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Thomas L. Knapp
Sep 11, 2025, 6:27:15 AM (2 days ago) Sep 11
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Today's Freedom News:
1) UT: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk assassinated at campus event
2) UN inspectors can resume work at Iran nuclear sites after breakthrough deal
3) FL: Court notices state regime’s open carry ban is unconstitutional
4) NASA discovers “clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars”
5) SCOTUS rules for boy in bathroom dispute
6) Fired FBI officials sue, accusing FBI Director Kash Patel of bowing to social media pressure
7) US FDA approves J&J’s bladder cancer treatment
8) NC: Previous charges, delayed mental health evaluation were missed opportunities in Charlotte stabbing
9) Wholesale prices unexpectedly allegedly declined 0.1% in August, as Fed rate decision looms
10) TN: Trump brings home amoxicillin to US in sweeping Walmart deal
11) Survey: Swiss Voters Backing New EU Deal 2-1 After U.S. Tariff Shock
12) Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
13) Princeton academic Elizabeth Tsurkov freed by Iraqi militia after two years in captivity
14) Top European court rules nuclear power can be green
15) NATO scrambles jets to shoot down Russian drones in Poland
16) Hong Kong: Beijing puppet legislature rejects bill recognizing same-sex partnerships
17) Trump Regime Considering a Strike on Venezuela, Military Sources Say
18) Trump signs memo launching crackdown on drug advertisements
19) FL: Jury selected in trial of Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate Trump
20) France: Macron names loyalist Lecornu as new prime minister
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Moaning about foreign competition is a great American tradition
22) Your liberty just as important as mine
23) The Right’s Performative Toughness
24) The Trump Administration’s Half-Baked Plan To Disarm Transgender People Is Legally Bankrupt
25) The Costs and Choices of Kiki’s Delivery Service
26) When unauthorized migrants leave out of conscience
27) The President Should Not Have a License to Kill
28) The Benefit of the Drug War to Donald Trump
29) Some Days There’s Just Too Much Israeli Psychopathy To Write About
30) The law is clear: Trump can’t use the military to police America’s streets
31) You Can’t Worship God and Money: Theological Abominations in Trump’s America
32) Government Ownership of the Means of Production
33) Pesticide Industry’s Fingerprints Are All Over MAHA Commission’s Strategy Report
34) Classical China’s gifts to the world
35) From E. Jean Carroll to Epstein’s victims, no woman matters enough to faze GOP
36) Is Israel forcing Trump to be the capitulator in chief?
37) Eric Adams in it to win it against “diabolical” Mamdani
38) Remaking the Fed: A Look Back at the Banking Act of 1935
39) The Psychology of Corruption
40) The Epstein Scandal Reveals MAGA’s True Face
41) House Should Have the Votes to Release Epstein Files in Two Weeks
42) Presidential Initiative and Congressional Acquiescence
43) Macron’s Grand Illusion
44) Congress Has Only Itself to Blame for the War Department
45) DEI is the real cause of America’s housing crisis
46) Seducing Socialists
47) Un-Americaning Some Americans Is Un-American
48) Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal — Until It Doesn’t
49) Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match?
50) India Is Even More Barbaric Toward its Migrants Than Trump
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51) Reason Interview: Lenore Skenazy
52) The Vital Center, episode 86
53) Rising, 09/10/25
54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/10/25
55) Quillette Narrated, 09/10/25
56) Underthrow Podcast, 09/09/25
57) The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, 09/10/25
58) How To Fix The Internet, 09/10/25
59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/10/25
60) Political Theater, 09/09/25
61) Nonzero, 09/09/25
62) Capital Record, episode 255
63) System Update, episode 511
64) Trump Watch, 09/09/25
65) Bulwark Takes, 09/09/25
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1) UT: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk assassinated at campus event
Source: Deseret News
“In what Utah’s governor called a political assassination, a sniper shot and killed influential conservative Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, as he engaged students in a question and answer-style debate. The killer remains at large, but Gov. Spencer Cox vowed that federal and state law enforcement officials would capture the shooter, even as President Donald Trump and other world leaders condemned the attack and the angry divides plaguing the country. … Kirk was in the middle of answering politically charged questions about mass shootings in America when he was murdered, said Deseret News reporter Emma Pitts, who together with Deseret News reporter Eva Terry was covering Kirk’s campus rally and each witnessed the shooting.” (09/10/25)
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-shot/
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2) UN inspectors can resume work at Iran nuclear sites after breakthrough deal
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Tehran and the UN nuclear inspectorate have reached an agreement that will allow UN inspectors to return to inspect all of Iran’s nuclear sites, including those bombed by Israel and the US in June. The breakthrough, confirmed by Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, came during a three-hour meeting on Monday between Grossi and the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Cairo. Agreement on the return of the UN inspectors is one of the preconditions set by European leaders for them to defer a plan to reimpose sweeping UN sanctions on Iran at the end of this month. … One of Iran’s concerns is that the IAEA, an agency distrusted by Iranian conservatives, would feed the information it garnered to Israel or the US on the state of its nuclear plans and this would be used to refine further military assaults on Iran’s nuclear sites.” (09/10/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/un-inspectors-iran-nuclear-sites-breakthrough-deal
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3) FL: Court notices state regime’s open carry ban is unconstitutional
Source: CBS News
“In a major decision, a state appeals court Wednesday ruled that Florida’s ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, pointing to U.S. Supreme Court rulings on Second Amendment issues, said the open-carry ban is incompatible with the nation’s ‘historical tradition of firearm regulation.’ ‘No historical tradition supports Florida’s open carry ban,’ Judge Stephanie Ray wrote in a 20-page opinion joined by Judges Lori Rowe and M. Kemmerly Thomas. ‘To the contrary, history confirms that the right to bear arms in public necessarily includes the right to do so openly. That is not to say that open carry is absolute or immune from reasonable regulation.'” [editor’s note: The Second Amendment says EXACTLY that the right to keep and bear arms is absolute and that there’ no such thing as “reasonable” regulation – TLK] (09/10/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/appeals-court-rules-floridas-open-carry-ban-is-unconstitutional/
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4) NASA discovers “clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars”
Source: Washington Post
“Rolling across the rugged, rusty red terrain on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover came upon some rocks with peculiar green, blue, black and white dots. After detailed image analysis, scientists have come to a potentially encouraging conclusion: If those speckled rocks were formed like they are on Earth, they might be evidence of past life on the dusty planet. The rocks ‘very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting,’ acting NASA administrator Sean P. Duffy said in a news conference Wednesday. The findings were published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The rocks, or mudstones, are composed of finely packed sediment and covered in specks resembling poppy seeds and leopard spots. The colorful features, the study found, are minerals that — on Earth — have traditionally been created from microbial activity.” (09/10/25)
https://archive.is/1kyNT
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5) SCOTUS rules for boy in bathroom dispute
Source: Seattle Times
“The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a transgender boy may use the boys’ bathroom in a South Carolina public high school while he pursues a challenge to a state law requiring students to use the bathrooms for their sex as ‘determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth.’ The court’s brief order was unsigned and gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices act on emergency applications. It applied to a single student and stressed that it was ‘not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues presented in the litigation.’ Rather, in rejecting South Carolina’s request to bar the student from the boys’ bathroom for now, the order said the state had not cleared the high bar for securing an emergency ruling in its favor. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch noted dissents but did not offer reasons.” (09/10/25)
https://archive.is/ZT00F
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6) Fired FBI officials sue, accusing FBI Director Kash Patel of bowing to social media pressure
Source: CNN
“Three former senior FBI officials summarily fired last month are suing FBI Director Kash Patel and the Trump administration, alleging that their terminations were part of a White House-directed purge driven at least in part by social media bullying from MAGA loyalists. Brian Driscoll, the former acting FBI director for a month at the start of the second Trump administration; Steven Jensen, who Patel installed as assistant director in charge the Washington field office; and Spencer Evans, who led the Las Vegas field office, allege that Patel has politicized the FBI to protect his own job. ‘Patel not only acted unlawfully but deliberately chose to prioritize politicizing the FBI over protecting the American people,’ the lawsuit states.” (09/10/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/politics/fired-fbi-officials-sue-kash-patel
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7) US FDA approves J&J’s bladder cancer treatment
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson’s drug delivery system for a type of bladder cancer, offering a potential surgery-free option for patients. The drug release system, branded as Inlexzo, was approved for patients with a type of high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who did not respond to treatment with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy, the current standard-of-care, and are ineligible for, or refuse to undergo bladder removal surgery. … The approval was based on data from a mid-stage study, in which more than 82% of the patients who received Inlexzo showed no signs of cancer, and over half of them remained cancer-free for at least a year.” (09/10/25)
https://archive.is/KPbjC
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8) NC: Previous charges, delayed mental health evaluation were missed opportunities in Charlotte stabbing
Source: SFGate
“After Decarlos Brown Jr. was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a North Carolina commuter train, he was quickly sent to a state mental hospital for an evaluation. It was a sharp contrast from a January misdemeanor arrest, where it took more than six months for a court to order a mental evaluation after Brown told officers that he had been given a human-made substance that controlled when he ate, talked or walked. The Justice Department on Tuesday charged Brown, 34, with causing death on a mass transportation system last month when he allegedly killed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in what has become the latest flashpoint for the White House’s efforts to paint Democratic-led cities as havens for violent criminals.” (09/10/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/previous-charges-delayed-mental-health-21041241.php
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9) Wholesale prices unexpectedly allegedly declined 0.1% in August, as Fed rate decision looms
Source: CNBC
“Wholesale prices surprisingly fell slightly in August, providing breathing room for the Federal Reserve to approve an interest rate cut at its meeting this month, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report Wednesday. The producer price index, which measures input costs across a broad array of goods and services, dropped 0.1% for the month, after a downwardly revised 0.7% increase in July and well off the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.3% rise. On a 12-month basis, the headline PPI saw a 2.6% gain. The core PPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, also was off 0.1% after being expected to climb 0.3% as well.” [editor’s note: The PPI is reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I’m shocked — shocked! — that a month after Trump fired that bureau’s director for publishing numbers that made him look bad, the numbers are all changing direction. As for credibility? Who knows? – TLK] (09/10/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/10/ppi-inflation-august-2025-.html
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10) TN: Trump brings home amoxicillin to US in sweeping Walmart deal
Source: Fox News
“The United States is set to increase its manufacturing of amoxicillin — a widely used prescription antibiotic that recently faced a national shortage — after Walmart and medical supply and distribution company McKesson inked a deal with the nation’s lone manufacturer of the drug. ‘We are thrilled to work with Walmart and McKesson to bring domestically manufactured antibiotics directly to American families,’ Patrick Cashman, president of USAntibiotics, said in a press release of the announcement on Monday. ‘We extend our deepest gratitude to Walmart and McKesson for their leadership in supporting U.S. manufacturing of critical generic medicines. This collaboration represents more than a business relationship — it’s a commitment to America’s health security.’ USAntibiotics is located in Bristol, Tennessee, and expects to produce ‘enough amoxicillin products to meet 100 percent of the nation’s demand for these essential medications’ under the deal.” (09/10/25)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-brings-key-prescription-drug-home-us-sweeping-walmart-deal
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11) Survey: Swiss Voters Backing New EU Deal 2-1 After U.S. Tariff Shock
Source: US News & World Report
“A clear majority of Swiss voters support a new deal that deepens the country’s economic ties with the European Union following the shock and uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs on Switzerland, a survey showed on Wednesday. Published by newspaper Blick, the survey by polling firm GFS Bern of around 1,000 respondents showed that 61% were either strongly in favour of, or more likely to, back the deal agreed in December. … The polling was carried out in July and August, chiefly before the full impact of the U.S. tariffs became known, the paper said. U.S. President Donald Trump on August 7 imposed tariffs of 39% on Switzerland, one of the highest rates worldwide, saying they were justified by the U.S. trade deficit with the country. The tariffs are far higher than the 15% rate Trump imposed on the EU, and caused dismay among Swiss companies, which have traditionally been well disposed towards the United States.” (09/10/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-10/swiss-voters-backing-new-eu-deal-2-1-after-u-s-tariff-shock-survey
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12) Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
Source: SFGate
“The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on U.S. technology that spies on them and predicts what they’ll do. Their train tickets, hotel bookings, purchases, text messages and phone calls are forwarded to the government. Their house is ringed with more than a dozen cameras. They’ve tried to go to Beijing 20 times in the past few years, but masked men show up and grab them, often before they depart. … the Yangs say they are not criminals.” (09/09/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/us-tech-companies-enabled-the-surveillance-and-21038124.php
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13) Princeton academic Elizabeth Tsurkov freed by Iraqi militia after two years in captivity
Source: NBC News
“A Princeton University graduate student who was kidnapped and held captive by an Islamic militia in Iraq for more than two years was released on Tuesday. Elizabeth Tsurkov — a Russian-Israeli citizen — was released by the Kataib Hezbollah group, a Shia paramilitary group aligned with Iran, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social. Tsurkov had been ‘tortured for many months,’ Trump said. The release came after ‘extensive efforts exerted by our security services over the course of many months.’ Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani said on X. … According to New Lines magazine, which was in contact with Tsurkov prior to her capture in Baghdad, she was in Iraq to carry out fieldwork for her doctoral dissertation. Tsurkov is also a fellow at the New Lines Institute, a global affairs think tank in Washington.” (09/10/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/elizabeth-tsurkov-freed-princeton-iraq-militia-captivity-rcna230272
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14) Top European court rules nuclear power can be green
Source: Politico
“The European Union can continue to count nuclear power, and in some cases fossil gas, as ‘environmentally sustainable,’ after the EU’s top court ruled the European Commission was not breaching its obligations to tackle climate change. The General Court on Wednesday found against a complaint from Austria, which sought to overturn the decision to include the two energy sources in the EU’s taxonomy regulation, which determines which investments can be considered as green. The General Court, part of the Court of Justice of the European Union, said in its judgment the Commission ‘was entitled to take the view that nuclear energy generation has near to zero greenhouse gas emissions and that there are currently no technologically and economically feasible low-carbon alternatives at a sufficient scale.'” (09/10/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/top-european-court-rules-nuclear-power-green
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15) NATO scrambles jets to shoot down Russian drones in Poland
Source: SFGate
“Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described Wednesday as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down. A NATO spokesman said it was the first time the alliance confronted a potential threat in its airspace. The incursion, which occurred during a wave of strikes by the Kremlin on Ukraine, and the NATO response swiftly raised fears that the war could spill over — a fear that has been growing in Europe as Russia steps up its attacks and peace efforts go nowhere. Russia’s Defense Ministry said it did not target Poland, while Belarus, a close ally of Moscow, said it tracked some drones that ‘lost their course’ because they were jammed. However, several European leaders said they believed the incursion amounted to an intentional expansion of Russia’s assault against Ukraine.” (09/10/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/poland-says-it-downed-drones-that-violated-its-21040219.php
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16) Hong Kong: Beijing puppet legislature rejects bill recognizing same-sex partnerships
Source: Associated Press
“Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have granted recognition to same-sex partnerships in the Chinese city, despite the rights offered being limited, in a major setback to the LGBTQ+ movement. The Registration of Same-Sex Partnerships Bill, unveiled in July, stemmed from one of the legal victories that pushed the government to offer more equal rights to gays and lesbians. … The staunch opposition from lawmakers was a rare sight since the government overhauled its electoral rules that effectively filled the legislature with Beijing loyalists. It was the first government bill to be voted down since the overhaul. … The bill proposed to allow residents who have already formed unions overseas to register their partnerships locally and grant them rights in handling medical and after-death matters for their loved ones.” (09/10/25)
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-samesex-bill-lgbtq-c170f76dd90271bfe3692628a6ef92eb
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17) Trump Regime Considering a Strike on Venezuela, Military Sources Say
Source: Common Dreams
“US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering launching military strikes on Venezuela, according to new reporting from independent journalist Ken Klippenstein. Military sources on Tuesday told Klippenstein that the Trump administration is mulling an attack against Venezuela unless it cracks down on drug cartels that it claims are shipping fentanyl into the United States. Contrary to the administration’s claims, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies, Venezuela plays virtually no role in fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking. Klippenstein’s sources said the attack was likely to involve ‘shooting down Venezuelan military aircraft or by bombing Venezuelan military airfield,’ and that the US Air Force has been rehearsing for such a mission in recent weeks. Such an attack would mark a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s hostilities toward Venezuela, which escalated last week when the administration bombed a boat off the Venezuelan coast that it alleged was carrying drug traffickers.” (09/10/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-bomb-venezuela
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18) Trump signs memo launching crackdown on drug advertisements
Source: United Press International
“President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum launching a crackdown on misinformation in drug advertisements. The president signed the memorandum Tuesday. ‘My administration will ensure that the current regulatory framework for drug advertising results in fair, balanced and complete information for American consumers,’ Trump said in the document. It directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ‘take appropriate action’ to ensure transparency and accuracy in prescription drug advertisements. It also calls on the head of the Food and Drug Administration to enforce the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act’s prescription drug advertising provisions.” (09/10/25)
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/09/10/Trump-drug-advertisements-crackdown/7091757494267/
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19) FL: Jury selected in trial of Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate Trump
Source: SFGate
“A jury was selected Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump while he played golf last year in South Florida. The panel of 12 jurors and four alternates was sworn in on the third day of jury selection at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida. The jury has four white men, one Black man, six white women, and one Black woman. The alternates are two white men and two white women. Ryan Routh’s trial begins nearly a year after prosecutors say a U.S. Secret Service agent thwarted Routh’s attempt to shoot the Republican presidential nominee. Routh, 59, has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer and several firearm violations. Routh is representing himself after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon agreed to let him dismiss his court-appointed attorneys.” (09/10/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/a-jury-is-selected-in-the-trial-of-a-man-accused-21041440.php
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20) France: Macron names loyalist Lecornu as new prime minister
Source: Reuters
“French President Emmanuel Macron named loyalist Sebastien Lecornu, a one-time conservative protege who rallied behind his 2017 presidential run, as prime minister on Tuesday, defying expectations he might tack towards the left. The choice of Lecornu, 39, indicates Macron’s determination to press on with a minority government that stands firmly behind his pro-business economic reform agenda, under which taxes on business and the wealthy have been cut and the retirement age raised.” (09/09/25)
https://archive.is/eEDQC
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21) Moaning about foreign competition is a great American tradition
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“Having seen New England, Kentucky’s Henry Clay (1777-1852) was aghast. … ‘In passing along the highway, one frequently sees large and spacious buildings, with the glass broken out of the windows, the shutters hanging in ruinous disorder, without any appearance of activity, and enveloped in solitary gloom. Upon inquiring what they are, you are almost always informed that they were some cotton or other factory, which their proprietors could no longer keep in motion against the overwhelming pressure of foreign competition.’ Somehow New England thrived despite the end of whaling, the southward migration of the textile industry, the departure of many shoemakers, and other supposed setbacks. Protectionists, however, persist in imagining recent calamities that they think validate government curtailments of economic freedom. Hence their lingering preoccupation with the ‘China shock,’ the alleged damage done to American industries and communities by imports from China.” (09/10/25)
https://archive.is/1cKl9
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22) Your liberty just as important as mine
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Caring about people means caring about their liberty. Liberty is a universal principle. It isn’t just for me, those I like, or those who agree with me. It’s for everyone or it’s not liberty at all. If I didn’t care about people, I would demand my rights while trampling yours; anything to get my way. But that’s not liberty; it’s tyranny dressed up with moralizing words. Liberty is the foundation of a life worth living. It’s the ability to make your own choices, pursue your own happiness, protect your own property, and build your future without anyone’s boot on your neck. It’s a two-way street.” (09/10/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/09/10/voices/opinion-your-liberty-just-as-important-as-mine/231641.html
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23) The Right’s Performative Toughness
Source: The Dispatch
by Jeremiah Johnson
“Today’s right-wing politics don’t revolve around results or competence, nor even an identifiable ideology. The central organizing principle of the Trumpian right — to the extent that there is an organizing principle other than ‘Do things that benefit Donald Trump personally’ — is the performance of toughness and the pantomime of warrior culture.” (09/10/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-hegseth-vance-war-tough/
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24) The Trump Administration’s Half-Baked Plan To Disarm Transgender People Is Legally Bankrupt
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“When Justice Department officials anonymously floated the idea of prohibiting gun possession by transgender people last week, they may have hoped to score points with President Donald Trump’s base or get a rise out of ‘woke’ Democrats. Instead, they elicited howls of outrage from every major gun rights group. It is not hard to see why. This half-baked proposal, which has no obvious statutory basis, is flagrantly inconsistent with ‘the right of the people’ to ‘keep and bear arms’ — a right that Trump claims he is keen to protect.” (09/10/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/10/the-trump-administrations-half-baked-plan-to-disarm-transgender-people-is-legally-bankrupt/
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25) The Costs and Choices of Kiki’s Delivery Service
Source: EconLog
by Byron Carson
“Kiki’s Delivery Service, Studio Ghibli’s 1989 masterpiece, captures genuine moments of a young witch trying to make it on her own. Moreover, it highlights the fundamental nature of cost and choice. The logic of cost is deceptively unintuitive and often difficult for students and laymen alike, mainly because common usage defines it as losing money. Typical notions of cost also often refer to inherent qualities of objects, e.g., a loaf of bread costs $5, and as an inevitable, negative outcome. The economic way of thinking clarifies a deeper meaning of cost, and Kiki shows this in one standout scene.” (09/10/25)
https://www.econlib.org/the-costs-and-choices-of-kikis-delivery-service/
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26) When unauthorized migrants leave out of conscience
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“If all goes as planned, hundreds of South Koreans in Georgia will voluntarily fly to their home country on Wednesday. They were detained last week by federal agents at a Hyundai construction site for allegedly living and working illegally [sic] in the United States. What makes the exodus so remarkable is that it represents a case of mass obedience to American sovereignty among those in the U.S. illegally [sic]. Instead of being forcibly deported in handcuffs, the Koreans will depart in contrition. The choice to honor the law may even improve their legal opportunities to return. This reflects a large shift in voluntary outmigration nine months into the Trump administration’s tough – and sometimes unconstitutional – crackdown on illegal [sic] migration.” (09/09/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0909/When-unauthorized-migrants-leave-out-of-conscience
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27) The President Should Not Have a License to Kill
Source: Cato Institute
by David J Bier
“President Trump once quipped, ‘I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.’ Well, he wasn’t standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue, but he nonetheless tested the limits of his ability to get away with extrajudicial execution on September 2 by ordering the deaths of eleven people in an alleged drug-smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela. Trump’s action was criminal and impeachable.” (09/10/25)
https://www.cato.org/blog/presidents-shouldnt-have-license-kill
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28) The Benefit of the Drug War to Donald Trump
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“From the standpoint of many U.S. officials, one can easily see why they find the drug war advantageous. Like the drug lords and drug cartels, there is a huge drug-war federal bureaucracy that has grown dependent on the drug war. There are, for example, generous salaries for federal judges (plus lifetime appointments), federal prosecutors, DEA agents, court clerks and secretaries, law clerks, and others, all of which would dry up if the drug war were ended and drugs were legalized. Just like the drug lords and drug dealers, the last thing these federal bureaucrats want to do is let go of the source of their largess. But there is another benefit to the drug war, one that President Trump is now using to expand his militarized police state across America.” (09/10/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/09/10/the-benefit-of-the-drug-war-to-donald-trump/
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29) Some Days There’s Just Too Much Israeli Psychopathy To Write About
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Recent hours have seen too much Israeli depravity to write about, including an assassination strike in Qatar to sabotage peace talks, a second drone attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, and a Guardian article featuring an IDF sniper who discussed killing civilians like a trophy hunter talking about game animals. The IDF bombed a Doha residential building on Tuesday in an attempt to assassinate Hamas officials who had gathered to discuss US-Israeli ceasefire proposals, reportedly killing a Qatari security officer and four Hamas aides, as well as the son of the acting Hamas political bureau chief. President Trump publicly criticized the Israeli attack, but Middle East Eye reports that according to US and regional officials the president had actually ‘blessed’ the strike in advance. These would be the same Hamas officials who Trump had just been aggressively threatening to accept his ceasefire proposal or face severe consequences.” (09/10/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/10/some-days-theres-just-too-much-israeli-psychopathy-to-write-about/
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30) The law is clear: Trump can’t use the military to police America’s streets
Source: The Hill
by Claire Finkelstein, Brenner Fissell, & Mitt Regan
“As Chicago braces for an influx of federal troops, it is critical to focus on last week’s ruling by a federal district court stating that President Trump’s June deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles violated federal law. As national security experts who filed an amicus brief to support California’s challenge, we strongly support the holding of this case that the president has no authority to use federal troops to police America’s cities. This flagrant continued assault on U.S. cities and citizens is illegal, un-American and just plain wrong. In a careful but ultimately devastasting rebuke of the administration, Judge Charles Breyer held in Newsom v. Trump that the government’s use of federal troops violated an 1878 statute called the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids the government from using federal troops for law enforcement purposes.” (09/10/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5493889-judge-rules-trump-national-guard-illegal/
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31) You Can’t Worship God and Money: Theological Abominations in Trump’s America
Source: TomDispatch
by Liz Theoharis
“It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture to justify shutting down food programs and kicking mothers and their babies off public assistance. Those leaders, many of them self-described Christians, chose to ignore the majority of passages in the Bible that preached ‘good news’ to the poor and promised freedom to those captive to injustice and oppression. Instead, they put forward unethical and ahistorical (mis)interpretations and (mis)appropriations of biblical texts to prop up American imperial power and punish the poor in the name of a warped morality. Three decades later, the Trump administration and its theological apologists are working overtime, using Jesus’s name and the Bible’s contents in even more devastating rounds of immoral biblical (mis)references.” (09/10/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/you-cant-worship-god-and-money/
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32) Government Ownership of the Means of Production
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Whitson G Waldo, III
“A core principle of Marxism — the socialist system upon which is founded the more authoritarian political systems of communism and progressive fascism — is government ownership of the means of production. This economic policy, aimed as a dagger at capitalism, happens to be the avant garde economic policy position taken a couple of times now by the Trump administration. It is the same position advocated in the larger context by the self-described communist candidate, Zohran Mamdani, who is running for mayor of New York City. The Trump administration recently took a stake in MP Materials Corp in an effort to onshore rare earth mineral mining and refinement.” (09/10/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-ownership-means-production
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33) Pesticide Industry’s Fingerprints Are All Over MAHA Commission’s Strategy Report
Source: Common Dreams
by Sarah Starman
“When it comes to pesticides, the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, Commission has a serious problem: The Commission’s newly released strategy for addressing childhood chronic disease is better for the pesticide industry than for people. Ignoring growing public calls for action, the strategy lays out a milquetoast approach that would protect industry profits at the expense of children’s health. Back in May, a first report from the MAHA Commission correctly identified exposure to pesticides and other toxic chemicals as one driver of the childhood chronic disease epidemic. The US currently uses over a billion pounds of pesticides annually on our crops, about one-third of which is chemicals that have been banned in other countries. Many have been linked to serious health problems from cancer to infertility to birth defects.” (09/10/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/maha-report-pesticides
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34) Classical China’s gifts to the world
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Lawrence W Reed
“Sinologists speak of the ‘Four Great Inventions’ of China. The infamous ‘one-child policy’ is not one of them; that is a political contrivance of more recent times and is producing a demographic catastrophe (see The Ultimate Central Planning Nightmare). The Four Great Inventions are the compass, paper, printing, and gunpowder. They date to ancient times, and their impact worldwide has been massive and largely, if not overwhelmingly, beneficial. In the early 17th century, the English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon credited modern Europe’s emergence to the adoption of three of them.” (09/10/25)
https://fee.org/articles/classical-chinas-gifts-to-the-world/
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35) From E. Jean Carroll to Epstein’s victims, no woman matters enough to faze GOP
Source: USA Today
by Sara Pequeño
“A U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 8 declined to throw out a case that found Trump owes writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million over comments he made disputing the veracity of her sexual assault claims. The three-judge panel ruled that presidential immunity does not protect him, and that a lower court did not err in how it handled the case. The revelations about Trump’s sexual abuse and the subsequent court rulings in Carroll’s favor should be shocking. For any other president, this would be damaging. Yet we’re nearly a decade into Trump’s rise to political power, and nothing about this is surprising. We’ve become so numb to his indiscretions that we are now OK with the most powerful elected official in our country being an adjudicated sexual abuser.” (09/10/25)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/09/10/trump-e-jean-carroll-verdict-defamation/86058714007/
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36) Is Israel forcing Trump to be the capitulator in chief?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Trita Parsi
“The Doha bombing comes after months of US deference to Netanyahu, who has become increasingly dismissive of the president and our interests.” (09/10/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/doha-bombing-trump/
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37) Eric Adams in it to win it against “diabolical” Mamdani
Source: New York Post
by Michael Goodwin
“The polls say Mayor Eric Adams is a sure-fire loser in November and wall-to-wall reports have him dropping out of the race or leaving City Hall early to take a job in the Trump administration. He tells me neither is true and that he has never spoken to the president about a job. My impression after a fast-paced interview with him Monday is that quitting and defeat truly are far from his mind. ‘I will finish my term,’ he said emphatically, and insists he still has a chance at re-election. ‘I feel strong and I’m not giving up,’ he added. ‘It’s too early to throw in the towel.’ He barely flinched when I asked what he would do differently if he could rewind the clock to 2022, when he took office.” (09/09/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/opinion/eric-adams-is-in-it-to-win-it-against-diabolical-far-left-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-race/
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38) Remaking the Fed: A Look Back at the Banking Act of 1935
Source: The Daily Economy
by Bryan Cutsinger
“This year marks the ninetieth anniversary of the Banking Act of 1935, the law that gave the Federal Reserve its current structure. Often overshadowed by the 1933 Act, which created deposit insurance and separated commercial from investment banking, the 1935 Act was just as important. By shifting power to Washington and redefining the Fed’s role, it built the framework for modern US monetary policy.” (09/10/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/remaking-the-fed-a-look-back-at-the-banking-act-of-1935/
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39) The Psychology of Corruption
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Alexander Oakes
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This quote, coined by the British Lord Acton during the late nineteenth century, is beloved by libertarians, and for good reason. In essence, it challenges the notion that any one person, regardless of their standing moral fiber, can handle power without allowing it to negatively influence them. But is this just a catchy bumper sticker slogan, or rather, is it a poignant truth that all liberty-loving Americans should forever remember while turning their gaze toward the political landscape? As it turns out, from a psychological perspective this quote is quite a bit more meaningful than just some peppy maxim. Furthermore, it is also a quote that serves to reinforce the importance of Libertarian ideals when it comes to managing state power.” (09/10/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-psychology-of-corruption
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40) The Epstein Scandal Reveals MAGA’s True Face
Source: The Bulwark
by Mona Charen
“At the heart of the case for Trump has always been the notion that, sure, he’s rough around the edges, but we have to put aside our piddling character concerns and just be glad that he is so strong, because the left presents such an existential threat to America that we cannot survive without Trump. … They knew Trump was a louse. They knew he lied, betrayed his business partners and his wives, spread false rumors, played dirty, and did it all without a flicker of conscience. When Trump’s character was raised as an issue by opponents, the knee-jerk MAGA response was not to defend him, not really, but to stress the enormity of the Democrats. … But now they find themselves defending Trump against the one sin that has given their movement its chief moral stature: child abuse.” (09/10/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-epstein-scandal-and-maga-staggering-hypocrisy
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41) House Should Have the Votes to Release Epstein Files in Two Weeks
Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper
“Donald Trump had successfully pushed the Jeffrey Epstein scandal out of front-page coverage in the mainstream media through his signature strategy of doing a dozen insane and/or illegal things per day …. But yet again the scandal has come roaring back, thanks once more to The Wall Street Journal (one of the few papers, remarkably, that has consistently stood up to Trump). He already sued the Journal and Rupert Murdoch for $10 billion for reporting that he had written a grotesque birthday note to Epstein (as part of a 50th birthday compilation book) back in 2003. Now the Epstein estate has turned over a copy of the book to the House Oversight Committee, and the Journal was first to publish the note, along with other parts of it.” (09/10/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-10-house-should-have-votes-to-release-epstein-files/
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42) Presidential Initiative and Congressional Acquiescence
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jordan T Cash
“There is little doubt that presidents in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have come to dominate American foreign policy in a way their predecessors did not. Yet presidential unilateralism is not a new development. Since the beginning of the republic, presidents have pursued policies without first consulting Congress. Indeed, when we examine the constitutional structure of the executive and legislative branches, we see that the presidency has a clear structural advantage in shaping American foreign policy, one which has been expanded as the United States has grown into a global superpower.” (09/10/25)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/presidential-initiative-and-congressional-acquiescence/
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43) Macron’s Grand Illusion
Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov
“France has now lost four prime ministers in under two years. While mainstream pundits blame the country’s deep political polarization, Macron himself exacerbated the crisis by foolishly calling snap elections in 2024, an act intended in part to contain the rise of the political right but which produced a fractured parliament and rendered the country increasingly ungovernable. … Yet, from this position of profound domestic weakness, Macron has anointed himself Europe’s wartime leader. He has become the chief architect and most bellicose leader of a self-styled ‘coalition of the willing’ for Ukraine, openly floating the possibility of deploying Western troops under the dubious guise of a post-peace ‘reassurance force.’ In a surreal encapsulation of this disconnect, this very coalition convened in Paris just days before Macron’s own government was toppled in a vote of no confidence.” (09/10/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/macrons-grand-illusion/
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44) Congress Has Only Itself to Blame for the War Department
Source: Foreign Policy
by Adam Weinstein
“Years of neglected oversight have led to unrestrained presidential authority.” (09/09/25)
https://archive.is/qRHxu
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45) DEI is the real cause of America’s housing crisis
Source: Fox News
by Daniel Huff & Paige Bronitsky
“Why doesn’t Hermes just produce more bags and then everyone can have a Birkin? That’s basically the argument of people pressing President Donald Trump to declare a housing emergency. The fact is there’s plenty of housing, just not in the most desirable neighborhoods. Population growth is slowing, deportations are increasing and new home construction already outpaces family creation. The shortage is a myth created by activists so they can force residential living patterns to conform to DEI dogma. A simple calculation proves it. The Census Bureau collects annual data on both the number of households and the available housing stock. The latest data shows 131.3 million households and 146.5 million housing units, an excess supply of over 15 million units. Activists cannot deny the excess so instead, they argue that it is not enough.” (09/10/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dei-is-real-cause-of-americas-housing-crisis
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46) Seducing Socialists
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“I agree with the left libertarians that most socialists would get more of what they want from a libertarian society than from a socialist society. But the reason is not that libertarianism will give them everything they want but that socialism won’t, will, on the evidence of state socialist societies past and present, give them less of what they want than the mixed economies they now live in.” (09/09/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/seducing-socialists
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47) Un-Americaning Some Americans Is Un-American
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“Actually, it’s very American. But it’s not a game that liberals can win.” (09/09/25)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/un-americaning-some-americans-is
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48) Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal — Until It Doesn’t
Source: The Atlantic
by Gisela Salim-Peyer
“Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the Venezuela of my childhood, during the period when experts and historians warned, on television channels that would later be shut down, that Hugo Chávez was making himself a dictator. They said that his economic mismanagement — the extravagant expenditures, the graft, the attacks on central-bank independence — would cause a severe crisis when oil prices went down. My family listened to those pundits and believed them, but we didn’t know what to do with that information. My father used to say that living in Venezuela was like driving a car that you know is not being maintained. For now, the car works fine, but one day it will break down. And when it does, the moment to repair the car will have passed.” (09/09/25)
https://archive.is/BU6uU
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49) Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match?
Source: In These Times
by Thomas Birmingham
“The most Gerene Freeman saw of her landlord on August 6 were several pairs of eyes peeking out between the blinds of a dark office building. That Wednesday was the day Freeman, a 76-year-old retired creative writing teacher, and her neighbors — all tenants of a New Haven, Conn. apartment complex for elderly and disabled residents called Park Ridge — had formally launched a tenants’ union. They had driven more than two hours to their landlord’s office in Rockland County, N.Y., to deliver a letter announcing the creation of the Park Ridge Tenant Union and demanding to negotiate for better conditions. But they found themselves completely stonewalled: first misdirected to a seemingly vacant building in New Jersey, and then returned to find people clearly visible inside the New York office who would not open the door to receive their letter.” (09/09/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/private-equity-landlords-tenants-union-organizing-tuf-housing
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50) India Is Even More Barbaric Toward its Migrants Than Trump
Source: The UnPopulist
by Debasish Roy Chowdhury
“Prime Minister Modi’s Hindu nationalist regime is using the presence of Bangladeshi immigrants as a pretext to remake the citizenry.” (09/09/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/india-is-even-more-barbaric-toward
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Reason Interview: Lenore Skenazy
Source: Reason
“How We Criminalized Childhood.” (09/10/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/10/how-we-criminalized-childhood/
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52) The Vital Center, episode 86
Source: Niskanen Center
“The legend of Murray Kempton, with Andrew Holter.” (09/10/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-legend-of-murray-kempton-with-andrew-holter
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53) Rising, 09/10/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers his radar on the stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska from behind on a North Carolina train.” (09/10/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5495582-rising-september-10-2025/
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54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/10/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Press Sec Seethes as Epstein Spin Falls Apart in Briefing Fiasco.” (09/10/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/200234/trump-press-sec-seethes-epstein-spin-falls-apart-briefing-fiasco
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55) Quillette Narrated, 09/10/25
Source: Quillette
“The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter.” (09/10/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/09/10/the-100-million-killed-under-communist-regi-matter/
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56) Underthrow Podcast, 09/09/25
Source: Underthrow
“In the debut episode of Underthrow, host Max Borders sits down with James Harrigan, political scientist, co-host of Words and Numbers, and co-author of Cooperation and Coercion, to confront the economic and cultural challenges facing America.” (09/09/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7OuM73syG4
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57) The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, 09/10/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Gay Race Communism | Interview: Chris Stirewalt.” (09/10/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/gay-race-communism-interview-chris-stirewalt/
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58) How To Fix The Internet, 09/10/25
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“Building and Preserving the Library of Everything.” (09/10/25)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/podcast-episode-building-and-preserving-library-everything
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59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/10/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Bombs Hamas Officials in Qatar, IDF Orders Full Evacuation of Gaza City, and More.” (09/10/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmmKdO8B7dc
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60) Political Theater, 09/09/25
Source: Roll Call
“They seem fine: Life After Congress.” (09/09/25)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL8029200899.mp3
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61) Nonzero, 09/09/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Trump’s Epstein Problem and His Authoritarian Slide | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov.” (09/09/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/68992
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62) Capital Record, episode 255
Source: National Review
“Does a Moral Culture Spend $40 Billion on Youth Sports?” (09/09/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/does-a-moral-culture-spend-40-billion-on-youth-sports/
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63) System Update, episode 511
Source: System Update
“Israel Bombs Qatar and Trump Reacts; The Hoax to Blame Russia for Jamming EU President’s Plane GPS; Mamdani Soars in Polls as he Tries to Moderate on Israel.” (09/09/25)
https://rumble.com/v6ypp96-system-update-show-511.html
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64) Trump Watch, 09/09/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Drug-War Racket.” (09/09/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjiHhr9N5tE
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65) Bulwark Takes, 09/09/25
Source: The Bulwark
“Sarah Longwell and Andrew Egger take on the White House press conference where Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Epstein documents fake — and the press mostly let them get away with it.” (09/09/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGU6G512SIk
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Today's Freedom News:
1) UT: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk assassinated at campus event
2) UN inspectors can resume work at Iran nuclear sites after breakthrough deal
3) FL: Court notices state regime’s open carry ban is unconstitutional
4) NASA discovers “clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars”
5) SCOTUS rules for boy in bathroom dispute
6) Fired FBI officials sue, accusing FBI Director Kash Patel of bowing to social media pressure
7) US FDA approves J&J’s bladder cancer treatment
8) NC: Previous charges, delayed mental health evaluation were missed opportunities in Charlotte stabbing
9) Wholesale prices unexpectedly allegedly declined 0.1% in August, as Fed rate decision looms
10) TN: Trump brings home amoxicillin to US in sweeping Walmart deal
11) Survey: Swiss Voters Backing New EU Deal 2-1 After U.S. Tariff Shock
12) Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
13) Princeton academic Elizabeth Tsurkov freed by Iraqi militia after two years in captivity
14) Top European court rules nuclear power can be green
15) NATO scrambles jets to shoot down Russian drones in Poland
16) Hong Kong: Beijing puppet legislature rejects bill recognizing same-sex partnerships
17) Trump Regime Considering a Strike on Venezuela, Military Sources Say
18) Trump signs memo launching crackdown on drug advertisements
19) FL: Jury selected in trial of Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate Trump
20) France: Macron names loyalist Lecornu as new prime minister
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Moaning about foreign competition is a great American tradition
22) Your liberty just as important as mine
23) The Right’s Performative Toughness
24) The Trump Administration’s Half-Baked Plan To Disarm Transgender People Is Legally Bankrupt
25) The Costs and Choices of Kiki’s Delivery Service
26) When unauthorized migrants leave out of conscience
27) The President Should Not Have a License to Kill
28) The Benefit of the Drug War to Donald Trump
29) Some Days There’s Just Too Much Israeli Psychopathy To Write About
30) The law is clear: Trump can’t use the military to police America’s streets
31) You Can’t Worship God and Money: Theological Abominations in Trump’s America
32) Government Ownership of the Means of Production
33) Pesticide Industry’s Fingerprints Are All Over MAHA Commission’s Strategy Report
34) Classical China’s gifts to the world
35) From E. Jean Carroll to Epstein’s victims, no woman matters enough to faze GOP
36) Is Israel forcing Trump to be the capitulator in chief?
37) Eric Adams in it to win it against “diabolical” Mamdani
38) Remaking the Fed: A Look Back at the Banking Act of 1935
39) The Psychology of Corruption
40) The Epstein Scandal Reveals MAGA’s True Face
41) House Should Have the Votes to Release Epstein Files in Two Weeks
42) Presidential Initiative and Congressional Acquiescence
43) Macron’s Grand Illusion
44) Congress Has Only Itself to Blame for the War Department
45) DEI is the real cause of America’s housing crisis
46) Seducing Socialists
47) Un-Americaning Some Americans Is Un-American
48) Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal — Until It Doesn’t
49) Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match?
50) India Is Even More Barbaric Toward its Migrants Than Trump
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Reason Interview: Lenore Skenazy
52) The Vital Center, episode 86
53) Rising, 09/10/25
54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/10/25
55) Quillette Narrated, 09/10/25
56) Underthrow Podcast, 09/09/25
57) The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, 09/10/25
58) How To Fix The Internet, 09/10/25
59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/10/25
60) Political Theater, 09/09/25
61) Nonzero, 09/09/25
62) Capital Record, episode 255
63) System Update, episode 511
64) Trump Watch, 09/09/25
65) Bulwark Takes, 09/09/25
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1) UT: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk assassinated at campus event
Source: Deseret News
“In what Utah’s governor called a political assassination, a sniper shot and killed influential conservative Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, as he engaged students in a question and answer-style debate. The killer remains at large, but Gov. Spencer Cox vowed that federal and state law enforcement officials would capture the shooter, even as President Donald Trump and other world leaders condemned the attack and the angry divides plaguing the country. … Kirk was in the middle of answering politically charged questions about mass shootings in America when he was murdered, said Deseret News reporter Emma Pitts, who together with Deseret News reporter Eva Terry was covering Kirk’s campus rally and each witnessed the shooting.” (09/10/25)
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-shot/
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2) UN inspectors can resume work at Iran nuclear sites after breakthrough deal
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Tehran and the UN nuclear inspectorate have reached an agreement that will allow UN inspectors to return to inspect all of Iran’s nuclear sites, including those bombed by Israel and the US in June. The breakthrough, confirmed by Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, came during a three-hour meeting on Monday between Grossi and the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Cairo. Agreement on the return of the UN inspectors is one of the preconditions set by European leaders for them to defer a plan to reimpose sweeping UN sanctions on Iran at the end of this month. … One of Iran’s concerns is that the IAEA, an agency distrusted by Iranian conservatives, would feed the information it garnered to Israel or the US on the state of its nuclear plans and this would be used to refine further military assaults on Iran’s nuclear sites.” (09/10/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/un-inspectors-iran-nuclear-sites-breakthrough-deal
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3) FL: Court notices state regime’s open carry ban is unconstitutional
Source: CBS News
“In a major decision, a state appeals court Wednesday ruled that Florida’s ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, pointing to U.S. Supreme Court rulings on Second Amendment issues, said the open-carry ban is incompatible with the nation’s ‘historical tradition of firearm regulation.’ ‘No historical tradition supports Florida’s open carry ban,’ Judge Stephanie Ray wrote in a 20-page opinion joined by Judges Lori Rowe and M. Kemmerly Thomas. ‘To the contrary, history confirms that the right to bear arms in public necessarily includes the right to do so openly. That is not to say that open carry is absolute or immune from reasonable regulation.'” [editor’s note: The Second Amendment says EXACTLY that the right to keep and bear arms is absolute and that there’ no such thing as “reasonable” regulation – TLK] (09/10/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/appeals-court-rules-floridas-open-carry-ban-is-unconstitutional/
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4) NASA discovers “clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars”
Source: Washington Post
“Rolling across the rugged, rusty red terrain on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover came upon some rocks with peculiar green, blue, black and white dots. After detailed image analysis, scientists have come to a potentially encouraging conclusion: If those speckled rocks were formed like they are on Earth, they might be evidence of past life on the dusty planet. The rocks ‘very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting,’ acting NASA administrator Sean P. Duffy said in a news conference Wednesday. The findings were published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The rocks, or mudstones, are composed of finely packed sediment and covered in specks resembling poppy seeds and leopard spots. The colorful features, the study found, are minerals that — on Earth — have traditionally been created from microbial activity.” (09/10/25)
https://archive.is/1kyNT
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5) SCOTUS rules for boy in bathroom dispute
Source: Seattle Times
“The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a transgender boy may use the boys’ bathroom in a South Carolina public high school while he pursues a challenge to a state law requiring students to use the bathrooms for their sex as ‘determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth.’ The court’s brief order was unsigned and gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices act on emergency applications. It applied to a single student and stressed that it was ‘not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues presented in the litigation.’ Rather, in rejecting South Carolina’s request to bar the student from the boys’ bathroom for now, the order said the state had not cleared the high bar for securing an emergency ruling in its favor. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch noted dissents but did not offer reasons.” (09/10/25)
https://archive.is/ZT00F
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6) Fired FBI officials sue, accusing FBI Director Kash Patel of bowing to social media pressure
Source: CNN
“Three former senior FBI officials summarily fired last month are suing FBI Director Kash Patel and the Trump administration, alleging that their terminations were part of a White House-directed purge driven at least in part by social media bullying from MAGA loyalists. Brian Driscoll, the former acting FBI director for a month at the start of the second Trump administration; Steven Jensen, who Patel installed as assistant director in charge the Washington field office; and Spencer Evans, who led the Las Vegas field office, allege that Patel has politicized the FBI to protect his own job. ‘Patel not only acted unlawfully but deliberately chose to prioritize politicizing the FBI over protecting the American people,’ the lawsuit states.” (09/10/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/politics/fired-fbi-officials-sue-kash-patel
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7) US FDA approves J&J’s bladder cancer treatment
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson’s drug delivery system for a type of bladder cancer, offering a potential surgery-free option for patients. The drug release system, branded as Inlexzo, was approved for patients with a type of high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who did not respond to treatment with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy, the current standard-of-care, and are ineligible for, or refuse to undergo bladder removal surgery. … The approval was based on data from a mid-stage study, in which more than 82% of the patients who received Inlexzo showed no signs of cancer, and over half of them remained cancer-free for at least a year.” (09/10/25)
https://archive.is/KPbjC
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8) NC: Previous charges, delayed mental health evaluation were missed opportunities in Charlotte stabbing
Source: SFGate
“After Decarlos Brown Jr. was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a North Carolina commuter train, he was quickly sent to a state mental hospital for an evaluation. It was a sharp contrast from a January misdemeanor arrest, where it took more than six months for a court to order a mental evaluation after Brown told officers that he had been given a human-made substance that controlled when he ate, talked or walked. The Justice Department on Tuesday charged Brown, 34, with causing death on a mass transportation system last month when he allegedly killed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in what has become the latest flashpoint for the White House’s efforts to paint Democratic-led cities as havens for violent criminals.” (09/10/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/previous-charges-delayed-mental-health-21041241.php
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9) Wholesale prices unexpectedly allegedly declined 0.1% in August, as Fed rate decision looms
Source: CNBC
“Wholesale prices surprisingly fell slightly in August, providing breathing room for the Federal Reserve to approve an interest rate cut at its meeting this month, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report Wednesday. The producer price index, which measures input costs across a broad array of goods and services, dropped 0.1% for the month, after a downwardly revised 0.7% increase in July and well off the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.3% rise. On a 12-month basis, the headline PPI saw a 2.6% gain. The core PPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, also was off 0.1% after being expected to climb 0.3% as well.” [editor’s note: The PPI is reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I’m shocked — shocked! — that a month after Trump fired that bureau’s director for publishing numbers that made him look bad, the numbers are all changing direction. As for credibility? Who knows? – TLK] (09/10/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/10/ppi-inflation-august-2025-.html
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10) TN: Trump brings home amoxicillin to US in sweeping Walmart deal
Source: Fox News
“The United States is set to increase its manufacturing of amoxicillin — a widely used prescription antibiotic that recently faced a national shortage — after Walmart and medical supply and distribution company McKesson inked a deal with the nation’s lone manufacturer of the drug. ‘We are thrilled to work with Walmart and McKesson to bring domestically manufactured antibiotics directly to American families,’ Patrick Cashman, president of USAntibiotics, said in a press release of the announcement on Monday. ‘We extend our deepest gratitude to Walmart and McKesson for their leadership in supporting U.S. manufacturing of critical generic medicines. This collaboration represents more than a business relationship — it’s a commitment to America’s health security.’ USAntibiotics is located in Bristol, Tennessee, and expects to produce ‘enough amoxicillin products to meet 100 percent of the nation’s demand for these essential medications’ under the deal.” (09/10/25)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-brings-key-prescription-drug-home-us-sweeping-walmart-deal
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11) Survey: Swiss Voters Backing New EU Deal 2-1 After U.S. Tariff Shock
Source: US News & World Report
“A clear majority of Swiss voters support a new deal that deepens the country’s economic ties with the European Union following the shock and uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs on Switzerland, a survey showed on Wednesday. Published by newspaper Blick, the survey by polling firm GFS Bern of around 1,000 respondents showed that 61% were either strongly in favour of, or more likely to, back the deal agreed in December. … The polling was carried out in July and August, chiefly before the full impact of the U.S. tariffs became known, the paper said. U.S. President Donald Trump on August 7 imposed tariffs of 39% on Switzerland, one of the highest rates worldwide, saying they were justified by the U.S. trade deficit with the country. The tariffs are far higher than the 15% rate Trump imposed on the EU, and caused dismay among Swiss companies, which have traditionally been well disposed towards the United States.” (09/10/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-10/swiss-voters-backing-new-eu-deal-2-1-after-u-s-tariff-shock-survey
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12) Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
Source: SFGate
“The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on U.S. technology that spies on them and predicts what they’ll do. Their train tickets, hotel bookings, purchases, text messages and phone calls are forwarded to the government. Their house is ringed with more than a dozen cameras. They’ve tried to go to Beijing 20 times in the past few years, but masked men show up and grab them, often before they depart. … the Yangs say they are not criminals.” (09/09/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/us-tech-companies-enabled-the-surveillance-and-21038124.php
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13) Princeton academic Elizabeth Tsurkov freed by Iraqi militia after two years in captivity
Source: NBC News
“A Princeton University graduate student who was kidnapped and held captive by an Islamic militia in Iraq for more than two years was released on Tuesday. Elizabeth Tsurkov — a Russian-Israeli citizen — was released by the Kataib Hezbollah group, a Shia paramilitary group aligned with Iran, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social. Tsurkov had been ‘tortured for many months,’ Trump said. The release came after ‘extensive efforts exerted by our security services over the course of many months.’ Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani said on X. … According to New Lines magazine, which was in contact with Tsurkov prior to her capture in Baghdad, she was in Iraq to carry out fieldwork for her doctoral dissertation. Tsurkov is also a fellow at the New Lines Institute, a global affairs think tank in Washington.” (09/10/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/elizabeth-tsurkov-freed-princeton-iraq-militia-captivity-rcna230272
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14) Top European court rules nuclear power can be green
Source: Politico
“The European Union can continue to count nuclear power, and in some cases fossil gas, as ‘environmentally sustainable,’ after the EU’s top court ruled the European Commission was not breaching its obligations to tackle climate change. The General Court on Wednesday found against a complaint from Austria, which sought to overturn the decision to include the two energy sources in the EU’s taxonomy regulation, which determines which investments can be considered as green. The General Court, part of the Court of Justice of the European Union, said in its judgment the Commission ‘was entitled to take the view that nuclear energy generation has near to zero greenhouse gas emissions and that there are currently no technologically and economically feasible low-carbon alternatives at a sufficient scale.'” (09/10/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/top-european-court-rules-nuclear-power-green
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15) NATO scrambles jets to shoot down Russian drones in Poland
Source: SFGate
“Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described Wednesday as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down. A NATO spokesman said it was the first time the alliance confronted a potential threat in its airspace. The incursion, which occurred during a wave of strikes by the Kremlin on Ukraine, and the NATO response swiftly raised fears that the war could spill over — a fear that has been growing in Europe as Russia steps up its attacks and peace efforts go nowhere. Russia’s Defense Ministry said it did not target Poland, while Belarus, a close ally of Moscow, said it tracked some drones that ‘lost their course’ because they were jammed. However, several European leaders said they believed the incursion amounted to an intentional expansion of Russia’s assault against Ukraine.” (09/10/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/poland-says-it-downed-drones-that-violated-its-21040219.php
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16) Hong Kong: Beijing puppet legislature rejects bill recognizing same-sex partnerships
Source: Associated Press
“Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have granted recognition to same-sex partnerships in the Chinese city, despite the rights offered being limited, in a major setback to the LGBTQ+ movement. The Registration of Same-Sex Partnerships Bill, unveiled in July, stemmed from one of the legal victories that pushed the government to offer more equal rights to gays and lesbians. … The staunch opposition from lawmakers was a rare sight since the government overhauled its electoral rules that effectively filled the legislature with Beijing loyalists. It was the first government bill to be voted down since the overhaul. … The bill proposed to allow residents who have already formed unions overseas to register their partnerships locally and grant them rights in handling medical and after-death matters for their loved ones.” (09/10/25)
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-samesex-bill-lgbtq-c170f76dd90271bfe3692628a6ef92eb
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17) Trump Regime Considering a Strike on Venezuela, Military Sources Say
Source: Common Dreams
“US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering launching military strikes on Venezuela, according to new reporting from independent journalist Ken Klippenstein. Military sources on Tuesday told Klippenstein that the Trump administration is mulling an attack against Venezuela unless it cracks down on drug cartels that it claims are shipping fentanyl into the United States. Contrary to the administration’s claims, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies, Venezuela plays virtually no role in fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking. Klippenstein’s sources said the attack was likely to involve ‘shooting down Venezuelan military aircraft or by bombing Venezuelan military airfield,’ and that the US Air Force has been rehearsing for such a mission in recent weeks. Such an attack would mark a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s hostilities toward Venezuela, which escalated last week when the administration bombed a boat off the Venezuelan coast that it alleged was carrying drug traffickers.” (09/10/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-bomb-venezuela
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18) Trump signs memo launching crackdown on drug advertisements
Source: United Press International
“President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum launching a crackdown on misinformation in drug advertisements. The president signed the memorandum Tuesday. ‘My administration will ensure that the current regulatory framework for drug advertising results in fair, balanced and complete information for American consumers,’ Trump said in the document. It directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ‘take appropriate action’ to ensure transparency and accuracy in prescription drug advertisements. It also calls on the head of the Food and Drug Administration to enforce the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act’s prescription drug advertising provisions.” (09/10/25)
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/09/10/Trump-drug-advertisements-crackdown/7091757494267/
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19) FL: Jury selected in trial of Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate Trump
Source: SFGate
“A jury was selected Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump while he played golf last year in South Florida. The panel of 12 jurors and four alternates was sworn in on the third day of jury selection at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida. The jury has four white men, one Black man, six white women, and one Black woman. The alternates are two white men and two white women. Ryan Routh’s trial begins nearly a year after prosecutors say a U.S. Secret Service agent thwarted Routh’s attempt to shoot the Republican presidential nominee. Routh, 59, has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer and several firearm violations. Routh is representing himself after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon agreed to let him dismiss his court-appointed attorneys.” (09/10/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/a-jury-is-selected-in-the-trial-of-a-man-accused-21041440.php
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20) France: Macron names loyalist Lecornu as new prime minister
Source: Reuters
“French President Emmanuel Macron named loyalist Sebastien Lecornu, a one-time conservative protege who rallied behind his 2017 presidential run, as prime minister on Tuesday, defying expectations he might tack towards the left. The choice of Lecornu, 39, indicates Macron’s determination to press on with a minority government that stands firmly behind his pro-business economic reform agenda, under which taxes on business and the wealthy have been cut and the retirement age raised.” (09/09/25)
https://archive.is/eEDQC
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21) Moaning about foreign competition is a great American tradition
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“Having seen New England, Kentucky’s Henry Clay (1777-1852) was aghast. … ‘In passing along the highway, one frequently sees large and spacious buildings, with the glass broken out of the windows, the shutters hanging in ruinous disorder, without any appearance of activity, and enveloped in solitary gloom. Upon inquiring what they are, you are almost always informed that they were some cotton or other factory, which their proprietors could no longer keep in motion against the overwhelming pressure of foreign competition.’ Somehow New England thrived despite the end of whaling, the southward migration of the textile industry, the departure of many shoemakers, and other supposed setbacks. Protectionists, however, persist in imagining recent calamities that they think validate government curtailments of economic freedom. Hence their lingering preoccupation with the ‘China shock,’ the alleged damage done to American industries and communities by imports from China.” (09/10/25)
https://archive.is/1cKl9
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22) Your liberty just as important as mine
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Caring about people means caring about their liberty. Liberty is a universal principle. It isn’t just for me, those I like, or those who agree with me. It’s for everyone or it’s not liberty at all. If I didn’t care about people, I would demand my rights while trampling yours; anything to get my way. But that’s not liberty; it’s tyranny dressed up with moralizing words. Liberty is the foundation of a life worth living. It’s the ability to make your own choices, pursue your own happiness, protect your own property, and build your future without anyone’s boot on your neck. It’s a two-way street.” (09/10/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/09/10/voices/opinion-your-liberty-just-as-important-as-mine/231641.html
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23) The Right’s Performative Toughness
Source: The Dispatch
by Jeremiah Johnson
“Today’s right-wing politics don’t revolve around results or competence, nor even an identifiable ideology. The central organizing principle of the Trumpian right — to the extent that there is an organizing principle other than ‘Do things that benefit Donald Trump personally’ — is the performance of toughness and the pantomime of warrior culture.” (09/10/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-hegseth-vance-war-tough/
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24) The Trump Administration’s Half-Baked Plan To Disarm Transgender People Is Legally Bankrupt
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“When Justice Department officials anonymously floated the idea of prohibiting gun possession by transgender people last week, they may have hoped to score points with President Donald Trump’s base or get a rise out of ‘woke’ Democrats. Instead, they elicited howls of outrage from every major gun rights group. It is not hard to see why. This half-baked proposal, which has no obvious statutory basis, is flagrantly inconsistent with ‘the right of the people’ to ‘keep and bear arms’ — a right that Trump claims he is keen to protect.” (09/10/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/10/the-trump-administrations-half-baked-plan-to-disarm-transgender-people-is-legally-bankrupt/
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25) The Costs and Choices of Kiki’s Delivery Service
Source: EconLog
by Byron Carson
“Kiki’s Delivery Service, Studio Ghibli’s 1989 masterpiece, captures genuine moments of a young witch trying to make it on her own. Moreover, it highlights the fundamental nature of cost and choice. The logic of cost is deceptively unintuitive and often difficult for students and laymen alike, mainly because common usage defines it as losing money. Typical notions of cost also often refer to inherent qualities of objects, e.g., a loaf of bread costs $5, and as an inevitable, negative outcome. The economic way of thinking clarifies a deeper meaning of cost, and Kiki shows this in one standout scene.” (09/10/25)
https://www.econlib.org/the-costs-and-choices-of-kikis-delivery-service/
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26) When unauthorized migrants leave out of conscience
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“If all goes as planned, hundreds of South Koreans in Georgia will voluntarily fly to their home country on Wednesday. They were detained last week by federal agents at a Hyundai construction site for allegedly living and working illegally [sic] in the United States. What makes the exodus so remarkable is that it represents a case of mass obedience to American sovereignty among those in the U.S. illegally [sic]. Instead of being forcibly deported in handcuffs, the Koreans will depart in contrition. The choice to honor the law may even improve their legal opportunities to return. This reflects a large shift in voluntary outmigration nine months into the Trump administration’s tough – and sometimes unconstitutional – crackdown on illegal [sic] migration.” (09/09/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0909/When-unauthorized-migrants-leave-out-of-conscience
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27) The President Should Not Have a License to Kill
Source: Cato Institute
by David J Bier
“President Trump once quipped, ‘I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.’ Well, he wasn’t standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue, but he nonetheless tested the limits of his ability to get away with extrajudicial execution on September 2 by ordering the deaths of eleven people in an alleged drug-smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela. Trump’s action was criminal and impeachable.” (09/10/25)
https://www.cato.org/blog/presidents-shouldnt-have-license-kill
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28) The Benefit of the Drug War to Donald Trump
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“From the standpoint of many U.S. officials, one can easily see why they find the drug war advantageous. Like the drug lords and drug cartels, there is a huge drug-war federal bureaucracy that has grown dependent on the drug war. There are, for example, generous salaries for federal judges (plus lifetime appointments), federal prosecutors, DEA agents, court clerks and secretaries, law clerks, and others, all of which would dry up if the drug war were ended and drugs were legalized. Just like the drug lords and drug dealers, the last thing these federal bureaucrats want to do is let go of the source of their largess. But there is another benefit to the drug war, one that President Trump is now using to expand his militarized police state across America.” (09/10/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/09/10/the-benefit-of-the-drug-war-to-donald-trump/
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29) Some Days There’s Just Too Much Israeli Psychopathy To Write About
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Recent hours have seen too much Israeli depravity to write about, including an assassination strike in Qatar to sabotage peace talks, a second drone attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, and a Guardian article featuring an IDF sniper who discussed killing civilians like a trophy hunter talking about game animals. The IDF bombed a Doha residential building on Tuesday in an attempt to assassinate Hamas officials who had gathered to discuss US-Israeli ceasefire proposals, reportedly killing a Qatari security officer and four Hamas aides, as well as the son of the acting Hamas political bureau chief. President Trump publicly criticized the Israeli attack, but Middle East Eye reports that according to US and regional officials the president had actually ‘blessed’ the strike in advance. These would be the same Hamas officials who Trump had just been aggressively threatening to accept his ceasefire proposal or face severe consequences.” (09/10/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/10/some-days-theres-just-too-much-israeli-psychopathy-to-write-about/
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30) The law is clear: Trump can’t use the military to police America’s streets
Source: The Hill
by Claire Finkelstein, Brenner Fissell, & Mitt Regan
“As Chicago braces for an influx of federal troops, it is critical to focus on last week’s ruling by a federal district court stating that President Trump’s June deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles violated federal law. As national security experts who filed an amicus brief to support California’s challenge, we strongly support the holding of this case that the president has no authority to use federal troops to police America’s cities. This flagrant continued assault on U.S. cities and citizens is illegal, un-American and just plain wrong. In a careful but ultimately devastasting rebuke of the administration, Judge Charles Breyer held in Newsom v. Trump that the government’s use of federal troops violated an 1878 statute called the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids the government from using federal troops for law enforcement purposes.” (09/10/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5493889-judge-rules-trump-national-guard-illegal/
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31) You Can’t Worship God and Money: Theological Abominations in Trump’s America
Source: TomDispatch
by Liz Theoharis
“It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture to justify shutting down food programs and kicking mothers and their babies off public assistance. Those leaders, many of them self-described Christians, chose to ignore the majority of passages in the Bible that preached ‘good news’ to the poor and promised freedom to those captive to injustice and oppression. Instead, they put forward unethical and ahistorical (mis)interpretations and (mis)appropriations of biblical texts to prop up American imperial power and punish the poor in the name of a warped morality. Three decades later, the Trump administration and its theological apologists are working overtime, using Jesus’s name and the Bible’s contents in even more devastating rounds of immoral biblical (mis)references.” (09/10/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/you-cant-worship-god-and-money/
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32) Government Ownership of the Means of Production
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Whitson G Waldo, III
“A core principle of Marxism — the socialist system upon which is founded the more authoritarian political systems of communism and progressive fascism — is government ownership of the means of production. This economic policy, aimed as a dagger at capitalism, happens to be the avant garde economic policy position taken a couple of times now by the Trump administration. It is the same position advocated in the larger context by the self-described communist candidate, Zohran Mamdani, who is running for mayor of New York City. The Trump administration recently took a stake in MP Materials Corp in an effort to onshore rare earth mineral mining and refinement.” (09/10/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-ownership-means-production
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33) Pesticide Industry’s Fingerprints Are All Over MAHA Commission’s Strategy Report
Source: Common Dreams
by Sarah Starman
“When it comes to pesticides, the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, Commission has a serious problem: The Commission’s newly released strategy for addressing childhood chronic disease is better for the pesticide industry than for people. Ignoring growing public calls for action, the strategy lays out a milquetoast approach that would protect industry profits at the expense of children’s health. Back in May, a first report from the MAHA Commission correctly identified exposure to pesticides and other toxic chemicals as one driver of the childhood chronic disease epidemic. The US currently uses over a billion pounds of pesticides annually on our crops, about one-third of which is chemicals that have been banned in other countries. Many have been linked to serious health problems from cancer to infertility to birth defects.” (09/10/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/maha-report-pesticides
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34) Classical China’s gifts to the world
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Lawrence W Reed
“Sinologists speak of the ‘Four Great Inventions’ of China. The infamous ‘one-child policy’ is not one of them; that is a political contrivance of more recent times and is producing a demographic catastrophe (see The Ultimate Central Planning Nightmare). The Four Great Inventions are the compass, paper, printing, and gunpowder. They date to ancient times, and their impact worldwide has been massive and largely, if not overwhelmingly, beneficial. In the early 17th century, the English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon credited modern Europe’s emergence to the adoption of three of them.” (09/10/25)
https://fee.org/articles/classical-chinas-gifts-to-the-world/
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35) From E. Jean Carroll to Epstein’s victims, no woman matters enough to faze GOP
Source: USA Today
by Sara Pequeño
“A U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 8 declined to throw out a case that found Trump owes writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million over comments he made disputing the veracity of her sexual assault claims. The three-judge panel ruled that presidential immunity does not protect him, and that a lower court did not err in how it handled the case. The revelations about Trump’s sexual abuse and the subsequent court rulings in Carroll’s favor should be shocking. For any other president, this would be damaging. Yet we’re nearly a decade into Trump’s rise to political power, and nothing about this is surprising. We’ve become so numb to his indiscretions that we are now OK with the most powerful elected official in our country being an adjudicated sexual abuser.” (09/10/25)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/09/10/trump-e-jean-carroll-verdict-defamation/86058714007/
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36) Is Israel forcing Trump to be the capitulator in chief?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Trita Parsi
“The Doha bombing comes after months of US deference to Netanyahu, who has become increasingly dismissive of the president and our interests.” (09/10/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/doha-bombing-trump/
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37) Eric Adams in it to win it against “diabolical” Mamdani
Source: New York Post
by Michael Goodwin
“The polls say Mayor Eric Adams is a sure-fire loser in November and wall-to-wall reports have him dropping out of the race or leaving City Hall early to take a job in the Trump administration. He tells me neither is true and that he has never spoken to the president about a job. My impression after a fast-paced interview with him Monday is that quitting and defeat truly are far from his mind. ‘I will finish my term,’ he said emphatically, and insists he still has a chance at re-election. ‘I feel strong and I’m not giving up,’ he added. ‘It’s too early to throw in the towel.’ He barely flinched when I asked what he would do differently if he could rewind the clock to 2022, when he took office.” (09/09/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/opinion/eric-adams-is-in-it-to-win-it-against-diabolical-far-left-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-race/
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38) Remaking the Fed: A Look Back at the Banking Act of 1935
Source: The Daily Economy
by Bryan Cutsinger
“This year marks the ninetieth anniversary of the Banking Act of 1935, the law that gave the Federal Reserve its current structure. Often overshadowed by the 1933 Act, which created deposit insurance and separated commercial from investment banking, the 1935 Act was just as important. By shifting power to Washington and redefining the Fed’s role, it built the framework for modern US monetary policy.” (09/10/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/remaking-the-fed-a-look-back-at-the-banking-act-of-1935/
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39) The Psychology of Corruption
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Alexander Oakes
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This quote, coined by the British Lord Acton during the late nineteenth century, is beloved by libertarians, and for good reason. In essence, it challenges the notion that any one person, regardless of their standing moral fiber, can handle power without allowing it to negatively influence them. But is this just a catchy bumper sticker slogan, or rather, is it a poignant truth that all liberty-loving Americans should forever remember while turning their gaze toward the political landscape? As it turns out, from a psychological perspective this quote is quite a bit more meaningful than just some peppy maxim. Furthermore, it is also a quote that serves to reinforce the importance of Libertarian ideals when it comes to managing state power.” (09/10/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-psychology-of-corruption
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40) The Epstein Scandal Reveals MAGA’s True Face
Source: The Bulwark
by Mona Charen
“At the heart of the case for Trump has always been the notion that, sure, he’s rough around the edges, but we have to put aside our piddling character concerns and just be glad that he is so strong, because the left presents such an existential threat to America that we cannot survive without Trump. … They knew Trump was a louse. They knew he lied, betrayed his business partners and his wives, spread false rumors, played dirty, and did it all without a flicker of conscience. When Trump’s character was raised as an issue by opponents, the knee-jerk MAGA response was not to defend him, not really, but to stress the enormity of the Democrats. … But now they find themselves defending Trump against the one sin that has given their movement its chief moral stature: child abuse.” (09/10/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-epstein-scandal-and-maga-staggering-hypocrisy
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41) House Should Have the Votes to Release Epstein Files in Two Weeks
Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper
“Donald Trump had successfully pushed the Jeffrey Epstein scandal out of front-page coverage in the mainstream media through his signature strategy of doing a dozen insane and/or illegal things per day …. But yet again the scandal has come roaring back, thanks once more to The Wall Street Journal (one of the few papers, remarkably, that has consistently stood up to Trump). He already sued the Journal and Rupert Murdoch for $10 billion for reporting that he had written a grotesque birthday note to Epstein (as part of a 50th birthday compilation book) back in 2003. Now the Epstein estate has turned over a copy of the book to the House Oversight Committee, and the Journal was first to publish the note, along with other parts of it.” (09/10/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-10-house-should-have-votes-to-release-epstein-files/
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42) Presidential Initiative and Congressional Acquiescence
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jordan T Cash
“There is little doubt that presidents in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have come to dominate American foreign policy in a way their predecessors did not. Yet presidential unilateralism is not a new development. Since the beginning of the republic, presidents have pursued policies without first consulting Congress. Indeed, when we examine the constitutional structure of the executive and legislative branches, we see that the presidency has a clear structural advantage in shaping American foreign policy, one which has been expanded as the United States has grown into a global superpower.” (09/10/25)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/presidential-initiative-and-congressional-acquiescence/
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43) Macron’s Grand Illusion
Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov
“France has now lost four prime ministers in under two years. While mainstream pundits blame the country’s deep political polarization, Macron himself exacerbated the crisis by foolishly calling snap elections in 2024, an act intended in part to contain the rise of the political right but which produced a fractured parliament and rendered the country increasingly ungovernable. … Yet, from this position of profound domestic weakness, Macron has anointed himself Europe’s wartime leader. He has become the chief architect and most bellicose leader of a self-styled ‘coalition of the willing’ for Ukraine, openly floating the possibility of deploying Western troops under the dubious guise of a post-peace ‘reassurance force.’ In a surreal encapsulation of this disconnect, this very coalition convened in Paris just days before Macron’s own government was toppled in a vote of no confidence.” (09/10/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/macrons-grand-illusion/
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44) Congress Has Only Itself to Blame for the War Department
Source: Foreign Policy
by Adam Weinstein
“Years of neglected oversight have led to unrestrained presidential authority.” (09/09/25)
https://archive.is/qRHxu
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45) DEI is the real cause of America’s housing crisis
Source: Fox News
by Daniel Huff & Paige Bronitsky
“Why doesn’t Hermes just produce more bags and then everyone can have a Birkin? That’s basically the argument of people pressing President Donald Trump to declare a housing emergency. The fact is there’s plenty of housing, just not in the most desirable neighborhoods. Population growth is slowing, deportations are increasing and new home construction already outpaces family creation. The shortage is a myth created by activists so they can force residential living patterns to conform to DEI dogma. A simple calculation proves it. The Census Bureau collects annual data on both the number of households and the available housing stock. The latest data shows 131.3 million households and 146.5 million housing units, an excess supply of over 15 million units. Activists cannot deny the excess so instead, they argue that it is not enough.” (09/10/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dei-is-real-cause-of-americas-housing-crisis
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46) Seducing Socialists
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“I agree with the left libertarians that most socialists would get more of what they want from a libertarian society than from a socialist society. But the reason is not that libertarianism will give them everything they want but that socialism won’t, will, on the evidence of state socialist societies past and present, give them less of what they want than the mixed economies they now live in.” (09/09/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/seducing-socialists
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47) Un-Americaning Some Americans Is Un-American
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“Actually, it’s very American. But it’s not a game that liberals can win.” (09/09/25)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/un-americaning-some-americans-is
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48) Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal — Until It Doesn’t
Source: The Atlantic
by Gisela Salim-Peyer
“Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the Venezuela of my childhood, during the period when experts and historians warned, on television channels that would later be shut down, that Hugo Chávez was making himself a dictator. They said that his economic mismanagement — the extravagant expenditures, the graft, the attacks on central-bank independence — would cause a severe crisis when oil prices went down. My family listened to those pundits and believed them, but we didn’t know what to do with that information. My father used to say that living in Venezuela was like driving a car that you know is not being maintained. For now, the car works fine, but one day it will break down. And when it does, the moment to repair the car will have passed.” (09/09/25)
https://archive.is/BU6uU
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49) Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match?
Source: In These Times
by Thomas Birmingham
“The most Gerene Freeman saw of her landlord on August 6 were several pairs of eyes peeking out between the blinds of a dark office building. That Wednesday was the day Freeman, a 76-year-old retired creative writing teacher, and her neighbors — all tenants of a New Haven, Conn. apartment complex for elderly and disabled residents called Park Ridge — had formally launched a tenants’ union. They had driven more than two hours to their landlord’s office in Rockland County, N.Y., to deliver a letter announcing the creation of the Park Ridge Tenant Union and demanding to negotiate for better conditions. But they found themselves completely stonewalled: first misdirected to a seemingly vacant building in New Jersey, and then returned to find people clearly visible inside the New York office who would not open the door to receive their letter.” (09/09/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/private-equity-landlords-tenants-union-organizing-tuf-housing
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50) India Is Even More Barbaric Toward its Migrants Than Trump
Source: The UnPopulist
by Debasish Roy Chowdhury
“Prime Minister Modi’s Hindu nationalist regime is using the presence of Bangladeshi immigrants as a pretext to remake the citizenry.” (09/09/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/india-is-even-more-barbaric-toward
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51) Reason Interview: Lenore Skenazy
Source: Reason
“How We Criminalized Childhood.” (09/10/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/10/how-we-criminalized-childhood/
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52) The Vital Center, episode 86
Source: Niskanen Center
“The legend of Murray Kempton, with Andrew Holter.” (09/10/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-legend-of-murray-kempton-with-andrew-holter
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53) Rising, 09/10/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers his radar on the stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska from behind on a North Carolina train.” (09/10/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5495582-rising-september-10-2025/
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54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/10/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Press Sec Seethes as Epstein Spin Falls Apart in Briefing Fiasco.” (09/10/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/200234/trump-press-sec-seethes-epstein-spin-falls-apart-briefing-fiasco
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55) Quillette Narrated, 09/10/25
Source: Quillette
“The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter.” (09/10/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/09/10/the-100-million-killed-under-communist-regi-matter/
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56) Underthrow Podcast, 09/09/25
Source: Underthrow
“In the debut episode of Underthrow, host Max Borders sits down with James Harrigan, political scientist, co-host of Words and Numbers, and co-author of Cooperation and Coercion, to confront the economic and cultural challenges facing America.” (09/09/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7OuM73syG4
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57) The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, 09/10/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Gay Race Communism | Interview: Chris Stirewalt.” (09/10/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/gay-race-communism-interview-chris-stirewalt/
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58) How To Fix The Internet, 09/10/25
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“Building and Preserving the Library of Everything.” (09/10/25)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/podcast-episode-building-and-preserving-library-everything
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59) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/10/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Bombs Hamas Officials in Qatar, IDF Orders Full Evacuation of Gaza City, and More.” (09/10/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmmKdO8B7dc
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60) Political Theater, 09/09/25
Source: Roll Call
“They seem fine: Life After Congress.” (09/09/25)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL8029200899.mp3
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61) Nonzero, 09/09/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Trump’s Epstein Problem and His Authoritarian Slide | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov.” (09/09/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/68992
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62) Capital Record, episode 255
Source: National Review
“Does a Moral Culture Spend $40 Billion on Youth Sports?” (09/09/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/does-a-moral-culture-spend-40-billion-on-youth-sports/
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63) System Update, episode 511
Source: System Update
“Israel Bombs Qatar and Trump Reacts; The Hoax to Blame Russia for Jamming EU President’s Plane GPS; Mamdani Soars in Polls as he Tries to Moderate on Israel.” (09/09/25)
https://rumble.com/v6ypp96-system-update-show-511.html
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64) Trump Watch, 09/09/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Drug-War Racket.” (09/09/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjiHhr9N5tE
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65) Bulwark Takes, 09/09/25
Source: The Bulwark
“Sarah Longwell and Andrew Egger take on the White House press conference where Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Epstein documents fake — and the press mostly let them get away with it.” (09/09/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGU6G512SIk
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