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1) US FAA to start cutting flights amid delays, staffing shortages
2) Bitcoin hovers around $103K as traders await US jobs report
3) Bulgaria: Regime to seize Russian refinery after Putin issues nuclear weapons test order
4) Sudan: Funeral attack kills at least 40 as fighting speads into Kordofan region
5) SCOTUS justices sound skeptical of Trump’s illegal tariffs
6) France: Paris residents can enter lottery to share cemetery space with Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde
7) KY: UPS plane crash investigation underway; death toll rises to nine
8) Germany: Nurse given life sentence for murdering 10 patients
9) IL: Gang members abduct teacher at Chicago preschool and daycare
10) Mexico: Sheinbaum groped by man in street, says she’s pressing charges
11) Thailand: Miss Universe contestants walk out after Miss Mexico “humiliated”
12) Trump regime confesses to two more Caribbean boat murders
13) South Africa: Anti-migrant group ordered to stop blocking foreigners from healthcare
14) Canada: Opposition lawmaker defects to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government
15) Bolivia: Top court annuls former interim president sentence and orders her immediate release
16) Democrats sweep key US elections
17) ID: Kohberger’s restitution hearing ends with no decision, but prosecutor admits slip-up
18) EU regimes agree weakened 2040 climate goal and target for COP30
19) YouTube deletes hundreds of videos showing violations of Palestinian rights
20) Judge in Comey case orders prosecutors to hand over full transcript of grand jury presentation
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Immunity Syndrome
22) Keep the Federal Government Closed
23) You don’t want to be government’s pet
24) Will the justices give military contractors a free pass?
25) From Redcoats to SWAT: How Americans Became Less Free
26) Karine Jean-Pierre Left Dem Party to Become an Independent; Cue the Sound of One Hand Clapping
27) Who Died and Made Trump the Global Drug-War King?
28) What Kind of “America First” Is This?
29) Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage
30) How School Choice Became a Magnet for Capital
31) Trump’s peace tactics in Sudan
32) Will the Supreme Court Side With Trump — Or Itself?
33) Democrat Party Needs a Soul, Not a Focus Group
34) Creative Destruction
35) The EU’s Green Ideology Is Crashing Europe’s Car Industry
36) Vindictiveness vs. the First Amendment
37) Republicans have one big thing to learn about their 2025 wipeout
38) Maduro With Venezuela, Trump poised to make mistake of epic proportions
39) Mao’s Children: How Revolutionary Passions Are Still Warping Young Minds
40) Why Liberalism
41) Supreme Court Poised to Defy Trump on Tariffs
42) Dick Cheney (1941–2025): The Dark Legacy of a War Criminal
43) Of Angels and Algorithms: Geofencing In the Name of God
44) Adoption and the Welfare State: Reply to Critics
45) Trump’s Supreme Court tariff case tests the limits of presidential power
46) The vanishing Vista
47) Tariffs, Tobacco, and Policy Whiplash
48) Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.
49) The Dawn of a Better Day?
50) The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is prohibitionist madness
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51) Collateral Damage, episode 5
52) The Political Orphanage, 11/05/25
53) Reason Interview: Jon Shenk & Marcus Capone
54) Rising, 11/05/25
55) The Learning Curve, 11/05/25
56) SolutionsWatch, 11/05/25
57) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 11/05/25
58) Underthrow Podcast, 11/05/25
59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/05/25
60) LPALive, episode 56
61) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 11/04/25
62) Serious Trouble, 11/04/25
63) Trump Watch, 11/04/25
64) Law & Liberty Podcast, 11/04/25
65) The Bryan Hyde Show, 11/04/25
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1) US FAA to start cutting flights amid delays, staffing shortages
Source: NBC News
“The Federal Aviation Administration will begin cutting the number of flights in the ‘high traffic’ parts of the country as the government shutdown grinds on and local airports have reported staffing shortages, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday. ‘There is going to be a 10% reduction in capacity at 40 of our locations,’ Duffy said. ‘This is about where’s the pressure and how do we alleviate the pressure.’ FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said the reduction in capacity, spurred by ‘fatigue’ plaguing air traffic controllers, would start Friday.” (11/05/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/flight-reduction-shutdown-faa-rcna242231
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2) Bitcoin hovers around $103K as traders await US jobs report
Source: Economic Times [India]
“Bitcoin rose 1.31% to $103,127 on Thursday, marking a brief rebound as overall market sentiment remained cautious ahead of key U.S. jobs data. At around 11:38 AM IST, Bitcoin was trading 1.51% higher over the past 24 hours, while Ethereum gained 2.03% to $3,387. Major altcoins, including BNB, XRP, Solana, Tron, and Cardano, were up over 4%, whereas Dogecoin and Hyperliquid slipped nearly 1%. The global crypto market cap rose 1.41% to $3.44 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap. The cryptocurrency tumbled as much as 7.4% on Tuesday, slipping below the $100,000 level for the first time since June and has now fallen over 20% from the record high it touched just a month ago.” (11/06/25)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/cryptocurrency/crypto-news/bitcoin-hovers-around-103k-as-traders-await-us-jobs-report-heres-what-experts-say/articleshow/125126058.cms?from=mdr
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3) Bulgaria: Regime to seize Russian refinery after Putin issues nuclear weapons test order
Source: Independent [UK]
“Bulgaria is drafting new legislation that will allow it to seize control of an important oil refinery belonging to Russia’s sanctioned oil giant Lukoil. The Burgas refinery is the only one of its kind in Bulgaria and was a vital party of Lukoil’s foreign business empire. The company is now facing US sanctions over Russia’s war on Ukraine. Earlier, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered preparations for nuclear weapons testing after president Donald Trump announced last week that the US would be running its first tests in over three decades. … At the same meeting on Wednesday, Putin ordered the heightened defence of Russia’s oil refineries from Ukrainian drone attacks, signing a new law deploying millions of reservists to the task. And on the battlefield, Russia claimed its troops were advancing inside the key city of Pokrovsk, where the Ukrainian army said its units were battling hard to avoid being encircled by Moscow’s forces.” (11/06/25)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-trump-putin-nuclear-weapons-pokrovsk-latest-news-b2859596.html
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4) Sudan: Funeral attack kills at least 40 as fighting speads into Kordofan region
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“An attack on a funeral in the key city of El-Obeid in Sudan’s central Kordofan region killed 40 people, the UN said Wednesday, as paramilitaries looked poised to launch an offensive. The United Nations'[s] humanitarian office did not specify when the attack took place or who was behind it, but said that the situation in the Kordofan region was continuing to worsen. The war in Sudan, which has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions more, has spread to new areas in recent days, sparking fears of an even greater humanitarian catastrophe. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the military since 2023, was preparing to launch an assault in Kordofan after capturing El-Fasher, the last army stronghold in the vast western Darfur region.” (11/05/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251105-sudan-funeral-attack-kills-at-least-40-fighting-speads-kordofan-region
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5) SCOTUS justices sound skeptical of Trump’s illegal tariffs
Source: Los Angeles Times
“The Supreme Court justices sounded skeptical Wednesday of President Trump’s claim that he has the power to set large tariffs on products coming from countries around the world. Most of the justices, both conservative and liberal, said Congress, not the president, had the power to impose taxes and tariffs. And they agreed Congress did not authorize tariffs in an emergency powers law adopted in 1977. It has ‘never before been used to justify tariffs, and no one had argued it before this case,’ Chief Justice John G. Roberts told Trump’s top courtroom attorney. ‘The imposition of taxes on Americans … has always been a core power of Congress.’ Solicitor Gen. D. John Sauer argued that tariffs involve the president’s power over foreign affairs. They are ‘regulatory tariffs, not taxes,’ he said.” (11/05/25)
https://archive.is/yj8Am
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6) France: Paris residents can enter lottery to share cemetery space with Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde
Source: CNN
“The city of Paris has announced a lottery with a twist: Instead of a cash prize, entrants can instead win the chance to be buried in one of the French capital’s most celebrated cemeteries. The unusual plan aims to restore tombs that have fallen into disrepair, while also giving Paris residents a rare opportunity to secure one of the sought-after plots, the city hall said in a statement published Friday. … winners of the lottery will be granted the opportunity to buy and restore one of 30 tombs …. 10 plots up for grabs in Père-Lachaise cemetery, which counts ‘The Doors’ frontman Jim Morrison, playwright Oscar Wilde and singer Édith Piaf among its illustrious residents. There are also 10 plots in Montparnasse cemetery, home to writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Susan Sontag, as well as 10 more in Montmartre cemetery, where painter Edgar Degas, author Émile Zola and dancer Vaslav Nijinsky are all buried.” (11/05/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/travel/paris-cemetery-lottery-scli-intl
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7) KY: UPS plane crash investigation underway; death toll rises to nine
Source: USA Today
“The death toll in a catastrophic airplane crash that sent a United Parcel Service aircraft into a ball of flames has risen to nine on Wednesday as authorities continue search and rescue and investigate a cause, officials said. The UPS plane was departing for Honolulu from the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport when it crashed at about 5:15 p.m. local time Tuesday, authorities said. Video of the crash showed flames on one of the plane’s wings, and a huge fireball erupting as the aircraft hit the ground.” (11/05/25)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/11/05/ups-cargo-plane-crash-louisville-kentucky-live-updates/87098850007/
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8) Germany: Nurse given life sentence for murdering 10 patients
Source: Straits Times [Singapore]
“A palliative nurse was convicted on Nov 5 of the murder of 10 patients with lethal injections and the attempted murder of 27 others and was handed a life sentence by a German court. Prosecutors had argued that the nurse injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives to ease his workload at night. The crime was found to be particularly severe, said a spokesperson for the court in Aachen, meaning the nurse has little chance of being released after 15 years, the minimum time that can be served for a life sentence in Germany.” (11/05/25)
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/german-nurse-given-life-sentence-for-murdering-10-patients
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9) IL: Gang members abduct teacher at Chicago preschool and daycare
Source: CBS News
“A video taken by a bystander, and seen by CBS News Chicago, captured two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents [abducting] a woman inside a North Center daycare Wednesday morning. The video shows two masked federal agents in plainclothes and wearing vests labeled ‘POLICE’ inside the Rayita del Sol Spanish Immersion school and daycare’s Roscoe Village location. A woman can be heard screaming through the glass doors as the agents physically wrestle her out the door, at one point picking her up. They slam her, face-first, into the outer door as they push her outside. … Once outside, she’s pushed against a dark grey sedan parked outside the building as agents try to handcuff her with her hands behind her back.” (11/05/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/federal-agents-chicago-daycare-preschool-teacher-detained/
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10) Mexico: Sheinbaum groped by man in street, says she’s pressing charges
Source: NBC News
“Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that the harassment she suffered from a drunk man in the street near Mexico’s seat of government was an assault on all women and that’s why she decided to press charges against him. Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada had announced overnight that the man had been arrested. In a video circulating widely on social platforms, the man appeared to lean in for a kiss and touch the president’s body with his hands on Tuesday. She gently pushed his hands away, maintaining a stiff smile as she turned to face him. She could be heard to say in part, ‘Don’t worry.’ On Wednesday, Sheinbaum was firm in emphasizing that this was not the first time she had suffered such harassment and that the problem went far beyond the president. ‘No man has the right to violate that space,’ she said.” (11/05/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/mexico/mexico-president-claudia-sheinbaum-groped-man-street-says-pressing-cha-rcna242120
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11) Thailand: Miss Universe contestants walk out after Miss Mexico “humiliated”
Source: Independent
“Multiple contestants from the Miss Universe 2025 pageant walked out of an event in solidarity after an official of host nation Thailand publicly ‘humiliated’ Miss Mexico. The incident took place during a pre-pageant event on 3 November when Thai pageant director Nawat Itsaragrisil called Fátima Bosch of Mexico ‘dumb’ for failing to post promotional content and ordered security to remove her. … Along with Bosch, other contestants including reigning title-holder Victoria Kjær Theilvig of Denmark, stood and walked out in protest. As the women begin to leave, Itsaragrisil can be heard telling them: ‘If anyone wants to continue, sit down.'” (11/05/25)
https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/miss-universe-thai-director-insults-miss-mexico-fatima-bosch-b2858964.html
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12) Trump regime confesses to two more Caribbean boat murders
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, coming the same day an aircraft carrier began heading to the region in a new expansion of military firepower. The attack Tuesday [murdered] two people aboard the vessel, Hegseth said, bringing the death toll from the Trump administration’s campaign in South American waters up to at least 66 people in at least 16 strikes. … Lawmakers from both parties have pressed the Trump administration for more information on who is being targeted and the legal justification for the strikes given that Congress has not authorized military action.” (11/05/25)
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-5599008/trump-administration-16th-strike-drug-boat
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13) South Africa: Anti-migrant group ordered to stop blocking foreigners from healthcare
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A South African court has ordered an anti-migrant group to stop blocking foreign nationals from accessing public health facilities and schools, saying such actions are illegal. Operation Dudula has been picketing hospitals and clinics in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, checking identity cards and stopping anyone who is not South African from entering. This has since extended to schools. But the high court in Johannesburg has ordered the group to stop ‘intimidating, harassing [or] interfering with access’ to these facilities, following a case brought by rights groups.” (11/05/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m37yr5v3po
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14) Canada: Opposition lawmaker defects to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government
Source: ABC News
“A Canadian opposition lawmaker joined Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberal Party on Tuesday, a political coup on a day when the government announced its budget for the year. Chris d’Entremont, a member of Parliament from Nova Scotia, said in a statement he’s joining the government caucus because he shares Carney’s economic priorities. … The move puts the Liberals two seats shy of a majority government and being able to pass their budget without opposition support. The defection is a blow to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who is facing a leadership review vote in January.” (11/05/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/canadian-opposition-lawmaker-defects-prime-minister-mark-carneys-127195062
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15) Bolivia: Top court annuls former interim president sentence and orders her immediate release
Source: ABC News
“The Bolivian Supreme Court of Justice on Wednesday annulled the 10-year prison sentence against former interim President Jeanine Áñez, ordering her immediate release. The court also ordered that Áñez, who has been imprisoned for more than four years, be subjected to a political trial, as demanded by her defense. … Áñez was convicted for her role in assuming the presidency in a controversial National Assembly session following the deadly 2019 protests that led to the resignation of then-president Evo Morales (2006-2019).” (11/05/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bolivian-top-court-annuls-former-interim-president-sentence-127221129
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16) Democrats sweep key US elections
Source: CBS News
“Democrats scored victories in the four major races of the night: the New York City mayoral race, the governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia and Prop 50, California’s redistricting ballot measure. Exit polling showed voters went to the polls with worries about the economy on their minds, coupled with broader discontent with the state of the country right now. … Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, both moderates, won the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia, while on the far left [sic], democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani prevailed in his race for New York mayor …. California voters said ‘yes’ to Proposition 50, which will allow state legislators to redistrict before the midterm elections, an effort to counter GOP-led gerrymandering in other states.” (11/05/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/election-day-2025-voting-results/
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17) ID: Kohberger’s restitution hearing ends with no decision, but prosecutor admits slip-up
Source: Fox News
“Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson admitted to a major miscalculation in what the University of Idaho victims’ families should be owed in restitution, telling a judge Wednesday that he would no longer be seeking roughly $27,000 in travel expenses that were not outlined in Bryan Kohberger’s plea deal — asking the court to award about a tenth of that in funeral expenses instead. Kohberger’s lawyers noted that the travel expenses were not part of the plea deal after Thompson mistakenly thought they would be covered by a victims’ compensation fund and agreed that the funeral expenses amount to $3,075.58. … A plea deal is essentially a contract, [Judge Steven] Hippler said, and as a result, the prosecution can’t seek restitution for travel expenses outside the terms of the deal.” (11/05/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/bryan-kohberger-fights-27k-restitution-victims-families-while-taking-money-behind-bars
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18) EU regimes agree weakened 2040 climate goal and target for COP30
Source: Politico
“The European Union’s environment ministers struck a deal watering down a proposed 2040 target for cutting planet-warming emissions and set a new 2035 climate plan. Following marathon negotiations all day Tuesday and into Wednesday morning, ministers unanimously approved the bloc’s long-overdue climate plan, rescuing the EU from the international embarrassment of showing up empty handed this month’s COP30 summit. The plan, which is a requirement under the Paris Agreement, sets a new goal to slash EU emissions between 66.25 percent and 72.5 percent below 1990 levels until 2035. That plan is not legally binding but sets the direction of EU climate policy for the coming five years.” (11/05/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-agree-weakened-2040-climate-goal-and-target-for-cop30
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19) YouTube deletes hundreds of videos showing violations of Palestinian rights
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Video sharing platform YouTube has taken down over 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations due to US sanctions against Palestinian human rights groups. The videos come from Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, and include videos analysing Israel’s killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and testimony of Palestinians tortured by Israeli forces, among others. The three rights groups have been sanctioned by the US over their support for the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza.” (11/05/25)
https://www.newarab.com/news/youtube-deletes-hundreds-videos-palestinian-rights-groups
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20) Judge in Comey case orders prosecutors to hand over full transcript of grand jury presentation
Source: ABC News
“The federal judge overseeing former FBI Director James Comey’s legal challenge to the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia has ordered prosecutors to hand over a full transcript of Halligan’s presentation to the grand jury that voted to indict Comey. Judge Cameron Currie, who was appointed outside of the district to review the validity of Halligan’s appointment, said in an order Tuesday that a transcript handed over by prosecutors ‘fails to include remarks made by the indictment signer both before and after the testimony of the sole witness, which remarks were referenced by the indictment signer during the witness’s testimony.’ … Comey pleaded not guilty on Oct. 8 to one count of false statements and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding …” (11/04/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-comey-case-orders-prosecutors-hand-full-transcript/story?id=127181809
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21) Immunity Syndrome
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“More or less open corruption in the White House. Pardons for sale. Wanton murder on the high seas. Using the Justice Department as a political hit squad. Chief Justice John Roberts’[s] creation, ex nihilo, of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution looks dumber every day. … While the DOJ has long held a prudential policy of not indicting presidents, there is no legitimate constitutional principle holding that the president or any other elected official is constitutionally immune from prosecution for crimes committed while in office and under color of official deeds. The separation of powers does not require one: We do not, for example, insist that corrupt senators cannot be arrested by the FBI or prosecuted by the DOJ because FBI agents and DOJ lawyers are part of the executive branch.” (11/05/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-immunity-supreme-court-venezuela/
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22) Keep the Federal Government Closed
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“That the ‘government shutdown’ is disruptive is an indictment of just how far we’ve let the federal Leviathan intrude into areas it doesn’t belong. Of course, it’s not really a shutdown; it’s a temporary suspension of nonessential activities while lawmakers posture over budget issues for the edification of their core supporters. But we still see the air traffic control system in chaos and all too many Americans complaining that they won’t get full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits because government officials always inconvenience the public first even as most of the federal behemoth chugs on as always. They want to convince us we need the state and get us begging for it to reopen. Instead, we should ween ourselves from government and relegate the federal apparatus to the irrelevance — or even nonexistence — that it deserves.” (11/05/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/05/keep-the-federal-government-closed/
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23) You don’t want to be government’s pet
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“The SNAP crisis has shown a flaw in encouraging people to become dependent on government for anything essential. If you allow yourself to become dependent on government, it will own you. Why would you do this to yourself? To your family? This isn’t only about food, but about a job, your personal safety, health care, or anything else you expect government to provide. Being dependent on government — something you have no real control over, and which relies on a steady stream of stolen money — is a terrible idea. Pure self-sufficiency is impossible, but it should remain a guiding principle.” (11/05/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/11/05/voices/opinion-you-dont-want-to-be-governments-pet/232063.html
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24) Will the justices give military contractors a free pass?
Source: The Hill
by Kimberly Wehle
“On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, a case that asks whether private military contractors can be held liable in state court for negligence and other violations of law, or whether they are immune from lawsuits brought by people they injure. Its outcome could signal how the current majority feels about deputizing private actors with federal immunity even if they engage in blatantly illegal acts. … The Supreme Court hasn’t considered the issue of private contractor liability since 1988, when in Boyle v. United Technologies, it manufactured civil immunity for military equipment manufacturers. It did so even though Congress had specifically refused to protect private contractors under a statute that otherwise allows for negligence suits against the federal government.” (1/05/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5587971-will-the-justices-give-federal-contractors-a-free-pass/
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25) From Redcoats to SWAT: How Americans Became Less Free
Source: Chasing Liberty
by Jeff Charles
“Most Americans learn about the Revolution as a fight against unfair taxes and British tyranny. But dig deeper into the Declaration of Independence, and one grievance leaps off the page: ‘He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.’ Thomas Jefferson wasn’t just talking about soldiers traipsing about in their scarlet coats. It was about the notion that soldiers would be present in the first place. For the colonists, the idea of having troops quartered in towns enforcing royal edicts at the end of a bayonet was an egregious example of oppression. Yet, when compared to what we see in 2025, it is not difficult to notice how far we have gone — in the wrong direction.” (11/05/25)
https://www.libertychasers.com/p/from-redcoats-to-swat-how-americans
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26) Karine Jean-Pierre Left Dem Party to Become an Independent; Cue the Sound of One Hand Clapping
Source: Town Hall
by Debra J Saunders
“In case you hadn’t noticed, former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is a black woman, as she repeatedly reminds readers in her memoir, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines. Jean-Pierre also is ‘openly queer’ (her words, not mine, scattered like breadcrumbs throughout her 177-page treatment of her two-plus years as former President Joe Biden’s top spokesperson). If it weren’t for identity politics, Jean-Pierre wouldn’t have any identity at all. She tosses around labels, not arguments. Jean-Pierre told The New Yorker that the ‘broken’ White House in her book title refers not to the White House of her former boss, but that of current President Donald Trump. And yet, by her own account, KJP’s defection from the Democratic Party was a reaction to serving in an administration that was burdened with ‘racism, misogyny and double standards.'” (11/05/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2025/11/05/karine-jean-pierre-left-the-dem-party-to-become-an-independent-cue-the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping-n2665972
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27) Who Died and Made Trump the Global Drug-War King?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“According to NBC News, the Trump administration is now considering a military attack on Mexico. That’s on top of Trump’s obvious internal struggle on whether to do the same to Venezuela. Another possibility is Columbia, whose president, according to Trump, is an ‘illegal drug leader.’ Oh, the difficult life of an interventionist drug-war president who is ostensibly set on making America great again. Who to attack first? Who to kill? How many to kill? Which killing route will be more apt to make America great again? How best to win the Nobel Prize for Peace?” (11/05/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/11/05/who-died-and-made-trump-the-global-drug-war-king/
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28) What Kind of “America First” Is This?
Source: The American Conservative
by Spencer Neale
“As Americans, our greatest battles lie here in the heartland, thousands of miles from Jerusalem, Tehran, the Gaza Strip, and the rest of the chaotic world out there. … We have enough issues here, in Pennsylvania, Idaho, Missouri, and California. It is here, not in the Middle East, where Americans are struggling to afford rising grocery prices and unaffordable housing costs. These United States are where Trump and his administration’s aims should be focused, not between the Golan Heights and Tehran. And yet when asked about such apparently trivial domestic issues by O’Donnell, Trump merely waved his hand and claimed that grocery prices, despite what our eyes and pocketbooks clearly tell us, are, in fact, falling; even if they aren’t, it is all President Biden’s fault. … Such is the MAGA that we have received: a shadow of the MAGA promised.” (11/05/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-kind-of-america-first-is-this/
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29) Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Dick Cheney, arguably the single government official most responsible for the expansion of US warmongering and militarism in the 21st century, has died. The worst worst war sluts of the US empire have issued statements expressing their condolences, including Democrats like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi. Because if there’s one thing that can bring Democrats and Republicans together, it’s war crimes and the slaughter of millions of middle easterners. Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization. In a truly sane society, Richard Bruce Cheney would have lived a life of relative obscurity, working as a gardener or something without ever getting anywhere close to power.” (11/05/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/05/cheney-should-have-died-alone-in-a-cage/
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30) How School Choice Became a Magnet for Capital
Source: The Daily Economy
by Hannah Frankman Hood
“Families, entrepreneurs, and Fortune 500 companies alike are chasing better schools. Freedom to choose may be the quiet engine of the next American migration wave.” (11/05/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-school-choice-became-a-magnet-for-capital/
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31) Trump’s peace tactics in Sudan
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“In his self-portrayal as a global peacemaker, President Donald Trump prefers to employ arm-twisting pressure to stop a conflict, such as in Gaza. Yet for one of the most intractable wars – a civil conflict in Africa’s third-largest country, Sudan – he might be relying on principled persuasion. The reason? Mass atrocities against civilians on both sides of that 18-month-long war have pushed many nations with a strategic stake in Sudan to join a Trump-led effort for a humanitarian truce. On Monday, the U.S. senior adviser for Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos, said Sudan’s rival military forces have agreed in principle to a three-month truce, which would allow safe corridors for delivery of vital aid. If a pause in fighting does help the millions of Sudanese in need, it would be a nod to a global norm that recognizes the innocence of civilians in battle zones.” (11/04/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1104/Trump-s-peace-tactics-in-Sudan
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32) Will the Supreme Court Side With Trump — Or Itself?
Source: The Atlantic
by Idrees Kahloon
“Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in one of those rare cases that could reshape all three branches of government. The justices deciding Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, a challenge to the current tariff regime, could determine whether the imperial presidency is entrenched or arrested. They could either cajole Congress out of its dormancy or render it even more inert. And they could buttress the legitimacy of the Court’s conservative majority — which in the past decade has aggressively intervened to limit the administrative state’s domestic operations — or undermine it by applying different standards to presidents of different parties.” (11/05/25)
https://archive.is/wRzFD
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33) Democrat Party Needs a Soul, Not a Focus Group
Source: Common Dreams
by Sam Rosenthal
“Nearly exactly a year later, two narratives have taken hold about the electoral wipeout Democrats experienced in 2024. The first is the Democratic Party, weighed down by an unpopular and enfeebled presumptive nominee who had overseen unpopular foreign wars and economic carnage at home, failed to articulate a vision other than ‘we’re not Trump.’ The second is that Democrats, after routing Donald Trump in 2020, moved too far to the left, losing the coveted ‘moderate’ vote and the entire election. Progressives have stuck mostly to the first narrative. As political director at RootsAction, I was among the first group of detractors encouraging Joe Biden not to seek a second term as president.” (11/05/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-dems-need-to-win
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34) Creative Destruction
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“One cause of polarization and the rise of socialism — and a better way forward.” (11/05/25)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/creative-destruction
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35) The EU’s Green Ideology Is Crashing Europe’s Car Industry
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“The European Green Deal, launched in 2019, is an ecological pact that has been, unequivocally, an enemy of European taxpayers and innovation. Its declared goal is to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 through a dense web of regulations that reach deep into every sector of the European economy. More than any other sector, the automotive industry is being put at risk of an irreversible crash. Pressuring companies and citizens alike, the pact promotes the renunciation of capitalism, an inevitable sacrifice in the name of green policies. Such binding commitments will have severe economic consequences for a European Union increasingly weakened by its own laws and regulations.” (11/05/25)
https://fee.org/articles/the-eus-green-ideology-is-crashing-europes-car-industry/
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36) Vindictiveness vs. the First Amendment
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Finally, the city council of Castle Hills, Texas, is doing the right thing by Sylvia Gonzalez, accepting a settlement to resolve years of litigation against the city for violating her First Amendment rights. In 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in her favor, agreeing that courts may properly consider evidence that an arrest is retaliatory. According to Gonzalez’s lawsuit, in 2019 city leaders had lashed out against the councilwoman for her support of a nonbinding petition to remove a city manager. The city’s weapon? A rarely used law that it wielded against her for ‘briefly and inadvertently having the petition among her papers’ during a heated council meeting; she allegedly tried to ‘steal’ her own petition.” (11/05/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/11/05/vindictiveness-vs-the-1st-amendment/
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37) Republicans have one big thing to learn about their 2025 wipeout
Source: Fox News
by Newt Gingrich
“The Nov. 4 off-year elections were a smashing Democratic victory. This is the first and most important lesson Republicans should take from the results. In elections in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, there was a huge wave in favor of the Democrats. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s referendum victory in California will certainly shape the 2026 midterms. Yet, there were some local Republican victories, such as the one for Nassau County executive in New York, which provided the GOP hints of a better future – if Republicans are willing to study and learn from them. President Donald J. Trump suggested that his name not being on the ballot was a major factor in the outcome. This may be true, but it does not solve anything for Republicans. His name is not going to be on the ballot in 2026 or 2028 either.” (11/05/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/newt-gingrich-republicans-have-one-big-thing-learn-about-2025-wipeout
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38) Maduro With Venezuela, Trump poised to make mistake of epic proportions
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Orlando Pérez
“News that the administration may greenlight attacks inside the country, even remove Maduro, is already causing panic. It should.” (11/05/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-venezuela-military/
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39) Mao’s Children: How Revolutionary Passions Are Still Warping Young Minds
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“Having read and written extensively about the suffering of the Chinese people under Mao, I was horrified and alarmed to listen to this short take by an Oberlin College student shortly after the Charlie Kirk assassination. The student is an unapologetic Mao-inspired revolutionary who is for more ‘political assassinations’ and anti-free speech for ‘reactionaries,’ and ‘capitalists.’ She wants ‘some people’ to ‘be afraid to express their opinion in public.’ In a college course, she was taught ‘how violent revolution liberated millions of people and liberated women’ in Mao’s China. Her views are extreme, but she is not alone.” (11/05/25)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/maos-children-how-revolutionary-passions
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40) Why Liberalism
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“When I first started teaching, David Henderson gave me some advice: to be open about who I am regarding my economic philosophy. At the beginning of class (and several other times throughout), I mention that I am a classical liberal — a free-market economist who argues that individuals rather than governments are best suited to deal with complex social relationships and problems. I don’t rule out government intervention completely, but I make a strong presumption of liberty that must be overcome before government intervention is justified. Law exists to enhance liberty, not restrict it. That is some of the best teaching advice I have gotten.” (11/05/25)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/murphy-why-liberalism
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41) Supreme Court Poised to Defy Trump on Tariffs
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Supreme Court heard arguments for nearly three hours on President Trump’s authority to overhaul the tariff system of the United States through an emergency statute. Trump decided at the last minute not to show up to the hearing, and it’s a good thing he did, because he would have wanted to change the channel. Most of the conservative justices seemed pretty skeptical of the argument that the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA), which allows a president in an emergency ‘to regulate importation and exportation,’ confers worldwide, unlimited tariff authority that could raise as much as $4 trillion over a decade, per the government’s brief. Solicitor General D. John Sauer characterized these as ‘regulatory tariffs’ and not taxes, designed to change consumer behavior by buying domestically and as leverage on other countries for purposes of negotiation. The justices weren’t totally buying that.” (11/05/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/11/05/supreme-court-poised-to-defy-trump-on-tariffs/
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42) Dick Cheney (1941–2025): The Dark Legacy of a War Criminal
Source: Antiwar.com
by Alan Mosley
“Former U.S. vice president Richard ‘Dick’ Cheney died on 3 November 2025 at age 84; his family said he had suffered from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Best known for steering national security policy after the 9/11 attacks, he became the dominant force behind a ‘war on terror’ that unleashed torture, preventive war and mass surveillance. Amnesty International has described him as one of the principal architects of a program that amounted to torture, while the Brown University Costs of War project attributes more than 900,000 deaths and trillions of dollars in spending to the post‑9/11 wars he championed. Cheney’s legacy is one of unprecedented destruction and the erosion of civil liberties.” (11/05/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/alan_mosley/2025/11/04/dick-cheney-1941-2025-the-dark-legacy-of-a-war-criminal/
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43) Of Angels and Algorithms: Geofencing In the Name of God
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brandt Burleson
“Imagine it’s a bright and pleasant Sunday morning. You walk through the doors of your church and are greeted by familiar faces, friendly handshakes, and warm coffee. The service is an uplifting refuge from a challenging week full of difficulties at home and at work. … Everyone in your church gets in their cars and looks at their phones before driving away to find each and every one of you was the target of a digital propaganda campaign; you go from spiritual transcendence to the sobering realization that you are a datapoint of a geofencing effort. The casualty of a foreign information war. This is the collision between one of the oldest domains of the human experience, religion, and one of its newest, cyberspace.” (11/05/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/of-angels-and-algorithms-geofencing-in-the-name-of-god
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44) Adoption and the Welfare State: Reply to Critics
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Suppose taxpayers are subsidizing air pollution. ‘Cutting the subsidies wouldn’t have a large effect on pollution, and the people getting subsidies are poor’ is a good argument that the subsidies aren’t awful. But it hardly shows that subsidizing air pollution is actually a good idea. I say the same logic is at play here. As long as middle-class families are eager to adopt, why should government subsidize non-adoption?” (11/04/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/adoption-and-the-welfare-state-reply
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45) Trump’s Supreme Court tariff case tests the limits of presidential power
Source: New York Post
by Daniel McCarthy
“In times of national emergency, should the Supreme Court dictate America’s grand strategy and international economic policies? This question confronts the justices this week in Learning Resources v. Trump, a case that puts the president’s tariff powers to the test. If President Donald Trump loses, the Treasury faces having to refund more than $100 billion in tariff revenue, and the president’s trade strategy will be thrown into chaos. Businesses that have already changed their operations because of the tariffs, drawing jobs and supply chains back to America, will be subject to grave new uncertainties: Will Trump find other legal grounds for his tariffs — or will his project collapse, throwing the country back to an era of unfettered globalization?” [editor’s note: “But if he has to follow the law, it will go back to being like it was when he had to follow the law!” doesn’t seem like much of an argument – TLK] (11/04/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/04/opinion/trumps-scotus-tariff-case-tests-the-limits-of-presidential-power/
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46) The vanishing Vista
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by William Harris
“After the University of Central Oklahoma silenced the school paper, students got loud.” (11/04/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/vanishing-vista
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47) Tariffs, Tobacco, and Policy Whiplash
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Roger Bate
“When politicians talk tough on trade, they usually promise to protect American jobs. But sometimes those gestures do the opposite. The Trump administration’s proposed 100 percent tariff on large cigars imported from Nicaragua is a case in point. According to my latest research, the tariff would shrink US GDP by $1.26 billion, reduce total output by $2.06 billion, eliminate nearly 18,000 jobs, and cost state and local governments $95 million in tax revenue. There is no domestic industry to protect. The United States produces almost no large cigars …. Over the past year, US regulators have exhibited a kind of policy whiplash — swinging between deregulation and sudden restriction with no coherent principle in sight.” (11/04/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/tariffs-tobacco-and-policy-whiplash/
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48) Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.
Source: The Intercept
by Nick Turse
“The U.S. government has long maintained lists of terrorist organizations. Groups classified as ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorists’ or ‘Foreign Terrorist Organizations’ have been hit with financial penalties, immigration restrictions, or other sanctions. Groups on the FTO list, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, have been targeted with lethal strikes. But these designations aren’t enough for President Donald Trump. The U.S. government has instead begun drawing up new lists of terrorist organizations without disclosing the identities of the groups to Congress or the American people.” (11/04/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/trump-terrorist-list-nspm7-enemies/
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49) The Dawn of a Better Day?
Source: In These Times
by Luis Feliz Leon
“Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and the Democratic nominee, will be New York City’s next mayor, after trouncing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a primary and general election double whammy. ‘The working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands,’ Mamdani told a roaring crowd at his victory party in Brooklyn. ‘Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor; palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars; knuckles scarred with kitchen burns — these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power. And yet, over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it… We have toppled a political dynasty.’ But the fight is just beginning.” (11/05/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-dawn-of-a-better-day
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50) The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is prohibitionist madness
Source: spiked
by Roby Lyons
“Smoking rates have been falling steadily for decades, with or without government intervention, and in the past 15 years a significant factor has been smokers switching voluntarily to reduced-risk products such as vapes and, more recently, nicotine pouches. Despite that, successive governments (Conservative and now Labour) are determined to hasten a ‘smoke-free’ society by banning the sale of tobacco to future generations of adults. … This may be creeping prohibition, but it is prohibition nonetheless. Banning future generations of adults from purchasing tobacco is an astonishing example of the ‘government knows best’ mentality.” (11/04/25)
https://archive.is/pgcsA
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51) Collateral Damage, episode 5
Source: The Intercept
“What Fourth Amendment? How the Killing of Trevon Cole Almost Made Prime-Time TV.” (11/05/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/05/collateral-damage-episode-five-fourth-amendment/
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52) The Political Orphanage, 11/05/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“SHUTDOWN: The Musical.” (11/05/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/shutdown-the-musical
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53) Reason Interview: Jon Shenk & Marcus Capone
Source: Reason
“Veterans Are Suffering Because of FDA Red Tape.” (11/05/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/11/05/veterans-are-suffering-because-of-fda-red-tape/
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54) Rising, 11/05/25
Source: The Hill
“Tucker fires back at Ben Shapiro; the left is making Nick Fuentes seem cool?” (11/05/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5590619-rising-november-5-2025/
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55) The Learning Curve, 11/05/25
Source: Pioneer Institute
“MA Teacher Kelley Brown on Founding Documents, U.S. History, & Civics.” (11/05/25)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/ma-teacher-kelley-brown-on-founding-documents-u-s-history-civics/
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56) SolutionsWatch, 11/05/25
Source: The Corbett Report
“The Only REAL Solution to Digital ID.” (11/05/25)
https://corbettreport.com/the-only-real-solution-to-digital-id-solutionswatch/
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57) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 11/05/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Tirade Forces Press Sec to Awkwardly Undercut Him in SNAP Fiasco.” (11/05/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202678/trump-tirade-forces-press-sec-awkwardly-undercut-snap-fiasco
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58) Underthrow Podcast, 11/05/25
Source: Underthrow
“Common Law Colonialism: A Vision.” (11/05/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/common-law-colonialism-a-vision
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59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/05/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Weighs Options for Launching Venezuela War, Hamas Hands Over Body, IDF Strikes Gaza, and More.” (11/05/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcPxYK1Wm1A
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60) LPALive, episode 56
Source: LP Alliance
“Rob Yates for Charlotte, North Carolina!” (11/04/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qpbTCEGh4
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61) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 11/04/25
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
“Ten arguments against free speech.” (11/04/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/podcasts/so-speak-free-speech-podcast/ten-arguments-against-free-speech
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62) Serious Trouble, 11/04/25
Source: Serious Trouble
“Snap Decisions.” (11/04/25)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/snap-decisions
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63) Trump Watch, 11/04/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Supreme Court and the Tariff King.” (11/04/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A56nNN8z7I
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64) Law & Liberty Podcast, 11/04/25
Source: Law & Liberty
“Decline and fall?” (11/04/25)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/decline-and-fall/
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65) The Bryan Hyde Show, 11/04/25
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me for our weekly visit. We talk about elections, the individual vs the collective and how Ohio is tempting conservatives with control issues with a proposed law punishing ‘refusal to disclose.'” (11/04/25)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-2j45c-19b2ab0
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1) US FAA to start cutting flights amid delays, staffing shortages
2) Bitcoin hovers around $103K as traders await US jobs report
3) Bulgaria: Regime to seize Russian refinery after Putin issues nuclear weapons test order
4) Sudan: Funeral attack kills at least 40 as fighting speads into Kordofan region
5) SCOTUS justices sound skeptical of Trump’s illegal tariffs
6) France: Paris residents can enter lottery to share cemetery space with Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde
7) KY: UPS plane crash investigation underway; death toll rises to nine
8) Germany: Nurse given life sentence for murdering 10 patients
9) IL: Gang members abduct teacher at Chicago preschool and daycare
10) Mexico: Sheinbaum groped by man in street, says she’s pressing charges
11) Thailand: Miss Universe contestants walk out after Miss Mexico “humiliated”
12) Trump regime confesses to two more Caribbean boat murders
13) South Africa: Anti-migrant group ordered to stop blocking foreigners from healthcare
14) Canada: Opposition lawmaker defects to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government
15) Bolivia: Top court annuls former interim president sentence and orders her immediate release
16) Democrats sweep key US elections
17) ID: Kohberger’s restitution hearing ends with no decision, but prosecutor admits slip-up
18) EU regimes agree weakened 2040 climate goal and target for COP30
19) YouTube deletes hundreds of videos showing violations of Palestinian rights
20) Judge in Comey case orders prosecutors to hand over full transcript of grand jury presentation
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Immunity Syndrome
22) Keep the Federal Government Closed
23) You don’t want to be government’s pet
24) Will the justices give military contractors a free pass?
25) From Redcoats to SWAT: How Americans Became Less Free
26) Karine Jean-Pierre Left Dem Party to Become an Independent; Cue the Sound of One Hand Clapping
27) Who Died and Made Trump the Global Drug-War King?
28) What Kind of “America First” Is This?
29) Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage
30) How School Choice Became a Magnet for Capital
31) Trump’s peace tactics in Sudan
32) Will the Supreme Court Side With Trump — Or Itself?
33) Democrat Party Needs a Soul, Not a Focus Group
34) Creative Destruction
35) The EU’s Green Ideology Is Crashing Europe’s Car Industry
36) Vindictiveness vs. the First Amendment
37) Republicans have one big thing to learn about their 2025 wipeout
38) Maduro With Venezuela, Trump poised to make mistake of epic proportions
39) Mao’s Children: How Revolutionary Passions Are Still Warping Young Minds
40) Why Liberalism
41) Supreme Court Poised to Defy Trump on Tariffs
42) Dick Cheney (1941–2025): The Dark Legacy of a War Criminal
43) Of Angels and Algorithms: Geofencing In the Name of God
44) Adoption and the Welfare State: Reply to Critics
45) Trump’s Supreme Court tariff case tests the limits of presidential power
46) The vanishing Vista
47) Tariffs, Tobacco, and Policy Whiplash
48) Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.
49) The Dawn of a Better Day?
50) The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is prohibitionist madness
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61) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 11/04/25
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1) US FAA to start cutting flights amid delays, staffing shortages
Source: NBC News
“The Federal Aviation Administration will begin cutting the number of flights in the ‘high traffic’ parts of the country as the government shutdown grinds on and local airports have reported staffing shortages, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday. ‘There is going to be a 10% reduction in capacity at 40 of our locations,’ Duffy said. ‘This is about where’s the pressure and how do we alleviate the pressure.’ FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said the reduction in capacity, spurred by ‘fatigue’ plaguing air traffic controllers, would start Friday.” (11/05/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/flight-reduction-shutdown-faa-rcna242231
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2) Bitcoin hovers around $103K as traders await US jobs report
Source: Economic Times [India]
“Bitcoin rose 1.31% to $103,127 on Thursday, marking a brief rebound as overall market sentiment remained cautious ahead of key U.S. jobs data. At around 11:38 AM IST, Bitcoin was trading 1.51% higher over the past 24 hours, while Ethereum gained 2.03% to $3,387. Major altcoins, including BNB, XRP, Solana, Tron, and Cardano, were up over 4%, whereas Dogecoin and Hyperliquid slipped nearly 1%. The global crypto market cap rose 1.41% to $3.44 trillion, according to CoinMarketCap. The cryptocurrency tumbled as much as 7.4% on Tuesday, slipping below the $100,000 level for the first time since June and has now fallen over 20% from the record high it touched just a month ago.” (11/06/25)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/cryptocurrency/crypto-news/bitcoin-hovers-around-103k-as-traders-await-us-jobs-report-heres-what-experts-say/articleshow/125126058.cms?from=mdr
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3) Bulgaria: Regime to seize Russian refinery after Putin issues nuclear weapons test order
Source: Independent [UK]
“Bulgaria is drafting new legislation that will allow it to seize control of an important oil refinery belonging to Russia’s sanctioned oil giant Lukoil. The Burgas refinery is the only one of its kind in Bulgaria and was a vital party of Lukoil’s foreign business empire. The company is now facing US sanctions over Russia’s war on Ukraine. Earlier, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered preparations for nuclear weapons testing after president Donald Trump announced last week that the US would be running its first tests in over three decades. … At the same meeting on Wednesday, Putin ordered the heightened defence of Russia’s oil refineries from Ukrainian drone attacks, signing a new law deploying millions of reservists to the task. And on the battlefield, Russia claimed its troops were advancing inside the key city of Pokrovsk, where the Ukrainian army said its units were battling hard to avoid being encircled by Moscow’s forces.” (11/06/25)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-trump-putin-nuclear-weapons-pokrovsk-latest-news-b2859596.html
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4) Sudan: Funeral attack kills at least 40 as fighting speads into Kordofan region
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“An attack on a funeral in the key city of El-Obeid in Sudan’s central Kordofan region killed 40 people, the UN said Wednesday, as paramilitaries looked poised to launch an offensive. The United Nations'[s] humanitarian office did not specify when the attack took place or who was behind it, but said that the situation in the Kordofan region was continuing to worsen. The war in Sudan, which has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions more, has spread to new areas in recent days, sparking fears of an even greater humanitarian catastrophe. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the military since 2023, was preparing to launch an assault in Kordofan after capturing El-Fasher, the last army stronghold in the vast western Darfur region.” (11/05/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251105-sudan-funeral-attack-kills-at-least-40-fighting-speads-kordofan-region
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5) SCOTUS justices sound skeptical of Trump’s illegal tariffs
Source: Los Angeles Times
“The Supreme Court justices sounded skeptical Wednesday of President Trump’s claim that he has the power to set large tariffs on products coming from countries around the world. Most of the justices, both conservative and liberal, said Congress, not the president, had the power to impose taxes and tariffs. And they agreed Congress did not authorize tariffs in an emergency powers law adopted in 1977. It has ‘never before been used to justify tariffs, and no one had argued it before this case,’ Chief Justice John G. Roberts told Trump’s top courtroom attorney. ‘The imposition of taxes on Americans … has always been a core power of Congress.’ Solicitor Gen. D. John Sauer argued that tariffs involve the president’s power over foreign affairs. They are ‘regulatory tariffs, not taxes,’ he said.” (11/05/25)
https://archive.is/yj8Am
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6) France: Paris residents can enter lottery to share cemetery space with Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde
Source: CNN
“The city of Paris has announced a lottery with a twist: Instead of a cash prize, entrants can instead win the chance to be buried in one of the French capital’s most celebrated cemeteries. The unusual plan aims to restore tombs that have fallen into disrepair, while also giving Paris residents a rare opportunity to secure one of the sought-after plots, the city hall said in a statement published Friday. … winners of the lottery will be granted the opportunity to buy and restore one of 30 tombs …. 10 plots up for grabs in Père-Lachaise cemetery, which counts ‘The Doors’ frontman Jim Morrison, playwright Oscar Wilde and singer Édith Piaf among its illustrious residents. There are also 10 plots in Montparnasse cemetery, home to writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Susan Sontag, as well as 10 more in Montmartre cemetery, where painter Edgar Degas, author Émile Zola and dancer Vaslav Nijinsky are all buried.” (11/05/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/travel/paris-cemetery-lottery-scli-intl
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7) KY: UPS plane crash investigation underway; death toll rises to nine
Source: USA Today
“The death toll in a catastrophic airplane crash that sent a United Parcel Service aircraft into a ball of flames has risen to nine on Wednesday as authorities continue search and rescue and investigate a cause, officials said. The UPS plane was departing for Honolulu from the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport when it crashed at about 5:15 p.m. local time Tuesday, authorities said. Video of the crash showed flames on one of the plane’s wings, and a huge fireball erupting as the aircraft hit the ground.” (11/05/25)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/11/05/ups-cargo-plane-crash-louisville-kentucky-live-updates/87098850007/
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8) Germany: Nurse given life sentence for murdering 10 patients
Source: Straits Times [Singapore]
“A palliative nurse was convicted on Nov 5 of the murder of 10 patients with lethal injections and the attempted murder of 27 others and was handed a life sentence by a German court. Prosecutors had argued that the nurse injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives to ease his workload at night. The crime was found to be particularly severe, said a spokesperson for the court in Aachen, meaning the nurse has little chance of being released after 15 years, the minimum time that can be served for a life sentence in Germany.” (11/05/25)
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/german-nurse-given-life-sentence-for-murdering-10-patients
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9) IL: Gang members abduct teacher at Chicago preschool and daycare
Source: CBS News
“A video taken by a bystander, and seen by CBS News Chicago, captured two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents [abducting] a woman inside a North Center daycare Wednesday morning. The video shows two masked federal agents in plainclothes and wearing vests labeled ‘POLICE’ inside the Rayita del Sol Spanish Immersion school and daycare’s Roscoe Village location. A woman can be heard screaming through the glass doors as the agents physically wrestle her out the door, at one point picking her up. They slam her, face-first, into the outer door as they push her outside. … Once outside, she’s pushed against a dark grey sedan parked outside the building as agents try to handcuff her with her hands behind her back.” (11/05/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/federal-agents-chicago-daycare-preschool-teacher-detained/
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10) Mexico: Sheinbaum groped by man in street, says she’s pressing charges
Source: NBC News
“Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that the harassment she suffered from a drunk man in the street near Mexico’s seat of government was an assault on all women and that’s why she decided to press charges against him. Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada had announced overnight that the man had been arrested. In a video circulating widely on social platforms, the man appeared to lean in for a kiss and touch the president’s body with his hands on Tuesday. She gently pushed his hands away, maintaining a stiff smile as she turned to face him. She could be heard to say in part, ‘Don’t worry.’ On Wednesday, Sheinbaum was firm in emphasizing that this was not the first time she had suffered such harassment and that the problem went far beyond the president. ‘No man has the right to violate that space,’ she said.” (11/05/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/mexico/mexico-president-claudia-sheinbaum-groped-man-street-says-pressing-cha-rcna242120
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11) Thailand: Miss Universe contestants walk out after Miss Mexico “humiliated”
Source: Independent
“Multiple contestants from the Miss Universe 2025 pageant walked out of an event in solidarity after an official of host nation Thailand publicly ‘humiliated’ Miss Mexico. The incident took place during a pre-pageant event on 3 November when Thai pageant director Nawat Itsaragrisil called Fátima Bosch of Mexico ‘dumb’ for failing to post promotional content and ordered security to remove her. … Along with Bosch, other contestants including reigning title-holder Victoria Kjær Theilvig of Denmark, stood and walked out in protest. As the women begin to leave, Itsaragrisil can be heard telling them: ‘If anyone wants to continue, sit down.'” (11/05/25)
https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/miss-universe-thai-director-insults-miss-mexico-fatima-bosch-b2858964.html
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12) Trump regime confesses to two more Caribbean boat murders
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, coming the same day an aircraft carrier began heading to the region in a new expansion of military firepower. The attack Tuesday [murdered] two people aboard the vessel, Hegseth said, bringing the death toll from the Trump administration’s campaign in South American waters up to at least 66 people in at least 16 strikes. … Lawmakers from both parties have pressed the Trump administration for more information on who is being targeted and the legal justification for the strikes given that Congress has not authorized military action.” (11/05/25)
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-5599008/trump-administration-16th-strike-drug-boat
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13) South Africa: Anti-migrant group ordered to stop blocking foreigners from healthcare
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A South African court has ordered an anti-migrant group to stop blocking foreign nationals from accessing public health facilities and schools, saying such actions are illegal. Operation Dudula has been picketing hospitals and clinics in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, checking identity cards and stopping anyone who is not South African from entering. This has since extended to schools. But the high court in Johannesburg has ordered the group to stop ‘intimidating, harassing [or] interfering with access’ to these facilities, following a case brought by rights groups.” (11/05/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m37yr5v3po
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14) Canada: Opposition lawmaker defects to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government
Source: ABC News
“A Canadian opposition lawmaker joined Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberal Party on Tuesday, a political coup on a day when the government announced its budget for the year. Chris d’Entremont, a member of Parliament from Nova Scotia, said in a statement he’s joining the government caucus because he shares Carney’s economic priorities. … The move puts the Liberals two seats shy of a majority government and being able to pass their budget without opposition support. The defection is a blow to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who is facing a leadership review vote in January.” (11/05/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/canadian-opposition-lawmaker-defects-prime-minister-mark-carneys-127195062
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15) Bolivia: Top court annuls former interim president sentence and orders her immediate release
Source: ABC News
“The Bolivian Supreme Court of Justice on Wednesday annulled the 10-year prison sentence against former interim President Jeanine Áñez, ordering her immediate release. The court also ordered that Áñez, who has been imprisoned for more than four years, be subjected to a political trial, as demanded by her defense. … Áñez was convicted for her role in assuming the presidency in a controversial National Assembly session following the deadly 2019 protests that led to the resignation of then-president Evo Morales (2006-2019).” (11/05/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bolivian-top-court-annuls-former-interim-president-sentence-127221129
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16) Democrats sweep key US elections
Source: CBS News
“Democrats scored victories in the four major races of the night: the New York City mayoral race, the governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia and Prop 50, California’s redistricting ballot measure. Exit polling showed voters went to the polls with worries about the economy on their minds, coupled with broader discontent with the state of the country right now. … Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, both moderates, won the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia, while on the far left [sic], democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani prevailed in his race for New York mayor …. California voters said ‘yes’ to Proposition 50, which will allow state legislators to redistrict before the midterm elections, an effort to counter GOP-led gerrymandering in other states.” (11/05/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/election-day-2025-voting-results/
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17) ID: Kohberger’s restitution hearing ends with no decision, but prosecutor admits slip-up
Source: Fox News
“Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson admitted to a major miscalculation in what the University of Idaho victims’ families should be owed in restitution, telling a judge Wednesday that he would no longer be seeking roughly $27,000 in travel expenses that were not outlined in Bryan Kohberger’s plea deal — asking the court to award about a tenth of that in funeral expenses instead. Kohberger’s lawyers noted that the travel expenses were not part of the plea deal after Thompson mistakenly thought they would be covered by a victims’ compensation fund and agreed that the funeral expenses amount to $3,075.58. … A plea deal is essentially a contract, [Judge Steven] Hippler said, and as a result, the prosecution can’t seek restitution for travel expenses outside the terms of the deal.” (11/05/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/bryan-kohberger-fights-27k-restitution-victims-families-while-taking-money-behind-bars
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18) EU regimes agree weakened 2040 climate goal and target for COP30
Source: Politico
“The European Union’s environment ministers struck a deal watering down a proposed 2040 target for cutting planet-warming emissions and set a new 2035 climate plan. Following marathon negotiations all day Tuesday and into Wednesday morning, ministers unanimously approved the bloc’s long-overdue climate plan, rescuing the EU from the international embarrassment of showing up empty handed this month’s COP30 summit. The plan, which is a requirement under the Paris Agreement, sets a new goal to slash EU emissions between 66.25 percent and 72.5 percent below 1990 levels until 2035. That plan is not legally binding but sets the direction of EU climate policy for the coming five years.” (11/05/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-agree-weakened-2040-climate-goal-and-target-for-cop30
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19) YouTube deletes hundreds of videos showing violations of Palestinian rights
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Video sharing platform YouTube has taken down over 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations due to US sanctions against Palestinian human rights groups. The videos come from Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, and include videos analysing Israel’s killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and testimony of Palestinians tortured by Israeli forces, among others. The three rights groups have been sanctioned by the US over their support for the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza.” (11/05/25)
https://www.newarab.com/news/youtube-deletes-hundreds-videos-palestinian-rights-groups
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20) Judge in Comey case orders prosecutors to hand over full transcript of grand jury presentation
Source: ABC News
“The federal judge overseeing former FBI Director James Comey’s legal challenge to the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia has ordered prosecutors to hand over a full transcript of Halligan’s presentation to the grand jury that voted to indict Comey. Judge Cameron Currie, who was appointed outside of the district to review the validity of Halligan’s appointment, said in an order Tuesday that a transcript handed over by prosecutors ‘fails to include remarks made by the indictment signer both before and after the testimony of the sole witness, which remarks were referenced by the indictment signer during the witness’s testimony.’ … Comey pleaded not guilty on Oct. 8 to one count of false statements and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding …” (11/04/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-comey-case-orders-prosecutors-hand-full-transcript/story?id=127181809
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21) Immunity Syndrome
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“More or less open corruption in the White House. Pardons for sale. Wanton murder on the high seas. Using the Justice Department as a political hit squad. Chief Justice John Roberts’[s] creation, ex nihilo, of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution looks dumber every day. … While the DOJ has long held a prudential policy of not indicting presidents, there is no legitimate constitutional principle holding that the president or any other elected official is constitutionally immune from prosecution for crimes committed while in office and under color of official deeds. The separation of powers does not require one: We do not, for example, insist that corrupt senators cannot be arrested by the FBI or prosecuted by the DOJ because FBI agents and DOJ lawyers are part of the executive branch.” (11/05/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-immunity-supreme-court-venezuela/
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22) Keep the Federal Government Closed
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“That the ‘government shutdown’ is disruptive is an indictment of just how far we’ve let the federal Leviathan intrude into areas it doesn’t belong. Of course, it’s not really a shutdown; it’s a temporary suspension of nonessential activities while lawmakers posture over budget issues for the edification of their core supporters. But we still see the air traffic control system in chaos and all too many Americans complaining that they won’t get full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits because government officials always inconvenience the public first even as most of the federal behemoth chugs on as always. They want to convince us we need the state and get us begging for it to reopen. Instead, we should ween ourselves from government and relegate the federal apparatus to the irrelevance — or even nonexistence — that it deserves.” (11/05/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/05/keep-the-federal-government-closed/
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23) You don’t want to be government’s pet
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“The SNAP crisis has shown a flaw in encouraging people to become dependent on government for anything essential. If you allow yourself to become dependent on government, it will own you. Why would you do this to yourself? To your family? This isn’t only about food, but about a job, your personal safety, health care, or anything else you expect government to provide. Being dependent on government — something you have no real control over, and which relies on a steady stream of stolen money — is a terrible idea. Pure self-sufficiency is impossible, but it should remain a guiding principle.” (11/05/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/11/05/voices/opinion-you-dont-want-to-be-governments-pet/232063.html
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24) Will the justices give military contractors a free pass?
Source: The Hill
by Kimberly Wehle
“On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, a case that asks whether private military contractors can be held liable in state court for negligence and other violations of law, or whether they are immune from lawsuits brought by people they injure. Its outcome could signal how the current majority feels about deputizing private actors with federal immunity even if they engage in blatantly illegal acts. … The Supreme Court hasn’t considered the issue of private contractor liability since 1988, when in Boyle v. United Technologies, it manufactured civil immunity for military equipment manufacturers. It did so even though Congress had specifically refused to protect private contractors under a statute that otherwise allows for negligence suits against the federal government.” (1/05/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5587971-will-the-justices-give-federal-contractors-a-free-pass/
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25) From Redcoats to SWAT: How Americans Became Less Free
Source: Chasing Liberty
by Jeff Charles
“Most Americans learn about the Revolution as a fight against unfair taxes and British tyranny. But dig deeper into the Declaration of Independence, and one grievance leaps off the page: ‘He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.’ Thomas Jefferson wasn’t just talking about soldiers traipsing about in their scarlet coats. It was about the notion that soldiers would be present in the first place. For the colonists, the idea of having troops quartered in towns enforcing royal edicts at the end of a bayonet was an egregious example of oppression. Yet, when compared to what we see in 2025, it is not difficult to notice how far we have gone — in the wrong direction.” (11/05/25)
https://www.libertychasers.com/p/from-redcoats-to-swat-how-americans
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26) Karine Jean-Pierre Left Dem Party to Become an Independent; Cue the Sound of One Hand Clapping
Source: Town Hall
by Debra J Saunders
“In case you hadn’t noticed, former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is a black woman, as she repeatedly reminds readers in her memoir, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines. Jean-Pierre also is ‘openly queer’ (her words, not mine, scattered like breadcrumbs throughout her 177-page treatment of her two-plus years as former President Joe Biden’s top spokesperson). If it weren’t for identity politics, Jean-Pierre wouldn’t have any identity at all. She tosses around labels, not arguments. Jean-Pierre told The New Yorker that the ‘broken’ White House in her book title refers not to the White House of her former boss, but that of current President Donald Trump. And yet, by her own account, KJP’s defection from the Democratic Party was a reaction to serving in an administration that was burdened with ‘racism, misogyny and double standards.'” (11/05/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2025/11/05/karine-jean-pierre-left-the-dem-party-to-become-an-independent-cue-the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping-n2665972
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27) Who Died and Made Trump the Global Drug-War King?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“According to NBC News, the Trump administration is now considering a military attack on Mexico. That’s on top of Trump’s obvious internal struggle on whether to do the same to Venezuela. Another possibility is Columbia, whose president, according to Trump, is an ‘illegal drug leader.’ Oh, the difficult life of an interventionist drug-war president who is ostensibly set on making America great again. Who to attack first? Who to kill? How many to kill? Which killing route will be more apt to make America great again? How best to win the Nobel Prize for Peace?” (11/05/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/11/05/who-died-and-made-trump-the-global-drug-war-king/
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28) What Kind of “America First” Is This?
Source: The American Conservative
by Spencer Neale
“As Americans, our greatest battles lie here in the heartland, thousands of miles from Jerusalem, Tehran, the Gaza Strip, and the rest of the chaotic world out there. … We have enough issues here, in Pennsylvania, Idaho, Missouri, and California. It is here, not in the Middle East, where Americans are struggling to afford rising grocery prices and unaffordable housing costs. These United States are where Trump and his administration’s aims should be focused, not between the Golan Heights and Tehran. And yet when asked about such apparently trivial domestic issues by O’Donnell, Trump merely waved his hand and claimed that grocery prices, despite what our eyes and pocketbooks clearly tell us, are, in fact, falling; even if they aren’t, it is all President Biden’s fault. … Such is the MAGA that we have received: a shadow of the MAGA promised.” (11/05/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-kind-of-america-first-is-this/
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29) Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Dick Cheney, arguably the single government official most responsible for the expansion of US warmongering and militarism in the 21st century, has died. The worst worst war sluts of the US empire have issued statements expressing their condolences, including Democrats like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi. Because if there’s one thing that can bring Democrats and Republicans together, it’s war crimes and the slaughter of millions of middle easterners. Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization. In a truly sane society, Richard Bruce Cheney would have lived a life of relative obscurity, working as a gardener or something without ever getting anywhere close to power.” (11/05/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/05/cheney-should-have-died-alone-in-a-cage/
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30) How School Choice Became a Magnet for Capital
Source: The Daily Economy
by Hannah Frankman Hood
“Families, entrepreneurs, and Fortune 500 companies alike are chasing better schools. Freedom to choose may be the quiet engine of the next American migration wave.” (11/05/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-school-choice-became-a-magnet-for-capital/
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31) Trump’s peace tactics in Sudan
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“In his self-portrayal as a global peacemaker, President Donald Trump prefers to employ arm-twisting pressure to stop a conflict, such as in Gaza. Yet for one of the most intractable wars – a civil conflict in Africa’s third-largest country, Sudan – he might be relying on principled persuasion. The reason? Mass atrocities against civilians on both sides of that 18-month-long war have pushed many nations with a strategic stake in Sudan to join a Trump-led effort for a humanitarian truce. On Monday, the U.S. senior adviser for Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos, said Sudan’s rival military forces have agreed in principle to a three-month truce, which would allow safe corridors for delivery of vital aid. If a pause in fighting does help the millions of Sudanese in need, it would be a nod to a global norm that recognizes the innocence of civilians in battle zones.” (11/04/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1104/Trump-s-peace-tactics-in-Sudan
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32) Will the Supreme Court Side With Trump — Or Itself?
Source: The Atlantic
by Idrees Kahloon
“Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in one of those rare cases that could reshape all three branches of government. The justices deciding Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, a challenge to the current tariff regime, could determine whether the imperial presidency is entrenched or arrested. They could either cajole Congress out of its dormancy or render it even more inert. And they could buttress the legitimacy of the Court’s conservative majority — which in the past decade has aggressively intervened to limit the administrative state’s domestic operations — or undermine it by applying different standards to presidents of different parties.” (11/05/25)
https://archive.is/wRzFD
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33) Democrat Party Needs a Soul, Not a Focus Group
Source: Common Dreams
by Sam Rosenthal
“Nearly exactly a year later, two narratives have taken hold about the electoral wipeout Democrats experienced in 2024. The first is the Democratic Party, weighed down by an unpopular and enfeebled presumptive nominee who had overseen unpopular foreign wars and economic carnage at home, failed to articulate a vision other than ‘we’re not Trump.’ The second is that Democrats, after routing Donald Trump in 2020, moved too far to the left, losing the coveted ‘moderate’ vote and the entire election. Progressives have stuck mostly to the first narrative. As political director at RootsAction, I was among the first group of detractors encouraging Joe Biden not to seek a second term as president.” (11/05/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-dems-need-to-win
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34) Creative Destruction
Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“One cause of polarization and the rise of socialism — and a better way forward.” (11/05/25)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/creative-destruction
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35) The EU’s Green Ideology Is Crashing Europe’s Car Industry
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“The European Green Deal, launched in 2019, is an ecological pact that has been, unequivocally, an enemy of European taxpayers and innovation. Its declared goal is to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 through a dense web of regulations that reach deep into every sector of the European economy. More than any other sector, the automotive industry is being put at risk of an irreversible crash. Pressuring companies and citizens alike, the pact promotes the renunciation of capitalism, an inevitable sacrifice in the name of green policies. Such binding commitments will have severe economic consequences for a European Union increasingly weakened by its own laws and regulations.” (11/05/25)
https://fee.org/articles/the-eus-green-ideology-is-crashing-europes-car-industry/
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36) Vindictiveness vs. the First Amendment
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Finally, the city council of Castle Hills, Texas, is doing the right thing by Sylvia Gonzalez, accepting a settlement to resolve years of litigation against the city for violating her First Amendment rights. In 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in her favor, agreeing that courts may properly consider evidence that an arrest is retaliatory. According to Gonzalez’s lawsuit, in 2019 city leaders had lashed out against the councilwoman for her support of a nonbinding petition to remove a city manager. The city’s weapon? A rarely used law that it wielded against her for ‘briefly and inadvertently having the petition among her papers’ during a heated council meeting; she allegedly tried to ‘steal’ her own petition.” (11/05/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/11/05/vindictiveness-vs-the-1st-amendment/
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37) Republicans have one big thing to learn about their 2025 wipeout
Source: Fox News
by Newt Gingrich
“The Nov. 4 off-year elections were a smashing Democratic victory. This is the first and most important lesson Republicans should take from the results. In elections in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, there was a huge wave in favor of the Democrats. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s referendum victory in California will certainly shape the 2026 midterms. Yet, there were some local Republican victories, such as the one for Nassau County executive in New York, which provided the GOP hints of a better future – if Republicans are willing to study and learn from them. President Donald J. Trump suggested that his name not being on the ballot was a major factor in the outcome. This may be true, but it does not solve anything for Republicans. His name is not going to be on the ballot in 2026 or 2028 either.” (11/05/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/newt-gingrich-republicans-have-one-big-thing-learn-about-2025-wipeout
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38) Maduro With Venezuela, Trump poised to make mistake of epic proportions
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Orlando Pérez
“News that the administration may greenlight attacks inside the country, even remove Maduro, is already causing panic. It should.” (11/05/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-venezuela-military/
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39) Mao’s Children: How Revolutionary Passions Are Still Warping Young Minds
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“Having read and written extensively about the suffering of the Chinese people under Mao, I was horrified and alarmed to listen to this short take by an Oberlin College student shortly after the Charlie Kirk assassination. The student is an unapologetic Mao-inspired revolutionary who is for more ‘political assassinations’ and anti-free speech for ‘reactionaries,’ and ‘capitalists.’ She wants ‘some people’ to ‘be afraid to express their opinion in public.’ In a college course, she was taught ‘how violent revolution liberated millions of people and liberated women’ in Mao’s China. Her views are extreme, but she is not alone.” (11/05/25)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/maos-children-how-revolutionary-passions
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40) Why Liberalism
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“When I first started teaching, David Henderson gave me some advice: to be open about who I am regarding my economic philosophy. At the beginning of class (and several other times throughout), I mention that I am a classical liberal — a free-market economist who argues that individuals rather than governments are best suited to deal with complex social relationships and problems. I don’t rule out government intervention completely, but I make a strong presumption of liberty that must be overcome before government intervention is justified. Law exists to enhance liberty, not restrict it. That is some of the best teaching advice I have gotten.” (11/05/25)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/murphy-why-liberalism
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41) Supreme Court Poised to Defy Trump on Tariffs
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Supreme Court heard arguments for nearly three hours on President Trump’s authority to overhaul the tariff system of the United States through an emergency statute. Trump decided at the last minute not to show up to the hearing, and it’s a good thing he did, because he would have wanted to change the channel. Most of the conservative justices seemed pretty skeptical of the argument that the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA), which allows a president in an emergency ‘to regulate importation and exportation,’ confers worldwide, unlimited tariff authority that could raise as much as $4 trillion over a decade, per the government’s brief. Solicitor General D. John Sauer characterized these as ‘regulatory tariffs’ and not taxes, designed to change consumer behavior by buying domestically and as leverage on other countries for purposes of negotiation. The justices weren’t totally buying that.” (11/05/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/11/05/supreme-court-poised-to-defy-trump-on-tariffs/
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42) Dick Cheney (1941–2025): The Dark Legacy of a War Criminal
Source: Antiwar.com
by Alan Mosley
“Former U.S. vice president Richard ‘Dick’ Cheney died on 3 November 2025 at age 84; his family said he had suffered from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Best known for steering national security policy after the 9/11 attacks, he became the dominant force behind a ‘war on terror’ that unleashed torture, preventive war and mass surveillance. Amnesty International has described him as one of the principal architects of a program that amounted to torture, while the Brown University Costs of War project attributes more than 900,000 deaths and trillions of dollars in spending to the post‑9/11 wars he championed. Cheney’s legacy is one of unprecedented destruction and the erosion of civil liberties.” (11/05/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/alan_mosley/2025/11/04/dick-cheney-1941-2025-the-dark-legacy-of-a-war-criminal/
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43) Of Angels and Algorithms: Geofencing In the Name of God
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brandt Burleson
“Imagine it’s a bright and pleasant Sunday morning. You walk through the doors of your church and are greeted by familiar faces, friendly handshakes, and warm coffee. The service is an uplifting refuge from a challenging week full of difficulties at home and at work. … Everyone in your church gets in their cars and looks at their phones before driving away to find each and every one of you was the target of a digital propaganda campaign; you go from spiritual transcendence to the sobering realization that you are a datapoint of a geofencing effort. The casualty of a foreign information war. This is the collision between one of the oldest domains of the human experience, religion, and one of its newest, cyberspace.” (11/05/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/of-angels-and-algorithms-geofencing-in-the-name-of-god
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44) Adoption and the Welfare State: Reply to Critics
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Suppose taxpayers are subsidizing air pollution. ‘Cutting the subsidies wouldn’t have a large effect on pollution, and the people getting subsidies are poor’ is a good argument that the subsidies aren’t awful. But it hardly shows that subsidizing air pollution is actually a good idea. I say the same logic is at play here. As long as middle-class families are eager to adopt, why should government subsidize non-adoption?” (11/04/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/adoption-and-the-welfare-state-reply
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45) Trump’s Supreme Court tariff case tests the limits of presidential power
Source: New York Post
by Daniel McCarthy
“In times of national emergency, should the Supreme Court dictate America’s grand strategy and international economic policies? This question confronts the justices this week in Learning Resources v. Trump, a case that puts the president’s tariff powers to the test. If President Donald Trump loses, the Treasury faces having to refund more than $100 billion in tariff revenue, and the president’s trade strategy will be thrown into chaos. Businesses that have already changed their operations because of the tariffs, drawing jobs and supply chains back to America, will be subject to grave new uncertainties: Will Trump find other legal grounds for his tariffs — or will his project collapse, throwing the country back to an era of unfettered globalization?” [editor’s note: “But if he has to follow the law, it will go back to being like it was when he had to follow the law!” doesn’t seem like much of an argument – TLK] (11/04/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/04/opinion/trumps-scotus-tariff-case-tests-the-limits-of-presidential-power/
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46) The vanishing Vista
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by William Harris
“After the University of Central Oklahoma silenced the school paper, students got loud.” (11/04/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/vanishing-vista
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47) Tariffs, Tobacco, and Policy Whiplash
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Roger Bate
“When politicians talk tough on trade, they usually promise to protect American jobs. But sometimes those gestures do the opposite. The Trump administration’s proposed 100 percent tariff on large cigars imported from Nicaragua is a case in point. According to my latest research, the tariff would shrink US GDP by $1.26 billion, reduce total output by $2.06 billion, eliminate nearly 18,000 jobs, and cost state and local governments $95 million in tax revenue. There is no domestic industry to protect. The United States produces almost no large cigars …. Over the past year, US regulators have exhibited a kind of policy whiplash — swinging between deregulation and sudden restriction with no coherent principle in sight.” (11/04/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/tariffs-tobacco-and-policy-whiplash/
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48) Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.
Source: The Intercept
by Nick Turse
“The U.S. government has long maintained lists of terrorist organizations. Groups classified as ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorists’ or ‘Foreign Terrorist Organizations’ have been hit with financial penalties, immigration restrictions, or other sanctions. Groups on the FTO list, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, have been targeted with lethal strikes. But these designations aren’t enough for President Donald Trump. The U.S. government has instead begun drawing up new lists of terrorist organizations without disclosing the identities of the groups to Congress or the American people.” (11/04/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/trump-terrorist-list-nspm7-enemies/
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49) The Dawn of a Better Day?
Source: In These Times
by Luis Feliz Leon
“Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and the Democratic nominee, will be New York City’s next mayor, after trouncing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a primary and general election double whammy. ‘The working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands,’ Mamdani told a roaring crowd at his victory party in Brooklyn. ‘Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor; palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars; knuckles scarred with kitchen burns — these are not hands that have been allowed to hold power. And yet, over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it… We have toppled a political dynasty.’ But the fight is just beginning.” (11/05/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-dawn-of-a-better-day
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50) The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is prohibitionist madness
Source: spiked
by Roby Lyons
“Smoking rates have been falling steadily for decades, with or without government intervention, and in the past 15 years a significant factor has been smokers switching voluntarily to reduced-risk products such as vapes and, more recently, nicotine pouches. Despite that, successive governments (Conservative and now Labour) are determined to hasten a ‘smoke-free’ society by banning the sale of tobacco to future generations of adults. … This may be creeping prohibition, but it is prohibition nonetheless. Banning future generations of adults from purchasing tobacco is an astonishing example of the ‘government knows best’ mentality.” (11/04/25)
https://archive.is/pgcsA
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51) Collateral Damage, episode 5
Source: The Intercept
“What Fourth Amendment? How the Killing of Trevon Cole Almost Made Prime-Time TV.” (11/05/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/05/collateral-damage-episode-five-fourth-amendment/
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52) The Political Orphanage, 11/05/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“SHUTDOWN: The Musical.” (11/05/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/shutdown-the-musical
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53) Reason Interview: Jon Shenk & Marcus Capone
Source: Reason
“Veterans Are Suffering Because of FDA Red Tape.” (11/05/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/11/05/veterans-are-suffering-because-of-fda-red-tape/
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54) Rising, 11/05/25
Source: The Hill
“Tucker fires back at Ben Shapiro; the left is making Nick Fuentes seem cool?” (11/05/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5590619-rising-november-5-2025/
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55) The Learning Curve, 11/05/25
Source: Pioneer Institute
“MA Teacher Kelley Brown on Founding Documents, U.S. History, & Civics.” (11/05/25)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/ma-teacher-kelley-brown-on-founding-documents-u-s-history-civics/
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56) SolutionsWatch, 11/05/25
Source: The Corbett Report
“The Only REAL Solution to Digital ID.” (11/05/25)
https://corbettreport.com/the-only-real-solution-to-digital-id-solutionswatch/
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57) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 11/05/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Tirade Forces Press Sec to Awkwardly Undercut Him in SNAP Fiasco.” (11/05/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202678/trump-tirade-forces-press-sec-awkwardly-undercut-snap-fiasco
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58) Underthrow Podcast, 11/05/25
Source: Underthrow
“Common Law Colonialism: A Vision.” (11/05/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/common-law-colonialism-a-vision
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59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/05/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Weighs Options for Launching Venezuela War, Hamas Hands Over Body, IDF Strikes Gaza, and More.” (11/05/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcPxYK1Wm1A
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60) LPALive, episode 56
Source: LP Alliance
“Rob Yates for Charlotte, North Carolina!” (11/04/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qpbTCEGh4
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61) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 11/04/25
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
“Ten arguments against free speech.” (11/04/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/podcasts/so-speak-free-speech-podcast/ten-arguments-against-free-speech
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62) Serious Trouble, 11/04/25
Source: Serious Trouble
“Snap Decisions.” (11/04/25)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/snap-decisions
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63) Trump Watch, 11/04/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Supreme Court and the Tariff King.” (11/04/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A56nNN8z7I
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64) Law & Liberty Podcast, 11/04/25
Source: Law & Liberty
“Decline and fall?” (11/04/25)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/decline-and-fall/
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65) The Bryan Hyde Show, 11/04/25
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me for our weekly visit. We talk about elections, the individual vs the collective and how Ohio is tempting conservatives with control issues with a proposed law punishing ‘refusal to disclose.'” (11/04/25)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-2j45c-19b2ab0
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