11/05 -- NYC: Mamdani wins mayoral race; Against Moral Panic: Or, Dolls Aren't Real Kids
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Today's Freedom News:
0) Year-End Fundraiser Update
1) NYC: Mamdani wins mayoral race
2) Chinese astronauts’ return to Earth delayed over fears spaceship damaged by debris
3) Report: US presents UN Security Council with its plan for international force to govern, secure Gaza
4) Dick Cheney, 1941-2025
5) Peru: Regime cuts ties with Mexican regime over asylum for ex-prime minister
6) UK: Robinson cleared of terror-related offence over phone code refusal
7) Cuban regime stealing wages from its citizens in Canada, say ex-workers
8) Sudan: Drone strike hits funeral, killing many mourners
9) Donetsk: Zelenskyy visits Ukrainian troops near embattled city of Pokrovsk
10) Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 26 dead, people trapped on roofs and cars submerged
11) Six dead in listeria outbreak linked to pasta
12) Duffy: “All clear” at Reagan National Airport following unfounded bomb threat
13) The light of 10 trillion suns: Scientists report the biggest black hole flare ever recorded
14) Bondi: DOJ seized Trump’s official phone, subpoenaed private phone logs
15) UK: BBC has questions to answer over edited Trump speech, MPs say
16) FBI: Two arrested in connection with explosion at Harvard Medical School
17) CA: Altman apparently subpoenaed moments into San Francisco talk
18) Binance CEO dismisses claims the firm boosted a Trump crypto venture ahead of CZ pardon
19) Officials: Former politician may have fled country with son after allegedly stealing $30k
20) France: Regime threatens to ban Shein for sale of “childlike” sex doll
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Against Moral Panic: Or, Dolls Aren’t Real Kids
22) Should Libertarians Abandon Principle on Immigration?
23) Trump’s War on Truth Tellers
24) Certificate of need laws cutting access to KY health care are overdue for reform
25) A European Threat to the First Amendment
26) Dems’ big shutdown “win” only going to be setting new record for “longest” and most futile
27) Dick Cheney, War Criminal, Dead at 84
28) What Does Fentanyl Have to Do With Alleged Drug Boats 2,600 miles away? Absolutely Nothing.
29) The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Vendettas
30) Virtuous Cycles of Development: Why Institutions Matter More Than Aid
31) AI layoffs could spark a socialist surge if America ignores the warning signs
32) Britain’s War on Landlords
33) They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
34) When They Go Low, We Go Low
35) Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP’s reckoning on Israel
36) This Supreme Court case could redefine the presidency
37) Faith, not Trump’s guns, can fix Nigerian violence
38) NYC’s Mayoral Race: Three Paths to Bigger Government — And Why Florida’s Beaches Beckon Louder
39) Defending Groupthink?
40) Why isn’t the Heritage Foundation condemning Tucker Carlson?
41) Please Note: Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
42) How Common Has Private Currency Been?
43) Why Israel Isn’t Really a “Protectorate”
44) Thoughts on oligarchy 3
45) Bill Gates Gets Mugged by Reality
46) Don’t Want ICE To Scan Your Face? Too Bad, You Might Not Have A Choice
47) Jacinda Ardern leading the UN? God help us
48) What the US Supreme Court Tariffs Case Is Really About
49) Trump Lost the Politics of the Shutdown
50) Tucker Carlson Is Resurrecting Christianity’s Ugly Tradition of Antisemitism
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51) Advisory Opinions, 11/04/25
52) The Good Fight, 11/04/25
53) The Climate Realism Show, episode 180
54) Fountainhead Forum, episode 385
55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 11/04/25
56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/04/25
57) System Update, episode 542
58) Reimagining Liberty, episode 93
59) LPA Spotlight, episode 2
60) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 11/03/25
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1) NYC: Mamdani wins mayoral race
Source: New York Daily News
“Democrat Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, becoming the youngest man picked to lead the five boroughs in modern history …. Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist who will also be the city’s first-ever Muslim and South Asian mayor, was declared the winner of the 2025 race for City Hall by the Associated Press shortly after 9:30 p.m. The election was marked by massive turnout, with more than 2 million votes cast and Mamdani capturing more than a million of them himself, according to early Board of Elections tabulations. … with nearly 98% of votes tabulated, Mamdani led his closest opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, by more than 150,000 ballots — a 50.4% to 41.5% margin that the mayor-elect declared is ‘a mandate’ for enacting his affordability agenda.” (11/04/25)
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/04/zohran-mamdani-elected-nyc-mayor-in-historic-defeat-of-andrew-cuomo/
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2) Chinese astronauts’ return to Earth delayed over fears spaceship damaged by debris
Source: CNN
“Three Chinese astronauts have been forced to extend their six-month stay in space over concerns their return ship may have been hit by debris, China’s space agency said. Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie were due to return to Earth on Wednesday –– they had even handed over the keys to the Chinese space station to a new crew –– but their journey home was postponed due to a suspected impact on their Shenzhou-20 spaceship, China’s National Space Administration said Wednesday.” (11/05/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/china/china-shenzhou-20-astronauts-return-delayed-intl-hnk
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3) Report: US presents UN Security Council with its plan for international force to govern, secure Gaza
Source: New York Post
“The US has presented the United Nations Security Council with a draft resolution to establish an international force to govern and protect Gaza for the next two years, according to a report. The proposed resolution, sent to security-council members Monday, would give the US and its allied nations a broad mandate to oversee Gaza in place of Hamas and provide security through the end of 2027, Axios reported. The component of an International Security Force was a key part of President Trump’s cease-fire deal to maintain peace between Israel and Gaza.” (11/04/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/04/world-news/us-presents-plan-for-international-security-force-for-gaza-report/
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4) Dick Cheney, 1941-2025
Source: New York Times
“Dick Cheney, widely regarded as the most powerful vice president in American history … died Monday. He was 84. The cause was complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from his family. … A consummate Washington insider, Mr. Cheney was an architect and executor of President Bush’s major initiatives: deploying military power to advance the cause of democracy abroad, championing tax cuts and a robust economy at home, and strengthening the powers of a presidency that, as both men saw it, had been unjustifiably restrained by Congress and the courts in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.” (11/04/25)
https://archive.is/bt7aR
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5) Peru: Regime cuts ties with Mexican regime over asylum for ex-prime minister
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Peru has severed diplomatic relations with Mexico after accusing it of granting asylum to a former Peruvian prime minister who is on trial over an alleged coup attempt in 2022. The announcement on Monday came hours after former Prime Minister Betssy Chavez – who served under former President Pedro Castillo – fled to the Mexican Embassy in Peru. … While Castillo has been in preventive custody since his impeachment, Chavez was released on bail in September. Prosecutors had sought a 25-year term for Chavez for allegedly participating in Castillo’s plan to dissolve Congress.” (11/04/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/4/peru-cuts-ties-with-mexico-over-asylum-for-ex-prime-minister
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6) UK: Robinson cleared of terror-related offence over phone code refusal
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Tommy Robinson has been cleared of a terror-related offence after being accused over a refusal to give police access to his phone during a border stop. A judge ruled that the stop was unlawful because it was based on what the far-right activist ‘stood for’ and his beliefs, rather than suspicions of a connection to terrorism. Following his acquittal, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, thanked the US tech billionaire Elon Musk, who he said had funded his legal costs in the case.” (11/04/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/04/tommy-robinson-cleared-terror-related-offence-phone-code-refusal
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7) Cuban regime stealing wages from its citizens in Canada, say ex-workers
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“The government of Cuba is forcing Cuban workers in Canada to send it the greater part of the salaries they are paid by their Canadian employer, according to two former workers who spoke to CBC News. The Cuban Communist Party also obliges its citizens to attend ‘political-ideological workshops’ and report on dealings with Canadian colleagues, as well as limiting their movements and controlling their relationships outside work, the two said. Cases of Cuban government wage confiscation have previously been reported in other countries, including in Brazil where Cuban doctors filed a lawsuit that led a Brazilian judge to say the practice amounted to ‘slave labour.’ … Canadian government officials told CBC News that all workers in the country are protected by its labour laws. But the system of accountability relies on complaints — which the former workers say would come at great risk to Cuban employees.” (11/04/25)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cuban-government-wages-9.6946992
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8) Sudan: Drone strike hits funeral, killing many mourners
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“At least 40 people in Sudan have been killed in a drone strike that targeted a funeral that was taking place outside the army-held city of el-Obeid in North Kordofan state, officials and activists say. They blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for Monday’s attack on al-Luweib village as mourners had gathered in a tent. The RSF has not yet commented. Many reportedly died before getting to hospital in el-Obeid, a strategic city that connects the capital, Khartoum, to the western region of Darfur. Fighting has intensified in this oil-rich Kordofan area and around 20,000 people fled to el-Obeid last week after the RSF captured Bara town, 30km (18 miles) north of the city.” (11/04/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rp4z0rgleo
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9) Donetsk: Zelenskyy visits Ukrainian troops near embattled city of Pokrovsk
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he visited troops near the embattled city of Pokrovsk, as Kyiv scrambles to defend the logistics hub that Russia has tried to capture for months. … Hundreds of Russian soldiers have infiltrated the logistics hub, Kyiv said earlier this week. Others are closing in on its outskirts in a pincer-shaped movement, according to battlefield maps published by the Institute for the Study of War. The Russian army on Tuesday said it was ‘tightening the encirclement around the enemy’ in Pokrovsk and claimed to have captured a few dozen buildings in the town” (11/04/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251104-zelensky-visits-troops-near-embattled-ukrainian-city-of-pokrovsk
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10) Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 26 dead, people trapped on roofs and cars submerged
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in flooding set off by the storm, which barreled across the central part of the country on Tuesday, disaster response officials said. Floodwaters trapped scores of people on their roofs and submerged cars. A Philippine air force helicopter with five personnel on board crashed in a separate incident in southern Agusan del Sur province while flying to help provide humanitarian assistance to provinces battered by Kalmaegi. … Before the typhoon’s landfall, officials said that more than 387,000 people had evacuated to safer ground in eastern and central Philippine provinces. Authorities warned of torrential rains, potentially destructive winds and storm surges of nearly 10 feet.” (11/04/25)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/04/typhoon-kalmaegi-philippines-aftermath/
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11) Six dead in listeria outbreak linked to pasta
Source: Seattle Times
“Six people became ill and died after eating prepared pasta meals that were contaminated with listeria and sold at major grocery chains across the country, federal health officials said. The meals, sold at Albertsons, Kroger, Sprouts Farmers Market, Trader Joe’s and other major stores, were recalled in recent months in connection with the outbreak, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said grew last week. Federal health officials said the supplier, Nate’s Fine Foods Inc., had found Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause illness and death, in a sample of its pasta. Health officials said that a total of 27 people in 18 states had been affected by the outbreak, and that they were working to investigate the source.” (11/04/25)
https://archive.is/m4vEw
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12) Duffy: “All clear” at Reagan National Airport following unfounded bomb threat
Source: Fox News
“Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says an ‘all clear’ has been given at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. on Tuesday following an unfounded bomb threat against a United Airlines plane.’ Earlier today, a United flight from Houston to Washington D.C. received a bomb threat. The flight landed safely at DCA, passengers were evacuated, and law enforcement conducted a full search of the aircraft,’ Duffy wrote on X. … A ground stop was temporarily issued at the airport as passengers from the United Airlines flight were bussed to a terminal.” (11/04/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/flights-reagan-national-airport-near-washington-dc-grounded-due-reported-security-issue-faa
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13) The light of 10 trillion suns: Scientists report the biggest black hole flare ever recorded
Source: NBC News
“A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a cosmic outburst with the light of 10 trillion suns, according to a new study. The black hole flare, as the phenomenon is known, is thought to be the biggest and most distant ever recorded — it was detected from 10 billion light-years away. ‘This is really a one-in-a-million object,’ said Matthew Graham, a research professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and the lead author of the study, which was published Tuesday in the journal Nature Astronomy. Graham said a black hole flare is the most likely explanation based on the outburst’s intensity and duration, but follow-up studies will help the researchers confirm their findings.” (11/04/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/biggest-black-hole-flare-light-10-trillion-suns-rcna241610
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14) Bondi: DOJ seized Trump’s official phone, subpoenaed private phone logs
Source: New York Post
“The Biden Justice Department seized President Trump’s official cellphone from his first term and issued a subpoena for his personal call logs, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Tuesday. Bondi said the apparently unprecedented action was part of the Arctic Frost investigation of the steps by Trump and his allies to challenge his loss in the 2020 election. … Bondi did not say which phone company was subpoenaed for Trump’s personal call logs or whether the company complied or challenged the subpoena. Smith was prosecuting Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election results before the Republican won a second term last November.” (11/04/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/04/us-news/biden-doj-seized-trumps-official-phone-subpoenaed-private-phone-logs-ag-bondi/
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15) UK: BBC has questions to answer over edited Trump speech, MPs say
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The BBC has ‘serious questions to answer,’ a cross-party group of MPs has said, following reports that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump. The Telegraph said it had seen an internal memo suggesting the programme edited two parts of Trump’s speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021. The House of Commons culture, media and sport committee said it had written to BBC chairman Samir Shah to ask what action is being taken over the concerns raised in the memo. A BBC spokesperson said: ‘While we don’t comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback it takes it seriously and considers it carefully.'” (11/04/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgzkyk7knzo
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16) FBI: Two arrested in connection with explosion at Harvard Medical School
Source: CNN
“Two men were arrested following an explosion this weekend at Harvard Medical School, according to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Harvard University Police Department. … Tuesday’s announcement about the arrests followed an apparently ‘intentional’ explosion at a Harvard University medical building early Saturday. … Surveillance footage circulated by police showed two masked people, one of them wearing what appeared to be a gray ski mask and the other a long face mask and black hoodie. A message sent to the Harvard Medical School community Sunday afternoon said there was no structural damage to the building.” (11/04/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/us/harvard-university-explosion-arrests
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17) CA: Altman apparently subpoenaed moments into San Francisco talk
Source: SFGate
“A group fighting against the development of artificial intelligence said it was their public defender who tried to hand OpenAI CEO Sam Altman a subpoena on stage at a San Francisco theater on Monday night. Altman had just sat down for a conversation with Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and host Manny Yekutiel on Monday night when a man walked onto the stage and said he had a subpoena for Altman. Yekutiel quickly moved out of his chair to intercept the man from getting to Altman and security officials escorted him out of the building. Overnight on social media, Stop AI — a civil disobedience group that has regularly protested at OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters and other AI companies around the city — took credit for the incident, saying the man was legitimately serving Altman with a subpoena.” (11/04/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/openai-sam-altman-subpeona-steve-kerr-sf-talk-21137132.php
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18) Binance CEO dismisses claims the firm boosted a Trump crypto venture ahead of CZ pardon
Source: CNBC
“Binance CEO Richard Teng has dismissed claims that the cryptocurrency exchange helped boost a Trump-backed stablecoin before former CEO Changpeng Zhao received a presidential pardon. The claims in question relate to a $2 billion investment Binance received from Abu Dhabi’s state-owned investment firm MGX. The deal was settled using USD1, a stablecoin created by the Trump family’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial. … in a CNBC interview on Monday, Teng rejected the notion that Binance — the world’s largest cryptocurrency firm — had given USD1 any preferential treatment.” (11/04/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/binance-ceo-richard-teng-denies-changpeng-zhao-trump-crypto-project-cz-pardon-world-liberty-financial-mgx-.html
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19) Officials: Former politician may have fled country with son after allegedly stealing $30k
Source: Fox News
“A former Democratic Oregon county commissioner facing several felony charges may have fled the United States, according to authorities. Former Clackamas County Commissioner Melissa Fireside in March 2025 allegedly stole $30,000 from her mother’s boyfriend, who is currently living in an assisted living facility, according to KPTV. Prosecutors said that during one visit to the assisted living facility, Fireside got access to the bank account belonging to her mother’s boyfriend, then called the bank and guided him on resetting his online information. Fireside then allegedly used the account to take out $29,000, which went to repay a loan given to her by a state representative. Prosecutors also said Fireside withdrew $1,000 which was put into her account. Authorities began investigating after the man’s daughter reported suspicious activity to his credit union.” (11/04/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-democrat-politician-may-have-fled-country-son-after-allegedly-stealing-30k-officials
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20) France: Regime threatens to ban Shein for sale of “childlike” sex doll
Source: United Press International
“The French government threatened to ban Chinese retailer Shein for selling a ‘childlike’ sex doll online. France’s consumer fraud agency got an anonymous tip about the dolls on the site. It said their ‘description and categorization on the site leave little doubt as to the child pornography nature of the content,’ said a press release issued Saturday by the French Directorate General for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control.” (11/03/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/11/03/paris-france-shein-childlike-sex-doll/9691762198642/
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21) Against Moral Panic: Or, Dolls Aren’t Real Kids
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“I consider it lazy to assert, as many opinionators do, that ‘no one’ supports, or ‘everyone’ wants, this or that particular thing, but if there’s a subject that commands anything close to societal unanimity, it’s opposition to the sexual molestation of children. Pretty much all of us who aren’t sexual abusers of children want sexual abusers of children stopped and punished. Many even advocate capital punishment as a permanent individual solution and future collective deterrent, and while I’m opposed to the death penalty myself, I do find the opinion understandable. It’s odd, then, that so many opponents of child molestation also advocate for laws which increase, rather than decrease, the likelihood that someone with such tendencies will act, in that way, on those tendencies.” (11/04/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20140
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22) Should Libertarians Abandon Principle on Immigration?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Last week, Jeffrey Tucker, a columnist for the Epoch Times and the president of the Brownstone Institute, authored a piece entitled ‘Why We Need Border Control’ (paywall), in which he explained his reasons for abandoning the libertarian position favoring open borders and adopting the Republican-Democratic position favoring government-controlled borders. In my new book The Case for Open Borders: A Primer (available for one dollar at Amazon in both Kindle and Audible formats), I addressed most of the arguments that Tucker raised to justify his abandonment of libertarian principle with respect to immigration, but what I stated in my book deserves repeating.” (11/04/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/11/04/should-libertarians-abandon-principle-on-immigration/
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23) Trump’s War on Truth Tellers
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard
“Some folks who know my work presume that I am implacably opposed to all federal agencies. Not true. I have always appreciated federal agencies who exposed the waste, fraud, abuse, and brazen lies committed by politicians and bureaucrats. The second Trump administration has warred against such truth tellers since its first week in office. On January 24, President Donald Trump fired seventeen inspector generals working for a wide array of federal agencies. … Trump is repeating the same anti-oversight jihad that the George W. Bush administration launched earlier this century.” (11/04/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/trumps-war-on-truth-tellers
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24) Certificate of need laws cutting access to KY health care are overdue for reform
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Jaimie Cavanaugh & Caleb O Brown
“In May, a Powell County paramedic saved snake expert Jim Harrison’s life after a bite from a Jameson’s mamba. Harrison called for emergency transport, but before the helicopter arrived, local paramedic Eddie Barnes acted swiftly to assist. Harrison, who keeps his own antivenom on hand because time is critical following a snake bite, begged Barnes to administer the antidote, saying he would die without it. Out of caution, Barnes called Clark Regional Medical Center, where an emergency room doctor granted him permission to administer the antivenom. Instead of celebrating Barnes, the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services notified him that his emergency medical services (EMS) license was at risk of revocation. Following a rule change two years ago, only wilderness paramedics are permitted to administer antivenom in Kentucky.” (11/04/25)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/certificate-of-need-laws-cutting-access-to-ky-health-care-are-overdue-for-reform/
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25) A European Threat to the First Amendment
Source: Law & Liberty
by John David Rosenthal
“The effects of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) on freedom of speech have been a topic of heated debate in Washington and beyond. The DSA, which was passed in 2022 and came largely into force by mid-2023, is the EU’s flagship online regulatory legislation. It is supposed to ensure a ‘safe online environment,’ but to this end requires online platforms — in particular, social media platforms — to implement robust ‘content moderation’ measures. … Given that the Internet is global, the issue, as raised, for instance, by the House Judiciary Committee in a recent interim staff report on the DSA, is whether the required ‘content moderation’ implies censorship not just of Europeans, but indeed of the entire world, including Americans.” (11/04/25)
https://lawliberty.org/a-european-threat-to-the-first-amendment/
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26) Dems’ big shutdown “win” only going to be setting new record for “longest” and most futile
Source: New York Post
by staff
“President Donald Trump moved Monday to blunt the pain Democrats are inflicting on food-stamp families with their government shutdown, which will be the longest ever if it continues through Wednesday. Rather than cut off payments after the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ran out of cash this weekend, Trump & Co. will cover at least partial benefits, using money from a contingency fund meant for food during natural disasters. The president doesn’t want to see the 42 million Americans who depend on food stamps have to struggle any more than necessary — plus, as ever, he’s complying with valid court orders directing the payments to continue (even if the judges in question are likely to be overruled by higher courts). ‘President Trump wants to make sure that people get their food benefit,’ noted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday.” (11/03/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/opinion/trump-offers-food-stamp-relief-to-dems-hostages-as-the-shutdown-nears-record-length/
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27) Dick Cheney, War Criminal, Dead at 84
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The former vice president, Dick Cheney, has died at the age of 84. Cheney was one of the U.S. officials most responsible for the illegal invasion of Iraq and the government’s torture of detainees. He was a leading advocate of both regime change and torture, and he used his substantial influence in the Bush administration to make both happen. Like other Bush administration officials responsible for the criminal aggression against Iraq, Cheney never faced justice for his crimes. … When awful politicians die, there is a tendency to whitewash their records and to withhold criticism. That is frequently a mistake. Cheney escaped accountability in life. He never paid any price for the destruction he caused and the lives that his policies ruined and ended. The very least we can do now is to remember what he did and to tell the truth about it.” (11/04/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/dick-cheney-war-criminal-dead-at
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28) What Does Fentanyl Have to Do With Alleged Drug Boats 2,600 miles away? Absolutely Nothing.
Source: Reason
by Tosin Akintola
“President Trump’s pretextual claim that fentanyl carrying drug boats in the Caribbean are an existential threat to Americans doesn’t pass muster.” (11/04/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/04/what-does-fentanyl-have-to-do-with-alleged-drug-boats-2600-miles-away-absolutely-nothing/
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29) The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Vendettas
Source: TomDispatch
by John Feffer
“Donald Trump hates Antifa. He hates late-night TV hosts, Democratic-controlled cities, and anyone who has ever challenged him in court. As of October, he officially hates the Nobel committee for not giving him a peace prize, despite his efforts to strong-arm its members into voting for him. The president has gone after everyone he thinks has ever done him wrong. But there is a Venn diagram to his vendettas, an overlap in his circle of obsessions. Map out his attacks, subtracting the purely personal and the primarily partisan, and you’ll see that they converge on a profound disgust for the liberal international order. That Trump has personally profited from that very global order — his portfolio of international real estate, his business’s reliance on global supply chains, the unacknowledged benefits he’s accrued from the international rule of law — makes no difference.” (11/04/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-multipolarism-of-fools/
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30) Virtuous Cycles of Development: Why Institutions Matter More Than Aid
Source: The Daily Economy
by Kimberlee Josephson
“With ‘abundance’ back in the policy lexicon, the real challenge is understanding what sustains growth: private enterprise, rule of law, and secure ownership.” (11/04/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/virtuous-cycles-of-development-why-institutions-matter-more-than-aid/
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31) AI layoffs could spark a socialist surge if America ignores the warning signs
Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek
“What if Sen. Bernie Sanders is right and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is wrong? What if the AI revolution causes mass layoffs of American workers, as the Vermont senator warned in a recent Fox News op-ed? And what if Powell is wrong that the softening labor market is due primarily to supply issues — lower immigration and a lower labor participation rate — rather than AI-produced ‘efficiencies?’ What will be the response of policymakers? What should it be? AI will soon become a political battleground. Democratic socialist Sanders, ever the class warrior, has already questioned whether AI will help all Americans or ‘only a handful of billionaires.’ Like the trade deals that sent millions of jobs overseas, Sanders worries that the massive investment flowing into AI could result in up to 100 million Americans losing their jobs over the next decade. He could be right; imagine the repercussions.” (11/04/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-ai-layoffs-could-spark-socialist-surge-america-ignores-warning-signs
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32) Britain’s War on Landlords
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Reem Ibrahim
“This week, the UK Parliament passed the Renters’ Rights Act. It is the biggest shakeup to the British rental market this century, and is being sold as a big win for tenants. This could not be further from the truth. This legislation will wreak havoc on the already fundamentally broken rental market. It introduces de facto rent controls, crushes the supply of housing, and makes life harder for everyone trying to find somewhere to live.” (11/04/25)
https://fee.org/articles/britains-war-on-landlords/
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33) They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank. Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers. Lambs. It’s not the most evil thing the Israelis have done. Not by a long shot. Hell, all of human civilization subjects animals to cruel abuses every minute of every day through the horrors of factory farming. But this particular incident shines a special sort of light into exactly what’s going on behind Israeli eyes over there in that sadistic society. Think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of a living baby sheep. Think about the kind of person you’d have to become to do something like that to an innocent creature. Those lambs didn’t know they were Palestinian.” (11/04/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/04/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/
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34) When They Go Low, We Go Low
Source: The Dispatch
by Yascha Mounk
“Writing about the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew, Louis, as the emperor of the French, Karl Marx coined one of his most famous phrases: ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.’ I have been thinking about this phrase a lot in recent weeks, as it has become increasingly clear what shape the Democrats’ response to Trump 47 is going to take.” (11/04/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-democrats-gavin-newsom-extremism/
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35) Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP’s reckoning on Israel
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols
“A ballooning dispute over a recent interview has thrust a quiet right-wing debate about foreign policy into the open.” (11/04/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tucker-carlson-israel/
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36) This Supreme Court case could redefine the presidency
Source: The Hill
by Aron Solomon
“The Supreme Court is about to hear oral arguments in a case that sounds like a fight over toy imports but is really about the future of presidential power. On Nov. 5, in the only case being heard on that day, the justices will take up Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, and the question behind it is huge: Can a president declare a ‘national emergency’ whenever he wants to set his own economic policy? … the core issue is deceptively simple: can the word ’emergency’ be stretched so far that it covers anything a president feels like tackling without Congress? Because if the answer is yes, that’s not just a trade story — that’s a blueprint for a permanent emergency presidency.” (11/04/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5587034-supreme-court-presidential-power-case/
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37) Faith, not Trump’s guns, can fix Nigerian violence
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Asserting that Christians in Nigeria face ‘an existential threat,’ President Donald Trump signaled over the weekend that the United States military might go into Africa’s most populous country ‘with guns-a-blazing.’ While his depiction of the situation is highly simplified, it could at least draw attention to the political and economic issues that have driven extremist insurgencies in Nigeria as well as in nearby nations. One issue is that the violence committed by militant groups, many of which operate in the name of Islam, has hit people of different faiths. ‘Terror groups … have attacked mosques and churches alike, killing both imams and pastors, Muslims and Christians, without distinction,’ noted The Punch, a Nigerian news daily. ‘Portraying these conflicts as a one-sided religious debate and advocacy ignores the broader socio-economic and environmental pressures … that drive violence.'” (11/03/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1103/Faith-not-Trump-s-guns-can-fix-Nigerian-violence
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38) NYC’s Mayoral Race: Three Paths to Bigger Government — And Why Florida’s Beaches Beckon Louder
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“Mamdani, seems to be the worst of the three choices as he is seeking greater government involvement in New Yorkers’ lives with city-owned grocery stores, free buses, rent control, etc. All of his ideas have been tried with dismal results, often if not always leading to worse lives for the poorest among us, even though he is promising what surface-level thinking looks like a utopia. A vote for Mamdani, is to bring NYC back to how life was there in the 1970s. And then Cuomo seems to be the second-worst choice, since we already know what he’s capable of. Many feel the guy should be in jail for any number of offenses. … Sliwa is the only ‘conservative’ in the race, and he has polled the lowest of the three, and from an individual freedom perspective, he’d be a no-go, but he may be the best of the worst.” (11/04/25)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/nycs-mayoral-race-three-paths-to
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39) Defending Groupthink?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The Atlantic is a beautiful magazine, expertly designed and printed, lovely to behold: an excellent showpiece for your coffee table … but marred by absurdities. Currently, consider David Merritt Johns’s article ‘MAHA’s Blinkered War on ‘Groupthink’’ — and when I shift to reader mode, a second title appears: ‘In Defense of ‘Groupthink.’’ Of course The Atlantic defends groupthink! It’s been working mightily to shore up totalitarian mob-think, woke half-think, for years!” (11/04/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/11/04/defending-groupthink/
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40) Why isn’t the Heritage Foundation condemning Tucker Carlson?
Source: Washington Post
by Jim Geraghty
“Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, felt the need to emphasize that the conservative think tank had absolutely no problem with [Tucker] Carlson or his decision to give [Nick] Fuentes a friendly interview. … ‘the American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right.’ Got that? Fuentes is arguing that conservatives need to be explicitly pro-White, and Carlson says he hates Christian Zionists more than anybody else, and it’s Carlson’s critics who are ‘sowing division.’ And I suppose we’re supposed to count these two among the Heritage Foundation’s ‘friends on the right.’ Unsurprisingly, a whole bunch of conservatives with functioning consciences publicly registered their displeasure.” (11/04/25)
https://archive.is/MPUP0
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41) Please Note: Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
Source: Common Dreams
by Richard Eskow
“Here’s something for New York City residents to consider as they vote for Mayor, and for observers outside New York to consider as they watch the vote count: for the most part, Zohran Mamdani’s plans for the city are surprisingly affordable. Despite the frantic tone of mainstream media coverage (and the revolutionary overtones of the phrase ‘democratic socialist’) most of Mamdani’s agenda could be accomplished at minimal cost to the city. The only exception is his plan for free universal childcare, whose costs may have been overstated by his own campaign. Mamdani has proposed opening five city-owned grocery stores in the city, at a cost of $60 million. These stores would use city-owned property, which means they wouldn’t have to pay rent, and would sell the food at operating cost without making a profit. Would it work? Military commissaries are successful. So is Costco, which operates a trimmed-down, ‘bare bones’ store model.” (11/04/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/are-mamdani-proposals-affordable
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42) How Common Has Private Currency Been?
Source: Cobden Centre
by Lawrence H White
“Recently, an investment advisor and Bitcoin proponent tweeted the claim that ‘[f]or most of human history’ the ‘[s]eparation of money and state was the norm, even if the state stamped their ruler’s face on the coin.’ Some strong disagreement (and some strong support) followed the tweet. The most categorical criticism asserted: ‘Money is and always has been a creation of government.’ A somewhat milder challenge asserted that ‘Private moneys have seldom been main media of exchange.’ First, let’s clarify the object of the discussion. If we define ‘money’ the way that economists usually do, to mean any ‘commonly accepted media of exchange,’ including bank deposits and other media of payment by account transfer, the claim that private money has been rare is obviously false.” (11/04/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/11/how-common-has-private-currency-been/
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43) Why Israel Isn’t Really a “Protectorate”
Source: The American Conservative
by Leon Hadar
“Conservative influencers like Steve Bannon have labeled Israel a U.S. ‘protectorate,’ depicting it as a vassal state rather than an autonomous power in its own right, a charge that recently got under the skin of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Washington’s foreign policy establishment avoids that characterization, preferring instead the comfortable rhetoric of ‘strategic partnership’ and ‘shared values.’ But a clear-eyed examination of the relationship suggests something more complicated — and more problematic — than either framework suggests.” (11/04/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-israel-isnt-really-a-protectorate/
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44) Thoughts on oligarchy 3
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“The reason I was attracted to libertarianism in the first place is I do not believe that we should be trying to use the coercive weapon of the state to decide how people worship, or who they screw or how they do it, or what they do to their own body, or what languages they speak or what they say, and I don’t think we should be trying to have places of books and learning be places of bullshit team-rooting. But I also believe that a false and misleading statement of our cultural differences as Americans (including our non-citizen friends and neighbors whom I regard as Americans) has been foisted onto us by an oligarchical elite that profits from and enjoys the division.” (11/03/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-oligarchy-3
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45) Bill Gates Gets Mugged by Reality
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“You’ve probably heard by now the blockbuster news that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest people to ever walk the planet, has had a change of heart on climate change. For several decades, Gates poured billions of dollars into the climate-industrial complex and was howling that the end is nigh unless we stop using fossil fuels, cars, air conditioning and general anesthesia. Now, he says he rejects the ‘doomsday’ predictions of the more extreme global warming prophets. Some conservatives have snuffed that Gates has shifted his position on climate change because he and Microsoft have invested heavily in energy-intensive data centers. What Gates has done is courageous and praiseworthy. There are not many people of his stature who will admit that they were wrong. Al Gore certainly hasn’t. My wife says I never do.” (11/04/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2025/11/04/bill-gates-gets-mugged-by-reality-n2665941
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46) Don’t Want ICE To Scan Your Face? Too Bad, You Might Not Have A Choice
Source: Reason
by Jacob R Swartz
“The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has put more federal immigration officers in public view and equipped them with new facial recognition technology. One of these tools is Mobile Fortify, an app that lets agents collect photos and biometric data like fingerprints on the spot — and people have no chance to refuse. With Mobile Fortify, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers can photograph anyone they encounter and run the image through Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases, including Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Traveler Verification Service, which stores photos of people entering the United States. … The stated purpose of Mobile Fortify is to identify noncitizens who are removable from the United States. But the PTA notes that agents may collect information on any individual they encounter, regardless of citizenship, because an officer cannot determine someone’s status before performing the check.” (11/03/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/03/dont-want-ice-to-scan-your-face-too-bad-you-might-not-have-a-choice/
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47) Jacinda Ardern leading the UN? God help us
Source: spiked
by Hugo Timms
“Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, is reportedly in the running to be the next UN secretary-general. Rarely has a person seemed so suited for a job: an overpraised politician with no ability leading an ineffective organisation with no accountability. … Ardern does have a political legacy, it is just entirely negative. Indeed, her six-year prime ministership amounts to one long assault on democracy and humanity.” (11/03/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/03/jacinda-ardern-leading-the-un-god-help-us/
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48) What the US Supreme Court Tariffs Case Is Really About
Source: Foreign Policy
by Keith Johnson
“On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether some, though not all, of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are legal, including some of the ones on Canada; China; Mexico; and, actually, the entire rest of the world. At issue is the president’s ability to set rates for import duties (taxes, for the layman) under an entirely novel reading of Carter administration-era legislation meant to address sudden national emergencies: the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). But at heart is something bigger, which is the question of whether the U.S. Constitution, which grants exclusive power over both taxation and foreign commerce to Congress, still matters, or whether the executive branch can set tax rates without recourse to the will of the people or oversight whatsoever.” (11/03/25)
https://archive.is/MMvw5
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49) Trump Lost the Politics of the Shutdown
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Donald Trump wants the government shutdown, which today ties the record for the longest in American history, to end. You might say he’s desperate for it to end, because he’s gone back to the well of demanding the elimination of the Senate filibuster, so Republicans can pass government funding themselves. Killing the filibuster would be a great thing for the country and the world, but it also appears to be the one area where Republicans routinely defy their president, so I’m not holding my breath. But the context of Trump seeking an escape hatch is worth exploring. If the president were confident that his strategy to make the shutdown painful for Democrats and force them into submission was working for him, his attitude would be far different. Yet his tactics have backfired.” (11/04/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/11/04/trump-lost-politics-of-shutdown/
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50) Tucker Carlson Is Resurrecting Christianity’s Ugly Tradition of Antisemitism
Source: The UnPopulist
by Mark Tooley
“American Christianity, and America, have been blessed that antisemitism across 85 years has mostly been taboo. But the memories of World War II and the Holocaust are fast fading. And revisionism about both, promoted by Carlson and Fuentes, among many others, is increasingly common. Human nature being what it is, demons once expelled often return and must again be exorcised. Compounding the fading of historical memory, but not unrelated, is the emergence of postliberalism in American Christianity, and in wider intellectual life.” (11/03/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/tucker-carlson-is-resurrecting-christianitys
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51) Advisory Opinions, 11/04/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Trump’s Tariff Showdown.” (11/04/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/trumps-tariff-showdown/
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52) The Good Fight, 11/04/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Joseph Heath on the Death of Marxism.” (11/04/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/joseph-heath
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53) The Climate Realism Show, episode 180
Source: Heartland Institute
“Bill Gates Recants Climate Doomerism.” (11/04/25)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/nevermind-bill-gates-recants-climate-doomerism-the-climate-realism-show-180/
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54) Fountainhead Forum, episode 385
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Lady Astor on Argentina’s elections and changes in Javier Milei’s Cabinet.” (11/04/25)
https://rumble.com/v717n16-ff-385-lady-astor-on-argentinas-elections-and-changes-in-javier-mileis-cabi.html
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55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 11/04/25
Source: The New Republic
“MAGA Rages at Tucker Carlson after ‘Nazi’ Shocker Reveals Too Much.” (11/04/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202637/maga-rages-tucker-carlson-nazi-shocker-reveals-much
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/04/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Wants International ‘Enforcement Force’ for Gaza, US Prepping for Cartel War in Mexico, and More.” (11/04/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa-DYNaouGI
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57) System Update, episode 542
Source: System Update
“The Right’s Crusade to Cancel Tucker.” (11/03/25)
https://rumble.com/v716nzc-the-rights-crusade-to-cancel-tucker-system-update-542.html
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58) Reimagining Liberty, episode 93
Source: Aaron Ross Powell
“The State of the Constitution (w/ Evan Bernick).” (11/03/25)
https://audio2.redcircle.com/episodes/8f4e421c-9323-4fbb-9e67-df2126007088/stream.mp3
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59) LPA Spotlight, episode 2
Source: LP Alliance
“Dustin Coffell.” (11/03/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucy4qOCc9cU
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60) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 11/03/25
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“John Whitehead (Rutherford Institute) on America’s current police state, ICE raids.” (11/03/25)
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/386598-2025-11-02-2025-11-03-ernest-hancock-interviews-john-whitehead-rutherford-institute.htm
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1) NYC: Mamdani wins mayoral race
2) Chinese astronauts’ return to Earth delayed over fears spaceship damaged by debris
3) Report: US presents UN Security Council with its plan for international force to govern, secure Gaza
4) Dick Cheney, 1941-2025
5) Peru: Regime cuts ties with Mexican regime over asylum for ex-prime minister
6) UK: Robinson cleared of terror-related offence over phone code refusal
7) Cuban regime stealing wages from its citizens in Canada, say ex-workers
8) Sudan: Drone strike hits funeral, killing many mourners
9) Donetsk: Zelenskyy visits Ukrainian troops near embattled city of Pokrovsk
10) Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 26 dead, people trapped on roofs and cars submerged
11) Six dead in listeria outbreak linked to pasta
12) Duffy: “All clear” at Reagan National Airport following unfounded bomb threat
13) The light of 10 trillion suns: Scientists report the biggest black hole flare ever recorded
14) Bondi: DOJ seized Trump’s official phone, subpoenaed private phone logs
15) UK: BBC has questions to answer over edited Trump speech, MPs say
16) FBI: Two arrested in connection with explosion at Harvard Medical School
17) CA: Altman apparently subpoenaed moments into San Francisco talk
18) Binance CEO dismisses claims the firm boosted a Trump crypto venture ahead of CZ pardon
19) Officials: Former politician may have fled country with son after allegedly stealing $30k
20) France: Regime threatens to ban Shein for sale of “childlike” sex doll
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Against Moral Panic: Or, Dolls Aren’t Real Kids
22) Should Libertarians Abandon Principle on Immigration?
23) Trump’s War on Truth Tellers
24) Certificate of need laws cutting access to KY health care are overdue for reform
25) A European Threat to the First Amendment
26) Dems’ big shutdown “win” only going to be setting new record for “longest” and most futile
27) Dick Cheney, War Criminal, Dead at 84
28) What Does Fentanyl Have to Do With Alleged Drug Boats 2,600 miles away? Absolutely Nothing.
29) The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Vendettas
30) Virtuous Cycles of Development: Why Institutions Matter More Than Aid
31) AI layoffs could spark a socialist surge if America ignores the warning signs
32) Britain’s War on Landlords
33) They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
34) When They Go Low, We Go Low
35) Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP’s reckoning on Israel
36) This Supreme Court case could redefine the presidency
37) Faith, not Trump’s guns, can fix Nigerian violence
38) NYC’s Mayoral Race: Three Paths to Bigger Government — And Why Florida’s Beaches Beckon Louder
39) Defending Groupthink?
40) Why isn’t the Heritage Foundation condemning Tucker Carlson?
41) Please Note: Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
42) How Common Has Private Currency Been?
43) Why Israel Isn’t Really a “Protectorate”
44) Thoughts on oligarchy 3
45) Bill Gates Gets Mugged by Reality
46) Don’t Want ICE To Scan Your Face? Too Bad, You Might Not Have A Choice
47) Jacinda Ardern leading the UN? God help us
48) What the US Supreme Court Tariffs Case Is Really About
49) Trump Lost the Politics of the Shutdown
50) Tucker Carlson Is Resurrecting Christianity’s Ugly Tradition of Antisemitism
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52) The Good Fight, 11/04/25
53) The Climate Realism Show, episode 180
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/04/25
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1) NYC: Mamdani wins mayoral race
Source: New York Daily News
“Democrat Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, becoming the youngest man picked to lead the five boroughs in modern history …. Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist who will also be the city’s first-ever Muslim and South Asian mayor, was declared the winner of the 2025 race for City Hall by the Associated Press shortly after 9:30 p.m. The election was marked by massive turnout, with more than 2 million votes cast and Mamdani capturing more than a million of them himself, according to early Board of Elections tabulations. … with nearly 98% of votes tabulated, Mamdani led his closest opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, by more than 150,000 ballots — a 50.4% to 41.5% margin that the mayor-elect declared is ‘a mandate’ for enacting his affordability agenda.” (11/04/25)
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/04/zohran-mamdani-elected-nyc-mayor-in-historic-defeat-of-andrew-cuomo/
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2) Chinese astronauts’ return to Earth delayed over fears spaceship damaged by debris
Source: CNN
“Three Chinese astronauts have been forced to extend their six-month stay in space over concerns their return ship may have been hit by debris, China’s space agency said. Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie were due to return to Earth on Wednesday –– they had even handed over the keys to the Chinese space station to a new crew –– but their journey home was postponed due to a suspected impact on their Shenzhou-20 spaceship, China’s National Space Administration said Wednesday.” (11/05/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/china/china-shenzhou-20-astronauts-return-delayed-intl-hnk
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3) Report: US presents UN Security Council with its plan for international force to govern, secure Gaza
Source: New York Post
“The US has presented the United Nations Security Council with a draft resolution to establish an international force to govern and protect Gaza for the next two years, according to a report. The proposed resolution, sent to security-council members Monday, would give the US and its allied nations a broad mandate to oversee Gaza in place of Hamas and provide security through the end of 2027, Axios reported. The component of an International Security Force was a key part of President Trump’s cease-fire deal to maintain peace between Israel and Gaza.” (11/04/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/04/world-news/us-presents-plan-for-international-security-force-for-gaza-report/
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4) Dick Cheney, 1941-2025
Source: New York Times
“Dick Cheney, widely regarded as the most powerful vice president in American history … died Monday. He was 84. The cause was complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from his family. … A consummate Washington insider, Mr. Cheney was an architect and executor of President Bush’s major initiatives: deploying military power to advance the cause of democracy abroad, championing tax cuts and a robust economy at home, and strengthening the powers of a presidency that, as both men saw it, had been unjustifiably restrained by Congress and the courts in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.” (11/04/25)
https://archive.is/bt7aR
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5) Peru: Regime cuts ties with Mexican regime over asylum for ex-prime minister
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Peru has severed diplomatic relations with Mexico after accusing it of granting asylum to a former Peruvian prime minister who is on trial over an alleged coup attempt in 2022. The announcement on Monday came hours after former Prime Minister Betssy Chavez – who served under former President Pedro Castillo – fled to the Mexican Embassy in Peru. … While Castillo has been in preventive custody since his impeachment, Chavez was released on bail in September. Prosecutors had sought a 25-year term for Chavez for allegedly participating in Castillo’s plan to dissolve Congress.” (11/04/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/4/peru-cuts-ties-with-mexico-over-asylum-for-ex-prime-minister
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6) UK: Robinson cleared of terror-related offence over phone code refusal
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Tommy Robinson has been cleared of a terror-related offence after being accused over a refusal to give police access to his phone during a border stop. A judge ruled that the stop was unlawful because it was based on what the far-right activist ‘stood for’ and his beliefs, rather than suspicions of a connection to terrorism. Following his acquittal, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, thanked the US tech billionaire Elon Musk, who he said had funded his legal costs in the case.” (11/04/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/04/tommy-robinson-cleared-terror-related-offence-phone-code-refusal
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7) Cuban regime stealing wages from its citizens in Canada, say ex-workers
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“The government of Cuba is forcing Cuban workers in Canada to send it the greater part of the salaries they are paid by their Canadian employer, according to two former workers who spoke to CBC News. The Cuban Communist Party also obliges its citizens to attend ‘political-ideological workshops’ and report on dealings with Canadian colleagues, as well as limiting their movements and controlling their relationships outside work, the two said. Cases of Cuban government wage confiscation have previously been reported in other countries, including in Brazil where Cuban doctors filed a lawsuit that led a Brazilian judge to say the practice amounted to ‘slave labour.’ … Canadian government officials told CBC News that all workers in the country are protected by its labour laws. But the system of accountability relies on complaints — which the former workers say would come at great risk to Cuban employees.” (11/04/25)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cuban-government-wages-9.6946992
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8) Sudan: Drone strike hits funeral, killing many mourners
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“At least 40 people in Sudan have been killed in a drone strike that targeted a funeral that was taking place outside the army-held city of el-Obeid in North Kordofan state, officials and activists say. They blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for Monday’s attack on al-Luweib village as mourners had gathered in a tent. The RSF has not yet commented. Many reportedly died before getting to hospital in el-Obeid, a strategic city that connects the capital, Khartoum, to the western region of Darfur. Fighting has intensified in this oil-rich Kordofan area and around 20,000 people fled to el-Obeid last week after the RSF captured Bara town, 30km (18 miles) north of the city.” (11/04/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rp4z0rgleo
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9) Donetsk: Zelenskyy visits Ukrainian troops near embattled city of Pokrovsk
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he visited troops near the embattled city of Pokrovsk, as Kyiv scrambles to defend the logistics hub that Russia has tried to capture for months. … Hundreds of Russian soldiers have infiltrated the logistics hub, Kyiv said earlier this week. Others are closing in on its outskirts in a pincer-shaped movement, according to battlefield maps published by the Institute for the Study of War. The Russian army on Tuesday said it was ‘tightening the encirclement around the enemy’ in Pokrovsk and claimed to have captured a few dozen buildings in the town” (11/04/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251104-zelensky-visits-troops-near-embattled-ukrainian-city-of-pokrovsk
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10) Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 26 dead, people trapped on roofs and cars submerged
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in flooding set off by the storm, which barreled across the central part of the country on Tuesday, disaster response officials said. Floodwaters trapped scores of people on their roofs and submerged cars. A Philippine air force helicopter with five personnel on board crashed in a separate incident in southern Agusan del Sur province while flying to help provide humanitarian assistance to provinces battered by Kalmaegi. … Before the typhoon’s landfall, officials said that more than 387,000 people had evacuated to safer ground in eastern and central Philippine provinces. Authorities warned of torrential rains, potentially destructive winds and storm surges of nearly 10 feet.” (11/04/25)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/04/typhoon-kalmaegi-philippines-aftermath/
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11) Six dead in listeria outbreak linked to pasta
Source: Seattle Times
“Six people became ill and died after eating prepared pasta meals that were contaminated with listeria and sold at major grocery chains across the country, federal health officials said. The meals, sold at Albertsons, Kroger, Sprouts Farmers Market, Trader Joe’s and other major stores, were recalled in recent months in connection with the outbreak, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said grew last week. Federal health officials said the supplier, Nate’s Fine Foods Inc., had found Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause illness and death, in a sample of its pasta. Health officials said that a total of 27 people in 18 states had been affected by the outbreak, and that they were working to investigate the source.” (11/04/25)
https://archive.is/m4vEw
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12) Duffy: “All clear” at Reagan National Airport following unfounded bomb threat
Source: Fox News
“Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says an ‘all clear’ has been given at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. on Tuesday following an unfounded bomb threat against a United Airlines plane.’ Earlier today, a United flight from Houston to Washington D.C. received a bomb threat. The flight landed safely at DCA, passengers were evacuated, and law enforcement conducted a full search of the aircraft,’ Duffy wrote on X. … A ground stop was temporarily issued at the airport as passengers from the United Airlines flight were bussed to a terminal.” (11/04/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/flights-reagan-national-airport-near-washington-dc-grounded-due-reported-security-issue-faa
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13) The light of 10 trillion suns: Scientists report the biggest black hole flare ever recorded
Source: NBC News
“A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a cosmic outburst with the light of 10 trillion suns, according to a new study. The black hole flare, as the phenomenon is known, is thought to be the biggest and most distant ever recorded — it was detected from 10 billion light-years away. ‘This is really a one-in-a-million object,’ said Matthew Graham, a research professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and the lead author of the study, which was published Tuesday in the journal Nature Astronomy. Graham said a black hole flare is the most likely explanation based on the outburst’s intensity and duration, but follow-up studies will help the researchers confirm their findings.” (11/04/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/biggest-black-hole-flare-light-10-trillion-suns-rcna241610
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14) Bondi: DOJ seized Trump’s official phone, subpoenaed private phone logs
Source: New York Post
“The Biden Justice Department seized President Trump’s official cellphone from his first term and issued a subpoena for his personal call logs, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Tuesday. Bondi said the apparently unprecedented action was part of the Arctic Frost investigation of the steps by Trump and his allies to challenge his loss in the 2020 election. … Bondi did not say which phone company was subpoenaed for Trump’s personal call logs or whether the company complied or challenged the subpoena. Smith was prosecuting Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election results before the Republican won a second term last November.” (11/04/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/04/us-news/biden-doj-seized-trumps-official-phone-subpoenaed-private-phone-logs-ag-bondi/
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15) UK: BBC has questions to answer over edited Trump speech, MPs say
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The BBC has ‘serious questions to answer,’ a cross-party group of MPs has said, following reports that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump. The Telegraph said it had seen an internal memo suggesting the programme edited two parts of Trump’s speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021. The House of Commons culture, media and sport committee said it had written to BBC chairman Samir Shah to ask what action is being taken over the concerns raised in the memo. A BBC spokesperson said: ‘While we don’t comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback it takes it seriously and considers it carefully.'” (11/04/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgzkyk7knzo
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16) FBI: Two arrested in connection with explosion at Harvard Medical School
Source: CNN
“Two men were arrested following an explosion this weekend at Harvard Medical School, according to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Harvard University Police Department. … Tuesday’s announcement about the arrests followed an apparently ‘intentional’ explosion at a Harvard University medical building early Saturday. … Surveillance footage circulated by police showed two masked people, one of them wearing what appeared to be a gray ski mask and the other a long face mask and black hoodie. A message sent to the Harvard Medical School community Sunday afternoon said there was no structural damage to the building.” (11/04/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/us/harvard-university-explosion-arrests
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17) CA: Altman apparently subpoenaed moments into San Francisco talk
Source: SFGate
“A group fighting against the development of artificial intelligence said it was their public defender who tried to hand OpenAI CEO Sam Altman a subpoena on stage at a San Francisco theater on Monday night. Altman had just sat down for a conversation with Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and host Manny Yekutiel on Monday night when a man walked onto the stage and said he had a subpoena for Altman. Yekutiel quickly moved out of his chair to intercept the man from getting to Altman and security officials escorted him out of the building. Overnight on social media, Stop AI — a civil disobedience group that has regularly protested at OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters and other AI companies around the city — took credit for the incident, saying the man was legitimately serving Altman with a subpoena.” (11/04/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/openai-sam-altman-subpeona-steve-kerr-sf-talk-21137132.php
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18) Binance CEO dismisses claims the firm boosted a Trump crypto venture ahead of CZ pardon
Source: CNBC
“Binance CEO Richard Teng has dismissed claims that the cryptocurrency exchange helped boost a Trump-backed stablecoin before former CEO Changpeng Zhao received a presidential pardon. The claims in question relate to a $2 billion investment Binance received from Abu Dhabi’s state-owned investment firm MGX. The deal was settled using USD1, a stablecoin created by the Trump family’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial. … in a CNBC interview on Monday, Teng rejected the notion that Binance — the world’s largest cryptocurrency firm — had given USD1 any preferential treatment.” (11/04/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/binance-ceo-richard-teng-denies-changpeng-zhao-trump-crypto-project-cz-pardon-world-liberty-financial-mgx-.html
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19) Officials: Former politician may have fled country with son after allegedly stealing $30k
Source: Fox News
“A former Democratic Oregon county commissioner facing several felony charges may have fled the United States, according to authorities. Former Clackamas County Commissioner Melissa Fireside in March 2025 allegedly stole $30,000 from her mother’s boyfriend, who is currently living in an assisted living facility, according to KPTV. Prosecutors said that during one visit to the assisted living facility, Fireside got access to the bank account belonging to her mother’s boyfriend, then called the bank and guided him on resetting his online information. Fireside then allegedly used the account to take out $29,000, which went to repay a loan given to her by a state representative. Prosecutors also said Fireside withdrew $1,000 which was put into her account. Authorities began investigating after the man’s daughter reported suspicious activity to his credit union.” (11/04/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-democrat-politician-may-have-fled-country-son-after-allegedly-stealing-30k-officials
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20) France: Regime threatens to ban Shein for sale of “childlike” sex doll
Source: United Press International
“The French government threatened to ban Chinese retailer Shein for selling a ‘childlike’ sex doll online. France’s consumer fraud agency got an anonymous tip about the dolls on the site. It said their ‘description and categorization on the site leave little doubt as to the child pornography nature of the content,’ said a press release issued Saturday by the French Directorate General for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control.” (11/03/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/11/03/paris-france-shein-childlike-sex-doll/9691762198642/
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21) Against Moral Panic: Or, Dolls Aren’t Real Kids
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“I consider it lazy to assert, as many opinionators do, that ‘no one’ supports, or ‘everyone’ wants, this or that particular thing, but if there’s a subject that commands anything close to societal unanimity, it’s opposition to the sexual molestation of children. Pretty much all of us who aren’t sexual abusers of children want sexual abusers of children stopped and punished. Many even advocate capital punishment as a permanent individual solution and future collective deterrent, and while I’m opposed to the death penalty myself, I do find the opinion understandable. It’s odd, then, that so many opponents of child molestation also advocate for laws which increase, rather than decrease, the likelihood that someone with such tendencies will act, in that way, on those tendencies.” (11/04/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20140
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22) Should Libertarians Abandon Principle on Immigration?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Last week, Jeffrey Tucker, a columnist for the Epoch Times and the president of the Brownstone Institute, authored a piece entitled ‘Why We Need Border Control’ (paywall), in which he explained his reasons for abandoning the libertarian position favoring open borders and adopting the Republican-Democratic position favoring government-controlled borders. In my new book The Case for Open Borders: A Primer (available for one dollar at Amazon in both Kindle and Audible formats), I addressed most of the arguments that Tucker raised to justify his abandonment of libertarian principle with respect to immigration, but what I stated in my book deserves repeating.” (11/04/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/11/04/should-libertarians-abandon-principle-on-immigration/
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23) Trump’s War on Truth Tellers
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard
“Some folks who know my work presume that I am implacably opposed to all federal agencies. Not true. I have always appreciated federal agencies who exposed the waste, fraud, abuse, and brazen lies committed by politicians and bureaucrats. The second Trump administration has warred against such truth tellers since its first week in office. On January 24, President Donald Trump fired seventeen inspector generals working for a wide array of federal agencies. … Trump is repeating the same anti-oversight jihad that the George W. Bush administration launched earlier this century.” (11/04/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/trumps-war-on-truth-tellers
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24) Certificate of need laws cutting access to KY health care are overdue for reform
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Jaimie Cavanaugh & Caleb O Brown
“In May, a Powell County paramedic saved snake expert Jim Harrison’s life after a bite from a Jameson’s mamba. Harrison called for emergency transport, but before the helicopter arrived, local paramedic Eddie Barnes acted swiftly to assist. Harrison, who keeps his own antivenom on hand because time is critical following a snake bite, begged Barnes to administer the antidote, saying he would die without it. Out of caution, Barnes called Clark Regional Medical Center, where an emergency room doctor granted him permission to administer the antivenom. Instead of celebrating Barnes, the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services notified him that his emergency medical services (EMS) license was at risk of revocation. Following a rule change two years ago, only wilderness paramedics are permitted to administer antivenom in Kentucky.” (11/04/25)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/certificate-of-need-laws-cutting-access-to-ky-health-care-are-overdue-for-reform/
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25) A European Threat to the First Amendment
Source: Law & Liberty
by John David Rosenthal
“The effects of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) on freedom of speech have been a topic of heated debate in Washington and beyond. The DSA, which was passed in 2022 and came largely into force by mid-2023, is the EU’s flagship online regulatory legislation. It is supposed to ensure a ‘safe online environment,’ but to this end requires online platforms — in particular, social media platforms — to implement robust ‘content moderation’ measures. … Given that the Internet is global, the issue, as raised, for instance, by the House Judiciary Committee in a recent interim staff report on the DSA, is whether the required ‘content moderation’ implies censorship not just of Europeans, but indeed of the entire world, including Americans.” (11/04/25)
https://lawliberty.org/a-european-threat-to-the-first-amendment/
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26) Dems’ big shutdown “win” only going to be setting new record for “longest” and most futile
Source: New York Post
by staff
“President Donald Trump moved Monday to blunt the pain Democrats are inflicting on food-stamp families with their government shutdown, which will be the longest ever if it continues through Wednesday. Rather than cut off payments after the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ran out of cash this weekend, Trump & Co. will cover at least partial benefits, using money from a contingency fund meant for food during natural disasters. The president doesn’t want to see the 42 million Americans who depend on food stamps have to struggle any more than necessary — plus, as ever, he’s complying with valid court orders directing the payments to continue (even if the judges in question are likely to be overruled by higher courts). ‘President Trump wants to make sure that people get their food benefit,’ noted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday.” (11/03/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/opinion/trump-offers-food-stamp-relief-to-dems-hostages-as-the-shutdown-nears-record-length/
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27) Dick Cheney, War Criminal, Dead at 84
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The former vice president, Dick Cheney, has died at the age of 84. Cheney was one of the U.S. officials most responsible for the illegal invasion of Iraq and the government’s torture of detainees. He was a leading advocate of both regime change and torture, and he used his substantial influence in the Bush administration to make both happen. Like other Bush administration officials responsible for the criminal aggression against Iraq, Cheney never faced justice for his crimes. … When awful politicians die, there is a tendency to whitewash their records and to withhold criticism. That is frequently a mistake. Cheney escaped accountability in life. He never paid any price for the destruction he caused and the lives that his policies ruined and ended. The very least we can do now is to remember what he did and to tell the truth about it.” (11/04/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/dick-cheney-war-criminal-dead-at
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28) What Does Fentanyl Have to Do With Alleged Drug Boats 2,600 miles away? Absolutely Nothing.
Source: Reason
by Tosin Akintola
“President Trump’s pretextual claim that fentanyl carrying drug boats in the Caribbean are an existential threat to Americans doesn’t pass muster.” (11/04/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/04/what-does-fentanyl-have-to-do-with-alleged-drug-boats-2600-miles-away-absolutely-nothing/
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29) The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Vendettas
Source: TomDispatch
by John Feffer
“Donald Trump hates Antifa. He hates late-night TV hosts, Democratic-controlled cities, and anyone who has ever challenged him in court. As of October, he officially hates the Nobel committee for not giving him a peace prize, despite his efforts to strong-arm its members into voting for him. The president has gone after everyone he thinks has ever done him wrong. But there is a Venn diagram to his vendettas, an overlap in his circle of obsessions. Map out his attacks, subtracting the purely personal and the primarily partisan, and you’ll see that they converge on a profound disgust for the liberal international order. That Trump has personally profited from that very global order — his portfolio of international real estate, his business’s reliance on global supply chains, the unacknowledged benefits he’s accrued from the international rule of law — makes no difference.” (11/04/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-multipolarism-of-fools/
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30) Virtuous Cycles of Development: Why Institutions Matter More Than Aid
Source: The Daily Economy
by Kimberlee Josephson
“With ‘abundance’ back in the policy lexicon, the real challenge is understanding what sustains growth: private enterprise, rule of law, and secure ownership.” (11/04/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/virtuous-cycles-of-development-why-institutions-matter-more-than-aid/
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31) AI layoffs could spark a socialist surge if America ignores the warning signs
Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek
“What if Sen. Bernie Sanders is right and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is wrong? What if the AI revolution causes mass layoffs of American workers, as the Vermont senator warned in a recent Fox News op-ed? And what if Powell is wrong that the softening labor market is due primarily to supply issues — lower immigration and a lower labor participation rate — rather than AI-produced ‘efficiencies?’ What will be the response of policymakers? What should it be? AI will soon become a political battleground. Democratic socialist Sanders, ever the class warrior, has already questioned whether AI will help all Americans or ‘only a handful of billionaires.’ Like the trade deals that sent millions of jobs overseas, Sanders worries that the massive investment flowing into AI could result in up to 100 million Americans losing their jobs over the next decade. He could be right; imagine the repercussions.” (11/04/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-ai-layoffs-could-spark-socialist-surge-america-ignores-warning-signs
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32) Britain’s War on Landlords
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Reem Ibrahim
“This week, the UK Parliament passed the Renters’ Rights Act. It is the biggest shakeup to the British rental market this century, and is being sold as a big win for tenants. This could not be further from the truth. This legislation will wreak havoc on the already fundamentally broken rental market. It introduces de facto rent controls, crushes the supply of housing, and makes life harder for everyone trying to find somewhere to live.” (11/04/25)
https://fee.org/articles/britains-war-on-landlords/
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33) They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank. Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers. Lambs. It’s not the most evil thing the Israelis have done. Not by a long shot. Hell, all of human civilization subjects animals to cruel abuses every minute of every day through the horrors of factory farming. But this particular incident shines a special sort of light into exactly what’s going on behind Israeli eyes over there in that sadistic society. Think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of a living baby sheep. Think about the kind of person you’d have to become to do something like that to an innocent creature. Those lambs didn’t know they were Palestinian.” (11/04/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/04/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/
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34) When They Go Low, We Go Low
Source: The Dispatch
by Yascha Mounk
“Writing about the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew, Louis, as the emperor of the French, Karl Marx coined one of his most famous phrases: ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.’ I have been thinking about this phrase a lot in recent weeks, as it has become increasingly clear what shape the Democrats’ response to Trump 47 is going to take.” (11/04/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-democrats-gavin-newsom-extremism/
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35) Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP’s reckoning on Israel
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols
“A ballooning dispute over a recent interview has thrust a quiet right-wing debate about foreign policy into the open.” (11/04/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tucker-carlson-israel/
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36) This Supreme Court case could redefine the presidency
Source: The Hill
by Aron Solomon
“The Supreme Court is about to hear oral arguments in a case that sounds like a fight over toy imports but is really about the future of presidential power. On Nov. 5, in the only case being heard on that day, the justices will take up Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, and the question behind it is huge: Can a president declare a ‘national emergency’ whenever he wants to set his own economic policy? … the core issue is deceptively simple: can the word ’emergency’ be stretched so far that it covers anything a president feels like tackling without Congress? Because if the answer is yes, that’s not just a trade story — that’s a blueprint for a permanent emergency presidency.” (11/04/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5587034-supreme-court-presidential-power-case/
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37) Faith, not Trump’s guns, can fix Nigerian violence
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Asserting that Christians in Nigeria face ‘an existential threat,’ President Donald Trump signaled over the weekend that the United States military might go into Africa’s most populous country ‘with guns-a-blazing.’ While his depiction of the situation is highly simplified, it could at least draw attention to the political and economic issues that have driven extremist insurgencies in Nigeria as well as in nearby nations. One issue is that the violence committed by militant groups, many of which operate in the name of Islam, has hit people of different faiths. ‘Terror groups … have attacked mosques and churches alike, killing both imams and pastors, Muslims and Christians, without distinction,’ noted The Punch, a Nigerian news daily. ‘Portraying these conflicts as a one-sided religious debate and advocacy ignores the broader socio-economic and environmental pressures … that drive violence.'” (11/03/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1103/Faith-not-Trump-s-guns-can-fix-Nigerian-violence
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38) NYC’s Mayoral Race: Three Paths to Bigger Government — And Why Florida’s Beaches Beckon Louder
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“Mamdani, seems to be the worst of the three choices as he is seeking greater government involvement in New Yorkers’ lives with city-owned grocery stores, free buses, rent control, etc. All of his ideas have been tried with dismal results, often if not always leading to worse lives for the poorest among us, even though he is promising what surface-level thinking looks like a utopia. A vote for Mamdani, is to bring NYC back to how life was there in the 1970s. And then Cuomo seems to be the second-worst choice, since we already know what he’s capable of. Many feel the guy should be in jail for any number of offenses. … Sliwa is the only ‘conservative’ in the race, and he has polled the lowest of the three, and from an individual freedom perspective, he’d be a no-go, but he may be the best of the worst.” (11/04/25)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/nycs-mayoral-race-three-paths-to
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39) Defending Groupthink?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“The Atlantic is a beautiful magazine, expertly designed and printed, lovely to behold: an excellent showpiece for your coffee table … but marred by absurdities. Currently, consider David Merritt Johns’s article ‘MAHA’s Blinkered War on ‘Groupthink’’ — and when I shift to reader mode, a second title appears: ‘In Defense of ‘Groupthink.’’ Of course The Atlantic defends groupthink! It’s been working mightily to shore up totalitarian mob-think, woke half-think, for years!” (11/04/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/11/04/defending-groupthink/
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40) Why isn’t the Heritage Foundation condemning Tucker Carlson?
Source: Washington Post
by Jim Geraghty
“Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, felt the need to emphasize that the conservative think tank had absolutely no problem with [Tucker] Carlson or his decision to give [Nick] Fuentes a friendly interview. … ‘the American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right.’ Got that? Fuentes is arguing that conservatives need to be explicitly pro-White, and Carlson says he hates Christian Zionists more than anybody else, and it’s Carlson’s critics who are ‘sowing division.’ And I suppose we’re supposed to count these two among the Heritage Foundation’s ‘friends on the right.’ Unsurprisingly, a whole bunch of conservatives with functioning consciences publicly registered their displeasure.” (11/04/25)
https://archive.is/MPUP0
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41) Please Note: Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
Source: Common Dreams
by Richard Eskow
“Here’s something for New York City residents to consider as they vote for Mayor, and for observers outside New York to consider as they watch the vote count: for the most part, Zohran Mamdani’s plans for the city are surprisingly affordable. Despite the frantic tone of mainstream media coverage (and the revolutionary overtones of the phrase ‘democratic socialist’) most of Mamdani’s agenda could be accomplished at minimal cost to the city. The only exception is his plan for free universal childcare, whose costs may have been overstated by his own campaign. Mamdani has proposed opening five city-owned grocery stores in the city, at a cost of $60 million. These stores would use city-owned property, which means they wouldn’t have to pay rent, and would sell the food at operating cost without making a profit. Would it work? Military commissaries are successful. So is Costco, which operates a trimmed-down, ‘bare bones’ store model.” (11/04/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/are-mamdani-proposals-affordable
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42) How Common Has Private Currency Been?
Source: Cobden Centre
by Lawrence H White
“Recently, an investment advisor and Bitcoin proponent tweeted the claim that ‘[f]or most of human history’ the ‘[s]eparation of money and state was the norm, even if the state stamped their ruler’s face on the coin.’ Some strong disagreement (and some strong support) followed the tweet. The most categorical criticism asserted: ‘Money is and always has been a creation of government.’ A somewhat milder challenge asserted that ‘Private moneys have seldom been main media of exchange.’ First, let’s clarify the object of the discussion. If we define ‘money’ the way that economists usually do, to mean any ‘commonly accepted media of exchange,’ including bank deposits and other media of payment by account transfer, the claim that private money has been rare is obviously false.” (11/04/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/11/how-common-has-private-currency-been/
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43) Why Israel Isn’t Really a “Protectorate”
Source: The American Conservative
by Leon Hadar
“Conservative influencers like Steve Bannon have labeled Israel a U.S. ‘protectorate,’ depicting it as a vassal state rather than an autonomous power in its own right, a charge that recently got under the skin of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Washington’s foreign policy establishment avoids that characterization, preferring instead the comfortable rhetoric of ‘strategic partnership’ and ‘shared values.’ But a clear-eyed examination of the relationship suggests something more complicated — and more problematic — than either framework suggests.” (11/04/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-israel-isnt-really-a-protectorate/
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44) Thoughts on oligarchy 3
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“The reason I was attracted to libertarianism in the first place is I do not believe that we should be trying to use the coercive weapon of the state to decide how people worship, or who they screw or how they do it, or what they do to their own body, or what languages they speak or what they say, and I don’t think we should be trying to have places of books and learning be places of bullshit team-rooting. But I also believe that a false and misleading statement of our cultural differences as Americans (including our non-citizen friends and neighbors whom I regard as Americans) has been foisted onto us by an oligarchical elite that profits from and enjoys the division.” (11/03/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-oligarchy-3
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45) Bill Gates Gets Mugged by Reality
Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“You’ve probably heard by now the blockbuster news that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest people to ever walk the planet, has had a change of heart on climate change. For several decades, Gates poured billions of dollars into the climate-industrial complex and was howling that the end is nigh unless we stop using fossil fuels, cars, air conditioning and general anesthesia. Now, he says he rejects the ‘doomsday’ predictions of the more extreme global warming prophets. Some conservatives have snuffed that Gates has shifted his position on climate change because he and Microsoft have invested heavily in energy-intensive data centers. What Gates has done is courageous and praiseworthy. There are not many people of his stature who will admit that they were wrong. Al Gore certainly hasn’t. My wife says I never do.” (11/04/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2025/11/04/bill-gates-gets-mugged-by-reality-n2665941
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46) Don’t Want ICE To Scan Your Face? Too Bad, You Might Not Have A Choice
Source: Reason
by Jacob R Swartz
“The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has put more federal immigration officers in public view and equipped them with new facial recognition technology. One of these tools is Mobile Fortify, an app that lets agents collect photos and biometric data like fingerprints on the spot — and people have no chance to refuse. With Mobile Fortify, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers can photograph anyone they encounter and run the image through Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases, including Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Traveler Verification Service, which stores photos of people entering the United States. … The stated purpose of Mobile Fortify is to identify noncitizens who are removable from the United States. But the PTA notes that agents may collect information on any individual they encounter, regardless of citizenship, because an officer cannot determine someone’s status before performing the check.” (11/03/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/03/dont-want-ice-to-scan-your-face-too-bad-you-might-not-have-a-choice/
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47) Jacinda Ardern leading the UN? God help us
Source: spiked
by Hugo Timms
“Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, is reportedly in the running to be the next UN secretary-general. Rarely has a person seemed so suited for a job: an overpraised politician with no ability leading an ineffective organisation with no accountability. … Ardern does have a political legacy, it is just entirely negative. Indeed, her six-year prime ministership amounts to one long assault on democracy and humanity.” (11/03/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/03/jacinda-ardern-leading-the-un-god-help-us/
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48) What the US Supreme Court Tariffs Case Is Really About
Source: Foreign Policy
by Keith Johnson
“On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether some, though not all, of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are legal, including some of the ones on Canada; China; Mexico; and, actually, the entire rest of the world. At issue is the president’s ability to set rates for import duties (taxes, for the layman) under an entirely novel reading of Carter administration-era legislation meant to address sudden national emergencies: the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). But at heart is something bigger, which is the question of whether the U.S. Constitution, which grants exclusive power over both taxation and foreign commerce to Congress, still matters, or whether the executive branch can set tax rates without recourse to the will of the people or oversight whatsoever.” (11/03/25)
https://archive.is/MMvw5
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49) Trump Lost the Politics of the Shutdown
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Donald Trump wants the government shutdown, which today ties the record for the longest in American history, to end. You might say he’s desperate for it to end, because he’s gone back to the well of demanding the elimination of the Senate filibuster, so Republicans can pass government funding themselves. Killing the filibuster would be a great thing for the country and the world, but it also appears to be the one area where Republicans routinely defy their president, so I’m not holding my breath. But the context of Trump seeking an escape hatch is worth exploring. If the president were confident that his strategy to make the shutdown painful for Democrats and force them into submission was working for him, his attitude would be far different. Yet his tactics have backfired.” (11/04/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/11/04/trump-lost-politics-of-shutdown/
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50) Tucker Carlson Is Resurrecting Christianity’s Ugly Tradition of Antisemitism
Source: The UnPopulist
by Mark Tooley
“American Christianity, and America, have been blessed that antisemitism across 85 years has mostly been taboo. But the memories of World War II and the Holocaust are fast fading. And revisionism about both, promoted by Carlson and Fuentes, among many others, is increasingly common. Human nature being what it is, demons once expelled often return and must again be exorcised. Compounding the fading of historical memory, but not unrelated, is the emergence of postliberalism in American Christianity, and in wider intellectual life.” (11/03/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/tucker-carlson-is-resurrecting-christianitys
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51) Advisory Opinions, 11/04/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Trump’s Tariff Showdown.” (11/04/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/trumps-tariff-showdown/
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52) The Good Fight, 11/04/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Joseph Heath on the Death of Marxism.” (11/04/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/joseph-heath
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53) The Climate Realism Show, episode 180
Source: Heartland Institute
“Bill Gates Recants Climate Doomerism.” (11/04/25)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/nevermind-bill-gates-recants-climate-doomerism-the-climate-realism-show-180/
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54) Fountainhead Forum, episode 385
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Lady Astor on Argentina’s elections and changes in Javier Milei’s Cabinet.” (11/04/25)
https://rumble.com/v717n16-ff-385-lady-astor-on-argentinas-elections-and-changes-in-javier-mileis-cabi.html
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55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 11/04/25
Source: The New Republic
“MAGA Rages at Tucker Carlson after ‘Nazi’ Shocker Reveals Too Much.” (11/04/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202637/maga-rages-tucker-carlson-nazi-shocker-reveals-much
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/04/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Wants International ‘Enforcement Force’ for Gaza, US Prepping for Cartel War in Mexico, and More.” (11/04/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa-DYNaouGI
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57) System Update, episode 542
Source: System Update
“The Right’s Crusade to Cancel Tucker.” (11/03/25)
https://rumble.com/v716nzc-the-rights-crusade-to-cancel-tucker-system-update-542.html
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58) Reimagining Liberty, episode 93
Source: Aaron Ross Powell
“The State of the Constitution (w/ Evan Bernick).” (11/03/25)
https://audio2.redcircle.com/episodes/8f4e421c-9323-4fbb-9e67-df2126007088/stream.mp3
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59) LPA Spotlight, episode 2
Source: LP Alliance
“Dustin Coffell.” (11/03/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucy4qOCc9cU
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60) Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, 11/03/25
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“John Whitehead (Rutherford Institute) on America’s current police state, ICE raids.” (11/03/25)
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/386598-2025-11-02-2025-11-03-ernest-hancock-interviews-john-whitehead-rutherford-institute.htm
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