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Today's Freedom News:
0) A Note From The Publisher
1) Trump escalates war on American consumers
2) El Salvador: Congress scraps term limits, paving way for Bukele to rule indefinitely
3) Arab League regimes condemn October 7 attack, call on Hamas to disarm
4) Myanmar: Junta Forms Commission to Hold Elections, State Media Says
5) Ukraine: Parliament backs Zelenskyy’s retreat on gutting anti-corruption bodies
6) Lithuania: Paluckas steps down as prime minister after investigations and protests
7) UK: Sotheby’s returns Buddha jewels to India after uproar
8) VA: Attacker douses politician with gasoline, sets him on fire
9) Microsoft poised for $4 trillion valuation after solid results
10) China: Regime summons Nvidia over “backdoor safety risks” in H20 chips
11) Science: “Communities” of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean
12) Macau: “National security police” arrest former lawmaker for supposed unapproved attitude
13) Vatican strikes solar farm deal to become the world’s first carbon-neutral state
14) Trump, South Korean regime strike deal to at least quintuple Americans’ taxes on purchases
15) CO: Dentist jailed for murder after poisoning wife’s protein shakes
16) Canada: Regime to recognize Palestinian state
17) “No pierogi for you!” Whiny entitled lawyer says he’ll sue
18) Algeria: Regime Enacts Sweeping Ban on Crypto Use, Exchange, and Mining
19) European Union assumes it faces 15% tariffs in the US starting on Friday
20) CA: Empty Pantsuit says she’s not running for governor
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Two Common Conservative Misconceptions on Open Borders
22) Republicans Push Census Senselessness (and Lawlessness) to Rig Elections
23) The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent
24) The Media Can’t Handle the Absence of Truth
25) Who Speaks for MAGA?
26) Think the George Floyd Protests Were Insane? What If Obama Gets Indicted?
27) Can You Commit Genocide In Self-Defense?
28) ICE’s Mind-Bogglingly Massive Blank Check
29) Trump’s Big New Law a Disaster for the Big Blue Sea
30) Mother O’ Mercy! Is This the End of the Cal Bullet Train?
31) Heart-to-heart change in Afghanistan
32) MAHA and the Myth of Dietary Liberation
33) Israel Apologists Think “No No, We’re Starving SICK Kids!” Is A Winning Argument
34) The Art of the Deal?
35) Curriculum and Conscience
36) The trick that changed the world
37) Liberty and unity: What America’s 250th anniversary asks of us today
38) We’re Lying to Ourselves About Taxes, Spending, and the Debt
39) Not Everything Is an Emergency
40) Trump is squeezing himself with his own Russia deadline
41) Bankruptcy Is Us: The Personification of Decline
42) Precedented Prosecution?
43) The Russia-Ukraine War Belongs to Russia and Ukraine
44) Inside the Trump administration’s extortion-industrial complex
45) Trump’s economy already proving the doomsayers completely wrong
46) Why ICE is Spying on US Citizens’ Medical Data
47) Freedom in a Post-Covid World
48) The US cut off a million TPS holders. Here’s why that’s everyone else’s opportunity.
49) Inflation Comes to Immigration
50) The Trump-Crypto Honeymoon Is Over
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) The Libertarian Angle, 07/31/25
52) The Political Orphanage, 07/31/25
53) Conflicts of Interest, episode 824
54) Mean Age Daydream, 07/31/25
55) Capital Record, episode 245
56) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 07/31/25
57) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 07/31/25
58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/31/25
59) Advisory Opinions, 07/31/25
60) How to Build a Better Society — One School at a Time
61) LPA Solidarity Stream, 07/30/25
62) System Update, episode 495
63) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 07/30/25
64) The David Frum Show, 07/30/25
65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 07/30/25
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1) Trump escalates war on American consumers
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Donald Trump hit [American buyers of goods from] dozens of US trading partners with tariffs while formalising recent deals with others, including the UK and EU, as he plunged the global economy into a new era of mercantile competition. [American buyers of goods from c]rucial exporters to the US such as Taiwan, the world’s most important semiconductor exporter, will incur steep new levies. Trump also raised tariffs on [American buyers of goods from] Canada, an ally and major trading partner, to 35 per cent. [American buyers of goods from] India [were] hit with a rate of 25 per cent and Switzerland with 39 per cent. The US president’s executive order on Thursday announcing the tariffs said they were designed to reduce America’s trade deficit with many countries, which it described as an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States.'” (07/31/25)
https://archive.is/zI2ll
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2) El Salvador: Congress scraps term limits, paving way for Bukele to rule indefinitely
Source: BBC News [UK state mnedia]
“El Salvador’s congress has approved constitutional reforms to abolish presidential term limits, allowing President Nayib Bukele to run an unlimited number of times. The reform, reviewed under an expedited procedure, will also extend term times to from five to six years, while the next election will be brought forward to 2027. … The reform was adopted by Bukele’s 57 supporters in the Legislative Assembly, and voted against by only three opposition members. Critics say the move will entrench one-party rule in the country. … Bukele, 44, won a second term last year despite a clear prohibition in the country’s constitution. El Salvador’s top court, which is filled with Bukele-backed judges, ruled in 2021 that it was the leader’s human right to run again.” (08/01/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd04q87zryo
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3) Arab League regimes condemn October 7 attack, call on Hamas to disarm
Source: Jerusalem Post [Palestine]
“The 22-nation Arab League has signed onto a declaration that condemns Hamas’[s] Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and calls on Hamas to disarm. The league includes Qatar and Egypt, which have served as mediators in talks between Israel and Hamas during the subsequent war in Gaza. It also includes Turkey, which has adopted a stance of overt hostility toward Israel during the war. The league joined the entire European Union and 17 other countries in backing the declaration at a United Nations meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia and France. The meeting’s goal included discussion of a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an objective that not all Arab League states had previously endorsed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes a two-state solution and his government panned the UN confab as a form of appeasement. The United States also boycotted the meeting, held in New York.” (07/31/25)
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-862893
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4) Myanmar: Junta Forms Commission to Hold Elections, State Media Says
Source: US News & World Report
“Myanmar’s ruling junta announced the formation of a 11-member commission led by military chief Min Aung Hlaing to hold an election in the war-torn country, state media reported on Thursday. The junta did not announce a date for the election and Min Aung Hlaing will continue to effectively remain in charge of the country, in his capacity as the interim president who will oversee the vote, MRTV reported.” (07/31/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-31/myanmar-forms-commission-led-by-junta-chief-to-hold-elections-state-media-says
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5) Ukraine: Parliament backs Zelenskyy’s retreat on gutting anti-corruption bodies
Source: Politico
“The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday approved a bill submitted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week that returned independence to key state anti-corruption agencies. Lawmakers in the judiciary committee had unanimously supported Zelenskyy’s new bill on Wednesday, after domestic protests – and a backlash from Brussels — helped shoot down a previous bill that would have kneecapped corruption watchdogs. The same MPs who voted for the law that brought the independent National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) under the oversight of the politically appointed prosecutor general of Ukraine ultimately U-turned on the decision in the new vote Thursday.” (07/31/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukrainian-parliament-returns-independence-state-watchdogs-volodymyr-zelenskyy-anti-corruption-bill/
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6) Lithuania: Paluckas steps down as prime minister after investigations and protests
Source: Associated Press
“Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas stepped down Thursday, following investigations into his business dealings that prompted protests calling for his resignation. Paluckas, a newly established leader of the center-left Social Democrats, ascended to the role late last year after a three-party coalition formed following a parliamentary election in October in Lithuania. His entire Cabinet is also expected to resign, potentially leaving the Baltic country without an effective government weeks before Russia holds joint military exercises with neighboring Belarus.” (07/31/25)
https://apnews.com/article/lithuania-prime-minister-paluckas-resigns-protests-investigations-a85c94bd8f0188dd3b8dc2476291bb41
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7) UK: Sotheby’s returns Buddha jewels to India after uproar
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Auction house Sotheby’s has returned a set of sacred jewels believed to be linked to the Buddha’s remains to India, after facing mounting pressure from the Indian government and global Buddhist leaders. The Piprahwa Gems — described by archaeologists as one of the most astonishing finds of the modern era — were due to be auctioned in Hong Kong in May. But the sale was called off following diplomatic intervention and threats of legal action from Delhi. The Mumbai-based conglomerate Godrej Industries Group has acquired the jewels, Sotheby’s said. Sotheby’s said it was ‘delighted’ to facilitate the return, following two months of negotiations involving the owner, the new buyer and the Indian government. The relics will now go on permanent public display in India, the auction house said.” (07/31/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kz8r6gxrro
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8) VA: Attacker douses politician with gasoline, sets him on fire
Source: WXII 12 News
“A man is in jail in Danville, Virginia, accused of intentionally setting City Councilman Lee Vogler on fire in a ‘personal attack’ unrelated to his political position or affiliation. Investigators said the suspect entered the local magazine office where Vogler works, doused him in a flammable liquid, and set him on fire outside the building. … A receptionist from a nearby business reported that one of their employees saw Vogler and rushed to help extinguish the flames. Vogler was later airlifted to a burn unit at a hospital in Chapel Hill. [Shotsie] Hayes was found several blocks away and taken into custody, charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding.” (07/31/25/25)
https://www.wxii12.com/article/danville-va-councilman-lee-vogler-set-on-fire/65557283
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9) Microsoft poised for $4 trillion valuation after solid results
Source: Reuters
“Microsoft is set to soar past $4 trillion in market valuation for the first time on Thursday, as a blockbuster earnings report helps the tech behemoth become the second company after Nvidia to surpass the milestone. The software company forecast a record $30 billion in capital spending for the current fiscal first quarter and reported booming sales in its Azure cloud computing business on Wednesday. Shares of Microsoft were up 8.5% at $557.03 in early premarket trading, valuing it at $4.14 trillion.” (07/31/25)
https://archive.is/1ypMB
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10) China: Regime summons Nvidia over “backdoor safety risks” in H20 chips
Source: SFGate
“China’s cyberspace regulators on Thursday summoned Nvidia over security concerns that its H20 chips can be tracked and turned off remotely, the Cyberspace Administration of China said on its website. In the meeting, Chinese regulators demanded that the U.S. chip company provide explanations on ‘backdoor safety risks’ of its H20 chips to be sold in China and submit relevant materials, the office said. ‘Cybersecurity is critically important to us. NVIDIA does not have ‘backdoors’ in our chips that would give anyone a remote way to access or control them,’ an Nvidia spokesperson said in a statement to AP. It came just about two weeks after the Trump administration lifted the block on the computing chips and allowed Nvidia to resume sales of H20 chips to the Chinese market. Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, made the announcement with fanfare when he was in Beijing earlier this month.” (07/31/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/china-summons-nvidia-over-backdoor-safety-risks-20796269.php
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11) Science: “Communities” of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Beds of clams, mats of bacteria that look like ice and fields of tube worms – these are just some examples of the strange, extreme life that an expedition to the deepest parts of the ocean has observed, filmed and photographed. Diving in a human-occupied submersible to ocean trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean, a Chinese-led research team captured pictures of life at depths of more than 9km (5.6miles). The deepest marine vertebrate life filmed before this expedition was at 8,336m — a snailfish that was filmed swimming in a deep ocean trench off the coast of Japan in 2023. These new observations are published in the journal Nature.” (07/31/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wnqe5j99do
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12) Macau: “National security police” arrest former lawmaker for supposed unapproved attitude
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Macau national security police have arrested a man – reportedly a prominent opposition figure and former lawmaker – for alleged collusion with foreign forces, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the gambling hub. The Macau Judiciary Police on Thursday said it had arrested a 68-year-old resident, surnamed Au, the day before for acts that allegedly helped foreign organisations to disseminate false information about the city and arouse hatred among residents towards the government. Local media have reported that the resident is Au Kam-san, a prominent opposition figure and former lawmaker, who for decades advocated for democratic reforms in Macau. … The statement added that the suspect had also allegedly engaged in acts that incited hatred towards the central government, encouraged ‘anti-China forces’ to take hostile actions against China and Macau, and disrupted last year’s chief executive elections.” (07/31/25)
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3320279/macau-national-security-police-arrest-former-lawmaker-alleged-foreign-collusion
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13) Vatican strikes solar farm deal to become the world’s first carbon-neutral state
Source: SFGate
“Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs and turn Vatican City into the world’s first carbon-neutral state. The agreement stipulates that the development of the Santa Maria Galeria site will preserve the agricultural use of the land and minimize the environmental impact on the territory, according to a Vatican statement. Details weren’t released, but the Vatican will be exempt from paying Italian taxes to import the solar panels, but won’t benefit from the financial incentives that Italians enjoy when they go solar. Italy, for its part, can use the field in its accounting for reaching European Union clean energy targets.” (07/31/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/italy-oks-vatican-plan-to-turn-rome-field-into-20796078.php
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14) Trump, South Korean regime strike deal to at least quintuple Americans’ taxes on purchases
Source: United Press International
“U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the United States will impose a 15% tariff on South Korean goods in what he called a ‘full and complete trade deal’ between the two countries ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline for negotiations. … The 15% tariffs will apply to South Korea’s automobile industry — its largest export sector to the United States — U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote in a post on X. … The major South Korean exports of steel and aluminum will remain at the global rate of 50% that Trump has set, however.” [editor’s note: Prior to Trump’s trade war idiocy, the effective tariff rate on American buyers of goods from South Korea varied by good … below 3% – TLK] (07/31/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/07/31/korea-Trump-South-Korea-15-percent-tariff-deal/1541753935972/
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15) CO: Dentist jailed for murder after poisoning wife’s protein shakes
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A US dentist who poisoned his wife has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after a Colorado jury found him guilty of murder and other charges. James Craig, 47, had been having an affair when he plotted to kill his wife Angela Craig in March 2023. After lacing his wife’s protein shakes with arsenic, he gave her a fatal dose of cyanide while she lay ill in hospital, prosecutors said. Prosecutors also argued during a two-week trial that the dentist felt trapped in his marriage but was facing financial troubles and did not want a divorce. Defence lawyers had argued that Angela Craig, who was then 43, died by suicide because she was heartbroken about her husband’s ‘constant’ affairs. However, the Arapahoe County coroner determined that she died as a result of cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, a chemical used in eye drops.” (07/31/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdj2gy317ngo
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16) Canada: Regime to recognize Palestinian state
Source: Politico
“Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada intends to recognize a Palestinian state ahead of September’s United Nations General Assembly. … The recognition is predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to reform its governance and to hold general elections in 2026 ‘in which Hamas can play no part,’ Carney said. The prime minister said he outlined the conditions with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of his announcement. Carney also reiterated that Hamas must immediately release all hostages and Hamas must disarm. Israel denounced Carney’s statement. … Canada is the third G7 nation to make such a declaration — actions President Donald Trump has previously criticized.” (07/30/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/30/canada-to-recognize-palestinian-statehood-00485637
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17) “No pierogi for you!” Whiny entitled lawyer says he’ll sue
Source: The Daily Beast
“Hell hath no fury like a Jeffrey Epstein-defending pierogi lover scorned. Notorious defense attorney Alan Dershowitz announced that he’s suing a farmer’s market on Martha’s Vineyard after the market’s resident pierogi stand refused to serve him. … the retired Harvard law professor stopped by the pierogi stand and asked if he could have six of the potato dumplings. ‘No,’ replied the vendor. ‘Oh, you’ve run out of pierogi? Too bad,’ Dershowitz said he replied. ‘No, we have plenty of pierogi,’ the person behind the counter replied, according to the lawyer. ‘I just won’t sell them to you. … I don’t approve of who you’ve represented. I don’t approve of who you support.’ … ‘The clear implication was that he opposed me because I defended Donald Trump and because I was a Zionist,’ Dershowitz said.” [editor’s note: The police threatened to arrest Dershowitz if he didn’t quit harassing the vendor – TLK] (07/31/25)
https://archive.is/xbc90
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18) Algeria: Regime Enacts Sweeping Ban on Crypto Use, Exchange, and Mining
Source: Bitcoin.com
“Algeria recently enacted a sweeping new law that criminalizes any form of use, exchange, or mining of cryptocurrencies. The move is reportedly intended to protect the national financial system and bolster defenses against money laundering and terrorist financing. … the issuance, purchase, sale, possession and promotion of digital currencies is prohibited. The law also criminalizes the creation or operation of cryptocurrency trading platforms and the use of digital wallets — whether directly or via third parties or online services. These activities are now officially classified as financial offenses directly linked to money laundering and illicit capital flows.” (07/30/25)
https://news.bitcoin.com/algeria-enacts-sweeping-ban-on-crypto-use-exchange-and-mining/
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19) European Union assumes it faces 15% tariffs in the US starting on Friday
Source: SFGate
“The European Union is working on the assumption that the United States will impose a 15% tariff on most EU exports from Friday, even though the two sides have yet to complete a key document clarifying how the agreement will operate. Last weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reached a political agreement that would see 15% duties imposed on around two-thirds of EU produce, worth around 380 billion euros ($434 billion). The tariffs are set to enter force on Friday, but as of Thursday the two sides were still working on a joint statement that would lay out the terms of their understanding, European Commission spokesman Olof Gill said. The document wouldn’t be legally binding.” (07/31/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/european-union-assumes-its-faces-15-tariffs-in-20796026.php
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20) CA: Empty Pantsuit says she’s not running for governor
Source: The Hill
“Former Vice President Harris announced on Wednesday that she will not run for governor of California in 2026, putting an end to speculation that she would seek her state’s top executive role after her loss to President Trump in November. … The former vice president said she spent time reflecting over the past six months since losing in November after she took over the Democratic ticket when former President Biden dropped out of the race. … Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services, are running so far to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who is term limited.” (07/30/25)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5428238-harris-not-running-california-governor
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21) Two Common Conservative Misconceptions on Open Borders
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“As smart as some conservatives are, many of them just don’t get it when it comes the concept of open borders. They make two common mistakes. First, they are convinced that open borders means no borders. Second, they think that an immigration-control system that doesn’t work — that is, one where lots of people are successfully circumventing the border-control system — is ‘open borders.'” (07/31/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/07/31/two-common-conservative-misconceptions-on-open-borders/
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22) Republicans Push Census Senselessness (and Lawlessness) to Rig Elections
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“‘My bill,’ US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tweeted in June, ‘will require the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct a new census immediately upon enactment of the bill. In conducting the new census of the U.S. population, it shall require questions determining the citizenship of each individual, and count US citizens only.’ The money shot: ‘[T]he bill will direct states to immediately begin a redistricting of all U.S. House seats process using only the population of United States citizens.’ Naturally, US president Donald Trump supports the idea. So does Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Why? Because Republicans want to rig future elections by re-drawing — that is, re-gerrymandering — the American political map to benefit themselves. One problem with the idea: It’s wholly, completely, and unquestionably illegal.” (07/31/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19824
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23) The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent
Source: Rutherford Institute
by John & Nisha Whitehead
“The government’s war on homelessness — much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on illegal immigration, and its war on COVID-19 — is yet another Trojan Horse. … An Orwellian exercise in doublespeak, Trump’s executive order suggests that jailing the homeless, rather than providing them with affordable housing, is the ‘compassionate’ solution to homelessness. … Trump wants to see more use of civil commitments (forced detentions) for anyone who is perceived as posing a risk ‘to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time.’ Translation: the government wants to use homelessness as a pretext for indefinitely locking up anyone who might pose a threat to its chokehold on police state power.” (07/31/25)
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_new_gulag_mental_health_detentions_and_the_criminalization_of_dissent
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24) The Media Can’t Handle the Absence of Truth
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman
“Long ago the economist Joan Robinson arguably pre-butted Trump’s argument for protectionism because, he claims, other nations are treating us unfairly: ‘The popular view that free trade is all very well so long as all nations are free-traders, but that when other nations erect tariffs we must erect tariffs too, is countered by the argument that it would be just as sensible to drop rocks into our harbours because other nations have rocky coasts.’ But it’s even worse when a president mines our harbors based on the false claim that other nations have rocky coasts — and the media declare that he’s winning.” [editor’s note: I’m so used to Krugman being wrong that it’s always an invigorating experience to notice he’s being right – TLK] (07/31/25)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-media-cant-handle-the-absence
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25) Who Speaks for MAGA?
Source: The Bulwark
by Andrew Egger
“Poor Josh Hawley! Missouri’s senior senator is a simple man: All he wants is to pass populist-posturing America First laws taking aim at our dastardly elites. That’s what Republicans are into these days, right? Take congressional stock trading. Republican influencers have long shaken their fists (and not without reason) at lawmakers’ penchant for remarkably canny stock trades. So when Josh Hawley drew up a bill banning the practice, he surely thought he was hitting on both a policy and PR win. He even named it the PELOSI Act as a red-meat coup de grâce! What he certainly didn’t expect was the Truth Social response he got from Donald Trump. Apparently outraged that Hawley’s bill would also ban future presidents from trading stocks beginning in 2029, the president decried Hawley as a ‘second-tier senator’ who was ‘playing right into the dirty hands of the Democrats.'” (07/31/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/i/169747560/who-speaks-for-maga
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26) Think the George Floyd Protests Were Insane? What If Obama Gets Indicted?
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder
“Former President Barack Obama will not face charges for treason, sedition or any other crime in the wake of newly disclosed intel. Whether Obama’s actions, if true, meet the elements of a crime is, of course, one thing. But this is not the primary reason Obama has little to worry about. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claims newly uncovered documents show how Obama and intelligence officials worked during the 2016 presidential campaign to help elect former Secretary of State and Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton. Gabbard contends that Obama’s director of national intelligence, FBI head and CIA knowingly used false and sketchy evidence and sources to help Clinton distract from the growing controversy over her unsecured basement server, a likely violation of the Espionage Act. They did so by concocting a fake attention-drawing scandal: Candidate Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the election.” (07/31/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/07/31/think-the-george-floyd-racial-injustice-protests-were-insane-what-if-obama-gets-indicted-n2661194
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27) Can You Commit Genocide In Self-Defense?
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“If what Israel is doing has nothing to do with actually defending the country, then it is simply guilty. If much of what it has been doing is legitimately related to self-defense, then it is simply not-guilty. Right? Maybe. But what if self-defense cannot be achieved without destroying Gaza utterly? Would that mean that the destruction of Gaza wasn’t genocide? That doesn’t seem right — the destruction happened, and if it gets even worse then what are we going to call it? So does that mean that genocide was justified on the grounds of self-defense, as self-defense can justify homicide? That might sound like an absurd idea, but before saying so, consider the narrative that your average middle-of-the-road Israeli or Israel-defender feels in their bones.” (07/31/25)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/can-you-commit-genocide-in-self-defense
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28) ICE’s Mind-Bogglingly Massive Blank Check
Source: The Atlantic
by Caitlin Dickerson
“Congress has appropriated billions with few strings attached, creating a likely windfall for well-connected firms.” (07/31/25)
https://archive.is/r7qxJ
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29) Trump’s Big New Law a Disaster for the Big Blue Sea
Source: Common Dreams
by David Helvarg
“U.S. President Donald Trump is not a fan of sharks or the ocean. From gutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, to seeking the expansion of offshore oil drilling and deep-sea mining while attacking wind energy, his view of our public seas is that they’ll make a good gas station and garbage dump. And, this view is reflected in his major legacy bill recently passed into law by the MAGA majority in Congress. But there’s been little discussion about how this bill will impact our public seas. So, we (Vicki Nichols Goldman and myself) spoke with George Leonard, former chief scientist with the Ocean Conservancy and an ocean policy consultant about what’s going on.” (07/31/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-ugly-bill-harms-ocean
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30) Mother O’ Mercy! Is This the End of the Cal Bullet Train?
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“It has been The Project That Will Not Die. What began as a California statewide voter referendum in 2008 to approve initial funding for a high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles has become a financial black hole with no railroad to show for it. Despite statements from Gov. Gavin Newsom that the system is fine, the Trump administration has announced it was pulling $4 billion from the project. … California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state to sue for the money, claiming that the Trump administration was breaking a legal contract. No doubt, a friendly federal judge will order the money reinstated, but one doubts that after appeals, the California High Speed Rail Authority will win.” (07/31/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/mother-o-mercy-end-cal-bullet-train
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31) Heart-to-heart change in Afghanistan
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“In recent months, Afghanistan has been hit by what could soon be among the world’s largest forced displacements of people in the 21st century. Nearly 2 million Afghans, primarily living in Iran for years to avoid repression at home, have been pushed back across the border. A total of 5.9 million Afghans could arrive from both Iran and Pakistan by the end of the year, the United Nations projects. What’s more, international aid agencies say they can reach only about 10% of the deportees, a result of the hard-line, ruling Taliban restricting aid flows after taking power nearly four years ago. Yet as this tragedy of mass deportation unfolds – a result of a surge in anti-Afghan attitudes in Iran and Pakistan – thousands of people inside Afghanistan are turning the tables on the Taliban with acts of compassion.” (07/30/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0730/Heart-to-heart-change-in-Afghanistan
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32) MAHA and the Myth of Dietary Liberation
Source: Libertarian Institute
by RT Hadley
“Can a government ever dictate health without distorting it? The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, spearheaded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his role as Secretary of Health and Human Services, positions itself as a sweeping response to America’s chronic disease crisis. Framed as a populist health movement, MAHA seeks to overhaul the nation’s approach to nutrition, environmental toxins, and preventative care. … The Modern American Health Act (MAHA), advanced under RFK Jr.’s platform, marks a shift from nutritional suggestion to digitally enforced compliance. While framed as a path to wellness, it signals an unprecedented fusion of policy, personal data, and tech industry influence.” (07/31/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/maha-and-the-myth-of-dietary-liberation
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33) Israel Apologists Think “No No, We’re Starving SICK Kids!” Is A Winning Argument
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I will probably spend the foreseeable future periodically reminding the world that when everyone was angry at Israel for starving children in Gaza, Israel’s apologists spent days loudly proclaiming that no, they were actually just starving sick children. As their defense they said this. They actually believed this helped their case. Let me back up a bit. On Wednesday, The New York Times posted an editor’s note on an article it had published the previous Friday which included a horrifying photo of an emaciated child named Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq. Caving to pressure from Zionists and influence ops like the Israeli propaganda outlet HonestReporting, the Times went out of its way to clarify that al-Mutawaq ‘had pre-existing health problems’, which Israel apologists instantly and predictably spun as proof that the media are lying about Israel starving Gaza.” (07/31/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/31/israel-apologists-think-no-no-were-starving-sick-kids-is-a-winning-argument/
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34) The Art of the Deal?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“As of Sunday, July 27, the United States and the European Union have signed a new trade agreement, imposing a 15% tariff on most EU goods entering the US, while no new tariffs on US goods entering the EU will be implemented. Given that the trade relationship between the two is worth over $1.68 trillion, the aversion of a potential trade war can only be welcomed—but the news for US consumers is less than ideal. Had this agreement not been reached by August 1, President Trump had first threatened a 30% tariff across the board. While the finalized 15% is lower than the original promised tariff, it is still an increase on the previous 10% tariffs that were introduced on all EU goods entering the US set on April 2, 2025, under Trump, and significantly higher than the 1.2% tariff from before Trump’s second term.” (07/31/25)
https://fee.org/articles/the-art-of-the-deal/
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35) Curriculum and Conscience
Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis
“Who bears the primary responsibility for shaping a child’s moral imagination: the state or their parents? Last term, in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court answered with uncommon clarity in cases where the parents’ religion is at stake: when public schools press lessons that undermine the faith of young pupils, parents may halt participation. The decision matters on three planes.” (07/31/25)
https://lawliberty.org/curriculum-and-conscience/
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36) The trick that changed the world
Source: Cobden Centre
by Tim Price
“Roughly 90,000 years ago, something rather wonderful happened. The evidence lies in the form of a simple snail shell called Nassarius. This little shell can be found scattered across archaeological sites in Morocco, Algeria and Israel. These shells sport some holes that cannot have been made naturally. Some of them are smeared with red ochre. Almost certainly these shells were worn as beads, on a string. They offer evidence of early man’s interest in personal ornamentation, perhaps money – and trade. Some of the locations in which Nassarius has been found are as much as 125 miles from the nearest coast. These beads probably migrated, from hand to hand, by exchange. Modern man is hardwired to trade. The science writer Matt Ridley describes barter as ‘the trick that changed the world.'” (07/31/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/07/the-trick-that-changed-the-world/
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37) Liberty and unity: What America’s 250th anniversary asks of us today
Source: Fox News Forum
by Carly Fiorina
“Sixteen months before Thomas Jefferson crafted the powerful words that would become our Declaration of Independence, he sat quietly in Richmond’s St. John’s Church, absorbing the oratory of Patrick Henry. Henry’s call, ‘Give me liberty or give me death,’ ignited a revolutionary spirit that Jefferson would later capture on parchment. As we approach July 4, 2026, America’s 250th birthday, Jefferson’s words resonate with renewed importance: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ These words mark the beginning of our nation. These words inspired men and women, enslaved and free, native and immigrant. These words changed the world forever.” (07/31/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liberty-unity-what-americas-250th-anniversary-asks-us-today
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38) We’re Lying to Ourselves About Taxes, Spending, and the Debt
Source: Reason
by Veronique de Rugy
“Yes, the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ avoided a massive tax increase and includes pro-growth reforms. It also adds to the debt — by how much is debatable — and that’s before we get to the budgetary reckoning of Social Security and Medicare’s impending insolvency. Against that backdrop, it’s infuriating to see a $9 billion rescission package — one drop in the deficit bucket — met with cries of bloody murder. … Maybe we wouldn’t keep operating this way — pretending like minor trims are major reforms while refusing to tackle demographic and entitlement time bombs ticking beneath our feet — if we stayed focused on the question of what, considering the cost, we’re willing to pay for.” (07/31/25)
https://reason.com/2025/07/31/were-lying-to-ourselves-about-taxes-spending-and-the-debt/
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39) Not Everything Is an Emergency
Source: The Dispatch
by Ilya Somin
“The Trump administration has attempted to make sweeping use of emergency powers in the areas of immigration, trade, and domestic use of the military. In each case, President Donald Trump has tried to use powers legally reserved for extreme exigencies — invasion, war, grave threats to national security — to address essentially normal political challenges. … In litigation over all three of its major invocations of emergency powers — immigration, tariffs, and domestic use of the military — the administration has also invoked the ‘political questions’ doctrine, which holds that some issues are off limits to the judiciary, because they have been left to the political process. The Supreme Court’s precedent here is an often incoherent mess. But there is no general principle holding that invocations of emergency powers are exempt from judicial scrutiny.” (07/31/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/not-everything-is-an-emergency/
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40) Trump is squeezing himself with his own Russia deadline
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Mark Episkopos
“His initial instincts for talking were right; he shouldn’t let frustration or the need for a quick ‘win’ to cloud his judgement here.” (07/31/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-russia/
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41) Bankruptcy Is Us: The Personification of Decline
Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“Once upon a time, nothing in this world could have convinced me that I would be living through this moment in this America on this planet. As a start, once upon an increasingly distant time, Donald J. Trump as president of the United States would have been inconceivable. Literally beyond conception, even in some wildly dystopian satiric novel about an all-too(un)-American future. I mean, forget anything else, a man who in private life bankrupted six (yes, six!) companies has now been elected president of the United States not just once but twice. You know, the fellow who thinks of those he considers his domestic enemies (and that’s not too strong a word for it), whether Democrats, Republicans, or journalists as nothing short of (and this is the word he uses: ‘evil’).” (07/31/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/bankruptcy-is-us/
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42) Precedented Prosecution?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“‘The Crown says it’s seeking an extraordinary sentence for an unprecedented crime,’ wrote Arthur White-Crummey for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation last week, ‘as court began hearing sentencing submissions Wednesday in the mischief case of Ottawa truck convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. The ‘Ottawa truck convoy’ is what they are calling the big anti-totalitarian protests made by truckers in Canada during the late pandemic scare. … a specific kind of government does indeed prosecute its opponents in this manner, no matter how peaceful. Tyrannical governments.” (07/31/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/07/31/precedented-prosecution/
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43) The Russia-Ukraine War Belongs to Russia and Ukraine
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“Throughout most of America’s history, Ukraine has been ruled from Moscow. The Ukrainian people have long suffered under that relationship, but Washington never considered going to war on Kiev’s behalf. Ukraine matters far more to Europe than America, and, as Trump has admitted, the current conflict was fueled by Washington’s multiple broken promises not to expand NATO to Russia’s borders. U.S. interests would be best served by cutting off fuel for the conflict, with its dangerous potential of escalating into a nuclear confrontation.” (07/31/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-russia-ukraine-war-belongs-to-russia-and-ukraine/
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44) Inside the Trump administration’s extortion-industrial complex
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Tyler Tone
“[T]he Paramount settlement provides only a small window into a larger attempt — on the part of the president and his administration — to transform the relationship between the government and America’s media industry, powered by the machinery of the FCC. It’s an extortion regime much bigger than any one-time cash grab, enveloping the media industry in a cloud of weaponized uncertainty created by lawsuits, selective regulatory investigations, and slow-walked merger approvals. The ultimate aim? Getting some of America’s largest media companies to bend the knee and do the administration’s bidding. Call it the extortion-industrial complex, and Paramount has been just one victim of it.” (07/30/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/inside-trump-administrations-extortion-industrial-complex
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45) Trump’s economy already proving the doomsayers completely wrong
Source: New York Post
by staff
“So much for the prophecies of Trumponomics doom: Not only did the US economy grow at a 3% rate in the second quarter, the growth was all in the private sector as the government portion shrank. Meanwhile, ADP reports that private-sector employment rose by 104,000 jobs in July, with annual wages jumping 4.4% — well above the rate of inflation, which also remains markedly lower than the conventional-wisdom crew predicted. That is, growth was half again the consensus forecast for April-June, while July looks like a huge boon for American workers — all as many of President Donald Trump’s policies have only begun to kick in. Trump’s tariffs have neither crashed the economy nor kicked off fresh inflation — though of course those predictions largely came from ‘experts’ who never expected the bane of Bidenflation.” (07/30/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/30/opinion/trumps-economy-is-already-proving-the-doomsayers-completely-wrong/
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46) Why ICE is Spying on US Citizens’ Medical Data
Source: Cato Institute
by Patrick G Eddington & Jeffrey A Singer
“Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), law enforcement usually needs a warrant, court order or subpoena to access a patient’s medical records. However, ICE has taken advantage of a legal loophole by obtaining insurance claims data from third-party clearinghouses and data brokers. By accessing these alternative channels, federal agents can avoid legal protections designed to safeguard patient privacy. … ICE’s use of these databases serves as a stark reminder that tools designed for legitimate purposes, such as detecting insurance fraud, can be quietly turned into instruments of surveillance. ICE’s misuse of medical claims data not only threatens undocumented migrants but also, by eroding trust in the public health system, endangers all Americans.” (07/30/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/why-ice-spying-us-citizens-medical-data
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47) Freedom in a Post-Covid World
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“The Covid era cut through traditional ideological paradigms like knives on tissue. Nothing behaved as we might have expected. The civil libertarians were nowhere in sight. The courts did not work. Big business and media fully cooperated. The major religions caved. The national security state thrived, while both parties let it all happen. The population was mercilessly propagandized and pillaged with no resistance from the commanding heights. … The state did not save us from large corporations and the top layers in commercial society did not save us from the state. They worked together to strangle the liberty of everyone else.” (07/30/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/freedom-in-a-post-covid-world/
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48) The US cut off a million TPS holders. Here’s why that’s everyone else’s opportunity.
Source: Niskanen Center
by Cassandra Zimmer
“In June, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced she would end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, removing legal protections from more than 500,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States. Earlier this year, she rescinded TPS for over 348,000 Venezuelans and 55,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans. With Cameroon and Nepal already terminated, more than one million TPS holders are now poised to lose lawful status in 2025 …. Many TPS holders work in America’s most labor-starved sectors, including construction, home healthcare, food processing, hospitality, and agriculture. Employers who have long relied on TPS workers will be forced to terminate experienced staff while scrambling to hire replacements in an exceptionally tight labor market. … There may be a solution to capitalize on these workers’ talents and ensure they can work and thrive in safe communities — unfortunately for the U.S. economy, those communities are abroad.” (07/30/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-u-s-cut-off-a-million-tps-holders-heres-why-thats-everyone-elses-opportunity/
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49) Inflation Comes to Immigration
Source: The American Prospect
by James Baratta
“If Donald Trump’s goal is to strain the immigration system to such a point that it merely serves as an avenue for the fast-tracking of deportations, he is certainly making headway. The barriers have been piling up: ending bond hearings for undocumented immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally, kidnapping people at their immigration court hearings and places of work, entrapping new arrivals who fail to register with the government, and imposing significant penalties on those who do not comply with removal orders. In an added twist, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which unlocks unprecedented levels of funding for immigration enforcement and border security, creates a fiscal minefield of onerous processing fees and penalties. Most of these fees are new and cannot be waived, and the goal is not necessarily to mitigate the government’s giant budget deficit, but to price migrants out of entering or staying in the country, even legally.” (07/31/25)
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-07-31-inflation-comes-to-immigration/
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50) The Trump-Crypto Honeymoon Is Over
Source: Wired
by Jake Lahut
“It’s been pretty clear for quite some time: Trumpworld loves crypto. Almost everywhere you look in the second Trump administration, there’s a crypto connection. The president, most notably, has his own memecoin, and his two eldest sons, Eric and Don Jr., are involved in a variety of crypto ventures, including World Liberty Financial and its stablecoin. Despite cryptocurrency being immensely profitable for the Trump family and vice versa, though, cracks are beginning to emerge in a key alliance that helped bring the president back to power. The dustup around stablecoin and market structure legislation could be the first preview of more fissures to come.” (07/30/25)
https://archive.is/0nIpA
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) The Libertarian Angle, 07/31/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Trump’s New Trade and Sanction Fiasco.” (07/31/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2inTyCuQPsE
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52) The Political Orphanage, 07/31/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“But Gene Epstein Hates the Fed.” (07/31/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/but-gene-epstein-hates-the-fed
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53) Conflicts of Interest, episode 824
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Israeli Human Rights Groups Say Israel Is Committing the Crime of Genocide in Gaza.” (07/31/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-824-israeli-human-rights-groups-say-israel-is-committing-the-crime-of-genocide-in-gaza/
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54) Mean Age Daydream, 07/31/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Well **** Do Tariffs Work? / Nazi Jeans / Collective Shout Are Woke Game Censors.” (07/31/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/well-do-tariffs-work-nazi-jeans-collective-shout-are-woke-game-censors
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55) Capital Record, episode 245
Source: National Review
“Messing Up Capital Formation, Legally.” (07/31/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/messing-up-capital-formation-legally/
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56) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 07/31/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
‘Is Trump 2.0 Morphing Into Biden 2.0?” (07/31/25)
https://rumble.com/v6wxyn0-is-trump-2.0-morphing-into-biden-2.0.html
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57) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 07/31/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Hit by Harsh Blow from Fed Chair as Polls Reveal Fresh Weakness.” (07/31/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/198639/trump-hit-harsh-blow-fed-chair-polls-reveal-fresh-weakness
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58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/31/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Report: Israel Gives Hamas Annexation Ultimatum, US Sanctions Iranian Shipping Network, and More.” (07/31/25)
https://rumble.com/v6wx63a-report-israel-gives-hamas-annexation-ultimatum-us-sanctions-iranian-shippin.html
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59) Advisory Opinions, 07/31/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Guns, Gays, and Birthright Citizenship.” (07/31/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/guns-gays-and-birthright-citizenship/
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60) How to Build a Better Society — One School at a Time
Source: Quillette
“Inside the uncompromising vision of Britain’s strictest headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh.” (07/31/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/07/31/how-to-build-a-better-society-one-school-at-a-time/
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61) LPA Solidarity Stream, 07/30/25
Source: LP Alliance
“We’ll be talking about the importance of grassroots, member-based advocacy in the LP, the critical dynamic between causes and candidates, and how members, affiliates, and the LNC can deploy it effectively.” (07/30/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ebLGjIZnsQ
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62) System Update, episode 495
Source: System Update
“Stephen Miller’s False Denials About Trump’s Campus ‘Hate Speech’ Codes; Sohrab Ahmari on the MAGA Splits Over Antitrust, Foreign Wars, and More.” (07/30/25)
https://rumble.com/v6wwl7s-system-update-show-495.html
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63) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 07/30/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Understanding the Decline in Student Test Scores with Jim Wyckoff.” (07/30/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/education/understanding-the-decline-in-student-test-scores-with-jim-wyckoff/
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64) The David Frum Show, 07/30/25
Source: The Atlantic
“Doug Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, on Trump’s trade war, the myth of protectionism, and what history teaches us about tariffs.” (07/30/25)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/07/david-frum-show-tariffs-trump-doug-irwin/683707
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65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 07/30/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“MAGA Turns On Trump Over Gaza.” (07/30/25)
https://rumble.com/v6ww78m-maga-turns-on-trump-over-gaza.html
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1) Trump escalates war on American consumers
2) El Salvador: Congress scraps term limits, paving way for Bukele to rule indefinitely
3) Arab League regimes condemn October 7 attack, call on Hamas to disarm
4) Myanmar: Junta Forms Commission to Hold Elections, State Media Says
5) Ukraine: Parliament backs Zelenskyy’s retreat on gutting anti-corruption bodies
6) Lithuania: Paluckas steps down as prime minister after investigations and protests
7) UK: Sotheby’s returns Buddha jewels to India after uproar
8) VA: Attacker douses politician with gasoline, sets him on fire
9) Microsoft poised for $4 trillion valuation after solid results
10) China: Regime summons Nvidia over “backdoor safety risks” in H20 chips
11) Science: “Communities” of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean
12) Macau: “National security police” arrest former lawmaker for supposed unapproved attitude
13) Vatican strikes solar farm deal to become the world’s first carbon-neutral state
14) Trump, South Korean regime strike deal to at least quintuple Americans’ taxes on purchases
15) CO: Dentist jailed for murder after poisoning wife’s protein shakes
16) Canada: Regime to recognize Palestinian state
17) “No pierogi for you!” Whiny entitled lawyer says he’ll sue
18) Algeria: Regime Enacts Sweeping Ban on Crypto Use, Exchange, and Mining
19) European Union assumes it faces 15% tariffs in the US starting on Friday
20) CA: Empty Pantsuit says she’s not running for governor
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Two Common Conservative Misconceptions on Open Borders
22) Republicans Push Census Senselessness (and Lawlessness) to Rig Elections
23) The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent
24) The Media Can’t Handle the Absence of Truth
25) Who Speaks for MAGA?
26) Think the George Floyd Protests Were Insane? What If Obama Gets Indicted?
27) Can You Commit Genocide In Self-Defense?
28) ICE’s Mind-Bogglingly Massive Blank Check
29) Trump’s Big New Law a Disaster for the Big Blue Sea
30) Mother O’ Mercy! Is This the End of the Cal Bullet Train?
31) Heart-to-heart change in Afghanistan
32) MAHA and the Myth of Dietary Liberation
33) Israel Apologists Think “No No, We’re Starving SICK Kids!” Is A Winning Argument
34) The Art of the Deal?
35) Curriculum and Conscience
36) The trick that changed the world
37) Liberty and unity: What America’s 250th anniversary asks of us today
38) We’re Lying to Ourselves About Taxes, Spending, and the Debt
39) Not Everything Is an Emergency
40) Trump is squeezing himself with his own Russia deadline
41) Bankruptcy Is Us: The Personification of Decline
42) Precedented Prosecution?
43) The Russia-Ukraine War Belongs to Russia and Ukraine
44) Inside the Trump administration’s extortion-industrial complex
45) Trump’s economy already proving the doomsayers completely wrong
46) Why ICE is Spying on US Citizens’ Medical Data
47) Freedom in a Post-Covid World
48) The US cut off a million TPS holders. Here’s why that’s everyone else’s opportunity.
49) Inflation Comes to Immigration
50) The Trump-Crypto Honeymoon Is Over
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) The Libertarian Angle, 07/31/25
52) The Political Orphanage, 07/31/25
53) Conflicts of Interest, episode 824
54) Mean Age Daydream, 07/31/25
55) Capital Record, episode 245
56) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 07/31/25
57) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 07/31/25
58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/31/25
59) Advisory Opinions, 07/31/25
60) How to Build a Better Society — One School at a Time
61) LPA Solidarity Stream, 07/30/25
62) System Update, episode 495
63) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 07/30/25
64) The David Frum Show, 07/30/25
65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 07/30/25
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1) Trump escalates war on American consumers
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Donald Trump hit [American buyers of goods from] dozens of US trading partners with tariffs while formalising recent deals with others, including the UK and EU, as he plunged the global economy into a new era of mercantile competition. [American buyers of goods from c]rucial exporters to the US such as Taiwan, the world’s most important semiconductor exporter, will incur steep new levies. Trump also raised tariffs on [American buyers of goods from] Canada, an ally and major trading partner, to 35 per cent. [American buyers of goods from] India [were] hit with a rate of 25 per cent and Switzerland with 39 per cent. The US president’s executive order on Thursday announcing the tariffs said they were designed to reduce America’s trade deficit with many countries, which it described as an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States.'” (07/31/25)
https://archive.is/zI2ll
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2) El Salvador: Congress scraps term limits, paving way for Bukele to rule indefinitely
Source: BBC News [UK state mnedia]
“El Salvador’s congress has approved constitutional reforms to abolish presidential term limits, allowing President Nayib Bukele to run an unlimited number of times. The reform, reviewed under an expedited procedure, will also extend term times to from five to six years, while the next election will be brought forward to 2027. … The reform was adopted by Bukele’s 57 supporters in the Legislative Assembly, and voted against by only three opposition members. Critics say the move will entrench one-party rule in the country. … Bukele, 44, won a second term last year despite a clear prohibition in the country’s constitution. El Salvador’s top court, which is filled with Bukele-backed judges, ruled in 2021 that it was the leader’s human right to run again.” (08/01/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd04q87zryo
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3) Arab League regimes condemn October 7 attack, call on Hamas to disarm
Source: Jerusalem Post [Palestine]
“The 22-nation Arab League has signed onto a declaration that condemns Hamas’[s] Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and calls on Hamas to disarm. The league includes Qatar and Egypt, which have served as mediators in talks between Israel and Hamas during the subsequent war in Gaza. It also includes Turkey, which has adopted a stance of overt hostility toward Israel during the war. The league joined the entire European Union and 17 other countries in backing the declaration at a United Nations meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia and France. The meeting’s goal included discussion of a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an objective that not all Arab League states had previously endorsed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes a two-state solution and his government panned the UN confab as a form of appeasement. The United States also boycotted the meeting, held in New York.” (07/31/25)
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-862893
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4) Myanmar: Junta Forms Commission to Hold Elections, State Media Says
Source: US News & World Report
“Myanmar’s ruling junta announced the formation of a 11-member commission led by military chief Min Aung Hlaing to hold an election in the war-torn country, state media reported on Thursday. The junta did not announce a date for the election and Min Aung Hlaing will continue to effectively remain in charge of the country, in his capacity as the interim president who will oversee the vote, MRTV reported.” (07/31/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-31/myanmar-forms-commission-led-by-junta-chief-to-hold-elections-state-media-says
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5) Ukraine: Parliament backs Zelenskyy’s retreat on gutting anti-corruption bodies
Source: Politico
“The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday approved a bill submitted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week that returned independence to key state anti-corruption agencies. Lawmakers in the judiciary committee had unanimously supported Zelenskyy’s new bill on Wednesday, after domestic protests – and a backlash from Brussels — helped shoot down a previous bill that would have kneecapped corruption watchdogs. The same MPs who voted for the law that brought the independent National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) under the oversight of the politically appointed prosecutor general of Ukraine ultimately U-turned on the decision in the new vote Thursday.” (07/31/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukrainian-parliament-returns-independence-state-watchdogs-volodymyr-zelenskyy-anti-corruption-bill/
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6) Lithuania: Paluckas steps down as prime minister after investigations and protests
Source: Associated Press
“Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas stepped down Thursday, following investigations into his business dealings that prompted protests calling for his resignation. Paluckas, a newly established leader of the center-left Social Democrats, ascended to the role late last year after a three-party coalition formed following a parliamentary election in October in Lithuania. His entire Cabinet is also expected to resign, potentially leaving the Baltic country without an effective government weeks before Russia holds joint military exercises with neighboring Belarus.” (07/31/25)
https://apnews.com/article/lithuania-prime-minister-paluckas-resigns-protests-investigations-a85c94bd8f0188dd3b8dc2476291bb41
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7) UK: Sotheby’s returns Buddha jewels to India after uproar
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Auction house Sotheby’s has returned a set of sacred jewels believed to be linked to the Buddha’s remains to India, after facing mounting pressure from the Indian government and global Buddhist leaders. The Piprahwa Gems — described by archaeologists as one of the most astonishing finds of the modern era — were due to be auctioned in Hong Kong in May. But the sale was called off following diplomatic intervention and threats of legal action from Delhi. The Mumbai-based conglomerate Godrej Industries Group has acquired the jewels, Sotheby’s said. Sotheby’s said it was ‘delighted’ to facilitate the return, following two months of negotiations involving the owner, the new buyer and the Indian government. The relics will now go on permanent public display in India, the auction house said.” (07/31/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kz8r6gxrro
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8) VA: Attacker douses politician with gasoline, sets him on fire
Source: WXII 12 News
“A man is in jail in Danville, Virginia, accused of intentionally setting City Councilman Lee Vogler on fire in a ‘personal attack’ unrelated to his political position or affiliation. Investigators said the suspect entered the local magazine office where Vogler works, doused him in a flammable liquid, and set him on fire outside the building. … A receptionist from a nearby business reported that one of their employees saw Vogler and rushed to help extinguish the flames. Vogler was later airlifted to a burn unit at a hospital in Chapel Hill. [Shotsie] Hayes was found several blocks away and taken into custody, charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding.” (07/31/25/25)
https://www.wxii12.com/article/danville-va-councilman-lee-vogler-set-on-fire/65557283
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9) Microsoft poised for $4 trillion valuation after solid results
Source: Reuters
“Microsoft is set to soar past $4 trillion in market valuation for the first time on Thursday, as a blockbuster earnings report helps the tech behemoth become the second company after Nvidia to surpass the milestone. The software company forecast a record $30 billion in capital spending for the current fiscal first quarter and reported booming sales in its Azure cloud computing business on Wednesday. Shares of Microsoft were up 8.5% at $557.03 in early premarket trading, valuing it at $4.14 trillion.” (07/31/25)
https://archive.is/1ypMB
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10) China: Regime summons Nvidia over “backdoor safety risks” in H20 chips
Source: SFGate
“China’s cyberspace regulators on Thursday summoned Nvidia over security concerns that its H20 chips can be tracked and turned off remotely, the Cyberspace Administration of China said on its website. In the meeting, Chinese regulators demanded that the U.S. chip company provide explanations on ‘backdoor safety risks’ of its H20 chips to be sold in China and submit relevant materials, the office said. ‘Cybersecurity is critically important to us. NVIDIA does not have ‘backdoors’ in our chips that would give anyone a remote way to access or control them,’ an Nvidia spokesperson said in a statement to AP. It came just about two weeks after the Trump administration lifted the block on the computing chips and allowed Nvidia to resume sales of H20 chips to the Chinese market. Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, made the announcement with fanfare when he was in Beijing earlier this month.” (07/31/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/china-summons-nvidia-over-backdoor-safety-risks-20796269.php
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11) Science: “Communities” of strange, extreme life seen for first time in deep ocean
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Beds of clams, mats of bacteria that look like ice and fields of tube worms – these are just some examples of the strange, extreme life that an expedition to the deepest parts of the ocean has observed, filmed and photographed. Diving in a human-occupied submersible to ocean trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean, a Chinese-led research team captured pictures of life at depths of more than 9km (5.6miles). The deepest marine vertebrate life filmed before this expedition was at 8,336m — a snailfish that was filmed swimming in a deep ocean trench off the coast of Japan in 2023. These new observations are published in the journal Nature.” (07/31/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wnqe5j99do
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12) Macau: “National security police” arrest former lawmaker for supposed unapproved attitude
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Macau national security police have arrested a man – reportedly a prominent opposition figure and former lawmaker – for alleged collusion with foreign forces, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the gambling hub. The Macau Judiciary Police on Thursday said it had arrested a 68-year-old resident, surnamed Au, the day before for acts that allegedly helped foreign organisations to disseminate false information about the city and arouse hatred among residents towards the government. Local media have reported that the resident is Au Kam-san, a prominent opposition figure and former lawmaker, who for decades advocated for democratic reforms in Macau. … The statement added that the suspect had also allegedly engaged in acts that incited hatred towards the central government, encouraged ‘anti-China forces’ to take hostile actions against China and Macau, and disrupted last year’s chief executive elections.” (07/31/25)
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3320279/macau-national-security-police-arrest-former-lawmaker-alleged-foreign-collusion
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13) Vatican strikes solar farm deal to become the world’s first carbon-neutral state
Source: SFGate
“Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of controversy between the two, into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs and turn Vatican City into the world’s first carbon-neutral state. The agreement stipulates that the development of the Santa Maria Galeria site will preserve the agricultural use of the land and minimize the environmental impact on the territory, according to a Vatican statement. Details weren’t released, but the Vatican will be exempt from paying Italian taxes to import the solar panels, but won’t benefit from the financial incentives that Italians enjoy when they go solar. Italy, for its part, can use the field in its accounting for reaching European Union clean energy targets.” (07/31/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/italy-oks-vatican-plan-to-turn-rome-field-into-20796078.php
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14) Trump, South Korean regime strike deal to at least quintuple Americans’ taxes on purchases
Source: United Press International
“U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the United States will impose a 15% tariff on South Korean goods in what he called a ‘full and complete trade deal’ between the two countries ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline for negotiations. … The 15% tariffs will apply to South Korea’s automobile industry — its largest export sector to the United States — U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote in a post on X. … The major South Korean exports of steel and aluminum will remain at the global rate of 50% that Trump has set, however.” [editor’s note: Prior to Trump’s trade war idiocy, the effective tariff rate on American buyers of goods from South Korea varied by good … below 3% – TLK] (07/31/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/07/31/korea-Trump-South-Korea-15-percent-tariff-deal/1541753935972/
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15) CO: Dentist jailed for murder after poisoning wife’s protein shakes
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A US dentist who poisoned his wife has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after a Colorado jury found him guilty of murder and other charges. James Craig, 47, had been having an affair when he plotted to kill his wife Angela Craig in March 2023. After lacing his wife’s protein shakes with arsenic, he gave her a fatal dose of cyanide while she lay ill in hospital, prosecutors said. Prosecutors also argued during a two-week trial that the dentist felt trapped in his marriage but was facing financial troubles and did not want a divorce. Defence lawyers had argued that Angela Craig, who was then 43, died by suicide because she was heartbroken about her husband’s ‘constant’ affairs. However, the Arapahoe County coroner determined that she died as a result of cyanide and tetrahydrozoline, a chemical used in eye drops.” (07/31/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdj2gy317ngo
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16) Canada: Regime to recognize Palestinian state
Source: Politico
“Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada intends to recognize a Palestinian state ahead of September’s United Nations General Assembly. … The recognition is predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to reform its governance and to hold general elections in 2026 ‘in which Hamas can play no part,’ Carney said. The prime minister said he outlined the conditions with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of his announcement. Carney also reiterated that Hamas must immediately release all hostages and Hamas must disarm. Israel denounced Carney’s statement. … Canada is the third G7 nation to make such a declaration — actions President Donald Trump has previously criticized.” (07/30/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/30/canada-to-recognize-palestinian-statehood-00485637
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17) “No pierogi for you!” Whiny entitled lawyer says he’ll sue
Source: The Daily Beast
“Hell hath no fury like a Jeffrey Epstein-defending pierogi lover scorned. Notorious defense attorney Alan Dershowitz announced that he’s suing a farmer’s market on Martha’s Vineyard after the market’s resident pierogi stand refused to serve him. … the retired Harvard law professor stopped by the pierogi stand and asked if he could have six of the potato dumplings. ‘No,’ replied the vendor. ‘Oh, you’ve run out of pierogi? Too bad,’ Dershowitz said he replied. ‘No, we have plenty of pierogi,’ the person behind the counter replied, according to the lawyer. ‘I just won’t sell them to you. … I don’t approve of who you’ve represented. I don’t approve of who you support.’ … ‘The clear implication was that he opposed me because I defended Donald Trump and because I was a Zionist,’ Dershowitz said.” [editor’s note: The police threatened to arrest Dershowitz if he didn’t quit harassing the vendor – TLK] (07/31/25)
https://archive.is/xbc90
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18) Algeria: Regime Enacts Sweeping Ban on Crypto Use, Exchange, and Mining
Source: Bitcoin.com
“Algeria recently enacted a sweeping new law that criminalizes any form of use, exchange, or mining of cryptocurrencies. The move is reportedly intended to protect the national financial system and bolster defenses against money laundering and terrorist financing. … the issuance, purchase, sale, possession and promotion of digital currencies is prohibited. The law also criminalizes the creation or operation of cryptocurrency trading platforms and the use of digital wallets — whether directly or via third parties or online services. These activities are now officially classified as financial offenses directly linked to money laundering and illicit capital flows.” (07/30/25)
https://news.bitcoin.com/algeria-enacts-sweeping-ban-on-crypto-use-exchange-and-mining/
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19) European Union assumes it faces 15% tariffs in the US starting on Friday
Source: SFGate
“The European Union is working on the assumption that the United States will impose a 15% tariff on most EU exports from Friday, even though the two sides have yet to complete a key document clarifying how the agreement will operate. Last weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reached a political agreement that would see 15% duties imposed on around two-thirds of EU produce, worth around 380 billion euros ($434 billion). The tariffs are set to enter force on Friday, but as of Thursday the two sides were still working on a joint statement that would lay out the terms of their understanding, European Commission spokesman Olof Gill said. The document wouldn’t be legally binding.” (07/31/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/european-union-assumes-its-faces-15-tariffs-in-20796026.php
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20) CA: Empty Pantsuit says she’s not running for governor
Source: The Hill
“Former Vice President Harris announced on Wednesday that she will not run for governor of California in 2026, putting an end to speculation that she would seek her state’s top executive role after her loss to President Trump in November. … The former vice president said she spent time reflecting over the past six months since losing in November after she took over the Democratic ticket when former President Biden dropped out of the race. … Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services, are running so far to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who is term limited.” (07/30/25)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5428238-harris-not-running-california-governor
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21) Two Common Conservative Misconceptions on Open Borders
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“As smart as some conservatives are, many of them just don’t get it when it comes the concept of open borders. They make two common mistakes. First, they are convinced that open borders means no borders. Second, they think that an immigration-control system that doesn’t work — that is, one where lots of people are successfully circumventing the border-control system — is ‘open borders.'” (07/31/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/07/31/two-common-conservative-misconceptions-on-open-borders/
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22) Republicans Push Census Senselessness (and Lawlessness) to Rig Elections
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“‘My bill,’ US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tweeted in June, ‘will require the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct a new census immediately upon enactment of the bill. In conducting the new census of the U.S. population, it shall require questions determining the citizenship of each individual, and count US citizens only.’ The money shot: ‘[T]he bill will direct states to immediately begin a redistricting of all U.S. House seats process using only the population of United States citizens.’ Naturally, US president Donald Trump supports the idea. So does Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Why? Because Republicans want to rig future elections by re-drawing — that is, re-gerrymandering — the American political map to benefit themselves. One problem with the idea: It’s wholly, completely, and unquestionably illegal.” (07/31/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19824
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23) The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent
Source: Rutherford Institute
by John & Nisha Whitehead
“The government’s war on homelessness — much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on illegal immigration, and its war on COVID-19 — is yet another Trojan Horse. … An Orwellian exercise in doublespeak, Trump’s executive order suggests that jailing the homeless, rather than providing them with affordable housing, is the ‘compassionate’ solution to homelessness. … Trump wants to see more use of civil commitments (forced detentions) for anyone who is perceived as posing a risk ‘to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time.’ Translation: the government wants to use homelessness as a pretext for indefinitely locking up anyone who might pose a threat to its chokehold on police state power.” (07/31/25)
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_new_gulag_mental_health_detentions_and_the_criminalization_of_dissent
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24) The Media Can’t Handle the Absence of Truth
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman
“Long ago the economist Joan Robinson arguably pre-butted Trump’s argument for protectionism because, he claims, other nations are treating us unfairly: ‘The popular view that free trade is all very well so long as all nations are free-traders, but that when other nations erect tariffs we must erect tariffs too, is countered by the argument that it would be just as sensible to drop rocks into our harbours because other nations have rocky coasts.’ But it’s even worse when a president mines our harbors based on the false claim that other nations have rocky coasts — and the media declare that he’s winning.” [editor’s note: I’m so used to Krugman being wrong that it’s always an invigorating experience to notice he’s being right – TLK] (07/31/25)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-media-cant-handle-the-absence
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25) Who Speaks for MAGA?
Source: The Bulwark
by Andrew Egger
“Poor Josh Hawley! Missouri’s senior senator is a simple man: All he wants is to pass populist-posturing America First laws taking aim at our dastardly elites. That’s what Republicans are into these days, right? Take congressional stock trading. Republican influencers have long shaken their fists (and not without reason) at lawmakers’ penchant for remarkably canny stock trades. So when Josh Hawley drew up a bill banning the practice, he surely thought he was hitting on both a policy and PR win. He even named it the PELOSI Act as a red-meat coup de grâce! What he certainly didn’t expect was the Truth Social response he got from Donald Trump. Apparently outraged that Hawley’s bill would also ban future presidents from trading stocks beginning in 2029, the president decried Hawley as a ‘second-tier senator’ who was ‘playing right into the dirty hands of the Democrats.'” (07/31/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/i/169747560/who-speaks-for-maga
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26) Think the George Floyd Protests Were Insane? What If Obama Gets Indicted?
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder
“Former President Barack Obama will not face charges for treason, sedition or any other crime in the wake of newly disclosed intel. Whether Obama’s actions, if true, meet the elements of a crime is, of course, one thing. But this is not the primary reason Obama has little to worry about. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claims newly uncovered documents show how Obama and intelligence officials worked during the 2016 presidential campaign to help elect former Secretary of State and Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton. Gabbard contends that Obama’s director of national intelligence, FBI head and CIA knowingly used false and sketchy evidence and sources to help Clinton distract from the growing controversy over her unsecured basement server, a likely violation of the Espionage Act. They did so by concocting a fake attention-drawing scandal: Candidate Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the election.” (07/31/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/07/31/think-the-george-floyd-racial-injustice-protests-were-insane-what-if-obama-gets-indicted-n2661194
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27) Can You Commit Genocide In Self-Defense?
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“If what Israel is doing has nothing to do with actually defending the country, then it is simply guilty. If much of what it has been doing is legitimately related to self-defense, then it is simply not-guilty. Right? Maybe. But what if self-defense cannot be achieved without destroying Gaza utterly? Would that mean that the destruction of Gaza wasn’t genocide? That doesn’t seem right — the destruction happened, and if it gets even worse then what are we going to call it? So does that mean that genocide was justified on the grounds of self-defense, as self-defense can justify homicide? That might sound like an absurd idea, but before saying so, consider the narrative that your average middle-of-the-road Israeli or Israel-defender feels in their bones.” (07/31/25)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/can-you-commit-genocide-in-self-defense
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28) ICE’s Mind-Bogglingly Massive Blank Check
Source: The Atlantic
by Caitlin Dickerson
“Congress has appropriated billions with few strings attached, creating a likely windfall for well-connected firms.” (07/31/25)
https://archive.is/r7qxJ
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29) Trump’s Big New Law a Disaster for the Big Blue Sea
Source: Common Dreams
by David Helvarg
“U.S. President Donald Trump is not a fan of sharks or the ocean. From gutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, to seeking the expansion of offshore oil drilling and deep-sea mining while attacking wind energy, his view of our public seas is that they’ll make a good gas station and garbage dump. And, this view is reflected in his major legacy bill recently passed into law by the MAGA majority in Congress. But there’s been little discussion about how this bill will impact our public seas. So, we (Vicki Nichols Goldman and myself) spoke with George Leonard, former chief scientist with the Ocean Conservancy and an ocean policy consultant about what’s going on.” (07/31/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-ugly-bill-harms-ocean
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30) Mother O’ Mercy! Is This the End of the Cal Bullet Train?
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“It has been The Project That Will Not Die. What began as a California statewide voter referendum in 2008 to approve initial funding for a high-speed rail system between San Francisco and Los Angeles has become a financial black hole with no railroad to show for it. Despite statements from Gov. Gavin Newsom that the system is fine, the Trump administration has announced it was pulling $4 billion from the project. … California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state to sue for the money, claiming that the Trump administration was breaking a legal contract. No doubt, a friendly federal judge will order the money reinstated, but one doubts that after appeals, the California High Speed Rail Authority will win.” (07/31/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/mother-o-mercy-end-cal-bullet-train
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31) Heart-to-heart change in Afghanistan
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“In recent months, Afghanistan has been hit by what could soon be among the world’s largest forced displacements of people in the 21st century. Nearly 2 million Afghans, primarily living in Iran for years to avoid repression at home, have been pushed back across the border. A total of 5.9 million Afghans could arrive from both Iran and Pakistan by the end of the year, the United Nations projects. What’s more, international aid agencies say they can reach only about 10% of the deportees, a result of the hard-line, ruling Taliban restricting aid flows after taking power nearly four years ago. Yet as this tragedy of mass deportation unfolds – a result of a surge in anti-Afghan attitudes in Iran and Pakistan – thousands of people inside Afghanistan are turning the tables on the Taliban with acts of compassion.” (07/30/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0730/Heart-to-heart-change-in-Afghanistan
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32) MAHA and the Myth of Dietary Liberation
Source: Libertarian Institute
by RT Hadley
“Can a government ever dictate health without distorting it? The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, spearheaded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his role as Secretary of Health and Human Services, positions itself as a sweeping response to America’s chronic disease crisis. Framed as a populist health movement, MAHA seeks to overhaul the nation’s approach to nutrition, environmental toxins, and preventative care. … The Modern American Health Act (MAHA), advanced under RFK Jr.’s platform, marks a shift from nutritional suggestion to digitally enforced compliance. While framed as a path to wellness, it signals an unprecedented fusion of policy, personal data, and tech industry influence.” (07/31/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/maha-and-the-myth-of-dietary-liberation
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33) Israel Apologists Think “No No, We’re Starving SICK Kids!” Is A Winning Argument
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I will probably spend the foreseeable future periodically reminding the world that when everyone was angry at Israel for starving children in Gaza, Israel’s apologists spent days loudly proclaiming that no, they were actually just starving sick children. As their defense they said this. They actually believed this helped their case. Let me back up a bit. On Wednesday, The New York Times posted an editor’s note on an article it had published the previous Friday which included a horrifying photo of an emaciated child named Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq. Caving to pressure from Zionists and influence ops like the Israeli propaganda outlet HonestReporting, the Times went out of its way to clarify that al-Mutawaq ‘had pre-existing health problems’, which Israel apologists instantly and predictably spun as proof that the media are lying about Israel starving Gaza.” (07/31/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/31/israel-apologists-think-no-no-were-starving-sick-kids-is-a-winning-argument/
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34) The Art of the Deal?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“As of Sunday, July 27, the United States and the European Union have signed a new trade agreement, imposing a 15% tariff on most EU goods entering the US, while no new tariffs on US goods entering the EU will be implemented. Given that the trade relationship between the two is worth over $1.68 trillion, the aversion of a potential trade war can only be welcomed—but the news for US consumers is less than ideal. Had this agreement not been reached by August 1, President Trump had first threatened a 30% tariff across the board. While the finalized 15% is lower than the original promised tariff, it is still an increase on the previous 10% tariffs that were introduced on all EU goods entering the US set on April 2, 2025, under Trump, and significantly higher than the 1.2% tariff from before Trump’s second term.” (07/31/25)
https://fee.org/articles/the-art-of-the-deal/
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35) Curriculum and Conscience
Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis
“Who bears the primary responsibility for shaping a child’s moral imagination: the state or their parents? Last term, in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Supreme Court answered with uncommon clarity in cases where the parents’ religion is at stake: when public schools press lessons that undermine the faith of young pupils, parents may halt participation. The decision matters on three planes.” (07/31/25)
https://lawliberty.org/curriculum-and-conscience/
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36) The trick that changed the world
Source: Cobden Centre
by Tim Price
“Roughly 90,000 years ago, something rather wonderful happened. The evidence lies in the form of a simple snail shell called Nassarius. This little shell can be found scattered across archaeological sites in Morocco, Algeria and Israel. These shells sport some holes that cannot have been made naturally. Some of them are smeared with red ochre. Almost certainly these shells were worn as beads, on a string. They offer evidence of early man’s interest in personal ornamentation, perhaps money – and trade. Some of the locations in which Nassarius has been found are as much as 125 miles from the nearest coast. These beads probably migrated, from hand to hand, by exchange. Modern man is hardwired to trade. The science writer Matt Ridley describes barter as ‘the trick that changed the world.'” (07/31/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/07/the-trick-that-changed-the-world/
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37) Liberty and unity: What America’s 250th anniversary asks of us today
Source: Fox News Forum
by Carly Fiorina
“Sixteen months before Thomas Jefferson crafted the powerful words that would become our Declaration of Independence, he sat quietly in Richmond’s St. John’s Church, absorbing the oratory of Patrick Henry. Henry’s call, ‘Give me liberty or give me death,’ ignited a revolutionary spirit that Jefferson would later capture on parchment. As we approach July 4, 2026, America’s 250th birthday, Jefferson’s words resonate with renewed importance: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ These words mark the beginning of our nation. These words inspired men and women, enslaved and free, native and immigrant. These words changed the world forever.” (07/31/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liberty-unity-what-americas-250th-anniversary-asks-us-today
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38) We’re Lying to Ourselves About Taxes, Spending, and the Debt
Source: Reason
by Veronique de Rugy
“Yes, the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ avoided a massive tax increase and includes pro-growth reforms. It also adds to the debt — by how much is debatable — and that’s before we get to the budgetary reckoning of Social Security and Medicare’s impending insolvency. Against that backdrop, it’s infuriating to see a $9 billion rescission package — one drop in the deficit bucket — met with cries of bloody murder. … Maybe we wouldn’t keep operating this way — pretending like minor trims are major reforms while refusing to tackle demographic and entitlement time bombs ticking beneath our feet — if we stayed focused on the question of what, considering the cost, we’re willing to pay for.” (07/31/25)
https://reason.com/2025/07/31/were-lying-to-ourselves-about-taxes-spending-and-the-debt/
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39) Not Everything Is an Emergency
Source: The Dispatch
by Ilya Somin
“The Trump administration has attempted to make sweeping use of emergency powers in the areas of immigration, trade, and domestic use of the military. In each case, President Donald Trump has tried to use powers legally reserved for extreme exigencies — invasion, war, grave threats to national security — to address essentially normal political challenges. … In litigation over all three of its major invocations of emergency powers — immigration, tariffs, and domestic use of the military — the administration has also invoked the ‘political questions’ doctrine, which holds that some issues are off limits to the judiciary, because they have been left to the political process. The Supreme Court’s precedent here is an often incoherent mess. But there is no general principle holding that invocations of emergency powers are exempt from judicial scrutiny.” (07/31/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/not-everything-is-an-emergency/
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40) Trump is squeezing himself with his own Russia deadline
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Mark Episkopos
“His initial instincts for talking were right; he shouldn’t let frustration or the need for a quick ‘win’ to cloud his judgement here.” (07/31/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-russia/
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41) Bankruptcy Is Us: The Personification of Decline
Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt
“Once upon a time, nothing in this world could have convinced me that I would be living through this moment in this America on this planet. As a start, once upon an increasingly distant time, Donald J. Trump as president of the United States would have been inconceivable. Literally beyond conception, even in some wildly dystopian satiric novel about an all-too(un)-American future. I mean, forget anything else, a man who in private life bankrupted six (yes, six!) companies has now been elected president of the United States not just once but twice. You know, the fellow who thinks of those he considers his domestic enemies (and that’s not too strong a word for it), whether Democrats, Republicans, or journalists as nothing short of (and this is the word he uses: ‘evil’).” (07/31/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/bankruptcy-is-us/
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42) Precedented Prosecution?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“‘The Crown says it’s seeking an extraordinary sentence for an unprecedented crime,’ wrote Arthur White-Crummey for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation last week, ‘as court began hearing sentencing submissions Wednesday in the mischief case of Ottawa truck convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. The ‘Ottawa truck convoy’ is what they are calling the big anti-totalitarian protests made by truckers in Canada during the late pandemic scare. … a specific kind of government does indeed prosecute its opponents in this manner, no matter how peaceful. Tyrannical governments.” (07/31/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/07/31/precedented-prosecution/
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43) The Russia-Ukraine War Belongs to Russia and Ukraine
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“Throughout most of America’s history, Ukraine has been ruled from Moscow. The Ukrainian people have long suffered under that relationship, but Washington never considered going to war on Kiev’s behalf. Ukraine matters far more to Europe than America, and, as Trump has admitted, the current conflict was fueled by Washington’s multiple broken promises not to expand NATO to Russia’s borders. U.S. interests would be best served by cutting off fuel for the conflict, with its dangerous potential of escalating into a nuclear confrontation.” (07/31/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-russia-ukraine-war-belongs-to-russia-and-ukraine/
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44) Inside the Trump administration’s extortion-industrial complex
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Tyler Tone
“[T]he Paramount settlement provides only a small window into a larger attempt — on the part of the president and his administration — to transform the relationship between the government and America’s media industry, powered by the machinery of the FCC. It’s an extortion regime much bigger than any one-time cash grab, enveloping the media industry in a cloud of weaponized uncertainty created by lawsuits, selective regulatory investigations, and slow-walked merger approvals. The ultimate aim? Getting some of America’s largest media companies to bend the knee and do the administration’s bidding. Call it the extortion-industrial complex, and Paramount has been just one victim of it.” (07/30/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/inside-trump-administrations-extortion-industrial-complex
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45) Trump’s economy already proving the doomsayers completely wrong
Source: New York Post
by staff
“So much for the prophecies of Trumponomics doom: Not only did the US economy grow at a 3% rate in the second quarter, the growth was all in the private sector as the government portion shrank. Meanwhile, ADP reports that private-sector employment rose by 104,000 jobs in July, with annual wages jumping 4.4% — well above the rate of inflation, which also remains markedly lower than the conventional-wisdom crew predicted. That is, growth was half again the consensus forecast for April-June, while July looks like a huge boon for American workers — all as many of President Donald Trump’s policies have only begun to kick in. Trump’s tariffs have neither crashed the economy nor kicked off fresh inflation — though of course those predictions largely came from ‘experts’ who never expected the bane of Bidenflation.” (07/30/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/30/opinion/trumps-economy-is-already-proving-the-doomsayers-completely-wrong/
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46) Why ICE is Spying on US Citizens’ Medical Data
Source: Cato Institute
by Patrick G Eddington & Jeffrey A Singer
“Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), law enforcement usually needs a warrant, court order or subpoena to access a patient’s medical records. However, ICE has taken advantage of a legal loophole by obtaining insurance claims data from third-party clearinghouses and data brokers. By accessing these alternative channels, federal agents can avoid legal protections designed to safeguard patient privacy. … ICE’s use of these databases serves as a stark reminder that tools designed for legitimate purposes, such as detecting insurance fraud, can be quietly turned into instruments of surveillance. ICE’s misuse of medical claims data not only threatens undocumented migrants but also, by eroding trust in the public health system, endangers all Americans.” (07/30/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/why-ice-spying-us-citizens-medical-data
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47) Freedom in a Post-Covid World
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“The Covid era cut through traditional ideological paradigms like knives on tissue. Nothing behaved as we might have expected. The civil libertarians were nowhere in sight. The courts did not work. Big business and media fully cooperated. The major religions caved. The national security state thrived, while both parties let it all happen. The population was mercilessly propagandized and pillaged with no resistance from the commanding heights. … The state did not save us from large corporations and the top layers in commercial society did not save us from the state. They worked together to strangle the liberty of everyone else.” (07/30/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/freedom-in-a-post-covid-world/
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48) The US cut off a million TPS holders. Here’s why that’s everyone else’s opportunity.
Source: Niskanen Center
by Cassandra Zimmer
“In June, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced she would end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, removing legal protections from more than 500,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States. Earlier this year, she rescinded TPS for over 348,000 Venezuelans and 55,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans. With Cameroon and Nepal already terminated, more than one million TPS holders are now poised to lose lawful status in 2025 …. Many TPS holders work in America’s most labor-starved sectors, including construction, home healthcare, food processing, hospitality, and agriculture. Employers who have long relied on TPS workers will be forced to terminate experienced staff while scrambling to hire replacements in an exceptionally tight labor market. … There may be a solution to capitalize on these workers’ talents and ensure they can work and thrive in safe communities — unfortunately for the U.S. economy, those communities are abroad.” (07/30/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-u-s-cut-off-a-million-tps-holders-heres-why-thats-everyone-elses-opportunity/
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49) Inflation Comes to Immigration
Source: The American Prospect
by James Baratta
“If Donald Trump’s goal is to strain the immigration system to such a point that it merely serves as an avenue for the fast-tracking of deportations, he is certainly making headway. The barriers have been piling up: ending bond hearings for undocumented immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally, kidnapping people at their immigration court hearings and places of work, entrapping new arrivals who fail to register with the government, and imposing significant penalties on those who do not comply with removal orders. In an added twist, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which unlocks unprecedented levels of funding for immigration enforcement and border security, creates a fiscal minefield of onerous processing fees and penalties. Most of these fees are new and cannot be waived, and the goal is not necessarily to mitigate the government’s giant budget deficit, but to price migrants out of entering or staying in the country, even legally.” (07/31/25)
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-07-31-inflation-comes-to-immigration/
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50) The Trump-Crypto Honeymoon Is Over
Source: Wired
by Jake Lahut
“It’s been pretty clear for quite some time: Trumpworld loves crypto. Almost everywhere you look in the second Trump administration, there’s a crypto connection. The president, most notably, has his own memecoin, and his two eldest sons, Eric and Don Jr., are involved in a variety of crypto ventures, including World Liberty Financial and its stablecoin. Despite cryptocurrency being immensely profitable for the Trump family and vice versa, though, cracks are beginning to emerge in a key alliance that helped bring the president back to power. The dustup around stablecoin and market structure legislation could be the first preview of more fissures to come.” (07/30/25)
https://archive.is/0nIpA
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51) The Libertarian Angle, 07/31/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Trump’s New Trade and Sanction Fiasco.” (07/31/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2inTyCuQPsE
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52) The Political Orphanage, 07/31/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“But Gene Epstein Hates the Fed.” (07/31/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/but-gene-epstein-hates-the-fed
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53) Conflicts of Interest, episode 824
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Israeli Human Rights Groups Say Israel Is Committing the Crime of Genocide in Gaza.” (07/31/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-824-israeli-human-rights-groups-say-israel-is-committing-the-crime-of-genocide-in-gaza/
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54) Mean Age Daydream, 07/31/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Well **** Do Tariffs Work? / Nazi Jeans / Collective Shout Are Woke Game Censors.” (07/31/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/well-do-tariffs-work-nazi-jeans-collective-shout-are-woke-game-censors
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55) Capital Record, episode 245
Source: National Review
“Messing Up Capital Formation, Legally.” (07/31/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/messing-up-capital-formation-legally/
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56) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 07/31/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
‘Is Trump 2.0 Morphing Into Biden 2.0?” (07/31/25)
https://rumble.com/v6wxyn0-is-trump-2.0-morphing-into-biden-2.0.html
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57) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 07/31/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Hit by Harsh Blow from Fed Chair as Polls Reveal Fresh Weakness.” (07/31/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/198639/trump-hit-harsh-blow-fed-chair-polls-reveal-fresh-weakness
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58) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/31/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Report: Israel Gives Hamas Annexation Ultimatum, US Sanctions Iranian Shipping Network, and More.” (07/31/25)
https://rumble.com/v6wx63a-report-israel-gives-hamas-annexation-ultimatum-us-sanctions-iranian-shippin.html
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59) Advisory Opinions, 07/31/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Guns, Gays, and Birthright Citizenship.” (07/31/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/guns-gays-and-birthright-citizenship/
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60) How to Build a Better Society — One School at a Time
Source: Quillette
“Inside the uncompromising vision of Britain’s strictest headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh.” (07/31/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/07/31/how-to-build-a-better-society-one-school-at-a-time/
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61) LPA Solidarity Stream, 07/30/25
Source: LP Alliance
“We’ll be talking about the importance of grassroots, member-based advocacy in the LP, the critical dynamic between causes and candidates, and how members, affiliates, and the LNC can deploy it effectively.” (07/30/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ebLGjIZnsQ
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62) System Update, episode 495
Source: System Update
“Stephen Miller’s False Denials About Trump’s Campus ‘Hate Speech’ Codes; Sohrab Ahmari on the MAGA Splits Over Antitrust, Foreign Wars, and More.” (07/30/25)
https://rumble.com/v6wwl7s-system-update-show-495.html
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63) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 07/30/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Understanding the Decline in Student Test Scores with Jim Wyckoff.” (07/30/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/education/understanding-the-decline-in-student-test-scores-with-jim-wyckoff/
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64) The David Frum Show, 07/30/25
Source: The Atlantic
“Doug Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, on Trump’s trade war, the myth of protectionism, and what history teaches us about tariffs.” (07/30/25)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/07/david-frum-show-tariffs-trump-doug-irwin/683707
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65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 07/30/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“MAGA Turns On Trump Over Gaza.” (07/30/25)
https://rumble.com/v6ww78m-maga-turns-on-trump-over-gaza.html
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