09/12 -- Brazil: Bolsonaro convicted on coup charges; How Tyranny Becomes Entrenched: 9/11 and the Police State's Endless Power Grabs
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1) Brazil: Bolsonaro convicted on coup charges
2) US Initial Jobless Claims Jump to Highest in Almost Four Years
3) UK: Regime fires ambassador to US over Epstein links
4) CA: Legislature passes ban on ICE gang thugs going masked
5) Nepal: Protesters propose former chief justice for interim PM as death toll rises
6) Palestine: Netanyahu signs West Bank squat expansion plan, pretends there’s no Palestinian state
7) Belarus: Regime pardons scores of prisoners “at the request” of Trump, Lukashenko says
8) US inflation climbed in August as Trump’s tariffs intensified
9) CA: At $183 billion San Francisco tech company, man’s hunger strike enters second week
10) Nadine Menendez sentenced to 4.5 years in prison
11) Trump threatens new frivolous litigation, this time versus NYT, over Epstein reportage
12) FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta, five others
13) New Zealand: Political prisoner Kim Dotcom loses latest bid to avoid rendition to US regime
14) Pentagon OKs $14.2 million for Lebanese regime’s efforts to disarm Hezbollah
15) CO: Authorities say student who had been radicalized fired revolver at school, wounding two
16) NASA Blocks Chinese Citizens From Working On Space Programs
17) FL: Madison Cawthorn Arrested Ahead Of Reported Political Comeback
18) Cuba suffers fifth nationwide blackout in a year as crisis deepens
19) ME: Principals fight DOJ request for student names in transgender athlete case
20) TX: “Prepared” homeowner shoots suspect at center of police manhunt, cops say
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) How Tyranny Becomes Entrenched: 9/11 and the Police State’s Endless Power Grabs
22) America’s Israel double standard backfires
23) Now The Feds Want In On The University Patent Racket
24) Is America Great Again Yet?
25) Trump’s Barbaric Boat Attack
26) Kamala Harris Accuses Biden’s Team of Sabotaging Her
27) The State Power to Discriminate
28) Violence must never be a response to speech
29) Real Estate Roulette: Living on the Streets in the Age of Trump
30) A Note on Toleration — Religious and Political
31) The Eternal Social Justice Summer
32) Left-Libertarianisms
33) The American Reckoning
34) Puerto Rican Prisons Allowed Inmates To Work for Themselves. It Was a Huge Success.
35) State benefits come from nowhere
36) Confucius and Trump’s Department of War
37) Mamdani: Democrats’ Antisemitism Problem
38) War Against Venezuela Is No Answer
39) The 9/11 Attacks Exposed Major Government Failure, But Americans Learned the Wrong Lessons
40) The Facade of Syria’s Upcoming Elections
41) Political Violence and the Reality Distortion Field
42) More Government, More Gerrymandering
43) The Current Madness
44) Outlawry in the Caribbean
45) Charlie Kirk’s assassination latest evidence US is suffering epidemic of leftist [sic] violence
46) An Open Society Requires Constant Vigilance
47) There are things you don’t want to politicize
48) The Assassin’s Veto
49) Three Crises Facing the Labor Movement
50) AI, Inevitability, and Human Sovereignty
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51) Reason Interview: Charlie Kirk and America's History With Political Violence
52) The Brian Nichols Show, 09/11/25
53) FYPod, 09/11/25
54) Rising, 09/11/25
55) Conflicts of Interest, episode 836
56) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/11/25
57) The Good Fight, 09/11/25
58) Advisory Opinions, 09/11/25
59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/11/25
60) System Update, episode 512
61) The Fifth Column, episode 523
62) Underthrow Podcast, 09/10/25
63) The Libertarian Angle, 09/10/25
64) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2690
65) LPA Solidarity Stream, episode 7
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1) Brazil: Bolsonaro convicted on coup charges
Source: Reuters
“Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created. The presumptive ruling by a majority of a panel of five justices in Brazil’s Supreme Court makes Bolsonaro the first former president in the country’s history to be convicted for attacking democracy. … The verdict was not unanimous, with Justice Luiz Fux on Wednesday breaking with his peers by acquitting the former president of all charges. That single vote could open a path to challenges to the ruling, potentially bringing the trial’s conclusion closer to the run-up of the 2026 presidential elections, in which Bolsonaro has repeatedly said he is a candidate despite being barred from running for office.” (09/11/25)
https://archive.is/DwrFk
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2) US Initial Jobless Claims Jump to Highest in Almost Four Years
Source: Bloomberg
“Applications for US unemployment benefits jumped last week to the highest level in almost four years, indicating layoff activity may be on the rise amid a sharp slowdown in hiring. Initial claims rose by 27,000 to 263,000 in the week ended Sept. 6, the highest since October 2021, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 235,000 applications. Thursday’s figures follow a monthly report on employment, published on Sept. 5, which showed the US added just 22,000 jobs in August, extending the sharp slowdown in job growth seen in recent months. Uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s economic policies has made employers more hesitant to hire in 2025.” (09/11/25)
https://archive.is/afAmI
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3) UK: Regime fires ambassador to US over Epstein links
Source: CNN
“Peter Mandelson was fired as Britain’s ambassador to the United States on Thursday after his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became another unwelcome problem for the embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Mandelson had been under mounting pressure over his relationship with Epstein after US lawmakers on Monday released a ‘birthday book,’ compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, in which the veteran Labour party politician had penned a handwritten note describing Epstein as ‘my best pal.’ … Hours later, the scandal snowballed after Bloomberg published a trove of emails between Mandelson and Epstein, in which Mandelson expressed support for his friend and offered to discuss his infamous 2008 Florida case with his political contacts. … Mandelson – who now has been forced out of three senior government roles over separate scandals – for years batted away questions about his links to Epstein.” (09/11/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/uk/peter-mandelson-uk-ambassador-fired-intl
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4) CA: Legislature passes ban on ICE gang thugs going masked
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
“California lawmakers passed measures Thursday that would ban federal and local law enforcement officers — including immigration agents — from covering their faces and require them to clearly identify themselves. The bills now head to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who, despite being an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, will have to grapple with potential legal questions presented by one of the measures.” (09/11/25)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-ban-ice-masks-21040999.php
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5) Nepal: Protesters propose former chief justice for interim PM as death toll rises
Source: Yahoo! News
“A former chief justice appeared likely to take over as Nepal’s interim leader following days of violent protests that collapsed the government and left at least 31 people dead. The Himalayan country erupted in violent protests over the weekend after the government abruptly banned 26 social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X, in what was seen as an attempt to silence criticism. … The agitation collapsed the government after prime minister KP Sharma Oli resigned, his rushed decision to lift the ban failing to bring order. On Thursday, as confusion continued over who was governing Nepal, former chief justice Sushila Karki, the first woman to hold the post in 2016, emerged as the frontrunner for interim leader, backed by many of the agitation’s leaders. … Meanwhile, Nepal police said over 15,000 prisoners had escaped from two dozen jails during the protests.” (09/11/25)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nepal-protesters-propose-former-chief-122119015.html
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6) Palestine: Netanyahu signs West Bank squat expansion plan, pretends there’s no Palestinian state
Source: US News & World Report
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed an agreement on Thursday to push ahead with a controversial [squat] expansion plan that would cut across land that the Palestinians seek for [the state which has existed since 1988 and is recognized by most other states]. ‘There will never be a Palestinian state. This place is ours,’ Netanyahu said during a visit to the Maale Adumim [squat] in the West Bank where thousands of new housing units would be added. … Last month, the E1 project, which would bisect the occupied West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, received final approval from a Defence Ministry planning commission. Netanyahu was joined by nationalist members of his coalition, including far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who in August said [the] Palestinian state ‘is being erased from the table, not with slogans but with actions.'” (09/11/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-11/netanyahu-signs-west-bank-settlement-expansion-plan
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7) Belarus: Regime pardons scores of prisoners “at the request” of Trump, Lukashenko says
Source: CNN
“Belarus has pardoned 52 prisoners and released them into Lithuania, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said on Thursday, as the Baltic nation and Belarus both thanked US President Donald Trump for his involvement. It is the latest release of political prisoners by Belarus amid warming relations between Washington and Minsk. A Trump administration official said the United States would ease some sanctions on Belarus’[s] state-run airline, Belavia, ‘based on the prisoner releases to date and constructive engagement.'” (09/11/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/europe/belarus-pardons-prisoners-trump-lukashenko-intl
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8) US inflation climbed in August as Trump’s tariffs intensified
Source: ABC News
“Consumer prices rose 2.9% in August compared to a year ago, marking an uptick in price increases as President Donald Trump’s tariff policy intensified. The reading matched economists’ expectations. The fresh inflation data indicated an acceleration from a 2.7% inflation rate recorded in the month prior, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Price increases remain below the 3% rate recorded in January, the month Trump took office. The new report arrives days before the Federal Reserve is set to announce a widely expected quarter-point interest rate cut.” (09/11/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/inflation-expected-climbed-august-fed-weighs-interest-rate/story?id=125436582
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9) CA: At $183 billion San Francisco tech company, man’s hunger strike enters second week
Source: SFGate
“Guido Reichstadter, for the past week, has gone without a calorie. He’s survived on vitamins and electrolytes, conducting a hunger strike to protest the San Francisco startup Anthropic’s pursuit of super-powerful artificial intelligence. Reichstadter, on Tuesday, the eighth day of his protest, sat hunched in a rollator outside the company’s South of Market office. He drank from a bottle of water gifted to him by a construction worker employed in Anthropic’s building. He thought about the two hunger strikers he’d inspired in London, protesting outside Google’s DeepMind AI lab. And he spoke with SFGATE about the experience of hunger striking, and about his hope that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will shut down his startup’s AI development — or at least give Reichstadter a reason why he won’t.” (09/11/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/san-francisco-anthropic-hunger-strike-21039988.php
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10) Nadine Menendez sentenced to 4.5 years in prison
Source: The Hill
“The wife of ex-Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was on Thursday sentenced to more than four years in prison for her role in a scheme to trade her husband’s political power for lavish bribes. Nadine Menendez, 58, was convicted in April of plotting with her husband, the former chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to exchange his clout for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz.” (09/11/25)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5498695-ex-senator-wife-prison/
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11) Trump threatens new frivolous litigation, this time versus NYT, over Epstein reportage
Source: New York Times
“President Trump on Tuesday threatened to sue The New York Times for publishing articles related to a sexually suggestive note and drawing that was given to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and appears to have been signed by Mr. Trump. The note was released by Congress this week. Mr. Trump and his aides have denied that he was involved in the creation of the note …. The Times reported in an article on Monday that the signature on the Epstein note … closely resembled the signatures on personal notes that Mr. Trump wrote to New York City officials from 1987 through 2001. In a letter to The Times, a personal lawyer for Mr. Trump …. requested a retraction and apology from The Times. He also raised the prospect that Mr. Trump would file a $10 billion lawsuit against the news organization.” (09/11/25)
https://archive.is/PG5Tb
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12) FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta, five others
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said it is seeking information from seven companies including Alphabet, Meta and OpenAI that provide consumer-facing AI-powered chatbots, on how these firms measure, test and monitor potentially negative impacts of the technology. The FTC said it is seeking information on how the companies monetize user engagement, process user inputs and generate outputs in response to user inquiries and also use the information obtained through conversations with the chatbots.” (09/11/25)
https://archive.is/pTy0L
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13) New Zealand: Political prisoner Kim Dotcom loses latest bid to avoid rendition to US regime
Source: CBS News
“A New Zealand court has rejected the latest bid by internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom to halt his deportation to the United States on charges related to his file-sharing website Megaupload. Dotcom had asked the High Court to review the legality of an official’s August 2024 decision that he should be surrendered to the U.S. to face trial on charges of copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering. It was the latest chapter in a protracted 13-year battle by the U.S. government to extradite the Finnish-German millionaire from New Zealand. The Megaupload founder had applied for what in New Zealand is called a judicial review, in which a judge is asked to evaluate whether an official’s decision was lawful. A judge on Wednesday dismissed Dotcom’s arguments that the decision to deport him was politically motivated and that he would face grossly disproportionate treatment in the U.S.” (09/11/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kim-dotcom-us-extradition-megaupload-charges-appeal-denied/
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14) Pentagon OKs $14.2 million for Lebanese regime’s efforts to disarm Hezbollah
Source: United Press International
“The Trump administration approved an assistance package worth $14.2 million to assist Lebanon with its efforts to disarm Hezbollah, the U.S. Defense Department announced Wednesday. The Lebanese military will use funds from the Presidential Drawdown Authority package to dismantle arms held by non-state groups, including Hezbollah. On Friday, the Lebanese government welcomed a plan by its army to disarm the Iran-backed Hezbollah. This came after Lebanon’s Cabinet approved of a U.S. proposal to direct the Lebanese military to enforce a state monopoly on weapons by the end of the year.” (09/10/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/09/10/Defense-Department-Lebanon-assistance-Hezbollah/7461757544520/
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15) CO: Authorities say student who had been radicalized fired revolver at school, wounding two
Source: SFGate
“A 16-year-old boy who had been radicalized by an ‘extremist network’ fired a revolver multiple times at a suburban Denver high school, wounding two students, authorities said Thursday. Some students ran and others locked down during Wednesday’s shooting at Evergreen High School in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. One of the victims was shot inside the school and another outside. The suspect, a fellow student at the school, later died, officials with the Jefferson County sheriff’s office said. The new details were released at a news conference Thursday.” (09/11/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/authorities-say-student-who-had-been-radicalized-21043220.php
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16) NASA Blocks Chinese Citizens From Working On Space Programs
Source: NDTV [India]
“NASA has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programs, underscoring the intensifying space race between the rival powers. The policy shift was first reported by Bloomberg News and confirmed by the US government agency. ‘NASA has taken internal action pertaining to Chinese nationals, including restricting physical and cybersecurity access to our facilities, materials, and network to ensure the security of our work,’ NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens told AFP Wednesday. According to Bloomberg, Chinese nationals had previously been allowed to work as contractors or students contributing to research, although not as staff. But on September 5 several individuals told the outlet they were suddenly locked out of IT systems and barred from in-person meetings.” (09/10/25)
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasa-blocks-chinese-citizens-from-working-on-space-programs-9255148
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17) FL: Madison Cawthorn Arrested Ahead Of Reported Political Comeback
Source: Aol
“Former North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn was arrested Wednesday in Florida on an out-of-county warrant after he failed to show up in court, according to news coverage. Cawthorn was arrested Wednesday morning in Cape Coral for failing to make an appearance in court over an Aug. 19 citation for driving without a valid license, according to Gulf Coast News. The former one-term congressman was later released on a $2,000 bond, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Gulf Coast News reported. … The arrest comes after Axios reported on Sept. 3 that Cawthorn is preparing to launch a 2026 bid for Florida’s 19th congressional district. The open seat is currently held by Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, who announced in February that he is running for Florida governor instead of reelection.” (09/11/25)
https://www.aol.com/articles/madison-cawthorn-arrested-ahead-reported-151355110.html
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18) Cuba suffers fifth nationwide blackout in a year as crisis deepens
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Cubans were in despair Wednesday after their cash-strapped communist country plunged into its fifth nationwide power blackout in a year. ‘A total disconnection of the SEN electricity system has occurred, which may be associated with an unexpected shutdown’ of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric power plant, the energy ministry said on its X account. It added that it was investigating the outage, which happened at around 9:15am (13:15GMT). Cuba is already in the throes of its worst economic crisis in three decades. In recent years it has been plagued by hours-long daily blackouts, recurring electricity system breakdowns and an acute shortage of fuel to keep producing power.” (09/11/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250911-cuba-suffers-fifth-nationwide-blackout-this-year-as-crisis-deepens
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19) ME: Principals fight DOJ request for student names in transgender athlete case
Source: SFGate
“A Maine principals’ group is fighting a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice that seeks the names of all students playing interscholastic sports in the state as the DOJ attempts to ban transgender athletes from participating. President Donald Trump’s administration sued Maine in April for not complying with an executive order barring transgender athletes from sports. The Justice Department followed up with a subpoena of the Maine Principals’ Association, a nonprofit that oversees school sports in Maine, seeking a host of information. The full scope of the subpoena isn’t public because a judge sealed it. However, in a Sept. 4 legal filing, the principals’ association said the subpoena included ‘requests for the production of all athletic rosters for the state,’ and would require providing ‘personally identifiable information of students, many of whom are unrelated to the underlying controversy.'” (09/11/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/maine-principals-fight-doj-request-for-student-21043222.php
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20) TX: “Prepared” homeowner shoots suspect at center of police manhunt, cops say
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“A man at the center of a police manhunt tried fleeing into a nearby home, then was gunned down by the homeowner, Texas police say. The suspect, who police have not publicly identified, is accused of shooting a woman and a police officer on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 10, kicking off an hours-long search, Austin Police Department Chief Lisa Davis said during a news briefing. … the accused shooter tried to escape by entering a house, Davis said. However, the homeowner was ‘prepared,’ and quickly opened fire on the intruder, shooting him in an arm and a leg, she said. The man was taken into custody, Davis said.” (09/10/25)
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article312055360.html
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21) How Tyranny Becomes Entrenched: 9/11 and the Police State’s Endless Power Grabs
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by John Whitehead
“They said it was for safety. They said it was for order. They said it was for the good of the nation. They always say it’s for something good … until it isn’t. Nearly a quarter-century after 9/11, we are still living with the consequences of fear-driven government power grabs. What began as ‘temporary’ measures for our security have hardened into a permanent architecture of control. The bipartisan police-state architecture that began with 9/11 has been passed from president to president and party to party, each recycling the same justifications — safety, security, patriotism — to expand its powers at the expense of the citizenry.” (09/11/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/09/11/how-tyranny-becomes-entrenched-9-11-and-the-police-states-endless-power-grabs/
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22) America’s Israel double standard backfires
Source: Washington Post
by Shadi Hamid
“Tuesday’s strike was an odd but telling maneuver: kill the people you’re trying to negotiate with to prolong the war you say you’re trying to end. But it wasn’t the first time. In strikes on Tehran in June, Israel tried to assassinate Ali Shamkhani, the Iranian official overseeing nuclear talks with the Trump administration. … There is indeed a double standard at play, but not in the way that is often assumed. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that appears to have an unlimited right to defend itself, while simultaneously denying that right to others. It can act with impunity across international borders, violate sovereignty and disrupt diplomatic processes — consequences be damned. No other country in the region, or anywhere else, enjoys such latitude. This isn’t only about Israel, though. It’s about us — about America’s willingness to enable behavior that we would condemn from any other nation.” (09/11/25)
https://archive.is/KvTaG
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23) Now The Feds Want In On The University Patent Racket
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“If the feds won’t eliminate patents and government research funding, they should at least eliminate any and all combinations of the two, rather than demanding their own taste of the racket’s revenues.” (09/11/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19936
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24) Is America Great Again Yet?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“With the murder of 31-year-old noted conservative advocate Charlie Kirk, it’s worth asking an important question: Is America great again yet? My answer: Far from it. In my book, Kirk’s killing demonstrates that America is still a very sick, dysfunctional nation. Not only are there periodic killings like this one, there are also mass killings. … And let’s not forget that we still live in a massive drug-addled society, one in which millions of Americans are ingesting drugs because, U.S. officials say, they are being ‘attacked’ by international drug dealers who, I guess, are somehow forcing them to ingest the drugs against their will.” (09/11/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/09/11/is-america-great-again-yet/
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25) Trump’s Barbaric Boat Attack
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The president and his minions are effectively claiming that he has unchecked, unreviewable authority to mete out death to anyone he deems to be a threat. For all intents and purposes, Trump is claiming to be an absolute ruler and he is acting like a barbaric despot. This is the danger that opponents of presidential usurpation and the warfare state have been warning against for decades, and now it is here. This is lawless tyranny out in the open for everyone to see. The tyrant isn’t concealing his abuses of power. He is proud of them.” (09/11/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/trumps-barbaric-boat-attack
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26) Kamala Harris Accuses Biden’s Team of Sabotaging Her
Source: The Inteligencer
by Ed Kilgore
“The period of finger-pointing and blame-shifting among Democrats for their 2024 election defeat should be near its end, but not before hearing from Kamala Harris. Her book on the 2024 campaign, 107 Days, will be released by Simon & Schuster on September 23, but The Atlantic has published an excerpt about her life as vice president prior to Joe Biden’s announcement that he was dropping out. The only way to put it is that Harris is seething with anger over her treatment by Team Biden before she was suddenly thrust into the global limelight as putative replacement candidate.” (09/10/25)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-accuses-biden-s-team-of-sabotaging-her/ar-AA1MhJcG
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27) The State Power to Discriminate
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“John Locke’s idea that tyranny is arbitrary power as opposed to the rule of law seems to underlie the whole classical liberal tradition (see Locke’s Second Treatise of Government [1690, Chapter 18]). Arbitrary power allows the state or any other central political authority to discriminate among its subjects by bribing its supporters and harming its opponents. In reality, public discrimination (in the sense of state discrimination) is probably a synonym of arbitrary power. The gradual discovery of the rule of law has come with the idea that the state should not discriminate among its citizens, residents, and often even foreigners.” (09/11/25)
https://www.econlib.org/the-state-power-to-discriminate
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28) Violence must never be a response to speech
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Nico Perrino
“Sigmund Freud once said civilization started the day man first cast a word instead of a stone. He was right. Words are not violence. Words are what we use instead of violence to resolve our differences. We must not lose sight of this civilization-defining distinction. Unfortunately, since 2021, we’ve seen a steady rise in support for violence in response to speech on campus. … While we do not know the identity or motive of the gunman, what happened yesterday is indicative of a broader cancer in our body politic that we must address. But it must not be addressed with censorship.” (09/11/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/violence-must-never-be-response-speech
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29) Real Estate Roulette: Living on the Streets in the Age of Trump
Source: TomDispatch
by Mattea Kramer & Sean Fogler
“The federal takeover of Washington, D.C., rightfully attracted extensive media coverage, but an executive order called ‘Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,’ quietly issued on July 24th, received remarkably little attention. Perhaps it didn’t make a splash because it wasn’t specifically about policing (or, for that matter, National Guarding), but more generally about how we should treat people who already exist on the outermost fringes of society, human beings who have long been reduced to labels like ‘addict’ or ‘homeless.’ Indeed, the Trump administration is counting on us to renounce those living on the streets, while struggling with their mental health or the cost of housing (or both). And if history is any guide, that may be exactly what most of us do.” (09/11/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/pushing-people-into-a-really-bad-system-will-end-really-badly/
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30) A Note on Toleration — Religious and Political
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Jonathan H Adler
“At times like this it is worth considering and reflecting upon the history and principles of religious toleration. We often lost sight of just how demanding and challenging calls for religious toleration were in prior times. Religious toleration was not about being nice to people with different customs or holidays, let alone approving or affirming them, but something far more profound.” (09/11/25)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/09/11/a-note-on-toleration-religious-and-political/
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31) The Eternal Social Justice Summer
Source: Washington Monthly
by Richard D Kahlenberg
“In a moment when the President of the United States is trying to use the power of the state to intimidate critics in academia and the media (not to mention his political opponents), some may think that a new book like Thomas Chatterton Williams’s Summer of Our Discontent, which focuses mainly on the illiberalism of the left, is terribly timed. They will fault the author for ‘not meeting the moment,’ or worse, for ‘enabling’ an autocrat by articulating ‘right-wing talking points.’ Liberal critics have already panned the volume …. In fact, the book by Williams, an iconoclastic writer for The Atlantic, could not have come at a better moment. It is precisely because Donald Trump is wreaking havoc daily that it’s crucial to comprehend why so many of our fellow Americans came to dislike the Democrats even more than the unlikable and chaotic man they elected president.” (09/11/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/thomas-chatterton-williams-summer-of-our-discontent/
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32) Left-Libertarianisms
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“A liberal in the 19th century was a believer in small government, free markets, and individual freedom, roughly what we now call a libertarian. ‘Libertarian’ had earlier been used for left anarchists, still earlier for believers in the doctrine of free will. In the mid-20th Century, after opponents of liberalism stole its name, believers in classical liberalism started calling themselves libertarians. While ‘libertarian’ can still mean a left anarchist, ‘left libertarian’ usually means a libertarian in the newer sense who supports ideas or policies usually identified with the left.” (09/11/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/left-libertarianisms-886
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33) The American Reckoning
Source: Common Dreams
by Dr. Mark Brauner
“I have met people who gave me grace in Iran, in Mexico, in Haiti, in Gaza, in Cambodia, in Vietnam. People who understood the difference between ordinary citizens and the governments that rule them. People who offered me kindness when they had every reason not to. That grace stays with me. As a US citizen and physician, I have lived my life trying to hold onto a sense of responsibility. But what I see now, in Gaza, in Haiti, in the wake of Iraq and Afghanistan, is the full weight of what psychologists call diffusion of responsibility. It is the shrug that says: Someone else will answer for this, someone else will carry the shame. The United States cannot keep living in that shrug.” (09/11/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-reckoning-for-imperialism
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34) Puerto Rican Prisons Allowed Inmates To Work for Themselves. It Was a Huge Success.
Source: Reason
by Jesse Walker
“These self-employed prisoners earned more than inmates in traditional prison jobs and were more likely than other inmates to be rehabilitated.” (for publication 10/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/11/let-prisoners-work-for-themselves/
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35) State benefits come from nowhere
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“Many people receiving state benefits prefer to think of them as coming from ‘the universe,’ or some impersonal source rather than from taxpayers’ contributions. If benefits are thought of as transfers from workers, recipients may feel stigmatized, as though they are dependent on, or a burden to, others. They are dependent on, and supported by others, but they prefer not to acknowledge that fact. Imagining benefits as coming from a neutral, impersonal source, or even ‘the universe,’ helps them preserve the dignity of not having the sense of being beholden to any particular people.” (09/11/25)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/state-benefits-come-from-nowhere
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36) Confucius and Trump’s Department of War
Source: The Daily Economy
by Zachary Yost
“The US military’s global flailing has little to do with ‘defense.’ Returning to an accurate label might be a step toward policy realism.” (09/11/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/confucius-and-trumps-department-of-war/
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37) Mamdani: Democrats’ Antisemitism Problem
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder
“For the Democrat hard left [sic], the good news is that Zohran Mamdani, a self-described ‘Democratic socialist’ with a long history of what many consider antisemitism and anti-Israel activism, won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York. The bad news for the Democratic left [sic] is that he will likely win. It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump is not popular in New York, where a New York City judge found him liable in a ridiculous business fraud case and where a Manhattan jury convicted him of an equally ridiculous criminal charge of election interference. A recent poll of New York state Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, Hispanic, Black and white voters found Trump’s approval rating underwater with every racial, ethnic and religious group, except one.” (09/11/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/09/11/mamdani-democrats-antisemitism-problem-n2663113
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38) War Against Venezuela Is No Answer
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“No doubt, Venezuelans deserve better government. For more than a quarter century they have suffered under left-populist strongmen, first Hugo Chavez and then his successor and current president, Nicolas Maduro. Model authoritarians, the latter destroyed democracy, ravaged the economy, impoverished Venezuelans, and drove millions of people abroad. Alas, U.S. policy toward Venezuela has been a complete failure.” (09/11/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/war-against-venezuela-is-no-answer/
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39) The 9/11 Attacks Exposed Major Government Failure, But Americans Learned the Wrong Lessons
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“While the Bush administration claimed that the attacks occurred because of structural problems with the government’s intelligence apparatus, FBI agents were warned about suspicious activity by flight students who were among the 9/11 hijackers. The agents, however, blew off the warnings. The flight schools also alerted the Federal Aviation Administration about suspicious Arab students, but nothing came of it. In other words, the government didn’t need a Patriot Act or any other terrorism law to have stopped the hijackers …. Unfortunately, the US government did respond to the attacks, but in ways that made Americans worse off. From setting off wars in the Middle East to blowing up the economy at home, the US government took a crisis and turned it into an even bigger crisis, and we still are harvesting the bitter fruits.” (09/11/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/911-attacks-exposed-major-government-failure-americans-learned-wrong-lessons
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40) The Facade of Syria’s Upcoming Elections
Source: Antiwar.com
by JD Hester
“One of the most popular neoconservative prophecies whenever a government stands up to the US or Israel is the myth of a transition to Western-style democracy. Libya, after the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, which the ICC suggests may have been a war crime, supposedly had a ‘real shot’ at democracy according to Western media outlets like CNN. Over a decade later, the NATO intervention in Libya is almost universally considered a failure. … Now, after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria has not adopted the ways of the US. Instead, it has transitioned into a U.S.-legitimized authoritarian state under the command of former al-Qaeda leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa.” (09/11/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/jd_hester/2025/09/10/the-facade-of-syrias-upcoming-elections/
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41) Political Violence and the Reality Distortion Field
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“There have been 47 episodes of mass violence on school campuses this year. The 47th took place at a Denver-area high school, 26 years after the Denver-area high school shooting in Columbine, where three people were shot on Wednesday, two of them students. The 46th school shooting of the year had just one victim. Charlie Kirk, the conservative campus activist and podcaster, was shot in the neck during a question-and-answer session at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He died shortly thereafter. The question he was being asked, right at that moment, was about the number of mass shootings in America.” (09/10/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-10-political-violence-reality-distortion-field-charlie-kirk/
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42) More Government, More Gerrymandering
Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis
“Gerrymandering wars have arrived. At the President’s urging, Texas redrew its congressional lines seven years before the census window, tilting its delegation even farther to Republicans. California answered in kind, as Governor Gavin Newsom pushed a mid-decade hyper-partisan remap now headed to a statewide referendum. Legislatures in other states, both red and blue, may soon follow. The point is plain: when the prize is control of Washington, few will wait ten years to claim it.” (09/11/25)
https://lawliberty.org/more-government-more-gerrymandering/
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43) The Current Madness
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Two disturbing murders are in the news and in divided-divisive discussion: that of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska and conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Murder was once a private matter, in the sense that the perpetrator, hoping not to get caught, does his or her horrific deed away from cameras and prying eyes. Public murder is different. The provocation in killing someone in full public view, with many witnesses, is almost inevitably terroristic in nature.” (09/11/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/09/11/current-madness/
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44) Outlawry in the Caribbean
Source: Foreign Policy
by Benjamin R Farley
“On Sept. 2, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the sinking of an outboard motor-powered, open boat somewhere in the Caribbean, killing 11 people. The Trump administration claims that the boat departed from Venezuela and was operated by Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in February. Rather than interdicting and searching the vessel, then arresting its occupants if evidence of drug smuggling were discovered — the approach that the United States normally uses to counter narcotics trafficking at sea, which is the approach required by law — the Trump administration chose to kill all those aboard. And it has promised more such killings to come. Responsible states do not kill people intentionally without a legal basis.” (09/10/25)
https://archive.is/8qsjo
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45) Charlie Kirk’s assassination latest evidence US is suffering epidemic of leftist [sic] violence
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“We are suffering through an epidemic of leftist [sic] violence. The ruthless assassination of conservative youth leader Charlie Kirk, 31, at a crowded campus event in Utah on Wednesday is the latest manifestation of the hateful rhetoric aimed at President Trump and his MAGA movement. It’s a sad irony that Kirk’s shockingly public murder happened the day before the trial begins of Ryan Routh, one of the alleged assassins who tried to rub out Trump during the 2024 campaign. Prescient as always, Kirk understood the consequences of the escalating violent rhetoric of the left [sic], as he and Trump kept winning the hearts and minds of a new generation, especially young men, with logic and common sense.” (09/11/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/11/opinion/charlie-kirks-assassination-latest-example-us-is-suffering-an-epidemic-of-leftist-violence-miranda-devine/
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46) An Open Society Requires Constant Vigilance
Source: Persuasion
by Roger Partridge
“Who is responsible for defending liberal democracy when its norms come under attack? The philosopher Karl Popper, writing as fascist armies swept Europe, understood this was not an abstract question. Popper championed societies that were fundamentally ‘open’ — sustained by critical inquiry and peaceful disagreement, rather than imposed unity. But Popper grasped a paradox: openness could survive only if actively defended against those who would exploit its openness to destroy it.” (09/10/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-price-of-the-open-society-is
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There are things you don’t want to politicize
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“At the risk of saying something controversial in a very sensitive moment, I think extrajudicial killings and vigilantism and terrorism are bad and that the rule of law, due process, and other enlightenment liberal democratic norms are good. I think Charlie Kirk, God rest his soul, was a real shitbag. But I’d rather live in a world with him in it than one in which folks kill each other to get retribution or achieve political ends. I also don’t think that how we got here is some great mystery.” (09/10/25)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/there-are-things-you-dont-want-to
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48) 47) The Assassin’s Veto
Source: Yascha Mounk
by Yascha Mounk
“Defenders of free speech often worry about the heckler’s veto. Some protestors believe that the First Amendment gives them the right to disrupt the speech of those they do not like. But this is a misunderstanding of the logic of free expression. For if hecklers had the right to disrupt any speech, they would quickly come to be in control of what can and cannot be said. While everyone must be free to peacefully protest forms of expression they do not like, they do not have the right to stop such speech from taking place. I share those concerns over the heckler’s veto. But the danger which now faces the American Republic is deeper still. As violence descends on the land, and the price of engaging in political speech grows and grows, we are increasingly faced with something even scarier, both for the individual and for our political culture: the assassin’s veto.” (09/10/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-assassins-veto
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49) Three Crises Facing the Labor Movement
Source: In These Times
by Hamilton Nolan
“America did not get to the bad place it is in today by accident. We are here as a result of the combination of a political system that serves money, and a half-century long explosion of economic inequality that has produced an oligarchy. Donald Trump is the product of these factors, but he is not the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that too much power has flown into the hands of too few people, and they have used that power to arrange the entire economic and political system in their favor. Democracy, such as it was, is an inevitable casualty of this process. Climbing out of the hole that we are in will require more than one or two favorable election cycles. It will require shifting that underlying balance of power away from the oligarchs and their allies, and back towards the rest of us.” (09/10/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-unions-strikes-trump-nlrb-crisis
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50) AI, Inevitability, and Human Sovereignty
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Josh Stylman
“I didn’t want to feed my soul into a machine. That was my first instinct when AI tools started appearing everywhere – not concern about jobs or privacy, but something deeper. These tools promise to make us smarter while systematically making us more dependent. After decades of working in the internet industry, I’d already watched it transform into something more insidious than just a surveillance machine – a system designed to shape how we think, what we believe, and how we see ourselves. AI felt like the culmination of that trajectory. But resistance became futile when I realized we’re already participating whether we know it or not.” (09/10/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/ai-inevitability-and-human-sovereignty/
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51) Reason Interview: Charlie Kirk and America's History With Political Violence
Source: Reason
"Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk and how political violence is reshaping the national climate." (09/11/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/11/charlie-kirk-and-americas-history-with-political-violence/
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52) The Brian Nichols Show, 09/11/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Did Big Pharma Hide the Truth on COVID Shots?” (09/11/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/rfk-bombshell-did-big-pharma-hide-the-truth-on-covid-shots
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53) FYPod, 09/11/25
Source: The Bulwark
“Please Stop Sharing the Charlie Kirk Shooting Video.” (09/11/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_tXfUNWH1Q
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54) Rising, 09/11/25
Source: The Hill
“Charlie Kirk assassinated; why right and left should honor his legacy.” (09/11/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5498012-rising-september-11-2025/
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55) Conflicts of Interest, episode 836
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Israel Threatens More Assassination Strikes Against Hamas.” (09/11/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-836-israel-threatens-more-assassination-strikes-against-hamas/
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56) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/11/25
Source: The New Republic
“Nancy Mace Erupts in Fury on House Floor after Dem’s Speech Hits Home.” (09/11/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/200298/nancy-mace-erupts-fury-house-floor-dem-speech-hits-home
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57) The Good Fight, 09/11/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“The Good Fight Club: Russian Drones in Poland, Low Literacy in Schools, and Can Anyone Rein in Trump?” (09/11/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-good-fight-club-4
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58) Advisory Opinions, 09/11/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Congress Won’t Contradict Trump.” (09/11/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/congress-wont-contradict-trump/
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59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/11/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Kills at Least 35 in Yemen Airstrikes, Russia Denies It Launched Drones Into Poland, and More.” (09/11/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRcO_KhoPnU
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60) System Update, episode 512
Source: System Update
“Charlie Kirk Assassinated; NATO Alleges Russian Drones Flew Over Poland, and More.” (09/10/25)
https://rumble.com/v6yrhl0-system-update-show-512.html
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61) The Fifth Column, episode 523
Source: The Fifth Column
“On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk.” (09/10/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/523-on-the-assassination-of-charlie
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62) Underthrow Podcast, 09/10/25
Source: Underthrow
“Why Young People Can’t Afford Housing.” (09/10/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHV1C8aGI1Y
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63) The Libertarian Angle, 09/10/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Trump’s Ongoing Battle Against the Fed.” (09/10/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdHCzmVelJc
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64) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2690
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Man Who Keeps Defeating the State.” (09/10/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2690-the-man-who-keeps-defeating-the-state/
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65) LPA Solidarity Stream, episode 7
Source: LP Alliance
“Tim Krenz’s Plan for the Constitution!” (09/10/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7V30TTNFc4
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1) Brazil: Bolsonaro convicted on coup charges
2) US Initial Jobless Claims Jump to Highest in Almost Four Years
3) UK: Regime fires ambassador to US over Epstein links
4) CA: Legislature passes ban on ICE gang thugs going masked
5) Nepal: Protesters propose former chief justice for interim PM as death toll rises
6) Palestine: Netanyahu signs West Bank squat expansion plan, pretends there’s no Palestinian state
7) Belarus: Regime pardons scores of prisoners “at the request” of Trump, Lukashenko says
8) US inflation climbed in August as Trump’s tariffs intensified
9) CA: At $183 billion San Francisco tech company, man’s hunger strike enters second week
10) Nadine Menendez sentenced to 4.5 years in prison
11) Trump threatens new frivolous litigation, this time versus NYT, over Epstein reportage
12) FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta, five others
13) New Zealand: Political prisoner Kim Dotcom loses latest bid to avoid rendition to US regime
14) Pentagon OKs $14.2 million for Lebanese regime’s efforts to disarm Hezbollah
15) CO: Authorities say student who had been radicalized fired revolver at school, wounding two
16) NASA Blocks Chinese Citizens From Working On Space Programs
17) FL: Madison Cawthorn Arrested Ahead Of Reported Political Comeback
18) Cuba suffers fifth nationwide blackout in a year as crisis deepens
19) ME: Principals fight DOJ request for student names in transgender athlete case
20) TX: “Prepared” homeowner shoots suspect at center of police manhunt, cops say
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) How Tyranny Becomes Entrenched: 9/11 and the Police State’s Endless Power Grabs
22) America’s Israel double standard backfires
23) Now The Feds Want In On The University Patent Racket
24) Is America Great Again Yet?
25) Trump’s Barbaric Boat Attack
26) Kamala Harris Accuses Biden’s Team of Sabotaging Her
27) The State Power to Discriminate
28) Violence must never be a response to speech
29) Real Estate Roulette: Living on the Streets in the Age of Trump
30) A Note on Toleration — Religious and Political
31) The Eternal Social Justice Summer
32) Left-Libertarianisms
33) The American Reckoning
34) Puerto Rican Prisons Allowed Inmates To Work for Themselves. It Was a Huge Success.
35) State benefits come from nowhere
36) Confucius and Trump’s Department of War
37) Mamdani: Democrats’ Antisemitism Problem
38) War Against Venezuela Is No Answer
39) The 9/11 Attacks Exposed Major Government Failure, But Americans Learned the Wrong Lessons
40) The Facade of Syria’s Upcoming Elections
41) Political Violence and the Reality Distortion Field
42) More Government, More Gerrymandering
43) The Current Madness
44) Outlawry in the Caribbean
45) Charlie Kirk’s assassination latest evidence US is suffering epidemic of leftist [sic] violence
46) An Open Society Requires Constant Vigilance
47) There are things you don’t want to politicize
48) The Assassin’s Veto
49) Three Crises Facing the Labor Movement
50) AI, Inevitability, and Human Sovereignty
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56) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/11/25
57) The Good Fight, 09/11/25
58) Advisory Opinions, 09/11/25
59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/11/25
60) System Update, episode 512
61) The Fifth Column, episode 523
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1) Brazil: Bolsonaro convicted on coup charges
Source: Reuters
“Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created. The presumptive ruling by a majority of a panel of five justices in Brazil’s Supreme Court makes Bolsonaro the first former president in the country’s history to be convicted for attacking democracy. … The verdict was not unanimous, with Justice Luiz Fux on Wednesday breaking with his peers by acquitting the former president of all charges. That single vote could open a path to challenges to the ruling, potentially bringing the trial’s conclusion closer to the run-up of the 2026 presidential elections, in which Bolsonaro has repeatedly said he is a candidate despite being barred from running for office.” (09/11/25)
https://archive.is/DwrFk
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2) US Initial Jobless Claims Jump to Highest in Almost Four Years
Source: Bloomberg
“Applications for US unemployment benefits jumped last week to the highest level in almost four years, indicating layoff activity may be on the rise amid a sharp slowdown in hiring. Initial claims rose by 27,000 to 263,000 in the week ended Sept. 6, the highest since October 2021, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for 235,000 applications. Thursday’s figures follow a monthly report on employment, published on Sept. 5, which showed the US added just 22,000 jobs in August, extending the sharp slowdown in job growth seen in recent months. Uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s economic policies has made employers more hesitant to hire in 2025.” (09/11/25)
https://archive.is/afAmI
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3) UK: Regime fires ambassador to US over Epstein links
Source: CNN
“Peter Mandelson was fired as Britain’s ambassador to the United States on Thursday after his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became another unwelcome problem for the embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Mandelson had been under mounting pressure over his relationship with Epstein after US lawmakers on Monday released a ‘birthday book,’ compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, in which the veteran Labour party politician had penned a handwritten note describing Epstein as ‘my best pal.’ … Hours later, the scandal snowballed after Bloomberg published a trove of emails between Mandelson and Epstein, in which Mandelson expressed support for his friend and offered to discuss his infamous 2008 Florida case with his political contacts. … Mandelson – who now has been forced out of three senior government roles over separate scandals – for years batted away questions about his links to Epstein.” (09/11/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/uk/peter-mandelson-uk-ambassador-fired-intl
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4) CA: Legislature passes ban on ICE gang thugs going masked
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
“California lawmakers passed measures Thursday that would ban federal and local law enforcement officers — including immigration agents — from covering their faces and require them to clearly identify themselves. The bills now head to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who, despite being an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, will have to grapple with potential legal questions presented by one of the measures.” (09/11/25)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-ban-ice-masks-21040999.php
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5) Nepal: Protesters propose former chief justice for interim PM as death toll rises
Source: Yahoo! News
“A former chief justice appeared likely to take over as Nepal’s interim leader following days of violent protests that collapsed the government and left at least 31 people dead. The Himalayan country erupted in violent protests over the weekend after the government abruptly banned 26 social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X, in what was seen as an attempt to silence criticism. … The agitation collapsed the government after prime minister KP Sharma Oli resigned, his rushed decision to lift the ban failing to bring order. On Thursday, as confusion continued over who was governing Nepal, former chief justice Sushila Karki, the first woman to hold the post in 2016, emerged as the frontrunner for interim leader, backed by many of the agitation’s leaders. … Meanwhile, Nepal police said over 15,000 prisoners had escaped from two dozen jails during the protests.” (09/11/25)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nepal-protesters-propose-former-chief-122119015.html
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6) Palestine: Netanyahu signs West Bank squat expansion plan, pretends there’s no Palestinian state
Source: US News & World Report
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed an agreement on Thursday to push ahead with a controversial [squat] expansion plan that would cut across land that the Palestinians seek for [the state which has existed since 1988 and is recognized by most other states]. ‘There will never be a Palestinian state. This place is ours,’ Netanyahu said during a visit to the Maale Adumim [squat] in the West Bank where thousands of new housing units would be added. … Last month, the E1 project, which would bisect the occupied West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, received final approval from a Defence Ministry planning commission. Netanyahu was joined by nationalist members of his coalition, including far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who in August said [the] Palestinian state ‘is being erased from the table, not with slogans but with actions.'” (09/11/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-11/netanyahu-signs-west-bank-settlement-expansion-plan
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7) Belarus: Regime pardons scores of prisoners “at the request” of Trump, Lukashenko says
Source: CNN
“Belarus has pardoned 52 prisoners and released them into Lithuania, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said on Thursday, as the Baltic nation and Belarus both thanked US President Donald Trump for his involvement. It is the latest release of political prisoners by Belarus amid warming relations between Washington and Minsk. A Trump administration official said the United States would ease some sanctions on Belarus’[s] state-run airline, Belavia, ‘based on the prisoner releases to date and constructive engagement.'” (09/11/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/europe/belarus-pardons-prisoners-trump-lukashenko-intl
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8) US inflation climbed in August as Trump’s tariffs intensified
Source: ABC News
“Consumer prices rose 2.9% in August compared to a year ago, marking an uptick in price increases as President Donald Trump’s tariff policy intensified. The reading matched economists’ expectations. The fresh inflation data indicated an acceleration from a 2.7% inflation rate recorded in the month prior, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Price increases remain below the 3% rate recorded in January, the month Trump took office. The new report arrives days before the Federal Reserve is set to announce a widely expected quarter-point interest rate cut.” (09/11/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/inflation-expected-climbed-august-fed-weighs-interest-rate/story?id=125436582
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9) CA: At $183 billion San Francisco tech company, man’s hunger strike enters second week
Source: SFGate
“Guido Reichstadter, for the past week, has gone without a calorie. He’s survived on vitamins and electrolytes, conducting a hunger strike to protest the San Francisco startup Anthropic’s pursuit of super-powerful artificial intelligence. Reichstadter, on Tuesday, the eighth day of his protest, sat hunched in a rollator outside the company’s South of Market office. He drank from a bottle of water gifted to him by a construction worker employed in Anthropic’s building. He thought about the two hunger strikers he’d inspired in London, protesting outside Google’s DeepMind AI lab. And he spoke with SFGATE about the experience of hunger striking, and about his hope that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will shut down his startup’s AI development — or at least give Reichstadter a reason why he won’t.” (09/11/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/san-francisco-anthropic-hunger-strike-21039988.php
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10) Nadine Menendez sentenced to 4.5 years in prison
Source: The Hill
“The wife of ex-Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was on Thursday sentenced to more than four years in prison for her role in a scheme to trade her husband’s political power for lavish bribes. Nadine Menendez, 58, was convicted in April of plotting with her husband, the former chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to exchange his clout for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz.” (09/11/25)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5498695-ex-senator-wife-prison/
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11) Trump threatens new frivolous litigation, this time versus NYT, over Epstein reportage
Source: New York Times
“President Trump on Tuesday threatened to sue The New York Times for publishing articles related to a sexually suggestive note and drawing that was given to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and appears to have been signed by Mr. Trump. The note was released by Congress this week. Mr. Trump and his aides have denied that he was involved in the creation of the note …. The Times reported in an article on Monday that the signature on the Epstein note … closely resembled the signatures on personal notes that Mr. Trump wrote to New York City officials from 1987 through 2001. In a letter to The Times, a personal lawyer for Mr. Trump …. requested a retraction and apology from The Times. He also raised the prospect that Mr. Trump would file a $10 billion lawsuit against the news organization.” (09/11/25)
https://archive.is/PG5Tb
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12) FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta, five others
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said it is seeking information from seven companies including Alphabet, Meta and OpenAI that provide consumer-facing AI-powered chatbots, on how these firms measure, test and monitor potentially negative impacts of the technology. The FTC said it is seeking information on how the companies monetize user engagement, process user inputs and generate outputs in response to user inquiries and also use the information obtained through conversations with the chatbots.” (09/11/25)
https://archive.is/pTy0L
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13) New Zealand: Political prisoner Kim Dotcom loses latest bid to avoid rendition to US regime
Source: CBS News
“A New Zealand court has rejected the latest bid by internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom to halt his deportation to the United States on charges related to his file-sharing website Megaupload. Dotcom had asked the High Court to review the legality of an official’s August 2024 decision that he should be surrendered to the U.S. to face trial on charges of copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering. It was the latest chapter in a protracted 13-year battle by the U.S. government to extradite the Finnish-German millionaire from New Zealand. The Megaupload founder had applied for what in New Zealand is called a judicial review, in which a judge is asked to evaluate whether an official’s decision was lawful. A judge on Wednesday dismissed Dotcom’s arguments that the decision to deport him was politically motivated and that he would face grossly disproportionate treatment in the U.S.” (09/11/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kim-dotcom-us-extradition-megaupload-charges-appeal-denied/
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14) Pentagon OKs $14.2 million for Lebanese regime’s efforts to disarm Hezbollah
Source: United Press International
“The Trump administration approved an assistance package worth $14.2 million to assist Lebanon with its efforts to disarm Hezbollah, the U.S. Defense Department announced Wednesday. The Lebanese military will use funds from the Presidential Drawdown Authority package to dismantle arms held by non-state groups, including Hezbollah. On Friday, the Lebanese government welcomed a plan by its army to disarm the Iran-backed Hezbollah. This came after Lebanon’s Cabinet approved of a U.S. proposal to direct the Lebanese military to enforce a state monopoly on weapons by the end of the year.” (09/10/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/09/10/Defense-Department-Lebanon-assistance-Hezbollah/7461757544520/
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15) CO: Authorities say student who had been radicalized fired revolver at school, wounding two
Source: SFGate
“A 16-year-old boy who had been radicalized by an ‘extremist network’ fired a revolver multiple times at a suburban Denver high school, wounding two students, authorities said Thursday. Some students ran and others locked down during Wednesday’s shooting at Evergreen High School in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. One of the victims was shot inside the school and another outside. The suspect, a fellow student at the school, later died, officials with the Jefferson County sheriff’s office said. The new details were released at a news conference Thursday.” (09/11/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/authorities-say-student-who-had-been-radicalized-21043220.php
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16) NASA Blocks Chinese Citizens From Working On Space Programs
Source: NDTV [India]
“NASA has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programs, underscoring the intensifying space race between the rival powers. The policy shift was first reported by Bloomberg News and confirmed by the US government agency. ‘NASA has taken internal action pertaining to Chinese nationals, including restricting physical and cybersecurity access to our facilities, materials, and network to ensure the security of our work,’ NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens told AFP Wednesday. According to Bloomberg, Chinese nationals had previously been allowed to work as contractors or students contributing to research, although not as staff. But on September 5 several individuals told the outlet they were suddenly locked out of IT systems and barred from in-person meetings.” (09/10/25)
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasa-blocks-chinese-citizens-from-working-on-space-programs-9255148
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17) FL: Madison Cawthorn Arrested Ahead Of Reported Political Comeback
Source: Aol
“Former North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn was arrested Wednesday in Florida on an out-of-county warrant after he failed to show up in court, according to news coverage. Cawthorn was arrested Wednesday morning in Cape Coral for failing to make an appearance in court over an Aug. 19 citation for driving without a valid license, according to Gulf Coast News. The former one-term congressman was later released on a $2,000 bond, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Gulf Coast News reported. … The arrest comes after Axios reported on Sept. 3 that Cawthorn is preparing to launch a 2026 bid for Florida’s 19th congressional district. The open seat is currently held by Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, who announced in February that he is running for Florida governor instead of reelection.” (09/11/25)
https://www.aol.com/articles/madison-cawthorn-arrested-ahead-reported-151355110.html
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18) Cuba suffers fifth nationwide blackout in a year as crisis deepens
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Cubans were in despair Wednesday after their cash-strapped communist country plunged into its fifth nationwide power blackout in a year. ‘A total disconnection of the SEN electricity system has occurred, which may be associated with an unexpected shutdown’ of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric power plant, the energy ministry said on its X account. It added that it was investigating the outage, which happened at around 9:15am (13:15GMT). Cuba is already in the throes of its worst economic crisis in three decades. In recent years it has been plagued by hours-long daily blackouts, recurring electricity system breakdowns and an acute shortage of fuel to keep producing power.” (09/11/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250911-cuba-suffers-fifth-nationwide-blackout-this-year-as-crisis-deepens
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19) ME: Principals fight DOJ request for student names in transgender athlete case
Source: SFGate
“A Maine principals’ group is fighting a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice that seeks the names of all students playing interscholastic sports in the state as the DOJ attempts to ban transgender athletes from participating. President Donald Trump’s administration sued Maine in April for not complying with an executive order barring transgender athletes from sports. The Justice Department followed up with a subpoena of the Maine Principals’ Association, a nonprofit that oversees school sports in Maine, seeking a host of information. The full scope of the subpoena isn’t public because a judge sealed it. However, in a Sept. 4 legal filing, the principals’ association said the subpoena included ‘requests for the production of all athletic rosters for the state,’ and would require providing ‘personally identifiable information of students, many of whom are unrelated to the underlying controversy.'” (09/11/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/maine-principals-fight-doj-request-for-student-21043222.php
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20) TX: “Prepared” homeowner shoots suspect at center of police manhunt, cops say
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“A man at the center of a police manhunt tried fleeing into a nearby home, then was gunned down by the homeowner, Texas police say. The suspect, who police have not publicly identified, is accused of shooting a woman and a police officer on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 10, kicking off an hours-long search, Austin Police Department Chief Lisa Davis said during a news briefing. … the accused shooter tried to escape by entering a house, Davis said. However, the homeowner was ‘prepared,’ and quickly opened fire on the intruder, shooting him in an arm and a leg, she said. The man was taken into custody, Davis said.” (09/10/25)
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article312055360.html
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21) How Tyranny Becomes Entrenched: 9/11 and the Police State’s Endless Power Grabs
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by John Whitehead
“They said it was for safety. They said it was for order. They said it was for the good of the nation. They always say it’s for something good … until it isn’t. Nearly a quarter-century after 9/11, we are still living with the consequences of fear-driven government power grabs. What began as ‘temporary’ measures for our security have hardened into a permanent architecture of control. The bipartisan police-state architecture that began with 9/11 has been passed from president to president and party to party, each recycling the same justifications — safety, security, patriotism — to expand its powers at the expense of the citizenry.” (09/11/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/09/11/how-tyranny-becomes-entrenched-9-11-and-the-police-states-endless-power-grabs/
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22) America’s Israel double standard backfires
Source: Washington Post
by Shadi Hamid
“Tuesday’s strike was an odd but telling maneuver: kill the people you’re trying to negotiate with to prolong the war you say you’re trying to end. But it wasn’t the first time. In strikes on Tehran in June, Israel tried to assassinate Ali Shamkhani, the Iranian official overseeing nuclear talks with the Trump administration. … There is indeed a double standard at play, but not in the way that is often assumed. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that appears to have an unlimited right to defend itself, while simultaneously denying that right to others. It can act with impunity across international borders, violate sovereignty and disrupt diplomatic processes — consequences be damned. No other country in the region, or anywhere else, enjoys such latitude. This isn’t only about Israel, though. It’s about us — about America’s willingness to enable behavior that we would condemn from any other nation.” (09/11/25)
https://archive.is/KvTaG
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23) Now The Feds Want In On The University Patent Racket
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“If the feds won’t eliminate patents and government research funding, they should at least eliminate any and all combinations of the two, rather than demanding their own taste of the racket’s revenues.” (09/11/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19936
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24) Is America Great Again Yet?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“With the murder of 31-year-old noted conservative advocate Charlie Kirk, it’s worth asking an important question: Is America great again yet? My answer: Far from it. In my book, Kirk’s killing demonstrates that America is still a very sick, dysfunctional nation. Not only are there periodic killings like this one, there are also mass killings. … And let’s not forget that we still live in a massive drug-addled society, one in which millions of Americans are ingesting drugs because, U.S. officials say, they are being ‘attacked’ by international drug dealers who, I guess, are somehow forcing them to ingest the drugs against their will.” (09/11/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/09/11/is-america-great-again-yet/
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25) Trump’s Barbaric Boat Attack
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The president and his minions are effectively claiming that he has unchecked, unreviewable authority to mete out death to anyone he deems to be a threat. For all intents and purposes, Trump is claiming to be an absolute ruler and he is acting like a barbaric despot. This is the danger that opponents of presidential usurpation and the warfare state have been warning against for decades, and now it is here. This is lawless tyranny out in the open for everyone to see. The tyrant isn’t concealing his abuses of power. He is proud of them.” (09/11/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/trumps-barbaric-boat-attack
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26) Kamala Harris Accuses Biden’s Team of Sabotaging Her
Source: The Inteligencer
by Ed Kilgore
“The period of finger-pointing and blame-shifting among Democrats for their 2024 election defeat should be near its end, but not before hearing from Kamala Harris. Her book on the 2024 campaign, 107 Days, will be released by Simon & Schuster on September 23, but The Atlantic has published an excerpt about her life as vice president prior to Joe Biden’s announcement that he was dropping out. The only way to put it is that Harris is seething with anger over her treatment by Team Biden before she was suddenly thrust into the global limelight as putative replacement candidate.” (09/10/25)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-accuses-biden-s-team-of-sabotaging-her/ar-AA1MhJcG
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27) The State Power to Discriminate
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“John Locke’s idea that tyranny is arbitrary power as opposed to the rule of law seems to underlie the whole classical liberal tradition (see Locke’s Second Treatise of Government [1690, Chapter 18]). Arbitrary power allows the state or any other central political authority to discriminate among its subjects by bribing its supporters and harming its opponents. In reality, public discrimination (in the sense of state discrimination) is probably a synonym of arbitrary power. The gradual discovery of the rule of law has come with the idea that the state should not discriminate among its citizens, residents, and often even foreigners.” (09/11/25)
https://www.econlib.org/the-state-power-to-discriminate
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28) Violence must never be a response to speech
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Nico Perrino
“Sigmund Freud once said civilization started the day man first cast a word instead of a stone. He was right. Words are not violence. Words are what we use instead of violence to resolve our differences. We must not lose sight of this civilization-defining distinction. Unfortunately, since 2021, we’ve seen a steady rise in support for violence in response to speech on campus. … While we do not know the identity or motive of the gunman, what happened yesterday is indicative of a broader cancer in our body politic that we must address. But it must not be addressed with censorship.” (09/11/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/violence-must-never-be-response-speech
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29) Real Estate Roulette: Living on the Streets in the Age of Trump
Source: TomDispatch
by Mattea Kramer & Sean Fogler
“The federal takeover of Washington, D.C., rightfully attracted extensive media coverage, but an executive order called ‘Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,’ quietly issued on July 24th, received remarkably little attention. Perhaps it didn’t make a splash because it wasn’t specifically about policing (or, for that matter, National Guarding), but more generally about how we should treat people who already exist on the outermost fringes of society, human beings who have long been reduced to labels like ‘addict’ or ‘homeless.’ Indeed, the Trump administration is counting on us to renounce those living on the streets, while struggling with their mental health or the cost of housing (or both). And if history is any guide, that may be exactly what most of us do.” (09/11/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/pushing-people-into-a-really-bad-system-will-end-really-badly/
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30) A Note on Toleration — Religious and Political
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Jonathan H Adler
“At times like this it is worth considering and reflecting upon the history and principles of religious toleration. We often lost sight of just how demanding and challenging calls for religious toleration were in prior times. Religious toleration was not about being nice to people with different customs or holidays, let alone approving or affirming them, but something far more profound.” (09/11/25)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/09/11/a-note-on-toleration-religious-and-political/
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31) The Eternal Social Justice Summer
Source: Washington Monthly
by Richard D Kahlenberg
“In a moment when the President of the United States is trying to use the power of the state to intimidate critics in academia and the media (not to mention his political opponents), some may think that a new book like Thomas Chatterton Williams’s Summer of Our Discontent, which focuses mainly on the illiberalism of the left, is terribly timed. They will fault the author for ‘not meeting the moment,’ or worse, for ‘enabling’ an autocrat by articulating ‘right-wing talking points.’ Liberal critics have already panned the volume …. In fact, the book by Williams, an iconoclastic writer for The Atlantic, could not have come at a better moment. It is precisely because Donald Trump is wreaking havoc daily that it’s crucial to comprehend why so many of our fellow Americans came to dislike the Democrats even more than the unlikable and chaotic man they elected president.” (09/11/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/thomas-chatterton-williams-summer-of-our-discontent/
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32) Left-Libertarianisms
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“A liberal in the 19th century was a believer in small government, free markets, and individual freedom, roughly what we now call a libertarian. ‘Libertarian’ had earlier been used for left anarchists, still earlier for believers in the doctrine of free will. In the mid-20th Century, after opponents of liberalism stole its name, believers in classical liberalism started calling themselves libertarians. While ‘libertarian’ can still mean a left anarchist, ‘left libertarian’ usually means a libertarian in the newer sense who supports ideas or policies usually identified with the left.” (09/11/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/left-libertarianisms-886
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33) The American Reckoning
Source: Common Dreams
by Dr. Mark Brauner
“I have met people who gave me grace in Iran, in Mexico, in Haiti, in Gaza, in Cambodia, in Vietnam. People who understood the difference between ordinary citizens and the governments that rule them. People who offered me kindness when they had every reason not to. That grace stays with me. As a US citizen and physician, I have lived my life trying to hold onto a sense of responsibility. But what I see now, in Gaza, in Haiti, in the wake of Iraq and Afghanistan, is the full weight of what psychologists call diffusion of responsibility. It is the shrug that says: Someone else will answer for this, someone else will carry the shame. The United States cannot keep living in that shrug.” (09/11/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-reckoning-for-imperialism
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34) Puerto Rican Prisons Allowed Inmates To Work for Themselves. It Was a Huge Success.
Source: Reason
by Jesse Walker
“These self-employed prisoners earned more than inmates in traditional prison jobs and were more likely than other inmates to be rehabilitated.” (for publication 10/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/11/let-prisoners-work-for-themselves/
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35) State benefits come from nowhere
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“Many people receiving state benefits prefer to think of them as coming from ‘the universe,’ or some impersonal source rather than from taxpayers’ contributions. If benefits are thought of as transfers from workers, recipients may feel stigmatized, as though they are dependent on, or a burden to, others. They are dependent on, and supported by others, but they prefer not to acknowledge that fact. Imagining benefits as coming from a neutral, impersonal source, or even ‘the universe,’ helps them preserve the dignity of not having the sense of being beholden to any particular people.” (09/11/25)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/state-benefits-come-from-nowhere
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36) Confucius and Trump’s Department of War
Source: The Daily Economy
by Zachary Yost
“The US military’s global flailing has little to do with ‘defense.’ Returning to an accurate label might be a step toward policy realism.” (09/11/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/confucius-and-trumps-department-of-war/
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37) Mamdani: Democrats’ Antisemitism Problem
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder
“For the Democrat hard left [sic], the good news is that Zohran Mamdani, a self-described ‘Democratic socialist’ with a long history of what many consider antisemitism and anti-Israel activism, won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York. The bad news for the Democratic left [sic] is that he will likely win. It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump is not popular in New York, where a New York City judge found him liable in a ridiculous business fraud case and where a Manhattan jury convicted him of an equally ridiculous criminal charge of election interference. A recent poll of New York state Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, Hispanic, Black and white voters found Trump’s approval rating underwater with every racial, ethnic and religious group, except one.” (09/11/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/09/11/mamdani-democrats-antisemitism-problem-n2663113
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38) War Against Venezuela Is No Answer
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“No doubt, Venezuelans deserve better government. For more than a quarter century they have suffered under left-populist strongmen, first Hugo Chavez and then his successor and current president, Nicolas Maduro. Model authoritarians, the latter destroyed democracy, ravaged the economy, impoverished Venezuelans, and drove millions of people abroad. Alas, U.S. policy toward Venezuela has been a complete failure.” (09/11/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/war-against-venezuela-is-no-answer/
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39) The 9/11 Attacks Exposed Major Government Failure, But Americans Learned the Wrong Lessons
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“While the Bush administration claimed that the attacks occurred because of structural problems with the government’s intelligence apparatus, FBI agents were warned about suspicious activity by flight students who were among the 9/11 hijackers. The agents, however, blew off the warnings. The flight schools also alerted the Federal Aviation Administration about suspicious Arab students, but nothing came of it. In other words, the government didn’t need a Patriot Act or any other terrorism law to have stopped the hijackers …. Unfortunately, the US government did respond to the attacks, but in ways that made Americans worse off. From setting off wars in the Middle East to blowing up the economy at home, the US government took a crisis and turned it into an even bigger crisis, and we still are harvesting the bitter fruits.” (09/11/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/911-attacks-exposed-major-government-failure-americans-learned-wrong-lessons
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40) The Facade of Syria’s Upcoming Elections
Source: Antiwar.com
by JD Hester
“One of the most popular neoconservative prophecies whenever a government stands up to the US or Israel is the myth of a transition to Western-style democracy. Libya, after the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, which the ICC suggests may have been a war crime, supposedly had a ‘real shot’ at democracy according to Western media outlets like CNN. Over a decade later, the NATO intervention in Libya is almost universally considered a failure. … Now, after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria has not adopted the ways of the US. Instead, it has transitioned into a U.S.-legitimized authoritarian state under the command of former al-Qaeda leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa.” (09/11/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/jd_hester/2025/09/10/the-facade-of-syrias-upcoming-elections/
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41) Political Violence and the Reality Distortion Field
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“There have been 47 episodes of mass violence on school campuses this year. The 47th took place at a Denver-area high school, 26 years after the Denver-area high school shooting in Columbine, where three people were shot on Wednesday, two of them students. The 46th school shooting of the year had just one victim. Charlie Kirk, the conservative campus activist and podcaster, was shot in the neck during a question-and-answer session at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He died shortly thereafter. The question he was being asked, right at that moment, was about the number of mass shootings in America.” (09/10/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-10-political-violence-reality-distortion-field-charlie-kirk/
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42) More Government, More Gerrymandering
Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis
“Gerrymandering wars have arrived. At the President’s urging, Texas redrew its congressional lines seven years before the census window, tilting its delegation even farther to Republicans. California answered in kind, as Governor Gavin Newsom pushed a mid-decade hyper-partisan remap now headed to a statewide referendum. Legislatures in other states, both red and blue, may soon follow. The point is plain: when the prize is control of Washington, few will wait ten years to claim it.” (09/11/25)
https://lawliberty.org/more-government-more-gerrymandering/
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43) The Current Madness
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Two disturbing murders are in the news and in divided-divisive discussion: that of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska and conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Murder was once a private matter, in the sense that the perpetrator, hoping not to get caught, does his or her horrific deed away from cameras and prying eyes. Public murder is different. The provocation in killing someone in full public view, with many witnesses, is almost inevitably terroristic in nature.” (09/11/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/09/11/current-madness/
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44) Outlawry in the Caribbean
Source: Foreign Policy
by Benjamin R Farley
“On Sept. 2, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the sinking of an outboard motor-powered, open boat somewhere in the Caribbean, killing 11 people. The Trump administration claims that the boat departed from Venezuela and was operated by Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization that the United States designated as a foreign terrorist organization in February. Rather than interdicting and searching the vessel, then arresting its occupants if evidence of drug smuggling were discovered — the approach that the United States normally uses to counter narcotics trafficking at sea, which is the approach required by law — the Trump administration chose to kill all those aboard. And it has promised more such killings to come. Responsible states do not kill people intentionally without a legal basis.” (09/10/25)
https://archive.is/8qsjo
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45) Charlie Kirk’s assassination latest evidence US is suffering epidemic of leftist [sic] violence
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“We are suffering through an epidemic of leftist [sic] violence. The ruthless assassination of conservative youth leader Charlie Kirk, 31, at a crowded campus event in Utah on Wednesday is the latest manifestation of the hateful rhetoric aimed at President Trump and his MAGA movement. It’s a sad irony that Kirk’s shockingly public murder happened the day before the trial begins of Ryan Routh, one of the alleged assassins who tried to rub out Trump during the 2024 campaign. Prescient as always, Kirk understood the consequences of the escalating violent rhetoric of the left [sic], as he and Trump kept winning the hearts and minds of a new generation, especially young men, with logic and common sense.” (09/11/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/11/opinion/charlie-kirks-assassination-latest-example-us-is-suffering-an-epidemic-of-leftist-violence-miranda-devine/
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46) An Open Society Requires Constant Vigilance
Source: Persuasion
by Roger Partridge
“Who is responsible for defending liberal democracy when its norms come under attack? The philosopher Karl Popper, writing as fascist armies swept Europe, understood this was not an abstract question. Popper championed societies that were fundamentally ‘open’ — sustained by critical inquiry and peaceful disagreement, rather than imposed unity. But Popper grasped a paradox: openness could survive only if actively defended against those who would exploit its openness to destroy it.” (09/10/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-price-of-the-open-society-is
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There are things you don’t want to politicize
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“At the risk of saying something controversial in a very sensitive moment, I think extrajudicial killings and vigilantism and terrorism are bad and that the rule of law, due process, and other enlightenment liberal democratic norms are good. I think Charlie Kirk, God rest his soul, was a real shitbag. But I’d rather live in a world with him in it than one in which folks kill each other to get retribution or achieve political ends. I also don’t think that how we got here is some great mystery.” (09/10/25)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/there-are-things-you-dont-want-to
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48) 47) The Assassin’s Veto
Source: Yascha Mounk
by Yascha Mounk
“Defenders of free speech often worry about the heckler’s veto. Some protestors believe that the First Amendment gives them the right to disrupt the speech of those they do not like. But this is a misunderstanding of the logic of free expression. For if hecklers had the right to disrupt any speech, they would quickly come to be in control of what can and cannot be said. While everyone must be free to peacefully protest forms of expression they do not like, they do not have the right to stop such speech from taking place. I share those concerns over the heckler’s veto. But the danger which now faces the American Republic is deeper still. As violence descends on the land, and the price of engaging in political speech grows and grows, we are increasingly faced with something even scarier, both for the individual and for our political culture: the assassin’s veto.” (09/10/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-assassins-veto
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49) Three Crises Facing the Labor Movement
Source: In These Times
by Hamilton Nolan
“America did not get to the bad place it is in today by accident. We are here as a result of the combination of a political system that serves money, and a half-century long explosion of economic inequality that has produced an oligarchy. Donald Trump is the product of these factors, but he is not the underlying problem. The underlying problem is that too much power has flown into the hands of too few people, and they have used that power to arrange the entire economic and political system in their favor. Democracy, such as it was, is an inevitable casualty of this process. Climbing out of the hole that we are in will require more than one or two favorable election cycles. It will require shifting that underlying balance of power away from the oligarchs and their allies, and back towards the rest of us.” (09/10/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-unions-strikes-trump-nlrb-crisis
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50) AI, Inevitability, and Human Sovereignty
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Josh Stylman
“I didn’t want to feed my soul into a machine. That was my first instinct when AI tools started appearing everywhere – not concern about jobs or privacy, but something deeper. These tools promise to make us smarter while systematically making us more dependent. After decades of working in the internet industry, I’d already watched it transform into something more insidious than just a surveillance machine – a system designed to shape how we think, what we believe, and how we see ourselves. AI felt like the culmination of that trajectory. But resistance became futile when I realized we’re already participating whether we know it or not.” (09/10/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/ai-inevitability-and-human-sovereignty/
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51) Reason Interview: Charlie Kirk and America's History With Political Violence
Source: Reason
"Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk and how political violence is reshaping the national climate." (09/11/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/11/charlie-kirk-and-americas-history-with-political-violence/
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52) The Brian Nichols Show, 09/11/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Did Big Pharma Hide the Truth on COVID Shots?” (09/11/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/rfk-bombshell-did-big-pharma-hide-the-truth-on-covid-shots
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53) FYPod, 09/11/25
Source: The Bulwark
“Please Stop Sharing the Charlie Kirk Shooting Video.” (09/11/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_tXfUNWH1Q
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54) Rising, 09/11/25
Source: The Hill
“Charlie Kirk assassinated; why right and left should honor his legacy.” (09/11/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5498012-rising-september-11-2025/
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55) Conflicts of Interest, episode 836
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Israel Threatens More Assassination Strikes Against Hamas.” (09/11/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-836-israel-threatens-more-assassination-strikes-against-hamas/
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56) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/11/25
Source: The New Republic
“Nancy Mace Erupts in Fury on House Floor after Dem’s Speech Hits Home.” (09/11/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/200298/nancy-mace-erupts-fury-house-floor-dem-speech-hits-home
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57) The Good Fight, 09/11/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“The Good Fight Club: Russian Drones in Poland, Low Literacy in Schools, and Can Anyone Rein in Trump?” (09/11/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-good-fight-club-4
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58) Advisory Opinions, 09/11/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Congress Won’t Contradict Trump.” (09/11/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/congress-wont-contradict-trump/
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59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/11/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Kills at Least 35 in Yemen Airstrikes, Russia Denies It Launched Drones Into Poland, and More.” (09/11/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRcO_KhoPnU
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60) System Update, episode 512
Source: System Update
“Charlie Kirk Assassinated; NATO Alleges Russian Drones Flew Over Poland, and More.” (09/10/25)
https://rumble.com/v6yrhl0-system-update-show-512.html
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61) The Fifth Column, episode 523
Source: The Fifth Column
“On the Assassination of Charlie Kirk.” (09/10/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/523-on-the-assassination-of-charlie
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62) Underthrow Podcast, 09/10/25
Source: Underthrow
“Why Young People Can’t Afford Housing.” (09/10/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHV1C8aGI1Y
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63) The Libertarian Angle, 09/10/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Trump’s Ongoing Battle Against the Fed.” (09/10/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdHCzmVelJc
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64) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2690
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Man Who Keeps Defeating the State.” (09/10/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2690-the-man-who-keeps-defeating-the-state/
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65) LPA Solidarity Stream, episode 7
Source: LP Alliance
“Tim Krenz’s Plan for the Constitution!” (09/10/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7V30TTNFc4
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