07/03 -- Hurricane Beryl, churning toward Jamaica, threatens Haiti and Dominican Republic; Immunity Corrupts. Absolute Immunity Corrupts Absolutely.
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Thomas L. Knapp
Jul 3, 2024, 6:34:28 AM (13 days ago) Jul 3
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Today's Freedom News:
0) A Note From The Publisher
1) Hurricane Beryl, churning toward Jamaica, threatens Haiti and Dominican Republic
2) Ukraine war: Kyiv launches attack on Putin’s Black Sea naval base as one killed in Kharkiv strike
3) Political prisoner Leonard Peltier denied parole
4) Doggett is first Democratic congressmember to publicly call for Biden to step down
5) NY: Giuliani Permanently Disbarred
6) NJ: US Regime Gives Key Approval to Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Farm
7) US FDA Approves Second Alzheimer’s Drug That Can Modestly Slow Disease
8) Fake online therapist tricked hundreds of patients
9) Powell says Fed has made “quite a bit of progress” on inflation but needs more confidence before cutting
10) In first “large” flight in five years, US regime deports 116 abducted Chinese migrants
11) Study Suggests GLP-1 Meds Could Ease Alcoholism
12) India: More than 100 killed in crush at religious event
13) Federal court blocks Biden’s pause on approving gas export projects
14) IL: SCOTUS stays away from gun ban cases as Thomas seeks “more guidance”
15) Netherlands: New regime sworn in amid concerns over far-right ministers
16) France: Le Pen says she will seek to form government even if short of outright majority
17) NY: Manhattan DA doesn’t oppose disgraced former president’s sentencing delay after Supreme Court ruling
18) Biden camp touts fundraising uptick after debate bomb
19) ABC: Stephanopoulos to interview Biden on Friday
20) Ukraine: Kazakh dissident dies following Kyiv shooting
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Immunity Corrupts. Absolute Immunity Corrupts Absolutely.
22) When History Doesn’t End
23) Biden’s damage control is springing leaks all over
24) Oh No, Now The US Has To Stop Imprisoning Ex-Presidents For Their Crimes!
25) Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling Could Shield Outrageous Abuses of Power
26) SCOTUS immunity ruling is what the body was designed for — unpopular but constitutionally correct
27) Democrats Have More to Fear Than Fear Itself
28) No Remedy for Censorship: The Perils of Murthy
29) Jill Biden, you must convince your husband to step aside
30) Who Loves Minimum Wage Laws? Kiosk Makers
31) Why future presidents will be thankful for Supreme Court ruling in Trump v US
32) Varying Interpretations of Truth, or Truth as a Social Construct
33) Argentina’s Recent Inflation Trends are Proving Hazlitt Right
34) Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington
35) Government Not Monopolies Undermine Individuals’ Wellbeing
36) The Republican Establishment’s Sterile Foreign Policy Perspective
37) Libertarianism Updated
38) Save the Cows
39) The Court v. the Power Grabbers
40) England’s Daydreaming
41) Prediction Markets Suggest Replacing Biden
42) In Biden Dropout Scenario, Campaign Finance Laws Give Harris Big Boost
43) Biden’s mixed messages to Israel are coming home to roost
44) Trump/Biden Debate Immigration: US Foreign Policy as a Driver Is Ignored
45) For the Last Time, Trump Is Not a Realist
46) The Bidens: Selfish, mean grifters to the end
47) Rights, Restrictions, and Reality: 50 Years of Anarchy, State, and Utopia
48) The Supreme Court rules to restore the monarchy
49) On Losing “the Greatest Teacher of Nonviolence in America”
50) Our Version of a Theocratic State
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52) The Bryan Hyde Show, 07/02/24
53) The Political Orphanage, 07/02/24
54) The New Abnormal, 07/02/24
55) How To Fix The Internet, 07/02/24
56) Agorist Nexus Podcast, episode 150
57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/02/24
58) The Libertarian Angle, 07/01/24
59) Free Talk Live, 07/01/24
60) Politics Politics Politics, 07/01/24
61) My Comic Trouncing of Supreme Court Censorship Coverup
62) Nonzero, 07/01/24
63) The Political Orphanage, 07/01/24
64) Advisory Opinions, 07/01/24
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1) Hurricane Beryl, churning toward Jamaica, threatens Haiti and Dominican Republic
Source: Reuters
“Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday, after flattening homes and devastating agriculture on smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean, killing at least three people. At around 0600 GMT, the hurricane was about 250 miles (400 km) east-southeast of the Jamaican capital of Kingston, according the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC),packing maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (230 kph). … The unusually early hurricane, whose rapid strengthening scientists said was likely fueled by human-caused climate change, is expected to still be a hurricane when it passes near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands later this week.” (07/03/24)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hurricane-beryl-churns-towards-jamaica-bringing-floods-least-two-reported-killed-2024-07-02/
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2) Ukraine war: Kyiv launches attack on Putin’s Black Sea naval base as one killed in Kharkiv strike
Source: Independent [UK]
“Ukraine launched an overnight drone attack on Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea naval base where Moscow’s once revered fleet is hiding. Kyiv fired two sea drones at Novorossiysk, which were shot down by Russian defences, according to the Russian ministry of defence. Satellites detected large fires in the area of the Novorossiysk port, which is one of Russia’s largest and serves as a major outlet for crude oil and oil products exports and transit in Russia’s south. It comes as one person was killed and another four were wounded in Russian attacks in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, officials said.” (07/03/24)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-putin-viktor-orban-weapons-latest-b2573029.html
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3) Political prisoner Leonard Peltier denied parole
Source: ABC News
“Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has been denied parole. The U.S. Parole Commission said in a statement Tuesday announcing the decision that he won’t be eligible for another parole hearing until June 2026. Peltier is serving life in prison for the killing the agents during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was convicted in 1977. His attorney, Kevin Sharp, a former federal judge, vowed to appeal. He had argued that Peltier was wrongly convicted and that the health of the 79-year-old was failing.” (07/02/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/parole-denied-indigenous-activist-leonard-peltier-spent-life-111612763
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4) Doggett is first Democratic congressmember to publicly call for Biden to step down
Source: SFGate
“A House Democratic lawmaker has become the first in the party to publicly call for President Joe Biden to step down as the party’s nominee for president, citing Biden’s debate performance against Donald Trump failing to ‘effectively defend his many accomplishments.’ Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas said in a statement Tuesday that Biden should ‘make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw.’ ‘My decision to make these strong reservations public is not done lightly nor does it in any way diminish my respect for all that President Biden has achieved,’ Doggett said. ‘Recognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden’s first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. I respectfully call on him to do so.'” (07/02/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/rep-lloyd-doggett-becomes-1st-democrat-to-19551534.php
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5) NY: Giuliani Permanently Disbarred
Source: Common Dreams
“Rudy Giuliani, one-time mayor of New York City, federal prosecutor, and attorney for former President Donald Trump, was permanently disbarred in New York state on Tuesday for lying about the 2020 presidential election being ‘stolen’ by Democrats. The New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division unanimously disbarred Giulian, calling his propagation of Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ about 2020 election fraud a threat to the public interest and the legal profession. The panel found that Giuliani (whose law license was suspended in 2021) ‘flagrantly misused his prominent position as the personal attorney for former President Trump and his campaign’ and ‘repeatedly and intentionally made false statements, some of which were perjurious, to the federal court, state lawmakers, the public … and this court concerning the 2020 presidential election, in which he baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country’s electoral process.'” (07/02/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rudy-giuliani-disbarred-2668670642
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6) NJ: US Regime Gives Key Approval to Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Farm
Source: US News & World Report
“The U.S. Interior Department approved the proposed Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm in New Jersey on Tuesday, giving a major boost to a project that would be the state’s first. The project still requires an additional federal approval of its construction and operations plan, along with two state-level permits, before construction can begin. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said the department’s decision marked the ninth offshore wind project approved under the Biden administration, green-lighting 13 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power 5 million homes.” (07/02/24)
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-07-02/us-gives-key-approval-to-atlantic-shores-offshore-wind-farm-in-new-jersey
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7) US FDA Approves Second Alzheimer’s Drug That Can Modestly Slow Disease
Source: Time
“U.S. officials have approved another Alzheimer’s drug that can modestly slow the disease, providing a new option for patients in the early stages of the incurable, memory-destroying ailment. The Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s Kisunla on Tuesday for mild or early cases of dementia caused by Alzheimer’s. It’s only the second drug that’s been convincingly shown to delay cognitive decline in patients, following last year’s approval of a similar drug from Japanese drugmaker Eisai.” (07/02/24)
https://time.com/6994563/fda-approve-eli-lilly-alzheimers-drug/
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8) Fake online therapist tricked hundreds of patients
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Authorities in Florida and Tennessee have accused a social worker of helping her wife impersonate her in online therapy sessions for nearly two years. Peggy Randolph, who was licensed to provide therapy in both states through the platform Brightside Health, is said to have knowingly defrauded hundreds of patients. Ms Randolph has denied the accusation, saying she did not know her wife, Tammy Heath-Randolph, who was not licensed or trained, had treated clients under her account. The ruse was uncovered after Ms Heath-Randolph died in February 2023. At that time, Brightside Health received a complaint from a client who had discovered through social media that Ms Randolph’s wife was the one treating them, according to documents from the Tennessee Department of Health. While Ms Randolph denied knowing that her wife was treating patients on her behalf, authorities said the wife was getting paid for sessions she conducted.” (07/02/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c28ex3vzyp9o
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9) Powell says Fed has made “quite a bit of progress” on inflation but needs more confidence before cutting
Source: CNBC
“Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed satisfaction Tuesday with the progress on inflation over the past year but said he wants to see more before being confident enough to start cutting interest rates. … Powell spoke at a forum that also included European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and Brazil central bank Governor Roberto Campos Neto. The forum is presented by the ECB and the discussion was moderated by CNBC’s Sara Eisen. The comments come with markets closely watching moves from the Fed and its global counterparts as inflation shows signs of easing and some central banks, including the ECB, have slowly started rolling back interest rates.” (07/02/24)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/02/powell-says-fed-has-made-quite-a-bit-of-progress-on-inflation-but-needs-more-confidence-before-cutting.html
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10) In first “large” flight in five years, US regime deports 116 abducted Chinese migrants
Source: SFGate
“The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it sent 116 Chinese migrants from the United States back home in the first ‘large charter flight’ in five years. The flight, which happened over the weekend, comes as Chinese immigration has become the subject of intense political debate in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. ‘We will continue to enforce our immigration laws and remove individuals without a legal basis to remain in the United States,’ Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement. The department said it was working with China to ‘reduce and deter irregular migration and to disrupt illicit human smuggling through expanded law enforcement efforts.’ It did not respond to questions about how long the migrants had been in the U.S. (07/02/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/us-deports-116-chinese-migrants-in-first-large-19551769.php
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11) Study Suggests GLP-1 Meds Could Ease Alcoholism
Source: US News & World Report
“Cutting-edge weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic can help treat alcoholism, a new study says. People taking semaglutide had 50% to 56% decreased odds for either becoming alcoholic or relapsing into alcoholism, researchers reported recently in the journal Nature Communications. … For the study, researchers analyzed medical records of nearly 84,000 patients with obesity, as well as about 600,000 patients with type 2 diabetes. In both sets of data, researchers found consistent reductions in alcoholism among people treated with semaglutide.” (07/02/24)
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-07-02/another-study-suggests-glp-1-meds-could-ease-alcoholism
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12) India: More than 100 killed in crush at religious event
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“At least 116 people have been killed in a crush at a religious gathering in northern India, police inspector Gen Shalabh Mathur has said. The incident took place at a satsang (a Hindu religious event) in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh state. The victims, including a large number of women and some children, are still being identified. Survivors have described how the disaster unfolded as they tried to leave the event in Mughalgarhi village. It is not yet clear what led to the crush. Witnesses said the exit was too narrow and when people were leaving, a fierce dust storm led to confusion and panic, causing many people to become trampled.” (07/02/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2g7wgj83no
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13) Federal court blocks Biden’s pause on approving gas export projects
Source: Washington Post
“A federal court on Monday blocked the Biden administration’s pause on approving new facilities that export liquefied natural gas, dealing another legal blow to the president’s ambitious climate agenda. In a decision issued late Monday, U.S. District Court Judge James D. Cain Jr. ruled in favor of Louisiana and 15 other Republican-led states that had challenged the move. The judge, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, wrote that the pause ‘is completely without reason or logic and is perhaps the epiphany of ideocracy [sic].’ … The White House announced in January that it would temporarily stop approving new liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects while studying their effects on climate change, the economy and national security.” (07/01/24)
https://archive.is/wDviI
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14) IL: SCOTUS stays away from gun ban cases as Thomas seeks “more guidance”
Source: Fox News
“The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will not yet review challenges to an Illinois ban on certain types of semi-automatic weapons, attachments and magazines, effectively leaving the law in place while lower courts decide the cases. In its final order list before going on a summer recess, the Court denied petitions to hear six different cases over the so-called ‘assault weapons ban,’ prompting a statement from Justice Clarence Thomas. … ‘The Seventh Circuit’s decision illustrates why this Court must provide more guidance on which weapons the Second Amendment covers,’ Thomas concluded, adding that ‘if the Seventh Circuit ultimately allows Illinois to ban America’s most common civilian rifle, we can – and should – review that decision once the cases reach a final judgment.'” (07/02/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-staying-away-illinois-gun-ban-cases-thomas-seeks-more-guidance-protected-weapons
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15) Netherlands: New regime sworn in amid concerns over far-right ministers
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Sworn in on Tuesday, the new Dutch cabinet of prime minister Dick Schoof, featuring five ministers from Geert Wilders’[s] far-right Freedom party (PVV) and two from the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), has raised more than a few eyebrows in the Netherlands. Schoof, a career bureaucrat who has led the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD and was the senior official at the ministry of justice, was put forward to alleviate coalition partners’ concerns over Wilders. But they have still raised questions over the suitability of some cabinet members for their new jobs, prompting two to promise MPs they will behave differently in government. Wilders, whose party rocked the country by finishing first in elections last November, insisted last week that his nominees were ‘more and more popular. They speak the language of the man and woman in the street. I am very proud of them.'” (07/02/24)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/02/nominees-geert-wilders-led-cabinet-raise-eyebrows-netherlands
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16) France: Le Pen says she will seek to form government even if short of outright majority
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said her Rassemblement National party would seek to form a new French government even if it falls short of an outright majority, in a shift in position ahead of Sunday’s run-off vote. Le Pen said that if the RN did not command a majority on its own, it would look for allies for parliamentary backing. In last weekend’s first round, the RN inflicted a resounding defeat on President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist forces and is projected to come in first again on Sunday. … Jordan Bardella, the party’s chief and candidate for prime minister, had previously said he would not govern without an absolute majority of the parliament’s 577 seats. Le Pen said she believed her party could find allies on the left and right, notably within the conservative Les Republicains party.” (07/02/24)
https://archive.is/hrZ4N
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17) NY: Manhattan DA doesn’t oppose disgraced former president’s sentencing delay after Supreme Court ruling
Source: CBS News
“Prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said they are not opposed to delaying Donald Trump’s sentencing for his criminal conviction in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that former presidents enjoy broad immunity for official acts. ‘Although we believe [Trump’s] arguments to be without merit, we do not oppose his request for leave to file and his putative request to adjourn sentencing pending determination of his motion,’ lawyers from the D.A.’s office said in a letter to the judge in the case on Tuesday. On Monday, Trump’s lawyers asked to file a motion arguing Trump’s conviction should be overturned based on the Supreme Court’s decision, saying the district attorney should not have been allowed to introduce evidence about official acts Trump took while in office. Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsification of business records in May, and sentencing is currently scheduled for July 11.” (07/02/24)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sentencing-delay-manhattan-district-attorney/
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18) Biden camp touts fundraising uptick after debate bomb
Source: Politico
“Joe Biden raised $127 million last month, his campaign said, as the 81-year-old president works to dispel fears about his candidacy. The haul, a nearly 50 percent increase compared to the previous month, helps the incumbent president end the second quarter on a financial high note after he was outraised by former President Donald Trump in April and May, when the presumptive GOP nominee got a significant financial boost during his criminal trial and conviction. Trump’s campaign has not yet released June fundraising numbers.” (07/02/24)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/02/biden-campaign-fundraising-uptick-debate-00166194
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19) ABC: Stephanopoulos to interview Biden on Friday
Source: SFGate
“President Joe Biden will give his an interview to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos later this week, his first since the president’s much-criticized performance during last week’s debate. Portions of the interview will air on ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ on Friday, with the extended interview first airing on the network’s ‘This Week’ Sunday morning program, the network said Tuesday. There has been private discussion among Biden’s campaign about what it can do to counteract last Thursday’s debate, where the raspy-voiced president gave some convoluted and incomplete answers. It has given rise to some questions about whether the 81-year-old president should continue his campaign. There also had been frequent complaints from the Washington press corps that Biden has given relatively few interviews or news conferences as president.” (07/02/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/biden-to-give-extended-interview-to-abc-news-19551791.php
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20) Ukraine: Kazakh dissident dies following Kyiv shooting
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A Kazakh dissident has died in Ukraine, two weeks after being shot outside his home last month. Kyiv-based journalist Aydos Sadykov was shot in the head while seated in a car with his wife on June 18. Ukrainian prosecutors suspect that the ‘carefully planned’ attack was carried out by a pair of suspected assassins from Kazakhstan. … Sadykov’s wife, Natalya Sadykova, blamed Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for the death of her husband, who was an outspoken critic of the Central Asian country’s leadership.” (07/02/24)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/2/kazakh-dissident-dies-following-kyiv-assassination-attempt
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21) Immunity Corrupts. Absolute Immunity Corrupts Absolutely.
Source: The Daily Beast
by Ray Brescia
“Yesterday, the Supreme Court created a broad, unreviewable, and previously unrecognized presidential immunity for so-called official acts, basically blessing the old Nixon line: ‘When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.’ One could just add ‘if the president does it, it’s not reviewable,’ and you’ve got a shorter version of the Court’s ruling. But that’s not all the Court did. With a nod to some semblance of sanity, the Court’s majority disclaimed any form of immunity for unofficial acts. But what they gave with one hand they effectively took away with another in several respects.” (07/02/24)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/immunity-corrupts-absolute-immunity-corrupts-absolutely
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22) When History Doesn’t End
Source: Garrison Center
by Joel Schlosberg
“‘Trump Is Pat Buchanan With Better Timing’ feels like a current headline eight years after it ran in Politico. Is America trapped in a rerun of the Republican Revolution of ’94, with the platforms of ‘presidential candidates Buchanan, David Duke and Ross Perot — the most visible figures of the political fringe’ perpetually mainstreamed? The New York Times Book Review’s Jennifer Szalai is convinced (‘Ticking Time Bomb,’ June 30). Or in one of the ’80s, ‘When Greed Was Good’ — Jacob Goldstein’s headline on the facing page of the Book Review. Goldstein writes that the cultural catchet of financial flummery made ‘the United States suddenly fall in love with finance while inequality skyrocketed,’ suggesting Billy Joel-style verses about the likes of ‘Milton Friedman’s ‘Free to Choose,’ Jane Fonda, running shoes.'” (07/02/24)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/18764
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23) Biden’s damage control is springing leaks all over
Source: Semafor
by Benjy Sarlin & Mathias Hammer
“Despite the White House’s damage control efforts since Biden’s disastrous debate performance, prominent Democrats are increasingly going public with their criticism. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas became the first Democrat in Congress to call for Biden to step down, saying in a statement that ‘I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw.’ Adam Frisch, a Democratic Congressional nominee in Colorado, swiftly followed, saying that ‘the path ahead requires a new generation of leadership.’ … Meanwhile, three quarters of US voters believe Democrats would have better odds of keeping the White House with a candidate other than Biden, a CNN poll conducted after the debate showed.” (07/02/24)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/02/2024/bidens-damage-control-is-springing-leaks-all-over
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24) Oh No, Now The US Has To Stop Imprisoning Ex-Presidents For Their Crimes!
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Everyone’s acting shocked and outraged at the Supreme Court ruling that Donald Trump and other former presidents are largely immune from criminal prosecution, as though presidents getting prosecuted for their crimes is something that’s been happening this entire time. It’s like oh wow you’re saying powerful people won’t have to abide by the same rules as normal people in America anymore? Guess they’ll have to release all those former US presidents who’ve been imprisoned for their war crimes and crimes against humanity now. Thanks a lot, Supreme Court. … Those obvious dementia symptoms are not dementia symptoms. That obvious genocide is not genocide. Those obvious war crimes are not war crimes. Those obvious NATO provocations are not provocations. This obvious dystopia is not a dystopia. This obvious propaganda is not propaganda.” (07/02/24)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/07/02/oh-no-now-the-us-has-to-stop-imprisoning-ex-presidents-for-their-crimes/
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25) Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling Could Shield Outrageous Abuses of Power
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“By requiring ‘absolute’ immunity for some ‘official acts’ and ‘presumptive’ immunity for others, the justices cast doubt on the viability of Donald Trump’s election interference prosecution.” (07/01/24)
https://reason.com/2024/07/01/supreme-courts-presidential-immunity-ruling-could-shield-outrageous-abuses-of-power/
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26) SCOTUS immunity ruling is what the body was designed for — unpopular but constitutionally correct
Source: New York Post
by Jonathan Turley
“Within minutes of the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, liberal [sic] politicians and pundits seemed to move from hyperbole to hyperventilation. When not breathing into paper bags, critics predicted, again, the end of the republic. CNN’s Van Jones declared that it was ‘almost a license to thug, in a way.’ Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) declared: ‘My stomach turns with fear and anger that our democracy can be so endangered by an out-of-control court’ …. The comment captures the misguided analysis of many media outlets. The Supreme Court was designed to be unpopular; to take stands that are politically unpopular but constitutionally correct.” [editor’s note: My copy of the Constitution seems to be missing the part where anyone who has ever been president receives lifetime immunity for crimes committed in office – TLK] (07/01/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/opinion/supreme-courts-trump-immunity-ruling-is-what-the-body-was-meant-for-unpopular-but-constitutionally-correct/
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27) Democrats Have More to Fear Than Fear Itself
Source: The Dispatch
by Chris Stirewalt
“In 1944, Democrats nominated and Americans elected a president who was very nearly dead. It was the weakest electoral showing of Franklin Roosevelt’s four runs — just 53 percent of the popular vote. That was about the same as Barack Obama in 2008, which is high by our current conception but not on par with FDR’s priors, particularly his 61 percent in 1936. … Biden and his admirers may see a lot of FDR in him. They may even imagine his situation in 2024 to be like the ailing Roosevelt’s last campaign 80 years ago. It is a dangerous way of thinking. Aside from the many differences between the two men, the state of the world, the media, and the nature of politics, there is this: Roosevelt may have been almost sure to die in his next term, but he was also almost sure to win it.” (07/02/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/democrats-have-more-to-fear-than-fear-itself/
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28) No Remedy for Censorship: The Perils of Murthy
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Philip Hamburger
“Last week, in Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court hammered home the distressing conclusion that, under the court’s doctrines, the First Amendment is, for all practical purposes, unenforceable against largescale government censorship. The decision is a strong contender to be the worst speech decision in the court’s history. … The greatest danger comes from the court’s tolerance of the sub-administrative power that the government uses to corral private parties into becoming instruments of control. Administrative regulation ideally runs through notice-and-comment rulemaking. In contrast, sub-administrative regulation works through informal persuasion, including subtle threats, regulatory hassle, and illicit inducements. By such means, the government can get the private platforms to carry out government orchestrated censorship of their users.” (07/02/24)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/02/no_remedy_for_censorship_the_perils_of_murthy_.html
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29) Jill Biden, you must convince your husband to step aside
Source: The Hill
by Bill Press
“Dear First Lady Biden: We, the American people desperately need you. We need you to save this country from the prospect of four more years of Donald Trump. We need you now. … Many of us agree with you that Joe Biden is, in fact, mentally and physically capable of serving for another four years. And that it’s unfair to judge his entire career by one bad night on the stage. But, still, that’s the assurance the American people were looking for the night of the debate. That’s the vote of confidence they needed to get enthusiastically behind a second Biden term. And surely even you must recognize they didn’t get it. … We must not risk letting Donald Trump get anywhere near the Oval Office again. Until last week, we knew we could count on Joe Biden to prevent that disaster. That’s no longer the case.” (07/02/24)
https://thehill.com/opinion/4750898-first-lady-biden-save-america/
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30) Who Loves Minimum Wage Laws? Kiosk Makers
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Art Carden
“A fast-food ‘worker’ in Las Vegas, Nevada, where minimum wages are high enough to have teeth, is an ordering kiosk. One of the basic insights economics brings to any issue is that when things get more expensive, people search for substitutes. It’s true of steak and potatoes. It’s true of labor, as well. When lower-skill labor becomes more expensive, either through minimum wages, or work rules making it a dicey proposition to hire 14- and 15-year-olds (an experience we had with our older son this past summer), that gives people incentives to look around for substitutes. There are a lot of ways to skin a cat, and making low-skill labor more expensive induces people to use cat-skinning methods that use more capital and higher-skill labor.” (07/02/24)
https://www.aier.org/article/who-loves-minimum-wage-laws-kiosk-makers/
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31) Why future presidents will be thankful for Supreme Court ruling in Trump v US
Source: Fox News Forum
by John Shu
“Monday’s Trump v. United States opinion made clear that a president or former president ‘may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.’ Chief Justice John Robert’s majority opinion also said that ‘the President enjoys no immunity for unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official.’ The opinion did not, however, provide precise definitions for what exactly is considered an official or unofficial act, and left that question of fact-finding to the lower courts. The Supreme Court, however, clearly stated that courts may not inquire into a president’s motives when trying to distinguish official from unofficial acts nor ‘deem an action unofficial merely because it allegedly violates a generally applicable law.'” (07/02/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-future-presidents-thankful-supreme-court-ruling-trump-us
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32) Varying Interpretations of Truth, or Truth as a Social Construct
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“In this age of relativism, where one often hears reference to ‘your truth’ and ‘my truth,’ there are so many varying interpretations of truth that the concept of truth itself seems devoid of meaning. It is fashionable to see the concept of truth as indistinguishable from opinions or preferences. For example, Mari Fitzduff writes that ‘for many of us, far from our beliefs being ‘true,’ they are actually born out of a particular social context, allied to physiological needs such as a differing neural sensitivity to threats and the greater certainty that a group can provide. Thus, beliefs are often what is termed ‘groupish’ rather than necessarily true.’ The task of deciding which group has the ‘true’ version of facts is then left to expert fact-checkers who will pronounce on what is true or false.” (07/02/24)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/varying-interpretations-truth-or-truth-social-construct
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33) Argentina’s Recent Inflation Trends are Proving Hazlitt Right
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Daphne Posadas
“Argentina’s inflation rate has recently dropped to its lowest point since January 2022, registering a monthly increase of 4.2 percent in May according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC). Although annual inflation has slowed for the first time since mid-2023, it still stands at 276.4 percent, one of the highest rates globally. When Javier Milei assumed the presidency in December 2023, monthly inflation had skyrocketed to an unprecedented 25.5 percent. Within five months, Milei’s administration managed to reduce this figure by more than 20 percentage points. Despite the persistently high annual inflation rate, the trend indicates potential stabilization of the Argentine economy.” (07/02/24)
https://fee.org/articles/argentinas-recent-inflation-trends-are-proving-hazlitt-right/
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34) Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington
Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya, and Afghanistan, on July 9 NATO plans to invade Washington D.C. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British will not burn down the U.S. Capitol as they did in 1814, and the Germans are still meekly pretending that they don’t know who blew up their Nord Stream gas pipelines. So expect smiling photo ops and an overblown orgy of mutual congratulation. The details of NATO’s agenda for the Washington summit were revealed at a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Prague at the end of May.” (07/02/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nato-s-war-summit
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35) Government Not Monopolies Undermine Individuals’ Wellbeing
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak
“By popular thinking, monopolies are seen as undermining individuals’ wellbeing. For instance, monopolies are being blamed for causing large increases in the prices of goods and services. According to Jean Tirole the 2014 Nobel Laureate in Economics, monopolies undermine the efficient functioning of the market economy by being able to influence the prices and the quantity of products. Consequently, this undermines the wellbeing of individuals in the economy. By this way of thinking, monopolies cause the deviation of the market conditions from the ideal state as depicted by the “perfect competition” framework. What is then required is effective enforcement of government regulations of monopolies.” (07/02/24)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2024/07/government-not-monopolies-undermine-individuals-wellbeing/
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36) The Republican Establishment’s Sterile Foreign Policy Perspective
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“Leaving aside [Marc A.]Thiessen’s silly isolationist epithet, he’s likely correct that the foreign policy of a new Trump administration would differ little from the collection of obsolete assumptions and counterproductive policies that have plagued U.S. foreign policy for decades. For real, beneficial change in U.S. foreign policy, a new administration would need to recognize the actual conditions of the world in the 21st century and make necessary policy adjustments. The Biden administration clearly is incapable of doing that. Its policies, both in the Middle East and in Europe, have been disastrous. Entangling the United States in the Russia-Ukraine war and serving as Israel’s enabler for its brutal actions in Gaza are not effective or beneficial strategies for the American people. To actually implement the strategy of ‘Peace through Strength’ that Thiessen and so many other Republicans advocate requires fresh thinking on multiple fronts.” (07/02/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2024/07/01/the-republican-establishments-sterile-foreign-policy-perspective/
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37) Libertarianism Updated
Source: Law & Liberty
by Randy E Barnett
“Libertarianism in the 1970s was an internally contested intellectual project, not a rigidly fixed set of policy positions. But unlike originalism, which has benefited from 20 years of internal intellectual debate among originalists, libertarianism has largely been frozen in amber since the 1970s. I see five distinct ways that libertarian theory needs to up its game.” (07/02/24)
https://lawliberty.org/libertarianism-updated/
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38) Save the Cows
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“Enjoy your cheeseburgers and steaks when you fire up the grill this Fourth of July weekend, because they may not be available much longer. That’s because the climate fanatics have declared war on livestock. Turns out the biggest planet killers are apparently cows. That’s the only logical takeaway from a recent CNN headline that informs us that the ‘World’s first carbon tax on livestock will cost farmers $100 per cow.’ I don’t usually pay too much attention to looney-tune ideas from across the Atlantic, but this is the kind of craziness that migrates across the ocean to these shores. Denmark’s $96-a-cow tax is to be imposed ‘for the planet-heating emissions they generate.’ If you are wondering why cows are suddenly supervillains, you aren’t paying attention to the extremists running the environmental movement.” (07/02/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2024/07/02/save-the-cows-n2641255
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39) The Court v. the Power Grabbers
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The U.S. Supreme Court giveth and the U.S. Supreme Court taketh away. A slew of Supreme Court decisions is keeping us off balance. While we were still reeling from the blow delivered by Murthy v. Missouri’s go-ahead for federal suppression of social-media speech, the court also acted to rein in runaway bureaucrats.” (07/02/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/07/02/the-court-v-the-power-grabbers/
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40) England’s Daydreaming
Source: Quillette
by Dave Thompson
“He’s never had a major hit, he’s never been awarded a gold record, and he’ll probably never get into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame. His best-known video never existed, and through the 1980s, he sold almost as many records in America, where they were never even released, as he did in his UK homeland. If there were any justice in this world (which of course there isn’t), he’d have been cast as Doctor Who the moment he outgrew his first pair of flares. That was, after all, his first ever ambition. ‘When I was young, I wanted to be Doctor Who. But then, when I was 13, I discovered Bob Dylan, and I wanted to be him instead.'” (07/02/24)
https://quillette.com/2024/07/02/englands-daydreaming-robyn-hitchcock-1967/
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41) Prediction Markets Suggest Replacing Biden
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“The last week hasn’t been great for the Democratic Party. First Biden bombed the debate. But the subsequent decision about whether/how to replace Biden has also been embarrassing. Biden has refused to step aside gracefully, and party elites don’t seem to have any contingency plan. Worse, they don’t even seem united on the need to figure anything out, with many deflecting the conversation to irrelevant points like ‘Trump is also bad’ or pretending that nothing is really wrong. Some of the party’s problems are hard and have no shortcuts. But the big one — figuring out whether replacing Biden would even help the Democrats’ electoral chances — is a good match for prediction markets.” (07/02/24)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/prediction-markets-suggest-replacing
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42) In Biden Dropout Scenario, Campaign Finance Laws Give Harris Big Boost
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“There does not at this moment seem to be any movement from the Biden campaign, the Biden family, or Joe Biden himself toward exiting the 2024 presidential race after last week’s disastrous debate. On the contrary, the campaign has its back up and is devising operatic strategies to get back in contention, dismissing the debate as a ‘bad night’, using surrogates to silence dissenters, and soldiering on. They were so proud of Biden’s Friday speech in North Carolina that they made a one-minute ad about it. Biden resents the elite opinion-makers calling for his ouster, and relishes the opportunity to show that they underestimated him again. My sense in talking with people in a position to know is that it would take much more than what has already happened in public to get Biden to drop out.” (07/02/24)
https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-02-campaign-finance-laws-harris-big-boost-biden-dropout-scenario/
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43) Biden’s mixed messages to Israel are coming home to roost
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Khaled Elgindy
“As hopes for a Gaza ceasefire continue to fade, the threat of a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah is now greater than at any time since October 7. … Such a war would be catastrophic for Lebanese and Israeli civilians alike, and risks drawing Iran into wider conflict that engulfs the entire region. It would also instantly unravel what had been one of the Biden administration’s few achievements since October 7 — preventing a full-blown regional war. Even as the Israel-Lebanon front heats up, however, the most serious threats to de-escalation in Lebanon and to prospects for a Gaza ceasefire come from the Biden administration itself.” (07/02/24)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-netanyahu-israel-lebanon/
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44) Trump/Biden Debate Immigration: US Foreign Policy as a Driver Is Ignored
Source: CounterPunch
by Roger Harris
“Washington’s promotion and in some cases imposition of a neoliberal economic model, which fails to meet people’s material needs, pushes immigration. Export of the ‘war on drugs’ and sanctioning some one third of humanity are related push factors fueling immigration. Among the Latin American source countries, immigration has spiked from Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua precisely because these states, striving for socialism, have been targeted for regime change by Washington. US-imposed unilateral coercive measures punish citizens with the misfortune to have leaders not to Washington’s liking. These measures, euphemistically called sanctions, are designed to make life miserable.” (07/02/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/02/trump-biden-debate-immigration-us-foreign-policy-as-a-driver-is-ignored/
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45) For the Last Time, Trump Is Not a Realist
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“There have been many attempts to paint Trump as a realist over the last eight years, and none of them holds up under scrutiny. We have been going over the same ground since 2016, and the case for ‘Trump the realist’ never gets any better. The only thing that has changed since then is that we have a lot more evidence from Trump’s own words and actions that this is nonsense.” (07/01/24)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/for-the-last-time-trump-is-not-a
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46) The Bidens: Selfish, mean grifters to the end
Source: Fox News Forum
by Laura Ingraham
“The Biden family is ‘privately trashing’ senior campaign staff as they blame-shift after President Biden’s horrific debate performance. According to Politico, everything from Biden’s inability to ‘pivot more to go on the attack’ to being ‘bogged down too much on defending his record’ to being ‘over-worked and not well-rested’ was the fault of senior aides. One of them, Ron Klain took a leave from his job at AirBnB when the Bidens asked for his help to prepare for the debate. Blaming Biden’s staff — and these are long-time aides — for the president’s disastrous performance in Atlanta is despicable. If anyone is to blame beyond the candidate himself, it is Biden’s own family.” (07/02/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ingraham-bidens-selfish-mean-grifters-end
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47) Rights, Restrictions, and Reality: 50 Years of Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Source: EconLog
by Aeon Skoble
“Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia was released in 1974, shortly after (and partly in response to) his Harvard colleague John Rawls’ 1971 A Theory of Justice. Anarchy, State, and Utopia included a theory of rights and a right-based account of liberalism in the classic tradition, which offered an alternative not only to Rawls’[s] progressive redistributionist egalitarianism but also to socialism. Nozick was not the first or only philosopher to make these arguments, but he was among the first, and among the most famous.” (07/01/24)
https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2024/skoblenozick.html
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48) The Supreme Court rules to restore the monarchy
Source: Washington Post
by Alexandra Petri
“Happy Fourth of July from the nine unelected magistrates of the Supreme Court! Great news: After a lot of clamor for the past 250-odd years, we are bringing back the monarchy! Why should ruling the country in robes, unaccountable to anyone, be solely our province? We have really loved this level of unchecked power that allows us to do whatever we want, vacationing and flying flags willy-nilly until the moment of our deaths, and we felt it might be fun for the country if the president also got to experience this rush. Currently, he’s always looking over his shoulder, worrying that if he breaks the law, he might face consequences. We can’t imagine how stressful that would be! Consequences for your actions? No, thank you!” (07/01/24)
https://archive.is/kNASR
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49) On Losing “the Greatest Teacher of Nonviolence in America”
Source: In These Times
by Kent Wong
“I had the privilege of teaching a course at UCLA on ’Nonviolence and Social Movements’ with Rev. James Lawson, Jr. for more than 20 years. The course analyzed contemporary social movements that embrace the philosophy of nonviolence, and encouraged students to apply nonviolence in their own lives. Thousands of students over those two decades have been motivated by the course to pursue paths of peace and justice. Rev. Lawson drew energy from teaching. He enjoyed engaging our students, challenging them, inspiring them to use their talents to be a force for change. He took a genuine interest in their hopes, aspirations and dreams. The students who benefited most from the class were those who tried to practice the philosophy of nonviolence in their own work and in their own lives.” (07/02/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/james-lawson-kent-wong-nonviolence-civil-rights
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50) Our Version of a Theocratic State
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Filipe Rafaeli
“[I]t is 2024, and Brazil is the only country in the world requiring Covid-19 vaccines for babies as young as 6 months up to 5 years old. The only one. Moreover, while Brazil mandates this, countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Switzerland — known for their respect for their populations — do not even recommend the vaccines for children. … I can’t think of a single issue related to individual freedoms where Brazil stands in opposition to the world, isolated, doing things differently from all other countries. None. … Only one thought remains for these people: ‘We are right, and the world is wrong.’ This is exactly the mindset of an average citizen in Iraq or Syria during the Islamic State era when they saw gays being thrown off buildings.” (07/01/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/our-version-of-the-islamic-state/
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51) Conflicts of Interest, 07/02/24
Source: Libertarian Institute
“US Prepares for Attacks on Bases in Europe.” (07/02/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-627-us-prepares-for-attacks-on-bases-in-europe/
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52) The Bryan Hyde Show, 07/02/24
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me for our weekly sit down. There’s a lot going on right now and Eric has a great take on all of it.” (07/02/24)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-gzhrp-1659853
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53) The Political Orphanage, 07/02/24
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Bump Stocks, Guns, and Psycho Ex-Boyfriends.” (07/02/24)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/bump-stocks-guns-and-psycho-ex-boyfriends
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54) The New Abnormal, 07/02/24
Source: The Daily Beast
“Our U.S. Gerontocracy Needs to Go (and Biden Isn’t Even the Worst).” (07/02/24)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/our-us-gerontocracy-needs-to-go-and-biden-isnt-even-the-worst
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55) How To Fix The Internet, 07/02/24
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“Fighting Enshittification.” (07/02/24)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/podcast-episode-fighting-enshittification
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56) Agorist Nexus Podcast, episode 150
Source: Agorist Nexus
“A Vision of Liberated Perception with Graham Smith.” (07/02/24)
https://www.agoristnexus.com/a-vision-of-liberated-perception-with-graham-smith-150/
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/02/24
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Orders New Khan Younis Evacuation, Finland Ratifies US Access to Military Bases, and More.” (07/02/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5rmbsekxWw
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58) The Libertarian Angle, 07/01/24
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Jacob and Richard discuss the recent release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.” (07/01/24)
https://libertarianangle.libsyn.com/the-release-of-julian-assange
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59) Free Talk Live, 07/01/24
Source: Free Talk Live
“Immigration is a state issue, not a federal one :: The Presidential Debate Highlights :: Max Abramson running for U.S. Congress :: National debt and voter fraud :: Liberty is cheap for governments to allow :: Turd’s beef with Skeeter :: Ending the Drug War :: Lowering federal sentences :: Domestic violence laws :: Minimum Wage laws are racist :: 2024-07-01 Aria, Chris.” (07/01/24)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2024-07-01
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60) Politics Politics Politics, 07/01/24
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“A Very American UK Election Special.” (07/01/24)
https://shows.acast.com/politicspoliticspolitics/episodes/a-very-american-uk-election-special
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61) My Comic Trouncing of Supreme Court Censorship Coverup
Source: JimBovard.com
“The Supreme Court’s whitewash of FBI-Biden-CDC censorship was even more rascally than it looked. Will a federal Ministry of Truth secretly taint the 2024 presidential election results?” (07/01/24)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2024/07/01/n-y-post-youtube-video-my-comic-trouncing-of-supreme-court-censorship-coverup/
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62) Nonzero, 07/01/24
Source: Bloggingheads.tv
“The President’s Brain | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom.” (07/01/24)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67773
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63) The Political Orphanage, 07/01/24
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Chevron is Dead.” (07/01/24)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/chevron-is-dead
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64) Advisory Opinions, 07/01/24
Source: The Dispatch
“Trump Is ‘Absolutely Immune’ … Kind Of.” (07/01/24)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/trump-is-absolutely-immune-kind-of/
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65) Finding Freedom, episode 444
Source: Lions of Liberty
“LP Shenanigans, Debate Debacle and WWIII with Matt McKinely.” (07/01/24)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/lp-shenanigans-debate-debacle-and-wwiii-with-matt-mckinely
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1) Hurricane Beryl, churning toward Jamaica, threatens Haiti and Dominican Republic
2) Ukraine war: Kyiv launches attack on Putin’s Black Sea naval base as one killed in Kharkiv strike
3) Political prisoner Leonard Peltier denied parole
4) Doggett is first Democratic congressmember to publicly call for Biden to step down
5) NY: Giuliani Permanently Disbarred
6) NJ: US Regime Gives Key Approval to Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Farm
7) US FDA Approves Second Alzheimer’s Drug That Can Modestly Slow Disease
8) Fake online therapist tricked hundreds of patients
9) Powell says Fed has made “quite a bit of progress” on inflation but needs more confidence before cutting
10) In first “large” flight in five years, US regime deports 116 abducted Chinese migrants
11) Study Suggests GLP-1 Meds Could Ease Alcoholism
12) India: More than 100 killed in crush at religious event
13) Federal court blocks Biden’s pause on approving gas export projects
14) IL: SCOTUS stays away from gun ban cases as Thomas seeks “more guidance”
15) Netherlands: New regime sworn in amid concerns over far-right ministers
16) France: Le Pen says she will seek to form government even if short of outright majority
17) NY: Manhattan DA doesn’t oppose disgraced former president’s sentencing delay after Supreme Court ruling
18) Biden camp touts fundraising uptick after debate bomb
19) ABC: Stephanopoulos to interview Biden on Friday
20) Ukraine: Kazakh dissident dies following Kyiv shooting
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Immunity Corrupts. Absolute Immunity Corrupts Absolutely.
22) When History Doesn’t End
23) Biden’s damage control is springing leaks all over
24) Oh No, Now The US Has To Stop Imprisoning Ex-Presidents For Their Crimes!
25) Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling Could Shield Outrageous Abuses of Power
26) SCOTUS immunity ruling is what the body was designed for — unpopular but constitutionally correct
27) Democrats Have More to Fear Than Fear Itself
28) No Remedy for Censorship: The Perils of Murthy
29) Jill Biden, you must convince your husband to step aside
30) Who Loves Minimum Wage Laws? Kiosk Makers
31) Why future presidents will be thankful for Supreme Court ruling in Trump v US
32) Varying Interpretations of Truth, or Truth as a Social Construct
33) Argentina’s Recent Inflation Trends are Proving Hazlitt Right
34) Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington
35) Government Not Monopolies Undermine Individuals’ Wellbeing
36) The Republican Establishment’s Sterile Foreign Policy Perspective
37) Libertarianism Updated
38) Save the Cows
39) The Court v. the Power Grabbers
40) England’s Daydreaming
41) Prediction Markets Suggest Replacing Biden
42) In Biden Dropout Scenario, Campaign Finance Laws Give Harris Big Boost
43) Biden’s mixed messages to Israel are coming home to roost
44) Trump/Biden Debate Immigration: US Foreign Policy as a Driver Is Ignored
45) For the Last Time, Trump Is Not a Realist
46) The Bidens: Selfish, mean grifters to the end
47) Rights, Restrictions, and Reality: 50 Years of Anarchy, State, and Utopia
48) The Supreme Court rules to restore the monarchy
49) On Losing “the Greatest Teacher of Nonviolence in America”
50) Our Version of a Theocratic State
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51) Conflicts of Interest, 07/02/24
52) The Bryan Hyde Show, 07/02/24
53) The Political Orphanage, 07/02/24
54) The New Abnormal, 07/02/24
55) How To Fix The Internet, 07/02/24
56) Agorist Nexus Podcast, episode 150
57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/02/24
58) The Libertarian Angle, 07/01/24
59) Free Talk Live, 07/01/24
60) Politics Politics Politics, 07/01/24
61) My Comic Trouncing of Supreme Court Censorship Coverup
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1) Hurricane Beryl, churning toward Jamaica, threatens Haiti and Dominican Republic
Source: Reuters
“Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday, after flattening homes and devastating agriculture on smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean, killing at least three people. At around 0600 GMT, the hurricane was about 250 miles (400 km) east-southeast of the Jamaican capital of Kingston, according the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC),packing maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (230 kph). … The unusually early hurricane, whose rapid strengthening scientists said was likely fueled by human-caused climate change, is expected to still be a hurricane when it passes near Jamaica and the Cayman Islands later this week.” (07/03/24)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hurricane-beryl-churns-towards-jamaica-bringing-floods-least-two-reported-killed-2024-07-02/
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2) Ukraine war: Kyiv launches attack on Putin’s Black Sea naval base as one killed in Kharkiv strike
Source: Independent [UK]
“Ukraine launched an overnight drone attack on Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea naval base where Moscow’s once revered fleet is hiding. Kyiv fired two sea drones at Novorossiysk, which were shot down by Russian defences, according to the Russian ministry of defence. Satellites detected large fires in the area of the Novorossiysk port, which is one of Russia’s largest and serves as a major outlet for crude oil and oil products exports and transit in Russia’s south. It comes as one person was killed and another four were wounded in Russian attacks in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, officials said.” (07/03/24)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-putin-viktor-orban-weapons-latest-b2573029.html
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3) Political prisoner Leonard Peltier denied parole
Source: ABC News
“Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has been denied parole. The U.S. Parole Commission said in a statement Tuesday announcing the decision that he won’t be eligible for another parole hearing until June 2026. Peltier is serving life in prison for the killing the agents during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was convicted in 1977. His attorney, Kevin Sharp, a former federal judge, vowed to appeal. He had argued that Peltier was wrongly convicted and that the health of the 79-year-old was failing.” (07/02/24)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/parole-denied-indigenous-activist-leonard-peltier-spent-life-111612763
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4) Doggett is first Democratic congressmember to publicly call for Biden to step down
Source: SFGate
“A House Democratic lawmaker has become the first in the party to publicly call for President Joe Biden to step down as the party’s nominee for president, citing Biden’s debate performance against Donald Trump failing to ‘effectively defend his many accomplishments.’ Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas said in a statement Tuesday that Biden should ‘make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw.’ ‘My decision to make these strong reservations public is not done lightly nor does it in any way diminish my respect for all that President Biden has achieved,’ Doggett said. ‘Recognizing that, unlike Trump, President Biden’s first commitment has always been to our country, not himself, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. I respectfully call on him to do so.'” (07/02/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/rep-lloyd-doggett-becomes-1st-democrat-to-19551534.php
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5) NY: Giuliani Permanently Disbarred
Source: Common Dreams
“Rudy Giuliani, one-time mayor of New York City, federal prosecutor, and attorney for former President Donald Trump, was permanently disbarred in New York state on Tuesday for lying about the 2020 presidential election being ‘stolen’ by Democrats. The New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division unanimously disbarred Giulian, calling his propagation of Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ about 2020 election fraud a threat to the public interest and the legal profession. The panel found that Giuliani (whose law license was suspended in 2021) ‘flagrantly misused his prominent position as the personal attorney for former President Trump and his campaign’ and ‘repeatedly and intentionally made false statements, some of which were perjurious, to the federal court, state lawmakers, the public … and this court concerning the 2020 presidential election, in which he baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country’s electoral process.'” (07/02/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rudy-giuliani-disbarred-2668670642
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6) NJ: US Regime Gives Key Approval to Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Farm
Source: US News & World Report
“The U.S. Interior Department approved the proposed Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm in New Jersey on Tuesday, giving a major boost to a project that would be the state’s first. The project still requires an additional federal approval of its construction and operations plan, along with two state-level permits, before construction can begin. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said the department’s decision marked the ninth offshore wind project approved under the Biden administration, green-lighting 13 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power 5 million homes.” (07/02/24)
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-07-02/us-gives-key-approval-to-atlantic-shores-offshore-wind-farm-in-new-jersey
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7) US FDA Approves Second Alzheimer’s Drug That Can Modestly Slow Disease
Source: Time
“U.S. officials have approved another Alzheimer’s drug that can modestly slow the disease, providing a new option for patients in the early stages of the incurable, memory-destroying ailment. The Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s Kisunla on Tuesday for mild or early cases of dementia caused by Alzheimer’s. It’s only the second drug that’s been convincingly shown to delay cognitive decline in patients, following last year’s approval of a similar drug from Japanese drugmaker Eisai.” (07/02/24)
https://time.com/6994563/fda-approve-eli-lilly-alzheimers-drug/
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8) Fake online therapist tricked hundreds of patients
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Authorities in Florida and Tennessee have accused a social worker of helping her wife impersonate her in online therapy sessions for nearly two years. Peggy Randolph, who was licensed to provide therapy in both states through the platform Brightside Health, is said to have knowingly defrauded hundreds of patients. Ms Randolph has denied the accusation, saying she did not know her wife, Tammy Heath-Randolph, who was not licensed or trained, had treated clients under her account. The ruse was uncovered after Ms Heath-Randolph died in February 2023. At that time, Brightside Health received a complaint from a client who had discovered through social media that Ms Randolph’s wife was the one treating them, according to documents from the Tennessee Department of Health. While Ms Randolph denied knowing that her wife was treating patients on her behalf, authorities said the wife was getting paid for sessions she conducted.” (07/02/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c28ex3vzyp9o
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9) Powell says Fed has made “quite a bit of progress” on inflation but needs more confidence before cutting
Source: CNBC
“Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed satisfaction Tuesday with the progress on inflation over the past year but said he wants to see more before being confident enough to start cutting interest rates. … Powell spoke at a forum that also included European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and Brazil central bank Governor Roberto Campos Neto. The forum is presented by the ECB and the discussion was moderated by CNBC’s Sara Eisen. The comments come with markets closely watching moves from the Fed and its global counterparts as inflation shows signs of easing and some central banks, including the ECB, have slowly started rolling back interest rates.” (07/02/24)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/02/powell-says-fed-has-made-quite-a-bit-of-progress-on-inflation-but-needs-more-confidence-before-cutting.html
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10) In first “large” flight in five years, US regime deports 116 abducted Chinese migrants
Source: SFGate
“The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it sent 116 Chinese migrants from the United States back home in the first ‘large charter flight’ in five years. The flight, which happened over the weekend, comes as Chinese immigration has become the subject of intense political debate in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. ‘We will continue to enforce our immigration laws and remove individuals without a legal basis to remain in the United States,’ Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement. The department said it was working with China to ‘reduce and deter irregular migration and to disrupt illicit human smuggling through expanded law enforcement efforts.’ It did not respond to questions about how long the migrants had been in the U.S. (07/02/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/us-deports-116-chinese-migrants-in-first-large-19551769.php
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11) Study Suggests GLP-1 Meds Could Ease Alcoholism
Source: US News & World Report
“Cutting-edge weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic can help treat alcoholism, a new study says. People taking semaglutide had 50% to 56% decreased odds for either becoming alcoholic or relapsing into alcoholism, researchers reported recently in the journal Nature Communications. … For the study, researchers analyzed medical records of nearly 84,000 patients with obesity, as well as about 600,000 patients with type 2 diabetes. In both sets of data, researchers found consistent reductions in alcoholism among people treated with semaglutide.” (07/02/24)
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-07-02/another-study-suggests-glp-1-meds-could-ease-alcoholism
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12) India: More than 100 killed in crush at religious event
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“At least 116 people have been killed in a crush at a religious gathering in northern India, police inspector Gen Shalabh Mathur has said. The incident took place at a satsang (a Hindu religious event) in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh state. The victims, including a large number of women and some children, are still being identified. Survivors have described how the disaster unfolded as they tried to leave the event in Mughalgarhi village. It is not yet clear what led to the crush. Witnesses said the exit was too narrow and when people were leaving, a fierce dust storm led to confusion and panic, causing many people to become trampled.” (07/02/24)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2g7wgj83no
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13) Federal court blocks Biden’s pause on approving gas export projects
Source: Washington Post
“A federal court on Monday blocked the Biden administration’s pause on approving new facilities that export liquefied natural gas, dealing another legal blow to the president’s ambitious climate agenda. In a decision issued late Monday, U.S. District Court Judge James D. Cain Jr. ruled in favor of Louisiana and 15 other Republican-led states that had challenged the move. The judge, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, wrote that the pause ‘is completely without reason or logic and is perhaps the epiphany of ideocracy [sic].’ … The White House announced in January that it would temporarily stop approving new liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects while studying their effects on climate change, the economy and national security.” (07/01/24)
https://archive.is/wDviI
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14) IL: SCOTUS stays away from gun ban cases as Thomas seeks “more guidance”
Source: Fox News
“The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will not yet review challenges to an Illinois ban on certain types of semi-automatic weapons, attachments and magazines, effectively leaving the law in place while lower courts decide the cases. In its final order list before going on a summer recess, the Court denied petitions to hear six different cases over the so-called ‘assault weapons ban,’ prompting a statement from Justice Clarence Thomas. … ‘The Seventh Circuit’s decision illustrates why this Court must provide more guidance on which weapons the Second Amendment covers,’ Thomas concluded, adding that ‘if the Seventh Circuit ultimately allows Illinois to ban America’s most common civilian rifle, we can – and should – review that decision once the cases reach a final judgment.'” (07/02/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-staying-away-illinois-gun-ban-cases-thomas-seeks-more-guidance-protected-weapons
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15) Netherlands: New regime sworn in amid concerns over far-right ministers
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Sworn in on Tuesday, the new Dutch cabinet of prime minister Dick Schoof, featuring five ministers from Geert Wilders’[s] far-right Freedom party (PVV) and two from the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), has raised more than a few eyebrows in the Netherlands. Schoof, a career bureaucrat who has led the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD and was the senior official at the ministry of justice, was put forward to alleviate coalition partners’ concerns over Wilders. But they have still raised questions over the suitability of some cabinet members for their new jobs, prompting two to promise MPs they will behave differently in government. Wilders, whose party rocked the country by finishing first in elections last November, insisted last week that his nominees were ‘more and more popular. They speak the language of the man and woman in the street. I am very proud of them.'” (07/02/24)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/02/nominees-geert-wilders-led-cabinet-raise-eyebrows-netherlands
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16) France: Le Pen says she will seek to form government even if short of outright majority
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said her Rassemblement National party would seek to form a new French government even if it falls short of an outright majority, in a shift in position ahead of Sunday’s run-off vote. Le Pen said that if the RN did not command a majority on its own, it would look for allies for parliamentary backing. In last weekend’s first round, the RN inflicted a resounding defeat on President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist forces and is projected to come in first again on Sunday. … Jordan Bardella, the party’s chief and candidate for prime minister, had previously said he would not govern without an absolute majority of the parliament’s 577 seats. Le Pen said she believed her party could find allies on the left and right, notably within the conservative Les Republicains party.” (07/02/24)
https://archive.is/hrZ4N
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17) NY: Manhattan DA doesn’t oppose disgraced former president’s sentencing delay after Supreme Court ruling
Source: CBS News
“Prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said they are not opposed to delaying Donald Trump’s sentencing for his criminal conviction in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that former presidents enjoy broad immunity for official acts. ‘Although we believe [Trump’s] arguments to be without merit, we do not oppose his request for leave to file and his putative request to adjourn sentencing pending determination of his motion,’ lawyers from the D.A.’s office said in a letter to the judge in the case on Tuesday. On Monday, Trump’s lawyers asked to file a motion arguing Trump’s conviction should be overturned based on the Supreme Court’s decision, saying the district attorney should not have been allowed to introduce evidence about official acts Trump took while in office. Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsification of business records in May, and sentencing is currently scheduled for July 11.” (07/02/24)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sentencing-delay-manhattan-district-attorney/
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18) Biden camp touts fundraising uptick after debate bomb
Source: Politico
“Joe Biden raised $127 million last month, his campaign said, as the 81-year-old president works to dispel fears about his candidacy. The haul, a nearly 50 percent increase compared to the previous month, helps the incumbent president end the second quarter on a financial high note after he was outraised by former President Donald Trump in April and May, when the presumptive GOP nominee got a significant financial boost during his criminal trial and conviction. Trump’s campaign has not yet released June fundraising numbers.” (07/02/24)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/02/biden-campaign-fundraising-uptick-debate-00166194
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19) ABC: Stephanopoulos to interview Biden on Friday
Source: SFGate
“President Joe Biden will give his an interview to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos later this week, his first since the president’s much-criticized performance during last week’s debate. Portions of the interview will air on ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ on Friday, with the extended interview first airing on the network’s ‘This Week’ Sunday morning program, the network said Tuesday. There has been private discussion among Biden’s campaign about what it can do to counteract last Thursday’s debate, where the raspy-voiced president gave some convoluted and incomplete answers. It has given rise to some questions about whether the 81-year-old president should continue his campaign. There also had been frequent complaints from the Washington press corps that Biden has given relatively few interviews or news conferences as president.” (07/02/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/biden-to-give-extended-interview-to-abc-news-19551791.php
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20) Ukraine: Kazakh dissident dies following Kyiv shooting
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A Kazakh dissident has died in Ukraine, two weeks after being shot outside his home last month. Kyiv-based journalist Aydos Sadykov was shot in the head while seated in a car with his wife on June 18. Ukrainian prosecutors suspect that the ‘carefully planned’ attack was carried out by a pair of suspected assassins from Kazakhstan. … Sadykov’s wife, Natalya Sadykova, blamed Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for the death of her husband, who was an outspoken critic of the Central Asian country’s leadership.” (07/02/24)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/2/kazakh-dissident-dies-following-kyiv-assassination-attempt
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21) Immunity Corrupts. Absolute Immunity Corrupts Absolutely.
Source: The Daily Beast
by Ray Brescia
“Yesterday, the Supreme Court created a broad, unreviewable, and previously unrecognized presidential immunity for so-called official acts, basically blessing the old Nixon line: ‘When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.’ One could just add ‘if the president does it, it’s not reviewable,’ and you’ve got a shorter version of the Court’s ruling. But that’s not all the Court did. With a nod to some semblance of sanity, the Court’s majority disclaimed any form of immunity for unofficial acts. But what they gave with one hand they effectively took away with another in several respects.” (07/02/24)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/immunity-corrupts-absolute-immunity-corrupts-absolutely
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22) When History Doesn’t End
Source: Garrison Center
by Joel Schlosberg
“‘Trump Is Pat Buchanan With Better Timing’ feels like a current headline eight years after it ran in Politico. Is America trapped in a rerun of the Republican Revolution of ’94, with the platforms of ‘presidential candidates Buchanan, David Duke and Ross Perot — the most visible figures of the political fringe’ perpetually mainstreamed? The New York Times Book Review’s Jennifer Szalai is convinced (‘Ticking Time Bomb,’ June 30). Or in one of the ’80s, ‘When Greed Was Good’ — Jacob Goldstein’s headline on the facing page of the Book Review. Goldstein writes that the cultural catchet of financial flummery made ‘the United States suddenly fall in love with finance while inequality skyrocketed,’ suggesting Billy Joel-style verses about the likes of ‘Milton Friedman’s ‘Free to Choose,’ Jane Fonda, running shoes.'” (07/02/24)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/18764
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23) Biden’s damage control is springing leaks all over
Source: Semafor
by Benjy Sarlin & Mathias Hammer
“Despite the White House’s damage control efforts since Biden’s disastrous debate performance, prominent Democrats are increasingly going public with their criticism. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas became the first Democrat in Congress to call for Biden to step down, saying in a statement that ‘I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw.’ Adam Frisch, a Democratic Congressional nominee in Colorado, swiftly followed, saying that ‘the path ahead requires a new generation of leadership.’ … Meanwhile, three quarters of US voters believe Democrats would have better odds of keeping the White House with a candidate other than Biden, a CNN poll conducted after the debate showed.” (07/02/24)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/02/2024/bidens-damage-control-is-springing-leaks-all-over
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24) Oh No, Now The US Has To Stop Imprisoning Ex-Presidents For Their Crimes!
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Everyone’s acting shocked and outraged at the Supreme Court ruling that Donald Trump and other former presidents are largely immune from criminal prosecution, as though presidents getting prosecuted for their crimes is something that’s been happening this entire time. It’s like oh wow you’re saying powerful people won’t have to abide by the same rules as normal people in America anymore? Guess they’ll have to release all those former US presidents who’ve been imprisoned for their war crimes and crimes against humanity now. Thanks a lot, Supreme Court. … Those obvious dementia symptoms are not dementia symptoms. That obvious genocide is not genocide. Those obvious war crimes are not war crimes. Those obvious NATO provocations are not provocations. This obvious dystopia is not a dystopia. This obvious propaganda is not propaganda.” (07/02/24)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/07/02/oh-no-now-the-us-has-to-stop-imprisoning-ex-presidents-for-their-crimes/
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25) Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling Could Shield Outrageous Abuses of Power
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“By requiring ‘absolute’ immunity for some ‘official acts’ and ‘presumptive’ immunity for others, the justices cast doubt on the viability of Donald Trump’s election interference prosecution.” (07/01/24)
https://reason.com/2024/07/01/supreme-courts-presidential-immunity-ruling-could-shield-outrageous-abuses-of-power/
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26) SCOTUS immunity ruling is what the body was designed for — unpopular but constitutionally correct
Source: New York Post
by Jonathan Turley
“Within minutes of the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, liberal [sic] politicians and pundits seemed to move from hyperbole to hyperventilation. When not breathing into paper bags, critics predicted, again, the end of the republic. CNN’s Van Jones declared that it was ‘almost a license to thug, in a way.’ Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) declared: ‘My stomach turns with fear and anger that our democracy can be so endangered by an out-of-control court’ …. The comment captures the misguided analysis of many media outlets. The Supreme Court was designed to be unpopular; to take stands that are politically unpopular but constitutionally correct.” [editor’s note: My copy of the Constitution seems to be missing the part where anyone who has ever been president receives lifetime immunity for crimes committed in office – TLK] (07/01/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/opinion/supreme-courts-trump-immunity-ruling-is-what-the-body-was-meant-for-unpopular-but-constitutionally-correct/
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27) Democrats Have More to Fear Than Fear Itself
Source: The Dispatch
by Chris Stirewalt
“In 1944, Democrats nominated and Americans elected a president who was very nearly dead. It was the weakest electoral showing of Franklin Roosevelt’s four runs — just 53 percent of the popular vote. That was about the same as Barack Obama in 2008, which is high by our current conception but not on par with FDR’s priors, particularly his 61 percent in 1936. … Biden and his admirers may see a lot of FDR in him. They may even imagine his situation in 2024 to be like the ailing Roosevelt’s last campaign 80 years ago. It is a dangerous way of thinking. Aside from the many differences between the two men, the state of the world, the media, and the nature of politics, there is this: Roosevelt may have been almost sure to die in his next term, but he was also almost sure to win it.” (07/02/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/democrats-have-more-to-fear-than-fear-itself/
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28) No Remedy for Censorship: The Perils of Murthy
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Philip Hamburger
“Last week, in Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court hammered home the distressing conclusion that, under the court’s doctrines, the First Amendment is, for all practical purposes, unenforceable against largescale government censorship. The decision is a strong contender to be the worst speech decision in the court’s history. … The greatest danger comes from the court’s tolerance of the sub-administrative power that the government uses to corral private parties into becoming instruments of control. Administrative regulation ideally runs through notice-and-comment rulemaking. In contrast, sub-administrative regulation works through informal persuasion, including subtle threats, regulatory hassle, and illicit inducements. By such means, the government can get the private platforms to carry out government orchestrated censorship of their users.” (07/02/24)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/02/no_remedy_for_censorship_the_perils_of_murthy_.html
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29) Jill Biden, you must convince your husband to step aside
Source: The Hill
by Bill Press
“Dear First Lady Biden: We, the American people desperately need you. We need you to save this country from the prospect of four more years of Donald Trump. We need you now. … Many of us agree with you that Joe Biden is, in fact, mentally and physically capable of serving for another four years. And that it’s unfair to judge his entire career by one bad night on the stage. But, still, that’s the assurance the American people were looking for the night of the debate. That’s the vote of confidence they needed to get enthusiastically behind a second Biden term. And surely even you must recognize they didn’t get it. … We must not risk letting Donald Trump get anywhere near the Oval Office again. Until last week, we knew we could count on Joe Biden to prevent that disaster. That’s no longer the case.” (07/02/24)
https://thehill.com/opinion/4750898-first-lady-biden-save-america/
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30) Who Loves Minimum Wage Laws? Kiosk Makers
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Art Carden
“A fast-food ‘worker’ in Las Vegas, Nevada, where minimum wages are high enough to have teeth, is an ordering kiosk. One of the basic insights economics brings to any issue is that when things get more expensive, people search for substitutes. It’s true of steak and potatoes. It’s true of labor, as well. When lower-skill labor becomes more expensive, either through minimum wages, or work rules making it a dicey proposition to hire 14- and 15-year-olds (an experience we had with our older son this past summer), that gives people incentives to look around for substitutes. There are a lot of ways to skin a cat, and making low-skill labor more expensive induces people to use cat-skinning methods that use more capital and higher-skill labor.” (07/02/24)
https://www.aier.org/article/who-loves-minimum-wage-laws-kiosk-makers/
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31) Why future presidents will be thankful for Supreme Court ruling in Trump v US
Source: Fox News Forum
by John Shu
“Monday’s Trump v. United States opinion made clear that a president or former president ‘may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.’ Chief Justice John Robert’s majority opinion also said that ‘the President enjoys no immunity for unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official.’ The opinion did not, however, provide precise definitions for what exactly is considered an official or unofficial act, and left that question of fact-finding to the lower courts. The Supreme Court, however, clearly stated that courts may not inquire into a president’s motives when trying to distinguish official from unofficial acts nor ‘deem an action unofficial merely because it allegedly violates a generally applicable law.'” (07/02/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-future-presidents-thankful-supreme-court-ruling-trump-us
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32) Varying Interpretations of Truth, or Truth as a Social Construct
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“In this age of relativism, where one often hears reference to ‘your truth’ and ‘my truth,’ there are so many varying interpretations of truth that the concept of truth itself seems devoid of meaning. It is fashionable to see the concept of truth as indistinguishable from opinions or preferences. For example, Mari Fitzduff writes that ‘for many of us, far from our beliefs being ‘true,’ they are actually born out of a particular social context, allied to physiological needs such as a differing neural sensitivity to threats and the greater certainty that a group can provide. Thus, beliefs are often what is termed ‘groupish’ rather than necessarily true.’ The task of deciding which group has the ‘true’ version of facts is then left to expert fact-checkers who will pronounce on what is true or false.” (07/02/24)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/varying-interpretations-truth-or-truth-social-construct
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33) Argentina’s Recent Inflation Trends are Proving Hazlitt Right
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Daphne Posadas
“Argentina’s inflation rate has recently dropped to its lowest point since January 2022, registering a monthly increase of 4.2 percent in May according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC). Although annual inflation has slowed for the first time since mid-2023, it still stands at 276.4 percent, one of the highest rates globally. When Javier Milei assumed the presidency in December 2023, monthly inflation had skyrocketed to an unprecedented 25.5 percent. Within five months, Milei’s administration managed to reduce this figure by more than 20 percentage points. Despite the persistently high annual inflation rate, the trend indicates potential stabilization of the Argentine economy.” (07/02/24)
https://fee.org/articles/argentinas-recent-inflation-trends-are-proving-hazlitt-right/
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34) Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington
Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya, and Afghanistan, on July 9 NATO plans to invade Washington D.C. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British will not burn down the U.S. Capitol as they did in 1814, and the Germans are still meekly pretending that they don’t know who blew up their Nord Stream gas pipelines. So expect smiling photo ops and an overblown orgy of mutual congratulation. The details of NATO’s agenda for the Washington summit were revealed at a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Prague at the end of May.” (07/02/24)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nato-s-war-summit
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35) Government Not Monopolies Undermine Individuals’ Wellbeing
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak
“By popular thinking, monopolies are seen as undermining individuals’ wellbeing. For instance, monopolies are being blamed for causing large increases in the prices of goods and services. According to Jean Tirole the 2014 Nobel Laureate in Economics, monopolies undermine the efficient functioning of the market economy by being able to influence the prices and the quantity of products. Consequently, this undermines the wellbeing of individuals in the economy. By this way of thinking, monopolies cause the deviation of the market conditions from the ideal state as depicted by the “perfect competition” framework. What is then required is effective enforcement of government regulations of monopolies.” (07/02/24)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2024/07/government-not-monopolies-undermine-individuals-wellbeing/
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36) The Republican Establishment’s Sterile Foreign Policy Perspective
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“Leaving aside [Marc A.]Thiessen’s silly isolationist epithet, he’s likely correct that the foreign policy of a new Trump administration would differ little from the collection of obsolete assumptions and counterproductive policies that have plagued U.S. foreign policy for decades. For real, beneficial change in U.S. foreign policy, a new administration would need to recognize the actual conditions of the world in the 21st century and make necessary policy adjustments. The Biden administration clearly is incapable of doing that. Its policies, both in the Middle East and in Europe, have been disastrous. Entangling the United States in the Russia-Ukraine war and serving as Israel’s enabler for its brutal actions in Gaza are not effective or beneficial strategies for the American people. To actually implement the strategy of ‘Peace through Strength’ that Thiessen and so many other Republicans advocate requires fresh thinking on multiple fronts.” (07/02/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2024/07/01/the-republican-establishments-sterile-foreign-policy-perspective/
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37) Libertarianism Updated
Source: Law & Liberty
by Randy E Barnett
“Libertarianism in the 1970s was an internally contested intellectual project, not a rigidly fixed set of policy positions. But unlike originalism, which has benefited from 20 years of internal intellectual debate among originalists, libertarianism has largely been frozen in amber since the 1970s. I see five distinct ways that libertarian theory needs to up its game.” (07/02/24)
https://lawliberty.org/libertarianism-updated/
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38) Save the Cows
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“Enjoy your cheeseburgers and steaks when you fire up the grill this Fourth of July weekend, because they may not be available much longer. That’s because the climate fanatics have declared war on livestock. Turns out the biggest planet killers are apparently cows. That’s the only logical takeaway from a recent CNN headline that informs us that the ‘World’s first carbon tax on livestock will cost farmers $100 per cow.’ I don’t usually pay too much attention to looney-tune ideas from across the Atlantic, but this is the kind of craziness that migrates across the ocean to these shores. Denmark’s $96-a-cow tax is to be imposed ‘for the planet-heating emissions they generate.’ If you are wondering why cows are suddenly supervillains, you aren’t paying attention to the extremists running the environmental movement.” (07/02/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2024/07/02/save-the-cows-n2641255
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39) The Court v. the Power Grabbers
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The U.S. Supreme Court giveth and the U.S. Supreme Court taketh away. A slew of Supreme Court decisions is keeping us off balance. While we were still reeling from the blow delivered by Murthy v. Missouri’s go-ahead for federal suppression of social-media speech, the court also acted to rein in runaway bureaucrats.” (07/02/24)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2024/07/02/the-court-v-the-power-grabbers/
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40) England’s Daydreaming
Source: Quillette
by Dave Thompson
“He’s never had a major hit, he’s never been awarded a gold record, and he’ll probably never get into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame. His best-known video never existed, and through the 1980s, he sold almost as many records in America, where they were never even released, as he did in his UK homeland. If there were any justice in this world (which of course there isn’t), he’d have been cast as Doctor Who the moment he outgrew his first pair of flares. That was, after all, his first ever ambition. ‘When I was young, I wanted to be Doctor Who. But then, when I was 13, I discovered Bob Dylan, and I wanted to be him instead.'” (07/02/24)
https://quillette.com/2024/07/02/englands-daydreaming-robyn-hitchcock-1967/
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41) Prediction Markets Suggest Replacing Biden
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“The last week hasn’t been great for the Democratic Party. First Biden bombed the debate. But the subsequent decision about whether/how to replace Biden has also been embarrassing. Biden has refused to step aside gracefully, and party elites don’t seem to have any contingency plan. Worse, they don’t even seem united on the need to figure anything out, with many deflecting the conversation to irrelevant points like ‘Trump is also bad’ or pretending that nothing is really wrong. Some of the party’s problems are hard and have no shortcuts. But the big one — figuring out whether replacing Biden would even help the Democrats’ electoral chances — is a good match for prediction markets.” (07/02/24)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/prediction-markets-suggest-replacing
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42) In Biden Dropout Scenario, Campaign Finance Laws Give Harris Big Boost
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“There does not at this moment seem to be any movement from the Biden campaign, the Biden family, or Joe Biden himself toward exiting the 2024 presidential race after last week’s disastrous debate. On the contrary, the campaign has its back up and is devising operatic strategies to get back in contention, dismissing the debate as a ‘bad night’, using surrogates to silence dissenters, and soldiering on. They were so proud of Biden’s Friday speech in North Carolina that they made a one-minute ad about it. Biden resents the elite opinion-makers calling for his ouster, and relishes the opportunity to show that they underestimated him again. My sense in talking with people in a position to know is that it would take much more than what has already happened in public to get Biden to drop out.” (07/02/24)
https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-02-campaign-finance-laws-harris-big-boost-biden-dropout-scenario/
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43) Biden’s mixed messages to Israel are coming home to roost
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Khaled Elgindy
“As hopes for a Gaza ceasefire continue to fade, the threat of a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah is now greater than at any time since October 7. … Such a war would be catastrophic for Lebanese and Israeli civilians alike, and risks drawing Iran into wider conflict that engulfs the entire region. It would also instantly unravel what had been one of the Biden administration’s few achievements since October 7 — preventing a full-blown regional war. Even as the Israel-Lebanon front heats up, however, the most serious threats to de-escalation in Lebanon and to prospects for a Gaza ceasefire come from the Biden administration itself.” (07/02/24)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-netanyahu-israel-lebanon/
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44) Trump/Biden Debate Immigration: US Foreign Policy as a Driver Is Ignored
Source: CounterPunch
by Roger Harris
“Washington’s promotion and in some cases imposition of a neoliberal economic model, which fails to meet people’s material needs, pushes immigration. Export of the ‘war on drugs’ and sanctioning some one third of humanity are related push factors fueling immigration. Among the Latin American source countries, immigration has spiked from Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua precisely because these states, striving for socialism, have been targeted for regime change by Washington. US-imposed unilateral coercive measures punish citizens with the misfortune to have leaders not to Washington’s liking. These measures, euphemistically called sanctions, are designed to make life miserable.” (07/02/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/02/trump-biden-debate-immigration-us-foreign-policy-as-a-driver-is-ignored/
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45) For the Last Time, Trump Is Not a Realist
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“There have been many attempts to paint Trump as a realist over the last eight years, and none of them holds up under scrutiny. We have been going over the same ground since 2016, and the case for ‘Trump the realist’ never gets any better. The only thing that has changed since then is that we have a lot more evidence from Trump’s own words and actions that this is nonsense.” (07/01/24)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/for-the-last-time-trump-is-not-a
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46) The Bidens: Selfish, mean grifters to the end
Source: Fox News Forum
by Laura Ingraham
“The Biden family is ‘privately trashing’ senior campaign staff as they blame-shift after President Biden’s horrific debate performance. According to Politico, everything from Biden’s inability to ‘pivot more to go on the attack’ to being ‘bogged down too much on defending his record’ to being ‘over-worked and not well-rested’ was the fault of senior aides. One of them, Ron Klain took a leave from his job at AirBnB when the Bidens asked for his help to prepare for the debate. Blaming Biden’s staff — and these are long-time aides — for the president’s disastrous performance in Atlanta is despicable. If anyone is to blame beyond the candidate himself, it is Biden’s own family.” (07/02/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ingraham-bidens-selfish-mean-grifters-end
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47) Rights, Restrictions, and Reality: 50 Years of Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Source: EconLog
by Aeon Skoble
“Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia was released in 1974, shortly after (and partly in response to) his Harvard colleague John Rawls’ 1971 A Theory of Justice. Anarchy, State, and Utopia included a theory of rights and a right-based account of liberalism in the classic tradition, which offered an alternative not only to Rawls’[s] progressive redistributionist egalitarianism but also to socialism. Nozick was not the first or only philosopher to make these arguments, but he was among the first, and among the most famous.” (07/01/24)
https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2024/skoblenozick.html
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48) The Supreme Court rules to restore the monarchy
Source: Washington Post
by Alexandra Petri
“Happy Fourth of July from the nine unelected magistrates of the Supreme Court! Great news: After a lot of clamor for the past 250-odd years, we are bringing back the monarchy! Why should ruling the country in robes, unaccountable to anyone, be solely our province? We have really loved this level of unchecked power that allows us to do whatever we want, vacationing and flying flags willy-nilly until the moment of our deaths, and we felt it might be fun for the country if the president also got to experience this rush. Currently, he’s always looking over his shoulder, worrying that if he breaks the law, he might face consequences. We can’t imagine how stressful that would be! Consequences for your actions? No, thank you!” (07/01/24)
https://archive.is/kNASR
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49) On Losing “the Greatest Teacher of Nonviolence in America”
Source: In These Times
by Kent Wong
“I had the privilege of teaching a course at UCLA on ’Nonviolence and Social Movements’ with Rev. James Lawson, Jr. for more than 20 years. The course analyzed contemporary social movements that embrace the philosophy of nonviolence, and encouraged students to apply nonviolence in their own lives. Thousands of students over those two decades have been motivated by the course to pursue paths of peace and justice. Rev. Lawson drew energy from teaching. He enjoyed engaging our students, challenging them, inspiring them to use their talents to be a force for change. He took a genuine interest in their hopes, aspirations and dreams. The students who benefited most from the class were those who tried to practice the philosophy of nonviolence in their own work and in their own lives.” (07/02/24)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/james-lawson-kent-wong-nonviolence-civil-rights
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50) Our Version of a Theocratic State
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Filipe Rafaeli
“[I]t is 2024, and Brazil is the only country in the world requiring Covid-19 vaccines for babies as young as 6 months up to 5 years old. The only one. Moreover, while Brazil mandates this, countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Switzerland — known for their respect for their populations — do not even recommend the vaccines for children. … I can’t think of a single issue related to individual freedoms where Brazil stands in opposition to the world, isolated, doing things differently from all other countries. None. … Only one thought remains for these people: ‘We are right, and the world is wrong.’ This is exactly the mindset of an average citizen in Iraq or Syria during the Islamic State era when they saw gays being thrown off buildings.” (07/01/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/our-version-of-the-islamic-state/
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51) Conflicts of Interest, 07/02/24
Source: Libertarian Institute
“US Prepares for Attacks on Bases in Europe.” (07/02/24)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-627-us-prepares-for-attacks-on-bases-in-europe/
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52) The Bryan Hyde Show, 07/02/24
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me for our weekly sit down. There’s a lot going on right now and Eric has a great take on all of it.” (07/02/24)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-gzhrp-1659853
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53) The Political Orphanage, 07/02/24
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Bump Stocks, Guns, and Psycho Ex-Boyfriends.” (07/02/24)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/bump-stocks-guns-and-psycho-ex-boyfriends
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54) The New Abnormal, 07/02/24
Source: The Daily Beast
“Our U.S. Gerontocracy Needs to Go (and Biden Isn’t Even the Worst).” (07/02/24)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/our-us-gerontocracy-needs-to-go-and-biden-isnt-even-the-worst
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55) How To Fix The Internet, 07/02/24
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“Fighting Enshittification.” (07/02/24)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/podcast-episode-fighting-enshittification
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56) Agorist Nexus Podcast, episode 150
Source: Agorist Nexus
“A Vision of Liberated Perception with Graham Smith.” (07/02/24)
https://www.agoristnexus.com/a-vision-of-liberated-perception-with-graham-smith-150/
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/02/24
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Orders New Khan Younis Evacuation, Finland Ratifies US Access to Military Bases, and More.” (07/02/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5rmbsekxWw
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58) The Libertarian Angle, 07/01/24
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Jacob and Richard discuss the recent release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.” (07/01/24)
https://libertarianangle.libsyn.com/the-release-of-julian-assange
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59) Free Talk Live, 07/01/24
Source: Free Talk Live
“Immigration is a state issue, not a federal one :: The Presidential Debate Highlights :: Max Abramson running for U.S. Congress :: National debt and voter fraud :: Liberty is cheap for governments to allow :: Turd’s beef with Skeeter :: Ending the Drug War :: Lowering federal sentences :: Domestic violence laws :: Minimum Wage laws are racist :: 2024-07-01 Aria, Chris.” (07/01/24)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/free-talk-live-2024-07-01
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60) Politics Politics Politics, 07/01/24
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“A Very American UK Election Special.” (07/01/24)
https://shows.acast.com/politicspoliticspolitics/episodes/a-very-american-uk-election-special
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61) My Comic Trouncing of Supreme Court Censorship Coverup
Source: JimBovard.com
“The Supreme Court’s whitewash of FBI-Biden-CDC censorship was even more rascally than it looked. Will a federal Ministry of Truth secretly taint the 2024 presidential election results?” (07/01/24)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2024/07/01/n-y-post-youtube-video-my-comic-trouncing-of-supreme-court-censorship-coverup/
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62) Nonzero, 07/01/24
Source: Bloggingheads.tv
“The President’s Brain | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom.” (07/01/24)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/67773
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63) The Political Orphanage, 07/01/24
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Chevron is Dead.” (07/01/24)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/chevron-is-dead
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64) Advisory Opinions, 07/01/24
Source: The Dispatch
“Trump Is ‘Absolutely Immune’ … Kind Of.” (07/01/24)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/trump-is-absolutely-immune-kind-of/
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65) Finding Freedom, episode 444
Source: Lions of Liberty
“LP Shenanigans, Debate Debacle and WWIII with Matt McKinely.” (07/01/24)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/lp-shenanigans-debate-debacle-and-wwiii-with-matt-mckinely
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