Tim Walz, JD Vance has made headlines for a myriad of antagonistic, petty, sideshow, culture-war verbal discharges …. Vance is executing the classic Trumpian playbook of ‘flooding the zone with shit.’ And as a result, he has become remarkably disliked by the electorate. But that doesn’t mean the tactic isn’t working. Any argument against the Trump-Vance ticket based on their inflammatory rhetoric is complicit in obfuscating the core issues. For that reason, it makes sense for Walz to ignore the catnip and make a more serious case against the junior senator from Ohio. For all of Vance’s putrid ideological excretions, the most obvious and basic argument against his election to the vice presidency is that he’s 40 years old and has no substantial leadership experience.” (09/30/24)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-real-reason-jd-vance-is-unqualified
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47) Trump Will Face Justice for Assaulting the Rule of Law Only if He Loses in November
Source: The UnPopulist
by Paul Rosenzweig
“The Donald Trump experience tests our secular faith almost beyond the breaking point. He stands criminally convicted in New York for making hush-money payments to a porn star to affect the outcome of the last election but won’t be sentenced until after the election (if even then). His other criminal trials in Georgia (to thwart the certification of the state election), Florida (for illegally whisking away highly classified documents to Mar-a-Lago), and Washington D.C. (for attempting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power) have been interminably delayed. Trump has managed to convert the idea of due process — the crown jewel of the rule of law — into a weapon of destruction, laying waste to the concept of justice that undergirds our legal system’s structures. And yet there is hope. The rule of law can’t save us from Trump; for that, we must rely on the elections.” (09/30/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-will-face-justice-for-assaulting
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48) Political Renewal, Intellectual Revival
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Bert Olivier
“It is undeniable that we stand at a historical juncture where something new is in the process of being born – preferably not W.B. Yeats’s ‘rough beast, its hour come round at last, [which] Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born’ – but something that truly offers a new beginning, free from the shackles that have arguably bound us in our vaunted ‘democracies’ for so long. To be able to understand what is at stake, there are few thinkers who could match Hannah Arendt as a source of enlightenment.” (09/30/24)\
https://brownstone.org/articles/political-renewal-intellectual-revival/
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49) The Threat of 1,000 Holocausts Puts Everything at Stake
Source: Common Dreams
by Norman Solomon
“Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: ‘A hundred Holocausts’. That was in 1961. Today, with nuclear arsenals vastly larger and more powerful, scientists know that a nuclear exchange would cause ‘nuclear winter.’ And the nearly complete end of agriculture on the planet. Some estimates put the survival rate of humans on Earth at 1 or 2 percent. No longer 100 Holocausts. More than 1,000 Holocausts. If such a nuclear war happens, of course we won’t be around for any retrospective analysis. Or regrets. So, candid introspection is in a category of now or never.” (10/01/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nuclear-holocaust
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50) Can the courts dismantle the imperial bureaucracy in DC?
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“In recent months, the Nine Nazgul (or at least 5 or 6 of them) have seeming delivered major blows to the bureaucratic state and much of its power and practices. At the same time, more and more lower federal people in black robes have also been picking away at the foundations – and the powers – of the FedGov of 2024. In doing so, they are seen by many as attacking both the Executive and the Legislative Branches. That in turn is condemned as being anti-democratic. We here at TPOL disagree somewhat. First, the Judicial Branch is just as corrupt as the other two. Second, most of the black-robes believe in ‘democracy’ and therefore, by definition, not a republic. But we are very much in the minority.” (09/30/24)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2024/09/30/can-the-courts-dismantle-the-imperial-bureaucracy-in-dc/
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51) Zooming In, 10/01/24
Source: The UnPopulist
“Tracking Populist Attitudes Among Americans Going Into the Presidential Election: A Conversation with Tom Shull.” (10/01/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/tracking-populist-attitudes-among
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52) Rising, 10/01/24
Source: The Hill
“Nomiki Konst and Robby Soave preview the upcoming vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and J.D. Vance.” (10/01/24)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/4909187-rising-october-1-2024/
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53) The Bulwark Podcast, 10/01/24
Source: The Bulwark
“People Seriously Think Trump Will Make American Healthy Again? (w/ Lis Smith).” (10/01/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAkh2_PqHuk
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54) Good on Paper, 10/01/24
Source: The Atlantic
“Would You Give Up Your Kidney for $50,000?” (10/01/24)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/10/kidney-organ-donor-pay-compensation/680086
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55) Conflicts of Interest, episode 680
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Israel Invades Lebanon.” (10/01/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-680-israel-invades-lebanon
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56) The Bryan Hyde Show, 10/01/24
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly visit with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. There’s a lot to discuss today and Eric always has a thoughtful take on current happenings.” (10/01/24)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-gf3xd-16edb38
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/01/24
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Begins Invasion of Lebanon, US Sends a ‘Few Thousand’ Troops To Defend Israel, and More.” (10/01/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9SJDGQKjI
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58) Serious Trouble, 09/30/24
Source: Serious Trouble
“To Be On Safe Side, Please Delete All Messages You Send Me.” (09/30/24)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/to-be-on-safe-side-please-delete
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59) Free Talk Live, 09/30/24
Source: Free Talk Live
“Incognito mode isn’t incognito :: Libgen ordered to shut down :: IP Laws :: Telegram handing over data :: Don’t say piracy :: Can the supreme court do whatever it wants? :: Government doesn’t actually do it’s job. Shocking. :: Alaska Independence Party :: Billy the kid lore :: What do democrats and republicans look like? :: 2024-09-30 :: Lori, Penguin.” (09/30/24)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2024-09-30
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60) There’s A Policy For That With Susan Pendergrass, 09/30/24
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Federalism and The Founders’ Vision with Charles C. W. Cooke.” (09/30/24)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/state-and-local-government/federalism-and-the-founders-vision-with-charles-c-w-cooke/
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