08/08 -- Trump orders pretend "census" as part of 2026 election-rigging project; Attack of the Bubble Boy Pols
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1) Trump orders pretend “census” as part of 2026 election-rigging project
2) Palestine: Israeli cabinet panel approves plan to take control of Gaza City
3) Trump opens door to crypto in 401(k)s
4) Solomon Islands: Regime locks Chinese, Taiwanese, US regimes out of Pacific Islands Forum meeting
5) Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp
6) Philippines: Senate Shelves Duterte Impeachment
7) US CDC: Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods
8) Zambia: Regime dismisses US health warning after toxic spill in copper mining area
9) Tunisia: Saied Supporters Protest Against UGTT Union Amid Rising Tensions
10) Harvard scientists: Research “could be set back years” after funding freeze
11) Bank of England narrowly votes to cut interest rates to 4% as balancing act continues
12) Archaeologists: People returned to live in Pompeii’s ruins
13) US soldier accused of trying to leak secrets to Russia for citizenship
14) “Interstellar object” hurtling towards our solar system could be intercepted with new probe
15) Nearly a million more deaths than births in Japan last year
16) Myanmar: Junta’s figurehead “president” dies
17) Haiti: Warlord “Barbecue” Threatens Rival Gang Leader’s Office as Violence Flares
18) Vance to visit Indiana as Trump pressures GOP states to re-gerrymander
19) Senior FBI official who resisted Trump regime demands is pushed out
20) Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Attack of the Bubble Boy Pols
22) The nationalist case against trade surpluses
23) Why you might not know that 2024 was America’s safest year since the 1960s
24) Does Donald Trump Know What a Dictator Looks Like?
25) Why Are Some Libertarians So Concerned about Tax Loopholes?
26) What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban
27) Scholars and Schemers: How the Left [sic] Ruined Higher Education
28) What Makes a Redistricting Fair?
29) What the Hell Is Happening Over at the FDA?
30) Attorney General will likely defy obscure information disclosure law on Epstein files
31) It’s time for Newsom to pull the brake on California’s $128 billion ghost train
32) Trump’s Team of Cowards
33) Mexico’s smart moves for safety
34) What Families Gain at the Dinner Table
35) Meet the New Middle East, Same as the Old Middle East
36) UK Targets Wikipedia
37) Hey, experts: Admit what you got so wrong on Trump’s tariffs
38) Trump Shouldn’t Play with Nuclear Fire in Ukraine
39) Latin America’s hidden role in shaping US foreign policy Latin America’s hidden role in shaping US foreign policy
40) Bureaucratizing Faith
41) Stop Governor Healey’s $360 Million Prison Plan
42) Tariff Updates: Random Number Generation, Cronyism, and Premature Optimism
43) US Pressure is Firming Up a Multipolar World
44) Kids Don’t Want Screens — They Want Freedom
45) Poll: Majority Of Voters Believe Obama’s Deep State “Committed Crimes” In Russiagate
46) Equality Before the Law, Equality of Permission, and the Language of Libertarianism
47) The Woke Right Stands At the Door
48) November 1963: Pulp Fiction and CIA Realities
49) Silicon Valley Godzilla vs. Wall Street Mothra
50) The sickening state of modern media
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56) Conflicts of Interest, episode 826
57) Capital Record, episode 250
58) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2677
59) Fountainhead Forum, episode 341
60) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/07/25
61) LPA Solidarity Stream, 08/06/25
62) Mean Age Daydream, 08/06/25
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1) Trump orders pretend “census” as part of 2026 election-rigging project
Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was ordering a ‘new and highly accurate CENSUS,’ saying it will be based on the ‘information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024.’ ‘People who are in our country illegally will NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS,’ he wrote in the Truth Social post announcing the move. The census is a constitutionally mandated count of every person in the United States every 10 years, which was last conducted in 2020. A full census has never been conducted mid-decade in this manner, nor has one ever excluded noncitizens from the count.” [editor’s note: The reason those things have never happened is that the the US Constitution provides for one census each decade, requires it to count all inhabitants of the US, and apportions US House districts by inhabitants, not citizens; his pretend “census” wouldn’t legally change any of that – TLK] (08/07/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/07/trump-new-census-00497025
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2) Palestine: Israeli cabinet panel approves plan to take control of Gaza City
Source: Reuters
“Israel’s political-security cabinet approved a plan to take control of Gaza City early on Friday, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel intended to take military control of the entire strip despite intensifying criticism at home and abroad over the devastating almost two-year-old war. … Two government sources said any resolution by the security cabinet would need to be approved by the full cabinet, which may not meet until Sunday. … Outside the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, hundreds of demonstrators protested against an expanded war, demanding an immediate end to the military campaign in return for the release of all the hostages.” (08/07/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-approves-plan-take-control-gaza-city-2025-08-07/
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3) Trump opens door to crypto in 401(k)s
Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
“Millions of Americans saving for retirement through 401(k) accounts could have the option of putting their money in higher-risk private equity and cryptocurrency investments, according to an executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump that could give those financial players long-sought access to a pool of funds worth trillions. There is no immediate change in how people invest part of their work earnings. Federal agencies would need to rewrite rules and regulations to allow the expanded choices, and that would take months or more to complete. But once done, employers could offer a broader array of mutual funds and investments to workers, according to the White House.” (08/08/25)
https://archive.is/fxXgO
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4) Solomon Islands: Regime locks Chinese, Taiwanese, US regimes out of Pacific Islands Forum meeting
Source: Nikkei Asia [Japan]
“The government of the Solomon Islands will not invite the U.S. and China to attend a key regional meeting in September, a move experts see as an effort to avoid diplomatic fallout over the alternative of singling out and excluding Taiwan from the event. The annual leaders meeting organized by the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), a key regional body comprising 16 Pacific island nations, Australia and New Zealand …. At last year’s PIF meeting in Tonga, Qian Bo, Beijing’s ambassador to the Pacific, successfully pushed to remove a paragraph from the forum’s joint communique that would have recognized Taiwan’s standing and involvement with the regional organization. Peter Kenilorea, a Solomon Islands MP who has criticized the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in the Pacific, told Nikkei Asia in May that Honiara was under pressure from Beijing to exclude Taiwan from the forum.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/tVmF7
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5) Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp
Source: CNN
“A federal judge on Thursday ordered a two-week halt to construction at an immigrant [concentration camp] in the Florida Everglades dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as she considers whether it violates environmental laws. The facility was quickly built two months ago at a lightly used, single-runway training airport and can hold up to 3,000 detainees in temporary tent structures. The site was continuing to be built out, but the order by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams temporarily bars the installation of any new industrial-style lighting, as well as any paving, filling, excavating or fencing. The order also prohibits any other site expansion, including placing or erecting any additional buildings, tents, dormitories or other residential or administrative facilities.” (08/07/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/us/alligator-alcatraz-construction-halt-judge
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6) Philippines: Senate Shelves Duterte Impeachment
Source: New York Times
“Vice President Sara Duterte of the Philippines moved one step closer to defeating the impeachment case against her on Wednesday, after the Senate voted to put on hold a trial that could have led to her removal. The Senate voted 19-4 to archive the impeachment complaint against Ms. Duterte, which had been approved by the lower house. Though the Senate can still hold a trial later, the possibility is diminishing. Last month the Supreme Court found the impeachment proceedings were unconstitutional, which influenced the Senate vote. In a statement last week, Ms. Duterte called the charges an abuse by the House. … In May elections, candidates endorsed by the Dutertes won more seats in both chambers of Congress. That was a show of strength for Ms. Duterte, who has made no secret of her intention to succeed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., her former ally.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/gPokk
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7) US CDC: Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“Most Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods, those super-tasty, energy-dense foods typically full of sugar, salt and unhealthy fats, according to a new federal report. Nutrition research has shown for years that ultra-processed foods make up a big chunk of the U.S. diet, especially for kids and teens. For the first time, however, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed those high levels of consumption, using dietary data collected from August 2021 to August 2023. The report comes amid growing scrutiny of such foods by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who blames them for causing chronic disease.” (08/07/25)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/08/07/american-diet-ultra-processed-foods/
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8) Zambia: Regime dismisses US health warning after toxic spill in copper mining area
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The Zambian government has dismissed claims of dangerous pollution in the Copperbelt mining region, following safety concerns raised by the US embassy. On Wednesday, the US embassy issued a health alert, ordering the immediate withdrawal of its personnel in Kitwe town and nearby areas due to concerns of ‘widespread contamination of water and soil’ linked to a February spill at the Sino-Metals mine. … Zambia’s government spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa hit back, saying the ‘laboratory results show that PH levels have returned to normal’ in the area and the water was safe to drink.” (08/07/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2qeexv791o
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9) Tunisia: Saied Supporters Protest Against UGTT Union Amid Rising Tensions
Source: US News & World Report
“Hundreds of supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied staged a rally outside the headquarters of the powerful UGTT union on Thursday and urged Saied to suspend the union following a transport strike last week that paralysed the country. The rally highlights growing fears among activists and opposition supporters of a possible move by Saied against one of the last major independent organisations in the North African country. Saied assumed sweeping powers in 2021, shut down the elected parliament, started ruling by decree, suspended the Supreme Judicial Council and sacked dozens of judges in a move the opposition described as a coup.” (08/07/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-07/tunisian-presidents-supporters-protest-against-ugtt-union-amid-rising-tensions
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10) Harvard scientists: Research “could be set back years” after funding freeze
Source: SFGate
“Harvard University professor Alberto Ascherio’s research is literally frozen. Collected from millions of U.S. soldiers over two decades using millions of dollars from taxpayers, the epidemiology and nutrition scientist has blood samples stored in liquid nitrogen freezers within the university’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The samples are key to his award-winning research, which seeks a cure to multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases. But for months, Ascherio has been unable to work with the samples because he lost $7 million in federal research funding, a casualty of Harvard’s fight with the Trump administration. ‘It’s like we have been creating a state-of-the-art telescope to explore the universe, and now we don’t have money to launch it,’ said Ascherio. ‘We built everything and now we are ready to use it to make a new discovery that could impact millions of people in the world and then ‘Poof. You’re being cut off!”” (08/07/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/harvard-scientists-say-research-could-be-set-back-20806148.php
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11) Bank of England narrowly votes to cut interest rates to 4% as balancing act continues
Source: CNBC
“The Bank of England voted by a fine margin to cut interest rates from 4.25% to 4% on Thursday as the central bank resumed what it describes as a ‘gradual and careful’ approach to monetary easing. The BOE was widely expected to trim rates by 25 basis points at its latest monetary policy meeting, but traders and economists were keen to see the breakdown of support for the decision among the bank’s policymakers. As it turned out on Thursday, the nine-member MPC voted by a majority of 5-4 to reduce the key interest rate, the ‘Bank Rate,’ by 25 basis points rather than keeping it on hold. The British pound rose 0.5% against the dollar after the decision, to $1.3424.” (08/07/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/bank-of-england-cuts-interest-rates-by-a-quarter-point-to-4percent.html
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12) Archaeologists: People returned to live in Pompeii’s ruins
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“New evidence suggests people returned to live among the ruins of Pompeii after the ancient Roman city was devastated by a volcanic eruption. Archaeologists believe some survivors who could not afford to start a new life elsewhere returned to the site and may have been joined by others looking for a place to settle. Pompeii was home to more than 20,000 people before Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79, burying – and preserving – much of the city, before its rediscovery in the 16th century. There had been previous speculation that survivors had returned to the ruins, and archaeologists at the site said in a statement on Wednesday that the theory appears to have been confirmed by new research.” (08/07/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62wx23y2v1o
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13) US soldier accused of trying to leak secrets to Russia for citizenship
Source: Yahoo! News
“An active-duty U.S. Army soldier has been arrested and accused of trying to leak classified defense information to Russia, prosecutors said. Taylor Adam Lee, 22, of El Paso, Texas, was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 6, and charged with attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license, the Department of Justice said in a news release. Starting in May, Lee, who had been stationed at the Fort Bliss base in Texas, allegedly tried to send sensitive information about the Army’s main battle tank to Russia’s Ministry of Defense. … In July, Lee allegedly met in person with someone he believed to be a representative of the Russian government and passed them an SD card containing information about the M1A2 Abrams and combat operations.” (08/07/25)
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/army-soldier-accused-trying-leak-120028692.html
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14) “Interstellar object” hurtling towards our solar system could be intercepted with new probe
Source: GB News [UK]
“Scientists are weighing up the possibility of intercepting an interstellar object hurtling towards our solar system at speed. The mysterious intergalactic object is believed to have been travelling the vast emptiness of space for billions of years at speeds of over 130,000 miles per hour. Nasa first became aware of the object, which was been named 3I/ATLAS, on July 1 — and it is only the third time a visitor from another star has been spotted in our region of space. Other intergalactic visitors sighted include Oumuamua in 2017 and the Borisov comet in 2019. 3I/ATLAS is set to reach its closest point to our sun on October 30, over 130,000 million miles away, before disappearing again. However, some scientists have been discussing the possibility of sending a spacecraft to intercept the mysterious visitor before it vanishes from our solar system forever.” (08/07/25)
https://www.gbnews.com/science/interstellar-object-solar-system-intercepted
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15) Nearly a million more deaths than births in Japan last year
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Almost a million more deaths than births were recorded in Japan last year, representing the steepest annual population decline since government surveys began in 1968. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has described the demographic crisis of Japan’s ageing population as a ‘quiet emergency,’ pledging family-friendly policies such as free childcare and more flexible work hours. But efforts to reverse the perennially low birth rates among Japanese women have so far made little impact. New data released on Wednesday by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications showed the number of Japanese nationals fell by 908,574 in 2024. Japan recorded 686,061 births — the lowest number since records began in 1899 — while nearly 1.6 million people died, meaning for every baby born, more than two people died. It marks the 16th consecutive year of population decline with the squeeze being felt by the nation’s pension and healthcare systems.” (08/07/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74dnzr4jdvo
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16) Myanmar: Junta’s figurehead “president” dies
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Myint Swe, who has served as Myanmar’s military-backed president, has died aged 74 after a long medical leave, according to state media. The news of his death was announced on Thursday in a statement from the government. … A former general, Myint Swe became president of Myanmar in 2021 when the military overthrew the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Before the military takeover, he held several senior leadership posts, including the post of first vice president during a period of semi-democratic rule that ended in 2021. The coup handed power to Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of Myanmar’s military, with Myint Swe serving as a figurehead leader carrying out ceremonial duties.” (08/07/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/7/figurehead-president-of-military-ruled-myanmar-dies-aged-74
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17) Haiti: Warlord “Barbecue” Threatens Rival Gang Leader’s Office as Violence Flares
Source: Bloomberg
“One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders is threatening to attack the prime minister’s office and other branches of government, as the troubled Caribbean nation prepares for a leadership transition.
In a video shared on social media, Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier of the ‘Viv Ansanm’ gang coalition, asked the nation to help him overthrow the transitional government and announced plans to seize government offices, including the building from which the executive branch is operating. The leadership of the Presidential Transitional Council is due to rotate Thursday. Fritz Alphonse Jean, who has held the office since March, is slated to hand over the helm to Laurent Saint-Cyr, a businessman who has led the American Chamber of Commerce in Haiti and the country’s Chamber of Industry.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/k2Xq3
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18) Vance to visit Indiana as Trump pressures GOP states to re-gerrymander
Source: Seattle Times
“Vice President JD Vance visits Indiana on Thursday to discuss redistricting with Republican leaders as President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on GOP states to redraw congressional boundaries and give the party more winnable seats in the 2026 midterm elections. Vance is scheduled to hold private meetings with Gov. Mike Braun and others before attending a GOP fundraiser Thursday night in the solidly Republican state. Braun told reporters Tuesday he expects to discuss several matters with the vice president — including redistricting — but said no commitments have been made. … Braun would have to call a special session if he chooses to start the redistricting process, but lawmakers have the sole power to draw up new maps.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/upMGg
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19) Senior FBI official who resisted Trump regime demands is pushed out
Source: SFGate
“A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, investigations is being forced out of the bureau, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The circumstances of Brian Driscoll’s ouster were not immediately clear, but his final day is Friday, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the personnel move by name and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Additional ousters were possible. Spokespeople for the FBI declined to comment. The news comes amid a much broader personnel purge that has unfolded over the last several months under the leadership of current FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino.” (08/07/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/senior-fbi-official-who-resisted-trump-20806960.php
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20) Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years
Source: ABC News
“The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But due to increasing coral cover since 2017, the coral deaths — caused mainly by bleaching last year associated with climate change — have left the area of living coral across the iconic reef system close to its long-term average, the Australian Institute of Marine Science said in its annual survey on Wednesday. … Because of record global heat in 2023 and 2024, the world is still going through its biggest — and fourth ever recorded — mass coral bleaching event on record, with heat stress hurting nearly 84% of the world’s coral reef area, including the Great Barrier Reef, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s coral reef watch.” (08/06/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/great-barrier-reef-records-largest-annual-coral-loss-124435799
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21) Attack of the Bubble Boy Pols
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“America treats its politicians like the kid in that old Seinfeld episode, ‘The Bubble Boy’ — isolated and coddled lest contact with regular human beings harm them. The rest of us apparently exist only to provide these power-mongers with votes, and occasionally with audiences carefully curated for high levels of adoration and applause. Outside those contexts, we’re to be neither seen nor heard. Okay, that’s not completely true. We also fork over $3 billion per year for the Secret Service, $800 million for the Capitol Police Department, and heaven only knows how much for military air cover, etc., to ensure that Very Special Important People never experience discomfort due to unintentional contact with us mere mortals.” (08/07/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19861
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22) The nationalist case against trade surpluses
Source: Washington Post
by Dominic Pino
“We’re familiar at this point with the ‘America First’ justification for tariffs: The United States has a large trade deficit in goods, and this is bad because it means American jobs to make those goods went abroad. … But it’s also worth pointing out that it’s just as easy to make a nationalist case against trade surpluses. As it stands, nationalists already don’t like the trade surplus the U.S. does have. They demean jobs in finance and tech as unmanly and hold intangible products to be less vital than tangible ones, even though the U.S. services trade surplus is nearly $300 billion. … what if nationalists achieved their model economy, one led by exports of durable goods by durable men? I’m skeptical they’d enjoy it as much as they believe they would.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/bVyUz
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23) Why you might not know that 2024 was America’s safest year since the 1960s
Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum & Rebecca Crosby
“An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year. An overwhelming majority of Americans are wrong. On Tuesday, August 5, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released its comprehensive report on crime in the United States for 2024. … the new FBI data shows that both violent crime and property crime are at their lowest level since the 1960s. In 2024, there were about 349 reported violent crimes in the United States for every 100,000 Americans. That is the lowest rate of violent crime since 1969.” (08/07/25)
https://popular.info/p/why-you-might-not-know-that-2024
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24) Does Donald Trump Know What a Dictator Looks Like?
Source: Reason
by Matt Welch
“President Donald Trump sure picked a curious venue to start calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a ‘dictator.’ It was February 19, halfway through a remarkable two-week run in which America reversed its approach to both the Russia-Ukraine war and possibly the entire 76-year-old Washington-led trans-Atlantic military alliance. Trump was speaking in Miami Beach’s Faena Hotel and Forum at a bland-sounding ‘Priority Summit’ hosted by the innocuously named Future Investment Initiative Institute, which in turn is owned by the nondescript Public Investment Fund (PIF). But to the global financial elite, that latter entity is far from obscure. At an estimated $941 billion, the PIF is the sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet, owned by one of the world’s most authoritarian dictatorships, Saudi Arabia.” (08/07/25)
https://reason.com/2025/08/07/does-donald-trump-know-what-a-dictator-looks-like/
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25) Why Are Some Libertarians So Concerned about Tax Loopholes?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M Vance
“Libertarians who say that certain tax deductions and credits are loopholes that need to be closed argue that these loopholes distort the tax code, are inefficient, subsidize high-income taxpayers, interfere with the free market, and encourage people to make economically unwise decisions. They may be all those things and more, but what is the effect of reducing, phasing out, or eliminating them? The effect is higher taxes and more revenue for Uncle Sam. … Only those who think that the government has an absolute right to a percentage of all income produced and that tax deductions and credits deprive the government of its claim to that percentage could object to individuals holding on to more of their money.” (08/07/25)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/why-are-some-libertarians-so-concerned-about-tax-loopholes/
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26) What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban
Source: The Intercept
by Jonah Valdez
“After a month of militarized raids and racial profiling throughout Southern California, Federal Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong of California’s Central District, in response to a class-action lawsuit filed by community organizations and detained workers, delivered the Trump administration a major blow. She issued an order that prohibits federal agents from targeting individuals based on their race and ethnicity; whether they speak Spanish or English with an accent; their location such as a car wash, department store parking lot, or other worksite; or their occupation, such as landscapers or street vendors. The Trump administration appealed, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld the temporary restraining order. The order had brought relative calm to the region in recent weeks, slowing what had been near-daily operations to occasional isolated incidents. But the Trump administration’s Southern California campaign was not over.” (08/07/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/immigrant-raid-home-depot-la-restraining-order/
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27) Scholars and Schemers: How the Left [sic] Ruined Higher Education
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“Despite denials from the left [sic], US higher education has been captured by leftist [sic] faculty, students, and administrators. This is not a figment of anyone’s imagination, as for most of this century colleges and universities have changed dramatically. Anyone who has been to college in the past half-century would attest to what then was called the ‘liberalism’ of most of their professors, and, in the post-World War II era, the probability that one’s professor was a registered Democrat has been high. Yet, this is not what we mean by the ‘radicalizing’ of American higher education, for even those professors that classified themselves as ‘liberals’ and faithfully supported the Democratic Party would not have considered themselves to be radicals.” (08/07/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/scholars-and-schemers-how-left-ruined-higher-education
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28) What Makes a Redistricting Fair?
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“What makes a redistricting map fair? Is it the process or the product—and in either case, what process and what product? I’m prompted to ask this question, of course, by the proposed Texas gerrymander, aimed at increasing the Republican congressional delegation by five seats. From a process perspective, the objections are obvious. Redistricting only has to happen after a new census, so a redistricting at any other time is presumptively illegitimate. And for any purely partisan redistricting the negative presumption is even greater. There’s something obviously undemocratic about allowing incumbents to set the boundaries of their own districts to keep themselves in office, and to allow incumbent majorities to improve their political position by similar means. One of the teams playing the game shouldn’t be allowed unilaterally to change the rules.” (08/07/25)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/what-makes-a-redistricting-fair
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29) What the Hell Is Happening Over at the FDA?
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“I check the Washington Post every day for work purposes (though I do so through a website that bypasses their paywall because screw the left-wing media) because, while the paper is marinated in left-wing bias, they generally get the basic facts correct as far as the ‘who, what, where and when’ of a story. And while they cover the unintentionally absurd more often than is likely healthy, sometimes they have stories that make you wonder what the hell is happening with our own side. One great example of a ‘what the hell is happening here’ story run just the other day that opened with, ‘Orange juice, known for its tangy, sweet taste, could be made with slightly less sugary oranges under a regulation proposed Tuesday by the Trump administration.’ Orange juice is an issue now?” (08/07/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/08/07/what-the-hell-is-happening-over-at-the-fda-n2661501
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30) Attorney General will likely defy obscure information disclosure law on Epstein files
Source: The Hill
by Don Wolfensberger
“For nearly three decades I labored in the congressional vineyards of rules, procedures, norms and reforms. And, in all that time, until last week, I had never heard of a law creating the Senate rule of five or the House rule of seven. Suffice it to say it was antiquated, obscure and rarely invoked. Moreover, it is not contained in the standing rules manual of either body. Instead, it is enshrined in permanent law — namely 5 U.S. Code, sec. 2954, first enacted in 1928. That section simply directs any executive agency to comply with any request for information from one of the two principal oversight committees of Congress. … What has reignited interest in this succinct century-old law is its resurrection last week by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and all seven Democrats on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee demanding that the Justice Department turn over all documents relating to the Jeffrey Epstein controversy.” (08/07/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5439184-senate-house-rule-epstein/
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31) It’s time for Newsom to pull the brake on California’s $128 billion ghost train
Source: Fox News
by Joshua Thompson
“It’s not every day a state manages to burn through billions and still ask for more. But California’s high-speed rail project has always been exceptional in that way. Last month, the federal government finally said enough, scrapping $4 billion in funding after years of missed deadlines, ballooning budgets and political theatrics. You’d think that would halt the train. Instead, the state celebrated by tweeting about construction jobs and posting photos of rebar. Ten years ago, I did the math and showed that for the price of California’s high-speed rail project, we could fly every Californian roundtrip to Tokyo, buy them a bullet train ticket to Kyoto and put them up for two nights at the Ritz-Carlton. And we’d still have money left over for sushi. A decade later, the bullet train still hasn’t arrived. But the fantasy rolls on, powered by taxpayer dollars and bureaucratic inertia.” (08/07/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/its-time-newsom-pull-brake-on-californias-128-billion-ghost-train
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32) Trump’s Team of Cowards
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“Donald Trump’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), brought his administration to a new level of crazy. Firing the head of a statistical agency because he didn’t like the data is extreme even by Trumpian standards. But Trump’s statements on the firing and the response of his top aides also tell us a lot about the people he has surrounding himself with. … If Trump decides something about the state of the economy, no one on his team is going to ever correct him, no matter how crazy it is. If his tariffs, budget cuts, and arbitrary and ad hoc regulatory changes give us 20 percent unemployment and 20 percent inflation, and Trump says we have a perfect economy, none of his aides is going tell him otherwise.” (08/07/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/07/trumps-team-of-cowards/
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33) Mexico’s smart moves for safety
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Mexico is reportedly on the cusp of signing a new security agreement with the United States. This comes in the wake of a near stop in illegal border crossings and a temporary reprieve on higher trade tariffs. According to President Claudia Sheinbaum, the pact would address intelligence sharing, the outflow of fentanyl from Mexico, and the inflow of smuggled guns from the U.S. The tariff pause and security deal highlight Mexico’s measurable, if incremental, progress in tackling organized crime and violence. These efforts don’t just placate the country’s largest trading partner; they respond to citizen demands. Mexicans want the economic progress fostered by safety and rule of law. Last month, Mexico announced a new strategy to combat extortion, which cost the economy an estimated $1.3 billion a year in 2023. The plan includes a reporting hotline and better investigations of suspicious cash flows.” (08/06/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0806/Mexico-s-smart-moves-for-safety
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34) What Families Gain at the Dinner Table
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter Jacobsen
“One of America’s long-standing cultural institutions is in decline. The Survey Center on American Life is reporting that only 38 percent of Gen Z Americans who are now adults report eating regularly with family at the dinner table. This is in contrast with 74 percent of Americans ages 50 and older who report having regular family dinners. … Eating family meals together correlates with all sorts of positive trends. For example, the 2025 World Happiness Report finds that meal-sharing is linked with social connectedness and subjective well-being. Furthermore, children of families who eat together tend to have fewer behavioral problems and higher literacy rates.” (08/07/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/come-back-to-the-dinner-table/
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35) Meet the New Middle East, Same as the Old Middle East
Source: Foreign Policy
by Stephen M Walt
“Given the tumultuous events of the past several years, it is tempting to herald the emergence of a ‘new Middle East.’ But how many times have we heard that? The Six-Day War was thought by some to be a critical turning point — surely Israel’s Arab opponents would make peace now? — and it didn’t happen. Ditto the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the first Gulf War, the Oslo Accords, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the Arab Spring. And yet events like the Sept. 11 attacks, the Syrian civil war, the Oct. 7, 2023, assault by Hamas, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the recurring destruction of Lebanon, the Houthis’ attacks on Red Sea shipping, and the recent airstrikes on Iran keep happening. We have seen extraordinary developments over the past decade—and especially since Oct. 7, 2023 — but the underlying conditions that have made the region so conflict-ridden for so long remain unchanged.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/3cWq5
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36) UK Targets Wikipedia
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“It would be nice if Wikipedia were suing to challenge the United Kingdom’s entire Online Safety Act, not just the provision that most directly targets Wikipedia. Better something than nothing, however. As Wikipedia describes it, the Act ‘creates a new duty of care for online platforms, requiring them to take action against illegal content, or legal content that could be ‘harmful’ to children where children are likely to access it. Platforms failing this duty would be liable to fines of up to £18 million or 10% of their annual turnover, whichever is higher.’ The Wikipedia Foundation objects to being classified as a category 1 service under the Act, a designation that imposes digital ID requirements on its contributors.” (08/07/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/08/07/uk-targets-wikipedia/
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37) Hey, experts: Admit what you got so wrong on Trump’s tariffs
Source: New York Post
by John Lott
“Economists across the political spectrum predicted that President Trump’s trade negotiations would end in disaster. Now that his Aug. 1 deadline has passed without the sky falling — and with multiple advantageous deals completed — it’s time to seriously re-evaluate the flawed arguments the experts made against his strategy. Many, it turns out, made basic errors in economic reasoning. On the left, Nobel laureate and Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz declared in January that Trump’s policy was ‘very bad for America and for the world,’ while University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers called it ‘impressively destructive.’ On the right, prominent free-market advocates like George Mason’s Donald Boudreaux also voiced strong opposition. Yet their arguments against tariffs revealed a fundamental misunderstanding: They decried tariffs as uniquely harmful, while ignoring that the same logic applies to all taxes.” (08/06/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/opinion/hey-experts-admit-how-you-got-trumps-tariffs-so-wrong/
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38) Trump Shouldn’t Play with Nuclear Fire in Ukraine
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“President Donald Trump has gained a reputation for worrying about the possibility of nuclear war. He’s been criticized by the usual hawkish suspects for his concerns, but he deserves credit for recognizing the potential of a nation-ending and even life-exterminating event. Nuclear weapons may have dissuaded the United States and Soviet Union from turning the Cold War hot, but if deterrence fails in the future, the consequences could be global destruction. Yet the president is now escalating American involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Worse, he’s gone from rhetorical bombast to nuclear theatrics …” (08/07/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-shouldnt-play-with-nuclear-fire-in-ukraine/
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39) Latin America’s hidden role in shaping US foreign policy Latin America’s hidden role in shaping US foreign policy
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Lee Schlenker
“For much of the Washington D.C. foreign policy apparatus, Latin America — a region plagued by economic instability, political upheaval, and social calamity — represents little more than a headache or an after-thought. Not for Greg Grandin. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, and Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft makes the case in a new book that the United States’[s] unique national identity and foreign policy in fact emerged from a constant and turbulent engagement with Latin America that has molded the contours of U.S. history.” (08/07/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-latin-america/
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40) Bureaucratizing Faith
Source: Law & Liberty
by Stephe Eide
“Faith-based organizations (FBOs) loom large in conservative thinking about poverty and related ills. It’s widely believed that we could restore social health by reining in big government and expanding private religious programs. George W. Bush’s compassionate conservatism laid out the standard expansion plan. It called for giving religious nonprofits a better shot at government contracts. That framework has also been endorsed by Donald Trump. … America’s welfare state relies on a vast network of private nonprofit contractors to enact social policy. From one perspective, that model seems conducive to building a larger FBO sector. From another, it seems designed to tempt FBOs into overlooking how reliance on public financing makes it harder for a program to keep the faith.” (08/07/25)
https://lawliberty.org/bureaucratizing-faith/
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41) Stop Governor Healey’s $360 Million Prison Plan
Source: Common Dreams
by Edward Mukalazi
“On the last day of June, the Healey-Driscoll administration shocked community leaders, stakeholders, and residents across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with their announcement of their $360 million proposal to build upon the MCI-Framingham prison site. This came as a surprise to many politicians and constituents alike, as the administration had been nearly radio silent about any developments concerning the MCI-Framingham project since November 2024. The Healey-Driscoll administration has failed to be transparent with Massachusetts constituents regarding this plan. Information requests made by constituents and organizations about the status of this plan were ignored. This is especially concerning given the fact that many of these inquirers have been deeply involved in the Free Her Campaign — a movement and policy platform focused on criminal justice reform in the state.” (08/07/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/massachusetts-prisons
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42) Tariff Updates: Random Number Generation, Cronyism, and Premature Optimism
Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“I challenge any human being to decipher any sort of rational (even an irrational but consistent) algorithm behind Trump’s tariffs. Every day it is another random number superseding the prior random number. It is economic policy by whim. Today Trump slapped a 100% tariff … on semiconductor imports. It is difficult to comprehend a worse policy for the American economy had the President been dedicated to crashing things here on purpose. … Apple seems headed for the first exemption, which they also received in Trump’s first term and his tariffs then. Why Apple? One could argue that Apple has some of the highest gross margins of any manufacturer in the US and is perhaps most able to bear the tariffs. But this has nothing to do with fairness, it has to do with cronyism and political pull.” (08/06/25)
https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2025/08/tariff-updates-random-number-generation-cronyism-and-premature-optimism.html
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43) US Pressure is Firming Up a Multipolar World
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“U.S. tariffs wear the cloak of financial policy to address trade imbalances, but they mask deeper geopolitical ambitions. That strategy may backfire. The pressure of U.S. tariffs is firming up the multipolar world it is meant to prevent.” (08/07/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2025/08/06/u-s-pressure-is-firming-up-a-multipolar-world/
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44) Kids Don’t Want Screens — They Want Freedom
Source: Reason
by Lenore Skenazy
“Kids love being on their phones and would rather do that than anything else. Right? New research finds that this is a myth. Children reported that what they really want to do is hang out with friends in real life—with no adults hovering and no screens. Kids go online because that’s generally the only place they can meet up and have fun without constant adult supervision. Being glued to screens is their default, not their desire. … Our kids are growing up on lockdown. Their childhoods are strangely adult when it comes to tech, and infantilized when it comes to real life.” (08/06/25)
https://reason.com/2025/08/06/kids-dont-want-screens-they-want-freedom/
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45) Poll: Majority Of Voters Believe Obama’s Deep State “Committed Crimes” In Russiagate
Source: The Federalist
by MD Kittle
“In the wake of bombshell declassified documents showing the Obama White House and deep state players manufacturing the intelligence report that jump-started the Russia collusion hoax, a new poll finds a majority of Americans believe President Barack Obama’s national security team ‘committed crimes.’ More than two-thirds (69%) of likely voters in a Rasmussen Report telephone and online survey said there must be consequences for crimes committed in the Russiagate scandal. The poll of 1,172 likely voters asked respondents, ‘Do you agree or disagree with this statement about the manipulation of intelligence in the Obama administration: “Accountability has to take place. … It is critical for the survival of our country that people who perpetrate such crimes are held accountable?”‘ And 54 percent believe it’s likely that members of former President Barack Obama’s national security team ‘committed crimes’ when they ‘manipulated and manufactured intelligence to promote a false narrative about Russia and President Donald Trump.'” (08/06/25)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/05/poll-majority-of-voters-believe-obamas-deep-state-committed-crimes-in-russiagate/
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46) Equality Before the Law, Equality of Permission, and the Language of Libertarianism
Source: EconLog
by Marcos Falcone
“When we communicate with one another, how we say things can sometimes be as important as what we actually say. Words matter, which is even more true when we exchange ideas and try to convince others to embrace our viewpoints. Ideological rhetoric, then, merits some thought on the part of libertarians. Of course, libertarians uphold first and foremost the idea of expanding individual liberty. We want people to be free. But most of the time, non-libertarians say something like this: ‘Well, who doesn’t want freedom? The problem is that freedom can create inequality.’ When this happens, the discussion comes dangerously close to an end: It does not matter that we contextualize such a statement or that we contest it. The urge for some sort of equality, whatever it means, seems unavoidable.” (08/06/25)
https://www.econlib.org/equality-before-the-law-equality-of-permission-and-the-language-of-libertarianism/
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47) The Woke Right Stands At the Door
Source: Persuasion
by Jonathan Rauch
“[James] Lindsay is among a growing number of scholars and intellectual historians talking about what they call the ‘woke right.’ The notion is not that the far left and far right share the same politics or goals. Rather, it is that the far right has adopted, partially on purpose but mostly through osmosis and convergent evolution, claims and strategies that parallel the far left’s. The MAGA right has strange and sinister qualities which look nothing like the traditional, religious wing of conservatism familiar from the era of William F. Buckley, or the anti-government, libertarian conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Its anarchic rejection of truth, its Nietzschean embrace of power as self-justifying, its unashamed anti-liberalism, and its glee in transgressing boundaries and giving offense are something new on the right: an embrace of postmodernism, which until recently was the exclusive property of the illiberal left.” (08/06/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-woke-right-stands-at-the-door
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48) November 1963: Pulp Fiction and CIA Realities
Source: JFK Facts
by Jefferson Morley
“When CIA agents advertised for an assassin to kill Fidel Castro on the cover of a popular men’s magazine in the fall of 1963, a spy called ‘Howard’ could plausibly deny any involvement.” (08/06/25)
https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/november-1963-pulp-fiction-and-pulp
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49) Silicon Valley Godzilla vs. Wall Street Mothra
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Trump economy has created a lot of losers among workers and consumers, yes, but also among businesses. Retailers are dealing with high tariffs. Auto and energy manufacturers have lost tax credits. Construction, agriculture, and other industries with significant immigrant workforces are having trouble retaining employees. Even health care, thought to be totally recession-proof, is showing cracks with the looming slashing of government funding and UnitedHealth’s troubles. A combination of sluggish hiring and higher inflation could tip the country into recession and have a spiraling effect. But there are two winning sectors in the Trump economy: Big Tech and big banks. Due to positive trends and extremely favorable government treatment, banking and tech companies are absolutely soaring..” (08/07/25)
https://prospect.org/power/2025-08-07-silicon-valley-godzilla-vs-wall-street-mothra/
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50) The sickening state of modern media
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, American media was dominated by the Big Three television networks, and a few national magazines. ABC, NBC, and CBS are still with us. Most of the old national magazines are gone or bizarrely changed into odd parodies of their original incarnation …. All these magazines had a very profound impact on American culture, society, and politics in the quarter-century after World War Two. It is claimed that they influenced public opinion and policy, and that they ‘reflected the cultural and social changes’ of the era. The reality seems to be darker: yes, they influenced opinion and policy, but the publications actually created many (or most) of the changes in society and culture.” (008/06/25)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/08/06/the-sickening-state-of-modern-media/
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51) Serious Trouble, 08/06/25
Source: Serious Trouble
“Vance meets with Bondi and Patel to chart a course on Epstein; ex-NBA star Gilbert Arenas is charged with running illegal poker games in the Valley; California grand juries keep returning no bill.” (08/07/25)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/arenas-poker-club
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52) The Libertarian Angle, 08/07/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Trump and the Ukraine-Russia War.” (08/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh4mwEpme6U
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53) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/07/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Congress Skips Epstein Files Vote For Trip To Israel.” (08/07/25)
https://rumble.com/v6x9rna-congress-skips-epstein-files-vote-for-trip-to-israel.html
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54) Advisory Opinions, 08/07/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Drive-By Rulings | Interview: J. Joel Alicea.” (08/07/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/drive-by-rulings-interview-j-joel-alicea/
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55) Cato Daily Podcast, 08/07/25
Source: Cato Institute
“Offers You’d Better Not Refuse.” (08/07/25)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/offers-youd-better-not-refuse
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56) Conflicts of Interest, episode 826
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Netanyahu to Take Full Control of Gaza Even If It Endangers Remaining Israeli Hostages.” (08/07/25)
https://rumble.com/v6x9n5c-netanyahu-to-take-full-control-of-gaza-even-if-it-endangers-remaining-israe.html
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57) Capital Record, episode 250
Source: National Review
“A Sober View of the Economy.” (08/07/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/a-sober-view-of-the-economy/
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58) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2677
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Austrian Economics in the Age of Donald Trump.” (08/07/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2677-austrian-economics-in-the-age-of-donald-trump/
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59) Fountainhead Forum, episode 341
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Hunter DeRensis on the military-industrial complex.” (08/07/25)
https://rumble.com/v6x91sy-ff-341-hunter-derensis-on-the-military-industrial-complex.html
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60) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/07/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Plans Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza City, Trump and Putin May Meet Next Week, and More.” (08/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMeSOHMPpSE
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61) LPA Solidarity Stream, 08/06/25
Source: LP Alliance
“Come discuss member and affiliate empowerment with us!” (08/06/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oARLnIl_n8I
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62) Mean Age Daydream, 08/06/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“A ‘Stern’ Rodgering / Public Broadcasters’ Fake Bankruptcy.” (08/06/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/a-stern-rodgering-public-broadcasters-fake-bankruptcy
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63) The Science of Politics, 08/06/25
Source: Niskanen Center
“Is democracy failing education?” (08/06/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/is-democracy-failing-education
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64) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 08/06/25
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Michael Vlahos – America’s Military Is in Big Trouble.” (08/06/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-guest-michael-vlahos-americas-military-is-in-big-trouble/
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65) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 08/06/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“The One Big Education Opportunity with Shaka Mitchell.” (08/06/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/education/the-one-big-education-opportunity-with-shaka-mitchell/
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1) Trump orders pretend “census” as part of 2026 election-rigging project
2) Palestine: Israeli cabinet panel approves plan to take control of Gaza City
3) Trump opens door to crypto in 401(k)s
4) Solomon Islands: Regime locks Chinese, Taiwanese, US regimes out of Pacific Islands Forum meeting
5) Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp
6) Philippines: Senate Shelves Duterte Impeachment
7) US CDC: Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods
8) Zambia: Regime dismisses US health warning after toxic spill in copper mining area
9) Tunisia: Saied Supporters Protest Against UGTT Union Amid Rising Tensions
10) Harvard scientists: Research “could be set back years” after funding freeze
11) Bank of England narrowly votes to cut interest rates to 4% as balancing act continues
12) Archaeologists: People returned to live in Pompeii’s ruins
13) US soldier accused of trying to leak secrets to Russia for citizenship
14) “Interstellar object” hurtling towards our solar system could be intercepted with new probe
15) Nearly a million more deaths than births in Japan last year
16) Myanmar: Junta’s figurehead “president” dies
17) Haiti: Warlord “Barbecue” Threatens Rival Gang Leader’s Office as Violence Flares
18) Vance to visit Indiana as Trump pressures GOP states to re-gerrymander
19) Senior FBI official who resisted Trump regime demands is pushed out
20) Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Attack of the Bubble Boy Pols
22) The nationalist case against trade surpluses
23) Why you might not know that 2024 was America’s safest year since the 1960s
24) Does Donald Trump Know What a Dictator Looks Like?
25) Why Are Some Libertarians So Concerned about Tax Loopholes?
26) What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban
27) Scholars and Schemers: How the Left [sic] Ruined Higher Education
28) What Makes a Redistricting Fair?
29) What the Hell Is Happening Over at the FDA?
30) Attorney General will likely defy obscure information disclosure law on Epstein files
31) It’s time for Newsom to pull the brake on California’s $128 billion ghost train
32) Trump’s Team of Cowards
33) Mexico’s smart moves for safety
34) What Families Gain at the Dinner Table
35) Meet the New Middle East, Same as the Old Middle East
36) UK Targets Wikipedia
37) Hey, experts: Admit what you got so wrong on Trump’s tariffs
38) Trump Shouldn’t Play with Nuclear Fire in Ukraine
39) Latin America’s hidden role in shaping US foreign policy Latin America’s hidden role in shaping US foreign policy
40) Bureaucratizing Faith
41) Stop Governor Healey’s $360 Million Prison Plan
42) Tariff Updates: Random Number Generation, Cronyism, and Premature Optimism
43) US Pressure is Firming Up a Multipolar World
44) Kids Don’t Want Screens — They Want Freedom
45) Poll: Majority Of Voters Believe Obama’s Deep State “Committed Crimes” In Russiagate
46) Equality Before the Law, Equality of Permission, and the Language of Libertarianism
47) The Woke Right Stands At the Door
48) November 1963: Pulp Fiction and CIA Realities
49) Silicon Valley Godzilla vs. Wall Street Mothra
50) The sickening state of modern media
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54) Advisory Opinions, 08/07/25
55) Cato Daily Podcast, 08/07/25
56) Conflicts of Interest, episode 826
57) Capital Record, episode 250
58) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2677
59) Fountainhead Forum, episode 341
60) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/07/25
61) LPA Solidarity Stream, 08/06/25
62) Mean Age Daydream, 08/06/25
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1) Trump orders pretend “census” as part of 2026 election-rigging project
Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was ordering a ‘new and highly accurate CENSUS,’ saying it will be based on the ‘information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024.’ ‘People who are in our country illegally will NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS,’ he wrote in the Truth Social post announcing the move. The census is a constitutionally mandated count of every person in the United States every 10 years, which was last conducted in 2020. A full census has never been conducted mid-decade in this manner, nor has one ever excluded noncitizens from the count.” [editor’s note: The reason those things have never happened is that the the US Constitution provides for one census each decade, requires it to count all inhabitants of the US, and apportions US House districts by inhabitants, not citizens; his pretend “census” wouldn’t legally change any of that – TLK] (08/07/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/07/trump-new-census-00497025
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2) Palestine: Israeli cabinet panel approves plan to take control of Gaza City
Source: Reuters
“Israel’s political-security cabinet approved a plan to take control of Gaza City early on Friday, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel intended to take military control of the entire strip despite intensifying criticism at home and abroad over the devastating almost two-year-old war. … Two government sources said any resolution by the security cabinet would need to be approved by the full cabinet, which may not meet until Sunday. … Outside the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, hundreds of demonstrators protested against an expanded war, demanding an immediate end to the military campaign in return for the release of all the hostages.” (08/07/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-approves-plan-take-control-gaza-city-2025-08-07/
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3) Trump opens door to crypto in 401(k)s
Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
“Millions of Americans saving for retirement through 401(k) accounts could have the option of putting their money in higher-risk private equity and cryptocurrency investments, according to an executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump that could give those financial players long-sought access to a pool of funds worth trillions. There is no immediate change in how people invest part of their work earnings. Federal agencies would need to rewrite rules and regulations to allow the expanded choices, and that would take months or more to complete. But once done, employers could offer a broader array of mutual funds and investments to workers, according to the White House.” (08/08/25)
https://archive.is/fxXgO
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4) Solomon Islands: Regime locks Chinese, Taiwanese, US regimes out of Pacific Islands Forum meeting
Source: Nikkei Asia [Japan]
“The government of the Solomon Islands will not invite the U.S. and China to attend a key regional meeting in September, a move experts see as an effort to avoid diplomatic fallout over the alternative of singling out and excluding Taiwan from the event. The annual leaders meeting organized by the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), a key regional body comprising 16 Pacific island nations, Australia and New Zealand …. At last year’s PIF meeting in Tonga, Qian Bo, Beijing’s ambassador to the Pacific, successfully pushed to remove a paragraph from the forum’s joint communique that would have recognized Taiwan’s standing and involvement with the regional organization. Peter Kenilorea, a Solomon Islands MP who has criticized the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in the Pacific, told Nikkei Asia in May that Honiara was under pressure from Beijing to exclude Taiwan from the forum.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/tVmF7
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5) Judge orders temporary halt to construction at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp
Source: CNN
“A federal judge on Thursday ordered a two-week halt to construction at an immigrant [concentration camp] in the Florida Everglades dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as she considers whether it violates environmental laws. The facility was quickly built two months ago at a lightly used, single-runway training airport and can hold up to 3,000 detainees in temporary tent structures. The site was continuing to be built out, but the order by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams temporarily bars the installation of any new industrial-style lighting, as well as any paving, filling, excavating or fencing. The order also prohibits any other site expansion, including placing or erecting any additional buildings, tents, dormitories or other residential or administrative facilities.” (08/07/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/us/alligator-alcatraz-construction-halt-judge
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6) Philippines: Senate Shelves Duterte Impeachment
Source: New York Times
“Vice President Sara Duterte of the Philippines moved one step closer to defeating the impeachment case against her on Wednesday, after the Senate voted to put on hold a trial that could have led to her removal. The Senate voted 19-4 to archive the impeachment complaint against Ms. Duterte, which had been approved by the lower house. Though the Senate can still hold a trial later, the possibility is diminishing. Last month the Supreme Court found the impeachment proceedings were unconstitutional, which influenced the Senate vote. In a statement last week, Ms. Duterte called the charges an abuse by the House. … In May elections, candidates endorsed by the Dutertes won more seats in both chambers of Congress. That was a show of strength for Ms. Duterte, who has made no secret of her intention to succeed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., her former ally.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/gPokk
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7) US CDC: Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“Most Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods, those super-tasty, energy-dense foods typically full of sugar, salt and unhealthy fats, according to a new federal report. Nutrition research has shown for years that ultra-processed foods make up a big chunk of the U.S. diet, especially for kids and teens. For the first time, however, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed those high levels of consumption, using dietary data collected from August 2021 to August 2023. The report comes amid growing scrutiny of such foods by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who blames them for causing chronic disease.” (08/07/25)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/08/07/american-diet-ultra-processed-foods/
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8) Zambia: Regime dismisses US health warning after toxic spill in copper mining area
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The Zambian government has dismissed claims of dangerous pollution in the Copperbelt mining region, following safety concerns raised by the US embassy. On Wednesday, the US embassy issued a health alert, ordering the immediate withdrawal of its personnel in Kitwe town and nearby areas due to concerns of ‘widespread contamination of water and soil’ linked to a February spill at the Sino-Metals mine. … Zambia’s government spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa hit back, saying the ‘laboratory results show that PH levels have returned to normal’ in the area and the water was safe to drink.” (08/07/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2qeexv791o
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9) Tunisia: Saied Supporters Protest Against UGTT Union Amid Rising Tensions
Source: US News & World Report
“Hundreds of supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied staged a rally outside the headquarters of the powerful UGTT union on Thursday and urged Saied to suspend the union following a transport strike last week that paralysed the country. The rally highlights growing fears among activists and opposition supporters of a possible move by Saied against one of the last major independent organisations in the North African country. Saied assumed sweeping powers in 2021, shut down the elected parliament, started ruling by decree, suspended the Supreme Judicial Council and sacked dozens of judges in a move the opposition described as a coup.” (08/07/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-07/tunisian-presidents-supporters-protest-against-ugtt-union-amid-rising-tensions
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10) Harvard scientists: Research “could be set back years” after funding freeze
Source: SFGate
“Harvard University professor Alberto Ascherio’s research is literally frozen. Collected from millions of U.S. soldiers over two decades using millions of dollars from taxpayers, the epidemiology and nutrition scientist has blood samples stored in liquid nitrogen freezers within the university’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The samples are key to his award-winning research, which seeks a cure to multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases. But for months, Ascherio has been unable to work with the samples because he lost $7 million in federal research funding, a casualty of Harvard’s fight with the Trump administration. ‘It’s like we have been creating a state-of-the-art telescope to explore the universe, and now we don’t have money to launch it,’ said Ascherio. ‘We built everything and now we are ready to use it to make a new discovery that could impact millions of people in the world and then ‘Poof. You’re being cut off!”” (08/07/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/harvard-scientists-say-research-could-be-set-back-20806148.php
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11) Bank of England narrowly votes to cut interest rates to 4% as balancing act continues
Source: CNBC
“The Bank of England voted by a fine margin to cut interest rates from 4.25% to 4% on Thursday as the central bank resumed what it describes as a ‘gradual and careful’ approach to monetary easing. The BOE was widely expected to trim rates by 25 basis points at its latest monetary policy meeting, but traders and economists were keen to see the breakdown of support for the decision among the bank’s policymakers. As it turned out on Thursday, the nine-member MPC voted by a majority of 5-4 to reduce the key interest rate, the ‘Bank Rate,’ by 25 basis points rather than keeping it on hold. The British pound rose 0.5% against the dollar after the decision, to $1.3424.” (08/07/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/bank-of-england-cuts-interest-rates-by-a-quarter-point-to-4percent.html
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12) Archaeologists: People returned to live in Pompeii’s ruins
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“New evidence suggests people returned to live among the ruins of Pompeii after the ancient Roman city was devastated by a volcanic eruption. Archaeologists believe some survivors who could not afford to start a new life elsewhere returned to the site and may have been joined by others looking for a place to settle. Pompeii was home to more than 20,000 people before Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79, burying – and preserving – much of the city, before its rediscovery in the 16th century. There had been previous speculation that survivors had returned to the ruins, and archaeologists at the site said in a statement on Wednesday that the theory appears to have been confirmed by new research.” (08/07/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62wx23y2v1o
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13) US soldier accused of trying to leak secrets to Russia for citizenship
Source: Yahoo! News
“An active-duty U.S. Army soldier has been arrested and accused of trying to leak classified defense information to Russia, prosecutors said. Taylor Adam Lee, 22, of El Paso, Texas, was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 6, and charged with attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license, the Department of Justice said in a news release. Starting in May, Lee, who had been stationed at the Fort Bliss base in Texas, allegedly tried to send sensitive information about the Army’s main battle tank to Russia’s Ministry of Defense. … In July, Lee allegedly met in person with someone he believed to be a representative of the Russian government and passed them an SD card containing information about the M1A2 Abrams and combat operations.” (08/07/25)
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/army-soldier-accused-trying-leak-120028692.html
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14) “Interstellar object” hurtling towards our solar system could be intercepted with new probe
Source: GB News [UK]
“Scientists are weighing up the possibility of intercepting an interstellar object hurtling towards our solar system at speed. The mysterious intergalactic object is believed to have been travelling the vast emptiness of space for billions of years at speeds of over 130,000 miles per hour. Nasa first became aware of the object, which was been named 3I/ATLAS, on July 1 — and it is only the third time a visitor from another star has been spotted in our region of space. Other intergalactic visitors sighted include Oumuamua in 2017 and the Borisov comet in 2019. 3I/ATLAS is set to reach its closest point to our sun on October 30, over 130,000 million miles away, before disappearing again. However, some scientists have been discussing the possibility of sending a spacecraft to intercept the mysterious visitor before it vanishes from our solar system forever.” (08/07/25)
https://www.gbnews.com/science/interstellar-object-solar-system-intercepted
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15) Nearly a million more deaths than births in Japan last year
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Almost a million more deaths than births were recorded in Japan last year, representing the steepest annual population decline since government surveys began in 1968. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has described the demographic crisis of Japan’s ageing population as a ‘quiet emergency,’ pledging family-friendly policies such as free childcare and more flexible work hours. But efforts to reverse the perennially low birth rates among Japanese women have so far made little impact. New data released on Wednesday by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications showed the number of Japanese nationals fell by 908,574 in 2024. Japan recorded 686,061 births — the lowest number since records began in 1899 — while nearly 1.6 million people died, meaning for every baby born, more than two people died. It marks the 16th consecutive year of population decline with the squeeze being felt by the nation’s pension and healthcare systems.” (08/07/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74dnzr4jdvo
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16) Myanmar: Junta’s figurehead “president” dies
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Myint Swe, who has served as Myanmar’s military-backed president, has died aged 74 after a long medical leave, according to state media. The news of his death was announced on Thursday in a statement from the government. … A former general, Myint Swe became president of Myanmar in 2021 when the military overthrew the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Before the military takeover, he held several senior leadership posts, including the post of first vice president during a period of semi-democratic rule that ended in 2021. The coup handed power to Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of Myanmar’s military, with Myint Swe serving as a figurehead leader carrying out ceremonial duties.” (08/07/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/7/figurehead-president-of-military-ruled-myanmar-dies-aged-74
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17) Haiti: Warlord “Barbecue” Threatens Rival Gang Leader’s Office as Violence Flares
Source: Bloomberg
“One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders is threatening to attack the prime minister’s office and other branches of government, as the troubled Caribbean nation prepares for a leadership transition.
In a video shared on social media, Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier of the ‘Viv Ansanm’ gang coalition, asked the nation to help him overthrow the transitional government and announced plans to seize government offices, including the building from which the executive branch is operating. The leadership of the Presidential Transitional Council is due to rotate Thursday. Fritz Alphonse Jean, who has held the office since March, is slated to hand over the helm to Laurent Saint-Cyr, a businessman who has led the American Chamber of Commerce in Haiti and the country’s Chamber of Industry.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/k2Xq3
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18) Vance to visit Indiana as Trump pressures GOP states to re-gerrymander
Source: Seattle Times
“Vice President JD Vance visits Indiana on Thursday to discuss redistricting with Republican leaders as President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on GOP states to redraw congressional boundaries and give the party more winnable seats in the 2026 midterm elections. Vance is scheduled to hold private meetings with Gov. Mike Braun and others before attending a GOP fundraiser Thursday night in the solidly Republican state. Braun told reporters Tuesday he expects to discuss several matters with the vice president — including redistricting — but said no commitments have been made. … Braun would have to call a special session if he chooses to start the redistricting process, but lawmakers have the sole power to draw up new maps.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/upMGg
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19) Senior FBI official who resisted Trump regime demands is pushed out
Source: SFGate
“A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, investigations is being forced out of the bureau, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The circumstances of Brian Driscoll’s ouster were not immediately clear, but his final day is Friday, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss the personnel move by name and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. Additional ousters were possible. Spokespeople for the FBI declined to comment. The news comes amid a much broader personnel purge that has unfolded over the last several months under the leadership of current FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino.” (08/07/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/senior-fbi-official-who-resisted-trump-20806960.php
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20) Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years
Source: ABC News
“The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But due to increasing coral cover since 2017, the coral deaths — caused mainly by bleaching last year associated with climate change — have left the area of living coral across the iconic reef system close to its long-term average, the Australian Institute of Marine Science said in its annual survey on Wednesday. … Because of record global heat in 2023 and 2024, the world is still going through its biggest — and fourth ever recorded — mass coral bleaching event on record, with heat stress hurting nearly 84% of the world’s coral reef area, including the Great Barrier Reef, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s coral reef watch.” (08/06/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/great-barrier-reef-records-largest-annual-coral-loss-124435799
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21) Attack of the Bubble Boy Pols
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“America treats its politicians like the kid in that old Seinfeld episode, ‘The Bubble Boy’ — isolated and coddled lest contact with regular human beings harm them. The rest of us apparently exist only to provide these power-mongers with votes, and occasionally with audiences carefully curated for high levels of adoration and applause. Outside those contexts, we’re to be neither seen nor heard. Okay, that’s not completely true. We also fork over $3 billion per year for the Secret Service, $800 million for the Capitol Police Department, and heaven only knows how much for military air cover, etc., to ensure that Very Special Important People never experience discomfort due to unintentional contact with us mere mortals.” (08/07/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19861
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22) The nationalist case against trade surpluses
Source: Washington Post
by Dominic Pino
“We’re familiar at this point with the ‘America First’ justification for tariffs: The United States has a large trade deficit in goods, and this is bad because it means American jobs to make those goods went abroad. … But it’s also worth pointing out that it’s just as easy to make a nationalist case against trade surpluses. As it stands, nationalists already don’t like the trade surplus the U.S. does have. They demean jobs in finance and tech as unmanly and hold intangible products to be less vital than tangible ones, even though the U.S. services trade surplus is nearly $300 billion. … what if nationalists achieved their model economy, one led by exports of durable goods by durable men? I’m skeptical they’d enjoy it as much as they believe they would.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/bVyUz
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23) Why you might not know that 2024 was America’s safest year since the 1960s
Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum & Rebecca Crosby
“An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year. An overwhelming majority of Americans are wrong. On Tuesday, August 5, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released its comprehensive report on crime in the United States for 2024. … the new FBI data shows that both violent crime and property crime are at their lowest level since the 1960s. In 2024, there were about 349 reported violent crimes in the United States for every 100,000 Americans. That is the lowest rate of violent crime since 1969.” (08/07/25)
https://popular.info/p/why-you-might-not-know-that-2024
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24) Does Donald Trump Know What a Dictator Looks Like?
Source: Reason
by Matt Welch
“President Donald Trump sure picked a curious venue to start calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a ‘dictator.’ It was February 19, halfway through a remarkable two-week run in which America reversed its approach to both the Russia-Ukraine war and possibly the entire 76-year-old Washington-led trans-Atlantic military alliance. Trump was speaking in Miami Beach’s Faena Hotel and Forum at a bland-sounding ‘Priority Summit’ hosted by the innocuously named Future Investment Initiative Institute, which in turn is owned by the nondescript Public Investment Fund (PIF). But to the global financial elite, that latter entity is far from obscure. At an estimated $941 billion, the PIF is the sixth-largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet, owned by one of the world’s most authoritarian dictatorships, Saudi Arabia.” (08/07/25)
https://reason.com/2025/08/07/does-donald-trump-know-what-a-dictator-looks-like/
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25) Why Are Some Libertarians So Concerned about Tax Loopholes?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M Vance
“Libertarians who say that certain tax deductions and credits are loopholes that need to be closed argue that these loopholes distort the tax code, are inefficient, subsidize high-income taxpayers, interfere with the free market, and encourage people to make economically unwise decisions. They may be all those things and more, but what is the effect of reducing, phasing out, or eliminating them? The effect is higher taxes and more revenue for Uncle Sam. … Only those who think that the government has an absolute right to a percentage of all income produced and that tax deductions and credits deprive the government of its claim to that percentage could object to individuals holding on to more of their money.” (08/07/25)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/why-are-some-libertarians-so-concerned-about-tax-loopholes/
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26) What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban
Source: The Intercept
by Jonah Valdez
“After a month of militarized raids and racial profiling throughout Southern California, Federal Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong of California’s Central District, in response to a class-action lawsuit filed by community organizations and detained workers, delivered the Trump administration a major blow. She issued an order that prohibits federal agents from targeting individuals based on their race and ethnicity; whether they speak Spanish or English with an accent; their location such as a car wash, department store parking lot, or other worksite; or their occupation, such as landscapers or street vendors. The Trump administration appealed, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld the temporary restraining order. The order had brought relative calm to the region in recent weeks, slowing what had been near-daily operations to occasional isolated incidents. But the Trump administration’s Southern California campaign was not over.” (08/07/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/immigrant-raid-home-depot-la-restraining-order/
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27) Scholars and Schemers: How the Left [sic] Ruined Higher Education
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“Despite denials from the left [sic], US higher education has been captured by leftist [sic] faculty, students, and administrators. This is not a figment of anyone’s imagination, as for most of this century colleges and universities have changed dramatically. Anyone who has been to college in the past half-century would attest to what then was called the ‘liberalism’ of most of their professors, and, in the post-World War II era, the probability that one’s professor was a registered Democrat has been high. Yet, this is not what we mean by the ‘radicalizing’ of American higher education, for even those professors that classified themselves as ‘liberals’ and faithfully supported the Democratic Party would not have considered themselves to be radicals.” (08/07/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/scholars-and-schemers-how-left-ruined-higher-education
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28) What Makes a Redistricting Fair?
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“What makes a redistricting map fair? Is it the process or the product—and in either case, what process and what product? I’m prompted to ask this question, of course, by the proposed Texas gerrymander, aimed at increasing the Republican congressional delegation by five seats. From a process perspective, the objections are obvious. Redistricting only has to happen after a new census, so a redistricting at any other time is presumptively illegitimate. And for any purely partisan redistricting the negative presumption is even greater. There’s something obviously undemocratic about allowing incumbents to set the boundaries of their own districts to keep themselves in office, and to allow incumbent majorities to improve their political position by similar means. One of the teams playing the game shouldn’t be allowed unilaterally to change the rules.” (08/07/25)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/what-makes-a-redistricting-fair
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29) What the Hell Is Happening Over at the FDA?
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“I check the Washington Post every day for work purposes (though I do so through a website that bypasses their paywall because screw the left-wing media) because, while the paper is marinated in left-wing bias, they generally get the basic facts correct as far as the ‘who, what, where and when’ of a story. And while they cover the unintentionally absurd more often than is likely healthy, sometimes they have stories that make you wonder what the hell is happening with our own side. One great example of a ‘what the hell is happening here’ story run just the other day that opened with, ‘Orange juice, known for its tangy, sweet taste, could be made with slightly less sugary oranges under a regulation proposed Tuesday by the Trump administration.’ Orange juice is an issue now?” (08/07/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/08/07/what-the-hell-is-happening-over-at-the-fda-n2661501
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30) Attorney General will likely defy obscure information disclosure law on Epstein files
Source: The Hill
by Don Wolfensberger
“For nearly three decades I labored in the congressional vineyards of rules, procedures, norms and reforms. And, in all that time, until last week, I had never heard of a law creating the Senate rule of five or the House rule of seven. Suffice it to say it was antiquated, obscure and rarely invoked. Moreover, it is not contained in the standing rules manual of either body. Instead, it is enshrined in permanent law — namely 5 U.S. Code, sec. 2954, first enacted in 1928. That section simply directs any executive agency to comply with any request for information from one of the two principal oversight committees of Congress. … What has reignited interest in this succinct century-old law is its resurrection last week by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and all seven Democrats on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee demanding that the Justice Department turn over all documents relating to the Jeffrey Epstein controversy.” (08/07/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5439184-senate-house-rule-epstein/
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31) It’s time for Newsom to pull the brake on California’s $128 billion ghost train
Source: Fox News
by Joshua Thompson
“It’s not every day a state manages to burn through billions and still ask for more. But California’s high-speed rail project has always been exceptional in that way. Last month, the federal government finally said enough, scrapping $4 billion in funding after years of missed deadlines, ballooning budgets and political theatrics. You’d think that would halt the train. Instead, the state celebrated by tweeting about construction jobs and posting photos of rebar. Ten years ago, I did the math and showed that for the price of California’s high-speed rail project, we could fly every Californian roundtrip to Tokyo, buy them a bullet train ticket to Kyoto and put them up for two nights at the Ritz-Carlton. And we’d still have money left over for sushi. A decade later, the bullet train still hasn’t arrived. But the fantasy rolls on, powered by taxpayer dollars and bureaucratic inertia.” (08/07/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/its-time-newsom-pull-brake-on-californias-128-billion-ghost-train
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32) Trump’s Team of Cowards
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“Donald Trump’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), brought his administration to a new level of crazy. Firing the head of a statistical agency because he didn’t like the data is extreme even by Trumpian standards. But Trump’s statements on the firing and the response of his top aides also tell us a lot about the people he has surrounding himself with. … If Trump decides something about the state of the economy, no one on his team is going to ever correct him, no matter how crazy it is. If his tariffs, budget cuts, and arbitrary and ad hoc regulatory changes give us 20 percent unemployment and 20 percent inflation, and Trump says we have a perfect economy, none of his aides is going tell him otherwise.” (08/07/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/07/trumps-team-of-cowards/
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33) Mexico’s smart moves for safety
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Mexico is reportedly on the cusp of signing a new security agreement with the United States. This comes in the wake of a near stop in illegal border crossings and a temporary reprieve on higher trade tariffs. According to President Claudia Sheinbaum, the pact would address intelligence sharing, the outflow of fentanyl from Mexico, and the inflow of smuggled guns from the U.S. The tariff pause and security deal highlight Mexico’s measurable, if incremental, progress in tackling organized crime and violence. These efforts don’t just placate the country’s largest trading partner; they respond to citizen demands. Mexicans want the economic progress fostered by safety and rule of law. Last month, Mexico announced a new strategy to combat extortion, which cost the economy an estimated $1.3 billion a year in 2023. The plan includes a reporting hotline and better investigations of suspicious cash flows.” (08/06/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0806/Mexico-s-smart-moves-for-safety
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34) What Families Gain at the Dinner Table
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter Jacobsen
“One of America’s long-standing cultural institutions is in decline. The Survey Center on American Life is reporting that only 38 percent of Gen Z Americans who are now adults report eating regularly with family at the dinner table. This is in contrast with 74 percent of Americans ages 50 and older who report having regular family dinners. … Eating family meals together correlates with all sorts of positive trends. For example, the 2025 World Happiness Report finds that meal-sharing is linked with social connectedness and subjective well-being. Furthermore, children of families who eat together tend to have fewer behavioral problems and higher literacy rates.” (08/07/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/come-back-to-the-dinner-table/
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35) Meet the New Middle East, Same as the Old Middle East
Source: Foreign Policy
by Stephen M Walt
“Given the tumultuous events of the past several years, it is tempting to herald the emergence of a ‘new Middle East.’ But how many times have we heard that? The Six-Day War was thought by some to be a critical turning point — surely Israel’s Arab opponents would make peace now? — and it didn’t happen. Ditto the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the first Gulf War, the Oslo Accords, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the Arab Spring. And yet events like the Sept. 11 attacks, the Syrian civil war, the Oct. 7, 2023, assault by Hamas, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the recurring destruction of Lebanon, the Houthis’ attacks on Red Sea shipping, and the recent airstrikes on Iran keep happening. We have seen extraordinary developments over the past decade—and especially since Oct. 7, 2023 — but the underlying conditions that have made the region so conflict-ridden for so long remain unchanged.” (08/07/25)
https://archive.is/3cWq5
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36) UK Targets Wikipedia
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“It would be nice if Wikipedia were suing to challenge the United Kingdom’s entire Online Safety Act, not just the provision that most directly targets Wikipedia. Better something than nothing, however. As Wikipedia describes it, the Act ‘creates a new duty of care for online platforms, requiring them to take action against illegal content, or legal content that could be ‘harmful’ to children where children are likely to access it. Platforms failing this duty would be liable to fines of up to £18 million or 10% of their annual turnover, whichever is higher.’ The Wikipedia Foundation objects to being classified as a category 1 service under the Act, a designation that imposes digital ID requirements on its contributors.” (08/07/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/08/07/uk-targets-wikipedia/
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37) Hey, experts: Admit what you got so wrong on Trump’s tariffs
Source: New York Post
by John Lott
“Economists across the political spectrum predicted that President Trump’s trade negotiations would end in disaster. Now that his Aug. 1 deadline has passed without the sky falling — and with multiple advantageous deals completed — it’s time to seriously re-evaluate the flawed arguments the experts made against his strategy. Many, it turns out, made basic errors in economic reasoning. On the left, Nobel laureate and Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz declared in January that Trump’s policy was ‘very bad for America and for the world,’ while University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers called it ‘impressively destructive.’ On the right, prominent free-market advocates like George Mason’s Donald Boudreaux also voiced strong opposition. Yet their arguments against tariffs revealed a fundamental misunderstanding: They decried tariffs as uniquely harmful, while ignoring that the same logic applies to all taxes.” (08/06/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/opinion/hey-experts-admit-how-you-got-trumps-tariffs-so-wrong/
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38) Trump Shouldn’t Play with Nuclear Fire in Ukraine
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“President Donald Trump has gained a reputation for worrying about the possibility of nuclear war. He’s been criticized by the usual hawkish suspects for his concerns, but he deserves credit for recognizing the potential of a nation-ending and even life-exterminating event. Nuclear weapons may have dissuaded the United States and Soviet Union from turning the Cold War hot, but if deterrence fails in the future, the consequences could be global destruction. Yet the president is now escalating American involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Worse, he’s gone from rhetorical bombast to nuclear theatrics …” (08/07/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-shouldnt-play-with-nuclear-fire-in-ukraine/
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39) Latin America’s hidden role in shaping US foreign policy Latin America’s hidden role in shaping US foreign policy
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Lee Schlenker
“For much of the Washington D.C. foreign policy apparatus, Latin America — a region plagued by economic instability, political upheaval, and social calamity — represents little more than a headache or an after-thought. Not for Greg Grandin. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, and Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft makes the case in a new book that the United States’[s] unique national identity and foreign policy in fact emerged from a constant and turbulent engagement with Latin America that has molded the contours of U.S. history.” (08/07/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-latin-america/
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40) Bureaucratizing Faith
Source: Law & Liberty
by Stephe Eide
“Faith-based organizations (FBOs) loom large in conservative thinking about poverty and related ills. It’s widely believed that we could restore social health by reining in big government and expanding private religious programs. George W. Bush’s compassionate conservatism laid out the standard expansion plan. It called for giving religious nonprofits a better shot at government contracts. That framework has also been endorsed by Donald Trump. … America’s welfare state relies on a vast network of private nonprofit contractors to enact social policy. From one perspective, that model seems conducive to building a larger FBO sector. From another, it seems designed to tempt FBOs into overlooking how reliance on public financing makes it harder for a program to keep the faith.” (08/07/25)
https://lawliberty.org/bureaucratizing-faith/
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41) Stop Governor Healey’s $360 Million Prison Plan
Source: Common Dreams
by Edward Mukalazi
“On the last day of June, the Healey-Driscoll administration shocked community leaders, stakeholders, and residents across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with their announcement of their $360 million proposal to build upon the MCI-Framingham prison site. This came as a surprise to many politicians and constituents alike, as the administration had been nearly radio silent about any developments concerning the MCI-Framingham project since November 2024. The Healey-Driscoll administration has failed to be transparent with Massachusetts constituents regarding this plan. Information requests made by constituents and organizations about the status of this plan were ignored. This is especially concerning given the fact that many of these inquirers have been deeply involved in the Free Her Campaign — a movement and policy platform focused on criminal justice reform in the state.” (08/07/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/massachusetts-prisons
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42) Tariff Updates: Random Number Generation, Cronyism, and Premature Optimism
Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“I challenge any human being to decipher any sort of rational (even an irrational but consistent) algorithm behind Trump’s tariffs. Every day it is another random number superseding the prior random number. It is economic policy by whim. Today Trump slapped a 100% tariff … on semiconductor imports. It is difficult to comprehend a worse policy for the American economy had the President been dedicated to crashing things here on purpose. … Apple seems headed for the first exemption, which they also received in Trump’s first term and his tariffs then. Why Apple? One could argue that Apple has some of the highest gross margins of any manufacturer in the US and is perhaps most able to bear the tariffs. But this has nothing to do with fairness, it has to do with cronyism and political pull.” (08/06/25)
https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2025/08/tariff-updates-random-number-generation-cronyism-and-premature-optimism.html
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43) US Pressure is Firming Up a Multipolar World
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“U.S. tariffs wear the cloak of financial policy to address trade imbalances, but they mask deeper geopolitical ambitions. That strategy may backfire. The pressure of U.S. tariffs is firming up the multipolar world it is meant to prevent.” (08/07/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2025/08/06/u-s-pressure-is-firming-up-a-multipolar-world/
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44) Kids Don’t Want Screens — They Want Freedom
Source: Reason
by Lenore Skenazy
“Kids love being on their phones and would rather do that than anything else. Right? New research finds that this is a myth. Children reported that what they really want to do is hang out with friends in real life—with no adults hovering and no screens. Kids go online because that’s generally the only place they can meet up and have fun without constant adult supervision. Being glued to screens is their default, not their desire. … Our kids are growing up on lockdown. Their childhoods are strangely adult when it comes to tech, and infantilized when it comes to real life.” (08/06/25)
https://reason.com/2025/08/06/kids-dont-want-screens-they-want-freedom/
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45) Poll: Majority Of Voters Believe Obama’s Deep State “Committed Crimes” In Russiagate
Source: The Federalist
by MD Kittle
“In the wake of bombshell declassified documents showing the Obama White House and deep state players manufacturing the intelligence report that jump-started the Russia collusion hoax, a new poll finds a majority of Americans believe President Barack Obama’s national security team ‘committed crimes.’ More than two-thirds (69%) of likely voters in a Rasmussen Report telephone and online survey said there must be consequences for crimes committed in the Russiagate scandal. The poll of 1,172 likely voters asked respondents, ‘Do you agree or disagree with this statement about the manipulation of intelligence in the Obama administration: “Accountability has to take place. … It is critical for the survival of our country that people who perpetrate such crimes are held accountable?”‘ And 54 percent believe it’s likely that members of former President Barack Obama’s national security team ‘committed crimes’ when they ‘manipulated and manufactured intelligence to promote a false narrative about Russia and President Donald Trump.'” (08/06/25)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/05/poll-majority-of-voters-believe-obamas-deep-state-committed-crimes-in-russiagate/
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46) Equality Before the Law, Equality of Permission, and the Language of Libertarianism
Source: EconLog
by Marcos Falcone
“When we communicate with one another, how we say things can sometimes be as important as what we actually say. Words matter, which is even more true when we exchange ideas and try to convince others to embrace our viewpoints. Ideological rhetoric, then, merits some thought on the part of libertarians. Of course, libertarians uphold first and foremost the idea of expanding individual liberty. We want people to be free. But most of the time, non-libertarians say something like this: ‘Well, who doesn’t want freedom? The problem is that freedom can create inequality.’ When this happens, the discussion comes dangerously close to an end: It does not matter that we contextualize such a statement or that we contest it. The urge for some sort of equality, whatever it means, seems unavoidable.” (08/06/25)
https://www.econlib.org/equality-before-the-law-equality-of-permission-and-the-language-of-libertarianism/
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47) The Woke Right Stands At the Door
Source: Persuasion
by Jonathan Rauch
“[James] Lindsay is among a growing number of scholars and intellectual historians talking about what they call the ‘woke right.’ The notion is not that the far left and far right share the same politics or goals. Rather, it is that the far right has adopted, partially on purpose but mostly through osmosis and convergent evolution, claims and strategies that parallel the far left’s. The MAGA right has strange and sinister qualities which look nothing like the traditional, religious wing of conservatism familiar from the era of William F. Buckley, or the anti-government, libertarian conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Its anarchic rejection of truth, its Nietzschean embrace of power as self-justifying, its unashamed anti-liberalism, and its glee in transgressing boundaries and giving offense are something new on the right: an embrace of postmodernism, which until recently was the exclusive property of the illiberal left.” (08/06/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-woke-right-stands-at-the-door
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48) November 1963: Pulp Fiction and CIA Realities
Source: JFK Facts
by Jefferson Morley
“When CIA agents advertised for an assassin to kill Fidel Castro on the cover of a popular men’s magazine in the fall of 1963, a spy called ‘Howard’ could plausibly deny any involvement.” (08/06/25)
https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/november-1963-pulp-fiction-and-pulp
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49) Silicon Valley Godzilla vs. Wall Street Mothra
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Trump economy has created a lot of losers among workers and consumers, yes, but also among businesses. Retailers are dealing with high tariffs. Auto and energy manufacturers have lost tax credits. Construction, agriculture, and other industries with significant immigrant workforces are having trouble retaining employees. Even health care, thought to be totally recession-proof, is showing cracks with the looming slashing of government funding and UnitedHealth’s troubles. A combination of sluggish hiring and higher inflation could tip the country into recession and have a spiraling effect. But there are two winning sectors in the Trump economy: Big Tech and big banks. Due to positive trends and extremely favorable government treatment, banking and tech companies are absolutely soaring..” (08/07/25)
https://prospect.org/power/2025-08-07-silicon-valley-godzilla-vs-wall-street-mothra/
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50) The sickening state of modern media
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, American media was dominated by the Big Three television networks, and a few national magazines. ABC, NBC, and CBS are still with us. Most of the old national magazines are gone or bizarrely changed into odd parodies of their original incarnation …. All these magazines had a very profound impact on American culture, society, and politics in the quarter-century after World War Two. It is claimed that they influenced public opinion and policy, and that they ‘reflected the cultural and social changes’ of the era. The reality seems to be darker: yes, they influenced opinion and policy, but the publications actually created many (or most) of the changes in society and culture.” (008/06/25)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/08/06/the-sickening-state-of-modern-media/
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51) Serious Trouble, 08/06/25
Source: Serious Trouble
“Vance meets with Bondi and Patel to chart a course on Epstein; ex-NBA star Gilbert Arenas is charged with running illegal poker games in the Valley; California grand juries keep returning no bill.” (08/07/25)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/arenas-poker-club
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52) The Libertarian Angle, 08/07/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Trump and the Ukraine-Russia War.” (08/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh4mwEpme6U
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53) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/07/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Congress Skips Epstein Files Vote For Trip To Israel.” (08/07/25)
https://rumble.com/v6x9rna-congress-skips-epstein-files-vote-for-trip-to-israel.html
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54) Advisory Opinions, 08/07/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Drive-By Rulings | Interview: J. Joel Alicea.” (08/07/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/drive-by-rulings-interview-j-joel-alicea/
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55) Cato Daily Podcast, 08/07/25
Source: Cato Institute
“Offers You’d Better Not Refuse.” (08/07/25)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/offers-youd-better-not-refuse
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56) Conflicts of Interest, episode 826
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Netanyahu to Take Full Control of Gaza Even If It Endangers Remaining Israeli Hostages.” (08/07/25)
https://rumble.com/v6x9n5c-netanyahu-to-take-full-control-of-gaza-even-if-it-endangers-remaining-israe.html
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57) Capital Record, episode 250
Source: National Review
“A Sober View of the Economy.” (08/07/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/a-sober-view-of-the-economy/
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58) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2677
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Austrian Economics in the Age of Donald Trump.” (08/07/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2677-austrian-economics-in-the-age-of-donald-trump/
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59) Fountainhead Forum, episode 341
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Hunter DeRensis on the military-industrial complex.” (08/07/25)
https://rumble.com/v6x91sy-ff-341-hunter-derensis-on-the-military-industrial-complex.html
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60) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/07/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Plans Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza City, Trump and Putin May Meet Next Week, and More.” (08/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMeSOHMPpSE
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61) LPA Solidarity Stream, 08/06/25
Source: LP Alliance
“Come discuss member and affiliate empowerment with us!” (08/06/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oARLnIl_n8I
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62) Mean Age Daydream, 08/06/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“A ‘Stern’ Rodgering / Public Broadcasters’ Fake Bankruptcy.” (08/06/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/a-stern-rodgering-public-broadcasters-fake-bankruptcy
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63) The Science of Politics, 08/06/25
Source: Niskanen Center
“Is democracy failing education?” (08/06/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/is-democracy-failing-education
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64) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 08/06/25
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Michael Vlahos – America’s Military Is in Big Trouble.” (08/06/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-guest-michael-vlahos-americas-military-is-in-big-trouble/
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65) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 08/06/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“The One Big Education Opportunity with Shaka Mitchell.” (08/06/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/education/the-one-big-education-opportunity-with-shaka-mitchell/
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