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Thomas L. Knapp
Oct 21, 2025, 6:28:44 AM (6 days ago) Oct 21
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0) Year-End Fundraiser Update: Contra Nilsson
1) Appeals court sides with Trump, against America on Portland military occupation
2) Japan: Sanae Takaichi elected as prime minister
3) Trump says threatens new tax hikes on American buyers of Colombian goods
4) China: Xi outlines five-year plan at closed-door Communist Party meeting
5) SCOTUS to consider whether pot smokers have rights
6) DC: Renegade ride-hailing service keeps on running
7) Bongino grandstands on “hunting stand” panic
8) Brazil: Petrobras Gets Green Light to Drill Near Mouth of Amazon River
9) Philippines unveils a new jail for legislators who may face corruption trial
10) US regime to seek rival bids for Artemis 3 moon landing as SpaceX lags, NASA chief says
11) US regime to expedite nuclear-powered subs to Australia that will sit near China’s doorstep
12) SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink Internet satellite
13) Cyprus: Landslide win for pro-EU Turkish Cypriot candidate raises hopes for peace
14) Report: Weiss asked “60 Minutes” senior staffers why the country thinks they’re biased
15) Nigeria: Police Attack Protesters with Chemical Weapons
16) CA: Long-term study finds surprising link between birds and wildfires
17) Amazon Web Services outage takes down major websites
18) France: Sarkozy heading to prison on Tuesday
19) UK: Royals & government face pressure to formally strip Prince Andrew of his titles
20) CA: Vance motorcade hit with shrapnel after artillery “mishap”
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Parallel Polis Reborn: Freeing the Market through Decentralized Technologies
22) Immigration: Worth Losing For
23) The Supreme Court should strike down Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy.” Here’s why.
24) Pentagon’s Foolish Press Policy Might Encourage Tougher Journalism
25) Scenes from a protest
26) Is Ron DeSantis Right About Property Taxes?
27) Continental Association: The Economic Shutdown that Birthed the Union
28) The Case for Remembering the Classics
29) Showered with Lies: Who Should Live and Who Should Die?
30) Zack Polanski plays the populist card
31) In Sweden, seeing both sides with honesty and clarity
32) Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
33) US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now
34) We’ve Lost Our Religion
35) Europe Is At War
36) Government Science Is an Oxymoron
37) Five possible futures for Middle East, from renaissance to rockets
38) The Trump Boom: A Legend in His Own Mind
39) A Warning from Lebanon
40) Teaching Boredom
41) After Trump’s Dark Age, Start Building the World You Want to Live in
42) Liberty, Risk, and Permission to Live Dangerously
43) Are killer robot boats coming to save us?
44) Quantum Vibe, 10/20/25
45) Mamdani’s smiley meeting with terror-linked imam just his latest full embrace of radical Islam
46) The Tariff Vindication That Wasn’t
47) The Supreme Court Challenge to Hawaii’s Gun Laws
48) Vile chats give insight into radicalization of right-wing culture
49) Sparks Flying in Maine’s Senate Race
50) GDP as ideological scam, part 5
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51) Reason Roundtable, 10/20/25
52) Rising, 10/20/25
53) SolutionsWatch, 10/20/25
54) Conflicts of Interest, episode 847
55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/20/25
56) EconTalk, 10/20/25
57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/20/25
58) Free Talk Live, 10/19/25
59) Daniel Davis on The Scott Horton Show
60) LPALive, episode 54
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1) Appeals court sides with Trump, against America on Portland military occupation
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A US appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can deploy National Guard troops [to] Portland, Oregon. The court granted a request from the justice department to halt a judge’s order which blocked the deployment while a legal challenge to Trump’s action plays out. The decision clears the way for some 200 troops to be deployed to protect federal buildings, despite objections from city and state officials, who say intervention in Portland is not needed. Portland is one of several other mostly Democratic-led cities Trump has ordered National Guard troops into, as part of a crackdown on what he describes as crime, including in Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, California. The ruling by the San Francisco-based appeal’s court allows the troops to be deployed while legal challenges continue in court.” (10/20/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c201k3qky9lo
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2) Japan: Sanae Takaichi elected as prime minister
Source: CNN
“Staunch conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister by parliament on Tuesday, in a landmark moment for the historically patriarchal country where both politics and workplaces are dominated by older men. … 64-year old Takaichi, who is a heavy metal drummer and motorcycle enthusiast, grew up in Nara near Osaka. Her arrival at the pinnacle of Japanese politics tops a remarkable rise, from TV presenter to flag bearer of traditional and nationalist ideals. A protege of assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Takaichi has laid claim to his conservative legacy. She becomes the fourth prime minister to hold office since he stepped down in 2020, reflecting the political deadlock in the world’s fourth largest economy.” (10/20/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/asia/japan-female-prime-minister-sanae-takaichi-intl-hnk
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3) Trump says threatens new tax hikes on American buyers of Colombian goods
Source: New York Post
“U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday night he would raise tariffs on [American buyers of goods from] Colombia and stop all payments to the South American nation, escalating a feud that stems from the U.S. military’s strikes on vessels allegedly transporting drugs in the region. Earlier in the day, Trump called Colombian President Gustavo Petro ‘an illegal drug leader,’ while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said U.S. forces had attacked a vessel associated with a Colombian rebel group. Petro said the boat belonged to a ‘humble family,’ not a rebel group, while his government called Trump’s remarks offensive. Trump’s latest comments marked a new low in relations between Washington and Bogota, which Trump accuses of being complicit in the illicit drug trade. ‘They don’t have a fight against drugs — they make drugs,’ Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.” (10/20/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/us-news/trump-says-us-will-increase-tariffs-on-colombia-as-drug-trade-feud-escalates/
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4) China: Xi outlines five-year plan at closed-door Communist Party meeting
Source: SFGate
“Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its goals for the country over the next five years. A short dispatch from the official Xinhua News Agency said Xi ‘expounded on the Party leadership’s draft proposals’ for the next five-year plan for national economic and social development, which will cover 2026-2030. It did not provide any details. The latest plan comes at a time of growing challenges and uncertainty for China, including a persistently sluggish economy, foreign restrictions on its access to the latest technologies and high tariffs imposed on its exports to the United States. A Xinhua editorial said that the plan should focus on ‘high-quality’ development and technological innovation, while also ensuring national security is protected and the benefits of economic growth are spread fairly and more widely.” (10/20/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/chinese-leader-xi-jinping-outlines-5-year-plan-at-21109402.php
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5) SCOTUS to consider whether pot smokers have rights
Source: Seattle Times
“The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights. President Donald Trump’s administration asked the justices to revive a case against a Texas man charged with a felony because he allegedly had a gun in his home and acknowledged being a regular pot user. The Justice Department appealed after a lower court largely struck down a law that bars people who use any illegal drugs from having guns.” [editor’s note: The Second Amendment doesn’t say “the right of the people who don’t use cannabis;” case closed – TLK] (10/20/25)
https://archive.is/AEKmb
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6) DC: Renegade ride-hailing service keeps on running
Source: Washington Post
“In court on Sept. 30, faced with incarceration, Joshua Sear told lawyers for the District they had won. He would comply with a court order to stop operating an unlicensed ride-hailing service in the city. But his mode of cooperating was a new tactic to keep his Empower app running — within city limits he would offer drivers free use of the software without any service agreement. … Sear said drivers who work exclusively in D.C. won’t be charged at all. Drivers who cross into other jurisdictions will only be charged for activity outside the city. The company contends that it merely sells reservation software to drivers who set rates for their own individual ride-hailing businesses. But that argument has failed in court, and the judge who nearly jailed Sear last month, Shana Frost Matini of D.C.’s Superior Court, wasn’t convinced by this one either.” (10/20/25)
https://archive.is/8JJDL
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7) Bongino grandstands on “hunting stand” panic
Source: Fox News
“The FBI is using all ‘forensic tools’ at its disposal to probe a recently discovered hunting stand overlooking President Donald Trump’s Air Force One exit area at the Palm Beach International Airport, Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Monday. ‘[Secret Service was] very concerned,’ Bongino said, telling ‘Fox & Friends’ the agency discovered the hunting stand during a security sweep. FBI Director Kash Patel ordered ‘an immediate response’ once informed of the situation. ‘I believe we had our plane flown down there. This hunting stand was appropriately dismantled. It’s being flown to our lab,’ Bongino continued. ‘I believe it’s there right now, and all the forensic tools we have, from digital tools to biometric tools, are all going to be applied to try to find out who put this up there and why.'” (10/20/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bongino-details-fbis-zero-fail-mission-after-hunting-stand-found-near-trumps-air-force-one-exit-area
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8) Brazil: Petrobras Gets Green Light to Drill Near Mouth of Amazon River
Source: US News & World Report
“Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama greenlit state-run oil company Petrobras to conduct exploratory research by drilling wells in the Foz do Amazonas region, near the mouth of the Amazon river, the firm said in a statement on Monday. The drilling is expected to begin immediately and last around five months, Petrobras said, adding that for the moment they will not be producing any oil. The area, in deep waters off the shore of the Amazonian state of Amapa, is considered Petrobras’ most promising oil frontier, sharing geology with nearby Guyana, where Exxon Mobil is developing huge fields. Petrobras is aiming to obtain more geological information through the exploratory research and assess whether there is oil and gas in the area on a commercial scale, it said.” (10/20/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-10-20/brazils-petrobras-gets-green-light-to-drill-near-mouth-of-amazon-river
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9) Philippines unveils a new jail for legislators who may face corruption trial
Source: SFGate
“The Philippines has unveiled a new jail that may soon accommodate numerous powerful legislators, public works officials and others implicated in a massive corruption scandal involving flood control projects, a top official said Monday. The jail, which could hold up to 800 detainees in metropolitan Manila, was shown to the media by Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla in the latest bid by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration to quell public outrage over the scandal. The anomalies have linked dozens of Congress members, government engineers and construction company owners and sparked street protests in one of Asia’s most flood-prone countries. Remulla estimated that about 200 officials and other suspects could be indicted by the Sandiganbayan, a special anti-graft court for government officials. That led to the decision to build a new jail to detain suspects who could be facing months or years of trial, he said.” (10/20/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/philippines-unveils-a-new-jail-for-legislators-21109547.php
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10) US regime to seek rival bids for Artemis 3 moon landing as SpaceX lags, NASA chief says
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Nasa’s top official on Monday said the US space agency was opening up the contract for its Artemis 3 astronaut moon landing to compete against billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the mission’s current contractor, which was running late. ‘I’m in the process of opening that contract up. I think we’ll see companies like Blue [Origin] get involved and maybe others,’ Nasa administrator Sean Duffy, who also serves as US transport secretary, told Fox News’[s] Fox & Friends programme. Blue Origin is a SpaceX rival founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, former president and CEO of Amazon. … Since 2021, SpaceX has had a Nasa contract, now worth US$4.4 billion, to land humans on the moon by 2027 using its Starship rocket. The increasingly delayed target date is mostly aimed at beating China’s 2030 moon landing goal. The mission would be the first human lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.” (10/20/25)
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329715/us-seek-rival-bids-artemis-3-moon-landing-spacex-lags-nasa-chief-says
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11) US regime to expedite nuclear-powered subs to Australia that will sit near China’s doorstep
Source: Fox News
“The U.S. wants to fast-track outfitting Australia with nuclear submarines under the trilateral agreement between the U.S., Australia and the U.K. to beef up Australia’s submarine force aimed at countering Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific. In the agreement, known as AUKUS, the U.S. will sell up to five Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia — slated for delivery as soon as 2032. But Trump told reporters that he is eyeing a faster timeline, when asked if he was interested in speeding up the process. ‘Well we are doing that, yeah … we have them moving very, very quickly,’ Trump told reporters Monday while meeting with Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, at the White House.” (10/20/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-expedite-nuclear-powered-subs-australia-sit-near-chinas-doorstep
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12) SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink Internet satellite
Source: The Verge
“On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, tying the previous annual launch record with more than two full months to go in the year. Of those 10k satellites, only about 8,608 are currently operational, according to Jonathan McDowell’s satellite tracker calculations. Starlink satellites have a lifespan of roughly five years before they’re intentionally de-orbited to burn up in the atmosphere. The first Starlink prototypes launched in February 2018 ahead of its 2021 commercial service offering. SpaceX has approval to launch 12,000 satellites — with over 30,000 planned — to bring fast, low-latency internet to the world.” (10/20/25)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802509/starlink-launches-10000th-internet-satellite
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13) Cyprus: Landslide win for pro-EU Turkish Cypriot candidate raises hopes for peace
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Turkish Cypriots have handed the pro-European leftwing leader Tufan Erhürman a resounding victory in a presidential poll likely to inject renewed vigour into the deadlocked peace process on Cyprus. Erhürman, 55, who campaigned on reviving stalled UN-brokered talks to reunify the island, defeated the incumbent nationalist, Ersin Tatar, by nearly 27 percentage points – a landslide win that surprised even his most ardent supporters. Tatar, whose five-year tenure had been dominated by the rallying cry of ‘a two-state solution’ to the Cyprus problem, picked up 35.8% of the vote against 62.8% for his opponent. In contrast to the moderate Erhürman, the hard-right nationalist had been openly backed by Ankara.” (10/19/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/19/turkish-cypriots-vote-in-pivotal-presidential-election-that-could-revive-peace-talks
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14) Report: Weiss asked “60 Minutes” senior staffers why the country thinks they’re biased
Source: New York Post
“During a private meeting last week, Bari Weiss startled ’60 Minutes’ staffers by asking why Americans view the show as biased — another sign of the new CBS News chief’s aggressive approach to reshaping the network, according to a report. Weiss ‘surprised senior staff … when she asked a provocative question: Why does the country think you’re biased?’ the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing three people who attended the Midtown Manhattan session. The exchange was met with ‘stunned awkwardness,’ the paper said. The question came less than two weeks into Weiss’[s] tenure as editor in chief — and underscored the upheaval inside the nation’s most-watched newsmagazine as hundreds of CBS News employees gauge their new boss’s unorthodox style.” (10/20/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/media/bari-weiss-asked-60-minutes-staffers-why-the-country-thinks-theyre-biased/
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15) Nigeria: Police Attack Protesters with Chemical Weapons
Source: US News & World Report
“Nigerian police fired teargas on Monday and occupied major roads in the capital Abuja to stop demonstrations called to protest the continued detention of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, who is on trial facing terrorism charges. Kanu, who holds British citizenship, leads the banned Indigenous People of Biafra Movement (IPOB) that advocates for the secession of southeastern Nigeria, where the majority belong to the Igbo ethnic group. In central Abuja, armed police patrolled with water cannon and armoured trucks, and fired volleys of teargas where protesters tried to gather. In other parts of the city, police were supported by armed soldiers in a show of force.” (10/20/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-20/nigerian-police-use-teargas-to-quash-protests-over-separatist-leaders-detention
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16) CA: Long-term study finds surprising link between birds and wildfires
Source: SFGate
“Across several national parks in the Sierra Nevada, researchers found that the populations of some bird species grew rapidly after fires and remained higher even decades later. Scientists already knew that some bird species could thrive in burn scars, dubbing them ‘post-fire specialists.’ But a new study, published Oct. 9 in the journal Fire Ecology, provided a rare look at the longer-term impacts of fires on a group of common bird species. The researchers only investigated low- to moderate-intensity burns, such as those associated with prescribed fire. Previous research suggests high-intensity megafires, fueled by climate change and fire suppression, can threaten birds. ‘It was really exciting to us to see how rapid and how enduring the response of birds was to these fires in these national parks,’ Chris Ray, a research ecologist for the Petaluma-based nonprofit, the Institute for Bird Populations, and the study’s lead author, told SFGATE.” (10/20/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/what-happens-birds-california-fire-21104875.php
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17) Amazon Web Services outage takes down major websites
Source: CNBC
“Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites. AWS cited an ‘operational issue’ affecting ‘multiple services’ and said it was ‘working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery,’ in an update at 2:01 a.m. PDT. Nearly 70 of its own services are affected. Shortly afterward, AWS said it was seeing ‘significant signs of recovery.'” (10/20/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-down-major-websites.html
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18) France: Sarkozy heading to prison on Tuesday
Source: Politico
“Nicolas Sarkozy will become the first former French president in modern history to step into a prison cell on Tuesday, the former president indicated over the weekend. Sarkozy — once a star figure of French conservatism — was sentenced to five years in prison last month for allegedly having permitted his ‘close collaborators’ and ‘unofficial intermediaries’ to attempt to obtain financial backing from Moammar Gadhafi’s regime in Libya in exchange for economic and diplomatic favors as he prepared for his first presidential campaign ahead of 2007. … It’s unclear how long Sarkozy will remain incarcerated. Once behind bars, he will be able to request a sentence adjustment, which could allow him to serve his sentence differently, for example at home with an electronic bracelet.” (10/20/25)
https://archive.is/knuCG
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19) UK: Royals & government face pressure to formally strip Prince Andrew of his titles
Source: SFGate
“He won’t call himself a duke anymore, but that is not enough for many of Prince Andrew’s critics. Buckingham Palace and the British government were under pressure Monday to formally strip Prince Andrew of his princely title and sumptuous home after new revelations about his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. After discussions with his elder brother King Charles III, Andrew agreed on Friday to stop using titles including Duke of York. … Andrew’s statement relinquishing some of his royal titles came after emails emerged showing he had remained in contact with Epstein longer than he previously admitted, and days before publication of a posthumous memoir by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleged she had sex with Andrew when she was 17.” (10/20/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/uk-royals-and-government-face-pressure-to-21109555.php
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20) CA: Vance motorcade hit with shrapnel after artillery “mishap”
Source: Raw Story
“A motorcycle that is part of Vice President JD Vance’s security detail and a California Highway Patrol car were hit with shrapnel on Saturday after a 155-millimeter shell exploded over Interstate 5 during a live-fire demonstration for the Marines’ 250th anniversary on Saturday, according to a new report. Officials told The New York Times that the explosion was a ‘mishap’ and that no officers were injured. California Gov. Gavin Newsom had ordered the freeway to be closed ahead of the celebration after reports emerged that the Trump administration was planning to fire live ordnance at the event.” [editor’s note: I can attest from experience that a 155mm shell unexpectedly exploding overhead can be rather startling – TLK] (10/19/25)
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-2674213342/
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21) Parallel Polis Reborn: Freeing the Market through Decentralized Technologies
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Michael S. Milano
“In a surveilled society where property rights are undermined and truth is distorted, freedom demands building alternatives beyond the regime’s reach. Within the Soviet bloc, Václav Benda advocated for the creation of an invisible society as a form of resistance. To combat the atomization of the citizenry, he called for the construction of parallel structures. … Through the Charter 77 movement, Benda’s vision came to life. Together with Václav Havel, fellow dissident and future president of Czechoslovakia, he emphasized the power of ‘living in truth’ — the simple yet radical act of refusing to participate in the regime’s lies.” (10/20/25)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/parallel-polis-reborn-freeing-the-market-through-decentralized-technologies/
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22) Immigration: Worth Losing For
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“I fully understand that open borders is extraordinarily unpopular. So unpopular that aggressive support for open borders would make Democratic victory nigh-impossible even if they did everything else right in voters’ eyes. But since every political victor endorses some unpopular views, Democrats can definitely be much more pro-immigration than the rest of the population and still win. Indeed, if Democrats would move to the median position on every social issue except for immigration, they would buy themselves extra breathing room to be radical on immigration. Which, on its merits, they totally should.” (10/20/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/immigration-worth-losing-for
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23) The Supreme Court should strike down Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy.” Here’s why.
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
by Will Creeley
“Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar, a First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s ban on ‘conversion therapy’ — that is, counseling intended to change their gender identity or attraction to someone of the same sex. The case has attracted widespread attention because conversion therapy is deeply controversial. But the Court’s decision is poised to have significant consequences far beyond the practice — so to protect free expression, the Court should find the law unconstitutional.” (10/20/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/supreme-court-should-strike-down-colorados-ban-conversion-therapy-heres-why
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24) Pentagon’s Foolish Press Policy Might Encourage Tougher Journalism
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“The military establishment’s efforts to quash leaks could encourage them instead.” (10/20/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/20/pentagons-foolish-press-policy-might-encourage-tougher-journalism/?nab=1
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25) Scenes from a protest
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“As you probably know by now, despite the dire warnings from Republicans, there was no violence, in Nashville or anywhere else. From what I’ve gleaned from news coverage, there were less than 20 arrests among the 5 to 8 million protesters, and one of those was an Alabama woman who was unnecessarily, aggressively arrested by three cops for wearing an inflatable penis costume. Police departments in cities like New York, Austin, and San Diego even publicly pointed out that they’d made zero arrests. I saw no support for Hamas, no violent extremism, and no support for terrorism. It was, as the kids say, overwhelmingly normie. … The only thing I saw all weekend resembling a threat was the deranged AI-generated video our definitely-not-bitter president posted in which he donned a crown, climbed into a fighter plane, and bombed his own citizens with liquid shit.” (10/20/25)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/scenes-from-a-protest
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26) Is Ron DeSantis Right About Property Taxes?
Source: Town Hall
by Scott Morefield
“Property taxes have sparked heated debate for decades. Given the class warfare element inherent in the tax itself, it’s no surprise. If you don’t own real estate, you probably love property taxes because, well, the kinds of taxes you don’t pay are the best taxes of all. But if you do own real estate, you know firsthand what a pain in the ass they can be. Imagine owning a home for decades and paying off your mortgage only to watch your local city council or county commission (or both!) continually raise your property taxes to the point that you’re paying as much as or more than your mortgage once was. You mistakenly thought your home was yours, but it was a naive dream.” [editor’s note: If you rent, you also pay property taxes — what, you thought the landlord ate that cost? – TLK] (10/20/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/10/20/is-ron-desantis-right-about-property-taxes-n2665179
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27) Continental Association: The Economic Shutdown that Birthed the Union
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“‘We are not such asses as to let them ride us as they please.’ That was the fiery attitude of a 19-year-old Alexander Hamilton in 1774 – and it perfectly explained the principle behind the economic shutdown the colonies were implementing in response to the Coercive Acts: they refused to be bullied into submission. Today, a ‘shutdown’ is a political game designed to manipulate the people. But the original American shutdown was a weapon of revolution. This is the story of the Continental Association.” (10/20/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/20/continental-association-the-economic-shutdown-that-birthed-the-union/
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28) The Case for Remembering the Classics
Source: The Dispatch
by Megan Dent
“The discipline called classics — the study of ancient Rome and Greece, and their civilizations and languages — is an area of study rife with theoretical arguments and often abstract ideas, given that its languages and cultures live only in memory. Often viewed as a vestige of the elite, and most often taught to future presidents and prime ministers in expensive private schools, classics is, by definition, Western-centric. And it has come under heavy scrutiny from certain academics over the last few decades. One recent example of that scrutiny is a volume called Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics, published by Routledge last year.” (10/20/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/classics-ideology-education-critical-accessibility/
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29) Showered with Lies: Who Should Live and Who Should Die?
Source: TomDispatch
by Gerald Markowitz & David Rosner
“The Senate Finance Committee hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was explosive. The Secretary of Health and Human Services was accused of ‘reckless disregard for science and the truth’, and senators from both parties were openly hostile as they questioned him extensively on his vaccine policies, as well as the firing of scientific advisory board members and agency heads and their replacement with ideologically driven anti-vaccine supporters. During that more than three-hour session, he was called a charlatan and a liar, and he returned the insults. The distrust of his honesty and integrity was palpable. The public health community already mistrusted his views on vaccines and the role of science. There was, however, some modest hope that he would at least follow through on his views on the environmental causes of chronic disease and the food industry’s disastrous impact on obesity and diabetes, as well as other diseases.” (10/19/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/showered-with-lies/
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30) Zack Polanski plays the populist card
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kristian Niemietz
“For Trumpians, tariffs have become an all-purpose tool, which supposedly achieves multiple policy objectives all at once. Tariffs are presented as an easy way to raise revenue (‘a tax on a foreign country’). They are also presented as a tool to discourage imports, and thereby stimulate domestic production. Thirdly, tariffs are also presented as a tool to get foreign governments to do what Trump wants them to do. In my ideal world, tariffs would not exist. But this article is not about my ideal world. My issue with the above logic is that it does not work on its own terms. Tariffs could, in principle, achieve one of the above aims. They cannot really achieve two of them, and they certainly cannot achieve all three.” (10/20/25)
https://fee.org/articles/zack-polanski-plays-the-populist-card/
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31) In Sweden, seeing both sides with honesty and clarity
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by Mark Sappenfield
“From the United States to Sweden, immigration has become the Western world’s biggest political fault line, dividing societies and fueling anger and mistrust. That fault line runs directly through Tam Hussein. Mr. Hussein is Swedish, born and raised in a suburb of Stockholm, and like many Swedes, he has looked on the changes in his homeland during the past 10 years with shock. Organized crime and gun violence exploded after the country took in some 160,000 migrants in 2015, and he says he sometimes has trouble fathoming how much his country has changed. ‘When I grew up, there was hardly any crime apart from bicycle-stealing, and that was scandalous,’ he says. ‘When you see [what’s going on today], it does upset you. That’s not how Sweden should be.'” (10/20/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editors/2025/1020/immigration-muslim-europe-denmark-sweden
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32) Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod
“‘The Spanish came to America and had sex with every single woman.’ ‘Sex is gay’ ‘Sex? It was rape.’ ‘Epic’ This text exchange is part of the cache of messages sent in a Telegram group chat by Young Republicans. In these messages, exposed by POLITICO reporters Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo, hundreds of racial and homophobic slurs are used by leading Young Republicans, including a Kansas state senator, along with joking references to Hitler and the Holocaust. A lot has already been said and written about the deeply racist, misogynistic, and anti-LGBTQ+ exchanges from this group chat. But I wanted to focus on this exchange because I think it helps highlight some crucial aspects of the sexual politics of the new young right.” (10/20/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-rape-is-epic-no-fatties-young-right-wing-men-are-obsessed-with-male-power-and-male-bodies/
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33) US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s so silly how American politics is just nonstop fake revolutions now. Millions flooded the US streets for the ‘No Kings’ protests over the weekend, to oppose a monarchy which does not exist, without making a single tangible demand. Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People held up some signs saying the president is orange and that if Kamala were president they would be at brunch, and then went home. The whole thing was just one big pep rally for the Democratic Party, designed to accomplish nothing beyond getting American liberals excited about the prospect of someday voting for Gavin Newsom.” (10/20/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/20/us-politics-is-just-nonstop-fake-revolutions-now/
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34) We’ve Lost Our Religion
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Ben Franklin reminds us that a good religion shouldn’t need government authorities to force people to follow it. This is one of the Founders’ primary justifications for keeping church and state separate. What’s as interesting in the American context is that the same justification applies to the laws governing a people. The higher the quality of the law, the less it needs enforcers. Of course, some people leave their religions just as some people break the law. But that doesn’t mean Ben Franklin was wrong. He’s not talking about unanimity. He’s talking about the kind of value that makes a religion sustainable.” (10/20/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/weve-lost-our-religion
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35) Europe Is At War
Source: Foreign Policy
by Michael Kimmage
“Russia’s intensifying incursions into European airspace are often described as acts of hybrid war. The implication is that while conventional war rages in Ukraine, with the Russian military directly targeting Ukrainian civilians, Russia’s war in Europe remains in a gray zone. It is psychological shadowboxing intended to degrade Europe’s motivation and resolve. But this distinction is misleading. It is better to think of the war in Ukraine as a single war, with different levels of participation. If nothing else, Russia’s airspace violations show that Moscow makes no sharp distinction between Europe and Ukraine. Analysts must abandon this distinction if they hope to understand Russia’s thinking, and European states must abandon this distinction if they hope to gain lasting advantage in the war.” (10/20/25)
https://archive.is/0Am4z
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36) Government Science Is an Oxymoron
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Lipton Matthews
“Donald Trump has been criticized heavily for cutting federal funding of science. Opponents claim that his decision threatens to undermine American innovation, weaken the nation’s economy, and diminish its global influence. Yet the assumption behind these complaints is rarely examined. It is taken for granted that the government must play a central role in supporting science if society is to progress. A closer inspection of historical experience, economic reasoning, and the actual dynamics of research reveals that this assumption is false. Innovation has flourished without state patronage, and government support often politicizes science, crowds out private initiative, and undermines the very progress it is supposed to promote.” (10/20/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-science-oxymoron
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37) Five possible futures for Middle East, from renaissance to rockets
Source: Fox News
by Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis (USA, ret.)
“The guns have gone quiet over Gaza — for now. After years of darkness, the region has entered a new phase shaped by President Donald Trump’s decisive leadership and the landmark 20‑point Gaza peace deal. Hostages have come home, Hamas has been driven underground, and an American‑backed peace architecture has emerged where fire once raged. For the first time in decades, Israelis and Arabs alike can glimpse something extraordinary: a path forward. Yet history reminds us that in the Middle East, every dawn carries both promise and peril. Which road will this new dawn take? 1) The golden horizon — prosperity through peace … 2) The Phoenix of Persia — Iran rises again … 3) The mirage of coexistence — Hamas rebrands and regroups … 40 The fragmented peace — a cold stability … 5. The renaissance scenario — a new Arab‑Israeli compact …” [editor’s note: I have listed the subtitles; click the link to read the arguments – SAT] (10/19/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/five-possible-futures-middle-east-from-renaissance-rockets
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38) The Trump Boom: A Legend in His Own Mind
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“When I was growing up in Chicago, a local AM radio station had a disc jockey named Larry Lujack. The introduction to his show called him ‘a legend in his own mind.’ This keeps coming to mind with Trump’s boasting about things, big and small. The difference is that Lujack was being sarcastic. If we can get past Trump’s boasting about ending wars that didn’t exist, or he had no involvement with, we have the story of the Trump boom. As Trump tells it, the US economy is the envy of the world. He heard it from no less of an authority than the king of Saudi Arabia himself. As Trump tells it, we have $17 trillion coming into the country. No one other than Trump seems to have any idea what he is talking about. That would be four full years’ worth of non-residential investment for reality fans.” (10/20/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/the-trump-boom-a-legend-in-his-own-mind/
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39) A Warning from Lebanon
Source: Antiwar.com
by Craig Murray
“In not quite one year since the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, Israel has broken the ceasefire 4,600 times. It has killed hundreds of people, including infants, demolished tens of thousands of homes and annexed five areas of Lebanon. It was supposed to withdraw completely. This situation is being replicated in detail in Gaza. In particular, the ceasefire in Lebanon is ‘guaranteed’ by the USA and France and overseen by an international committee referred to as ‘the Mechanism.’ The ‘Mechanism’ is chaired by the USA. Accordingly the guarantors have refused to acknowledge a single breach of the ceasefire because the US-controlled ‘Mechanism’ calls them counter-terrorist operations aimed at disarming Hezbollah.” (10/20/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/craig_murray/2025/10/19/a-warning-from-lebanon/
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40) Teaching Boredom
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jeb Smith
“Our industrial nation utilized compulsory government schools to train generations of docile, hardworking, obedient, tax-paying employees. Industrialist John D. Rockefeller said, ‘I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.’ The emergence of capitalists as the most influential segment of society enabled them to remake man into a herd animal — a docile, obedient, tamed worker. They are training us to be bored out of our minds.” (10/20/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/teaching-boredom
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41) After Trump’s Dark Age, Start Building the World You Want to Live in
Source: OtherWords
by Richard Sclove
“President Donald Trump recently followed through on his threat to use the federal government shutdown as an occasion to fire government workers on a mass scale. Shutdowns are temporary, yet the effects of this one seem likely to be permanent. It’s a kind of limbo, a foretaste of the old government being phased out, but with little clue what might replace it. Such things have happened before in history. While imprisoned in 1930 for opposing Mussolini’s fascism, the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously wrote, ‘The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.’ L.S. Stavrianos’[s] 1976 book The Promise of the Coming Dark Age now seems dated, but raises a provocative question for our time: Can something new and better evolve from these dark times?” (10/19/25)
https://otherwords.org/rebuilding-hope-in-a-time-of-darkness/
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42) Liberty, Risk, and Permission to Live Dangerously
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller
“When my eldest son was four years old, he climbed on top of a batting cage at a park in New Jersey. Several bystanders noticed and began to freak out. I called my son down and told him: ‘I’m fine with what you are doing, but you’re making other people nervous.’ I said this because he was a capable climber and because I judged the various risks acceptable. Yet, the fear of others was at play and could have resulted in government child services intervention. Though my experience ended peacefully, the Meitiv family had multiple run-ins with child protective services for allowing their 10-year-old and 6-year-old to walk to a playground unaccompanied by an adult. Their clashes with safetyism and law enforcement helped launch the ‘Free Range’ parenting movement.” (10/20/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/liberty-risk-and-permission-to-live-dangerously/
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43) Are killer robot boats coming to save us?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Stavroula Pabst
“Sinking warships with ‘kamikaze’-like strikes, attacking critical infrastructure, and ‘swarming’ together to overwhelm enemy defenses, Ukraine’s Magura drone boats have had success countering Russian naval forces in the Black Sea — despite its Navy’s markedly limited resources. These autonomous maritime vessels are having a moment, and the Pentagon and weapons industry alike want in on it. Flush with cash from venture capitalists and, increasingly, the DoD, which has awarded hundreds of millions in contracts to this end, defense-tech start-ups, including Saronic, BlackSea, and Blue Water Autonomy, have been building a new generation of myriad autonomous and semi-autonomous maritime vessels.” (10/20/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/autonomous-ships-military/
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44) Quantum Vibe, 10/20/25
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (10/20/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2557
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45) Mamdani’s smiley meeting with terror-linked imam just his latest full embrace of radical Islam
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“It’s hard to believe that 24 years after 9/11, New York City is on the brink of voting in a Uganda-born Islamist mayor who campaigned last week with an unindicted co-conspirator [sic] in the first World Trade Center terrorist attack that killed six New Yorkers. Three weeks before the election, polling says that the runaway front-runner, the perpetually smiling democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, 33, will be this city’s first Muslim mayor. And not just any Muslim, but an unapologetic Islamo-Marxist who appears to have been carefully constructed for electoral success in the same political laboratory as Barack Obama. Mamdani is so cocky that he boasted on social media about his Friday visit to radical Imam Siraj Wahhaj at his Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque, despite Wahhaj’s links to terrorists, and his openly homophobic rants.” [editor’s note: The supposed “link” is that some of the participants visited the mosque he runs. Additional evidence? Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada – TLK] (10/19/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/19/opinion/miranda-devine-zohran-mamdanis-smiley-meeting-with-terror-linked-imam-is-just-his-latest-full-embrace-of-radical-islam/
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46) The Tariff Vindication That Wasn’t
Source: Law & Liberty
by David Hebert
“Matthew Lynn has written a powerful essay in which he chastises the economics profession for being so clearly wrong when it came to the effects of Donald Trump’s tariffs. According to him, when President Trump imposed sweeping and massive tariffs in April, the ‘mainstream economic establishment’ predicted inflation would surge, supply chains would crash, and the economy would be plunged into a deep recession. … Six months later, Lynn argues, none of this came to pass. … For our sins, Lynn insists that we economists must repent, acknowledge our mistake, and address why we ‘big thinkers got this one wrong.’ At a time when experts have been called into question on many fronts, it’s a compelling indictment. There’s just one problem. It’s built on a foundation of selective reading, convenient timing, and a fundamental misunderstanding of what economists actually said and what the evidence actually shows.” (10/20/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-tariff-vindication-that-wasnt/
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47) The Supreme Court Challenge to Hawaii’s Gun Laws
Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren
“It is no surprise Hawaii, with some of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws, now finds itself before the Supreme Court, seeking to defend its position against a challenge that could reshape many states’ approach to firearms. Hawaii has forced on its citizens one of the lowest rates of gun ownership via some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. Let’s see if the latest challenge brings the Aloha state just a bit closer to the broader gun freedoms most Americans enjoy as a right.” (10/20/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-supreme-court-challenge-to-hawaiis-gun-laws/
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48) Vile chats give insight into radicalization of right-wing culture
Source: Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut
“Vice President JD Vance – the guy who falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio – was upset after Politico reported ‘leaders of Young Republican groups’ shockingly ‘referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.’ However, Vance wasn’t noticeably outraged by the 251 times these GOP activists used vile terms or one’s proclaimed admiration for Adolf Hitler. He instead was upset by the ‘pearl clutching’ criticism of the chat group. … none of this edge-lording is surprising in a party that has swapped Ronald Reagan’s uplifting ‘City on a Hill’ slogan for ‘mass deportation’ placards.” (10/19/25)
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/10/19/vile-chats-give-insight-into-radicalization-of-right-wing-culture/
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49) Sparks Flying in Maine’s Senate Race
Source: The American Prospect
by Gabrielle Gurley
“Susan Collins remains forever unconcerned. One of the Republicans’ most reliable meme generators isn’t fretting over Janet Mills’s entry into the race for Maine’s Senate seat. She has Graham Platner to thank for this moment of Zen. The oyster farmer and Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran turned the governor’s waltz into the race against Collins into a 2026 Democratic primary battle. Phenomenal crowds have shown up (eight months before the election) to hear from one of the most charismatic newcomers to surge into Maine politics in recent memory. While most Maine Democrats would rather see off Mills (who, should she win, would be 79 years old when she took office in 2027) into a comfortable retirement, they are more sanguine than national Democrats are about the development that pits two appealing candidates against each other.” [editor’s note: Collins is no prize, but putting Mills in that seat would be declaring my homeland state a complete disaster for all things liberty – SAT] (10/20/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/10/20/2025-10-20-sparks-flying-maine-senate-race/
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50) GDP as ideological scam, part 5
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“In our discussion of GDP to this point, we have seen that it embeds and re-transmits deep descriptive errors, that it doesn’t attempt a distinction between qualitatively very different forms of output: pollution, nuclear weapons, and financial speculation are as valuable to GDPists as housing, food, or medicine. We have seen that this absurd and wildly self-destructive feature of our politics is ignored by both parties. GDP’s dramatic misrepresentation of social reality is tacitly accepted. But GDP is not just misrepresenting or misdescribing; it is actively shaping our policy preferences and decision-making because its flawed model is being treated as a direct proxy for positive social change and progress.” (10/19/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/gdp-as-ideological-scam-part-5
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Reason Roundtable, 10/20/25
Source: Reason
"Does Argentina's Bailout Prove Libertarians Wrong?" (10/20/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/20/does-argentinas-bailout-prove-libertarians-wrong/?nab=1
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52) Rising, 10/20/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers his radar on President Trump’s decision to hold off on delivering Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine despite his recent frustrations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.” (10/20/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5563336-rising-october-20-2025/
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53) SolutionsWatch, 10/20/25
Source: The Corbett Report
“Self-Publishing.” (10/20/25)
https://corbettreport.com/self-publishing-solutionswatch/
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54) Conflicts of Interest, episode 847
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Will Trump Let Little Marco Make a Big War?” (10/20/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-847-will-trump-let-little-marco-make-a-big-war
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55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/20/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Fury at Dems Goes Nuclear as Crushing New Shutdown Poll Hits.” (10/20/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/201972/trump-fury-dems-goes-nuclear-crushing-new-shutdown-poll-hits
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56) EconTalk, 10/20/25
Source: EconTalk
“Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner).” (10/20/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/twenty-years-of-freakonomics-with-stephen-dubner/
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/20/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Launches Wave of Heavy Airstrikes on Gaza, Trump Urges Zelensky To Take Deal, and More.” (10/20/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nul0q_-xZ28
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58) Free Talk Live, 10/19/25
Source: Free Talk Live
“No Kings is a hypocritical protest :: Lefties pretend they care about due process :: At what point does Trump become a dictator? :: Kilmar Abrego Garcia case and the horrors of no duce process in El Salvador :: US tyranny :: Chat GPT logs as evidence in court :: Caller has been noticing Flock cams in Michigan :: Evanston, Illinois took down their Flock cams and the private company put the cams back up for fed money! … Hosts: Bonnie, Mr. Penguin, Rich E Rich.” (10/19/25)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2025-10-19
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59) Daniel Davis on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Daniel Davis on Ukraine, Gaza, the Taliban and Venezuela.” (10/19/25)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/10-17-25-daniel-davis-on-ukraine-gaza-the-taliban-and-venezuela/
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60) LPALive, episode 54
Source: LP Alliance
“The LPCO Convention Recap.” (10/19/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSc56haZ6oY
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1) Appeals court sides with Trump, against America on Portland military occupation
2) Japan: Sanae Takaichi elected as prime minister
3) Trump says threatens new tax hikes on American buyers of Colombian goods
4) China: Xi outlines five-year plan at closed-door Communist Party meeting
5) SCOTUS to consider whether pot smokers have rights
6) DC: Renegade ride-hailing service keeps on running
7) Bongino grandstands on “hunting stand” panic
8) Brazil: Petrobras Gets Green Light to Drill Near Mouth of Amazon River
9) Philippines unveils a new jail for legislators who may face corruption trial
10) US regime to seek rival bids for Artemis 3 moon landing as SpaceX lags, NASA chief says
11) US regime to expedite nuclear-powered subs to Australia that will sit near China’s doorstep
12) SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink Internet satellite
13) Cyprus: Landslide win for pro-EU Turkish Cypriot candidate raises hopes for peace
14) Report: Weiss asked “60 Minutes” senior staffers why the country thinks they’re biased
15) Nigeria: Police Attack Protesters with Chemical Weapons
16) CA: Long-term study finds surprising link between birds and wildfires
17) Amazon Web Services outage takes down major websites
18) France: Sarkozy heading to prison on Tuesday
19) UK: Royals & government face pressure to formally strip Prince Andrew of his titles
20) CA: Vance motorcade hit with shrapnel after artillery “mishap”
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Parallel Polis Reborn: Freeing the Market through Decentralized Technologies
22) Immigration: Worth Losing For
23) The Supreme Court should strike down Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy.” Here’s why.
24) Pentagon’s Foolish Press Policy Might Encourage Tougher Journalism
25) Scenes from a protest
26) Is Ron DeSantis Right About Property Taxes?
27) Continental Association: The Economic Shutdown that Birthed the Union
28) The Case for Remembering the Classics
29) Showered with Lies: Who Should Live and Who Should Die?
30) Zack Polanski plays the populist card
31) In Sweden, seeing both sides with honesty and clarity
32) Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
33) US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now
34) We’ve Lost Our Religion
35) Europe Is At War
36) Government Science Is an Oxymoron
37) Five possible futures for Middle East, from renaissance to rockets
38) The Trump Boom: A Legend in His Own Mind
39) A Warning from Lebanon
40) Teaching Boredom
41) After Trump’s Dark Age, Start Building the World You Want to Live in
42) Liberty, Risk, and Permission to Live Dangerously
43) Are killer robot boats coming to save us?
44) Quantum Vibe, 10/20/25
45) Mamdani’s smiley meeting with terror-linked imam just his latest full embrace of radical Islam
46) The Tariff Vindication That Wasn’t
47) The Supreme Court Challenge to Hawaii’s Gun Laws
48) Vile chats give insight into radicalization of right-wing culture
49) Sparks Flying in Maine’s Senate Race
50) GDP as ideological scam, part 5
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56) EconTalk, 10/20/25
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1) Appeals court sides with Trump, against America on Portland military occupation
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A US appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can deploy National Guard troops [to] Portland, Oregon. The court granted a request from the justice department to halt a judge’s order which blocked the deployment while a legal challenge to Trump’s action plays out. The decision clears the way for some 200 troops to be deployed to protect federal buildings, despite objections from city and state officials, who say intervention in Portland is not needed. Portland is one of several other mostly Democratic-led cities Trump has ordered National Guard troops into, as part of a crackdown on what he describes as crime, including in Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, California. The ruling by the San Francisco-based appeal’s court allows the troops to be deployed while legal challenges continue in court.” (10/20/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c201k3qky9lo
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2) Japan: Sanae Takaichi elected as prime minister
Source: CNN
“Staunch conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister by parliament on Tuesday, in a landmark moment for the historically patriarchal country where both politics and workplaces are dominated by older men. … 64-year old Takaichi, who is a heavy metal drummer and motorcycle enthusiast, grew up in Nara near Osaka. Her arrival at the pinnacle of Japanese politics tops a remarkable rise, from TV presenter to flag bearer of traditional and nationalist ideals. A protege of assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Takaichi has laid claim to his conservative legacy. She becomes the fourth prime minister to hold office since he stepped down in 2020, reflecting the political deadlock in the world’s fourth largest economy.” (10/20/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/asia/japan-female-prime-minister-sanae-takaichi-intl-hnk
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3) Trump says threatens new tax hikes on American buyers of Colombian goods
Source: New York Post
“U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday night he would raise tariffs on [American buyers of goods from] Colombia and stop all payments to the South American nation, escalating a feud that stems from the U.S. military’s strikes on vessels allegedly transporting drugs in the region. Earlier in the day, Trump called Colombian President Gustavo Petro ‘an illegal drug leader,’ while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said U.S. forces had attacked a vessel associated with a Colombian rebel group. Petro said the boat belonged to a ‘humble family,’ not a rebel group, while his government called Trump’s remarks offensive. Trump’s latest comments marked a new low in relations between Washington and Bogota, which Trump accuses of being complicit in the illicit drug trade. ‘They don’t have a fight against drugs — they make drugs,’ Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.” (10/20/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/us-news/trump-says-us-will-increase-tariffs-on-colombia-as-drug-trade-feud-escalates/
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4) China: Xi outlines five-year plan at closed-door Communist Party meeting
Source: SFGate
“Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its goals for the country over the next five years. A short dispatch from the official Xinhua News Agency said Xi ‘expounded on the Party leadership’s draft proposals’ for the next five-year plan for national economic and social development, which will cover 2026-2030. It did not provide any details. The latest plan comes at a time of growing challenges and uncertainty for China, including a persistently sluggish economy, foreign restrictions on its access to the latest technologies and high tariffs imposed on its exports to the United States. A Xinhua editorial said that the plan should focus on ‘high-quality’ development and technological innovation, while also ensuring national security is protected and the benefits of economic growth are spread fairly and more widely.” (10/20/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/chinese-leader-xi-jinping-outlines-5-year-plan-at-21109402.php
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5) SCOTUS to consider whether pot smokers have rights
Source: Seattle Times
“The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights. President Donald Trump’s administration asked the justices to revive a case against a Texas man charged with a felony because he allegedly had a gun in his home and acknowledged being a regular pot user. The Justice Department appealed after a lower court largely struck down a law that bars people who use any illegal drugs from having guns.” [editor’s note: The Second Amendment doesn’t say “the right of the people who don’t use cannabis;” case closed – TLK] (10/20/25)
https://archive.is/AEKmb
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6) DC: Renegade ride-hailing service keeps on running
Source: Washington Post
“In court on Sept. 30, faced with incarceration, Joshua Sear told lawyers for the District they had won. He would comply with a court order to stop operating an unlicensed ride-hailing service in the city. But his mode of cooperating was a new tactic to keep his Empower app running — within city limits he would offer drivers free use of the software without any service agreement. … Sear said drivers who work exclusively in D.C. won’t be charged at all. Drivers who cross into other jurisdictions will only be charged for activity outside the city. The company contends that it merely sells reservation software to drivers who set rates for their own individual ride-hailing businesses. But that argument has failed in court, and the judge who nearly jailed Sear last month, Shana Frost Matini of D.C.’s Superior Court, wasn’t convinced by this one either.” (10/20/25)
https://archive.is/8JJDL
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7) Bongino grandstands on “hunting stand” panic
Source: Fox News
“The FBI is using all ‘forensic tools’ at its disposal to probe a recently discovered hunting stand overlooking President Donald Trump’s Air Force One exit area at the Palm Beach International Airport, Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Monday. ‘[Secret Service was] very concerned,’ Bongino said, telling ‘Fox & Friends’ the agency discovered the hunting stand during a security sweep. FBI Director Kash Patel ordered ‘an immediate response’ once informed of the situation. ‘I believe we had our plane flown down there. This hunting stand was appropriately dismantled. It’s being flown to our lab,’ Bongino continued. ‘I believe it’s there right now, and all the forensic tools we have, from digital tools to biometric tools, are all going to be applied to try to find out who put this up there and why.'” (10/20/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bongino-details-fbis-zero-fail-mission-after-hunting-stand-found-near-trumps-air-force-one-exit-area
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8) Brazil: Petrobras Gets Green Light to Drill Near Mouth of Amazon River
Source: US News & World Report
“Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama greenlit state-run oil company Petrobras to conduct exploratory research by drilling wells in the Foz do Amazonas region, near the mouth of the Amazon river, the firm said in a statement on Monday. The drilling is expected to begin immediately and last around five months, Petrobras said, adding that for the moment they will not be producing any oil. The area, in deep waters off the shore of the Amazonian state of Amapa, is considered Petrobras’ most promising oil frontier, sharing geology with nearby Guyana, where Exxon Mobil is developing huge fields. Petrobras is aiming to obtain more geological information through the exploratory research and assess whether there is oil and gas in the area on a commercial scale, it said.” (10/20/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-10-20/brazils-petrobras-gets-green-light-to-drill-near-mouth-of-amazon-river
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9) Philippines unveils a new jail for legislators who may face corruption trial
Source: SFGate
“The Philippines has unveiled a new jail that may soon accommodate numerous powerful legislators, public works officials and others implicated in a massive corruption scandal involving flood control projects, a top official said Monday. The jail, which could hold up to 800 detainees in metropolitan Manila, was shown to the media by Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla in the latest bid by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration to quell public outrage over the scandal. The anomalies have linked dozens of Congress members, government engineers and construction company owners and sparked street protests in one of Asia’s most flood-prone countries. Remulla estimated that about 200 officials and other suspects could be indicted by the Sandiganbayan, a special anti-graft court for government officials. That led to the decision to build a new jail to detain suspects who could be facing months or years of trial, he said.” (10/20/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/philippines-unveils-a-new-jail-for-legislators-21109547.php
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10) US regime to seek rival bids for Artemis 3 moon landing as SpaceX lags, NASA chief says
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Nasa’s top official on Monday said the US space agency was opening up the contract for its Artemis 3 astronaut moon landing to compete against billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the mission’s current contractor, which was running late. ‘I’m in the process of opening that contract up. I think we’ll see companies like Blue [Origin] get involved and maybe others,’ Nasa administrator Sean Duffy, who also serves as US transport secretary, told Fox News’[s] Fox & Friends programme. Blue Origin is a SpaceX rival founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, former president and CEO of Amazon. … Since 2021, SpaceX has had a Nasa contract, now worth US$4.4 billion, to land humans on the moon by 2027 using its Starship rocket. The increasingly delayed target date is mostly aimed at beating China’s 2030 moon landing goal. The mission would be the first human lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.” (10/20/25)
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329715/us-seek-rival-bids-artemis-3-moon-landing-spacex-lags-nasa-chief-says
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11) US regime to expedite nuclear-powered subs to Australia that will sit near China’s doorstep
Source: Fox News
“The U.S. wants to fast-track outfitting Australia with nuclear submarines under the trilateral agreement between the U.S., Australia and the U.K. to beef up Australia’s submarine force aimed at countering Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific. In the agreement, known as AUKUS, the U.S. will sell up to five Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia — slated for delivery as soon as 2032. But Trump told reporters that he is eyeing a faster timeline, when asked if he was interested in speeding up the process. ‘Well we are doing that, yeah … we have them moving very, very quickly,’ Trump told reporters Monday while meeting with Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, at the White House.” (10/20/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-expedite-nuclear-powered-subs-australia-sit-near-chinas-doorstep
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12) SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink Internet satellite
Source: The Verge
“On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, tying the previous annual launch record with more than two full months to go in the year. Of those 10k satellites, only about 8,608 are currently operational, according to Jonathan McDowell’s satellite tracker calculations. Starlink satellites have a lifespan of roughly five years before they’re intentionally de-orbited to burn up in the atmosphere. The first Starlink prototypes launched in February 2018 ahead of its 2021 commercial service offering. SpaceX has approval to launch 12,000 satellites — with over 30,000 planned — to bring fast, low-latency internet to the world.” (10/20/25)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802509/starlink-launches-10000th-internet-satellite
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13) Cyprus: Landslide win for pro-EU Turkish Cypriot candidate raises hopes for peace
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Turkish Cypriots have handed the pro-European leftwing leader Tufan Erhürman a resounding victory in a presidential poll likely to inject renewed vigour into the deadlocked peace process on Cyprus. Erhürman, 55, who campaigned on reviving stalled UN-brokered talks to reunify the island, defeated the incumbent nationalist, Ersin Tatar, by nearly 27 percentage points – a landslide win that surprised even his most ardent supporters. Tatar, whose five-year tenure had been dominated by the rallying cry of ‘a two-state solution’ to the Cyprus problem, picked up 35.8% of the vote against 62.8% for his opponent. In contrast to the moderate Erhürman, the hard-right nationalist had been openly backed by Ankara.” (10/19/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/19/turkish-cypriots-vote-in-pivotal-presidential-election-that-could-revive-peace-talks
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14) Report: Weiss asked “60 Minutes” senior staffers why the country thinks they’re biased
Source: New York Post
“During a private meeting last week, Bari Weiss startled ’60 Minutes’ staffers by asking why Americans view the show as biased — another sign of the new CBS News chief’s aggressive approach to reshaping the network, according to a report. Weiss ‘surprised senior staff … when she asked a provocative question: Why does the country think you’re biased?’ the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing three people who attended the Midtown Manhattan session. The exchange was met with ‘stunned awkwardness,’ the paper said. The question came less than two weeks into Weiss’[s] tenure as editor in chief — and underscored the upheaval inside the nation’s most-watched newsmagazine as hundreds of CBS News employees gauge their new boss’s unorthodox style.” (10/20/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/media/bari-weiss-asked-60-minutes-staffers-why-the-country-thinks-theyre-biased/
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15) Nigeria: Police Attack Protesters with Chemical Weapons
Source: US News & World Report
“Nigerian police fired teargas on Monday and occupied major roads in the capital Abuja to stop demonstrations called to protest the continued detention of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, who is on trial facing terrorism charges. Kanu, who holds British citizenship, leads the banned Indigenous People of Biafra Movement (IPOB) that advocates for the secession of southeastern Nigeria, where the majority belong to the Igbo ethnic group. In central Abuja, armed police patrolled with water cannon and armoured trucks, and fired volleys of teargas where protesters tried to gather. In other parts of the city, police were supported by armed soldiers in a show of force.” (10/20/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-20/nigerian-police-use-teargas-to-quash-protests-over-separatist-leaders-detention
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16) CA: Long-term study finds surprising link between birds and wildfires
Source: SFGate
“Across several national parks in the Sierra Nevada, researchers found that the populations of some bird species grew rapidly after fires and remained higher even decades later. Scientists already knew that some bird species could thrive in burn scars, dubbing them ‘post-fire specialists.’ But a new study, published Oct. 9 in the journal Fire Ecology, provided a rare look at the longer-term impacts of fires on a group of common bird species. The researchers only investigated low- to moderate-intensity burns, such as those associated with prescribed fire. Previous research suggests high-intensity megafires, fueled by climate change and fire suppression, can threaten birds. ‘It was really exciting to us to see how rapid and how enduring the response of birds was to these fires in these national parks,’ Chris Ray, a research ecologist for the Petaluma-based nonprofit, the Institute for Bird Populations, and the study’s lead author, told SFGATE.” (10/20/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/what-happens-birds-california-fire-21104875.php
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17) Amazon Web Services outage takes down major websites
Source: CNBC
“Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites. AWS cited an ‘operational issue’ affecting ‘multiple services’ and said it was ‘working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery,’ in an update at 2:01 a.m. PDT. Nearly 70 of its own services are affected. Shortly afterward, AWS said it was seeing ‘significant signs of recovery.'” (10/20/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-down-major-websites.html
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18) France: Sarkozy heading to prison on Tuesday
Source: Politico
“Nicolas Sarkozy will become the first former French president in modern history to step into a prison cell on Tuesday, the former president indicated over the weekend. Sarkozy — once a star figure of French conservatism — was sentenced to five years in prison last month for allegedly having permitted his ‘close collaborators’ and ‘unofficial intermediaries’ to attempt to obtain financial backing from Moammar Gadhafi’s regime in Libya in exchange for economic and diplomatic favors as he prepared for his first presidential campaign ahead of 2007. … It’s unclear how long Sarkozy will remain incarcerated. Once behind bars, he will be able to request a sentence adjustment, which could allow him to serve his sentence differently, for example at home with an electronic bracelet.” (10/20/25)
https://archive.is/knuCG
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19) UK: Royals & government face pressure to formally strip Prince Andrew of his titles
Source: SFGate
“He won’t call himself a duke anymore, but that is not enough for many of Prince Andrew’s critics. Buckingham Palace and the British government were under pressure Monday to formally strip Prince Andrew of his princely title and sumptuous home after new revelations about his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. After discussions with his elder brother King Charles III, Andrew agreed on Friday to stop using titles including Duke of York. … Andrew’s statement relinquishing some of his royal titles came after emails emerged showing he had remained in contact with Epstein longer than he previously admitted, and days before publication of a posthumous memoir by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleged she had sex with Andrew when she was 17.” (10/20/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/uk-royals-and-government-face-pressure-to-21109555.php
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20) CA: Vance motorcade hit with shrapnel after artillery “mishap”
Source: Raw Story
“A motorcycle that is part of Vice President JD Vance’s security detail and a California Highway Patrol car were hit with shrapnel on Saturday after a 155-millimeter shell exploded over Interstate 5 during a live-fire demonstration for the Marines’ 250th anniversary on Saturday, according to a new report. Officials told The New York Times that the explosion was a ‘mishap’ and that no officers were injured. California Gov. Gavin Newsom had ordered the freeway to be closed ahead of the celebration after reports emerged that the Trump administration was planning to fire live ordnance at the event.” [editor’s note: I can attest from experience that a 155mm shell unexpectedly exploding overhead can be rather startling – TLK] (10/19/25)
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-2674213342/
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21) Parallel Polis Reborn: Freeing the Market through Decentralized Technologies
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Michael S. Milano
“In a surveilled society where property rights are undermined and truth is distorted, freedom demands building alternatives beyond the regime’s reach. Within the Soviet bloc, Václav Benda advocated for the creation of an invisible society as a form of resistance. To combat the atomization of the citizenry, he called for the construction of parallel structures. … Through the Charter 77 movement, Benda’s vision came to life. Together with Václav Havel, fellow dissident and future president of Czechoslovakia, he emphasized the power of ‘living in truth’ — the simple yet radical act of refusing to participate in the regime’s lies.” (10/20/25)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/parallel-polis-reborn-freeing-the-market-through-decentralized-technologies/
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22) Immigration: Worth Losing For
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“I fully understand that open borders is extraordinarily unpopular. So unpopular that aggressive support for open borders would make Democratic victory nigh-impossible even if they did everything else right in voters’ eyes. But since every political victor endorses some unpopular views, Democrats can definitely be much more pro-immigration than the rest of the population and still win. Indeed, if Democrats would move to the median position on every social issue except for immigration, they would buy themselves extra breathing room to be radical on immigration. Which, on its merits, they totally should.” (10/20/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/immigration-worth-losing-for
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23) The Supreme Court should strike down Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy.” Here’s why.
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
by Will Creeley
“Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar, a First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s ban on ‘conversion therapy’ — that is, counseling intended to change their gender identity or attraction to someone of the same sex. The case has attracted widespread attention because conversion therapy is deeply controversial. But the Court’s decision is poised to have significant consequences far beyond the practice — so to protect free expression, the Court should find the law unconstitutional.” (10/20/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/supreme-court-should-strike-down-colorados-ban-conversion-therapy-heres-why
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24) Pentagon’s Foolish Press Policy Might Encourage Tougher Journalism
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“The military establishment’s efforts to quash leaks could encourage them instead.” (10/20/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/20/pentagons-foolish-press-policy-might-encourage-tougher-journalism/?nab=1
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25) Scenes from a protest
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“As you probably know by now, despite the dire warnings from Republicans, there was no violence, in Nashville or anywhere else. From what I’ve gleaned from news coverage, there were less than 20 arrests among the 5 to 8 million protesters, and one of those was an Alabama woman who was unnecessarily, aggressively arrested by three cops for wearing an inflatable penis costume. Police departments in cities like New York, Austin, and San Diego even publicly pointed out that they’d made zero arrests. I saw no support for Hamas, no violent extremism, and no support for terrorism. It was, as the kids say, overwhelmingly normie. … The only thing I saw all weekend resembling a threat was the deranged AI-generated video our definitely-not-bitter president posted in which he donned a crown, climbed into a fighter plane, and bombed his own citizens with liquid shit.” (10/20/25)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/scenes-from-a-protest
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26) Is Ron DeSantis Right About Property Taxes?
Source: Town Hall
by Scott Morefield
“Property taxes have sparked heated debate for decades. Given the class warfare element inherent in the tax itself, it’s no surprise. If you don’t own real estate, you probably love property taxes because, well, the kinds of taxes you don’t pay are the best taxes of all. But if you do own real estate, you know firsthand what a pain in the ass they can be. Imagine owning a home for decades and paying off your mortgage only to watch your local city council or county commission (or both!) continually raise your property taxes to the point that you’re paying as much as or more than your mortgage once was. You mistakenly thought your home was yours, but it was a naive dream.” [editor’s note: If you rent, you also pay property taxes — what, you thought the landlord ate that cost? – TLK] (10/20/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/10/20/is-ron-desantis-right-about-property-taxes-n2665179
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27) Continental Association: The Economic Shutdown that Birthed the Union
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“‘We are not such asses as to let them ride us as they please.’ That was the fiery attitude of a 19-year-old Alexander Hamilton in 1774 – and it perfectly explained the principle behind the economic shutdown the colonies were implementing in response to the Coercive Acts: they refused to be bullied into submission. Today, a ‘shutdown’ is a political game designed to manipulate the people. But the original American shutdown was a weapon of revolution. This is the story of the Continental Association.” (10/20/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/20/continental-association-the-economic-shutdown-that-birthed-the-union/
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28) The Case for Remembering the Classics
Source: The Dispatch
by Megan Dent
“The discipline called classics — the study of ancient Rome and Greece, and their civilizations and languages — is an area of study rife with theoretical arguments and often abstract ideas, given that its languages and cultures live only in memory. Often viewed as a vestige of the elite, and most often taught to future presidents and prime ministers in expensive private schools, classics is, by definition, Western-centric. And it has come under heavy scrutiny from certain academics over the last few decades. One recent example of that scrutiny is a volume called Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics, published by Routledge last year.” (10/20/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/classics-ideology-education-critical-accessibility/
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29) Showered with Lies: Who Should Live and Who Should Die?
Source: TomDispatch
by Gerald Markowitz & David Rosner
“The Senate Finance Committee hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was explosive. The Secretary of Health and Human Services was accused of ‘reckless disregard for science and the truth’, and senators from both parties were openly hostile as they questioned him extensively on his vaccine policies, as well as the firing of scientific advisory board members and agency heads and their replacement with ideologically driven anti-vaccine supporters. During that more than three-hour session, he was called a charlatan and a liar, and he returned the insults. The distrust of his honesty and integrity was palpable. The public health community already mistrusted his views on vaccines and the role of science. There was, however, some modest hope that he would at least follow through on his views on the environmental causes of chronic disease and the food industry’s disastrous impact on obesity and diabetes, as well as other diseases.” (10/19/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/showered-with-lies/
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30) Zack Polanski plays the populist card
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kristian Niemietz
“For Trumpians, tariffs have become an all-purpose tool, which supposedly achieves multiple policy objectives all at once. Tariffs are presented as an easy way to raise revenue (‘a tax on a foreign country’). They are also presented as a tool to discourage imports, and thereby stimulate domestic production. Thirdly, tariffs are also presented as a tool to get foreign governments to do what Trump wants them to do. In my ideal world, tariffs would not exist. But this article is not about my ideal world. My issue with the above logic is that it does not work on its own terms. Tariffs could, in principle, achieve one of the above aims. They cannot really achieve two of them, and they certainly cannot achieve all three.” (10/20/25)
https://fee.org/articles/zack-polanski-plays-the-populist-card/
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31) In Sweden, seeing both sides with honesty and clarity
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by Mark Sappenfield
“From the United States to Sweden, immigration has become the Western world’s biggest political fault line, dividing societies and fueling anger and mistrust. That fault line runs directly through Tam Hussein. Mr. Hussein is Swedish, born and raised in a suburb of Stockholm, and like many Swedes, he has looked on the changes in his homeland during the past 10 years with shock. Organized crime and gun violence exploded after the country took in some 160,000 migrants in 2015, and he says he sometimes has trouble fathoming how much his country has changed. ‘When I grew up, there was hardly any crime apart from bicycle-stealing, and that was scandalous,’ he says. ‘When you see [what’s going on today], it does upset you. That’s not how Sweden should be.'” (10/20/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editors/2025/1020/immigration-muslim-europe-denmark-sweden
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32) Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod
“‘The Spanish came to America and had sex with every single woman.’ ‘Sex is gay’ ‘Sex? It was rape.’ ‘Epic’ This text exchange is part of the cache of messages sent in a Telegram group chat by Young Republicans. In these messages, exposed by POLITICO reporters Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo, hundreds of racial and homophobic slurs are used by leading Young Republicans, including a Kansas state senator, along with joking references to Hitler and the Holocaust. A lot has already been said and written about the deeply racist, misogynistic, and anti-LGBTQ+ exchanges from this group chat. But I wanted to focus on this exchange because I think it helps highlight some crucial aspects of the sexual politics of the new young right.” (10/20/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-rape-is-epic-no-fatties-young-right-wing-men-are-obsessed-with-male-power-and-male-bodies/
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33) US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s so silly how American politics is just nonstop fake revolutions now. Millions flooded the US streets for the ‘No Kings’ protests over the weekend, to oppose a monarchy which does not exist, without making a single tangible demand. Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People held up some signs saying the president is orange and that if Kamala were president they would be at brunch, and then went home. The whole thing was just one big pep rally for the Democratic Party, designed to accomplish nothing beyond getting American liberals excited about the prospect of someday voting for Gavin Newsom.” (10/20/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/20/us-politics-is-just-nonstop-fake-revolutions-now/
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34) We’ve Lost Our Religion
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Ben Franklin reminds us that a good religion shouldn’t need government authorities to force people to follow it. This is one of the Founders’ primary justifications for keeping church and state separate. What’s as interesting in the American context is that the same justification applies to the laws governing a people. The higher the quality of the law, the less it needs enforcers. Of course, some people leave their religions just as some people break the law. But that doesn’t mean Ben Franklin was wrong. He’s not talking about unanimity. He’s talking about the kind of value that makes a religion sustainable.” (10/20/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/weve-lost-our-religion
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35) Europe Is At War
Source: Foreign Policy
by Michael Kimmage
“Russia’s intensifying incursions into European airspace are often described as acts of hybrid war. The implication is that while conventional war rages in Ukraine, with the Russian military directly targeting Ukrainian civilians, Russia’s war in Europe remains in a gray zone. It is psychological shadowboxing intended to degrade Europe’s motivation and resolve. But this distinction is misleading. It is better to think of the war in Ukraine as a single war, with different levels of participation. If nothing else, Russia’s airspace violations show that Moscow makes no sharp distinction between Europe and Ukraine. Analysts must abandon this distinction if they hope to understand Russia’s thinking, and European states must abandon this distinction if they hope to gain lasting advantage in the war.” (10/20/25)
https://archive.is/0Am4z
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36) Government Science Is an Oxymoron
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Lipton Matthews
“Donald Trump has been criticized heavily for cutting federal funding of science. Opponents claim that his decision threatens to undermine American innovation, weaken the nation’s economy, and diminish its global influence. Yet the assumption behind these complaints is rarely examined. It is taken for granted that the government must play a central role in supporting science if society is to progress. A closer inspection of historical experience, economic reasoning, and the actual dynamics of research reveals that this assumption is false. Innovation has flourished without state patronage, and government support often politicizes science, crowds out private initiative, and undermines the very progress it is supposed to promote.” (10/20/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-science-oxymoron
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37) Five possible futures for Middle East, from renaissance to rockets
Source: Fox News
by Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis (USA, ret.)
“The guns have gone quiet over Gaza — for now. After years of darkness, the region has entered a new phase shaped by President Donald Trump’s decisive leadership and the landmark 20‑point Gaza peace deal. Hostages have come home, Hamas has been driven underground, and an American‑backed peace architecture has emerged where fire once raged. For the first time in decades, Israelis and Arabs alike can glimpse something extraordinary: a path forward. Yet history reminds us that in the Middle East, every dawn carries both promise and peril. Which road will this new dawn take? 1) The golden horizon — prosperity through peace … 2) The Phoenix of Persia — Iran rises again … 3) The mirage of coexistence — Hamas rebrands and regroups … 40 The fragmented peace — a cold stability … 5. The renaissance scenario — a new Arab‑Israeli compact …” [editor’s note: I have listed the subtitles; click the link to read the arguments – SAT] (10/19/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/five-possible-futures-middle-east-from-renaissance-rockets
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38) The Trump Boom: A Legend in His Own Mind
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“When I was growing up in Chicago, a local AM radio station had a disc jockey named Larry Lujack. The introduction to his show called him ‘a legend in his own mind.’ This keeps coming to mind with Trump’s boasting about things, big and small. The difference is that Lujack was being sarcastic. If we can get past Trump’s boasting about ending wars that didn’t exist, or he had no involvement with, we have the story of the Trump boom. As Trump tells it, the US economy is the envy of the world. He heard it from no less of an authority than the king of Saudi Arabia himself. As Trump tells it, we have $17 trillion coming into the country. No one other than Trump seems to have any idea what he is talking about. That would be four full years’ worth of non-residential investment for reality fans.” (10/20/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/the-trump-boom-a-legend-in-his-own-mind/
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39) A Warning from Lebanon
Source: Antiwar.com
by Craig Murray
“In not quite one year since the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, Israel has broken the ceasefire 4,600 times. It has killed hundreds of people, including infants, demolished tens of thousands of homes and annexed five areas of Lebanon. It was supposed to withdraw completely. This situation is being replicated in detail in Gaza. In particular, the ceasefire in Lebanon is ‘guaranteed’ by the USA and France and overseen by an international committee referred to as ‘the Mechanism.’ The ‘Mechanism’ is chaired by the USA. Accordingly the guarantors have refused to acknowledge a single breach of the ceasefire because the US-controlled ‘Mechanism’ calls them counter-terrorist operations aimed at disarming Hezbollah.” (10/20/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/craig_murray/2025/10/19/a-warning-from-lebanon/
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40) Teaching Boredom
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jeb Smith
“Our industrial nation utilized compulsory government schools to train generations of docile, hardworking, obedient, tax-paying employees. Industrialist John D. Rockefeller said, ‘I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.’ The emergence of capitalists as the most influential segment of society enabled them to remake man into a herd animal — a docile, obedient, tamed worker. They are training us to be bored out of our minds.” (10/20/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/teaching-boredom
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41) After Trump’s Dark Age, Start Building the World You Want to Live in
Source: OtherWords
by Richard Sclove
“President Donald Trump recently followed through on his threat to use the federal government shutdown as an occasion to fire government workers on a mass scale. Shutdowns are temporary, yet the effects of this one seem likely to be permanent. It’s a kind of limbo, a foretaste of the old government being phased out, but with little clue what might replace it. Such things have happened before in history. While imprisoned in 1930 for opposing Mussolini’s fascism, the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously wrote, ‘The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.’ L.S. Stavrianos’[s] 1976 book The Promise of the Coming Dark Age now seems dated, but raises a provocative question for our time: Can something new and better evolve from these dark times?” (10/19/25)
https://otherwords.org/rebuilding-hope-in-a-time-of-darkness/
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42) Liberty, Risk, and Permission to Live Dangerously
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller
“When my eldest son was four years old, he climbed on top of a batting cage at a park in New Jersey. Several bystanders noticed and began to freak out. I called my son down and told him: ‘I’m fine with what you are doing, but you’re making other people nervous.’ I said this because he was a capable climber and because I judged the various risks acceptable. Yet, the fear of others was at play and could have resulted in government child services intervention. Though my experience ended peacefully, the Meitiv family had multiple run-ins with child protective services for allowing their 10-year-old and 6-year-old to walk to a playground unaccompanied by an adult. Their clashes with safetyism and law enforcement helped launch the ‘Free Range’ parenting movement.” (10/20/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/liberty-risk-and-permission-to-live-dangerously/
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43) Are killer robot boats coming to save us?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Stavroula Pabst
“Sinking warships with ‘kamikaze’-like strikes, attacking critical infrastructure, and ‘swarming’ together to overwhelm enemy defenses, Ukraine’s Magura drone boats have had success countering Russian naval forces in the Black Sea — despite its Navy’s markedly limited resources. These autonomous maritime vessels are having a moment, and the Pentagon and weapons industry alike want in on it. Flush with cash from venture capitalists and, increasingly, the DoD, which has awarded hundreds of millions in contracts to this end, defense-tech start-ups, including Saronic, BlackSea, and Blue Water Autonomy, have been building a new generation of myriad autonomous and semi-autonomous maritime vessels.” (10/20/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/autonomous-ships-military/
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44) Quantum Vibe, 10/20/25
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (10/20/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2557
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45) Mamdani’s smiley meeting with terror-linked imam just his latest full embrace of radical Islam
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“It’s hard to believe that 24 years after 9/11, New York City is on the brink of voting in a Uganda-born Islamist mayor who campaigned last week with an unindicted co-conspirator [sic] in the first World Trade Center terrorist attack that killed six New Yorkers. Three weeks before the election, polling says that the runaway front-runner, the perpetually smiling democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, 33, will be this city’s first Muslim mayor. And not just any Muslim, but an unapologetic Islamo-Marxist who appears to have been carefully constructed for electoral success in the same political laboratory as Barack Obama. Mamdani is so cocky that he boasted on social media about his Friday visit to radical Imam Siraj Wahhaj at his Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque, despite Wahhaj’s links to terrorists, and his openly homophobic rants.” [editor’s note: The supposed “link” is that some of the participants visited the mosque he runs. Additional evidence? Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada – TLK] (10/19/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/19/opinion/miranda-devine-zohran-mamdanis-smiley-meeting-with-terror-linked-imam-is-just-his-latest-full-embrace-of-radical-islam/
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46) The Tariff Vindication That Wasn’t
Source: Law & Liberty
by David Hebert
“Matthew Lynn has written a powerful essay in which he chastises the economics profession for being so clearly wrong when it came to the effects of Donald Trump’s tariffs. According to him, when President Trump imposed sweeping and massive tariffs in April, the ‘mainstream economic establishment’ predicted inflation would surge, supply chains would crash, and the economy would be plunged into a deep recession. … Six months later, Lynn argues, none of this came to pass. … For our sins, Lynn insists that we economists must repent, acknowledge our mistake, and address why we ‘big thinkers got this one wrong.’ At a time when experts have been called into question on many fronts, it’s a compelling indictment. There’s just one problem. It’s built on a foundation of selective reading, convenient timing, and a fundamental misunderstanding of what economists actually said and what the evidence actually shows.” (10/20/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-tariff-vindication-that-wasnt/
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47) The Supreme Court Challenge to Hawaii’s Gun Laws
Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren
“It is no surprise Hawaii, with some of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws, now finds itself before the Supreme Court, seeking to defend its position against a challenge that could reshape many states’ approach to firearms. Hawaii has forced on its citizens one of the lowest rates of gun ownership via some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. Let’s see if the latest challenge brings the Aloha state just a bit closer to the broader gun freedoms most Americans enjoy as a right.” (10/20/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-supreme-court-challenge-to-hawaiis-gun-laws/
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48) Vile chats give insight into radicalization of right-wing culture
Source: Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut
“Vice President JD Vance – the guy who falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio – was upset after Politico reported ‘leaders of Young Republican groups’ shockingly ‘referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.’ However, Vance wasn’t noticeably outraged by the 251 times these GOP activists used vile terms or one’s proclaimed admiration for Adolf Hitler. He instead was upset by the ‘pearl clutching’ criticism of the chat group. … none of this edge-lording is surprising in a party that has swapped Ronald Reagan’s uplifting ‘City on a Hill’ slogan for ‘mass deportation’ placards.” (10/19/25)
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/10/19/vile-chats-give-insight-into-radicalization-of-right-wing-culture/
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49) Sparks Flying in Maine’s Senate Race
Source: The American Prospect
by Gabrielle Gurley
“Susan Collins remains forever unconcerned. One of the Republicans’ most reliable meme generators isn’t fretting over Janet Mills’s entry into the race for Maine’s Senate seat. She has Graham Platner to thank for this moment of Zen. The oyster farmer and Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran turned the governor’s waltz into the race against Collins into a 2026 Democratic primary battle. Phenomenal crowds have shown up (eight months before the election) to hear from one of the most charismatic newcomers to surge into Maine politics in recent memory. While most Maine Democrats would rather see off Mills (who, should she win, would be 79 years old when she took office in 2027) into a comfortable retirement, they are more sanguine than national Democrats are about the development that pits two appealing candidates against each other.” [editor’s note: Collins is no prize, but putting Mills in that seat would be declaring my homeland state a complete disaster for all things liberty – SAT] (10/20/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/10/20/2025-10-20-sparks-flying-maine-senate-race/
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50) GDP as ideological scam, part 5
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“In our discussion of GDP to this point, we have seen that it embeds and re-transmits deep descriptive errors, that it doesn’t attempt a distinction between qualitatively very different forms of output: pollution, nuclear weapons, and financial speculation are as valuable to GDPists as housing, food, or medicine. We have seen that this absurd and wildly self-destructive feature of our politics is ignored by both parties. GDP’s dramatic misrepresentation of social reality is tacitly accepted. But GDP is not just misrepresenting or misdescribing; it is actively shaping our policy preferences and decision-making because its flawed model is being treated as a direct proxy for positive social change and progress.” (10/19/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/gdp-as-ideological-scam-part-5
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51) Reason Roundtable, 10/20/25
Source: Reason
"Does Argentina's Bailout Prove Libertarians Wrong?" (10/20/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/20/does-argentinas-bailout-prove-libertarians-wrong/?nab=1
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52) Rising, 10/20/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers his radar on President Trump’s decision to hold off on delivering Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine despite his recent frustrations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.” (10/20/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5563336-rising-october-20-2025/
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53) SolutionsWatch, 10/20/25
Source: The Corbett Report
“Self-Publishing.” (10/20/25)
https://corbettreport.com/self-publishing-solutionswatch/
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54) Conflicts of Interest, episode 847
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Will Trump Let Little Marco Make a Big War?” (10/20/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-847-will-trump-let-little-marco-make-a-big-war
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55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/20/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Fury at Dems Goes Nuclear as Crushing New Shutdown Poll Hits.” (10/20/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/201972/trump-fury-dems-goes-nuclear-crushing-new-shutdown-poll-hits
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56) EconTalk, 10/20/25
Source: EconTalk
“Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner).” (10/20/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/twenty-years-of-freakonomics-with-stephen-dubner/
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/20/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Launches Wave of Heavy Airstrikes on Gaza, Trump Urges Zelensky To Take Deal, and More.” (10/20/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nul0q_-xZ28
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58) Free Talk Live, 10/19/25
Source: Free Talk Live
“No Kings is a hypocritical protest :: Lefties pretend they care about due process :: At what point does Trump become a dictator? :: Kilmar Abrego Garcia case and the horrors of no duce process in El Salvador :: US tyranny :: Chat GPT logs as evidence in court :: Caller has been noticing Flock cams in Michigan :: Evanston, Illinois took down their Flock cams and the private company put the cams back up for fed money! … Hosts: Bonnie, Mr. Penguin, Rich E Rich.” (10/19/25)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2025-10-19
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59) Daniel Davis on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Daniel Davis on Ukraine, Gaza, the Taliban and Venezuela.” (10/19/25)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/10-17-25-daniel-davis-on-ukraine-gaza-the-taliban-and-venezuela/
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60) LPALive, episode 54
Source: LP Alliance
“The LPCO Convention Recap.” (10/19/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSc56haZ6oY
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