09/09 -- France: Macron seeks new prime minister after regime's collapse; When Hatred for the "Woke" Left [sic] Trumps the Love of Liberty
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Thomas L. Knapp
Sep 9, 2025, 6:21:50 AM (4 days ago) Sep 9
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Today's Freedom News:
1) France: Macron seeks new prime minister after regime’s collapse
2) House panel releases Epstein records, including Trump “birthday book” letter
3) Jerusalem: Gunmen kill six in bus stop attack
4) Trump regime says heimatschutz has begun Chicago occupation/abduction operations
5) Norway: “Left-wing” bloc hangs on to power as anti-immigration party surges
6) Shortage of US homebuyers forces many sellers to lower prices or walk away as sales slump drags on
7) EchoStar, SpaceX reach $18 billion deal to expand Starlink cell service
8) Trump asks SCOTUS to allow $4 billion in foreign aid cuts
9) ICC Postpones Hearing for Philippines’ Duterte for Health Assessment
10) UK: London subway worker strike shuts down transit lines
11) Spain: Regime Announces Arms Embargo on Israel & Other Steps to “Stop the Genocide in Gaza”
12) Trump Fails to Overturn E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 Million Verdict
13) NC: GoFundMe pulls fundraisers for felon accused of random killing of commuter
14) Argentina: Milei suffers crushing defeat in Buenos Aires provincial election
15) WI: Mystery company’s $1.6 billion data center proposed for farmland draws residents’ ire
16) Bessent whines that US regime could be forced to refund “about half” of illegal tariffs if SCOTUS upholds law
17) SCOTUS lets Trump remove FTC member for now
18) Nepal: Police murder 19 at Internet censorship protests
19) SCOTUS lifts restrictions on LA immigrant abduction stops set after agents swept up US citizens
20) JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg takes step toward run for Congress
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) When Hatred for the “Woke” Left [sic] Trumps the Love of Liberty
22) The Only Medical Specialty That Survives on Lies
23) Government as God
24) Lower Trade Deficits and More Foreign Investment?
25) The West’s Hypocritical Opposition to Ukraine’s Forced Territorial Concessions
26) Democrat Lawfare Came For Me, And It Can Come For You Too
27) Grand Jury Nullification in Washington, DC
28) The United Kingdom needs a new generation of Levellers
29) Calls for balance in sharing federal powers
30) What Shipping Containers Did for Trade, Stablecoins Can Do for Money
31) Why is Congress MIA on looming Venezuela war?
32) How & Why I Live In The 1970s
33) Westerners Have A Moral Responsibility To Help Curb The Empire’s Abuses
34) Zohran Mamdani’s Price Controls Would be Disastrous for New York City
35) What Surprised Me
36) National Conservatism Has a Bigotry Problem, Whether Yoram Hazony Wants To Admit It or Not
37) Why the food industry and the left [sic] really hate RFK Jr.
38) The Multipolarity Mirage
39) The Big Scandal Involves Bill Pulte Not Lisa Cook
40) AI Slop and Human Play
41) The Return of the Kirkpatrick Doctrine
42) Defending Liberalism Against Itself
43) Quantum Vibe, 09/08/25
44) Nothing Fights Fascism Like Mutiny: A Call to Organize Troops Against Trump
45) This is our last shared experience, and it’s shaping the culture wars
46) What happened to Trump’s “big, beautiful” wall?
47) Trump: Looks Like We Lost India and Russia to China
48) America’s Perón
49) Democrats Bet Briefly Preventing a Health Insurance Apocalypse Is Good Politics
50) Simple Talk
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51) Reason Roundtable, 09/08/25
52) Rising, 09/08/25
53) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/08/25
54) The Corbett Report, episode 482
55) EconTalk, 09/08/25
56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/08/25
57) Fountainhead Forum, episode 357
58) Pink Flame of Liberty, 09/07/25
59) LPALive, episode 47
60) William Van Wagenen on The Scott Horton Show
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1) France: Macron seeks new prime minister after regime’s collapse
Source: Reuters
“French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking his fifth prime minister in less than two years after opposition parties united to kick out centre-right Prime Minister Francois Bayrou over his unpopular plans for budget tightening. Bayrou, handed a 364-194 defeat in a parliamentary confidence vote on Monday, will officially hand in his resignation to Macron during Tuesday. … There are no rules governing who Macron should choose, or how fast. Macron, 47 and in office since 2017, will appoint his new prime minister in the next few days, his office said on Monday. … The far-right National Rally meanwhile repeated its call for a snap parliamentary or presidential election — both of which Macron has so far ruled out.” (09/09/25)
https://archive.is/ifKAS
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2) House panel releases Epstein records, including Trump “birthday book” letter
Source: CBS News
“The House Oversight Committee released more records from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estate late Monday, including hundreds of pages from a book compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for his 50th birthday in 2003. Hours earlier, Democrats on the panel had released a letter in the book allegedly signed by Mr. Trump. The president has denied penning the message, which is typed within what appears to be the outline of a woman’s body. … The committee subpoenaed Epstein’s estate in August, seeking documents and other materials as part of its investigation into the U.S. government’s handling of the case.” (09/08/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-birthday-message-house-oversight/
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3) Jerusalem: Gunmen kill six in bus stop attack
Source: Washington Post
“At least six people were killed and roughly two dozen injured Monday after a pair of gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in Jerusalem, Israeli officials said. It is the deadliest attack on civilians in Israel [sic] since two Palestinian assailants carried out a mass shooting in Tel Aviv in October. The attackers were killed at the scene, Israeli police said, after a security officer and a civilian returned fire. Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, identified the gunmen as Muthna Amro, 20, and Muhammad Taha, 21, both from villages in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Authority, the body that governs the Palestinian-controlled parts of the West Bank, condemned the attack and ‘any targeting of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.'” [editor’s note: Jerusalem is occupied by, not “in,” Israel. Israel’s borders were set in United Nations Resolution 181 and do not encompass it – TLK] (09/08/25)
https://archive.is/rmk4m
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4) Trump regime says heimatschutz has begun Chicago occupation/abduction operations
Source: New York Times
“The Trump administration said on Monday that it had begun a crackdown on illegal [sic] immigration in Chicago, though local officials and advocates for immigrants around the city said they had seen only a handful of [abductions] so far. The Department of Homeland Security issued a news release announcing the operation, which it called Operation Midway Blitz, and said it would target undocumented immigrants who had criminal records. … Hundreds of Department of Homeland Security officials were expected to stage the operation from a naval base outside Chicago.” (09/08/25)
https://archive.is/DsZaT
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5) Norway: “Left-wing” bloc hangs on to power as anti-immigration party surges
Source: Le Monde [France]
“Norway’s left-wing bloc led by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store won the legislative elections on Monday, September 8, which also saw a record surge in support for the anti-immigration Progress Party. In power since 2021, Store is expected to continue to head a minority Labor government, backed up by the other four left-wing parties. The election campaign in the wealthy nation of 5.6 million people had centered largely on domestic issues but was also influenced by geopolitics, including US President Donald Trump’s policies and the war in Ukraine.” (09/09/25)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/09/09/norway-s-left-wing-bloc-hangs-on-to-power-as-anti-immigration-party-surges_6745178_143.html
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6) Shortage of US homebuyers forces many sellers to lower prices or walk away as sales slump drags on
Source: Associated Press
“Skyrocketing housing values and a shortage of homes on the market gave homeowners the upper hand for years when it came time to sell. That’s no longer a given. Across the country, it’s getting tougher for sellers to drive a hard bargain. A dearth of home shoppers who can afford to buy and uncertainty about the outlook for the economy, jobs and mortgage rates is putting pressure on sellers to give ground at the negotiating table. In some markets, mainly in the South and West, homeowners who are eager to sell are more likely to give buyers a better deal. This could include a lower price, up-front money to nudge down the buyer’s mortgage rate, and funds for closing costs and any repairs or improvements that may pop up after the home inspection.” (09/08/25)
https://apnews.com/article/real-estate-housing-market-home-prices-6a2ae673d0c93e98b69d3c6b99925124
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7) EchoStar, SpaceX reach $18 billion deal to expand Starlink cell service
Source: United Press International
“U.S. telecommunications company EchoStar announced Monday plans to sell spectrum licenses to SpaceX for $17 billion, allowing the aerospace company to expand its broadband service to cell phones via Starlink satellites. The definitive agreement includes EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses in exchange for $8.5 billion in cash and up to $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock. SpaceX will also pay about $2 billion in interest on EchoStar debt through November 2027. The deal will allow SpaceX to expand upon its Starlink Direct to Cell constellation, which provides broadband cell service to phones globally.” (09/08/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/09/08/EchoStar-SpaceX-Direct-to-Cell-Starlink/8851757332745/
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8) Trump asks SCOTUS to allow $4 billion in foreign aid cuts
Source: NBC News
“The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow the government to withhold $4 billion of spending on foreign aid that was approved by Congress. The move came in response to a federal judge’s ruling last week that requires the administration to spend the funds despite President Donald Trump notifying Congress that he intends not to. The case marks a showdown over to what extent the president can refuse to spend money that Congress has appropriated, a brewing issue as Trump has embraced a sweeping view of presidential power since taking office again in January. In the new filing, Solicitor General D. John Sauer described the case as raising ‘a grave and urgent threat’ to the power of the presidency.” (09/08/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trump-asks-supreme-court-allow-4-billion-foreign-aid-cuts-rcna229794
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9) ICC Postpones Hearing for Philippines’ Duterte for Health Assessment
Source: US News & World Report
“International Criminal Court judges on Monday postponed hearings to determine the definitive charges against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to see if the octogenarian is fit enough to follow the pre-trial proceedings in his case. Duterte, 80, was arrested and taken to The Hague in March on murder charges linked to his ‘war on drugs,’ where thousands of alleged narcotics peddlers and users were killed. He has maintained his arrest was unlawful and tantamount to kidnapping. In August, his defence lawyers asked the court for an adjournment of all proceedings arguing that the former president was not fit to stand trial. Details of Duterte’s alleged health conditions were redacted in the public version of the request.” (09/08/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-08/icc-postpones-hearing-for-philippines-duterte-for-health-assessment
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10) UK: London subway worker strike shuts down transit lines
Source: United Press International
“Millions of commuters in Britain were unable to get to work or had their journeys disrupted Monday morning after the London Underground was shuttered by a strike by around 10,000 drivers, signals operators and maintenance crew. National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport workers walked off the job Sunday through Thursday in a dispute over pay and what they argue are excessive working hours due to staff cuts, closing the mass transit system’s eight busiest lines and impacting service on five others. The union is demanding a 32-hour work week, down from 35 hours.” (09/08/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/09/08/London-subway-strike/4381757320001/
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11) Spain: Regime Announces Arms Embargo on Israel & Other Steps to “Stop the Genocide in Gaza”
Source: Common Dreams
“Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday announced a series of nine new measures — including a total arms embargo — aimed at pressuring the government of fugitive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘to stop the genocide in Gaza.’ Sánchez, who leads the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), announced the steps during a speech in which he first acknowledged the historical suffering of the Jewish people, which includes the 1492 ethnic cleansing of Jews from Spain. ‘The Jewish people have suffered countless persecutions, deserve to have their own state, and to feel secure,’ Sánchez said. ‘That is why the Spanish government has condemned Hamas’ attacks from day one.’ However, ‘there is a difference between defending your country and bombing hospitals or starving innocent children,’ the prime minister continued. ‘This is an unjustifiable attack on the civilian population, which the [United Nations] rapporteur has described as genocide.'” (09/08/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/spain-arms-embargo-israel
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12) Trump Fails to Overturn E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 Million Verdict
Source: US News & World Report
“A federal appeals court on Monday refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict against U.S. President Donald Trump for damaging the reputation of the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her rape claim. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Trump’s argument that the January 2024 verdict should be overturned because he deserved presidential immunity from Carroll’s lawsuit. The same court on June 13 upheld Carroll’s separate $5 million jury verdict against Trump in May 2023 for a similar defamation and for sexual assault. … Trump argued that the U.S. Supreme Court’s July 2024 decision providing him with substantial criminal immunity shielded him from liability in Carroll’s civil case. He also said he spoke about Carroll in 2019 in his capacity as president, and that failing to immunize him could undermine the independence of the Executive Branch.” (09/08/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-08/trump-fails-to-overturn-e-jean-carrolls-83-3-million-verdict
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13) NC: GoFundMe pulls fundraisers for felon accused of random killing of commuter
Source: Fox News
“GoFundMe said that it removed multiple fundraising campaigns created on behalf of Decarlos Brown Jr., the ex-convict accused of stabbing and killing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska aboard a Charlotte, North Carolina, light-rail train. ‘GoFundMe’s Terms of Service explicitly prohibit fundraisers for the legal defense of anyone formally charged with a violent crime. Consistent with this long-standing policy, all fundraisers for Decarlos Brown Jr.’s legal defense have been removed from the platform, and any donors have been fully refunded,’ a company spokesperson told Fox News Digital. According to information reviewed by Fox News Digital, the campaigns were taken down within hours of being flagged.” (09/08/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gofundme-pulls-fundraisers-felon-accused-killing-commuter-random-charlotte-train-attack
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14) Argentina: Milei suffers crushing defeat in Buenos Aires provincial election
Source: Associated Press
“Argentine President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback on Sunday in a Buenos Aires provincial election widely viewed as a political test for his libertarian [sic] party and a barometer for how it will perform in crucial congressional midterms next month. Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province, losing by a landslide to the left-leaning [sic] Peronist opposition, which secured 47% with the majority of ballots counted late Sunday. Milei conceded that his right-wing party’s crushing 13-point loss to his populist rivals represented ‘a clear defeat.'” (09/08/25)
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-election-javier-milei-cristina-fernandez-peronism-fecba6d106eb2c0f2440e9fca298e470
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15) WI: Mystery company’s $1.6 billion data center proposed for farmland draws residents’ ire
Source: Fox News
“People living in a Midwest city known for its natural beauty and outdoor recreation are sounding the alarm on a proposed data center with a price tag of $1.6 billion. More than 300 acres of farmland in Menomonie, Wisconsin, has already been annexed and rezoned by the city council, but some members say they need more information from developers about the project. The data center proposal was brought to the city by Delaware-based Balloonist, LLC, according to a press release on the city’s ‘Potential Data Center FAQ’ web page. The potential data center’s operating company has not yet been made public. ‘Currently, neither the council nor the public has been told who the company behind this project is,’ councilmember Sydney Brennan told FOX Business via email. ‘What we have been told is that it is an American-based company and one of the five major tech firms.'” (09/08/25)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/mystery-companys-1-6b-data-center-proposed-wisconsin-farmland-draws-residents-ire
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16) Bessent whines that US regime could be forced to refund “about half” of illegal tariffs if SCOTUS upholds law
Source: Politico
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged Sunday that the U.S. may have to refund tens of billions of dollars in tariffs imposed since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term if the Supreme Court rules they are illegal. ‘We would have to give a refund on about half the tariffs, which would be terrible for the Treasury,’ Bessent said in an interview Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’ Asked by anchor Kristen Welker if the administration was prepared to provide those refunds, Bessent replied, ‘If the court says it, we’d have to do it.’ He added that he was confident Trump would win the case. Bessent’s remarks follow two court rulings that found Trump lacked the authority to impose tariffs on nearly every country under a 1970s era emergency law, known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.” (09/07/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/07/bessent-half-refund-tariffs-scotus-00549539
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17) SCOTUS lets Trump remove FTC member for now
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump on Monday to keep a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission away from her post for now, temporarily pausing a judicial order that required the reinstatement of the commissioner who the Republican president has sought to oust. The court’s action, known as an administrative stay, gives the justices additional time to consider Trump’s formal request to let him fire Rebecca Slaughter from the consumer protection and antitrust agency prior to her term expiring.” (09/08/25)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-lets-trump-remove-ftc-member-now-2025-09-08/
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18) Nepal: Police murder 19 at Internet censorship protests
Source: Reuters
“[Police] killed at least 19 people in Nepal on Monday, authorities said, as police in the capital fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament in anger at a social media shutdown and corruption. Some of the mainly youth protesters forced their way into the parliament complex in Kathmandu by breaking through a barricade, a local official said, setting fire to an ambulance and hurling objects at lines of riot police guarding the legislature. … Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the unrest, which erupted after thousands of young people, including many wearing their school or college uniforms, took to the streets earlier on Monday. Many carried flags and placards with slogans such as ‘Shut down corruption and not social media,’ ‘Unban social media,’ and ‘Youths against corruption,’ as they marched through Kathmandu.” (09/08/25)
https://archive.is/uK13i
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19) SCOTUS lifts restrictions on LA immigrant abduction stops set after agents swept up US citizens
Source: SFGate
“The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for federal agents to conduct sweeping immigration operations for now in Los Angeles, the latest victory for President Donald Trump’s administration at the high court. The conservative majority lifted a restraining order from a judge who found that roving patrols were conducting indiscriminate stops in and around LA. The order had barred immigration agents from stopping people solely based on their race, language, job or location. The court’s 6-3 decision followed a pattern of at least temporarily allowing some of the Republican administration’s harshest policies, while leaving room for the possibility of a different outcome after the legal case plays out fully.” (09/08/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/supreme-court-lifts-restrictions-on-la-21036914.php
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20) JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg takes step toward run for Congress
Source: Axios
“Jack Schlossberg, a writer and grandson of President John F. Kennedy, said Sunday he is forming an exploratory committee to run for Congress in New York. Schlossberg is a high-profile figure in the Democratic Party who would likely bring additional attention to what is already expected to be a hotly contested race in the media capital of the U.S. The seat, New York’s 12th congressional district, became open this week after Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he will not run for an 18th term. In addition to Schlossberg, non-profit CEO Liam Elkind and state Assemblyman Micah Lasher are running for the seat.” (09/07/25)
https://archive.is/DrwrZ
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21) When Hatred for the “Woke” Left [sic] Trumps the Love of Liberty
Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“For years now, I’ve been critical of the use of the word ‘woke’ as a mere pejorative to signify anything the reactionary right hates. Indeed, ‘woke’ has become what Ayn Rand once called an ‘anti-concept,’ a grab-bag package deal of disparate, contradictory elements cobbled together with no logical or contextual sense. It is ironic that those who have rejected the pronouncements of the ‘woke’ left have now become champions of their own form of cancel culture, imposed top down through the countless executive orders and intimidation tactics of Donald Trump. … When politicians get to decide ‘where woke goes to die,’ the death throes of liberty cannot be far behind.” (09/08/25)
https://notablog.net/2025/09/08/when-hatred-for-the-woke-left-trumps-the-love-of-liberty/
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22) The Only Medical Specialty That Survives on Lies
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Peter C. Gøtzsche
“Psychiatry is the only specialty I know of that causes more harm than good; in fact, vastly more harm than good. This disaster can only survive because psychiatrists constantly lie to the public about what they can achieve with their drugs. Psychiatrists also routinely violate elementary human rights about informed consent and use forced treatment even though it is harmful. The title of my most recent psychiatry book summarises the issues: ‘Is psychiatry a crime against humanity?’ As you shall see, I am not exaggerating.” (09/08/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-only-medical-specialty-that-survives-on-lies/
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23) Government as God
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“By the 1990s, there was almost universal antipathy for the TV preacher. Most were found either to be frauds, philanderers, or both. They did a good job of preying on the gullible and the desperate. They took advantage of innocent people, and yet people like my grandmother would argue that these preachers, despite their sins, ‘brought a lot of people to the Lord.’ My grandmother was no dummy, so maybe she was right. Me? I doubt God uses snake-oil salesmen as instruments of His will. … Even if you still think there are some earnest televangelists out there with good hearts, or that God can work miracles, I hope you’ll agree that when it comes to the secular religion known as politics, a lot of people have replaced God with government. Politicians are perhaps the worst form of televangelists.” (09/08/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/government-as-god
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24) Lower Trade Deficits and More Foreign Investment?
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“There is something worse than everybody wanting to come to your country: that’s if everybody tried to avoid it. America is not at this point, but there is a play about that in a theater of the absurd near you. Official figures show a significant drop in foreign tourists coming to America this year compared to the same period last year. … I suspect that many supporters of protectionism don’t realize that what foreign tourists spend in America is an American export. Just like for exports of goods, receiving tourists from abroad … uses resources belonging to American residents in order to produce goods and services for foreigners. Not surprisingly, foreign tourism in America is entered as exports in official statistics. American residents travelling abroad provide the mirror image …. A prohibition of American travel abroad would ‘save’ an estimated $248 billion in the annual balance of international trade.” (09/08/25)
https://www.econlib.org/lower-trade-deficits-and-more-foreign-investment/
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25) The West’s Hypocritical Opposition to Ukraine’s Forced Territorial Concessions
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has consistently ruled out making any territorial concession as part of a peace accord to end his country’s war with Russia. NATO’s European members (with the partial exceptions of Hungary and Turkey) continue to support Kyiv’s uncompromising stance. Indeed, many European leaders seem even more insistent than Zelensky himself regarding the issue. Persisting in such recalcitrance, though, guarantees that even more Ukrainians will perish in a hopeless cause. Insisting on giving no territorial concessions to Moscow ignores current and prospective battlefield realities. Like it or not, Russia is slowly but inexorably winning the grinding war of attrition.” [editor’s note: Neither side is “winning” – TLK] (09/08/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2025/09/07/the-wests-hypocritical-opposition-to-ukraines-forced-territorial-concessions/
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26) Democrat Lawfare Came For Me, And It Can Come For You Too
Source: The Federalist
by Peter Navarro
“I Went To Prison So You Won’t Have To is both a line from my speech that brought the house down at the Republican National Convention on the day I walked out of prison, and a cautionary tale about the new age of Democrat lawfare and weaponized justice that the Age of Trump has ushered in. If they can come for me, Steve, and President Trump (along with Jeff Clark, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Dan Scavino, Mark Meadows, Jenna Ellis, Peter Clark, Boris Epshteyn, and other Trump associates), they can come for you. As a matter of simple math, virtually everyone involved in putting me behind bars was a Democrat …. More than a million dollars in legal fees and deprived of four months of my freedom — all because I honored the president’s invocation of executive privilege and oath of office.” (09/08/25)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/08/democrat-lawfare-came-for-me-and-it-can-come-for-you-too/
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27) Grand Jury Nullification in Washington, DC
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“A very positive sign in response to President Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D.C., has been what can be called ‘grand-jury nullification.’ Notice that I didn’t say ‘jury nullification.’ I said ‘grand-jury nullification,’ which is quite a different phenomenon. … what has been recently occurring in in Washington, D.C., is one of the most remarkable events in the history of America’s federal criminal-justice system. According to an article in the New York Times, grand juries in D.C. have refused prosecutors’ requests for indictment in at least seven cases, a phenomenon that the Times called a ‘citizens’s revolt’ against President Trump’s flooding the streets of our nation’s capital with hundreds of troops and federal agents.” (09/08/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/09/08/grand-jury-nullification-in-washington-d-c/
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28) The United Kingdom needs a new generation of Levellers
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Jacob Mchangama
“In 1649, a group of English radicals sent a petition to the House of Commons. In it, they lamented the licensing of printing — which allowed the government to ‘pre-censor’ books and pamphlets — as well as the harsh punishments for publishing unlicensed or ‘scandalous’ ones. The radicals warned that this kind of censorship would usher in a tyranny, and they insisted that it ‘seems altogether inconsistent with the good of the Commonwealth, and expresly [sic] opposite and dangerous to the liberties of the people.’ These radicals, known as the Levellers, paid dearly for their defiance. Their leaders were repeatedly imprisoned, and their demands for near-universal male suffrage, religious freedom, and unrestricted speech were crushed. Yet their bold vision left a legacy. … Centuries later, it seems Britain is in dire need of a new generation of Levellers.” (09/08/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/united-kingdom-needs-new-generation-levellers
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29) Calls for balance in sharing federal powers
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Since taking office nearly nine months ago, President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders that have kept the legal profession working overtime. By early September, 202 of the orders had spawned at least 395 court challenges. Twenty-three of the cases were fast-tracked to the Supreme Court in hopes of emergency action. One of the latest to be bumped up is an Aug. 29 U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that rejected the president’s claim of an emergency to impose trade tariffs. This ‘litany of litigation’, as one analyst characterizes the cascade of charges and countercharges, frustrates many Americans. Elected leaders from both parties are criticizing judges and rulings. Meanwhile, some judges, normally reticent, are weighing in. Much of the frustration comes by historic design. The nearly 240-year-old constitutional principles of separation of powers and checks and balances remain highly relevant today – that is, if consistently applied.” (09/08/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0908/Calls-for-balance-in-sharing-federal-powers
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30) What Shipping Containers Did for Trade, Stablecoins Can Do for Money
Source: The Daily Economy
by Alexander C Cartwright, Julia R Cartwright, & Lakshmi Narayanan
“In 1956, a trucking entrepreneur named Malcolm McLean did something quietly radical: he placed 58 identical steel boxes onto a cargo ship in Newark and sent them to Houston. Those boxes, the first standardized shipping containers, didn’t look like a revolution. But they soon rewrote the logic of global commerce. As economist Marc Levinson chronicled in The Box, this wasn’t just about saving space or time. The genius of the container was its standardization. No matter the cargo, no matter the destination, one set of protocols including fixed dimensions, stackability, and compatibility with cranes, trucks, and ports suddenly governed a previously fragmented industry. Costs fell. Transit times collapsed. Theft and spoilage plummeted. Global trade surged from $100 billion in 1960 to over $25 trillion today …. What the shipping container did for physical goods, stablecoins now promise to do for money.” (09/08/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/what-shipping-containers-did-for-trade-stablecoins-could-do-for-money/
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31) Why is Congress MIA on looming Venezuela war?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols
“Military tensions in the southern Caribbean have rapidly grown following President Trump’s decision to launch an airstrike on a boat allegedly smuggling drugs near Venezuela. As the U.S. announced the deployment of 10 F-35 fighter jets to bolster its forces in the region, a pair of Venezuelan planes flew over an American warship in a move that the Pentagon described as ‘highly provocative.’ … The rapid escalation seems to have put Congress on the back foot. While many lawmakers moved quickly to condemn Trump’s attacks on Iran earlier this year, strikingly few members of Congress have shown the same level of enthusiasm when it comes to Venezuela.” (09/08/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/venezuela-war/
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32) How & Why I Live In The 1970s
Source: The Findings
by Paul Rosenberg
“With just a few exceptions, my daily life could fit seamlessly into in the 1970s. In fact, I fight to keep it this way: not for nostalgia, but for health, happiness and efficiency. It comes down to the fact that I like thinking my own thoughts; that I’ve found them far more satisfying and useful than thoughts implanted in me by others. Said another way, I pursue simplicity, for the sake of my innate creativity and the satisfactions that come from it. One thing I’ve learned along the way is that the best and most satisfying of our choices and actions come from within us; they are self- generated. The things we’ll be happy about in our old age will not be acts of compliance; they’ll be things we self-generated. I live in the 1970s because it was a better environment for self-generation.” (09/08/25)
https://thefindings.substack.com/p/how-and-why-i-live-in-the-1970s
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33) Westerners Have A Moral Responsibility To Help Curb The Empire’s Abuses
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“In a sense all I’m ever really pointing at here is the importance of taking responsibility. Taking responsibility as westerners for the suffering and destruction inflicted upon the world by the western power structure that we live under. To be a westerner is to live in a civilization that is powered by the abuse and exploitation of the people of the global south. Every one of us benefits directly from the way resources and labor are exploitatively extracted from nations that are held in subjugation to the western empire at the barrel of a gun. The very electronic device you are reading these words on is a testament to this reality. We each have a moral obligation to end this abusive dynamic.” (09/08/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/08/westerners-have-a-moral-responsibility-to-help-curb-the-empires-abuses/
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34) Zohran Mamdani’s Price Controls Would be Disastrous for New York City
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Laurent Thynes
“New Yorkers appear to be on the cusp of electing a self-described socialist, Zohran Mamdani, as their next mayor. At first glance, his youth-friendly marketing comes off as rather gimmicky, as do some of his policy recommendations, such as free public buses and state-provided baby baskets. But make no mistake, his core agenda forms perhaps the most heavily interventionist platform the city has ever witnessed, and his proposed price controls could very swiftly bring about the return of the misery of the 1970s.” (09/08/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/zohran-mamdanis-price-controls-would-be-disastrous-new-york-city
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35) What Surprised Me
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“People who follow the news often claim to be ‘surprised’ or even ‘shocked’ by current events. That’s almost never my reaction. Sure, I can’t predict the details of the latest happenings. But the broad outlines of the news are tiresomely familiar. Heinous domestic murders. War in the Middle East. Blatant violations of the plain English reading of the Constitution. Chaotic socialist tyrannies in Latin America. Pampered First Worlders blaming their horrible plight (?) on hapless refugees. Civil wars in Africa. And always, people screaming at each other. Yet over the years, current events have genuinely surprised or even shocked me a few times.” (09/08/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/what-surprised-me
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36) National Conservatism Has a Bigotry Problem, Whether Yoram Hazony Wants To Admit It or Not
Source: Reason
by Stephanie Slade
“When the Israeli political philosopher Yoram Hazony appeared on The Ezra Klein Show in August, he worked hard to distance himself and his National Conservatism Conferences from the din of racist and antisemitic voices on parts of the American right. … ‘Blood and soil is literally a Nazi term …. We are not interested in a nationalism of blood.’ Yet on the first day of this year’s National Conservatism Conference (‘NatCon 5’) in Washington, D.C., Hazony gave a speech that didn’t just fail to clarify which elements of the extreme right should not be counted as natcons in good standing; it seemed explicitly to carve out space within the movement for those with antisemitic views. ‘Nobody ever said that to be a good natcon you have to love Jews,’ Hazony, who is Jewish, said. ‘Go take a look at our statement of principles. It’s not a requirement.'” (09/08/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/08/national-conservatism-has-a-bigotry-problem-whether-yoram-hazony-wants-to-admit-it-or-not/
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37) Why the food industry and the left [sic] really hate RFK Jr.
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Of all Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, it’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who attracts the most vitriol, which is saying something. You could see just how much the Health and Human Services secretary is despised last week at a Senate committee hearing when Democrat after Democrat abused him with slurs like ‘charlatan’ and demanded he resign. There is an orchestrated campaign to force him out that includes the overplayed political ploy of ‘an open letter from nine former CDC leaders’ and another letter from 1,000 current and former HHS employees calling on him to step down. But why would he resign? He’s only just getting started on Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, which is popular with Americans of all stripes, especially Republicans, 73% of whom rated it favorably in the latest Insider Advantage poll.” (09/07/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/opinion/miranda-devine-why-the-food-industry-and-the-left-really-hate-maha-ambassador-rfk-jr/
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38) The Multipolarity Mirage
Source: Quillette
by Brian Stewart
“Foreign-policy realism today still adheres to a circumscribed definition of national interest with little regard for what it views as lesser (and dangerously messianic) moral concerns. It casts a jaundiced eye on a foreign policy influenced by the impulse to ‘remake the world in its own image.’ It bitterly regrets that so many Americans stubbornly regard their homeland not merely as a country but also a cause. … In more practical terms, the realist persuasion holds that America’s longstanding grand strategy has become at once profligate in the use of military force and self-defeating. To so-called realists today, not only does the United States have no vested interest in an extensive system of defence commitments and forward military deployments, but these accoutrements of its global posture also tempt imperial overstretch while eliciting adverse behaviour from allies and adversaries alike.” (09/08/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/09/08/the-multipolarity-mirage-first-among-equals-emma-ashford-review/
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39) The Big Scandal Involves Bill Pulte Not Lisa Cook
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“While the validity of Pulte’s allegations will have to be determined by the courts, the real scandal is Pulte himself. He is supposed to be running the agency that oversees the processing of tens of millions of mortgages by two huge quasi-public agencies. We are not supposed to be paying him to rifle through mortgage documents to find and disclose dirt that Trump can use against his political opponents. … If Pulte helps Trump get his wish and a Trump-controlled Fed lowers interest rates, it would provide a big boost to the Pulte Group’s profits. That hope would give Pulte a strong motivation to try to hasten the day when Trump appointees dominate the Fed’s Open Market Committee that sets interest rates.” (09/08/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/08/the-big-scandal-involves-bill-pulte-not-lisa-cook/
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40) AI Slop and Human Play
Source: Virginia’s Newsletter
by Virginia Postrel
“Computers can win at chess and Go, but how about a rap battle?” (09/08/25)
https://vpostrel.substack.com/p/ai-slop-and-human-play
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41) The Return of the Kirkpatrick Doctrine
Source: Common Dreams
by Joseph Bouchard
“In August 1981, US Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick traveled to Santiago to meet with Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, eight years after he seized power in a military coup. Kirkpatrick cheeringly described their talk as ‘most pleasant’ and announced that the Reagan administration would fully normalize relations and resume arms sales — support that Pinochet quickly used to claim renewed legitimacy and crack down on opponents. The episode crystallized what became known as the Kirkpatrick Doctrine: the notion that the US government should embrace any autocrat who aligned with Washington’s anti-communist agenda while working to undermine, sanction, or topple any left-wing leader who refused to ‘play ball,’ even if they were democratically elected (and popular). Protecting American economic interests was the lodestar, and just about anything was permissible in service of that goal.” (09/08/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-latin-america-imperialism
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42) Defending Liberalism Against Itself
Source: Law & Liberty
by Timothy Fuller
“It is particularly noteworthy that David Walsh’s The Growth of the Liberal Soul, originally published nearly thirty years ago and now released with a new introduction, anticipated virtually all the criticisms of the liberal tradition asserted by Alasdair MacIntyre, Patrick Deneen, and the many others who claim liberalism has failed. The difference is that Walsh, acknowledging the relevance of their critique, nevertheless reaffirms the virtues of the liberal tradition, showing that it has more grounding in the classical and Christian resources than is currently acknowledged. The liberal tradition produced achievements that are essential to preserve, even as it faces a crisis that must be recognized if the crisis is to be resolved.” (09/08/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/defending-liberalism-against-itself/
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43) Quantum Vibe, 09/08/25
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (09/08/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2551
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44) Nothing Fights Fascism Like Mutiny: A Call to Organize Troops Against Trump
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“Multiple advocacy organizations representing military families, including the Sarah Stryder Initiative and the Chamberlain Network, have reported an influx of affected service members contacting them to express their disgust with Trump’s mission in the City of Angels. At least 105 members of this deployment have also sought counseling from behavioral health offices and at least one company commander and one battalion commander have been reassigned after expressing their objections to Trump’s orders. This is fertile soil for mutiny which anti-fascists would be wise to sow. History is rife with examples of disgruntled soldiers leading open revolts that ultimately led to the downfall of the very regimes they were tasked with fortifying.” (09/07/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/09/nothing-fights-fascism-like-mutiny-call.html
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45) This is our last shared experience, and it’s shaping the culture wars
Source: Fox News
by David Marcus
“In the past few weeks there has been a lot of conversation and controversy over advertising. First, we had the wild allegation that American Eagle jeans ads with Sydney Sweeney were racist, then a kerfuffle over the Cracker Barrel logo. Ever since trans celebrity Dylan Mulvaney popped open his first Bud Light, advertising has seemed less and less like an effort to sell widgets and more and more like ground zero in our society’s culture wars. An early example of an ad that had significant backlash was in April 2017, when Pepsi aired a spot with Kendall Jenner in which she magically subdues angry protests by offering everyone a soda. Reaction from the left was swift and angry.” (09/08/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-our-last-shared-experience-its-shaping-culture-wars
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46) What happened to Trump’s “big, beautiful” wall?
Source: The Hill
by Corey Kvasnick
“They are now painting the border wall black. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently announced that, at President Trump’s request, the steel fence along our southern border will be coated in dark paint so it heats under the sun and becomes harder to climb. But isn’t that like decorating the house before you’ve built the roof? This structure, once Trump’s rallying cry, has been lost in all the noise of his second term. I had nearly forgotten it myself, until I saw pictures of men with paint rollers freshening up the unfinished monument. The image is striking: darkened to intimidate, a monument less to function than to appearance. It is a perfect metaphor for Trump’s presidency.” (09/07/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5486806-unfinished-wall-trump-presidency/
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47) Trump: Looks Like We Lost India and Russia to China
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Kyle Anzalone
“President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social account that India and Russia are now firmly tied to China and have drifted away from the US orbit. Trump also demanded that Europe end Russian oil imports and place pressure on China. ‘Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!’ Trump wrote on Friday. The post is a response to a trilateral meeting between Chinese President Xi, Russian President Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Modi. … Trump appears to be prepared to force countries to choose between their relations with the US or Russia and China.” (09/07/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/trump-looks-like-we-lost-india-and-russia-to-china
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48) America’s Perón
Source: The Atlantic
by Scott Lincicome
“When the populist strongman Juan Perón ran Argentina’s economy from his presidential palace in the mid-20th century—personally deciding which companies received favors, which industries got nationalized or protected, and which businessmen profited from state largesse — economists warned that the experiment would end badly. They were right. Over decades of rule by Perón and his successors, a country that had once been among the world’s wealthiest nations devolved into a global laughingstock, with uncontrollable inflation, routine fiscal crises, rampant corruption, and crippling poverty. Peronism became a cautionary tale of how not to manage an economy. President Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.” (09/07/25)
https://archive.is/kz3vP
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49) Democrats Bet Briefly Preventing a Health Insurance Apocalypse Is Good Politics
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“In March, Democrats faced a decision: shut down the government over the litany of lawless actions and usurped spending powers by the Trump administration, or fall in line. They decided not to fight, reinforcing the fundamental fault lines in current-day Democratic politics between weakness and fortitude. Fast-forward six months and Democrats have the same decision. The government spending that was extended for the full fiscal year by a continuing resolution in March runs out at the end of the month. Twelve appropriations bills aren’t going to be passed in a few weeks, so some stopgap continuing resolution will probably be offered for a vote. Any spending bill, needed by September 30, will require 60 votes in the Senate (because of the Senate filibuster), meaning Democrats will have to supply some of them if it’s going to pass.” (09/08/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-08-democrats-bet-on-briefly-preventing-health-insurance-apocalypse/
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50) Simple Talk
Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon
“Want to move people? Focus on principles, not tactics. An essay about finding a real third way, using the simplest and most persuasive talk there is.” (09/07/25)
https://www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Reason Roundtable, 09/08/25
Source: Reason
Source: Reason
"MAGA Is Wrong About AI. Trump Is Right." (09/08/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/08/maga-is-wrong-about-ai-trump-is-right/
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52) Rising, 09/08/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers radar on Vice President JD Vance and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) spar over U.S. striking Venezuelan ship allegedly carrying drugs.” (09/08/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5491560-rising-september-8-2025/
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53) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/08/25
Source: The New Republic
“Raging Trump Suddenly Facing Worsening Legal Losses on Many Key Fronts.” (09/08/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/200093/raging-trump-suddenly-facing-worsening-legal-losses-many-key-fronts
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54) The Corbett Report, episode 482
Source: The Corbett Report
“War Is A Crime.” (09/08/25)
https://corbettreport.com/war-is-a-crime/
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55) EconTalk, 09/08/25
Source: EconTalk
“How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher).” (09/08/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/how-teams-succeed-with-colin-fisher/
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/08/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Troops Come Under ‘Indirect Fire’ in Somalia, IDF Destroys High-Rises in Gaza City, and More.” (09/08/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pzdmio6vbM
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57) Fountainhead Forum, episode 357
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Joel Berry on the authoritarian right and working at the Babylon Bee.” (09/08/25)
https://rumble.com/v6ym5po-ff-357-joel-berry-on-the-authoritarian-right-and-working-at-the-babylon-bee.html
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58) Pink Flame of Liberty, 09/07/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Matt Walsh — Your Rights DON’T MATTER (his procreation act owns you).” (09/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSI4Kex7deQ
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59) LPALive, episode 47
Source: LP Alliance
“Libertarian National Committee Meeting 09/07/25.” (09/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkTXH1nY-I
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60) William Van Wagenen on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott brings William Van Wagenen back on the show to continue their deep dive on the CIA’s covert operations to remake the Middle East.” (09/07/25)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/9-5-25-william-van-wagenen-on-the-origins-of-the-arab-spring-and-syrian-civil-war/
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Today's Freedom News:
1) France: Macron seeks new prime minister after regime’s collapse
2) House panel releases Epstein records, including Trump “birthday book” letter
3) Jerusalem: Gunmen kill six in bus stop attack
4) Trump regime says heimatschutz has begun Chicago occupation/abduction operations
5) Norway: “Left-wing” bloc hangs on to power as anti-immigration party surges
6) Shortage of US homebuyers forces many sellers to lower prices or walk away as sales slump drags on
7) EchoStar, SpaceX reach $18 billion deal to expand Starlink cell service
8) Trump asks SCOTUS to allow $4 billion in foreign aid cuts
9) ICC Postpones Hearing for Philippines’ Duterte for Health Assessment
10) UK: London subway worker strike shuts down transit lines
11) Spain: Regime Announces Arms Embargo on Israel & Other Steps to “Stop the Genocide in Gaza”
12) Trump Fails to Overturn E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 Million Verdict
13) NC: GoFundMe pulls fundraisers for felon accused of random killing of commuter
14) Argentina: Milei suffers crushing defeat in Buenos Aires provincial election
15) WI: Mystery company’s $1.6 billion data center proposed for farmland draws residents’ ire
16) Bessent whines that US regime could be forced to refund “about half” of illegal tariffs if SCOTUS upholds law
17) SCOTUS lets Trump remove FTC member for now
18) Nepal: Police murder 19 at Internet censorship protests
19) SCOTUS lifts restrictions on LA immigrant abduction stops set after agents swept up US citizens
20) JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg takes step toward run for Congress
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) When Hatred for the “Woke” Left [sic] Trumps the Love of Liberty
22) The Only Medical Specialty That Survives on Lies
23) Government as God
24) Lower Trade Deficits and More Foreign Investment?
25) The West’s Hypocritical Opposition to Ukraine’s Forced Territorial Concessions
26) Democrat Lawfare Came For Me, And It Can Come For You Too
27) Grand Jury Nullification in Washington, DC
28) The United Kingdom needs a new generation of Levellers
29) Calls for balance in sharing federal powers
30) What Shipping Containers Did for Trade, Stablecoins Can Do for Money
31) Why is Congress MIA on looming Venezuela war?
32) How & Why I Live In The 1970s
33) Westerners Have A Moral Responsibility To Help Curb The Empire’s Abuses
34) Zohran Mamdani’s Price Controls Would be Disastrous for New York City
35) What Surprised Me
36) National Conservatism Has a Bigotry Problem, Whether Yoram Hazony Wants To Admit It or Not
37) Why the food industry and the left [sic] really hate RFK Jr.
38) The Multipolarity Mirage
39) The Big Scandal Involves Bill Pulte Not Lisa Cook
40) AI Slop and Human Play
41) The Return of the Kirkpatrick Doctrine
42) Defending Liberalism Against Itself
43) Quantum Vibe, 09/08/25
44) Nothing Fights Fascism Like Mutiny: A Call to Organize Troops Against Trump
45) This is our last shared experience, and it’s shaping the culture wars
46) What happened to Trump’s “big, beautiful” wall?
47) Trump: Looks Like We Lost India and Russia to China
48) America’s Perón
49) Democrats Bet Briefly Preventing a Health Insurance Apocalypse Is Good Politics
50) Simple Talk
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Reason Roundtable, 09/08/25
52) Rising, 09/08/25
53) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/08/25
54) The Corbett Report, episode 482
55) EconTalk, 09/08/25
56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/08/25
57) Fountainhead Forum, episode 357
58) Pink Flame of Liberty, 09/07/25
59) LPALive, episode 47
60) William Van Wagenen on The Scott Horton Show
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1) France: Macron seeks new prime minister after regime’s collapse
Source: Reuters
“French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking his fifth prime minister in less than two years after opposition parties united to kick out centre-right Prime Minister Francois Bayrou over his unpopular plans for budget tightening. Bayrou, handed a 364-194 defeat in a parliamentary confidence vote on Monday, will officially hand in his resignation to Macron during Tuesday. … There are no rules governing who Macron should choose, or how fast. Macron, 47 and in office since 2017, will appoint his new prime minister in the next few days, his office said on Monday. … The far-right National Rally meanwhile repeated its call for a snap parliamentary or presidential election — both of which Macron has so far ruled out.” (09/09/25)
https://archive.is/ifKAS
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2) House panel releases Epstein records, including Trump “birthday book” letter
Source: CBS News
“The House Oversight Committee released more records from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estate late Monday, including hundreds of pages from a book compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for his 50th birthday in 2003. Hours earlier, Democrats on the panel had released a letter in the book allegedly signed by Mr. Trump. The president has denied penning the message, which is typed within what appears to be the outline of a woman’s body. … The committee subpoenaed Epstein’s estate in August, seeking documents and other materials as part of its investigation into the U.S. government’s handling of the case.” (09/08/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-birthday-message-house-oversight/
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3) Jerusalem: Gunmen kill six in bus stop attack
Source: Washington Post
“At least six people were killed and roughly two dozen injured Monday after a pair of gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in Jerusalem, Israeli officials said. It is the deadliest attack on civilians in Israel [sic] since two Palestinian assailants carried out a mass shooting in Tel Aviv in October. The attackers were killed at the scene, Israeli police said, after a security officer and a civilian returned fire. Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, identified the gunmen as Muthna Amro, 20, and Muhammad Taha, 21, both from villages in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Authority, the body that governs the Palestinian-controlled parts of the West Bank, condemned the attack and ‘any targeting of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.'” [editor’s note: Jerusalem is occupied by, not “in,” Israel. Israel’s borders were set in United Nations Resolution 181 and do not encompass it – TLK] (09/08/25)
https://archive.is/rmk4m
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4) Trump regime says heimatschutz has begun Chicago occupation/abduction operations
Source: New York Times
“The Trump administration said on Monday that it had begun a crackdown on illegal [sic] immigration in Chicago, though local officials and advocates for immigrants around the city said they had seen only a handful of [abductions] so far. The Department of Homeland Security issued a news release announcing the operation, which it called Operation Midway Blitz, and said it would target undocumented immigrants who had criminal records. … Hundreds of Department of Homeland Security officials were expected to stage the operation from a naval base outside Chicago.” (09/08/25)
https://archive.is/DsZaT
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5) Norway: “Left-wing” bloc hangs on to power as anti-immigration party surges
Source: Le Monde [France]
“Norway’s left-wing bloc led by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store won the legislative elections on Monday, September 8, which also saw a record surge in support for the anti-immigration Progress Party. In power since 2021, Store is expected to continue to head a minority Labor government, backed up by the other four left-wing parties. The election campaign in the wealthy nation of 5.6 million people had centered largely on domestic issues but was also influenced by geopolitics, including US President Donald Trump’s policies and the war in Ukraine.” (09/09/25)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/09/09/norway-s-left-wing-bloc-hangs-on-to-power-as-anti-immigration-party-surges_6745178_143.html
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6) Shortage of US homebuyers forces many sellers to lower prices or walk away as sales slump drags on
Source: Associated Press
“Skyrocketing housing values and a shortage of homes on the market gave homeowners the upper hand for years when it came time to sell. That’s no longer a given. Across the country, it’s getting tougher for sellers to drive a hard bargain. A dearth of home shoppers who can afford to buy and uncertainty about the outlook for the economy, jobs and mortgage rates is putting pressure on sellers to give ground at the negotiating table. In some markets, mainly in the South and West, homeowners who are eager to sell are more likely to give buyers a better deal. This could include a lower price, up-front money to nudge down the buyer’s mortgage rate, and funds for closing costs and any repairs or improvements that may pop up after the home inspection.” (09/08/25)
https://apnews.com/article/real-estate-housing-market-home-prices-6a2ae673d0c93e98b69d3c6b99925124
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7) EchoStar, SpaceX reach $18 billion deal to expand Starlink cell service
Source: United Press International
“U.S. telecommunications company EchoStar announced Monday plans to sell spectrum licenses to SpaceX for $17 billion, allowing the aerospace company to expand its broadband service to cell phones via Starlink satellites. The definitive agreement includes EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses in exchange for $8.5 billion in cash and up to $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock. SpaceX will also pay about $2 billion in interest on EchoStar debt through November 2027. The deal will allow SpaceX to expand upon its Starlink Direct to Cell constellation, which provides broadband cell service to phones globally.” (09/08/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/09/08/EchoStar-SpaceX-Direct-to-Cell-Starlink/8851757332745/
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8) Trump asks SCOTUS to allow $4 billion in foreign aid cuts
Source: NBC News
“The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow the government to withhold $4 billion of spending on foreign aid that was approved by Congress. The move came in response to a federal judge’s ruling last week that requires the administration to spend the funds despite President Donald Trump notifying Congress that he intends not to. The case marks a showdown over to what extent the president can refuse to spend money that Congress has appropriated, a brewing issue as Trump has embraced a sweeping view of presidential power since taking office again in January. In the new filing, Solicitor General D. John Sauer described the case as raising ‘a grave and urgent threat’ to the power of the presidency.” (09/08/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trump-asks-supreme-court-allow-4-billion-foreign-aid-cuts-rcna229794
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9) ICC Postpones Hearing for Philippines’ Duterte for Health Assessment
Source: US News & World Report
“International Criminal Court judges on Monday postponed hearings to determine the definitive charges against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to see if the octogenarian is fit enough to follow the pre-trial proceedings in his case. Duterte, 80, was arrested and taken to The Hague in March on murder charges linked to his ‘war on drugs,’ where thousands of alleged narcotics peddlers and users were killed. He has maintained his arrest was unlawful and tantamount to kidnapping. In August, his defence lawyers asked the court for an adjournment of all proceedings arguing that the former president was not fit to stand trial. Details of Duterte’s alleged health conditions were redacted in the public version of the request.” (09/08/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-08/icc-postpones-hearing-for-philippines-duterte-for-health-assessment
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10) UK: London subway worker strike shuts down transit lines
Source: United Press International
“Millions of commuters in Britain were unable to get to work or had their journeys disrupted Monday morning after the London Underground was shuttered by a strike by around 10,000 drivers, signals operators and maintenance crew. National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport workers walked off the job Sunday through Thursday in a dispute over pay and what they argue are excessive working hours due to staff cuts, closing the mass transit system’s eight busiest lines and impacting service on five others. The union is demanding a 32-hour work week, down from 35 hours.” (09/08/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/09/08/London-subway-strike/4381757320001/
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11) Spain: Regime Announces Arms Embargo on Israel & Other Steps to “Stop the Genocide in Gaza”
Source: Common Dreams
“Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday announced a series of nine new measures — including a total arms embargo — aimed at pressuring the government of fugitive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘to stop the genocide in Gaza.’ Sánchez, who leads the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), announced the steps during a speech in which he first acknowledged the historical suffering of the Jewish people, which includes the 1492 ethnic cleansing of Jews from Spain. ‘The Jewish people have suffered countless persecutions, deserve to have their own state, and to feel secure,’ Sánchez said. ‘That is why the Spanish government has condemned Hamas’ attacks from day one.’ However, ‘there is a difference between defending your country and bombing hospitals or starving innocent children,’ the prime minister continued. ‘This is an unjustifiable attack on the civilian population, which the [United Nations] rapporteur has described as genocide.'” (09/08/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/spain-arms-embargo-israel
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12) Trump Fails to Overturn E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 Million Verdict
Source: US News & World Report
“A federal appeals court on Monday refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict against U.S. President Donald Trump for damaging the reputation of the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her rape claim. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Trump’s argument that the January 2024 verdict should be overturned because he deserved presidential immunity from Carroll’s lawsuit. The same court on June 13 upheld Carroll’s separate $5 million jury verdict against Trump in May 2023 for a similar defamation and for sexual assault. … Trump argued that the U.S. Supreme Court’s July 2024 decision providing him with substantial criminal immunity shielded him from liability in Carroll’s civil case. He also said he spoke about Carroll in 2019 in his capacity as president, and that failing to immunize him could undermine the independence of the Executive Branch.” (09/08/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-08/trump-fails-to-overturn-e-jean-carrolls-83-3-million-verdict
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13) NC: GoFundMe pulls fundraisers for felon accused of random killing of commuter
Source: Fox News
“GoFundMe said that it removed multiple fundraising campaigns created on behalf of Decarlos Brown Jr., the ex-convict accused of stabbing and killing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska aboard a Charlotte, North Carolina, light-rail train. ‘GoFundMe’s Terms of Service explicitly prohibit fundraisers for the legal defense of anyone formally charged with a violent crime. Consistent with this long-standing policy, all fundraisers for Decarlos Brown Jr.’s legal defense have been removed from the platform, and any donors have been fully refunded,’ a company spokesperson told Fox News Digital. According to information reviewed by Fox News Digital, the campaigns were taken down within hours of being flagged.” (09/08/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gofundme-pulls-fundraisers-felon-accused-killing-commuter-random-charlotte-train-attack
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14) Argentina: Milei suffers crushing defeat in Buenos Aires provincial election
Source: Associated Press
“Argentine President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback on Sunday in a Buenos Aires provincial election widely viewed as a political test for his libertarian [sic] party and a barometer for how it will perform in crucial congressional midterms next month. Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province, losing by a landslide to the left-leaning [sic] Peronist opposition, which secured 47% with the majority of ballots counted late Sunday. Milei conceded that his right-wing party’s crushing 13-point loss to his populist rivals represented ‘a clear defeat.'” (09/08/25)
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-election-javier-milei-cristina-fernandez-peronism-fecba6d106eb2c0f2440e9fca298e470
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15) WI: Mystery company’s $1.6 billion data center proposed for farmland draws residents’ ire
Source: Fox News
“People living in a Midwest city known for its natural beauty and outdoor recreation are sounding the alarm on a proposed data center with a price tag of $1.6 billion. More than 300 acres of farmland in Menomonie, Wisconsin, has already been annexed and rezoned by the city council, but some members say they need more information from developers about the project. The data center proposal was brought to the city by Delaware-based Balloonist, LLC, according to a press release on the city’s ‘Potential Data Center FAQ’ web page. The potential data center’s operating company has not yet been made public. ‘Currently, neither the council nor the public has been told who the company behind this project is,’ councilmember Sydney Brennan told FOX Business via email. ‘What we have been told is that it is an American-based company and one of the five major tech firms.'” (09/08/25)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/mystery-companys-1-6b-data-center-proposed-wisconsin-farmland-draws-residents-ire
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16) Bessent whines that US regime could be forced to refund “about half” of illegal tariffs if SCOTUS upholds law
Source: Politico
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged Sunday that the U.S. may have to refund tens of billions of dollars in tariffs imposed since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term if the Supreme Court rules they are illegal. ‘We would have to give a refund on about half the tariffs, which would be terrible for the Treasury,’ Bessent said in an interview Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’ Asked by anchor Kristen Welker if the administration was prepared to provide those refunds, Bessent replied, ‘If the court says it, we’d have to do it.’ He added that he was confident Trump would win the case. Bessent’s remarks follow two court rulings that found Trump lacked the authority to impose tariffs on nearly every country under a 1970s era emergency law, known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.” (09/07/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/07/bessent-half-refund-tariffs-scotus-00549539
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17) SCOTUS lets Trump remove FTC member for now
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump on Monday to keep a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission away from her post for now, temporarily pausing a judicial order that required the reinstatement of the commissioner who the Republican president has sought to oust. The court’s action, known as an administrative stay, gives the justices additional time to consider Trump’s formal request to let him fire Rebecca Slaughter from the consumer protection and antitrust agency prior to her term expiring.” (09/08/25)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-lets-trump-remove-ftc-member-now-2025-09-08/
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18) Nepal: Police murder 19 at Internet censorship protests
Source: Reuters
“[Police] killed at least 19 people in Nepal on Monday, authorities said, as police in the capital fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament in anger at a social media shutdown and corruption. Some of the mainly youth protesters forced their way into the parliament complex in Kathmandu by breaking through a barricade, a local official said, setting fire to an ambulance and hurling objects at lines of riot police guarding the legislature. … Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the unrest, which erupted after thousands of young people, including many wearing their school or college uniforms, took to the streets earlier on Monday. Many carried flags and placards with slogans such as ‘Shut down corruption and not social media,’ ‘Unban social media,’ and ‘Youths against corruption,’ as they marched through Kathmandu.” (09/08/25)
https://archive.is/uK13i
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19) SCOTUS lifts restrictions on LA immigrant abduction stops set after agents swept up US citizens
Source: SFGate
“The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for federal agents to conduct sweeping immigration operations for now in Los Angeles, the latest victory for President Donald Trump’s administration at the high court. The conservative majority lifted a restraining order from a judge who found that roving patrols were conducting indiscriminate stops in and around LA. The order had barred immigration agents from stopping people solely based on their race, language, job or location. The court’s 6-3 decision followed a pattern of at least temporarily allowing some of the Republican administration’s harshest policies, while leaving room for the possibility of a different outcome after the legal case plays out fully.” (09/08/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/supreme-court-lifts-restrictions-on-la-21036914.php
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20) JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg takes step toward run for Congress
Source: Axios
“Jack Schlossberg, a writer and grandson of President John F. Kennedy, said Sunday he is forming an exploratory committee to run for Congress in New York. Schlossberg is a high-profile figure in the Democratic Party who would likely bring additional attention to what is already expected to be a hotly contested race in the media capital of the U.S. The seat, New York’s 12th congressional district, became open this week after Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he will not run for an 18th term. In addition to Schlossberg, non-profit CEO Liam Elkind and state Assemblyman Micah Lasher are running for the seat.” (09/07/25)
https://archive.is/DrwrZ
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21) When Hatred for the “Woke” Left [sic] Trumps the Love of Liberty
Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“For years now, I’ve been critical of the use of the word ‘woke’ as a mere pejorative to signify anything the reactionary right hates. Indeed, ‘woke’ has become what Ayn Rand once called an ‘anti-concept,’ a grab-bag package deal of disparate, contradictory elements cobbled together with no logical or contextual sense. It is ironic that those who have rejected the pronouncements of the ‘woke’ left have now become champions of their own form of cancel culture, imposed top down through the countless executive orders and intimidation tactics of Donald Trump. … When politicians get to decide ‘where woke goes to die,’ the death throes of liberty cannot be far behind.” (09/08/25)
https://notablog.net/2025/09/08/when-hatred-for-the-woke-left-trumps-the-love-of-liberty/
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22) The Only Medical Specialty That Survives on Lies
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Peter C. Gøtzsche
“Psychiatry is the only specialty I know of that causes more harm than good; in fact, vastly more harm than good. This disaster can only survive because psychiatrists constantly lie to the public about what they can achieve with their drugs. Psychiatrists also routinely violate elementary human rights about informed consent and use forced treatment even though it is harmful. The title of my most recent psychiatry book summarises the issues: ‘Is psychiatry a crime against humanity?’ As you shall see, I am not exaggerating.” (09/08/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-only-medical-specialty-that-survives-on-lies/
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23) Government as God
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“By the 1990s, there was almost universal antipathy for the TV preacher. Most were found either to be frauds, philanderers, or both. They did a good job of preying on the gullible and the desperate. They took advantage of innocent people, and yet people like my grandmother would argue that these preachers, despite their sins, ‘brought a lot of people to the Lord.’ My grandmother was no dummy, so maybe she was right. Me? I doubt God uses snake-oil salesmen as instruments of His will. … Even if you still think there are some earnest televangelists out there with good hearts, or that God can work miracles, I hope you’ll agree that when it comes to the secular religion known as politics, a lot of people have replaced God with government. Politicians are perhaps the worst form of televangelists.” (09/08/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/government-as-god
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24) Lower Trade Deficits and More Foreign Investment?
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“There is something worse than everybody wanting to come to your country: that’s if everybody tried to avoid it. America is not at this point, but there is a play about that in a theater of the absurd near you. Official figures show a significant drop in foreign tourists coming to America this year compared to the same period last year. … I suspect that many supporters of protectionism don’t realize that what foreign tourists spend in America is an American export. Just like for exports of goods, receiving tourists from abroad … uses resources belonging to American residents in order to produce goods and services for foreigners. Not surprisingly, foreign tourism in America is entered as exports in official statistics. American residents travelling abroad provide the mirror image …. A prohibition of American travel abroad would ‘save’ an estimated $248 billion in the annual balance of international trade.” (09/08/25)
https://www.econlib.org/lower-trade-deficits-and-more-foreign-investment/
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25) The West’s Hypocritical Opposition to Ukraine’s Forced Territorial Concessions
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has consistently ruled out making any territorial concession as part of a peace accord to end his country’s war with Russia. NATO’s European members (with the partial exceptions of Hungary and Turkey) continue to support Kyiv’s uncompromising stance. Indeed, many European leaders seem even more insistent than Zelensky himself regarding the issue. Persisting in such recalcitrance, though, guarantees that even more Ukrainians will perish in a hopeless cause. Insisting on giving no territorial concessions to Moscow ignores current and prospective battlefield realities. Like it or not, Russia is slowly but inexorably winning the grinding war of attrition.” [editor’s note: Neither side is “winning” – TLK] (09/08/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2025/09/07/the-wests-hypocritical-opposition-to-ukraines-forced-territorial-concessions/
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26) Democrat Lawfare Came For Me, And It Can Come For You Too
Source: The Federalist
by Peter Navarro
“I Went To Prison So You Won’t Have To is both a line from my speech that brought the house down at the Republican National Convention on the day I walked out of prison, and a cautionary tale about the new age of Democrat lawfare and weaponized justice that the Age of Trump has ushered in. If they can come for me, Steve, and President Trump (along with Jeff Clark, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Dan Scavino, Mark Meadows, Jenna Ellis, Peter Clark, Boris Epshteyn, and other Trump associates), they can come for you. As a matter of simple math, virtually everyone involved in putting me behind bars was a Democrat …. More than a million dollars in legal fees and deprived of four months of my freedom — all because I honored the president’s invocation of executive privilege and oath of office.” (09/08/25)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/08/democrat-lawfare-came-for-me-and-it-can-come-for-you-too/
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27) Grand Jury Nullification in Washington, DC
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“A very positive sign in response to President Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D.C., has been what can be called ‘grand-jury nullification.’ Notice that I didn’t say ‘jury nullification.’ I said ‘grand-jury nullification,’ which is quite a different phenomenon. … what has been recently occurring in in Washington, D.C., is one of the most remarkable events in the history of America’s federal criminal-justice system. According to an article in the New York Times, grand juries in D.C. have refused prosecutors’ requests for indictment in at least seven cases, a phenomenon that the Times called a ‘citizens’s revolt’ against President Trump’s flooding the streets of our nation’s capital with hundreds of troops and federal agents.” (09/08/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/09/08/grand-jury-nullification-in-washington-d-c/
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28) The United Kingdom needs a new generation of Levellers
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Jacob Mchangama
“In 1649, a group of English radicals sent a petition to the House of Commons. In it, they lamented the licensing of printing — which allowed the government to ‘pre-censor’ books and pamphlets — as well as the harsh punishments for publishing unlicensed or ‘scandalous’ ones. The radicals warned that this kind of censorship would usher in a tyranny, and they insisted that it ‘seems altogether inconsistent with the good of the Commonwealth, and expresly [sic] opposite and dangerous to the liberties of the people.’ These radicals, known as the Levellers, paid dearly for their defiance. Their leaders were repeatedly imprisoned, and their demands for near-universal male suffrage, religious freedom, and unrestricted speech were crushed. Yet their bold vision left a legacy. … Centuries later, it seems Britain is in dire need of a new generation of Levellers.” (09/08/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/united-kingdom-needs-new-generation-levellers
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29) Calls for balance in sharing federal powers
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Since taking office nearly nine months ago, President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders that have kept the legal profession working overtime. By early September, 202 of the orders had spawned at least 395 court challenges. Twenty-three of the cases were fast-tracked to the Supreme Court in hopes of emergency action. One of the latest to be bumped up is an Aug. 29 U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that rejected the president’s claim of an emergency to impose trade tariffs. This ‘litany of litigation’, as one analyst characterizes the cascade of charges and countercharges, frustrates many Americans. Elected leaders from both parties are criticizing judges and rulings. Meanwhile, some judges, normally reticent, are weighing in. Much of the frustration comes by historic design. The nearly 240-year-old constitutional principles of separation of powers and checks and balances remain highly relevant today – that is, if consistently applied.” (09/08/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0908/Calls-for-balance-in-sharing-federal-powers
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30) What Shipping Containers Did for Trade, Stablecoins Can Do for Money
Source: The Daily Economy
by Alexander C Cartwright, Julia R Cartwright, & Lakshmi Narayanan
“In 1956, a trucking entrepreneur named Malcolm McLean did something quietly radical: he placed 58 identical steel boxes onto a cargo ship in Newark and sent them to Houston. Those boxes, the first standardized shipping containers, didn’t look like a revolution. But they soon rewrote the logic of global commerce. As economist Marc Levinson chronicled in The Box, this wasn’t just about saving space or time. The genius of the container was its standardization. No matter the cargo, no matter the destination, one set of protocols including fixed dimensions, stackability, and compatibility with cranes, trucks, and ports suddenly governed a previously fragmented industry. Costs fell. Transit times collapsed. Theft and spoilage plummeted. Global trade surged from $100 billion in 1960 to over $25 trillion today …. What the shipping container did for physical goods, stablecoins now promise to do for money.” (09/08/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/what-shipping-containers-did-for-trade-stablecoins-could-do-for-money/
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31) Why is Congress MIA on looming Venezuela war?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols
“Military tensions in the southern Caribbean have rapidly grown following President Trump’s decision to launch an airstrike on a boat allegedly smuggling drugs near Venezuela. As the U.S. announced the deployment of 10 F-35 fighter jets to bolster its forces in the region, a pair of Venezuelan planes flew over an American warship in a move that the Pentagon described as ‘highly provocative.’ … The rapid escalation seems to have put Congress on the back foot. While many lawmakers moved quickly to condemn Trump’s attacks on Iran earlier this year, strikingly few members of Congress have shown the same level of enthusiasm when it comes to Venezuela.” (09/08/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/venezuela-war/
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32) How & Why I Live In The 1970s
Source: The Findings
by Paul Rosenberg
“With just a few exceptions, my daily life could fit seamlessly into in the 1970s. In fact, I fight to keep it this way: not for nostalgia, but for health, happiness and efficiency. It comes down to the fact that I like thinking my own thoughts; that I’ve found them far more satisfying and useful than thoughts implanted in me by others. Said another way, I pursue simplicity, for the sake of my innate creativity and the satisfactions that come from it. One thing I’ve learned along the way is that the best and most satisfying of our choices and actions come from within us; they are self- generated. The things we’ll be happy about in our old age will not be acts of compliance; they’ll be things we self-generated. I live in the 1970s because it was a better environment for self-generation.” (09/08/25)
https://thefindings.substack.com/p/how-and-why-i-live-in-the-1970s
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33) Westerners Have A Moral Responsibility To Help Curb The Empire’s Abuses
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“In a sense all I’m ever really pointing at here is the importance of taking responsibility. Taking responsibility as westerners for the suffering and destruction inflicted upon the world by the western power structure that we live under. To be a westerner is to live in a civilization that is powered by the abuse and exploitation of the people of the global south. Every one of us benefits directly from the way resources and labor are exploitatively extracted from nations that are held in subjugation to the western empire at the barrel of a gun. The very electronic device you are reading these words on is a testament to this reality. We each have a moral obligation to end this abusive dynamic.” (09/08/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/08/westerners-have-a-moral-responsibility-to-help-curb-the-empires-abuses/
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34) Zohran Mamdani’s Price Controls Would be Disastrous for New York City
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Laurent Thynes
“New Yorkers appear to be on the cusp of electing a self-described socialist, Zohran Mamdani, as their next mayor. At first glance, his youth-friendly marketing comes off as rather gimmicky, as do some of his policy recommendations, such as free public buses and state-provided baby baskets. But make no mistake, his core agenda forms perhaps the most heavily interventionist platform the city has ever witnessed, and his proposed price controls could very swiftly bring about the return of the misery of the 1970s.” (09/08/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/zohran-mamdanis-price-controls-would-be-disastrous-new-york-city
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35) What Surprised Me
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“People who follow the news often claim to be ‘surprised’ or even ‘shocked’ by current events. That’s almost never my reaction. Sure, I can’t predict the details of the latest happenings. But the broad outlines of the news are tiresomely familiar. Heinous domestic murders. War in the Middle East. Blatant violations of the plain English reading of the Constitution. Chaotic socialist tyrannies in Latin America. Pampered First Worlders blaming their horrible plight (?) on hapless refugees. Civil wars in Africa. And always, people screaming at each other. Yet over the years, current events have genuinely surprised or even shocked me a few times.” (09/08/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/what-surprised-me
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36) National Conservatism Has a Bigotry Problem, Whether Yoram Hazony Wants To Admit It or Not
Source: Reason
by Stephanie Slade
“When the Israeli political philosopher Yoram Hazony appeared on The Ezra Klein Show in August, he worked hard to distance himself and his National Conservatism Conferences from the din of racist and antisemitic voices on parts of the American right. … ‘Blood and soil is literally a Nazi term …. We are not interested in a nationalism of blood.’ Yet on the first day of this year’s National Conservatism Conference (‘NatCon 5’) in Washington, D.C., Hazony gave a speech that didn’t just fail to clarify which elements of the extreme right should not be counted as natcons in good standing; it seemed explicitly to carve out space within the movement for those with antisemitic views. ‘Nobody ever said that to be a good natcon you have to love Jews,’ Hazony, who is Jewish, said. ‘Go take a look at our statement of principles. It’s not a requirement.'” (09/08/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/08/national-conservatism-has-a-bigotry-problem-whether-yoram-hazony-wants-to-admit-it-or-not/
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37) Why the food industry and the left [sic] really hate RFK Jr.
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Of all Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, it’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who attracts the most vitriol, which is saying something. You could see just how much the Health and Human Services secretary is despised last week at a Senate committee hearing when Democrat after Democrat abused him with slurs like ‘charlatan’ and demanded he resign. There is an orchestrated campaign to force him out that includes the overplayed political ploy of ‘an open letter from nine former CDC leaders’ and another letter from 1,000 current and former HHS employees calling on him to step down. But why would he resign? He’s only just getting started on Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, which is popular with Americans of all stripes, especially Republicans, 73% of whom rated it favorably in the latest Insider Advantage poll.” (09/07/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/opinion/miranda-devine-why-the-food-industry-and-the-left-really-hate-maha-ambassador-rfk-jr/
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38) The Multipolarity Mirage
Source: Quillette
by Brian Stewart
“Foreign-policy realism today still adheres to a circumscribed definition of national interest with little regard for what it views as lesser (and dangerously messianic) moral concerns. It casts a jaundiced eye on a foreign policy influenced by the impulse to ‘remake the world in its own image.’ It bitterly regrets that so many Americans stubbornly regard their homeland not merely as a country but also a cause. … In more practical terms, the realist persuasion holds that America’s longstanding grand strategy has become at once profligate in the use of military force and self-defeating. To so-called realists today, not only does the United States have no vested interest in an extensive system of defence commitments and forward military deployments, but these accoutrements of its global posture also tempt imperial overstretch while eliciting adverse behaviour from allies and adversaries alike.” (09/08/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/09/08/the-multipolarity-mirage-first-among-equals-emma-ashford-review/
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39) The Big Scandal Involves Bill Pulte Not Lisa Cook
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“While the validity of Pulte’s allegations will have to be determined by the courts, the real scandal is Pulte himself. He is supposed to be running the agency that oversees the processing of tens of millions of mortgages by two huge quasi-public agencies. We are not supposed to be paying him to rifle through mortgage documents to find and disclose dirt that Trump can use against his political opponents. … If Pulte helps Trump get his wish and a Trump-controlled Fed lowers interest rates, it would provide a big boost to the Pulte Group’s profits. That hope would give Pulte a strong motivation to try to hasten the day when Trump appointees dominate the Fed’s Open Market Committee that sets interest rates.” (09/08/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/08/the-big-scandal-involves-bill-pulte-not-lisa-cook/
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40) AI Slop and Human Play
Source: Virginia’s Newsletter
by Virginia Postrel
“Computers can win at chess and Go, but how about a rap battle?” (09/08/25)
https://vpostrel.substack.com/p/ai-slop-and-human-play
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41) The Return of the Kirkpatrick Doctrine
Source: Common Dreams
by Joseph Bouchard
“In August 1981, US Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick traveled to Santiago to meet with Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, eight years after he seized power in a military coup. Kirkpatrick cheeringly described their talk as ‘most pleasant’ and announced that the Reagan administration would fully normalize relations and resume arms sales — support that Pinochet quickly used to claim renewed legitimacy and crack down on opponents. The episode crystallized what became known as the Kirkpatrick Doctrine: the notion that the US government should embrace any autocrat who aligned with Washington’s anti-communist agenda while working to undermine, sanction, or topple any left-wing leader who refused to ‘play ball,’ even if they were democratically elected (and popular). Protecting American economic interests was the lodestar, and just about anything was permissible in service of that goal.” (09/08/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-latin-america-imperialism
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42) Defending Liberalism Against Itself
Source: Law & Liberty
by Timothy Fuller
“It is particularly noteworthy that David Walsh’s The Growth of the Liberal Soul, originally published nearly thirty years ago and now released with a new introduction, anticipated virtually all the criticisms of the liberal tradition asserted by Alasdair MacIntyre, Patrick Deneen, and the many others who claim liberalism has failed. The difference is that Walsh, acknowledging the relevance of their critique, nevertheless reaffirms the virtues of the liberal tradition, showing that it has more grounding in the classical and Christian resources than is currently acknowledged. The liberal tradition produced achievements that are essential to preserve, even as it faces a crisis that must be recognized if the crisis is to be resolved.” (09/08/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/defending-liberalism-against-itself/
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43) Quantum Vibe, 09/08/25
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (09/08/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2551
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44) Nothing Fights Fascism Like Mutiny: A Call to Organize Troops Against Trump
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“Multiple advocacy organizations representing military families, including the Sarah Stryder Initiative and the Chamberlain Network, have reported an influx of affected service members contacting them to express their disgust with Trump’s mission in the City of Angels. At least 105 members of this deployment have also sought counseling from behavioral health offices and at least one company commander and one battalion commander have been reassigned after expressing their objections to Trump’s orders. This is fertile soil for mutiny which anti-fascists would be wise to sow. History is rife with examples of disgruntled soldiers leading open revolts that ultimately led to the downfall of the very regimes they were tasked with fortifying.” (09/07/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/09/nothing-fights-fascism-like-mutiny-call.html
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45) This is our last shared experience, and it’s shaping the culture wars
Source: Fox News
by David Marcus
“In the past few weeks there has been a lot of conversation and controversy over advertising. First, we had the wild allegation that American Eagle jeans ads with Sydney Sweeney were racist, then a kerfuffle over the Cracker Barrel logo. Ever since trans celebrity Dylan Mulvaney popped open his first Bud Light, advertising has seemed less and less like an effort to sell widgets and more and more like ground zero in our society’s culture wars. An early example of an ad that had significant backlash was in April 2017, when Pepsi aired a spot with Kendall Jenner in which she magically subdues angry protests by offering everyone a soda. Reaction from the left was swift and angry.” (09/08/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-our-last-shared-experience-its-shaping-culture-wars
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46) What happened to Trump’s “big, beautiful” wall?
Source: The Hill
by Corey Kvasnick
“They are now painting the border wall black. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently announced that, at President Trump’s request, the steel fence along our southern border will be coated in dark paint so it heats under the sun and becomes harder to climb. But isn’t that like decorating the house before you’ve built the roof? This structure, once Trump’s rallying cry, has been lost in all the noise of his second term. I had nearly forgotten it myself, until I saw pictures of men with paint rollers freshening up the unfinished monument. The image is striking: darkened to intimidate, a monument less to function than to appearance. It is a perfect metaphor for Trump’s presidency.” (09/07/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5486806-unfinished-wall-trump-presidency/
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47) Trump: Looks Like We Lost India and Russia to China
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Kyle Anzalone
“President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social account that India and Russia are now firmly tied to China and have drifted away from the US orbit. Trump also demanded that Europe end Russian oil imports and place pressure on China. ‘Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!’ Trump wrote on Friday. The post is a response to a trilateral meeting between Chinese President Xi, Russian President Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Modi. … Trump appears to be prepared to force countries to choose between their relations with the US or Russia and China.” (09/07/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/trump-looks-like-we-lost-india-and-russia-to-china
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48) America’s Perón
Source: The Atlantic
by Scott Lincicome
“When the populist strongman Juan Perón ran Argentina’s economy from his presidential palace in the mid-20th century—personally deciding which companies received favors, which industries got nationalized or protected, and which businessmen profited from state largesse — economists warned that the experiment would end badly. They were right. Over decades of rule by Perón and his successors, a country that had once been among the world’s wealthiest nations devolved into a global laughingstock, with uncontrollable inflation, routine fiscal crises, rampant corruption, and crippling poverty. Peronism became a cautionary tale of how not to manage an economy. President Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.” (09/07/25)
https://archive.is/kz3vP
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49) Democrats Bet Briefly Preventing a Health Insurance Apocalypse Is Good Politics
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“In March, Democrats faced a decision: shut down the government over the litany of lawless actions and usurped spending powers by the Trump administration, or fall in line. They decided not to fight, reinforcing the fundamental fault lines in current-day Democratic politics between weakness and fortitude. Fast-forward six months and Democrats have the same decision. The government spending that was extended for the full fiscal year by a continuing resolution in March runs out at the end of the month. Twelve appropriations bills aren’t going to be passed in a few weeks, so some stopgap continuing resolution will probably be offered for a vote. Any spending bill, needed by September 30, will require 60 votes in the Senate (because of the Senate filibuster), meaning Democrats will have to supply some of them if it’s going to pass.” (09/08/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-08-democrats-bet-on-briefly-preventing-health-insurance-apocalypse/
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50) Simple Talk
Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon
“Want to move people? Focus on principles, not tactics. An essay about finding a real third way, using the simplest and most persuasive talk there is.” (09/07/25)
https://www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2
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51) Reason Roundtable, 09/08/25
Source: Reason
Source: Reason
"MAGA Is Wrong About AI. Trump Is Right." (09/08/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/08/maga-is-wrong-about-ai-trump-is-right/
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52) Rising, 09/08/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers radar on Vice President JD Vance and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) spar over U.S. striking Venezuelan ship allegedly carrying drugs.” (09/08/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5491560-rising-september-8-2025/
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53) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/08/25
Source: The New Republic
“Raging Trump Suddenly Facing Worsening Legal Losses on Many Key Fronts.” (09/08/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/200093/raging-trump-suddenly-facing-worsening-legal-losses-many-key-fronts
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54) The Corbett Report, episode 482
Source: The Corbett Report
“War Is A Crime.” (09/08/25)
https://corbettreport.com/war-is-a-crime/
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55) EconTalk, 09/08/25
Source: EconTalk
“How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher).” (09/08/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/how-teams-succeed-with-colin-fisher/
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/08/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Troops Come Under ‘Indirect Fire’ in Somalia, IDF Destroys High-Rises in Gaza City, and More.” (09/08/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pzdmio6vbM
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57) Fountainhead Forum, episode 357
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Joel Berry on the authoritarian right and working at the Babylon Bee.” (09/08/25)
https://rumble.com/v6ym5po-ff-357-joel-berry-on-the-authoritarian-right-and-working-at-the-babylon-bee.html
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58) Pink Flame of Liberty, 09/07/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Matt Walsh — Your Rights DON’T MATTER (his procreation act owns you).” (09/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSI4Kex7deQ
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59) LPALive, episode 47
Source: LP Alliance
“Libertarian National Committee Meeting 09/07/25.” (09/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkTXH1nY-I
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60) William Van Wagenen on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott brings William Van Wagenen back on the show to continue their deep dive on the CIA’s covert operations to remake the Middle East.” (09/07/25)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/9-5-25-william-van-wagenen-on-the-origins-of-the-arab-spring-and-syrian-civil-war/
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