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Thomas L. Knapp
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0) Year-End Fundraiser: We're Past the 10% Mark!
1) Israeli regime, Hamas agree to first phase of Gaza ceasefire plan
2) Appeals court gives Trump control over Oregon National Guard, but Portland occupation remains barred
3) Russian Strikes Knock Out More than Half of Ukraine Gas Production Ahead of Winter
4) US Senate rejects end to government “shutdown”
5) Comey pleads not guilty to charges of lying to, obstructing Congress
6) China: Regime Punishes “Excessively Pessimistic” Social Media Users
7) WA: Seattle mayor signs orders to counter federal military occupation, ICE gang actions
8) France: Le Pen says she’ll try to bring down any future PM until Macron calls new election
9) Il: Charges dropped against couple in Broadview immigration protest after federal grand jury refuses to indict
10) Roofing material firm TopBuild buys rival SPI after antitrust delay
11) Myanmar: Junta forces strike village in glider raid, killing at least 24 people including children
12) IN: Regime employees set to kill man convicted of 2001 rape & murder of small-town teenage girl
13) Russia Regime Moves to Withdraw From Plutonium Agreement With US Regime
14) IL: Jesse Jackson Jr. launches comeback bid for Congress
15) As shutdown [sic] enters second week, IRS to furlough nearly half of its workforce
16) Ecuador: Protesters filmed throwing rocks in alleged presidential assassination attempt
17) Trump, Thunberg tied at back of Nobel Peace Prize pack in betting market
18) Flight delays reported for a second day over airport staffing issues
19) CA: Uber driver charged with starting LA’s deadly Palisades Fire
20) Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded to trio in field of metal-organic frameworks
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Open Borders: The Only Pro-Freedom Solution to America’s Immigration Morass
22) Understanding Theory: Labor Market Edition
23) Crypto and sound currency
24) Government failing at its only job
25) Rent Control Will Make the Housing Crisis Worse
26) Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide For Years And Then Demand Sympathy
27) TSA Watchlists Were Used as Tools of Political Warfare
28) Mitts off my bits: Rein in warrantless surveillance
29) Economic Populism the Key to Rust Belt Votes
30) Is Bari Weiss at CBS a New Direction or a Misdirection?
31) Trump Turning US Into the Planet’s Rogue Nation
32) We Hate Each Other More than We Understand
33) A Declaration of Independence From Fear
34) Luke Weaver, Meet David Hume
35) Cues vs. Content: A Proposal to Empirically Distinguish Lewis-Style Coalition Theory from Caplan’s Simplistic Theory
36) What if a Russian victory in Ukraine were only the beginning?
37) Bonuses for Cost Cutters Will Stop Government Waste
38) Spencer Cox Isn’t Here to Save Us
39) Europe’s center is crumbling as nationalism surges
40) The Managerial Tyranny of Boomer Environmentalism
41) Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Causing a Food Crisis
42) The Stick-to-it-iveness of the Deep State
43) War Criminals Don’t Face Trial — They Get Retirement Deals
44) Oregon’s E-Cigarette Censorship Is Unconstitutional — and Makes No Sense
45) National Guard isn’t permanent fix for cities; here’s what must happen next
46) GDP as ideological scam, part 4
47) Can Each Side’s Faith Break the Cycle of Mutually Assured Destruction for Israelis and Palestinians?
48) “Culture” Is the Weakest Argument for Immigration Controls
49) In Two Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC & CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest
50) The Contrary Influence of Universalism and Romanticism on Ayn Rand
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51) The Political Orphanage, 10/08/25
52) Collateral Damage, episode 1
53) The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, 10/08/25
54) Rising, 10/08/25
55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/08/25
56) Reason Interview: Lionel Shriver
57) Quillette Narrated, 10/08/25
58) The Chris Hedges Report, 10/07/25
59) Nonzero, 10/07/25
60) Political Theater, 10/07/25
61) The Fifth Column, 10/07/25
62) System Update, episode 528
63) Trump Watch, 10/07/25
64) Politics Politics Politics, 10/07/25
65) The Bryan Hyde Show, 10/07/25
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1) Israeli regime, Hamas agree to first phase of Gaza ceasefire plan
Source: CNN
“Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a US-brokered ceasefire plan that will allow for the release of all hostages in Gaza, Israeli withdrawal to an agreed point, and the release of some Palestinian [hostages]. … Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his government today to vote on the agreement. The first phase of the deal can only proceed if the cabinet votes in favor. … The agreement was met with celebration in Gaza and Israel, though residents in both places expressed concern that a comprehensive peace deal may still not materialize.” (10/09/25)
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-agreement-10-09-25
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2) Appeals court gives Trump control over Oregon National Guard, but Portland occupation remains barred
Source: The Hill
“A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a judge’s order blocking President Trump from calling Oregon National Guard troops into federal service, but he still may not deploy them, for now. The temporary, administrative stay puts U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut’s order halting Trump’s federalization of the National Guard members on hold while the appeals court weighs whether to extend the pause as it considers the administration’s appeal. But it keeps in place her second order barring the president from sending the troops anywhere in the state. … California joined Oregon’s legal bid to keep the federalized troops out of Portland, and Immergut granted their request to block Trump from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all. That order remains in effect.” (10/08/25)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5545945-judge-blocks-trump-oregon-troops/
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3) Russian Strikes Knock Out More than Half of Ukraine Gas Production Ahead of Winter
Source: Bloomberg
“Russian strikes in recent days have wiped out more than half of Ukraine’s domestic natural gas production, likely forcing the war-battered country to spend 1.9 billion euros ($2.2 billion) on fuel imports to survive the looming winter. Kyiv told its allies earlier this week that a massive Russian barrage targeting the Kharkiv and Poltava regions on Oct. 3 took out roughly 60% of the country’s gas production, according to people with knowledge of the matter. They requested anonymity because the discussions are private. Ukraine’s gas infrastructure — able to meet domestic demand before the Russian full-scale invasion — has come under increasingly intensive missile and drone strikes since the beginning of this year.” (10/09/25)
https://archive.is/2OrkE
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4) US Senate rejects end to government “shutdown”
Source: CBS News
“The Senate failed to advance funding bills to end the government shutdown for the sixth time on Wednesday, continuing the stalemate as Democrats and Republicans traded blame for the impasse. The vote to move forward on the GOP measure, which has already passed the House, was 54 to 45. Sixty votes were needed to advance it. No new Democrats voted to advance the bill in Wednesday’s vote.” [editor’s note: Republicans control the Senate and have already uncorked the 51-vote “nuclear option” on other matters. If these bills aren’t passing, it’s because the GOP doesn’t want them to pass – TLK] (10/09/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/government-shutdown-latest-senate-votes-day-8/
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5) Comey pleads not guilty to charges of lying to, obstructing Congress
Source: MSNBC
“James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges that were demanded by President Donald Trump and secured by one of his former personal lawyers, who has never prosecuted a case before. … Grand jurors rejected one of the three counts [Lindsey] Halligan presented but approved two others: one for allegedly lying to Congress and another for allegedly obstructing Congress. … Comey headed the FBI when Trump took office in his first term and his 2016 campaign’s potential ties to Russia were under investigation. Trump fired Comey in 2017 after Comey said he refused to pledge loyalty to the president.” (10/08/25)
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/james-comey-pleads-not-guilty-trump-halligan-rcna236313
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6) China: Regime Punishes “Excessively Pessimistic” Social Media Users
Source: New York Times
“China’s censors are moving to stamp out more than just political dissent online. Now, they are targeting the public mood itself — punishing bloggers and influencers whose weary posts are resonating widely in a country where optimism is fraying. … The two-month campaign, launched by the Cyberspace Administration of China in late September, is aimed at purging content that incites ‘excessively pessimistic sentiment’ and panic or promotes defeatist ideas such as ‘hard work is useless,’ according to a notice from the agency. … Beijing is concerned that such pessimism doesn’t just discourage citizens from being productive members of society. It could turn into criticism of the ruling Communist Party.” (10/08/25)
https://archive.is/uLBtP
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7) WA: Seattle mayor signs orders to counter federal military occupation, ICE gang actions
Source: KOMO News
“Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell signed two executive orders on Wednesday in response to President Trump’s federal immigration policies and the deployment of troops in U.S. cities. The first executive order prepares the city for a deployment by preparing and evaluating all legal options in the case there is a deployment. It also lays out how the city will coordinate in the event of the national guard being sent here, and ensures that Seattle police know what they should and should not do. … The second executive order is meant to protect immigrant and refugee communities. The order bans the use of face masks by law enforcement, with few exceptions, and requires that all law enforcement have visible badges that identify their agency.” (10/08/25)
https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-mayor-to-sign-executive-orders-countering-federal-immigration-policies
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8) France: Le Pen says she’ll try to bring down any future PM until Macron calls new election
Source: Politico
“French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said her party would vote to topple any future prime minister that President Emmanuel Macron might appoint unless he calls new parliamentary elections. ‘Each new government is a device to circumvent the will of the people,’ Le Pen said Wednesday at a press conference. Le Pen’s comments come as outgoing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu scrambles to navigate a way out of the political crisis sparked by his resignation Monday. After accepting Lecornu’s resignation, Macron then tasked him with finding a path forward by Wednesday evening. Le Pen’s party, the National Rally, and other political forces that think they can win a majority of seats in the currently hung National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, want Macron to call new snap elections.” (10/08/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-says-she-will-try-bring-down-any-future-pm-until-emmanuel-macron-calls-new-election/
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9) IL: Charges dropped against couple in Broadview immigration protest after federal grand jury refuses to indict
Source: Chicago Tribune
“A federal grand jury has refused to indict a Chicago couple arrested during a violent protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [gang lair] in Broadview last month, a rare move that prompted prosecutors to abruptly drop the case and signals government overreach in bringing the charges in the first place. … Ray Collins, 21, and Jocelyne Robledo, 30, a husband and wife from the South Side of Chicago, were each allegedly carrying loaded guns with them as they scuffled with officers who were trying to widen a security perimeter during a melee in late September. Both have lawful permits to carry the firearms, but they were facing felony charges of assaulting or resisting a federal officer in performance of official duties, which carries up to 8 years in prison. … The charges stemmed from the same incident Sept. 29 outside the facility in Broadview that saw [gang members] deploy tear gas and other weapons on protesters.” (10/08/25)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/charges-dropped-couple-broadview-protest-grand-jury/
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10) Roofing material firm TopBuild buys rival SPI after antitrust delay
Source: Reuters
“TopBuild Corp said on Wednesday it has acquired Specialty Products and Insulation (SPI) for $1 billion in cash, about a year after the two building materials makers terminated an initial agreement over antitrust concerns. Shares of the company rose more than 7% in morning trade. … TopBuild first agreed to acquire SPI in 2023 for $960 million, which was terminated after the Department of Justice raised concerns over the deal harming competition, opens new tab. The deal comes as the U.S. building products industry, which is fairly protected from tariffs due to local sourcing, undergoes rapid consolidation to capture demand for new homes and repair services.” (10/08/25)
https://archive.is/th8CE
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11) Myanmar: Junta forces strike village in glider raid, killing at least 24 people including children
Source: ABC News
“Myanmar’s military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according to a member of a resistance group, villagers and media reports. The Monday night attack was carried out by a motorized paraglider, and targeted a village in the country’s central Sagaing region that was celebrating a Buddhist festival that included a rally calling for the release of political prisoners held by Myanmar’s military government, the reports said.” (10/08/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/myanmars-military-strikes-village-glider-raid-killing-24-126320944
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12) IN: Regime employees set to kill man convicted of 2001 rape & murder of small-town teenage girl
Source: SFGate
“Indiana will put to death a man who was convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl, the state’s third [pre-planned prisoner killing] since resuming capital punishment last year. The [pre-planned prisoner killing] of Roy Lee Ward is scheduled before sunrise Friday at the state prison in Michigan City, Indiana. The 53-year-old has exhausted his legal options to challenge the sentence. Ward’s [pre-planned prisoner killing] by lethal injection comes amid questions about Indiana’s handling of pentobarbital, the drug it has used in recent [pre-planned prisoner killings].” (10/08/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/indiana-set-to-execute-man-convicted-of-2001-rape-21090862.php
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13) Russia Regime Moves to Withdraw From Plutonium Agreement With US Regime
Source: US News & World Report
“Russia’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium left over from thousands of Cold War nuclear warheads. The Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA), signed in 2000, committed both the United States and Russia to dispose of at least 34 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium each, which U.S. officials said would have been enough for as many as 17,000 nuclear warheads. It came into force in 2011. … The aim of the PMDA was to dispose of the weapons-grade plutonium by converting it into safer forms – such as mixed oxide (MOX) fuel or by irradiating plutonium in fast-neutron reactors for electricity production.” (10/08/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-08/russia-moves-to-withdraw-from-plutonium-agreement-with-the-united-states
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14) IL: Jesse Jackson Jr. launches comeback bid for Congress
Source: Axios
“Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. formally launched his comeback bid for Congress on Tuesday, saying in a video shared with Axios he needs to ‘get back on the playing field and fight for my constituents.’ A poll that Jackson’s exploratory committee released last month suggests he is a strong contender for the seat he resigned in 2013 before being convicted and imprisoned for stealing campaign funds. The seat, which covers parts of South Chicago and the rural and suburban counties to the South, is coming open as Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) runs for U.S. Senate. Jackson joins a crowded field of Democrats vying for the seat, including state Sens. Robert Peters and Willie Preston, Cook County commissioner Donna Miller, Water Reclamation District commissioner Yumeka Brown and policy strategist Adal Regis.” (10/08/25)
https://archive.is/5RqHD
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15) As shutdown [sic] enters second week, IRS to furlough nearly half of its workforce
Source: SFGate
“The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as part of the ongoing government shutdown, according to the an updated contingency plan posted Wednesday to the agency website. Most IRS operations are closed, the agency said in a separate letter to IRS workers. The news comes after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to fund federal operations and the government shutdown has entered its second week, with no discernible endgame in sight. The agency’s initial Lapse in Appropriations Contingency Plan provided for the first five business days of operations, when states that the department would remain open using Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act funds. Now, only 39,870 employees, or 53.6%, will remain working as the shutdown continues. Last week Trump said roughly 750,000 federal workers nationwide were expected to be furloughed across agencies, with some potentially fired by his administration.” (10/08/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/irs-to-furlough-nearly-half-of-its-workforce-as-21090924.php
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16) Ecuador: Protesters filmed throwing rocks in alleged presidential assassination attempt
Source: ABC News [Australian state media]
“Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has survived an alleged assassination attempt in an attack on his motorcade by hundreds of protesters. Demonstrators were filmed throwing large rocks at Mr Noboa’s vehicle, which his government says was also shot at while he was passing through the town of El Tambo. Five people have been detained over the attack, and Mr Noboa’s office says those arrested would be processed under charges of terrorism and attempted assassination.” (10/08/25)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-08/ecuador-protesters-alleged-daniel-noboa-assassination-attempt/105866368
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17) Trump, Thunberg tied at back of Nobel Peace Prize pack in betting market
Source: The Daily Beast
“President Donald Trump is sure to be peeved if he looks at how oddsmakers are rating his chances of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Not only does Polymarket list Trump’s implied odds at a measly two percent as of Wednesday, two days before the prize is announced, but those long odds also place him at the same level as his 22-year-old nemesis, Greta Thunberg. Polymarket, which performed better than polling in the last presidential election, lists Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms as the runaway favorite to win the Nobel Peace Prize at 28 percent implied odds. Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is in second with implied odds of 10 percent.” (10/08/25)
https://archive.is/3oTfB
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18) Flight delays reported for a second day over airport staffing issues
Source: United Press International
“Flight delays have been reported throughout the United States for a second day due to staffing issues at airports as the government shutdown continues. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association called on its 20,000 members on Tuesday to remain on the job. ‘We’re asking America’s air traffic controllers, who get 45,000 U.S. flights safely to their destinations every day, to work without pay,’ it said in a statement on X. ‘Congress must #EndtheShutdown.’ … A ground stop was issued for flights late Tuesday at Nashville International Airport while delays were announced throughout Tuesday evening and day at international airports in Chicago, Boston, Newark, Orlando and Denver.” (10/08/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/10/08/flight-issues-government-shutdown/1321759896376/
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19) CA: Uber driver charged with starting LA’s deadly Palisades Fire
Source: SFGate
“Law enforcement officials have arrested a Florida man in connection with the start of the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles in January. Federal officials arrested Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, on Tuesday in Florida on suspicion of starting the conflagration that eventually burned over 6,700 structures and left 12 people dead. In a press conference on Wednesday, acting U.S. Attorney Bilal ‘Bill’ Essayli said Rinderknecht faces federal charges of destruction of property by means of fire, facing up to 20 years in federal prison. Rinderknecht is accused of igniting a fire in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day on a hilltop in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, along the Temescal Ridge Trail. That small fire, dubbed the Lachman Fire, was extinguished on the surface by firefighters but smoldered for days underground before high winds and dry weather helped reignite nearby vegetation. That so-called holdover fire became the Palisades Fire on Jan. 7.” (10/08/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/palisades-fire-arrest-21090578.php
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20) Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded to trio in field of metal-organic frameworks
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks. The three scientists, who won the award on Wednesday, come from the universities of Kyoto in Japan, Melbourne in Australia and Berkeley in the United States, respectively. The three have created ‘molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow,’ read a statement from the Nobel Prize. Such constructions can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions, it added.” (10/08/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/8/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded
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21) Open Borders: The Only Pro-Freedom Solution to America’s Immigration Morass
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The beautiful thing about a system of open borders is that not only does it work, it is the only system that is consistent with the principles of free markets, economic liberty, religion, and morality. It is a system that brings life, vitality, energy, entrepreneurship, harmony, and higher standards of living to a nation.” (10/08/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/08/open-borders-the-only-pro-freedom-solution-to-americas-immigration-morass/
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22) Understanding Theory: Labor Market Edition
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“Recently, the Trump Administration announced that H-1B applications would face a new $100,000 fee (in addition to the already existing fees, not to mention legal fees). … Will the fee lead to more hiring of American workers? It’s tempting to think so. After all, if the price of foreign workers rises, then fewer foreign workers will be hired. That is just the law of demand at work: as price goes up, quantity demanded goes down. But there is an implicit assumption in the Trump administration’s argument: that domestic workers are the next-best option for firms compared to foreign workers. That is not necessarily the case. … the firm could also opt to change its operations, or even relocate outside the country.” (10/08/25)
https://www.econlib.org/understanding-theory-labor-market-edition
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23) Crypto and sound currency
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Michael S Milano
“The future of money is being coded — not printed — and the preservation of our liberties hinges on whether the underlying protocols uphold the principles of sound money. As a commodity, money is unlike any other; it is not consumed, nor does it directly contribute to the production process. Individuals naturally seek to acquire as much as possible, yet paradoxically, from a societal perspective, more is not better. There is no such thing as an ‘optimal’ money supply; any quantity is sufficient, as long as prices can freely adjust. Statists often conflate monetary expansion with economic growth, but inflation merely erodes the purchasing power of existing monetary units — enriching the earliest recipients at everyone else’s expense.” (10/08/25)
https://fee.org/articles/crypto-and-sound-currency/
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24) Government failing at its only job
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Much of the conflict over government stems from different ideas about what its job is — or should be. If we strip away all the nonsense and propaganda — all the excuses — there’s only one justification for government that holds water; it’s there to protect the life, liberty, and property — the fundamental human rights — of the people forced to live with it. A job it seems unwilling or unable to do. Anything else it does is a direct betrayal of this purpose.” (10/08/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/10/08/voices/opinion-government-failing-at-its-only-job/231852.html
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25) Rent Control Will Make the Housing Crisis Worse
Source: The Daily Economy
by Kevin Lavery
“Rent control artificially sets the price of rent below market value, discouraging developers from investing in new buildings; incentivizing landlords to take their units off the rental market. After St. Paul, Minnesota capped rent increases to three percent annually, new building permits decreased by 80 percent within three months of the policy being passed. And in San Francisco, rent control sparked a wave of rental units being converted to condos, causing renters in rent-controlled units to drop 25 percent. Choking supply leads to large rent increases in the long run as units become more scarce, especially in low-income areas where condominiums are unaffordable and development is sparse.” (10/08/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/rent-control-will-make-the-housing-crisis-worse/
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26) Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide For Years And Then Demand Sympathy
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Never forget October 7th 2023, that fateful day when Israelis were brutally massacred by Israeli tanks and Israeli helicopters and Israeli drones and Israeli soldiers and Israeli bullets, and also by Hamas a bit. … I’m sorry but it’s just plain hilarious that we’re still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown exactly what it is that Hamas has been fighting. Only Israelis could spend two years committing genocide and then demand everyone feel very, very sorry for them on the anniversary their genocide started.” (10/08/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/08/only-israelis-could-commit-genocide-for-years-and-then-demand-sympathy-and-other-notes/
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27) TSA Watchlists Were Used as Tools of Political Warfare
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“The Trump administration receives well-justified criticism for using government power to punish political foes such as former FBI director James Comey, funder of left-wing causes George Soros, and law firms linked to the Democratic Party. But don’t forget that former President Joe Biden’s administration also weaponized the state against its enemies. It just did so quietly, behind the scenes, and with the approval of much of the media. The Biden administration not only leaned on tech companies to muzzle critics of the powers-that-be, but it also turned due-process-free watchlists into means of harassing people it didn’t like.” (10/08/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/08/tsa-watchlists-were-used-as-tools-of-political-warfare/
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28) Mitts off my bits: Rein in warrantless surveillance
Source: The hill
by Ron Yokubaitis
“Soon, Congress will once again debate whether to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — a law that was supposed to target foreign threats but has become a domestic dragnet. And I’m here to say that enough is enough. Lawmakers need to keep their mitts off our bits. This is not a partisan issue. It’s a constitutional issue. The Fourth Amendment doesn’t say ‘except when it’s digital.’ It doesn’t say ‘unless you’re using Google.’ It says the government must get a warrant — period. And yet, under Section 702, federal agencies like the National Security Agency, FBI and CIA can access Americans’ private emails, messages and cloud data — all without a warrant, and often without us ever knowing.” (10/08/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5543090-congress-must-defend-privacy/
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29) Economic Populism the Key to Rust Belt Votes
Source: Inequality.org
by Jared Abbott
“Democrats know they have a problem with working-class voters but don’t agree on the cause. Commentators chalk Kamala Harris’[s] 2024 loss to high prices, an unusually short campaign cycle, or voter resentment against the possibility of having an African American woman as president. But the Democratic Party’s working-class woes have much deeper roots. Many voters in key battleground states feel burned by decades of Democrats’ unrealized promises to improve the lives of working people, failure to reign in obscene economic inequality, and support for economically disastrous policies (from NAFTA to the entrance of China to the World Trade Organization) that led to the loss of countless jobs and futures in their states.” (10/08/25)
https://inequality.org/article/can-democrats-win-back-the-rust-belt/
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30) Is Bari Weiss at CBS a New Direction or a Misdirection?
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“On Monday, the long-rumored deal was made official as Paramount bought the online media outlet The Free Press and named its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss became a hero for certain factions of the anti-progressive coalition when she quit her job at The New York Times in 2020 to protest what she saw as the paper’s growing intolerance of dissenting opinions. She started The Free Press with her sister and wife, presenting the philosophy of the digital outlet as an inverse of the kind of progressive dogmatism she had seen at the Times. But now, she returns to the legacy press, taking the helm of an outlet much larger than her own. … Does Bari Weiss’s appointment as head of CBS News really represent a major shift away from the status quo in America’s media industry? The answer is no.” (10/08/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/bari-weiss-cbs-new-direction-or-misdirection
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31) Trump Turning US Into the Planet’s Rogue Nation
Source: The Crucial Years
by Bill Mckibben
“Tuesday was one of those days when you can feel the world shifting. The think tank Ember reported that for the first half of 2025 renewable energy produced more electricity than coal. More to the point, solar and wind grew so fast that they covered all the growth in demand for electricity so far this year, with room to spare. That means that fossil fuel emissions for producing electricity plateaued (even fell slightly) over the first half of the year. It’s an epochal moment: It demonstrates that the clean energy transition is not destined to be the slow, dragged-out affair that most analysts would have predicted even five years ago. ‘The fall overall of fossil may be small, but it is significant,’ said one of the Ember researchers.” (10/08/25)
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/something-extraordinary-just-happened
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32) We Hate Each Other More than We Understand
Source: The Bulwark
by Mona Charen
“Not only do Americans believe we’re bitterly polarized, they worry that we’re condoning political violence, and that we cannot agree on basic facts. When Republicans were asked to name the nation’s biggest problem, their first choice was the economy but their second was ‘Democrats.’ When Democrats were asked the same question, they put the economy second and named ‘Trump/Republicans’ first. Nations are not eternal, and domestic divisions often lead to destruction — especially when exploited by foreign enemies. So it’s important to pay attention to these red flags, but it’s equally important not to misinterpret them. When we consider how much of our discourse is mediated through partisan sources and the fact that the governing political party is dominated by incendiary extremists, it’s surprising we aren’t even more polarized.” (10/08/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/violence-hatred-americans-warped-beliefs-values-polls
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33) A Declaration of Independence From Fear
Source: Common Dreams
by Steven Day
“Cruelty, including a lust for vengeance, largely defines President Donald Trump’s character. And with an enemies list that is nearly limitless, he will never lack for targets. Among his self-declared enemies is the entire Democratic Party. Democrats, according to Trump, are a radical, evil, and dangerous lot. Going a step further, he has also declared that Democrats are ‘the party of hate, evil, and Satan.’ The same goes for the political left in general. To Trump’s mind, all these people, representing approximately half of the nation’s population based upon election results, are evil and deserve punishment. They are, as Trump tells us, the enemy within. But it would be a mistake to assume vengeance is Trump’s ultimate goal. Yes, he is vindictive, and, yes, he enjoys hurting people who he feels crossed him; but he clearly also has grander dreams.” (10/08/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/declare-independence-from-fear
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34) Luke Weaver, Meet David Hume
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
Luke Weaver, once a star relief pitcher for the New York Yankees, has run into a professional crisis. He can’t get any batter out.
“After a recent poor performance in the baseball playoffs, Weaver said, ‘I don’t really feel like myself. I don’t feel like my mind is completely clear to go out there and attack. I do feel physically strong. I do feel mentally strong overall.’ … We have all felt like Weaver. … You may have noticed times when you have a lot on your mind and your mind-chatter tries to defend your self-concept. David Hume would say that, no matter how it appears to us, our thought-based self-concept is not who we truly are.” (10/08/25)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/luke-weaver-meet-david-hume
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35) Cues vs. Content: A Proposal to Empirically Distinguish Lewis-Style Coalition Theory from Caplan’s Simplistic Theory
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“In The Myth of Left and Right, the Lewis brothers argue that the concept of there being a real, single dimensional political spectrum with a left wing at one end of it and a right wing at the other end of it that is timeless and spans borders is a myth. They claim that what we call ‘ideology’ in this domain is really a matter of who you belong with — not a coherent commitment to any underlying worldview such as markets or equality or any other single dimensional dichotomy for that matter. In contrast, Bryan Caplan’s ‘simplistic theory’ claims that leftists are, at bottom, anti-market, whereas rightists are anti-left. This means that the Lewis brothers and Caplan already have the same theory of what defines the right wing if you think about it.” (10/08/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/cues-vs-content-a-proposal-to-empirically
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36) What if a Russian victory in Ukraine were only the beginning?
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“What if Russia’s winning in Ukraine were only the beginning? The beginning of the enfeeblement of the United States? Putin strolled down Donald Trump’s red carpet in Alaska, then took none of the steps regarding Ukraine that Trump said were necessary for Russia to avoid ‘very severe consequences.’ Instead, Putin intensified Russian attacks. A connoisseur of Western dithering, Putin probably anticipated the response his current flurry of contemptuous aggressions has elicited.” (10/08/25)
https://archive.is/hidwD
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37) Bonuses for Cost Cutters Will Stop Government Waste
Source: Town Hall
by US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
“The federal government has, for decades, behaved as though the fundamentals of basic budgeting don’t apply. But that’s hardly surprising considering that Congress has rewarded this poor stewardship of taxpayer dollars again and again. Bureaucrats have every incentive to burn through taxpayer money and no incentive to save it. The widespread practice of ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ budgeting has been the result, and it has to stop. Imagine if an American family, having paid their bills to cover their monthly expenses, decided to intentionally spend their remaining paycheck as fast as they possibly could. Instead of using their remaining paycheck for investments, or add to their savings, or set money aside for a rainy day; their only objective is to spend their paycheck quickly on whatever they can find. No family spends money this way. Because money doesn’t grow on trees.” (10/08/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/senatorrandpaul/2025/10/08/bonuses-for-cost-cutters-will-stop-government-waste-n2664606
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38) Spencer Cox Isn’t Here to Save Us
Source: The Dispatch
by John McCormack
“In the weeks since the Kirk assassination, Cox has been widely praised for rising to the occasion in the wake of a national tragedy that occurred in his state. In a pair of press conferences following the assassination, the Utah governor spoke with moral clarity about both the human tragedy of the murder of a young father and how it struck at the foundational rights of all Americans. Cox pointed to Kirk’s willingness to engage in debate and Kirk’s own words imploring Americans to forgive and eschew violence as an example to live by. Part of what made Cox’s remarks so remarkable was what he didn’t say. He dispensed with the platitude that it’s a given that America’s brightest days are ahead. He didn’t pretend to be the leader — or that there is any leader — who was going to save us.” (10/08/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/spencer-cox-utah-charlie-kirk-republican-party/
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39) Europe’s center is crumbling as nationalism surges
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Ian Proud
“Support for mainstream political parties in Europe is crumbling against a rising tide of nationalism as voters increasingly want their governments to prioritize domestic issues. This might not be enough to end the war in Ukraine, which will cost Europe $50 billion it can ill afford in 2026. But we may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the uniparty in Europe.” (10/08/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-nationalism/
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40) The Managerial Tyranny of Boomer Environmentalism
Source: Law & Liberty
by Richard Morrison
“As Steven F. Hayward lays out in his forum lead this month, the environmental legal and activist movement that started in the 1960s, and which is best known culturally for the first observance of Earth Day in 1970, is rapidly coming to an end in ways that its advocates are just beginning to realize. While the underlying motives for modern environmentalism — primitivism, naturalistic fallacy, power lust, and an atheist/materialist hatred of humanity — will likely always be with us, their combination into an allegedly benevolent political movement is well past its effective peak.” (10/08/25)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-managerial-tyranny-of-boomer-environmentalism/
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41) Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Causing a Food Crisis
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Department of Labor’s new rule cutting farmworker wages bluntly states that souped-up immigration enforcement has devastated the agricultural workforce and created a significant ‘risk of supply shock-induced food shortages,’ according to a document filed in the Federal Register last week. The document also indicates that American workers are simply not interested in and do not have the skills to perform agricultural jobs, at odds with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’s claim that the farm workforce will soon be 100 percent American. ‘The near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal workforce, results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S consumers,’ the document says, adding that ‘this threat will grow’ given new federal funding for immigration enforcement under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” (10/08/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/trump-labor-department-immigration-ICE-food-crisis/
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42) The Stick-to-it-iveness of the Deep State
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“‘It is essential that we (CIA/NSA/FBI/ODNI) be on the same page and are all supportive of the report,’ wrote former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, ‘in the highest tradition of ‘that’s OUR story, and we’re sticking to it.” Clapper wrote that in a recently declassified email from late 2016. It’s about RussiaGate, which his inter-departmental team had concocted out of Clinton oppo campaign research leading up to Donald Trump’s unexpected win that year. … Do you remember where that phrase came from?” (10/08/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/08/the-stick-to-it-iveness-of-the-deep-state/
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43) War Criminals Don’t Face Trial — They Get Retirement Deals
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jon Reynolds
“Ten years from now, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and countless others who enabled or excused the destruction of Gaza will almost certainly be dead – perhaps passing away peacefully one night during a restful dream. What they leave behind, however, is a legacy shaped not only by their actions but by how those actions are remembered. History books may brand them as monsters or war criminals – or, just as easily, frame them as leaders caught in a ‘complicated’ era, sanitizing their complicity.” (10/08/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/jon_reynolds/2025/10/07/war-criminals-dont-face-trial-they-get-retirement-deals/
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44) Oregon’s E-Cigarette Censorship Is Unconstitutional — and Makes No Sense
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“In the stock room at Division Vapor in Portland, Oregon, a sign affixed to a metal rack holding various nicotine solutions reminds employees to ‘Censor Before [You] Stock!’ The sign alludes to state regulations that require merchants to obscure allegedly child-enticing images and words before displaying vaping products to their adult customers. The law that authorizes those bewildering rules, which in many cases require covering almost the entire label of products sold in stores that do not even admit minors, is at the center of a case that the Oregon Supreme Court is considering today. The case illustrates how concerns about underage vaping have become a pretext for overriding the rights of adult consumers and the businesses that serve them, including the right to communicate and receive information about potentially lifesaving products that offer a harm-reducing alternative to conventional cigarettes.” (10/08/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/08/oregons-e-cigarette-censorship-is-illogical-and-unconstitutional/
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45) National Guard isn’t permanent fix for cities; here’s what must happen next
Source: Fox News
by Jillian E Snider
“Calling in the National Guard and federal law enforcement isn’t a solution — it’s a signal that the system has cracked. Chicago is learning the hard way what happens when outdated police hiring practices collide with political cuts. Since 2019, more than 2,100 police positions have been eliminated, while the city added layers of bureaucracy. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) still has 795 unfilled vacancies, compounded by 833 position cuts under Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and 614 by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The result: President Donald Trump is now sending in the National Guard to cover gaps created by years of slow hiring pipelines, endless vacancies and deliberate downsizing.” [editor’s note: Snider is correct that military occupation of American cities isn’t a “solution” — to crime, anyway – TLK] (10/08/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/national-guard-isnt-permanent-fix-cities-heres-what-must-happen-next
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46) GDP as ideological scam, part 4
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“Whenever I criticize GDP, I am pressed as to what I’d replace it with, and many critics of GDP do indeed eagerly pitch their new and improved versions to equally clueless wonks and academics. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’m not even a little bit interested in such a nasty project, and a central pillar of my criticism of GDP is that it tries to measure the economic health of a country with a single test, even if an aggregate one. I’d suggest instead that no power center, state, or other authoritarian apparatus steering from the putative top should dictate or endorse a single standard of how communities or individuals assess their own wellbeing or economic outcomes.” (10/08/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/gdp-as-ideological-scam-part-4
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47) Can Each Side’s Faith Break the Cycle of Mutually Assured Destruction for Israelis and Palestinians?
Source: The UnPopulist
by Michale G Holzman & Mustafa Akyol
“An epistolary exchange between an Islamic scholar and a rabbi points to the concept of universal empathy in their traditions as the key.” (10/07/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/can-each-sides-faith-break-the-cycle
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48) “Culture” Is the Weakest Argument for Immigration Controls
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Thomas Eddlem
“My childhood haunts of eating breakfast at Bickford’s — a pancake house chain serving stale, microwaved pancakes — and the two styles of ‘ethnic’ food in my suburban Boston home of Norwood, Massachusetts — sub-par Greek-style pizza and my childhood Chinese food restaurant, also sub-par — have all gone out of business. The culture has been ‘ruined’ by the emergence of authentic Mexican, Indian, Ethiopian and Thai restaurants (all unheard of in my teenage years). Eek! They’ve overrun our culture! By all means, let us give up tacos and go back to America’s historic culture of boiled dinners.” (10/07/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/culture-is-the-weakest-argument-for-immigration-controls
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49) In Two Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC & CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest
Source: In These Times
by Adam Johnson
“Since Israel recommenced bombing Gaza after the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel — unleashing what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, a United Nations commision and the consensus among genocide scholars all agree is a genocide — U.S. corporate media has reduced Palestinian participation in the discussion about their own extermination to mariginal or token appearances. In the context of the Sunday morning news shows that set the agenda for Washington, DC, Palestinians have been excluded almost categorically. Last December, I detailed for The Nation how the major Sunday morning news shows were an object lesson in the ways corporate media has centered U.S. and Israel perspectives in the war on Gaza over that of Palestinians whose voices are systematically shut out of mainstream news coverage.” (10/07/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/gaza-israel-genocide-media-palestine
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50) The Contrary Influence of Universalism and Romanticism on Ayn Rand
Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden
“Universalism, writes philosopher Isaiah Berlin, is a worldview that dominated philosophy for two thousand years before being challenged by Romanticism. It is characterized by the idea that all knowledge and all truth can be discerned by reason. … The problem with universalism is that few agree on what the true answers are, especially when it comes to ethics and politics. And when one ascribes moral values to questions of truth, when truth is regarded as good and falsehood or error is regarded as evil, and if evil is regarded as dangerous, as something to be repressed by the state for the good of all, then we end up with authoritarianism and tyranny.” (10/07/25)
https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-contrary-influence-of-universalism.html
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51) The Political Orphanage, 10/08/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“The Fight Over Gay Characters in Public Schools.” (10/08/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/the-fight-over-gay-characters-in-public-schools
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52) Collateral Damage, episode 1
Source: The Intercept
“Dirty Business: The Atlanta Narcotics Unit’s Deadly Raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston.” (10/08/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/08/collateral-damage-episode-one-dirty-business/
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53) The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, 10/08/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Eternal Vigilance | Interview: Jay Nordlinger.” (10/08/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/eternal-vigilance-interview-jay-nordlinger/
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54) Rising, 10/08/25
Soure: The Hill
“Lindsey Granger delivers her lens on the growing divide between Trump and his base who got him elected, as republicans in congress are criticizing leadership over rising premiums and the ‘manosphere’ shifts their tone.” (10/08/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5544759-rising-october-8-2025/
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55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/08/25
Source: The New Republic
“Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Wrecked Trump’s Entire Shutdown Strategy.” (10/08/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/201463/marjorie-taylor-greene-just-wrecked-trump-entire-shutdown-strategy
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56) Reason Interview: Lionel Shriver
Source: Reason
“Are Americans Addicted to Conflict?” (10/08/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/08/are-americans-addicted-to-conflict/
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57) Quillette Narrated, 10/08/25
Source: Quillette
“The Malpractice of Menopausal Medicine Reveals a Broken Medical System.” (10/08/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/10/08/the-malpractice-of-menopausal-medicine-reveals-a-broken-medical-system/
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58) The Chris Hedges Report, 10/07/25
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“Can Love Persevere?” (10/07/25)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/chris-hedges-can-love-persevere
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59) Nonzero, 10/07/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Bari Weiss, CBS, and Israel | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov.” (10/07/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69053
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60) Political Theater, 10/07/25
Source: Roll Call
“An Orwell movie for Orwellian times.” (10/08/25)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL5875957411.mp3?updated=1759862868
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61) The Fifth Column, 10/07/25
Source: The Fifth Column
“UNLOCKED: Russ Roberts, on the Weight of History & the Elasticity of Memory.” (10/07/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/unlocked-russ-roberts-on-the-weight
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62) System Update, episode 528
Source: System Update
“Pam Bondi’s Malicious Ineptitude on Full Display During Senate Hearing; Pro-Spying Senators Complain About Being Surveilled; What New Candace/Charlie Kirk Messages Reveal.” (10/07/25)
https://rumble.com/v700486-system-update-show-528.html
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63) Trump Watch, 10/07/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Military and the Drug War.” (10/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OBPVXWZdik
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64) Politics Politics Politics, 10/07/25
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Are the Democrats Actually Winning this Shutdown? (with Bill Scher).” (10/07/25)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/are-the-democrats-actually-winning
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65) The Bryan Hyde Show, 10/07/25
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me to talk about pushing back on the narrative being fed to us by compensated endorsers. We also discuss overcoming the temptation to become more loyal to political personalities than we are to our principles.” (10/07/25)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-jvvwt-198865a
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1) Israeli regime, Hamas agree to first phase of Gaza ceasefire plan
2) Appeals court gives Trump control over Oregon National Guard, but Portland occupation remains barred
3) Russian Strikes Knock Out More than Half of Ukraine Gas Production Ahead of Winter
4) US Senate rejects end to government “shutdown”
5) Comey pleads not guilty to charges of lying to, obstructing Congress
6) China: Regime Punishes “Excessively Pessimistic” Social Media Users
7) WA: Seattle mayor signs orders to counter federal military occupation, ICE gang actions
8) France: Le Pen says she’ll try to bring down any future PM until Macron calls new election
9) Il: Charges dropped against couple in Broadview immigration protest after federal grand jury refuses to indict
10) Roofing material firm TopBuild buys rival SPI after antitrust delay
11) Myanmar: Junta forces strike village in glider raid, killing at least 24 people including children
12) IN: Regime employees set to kill man convicted of 2001 rape & murder of small-town teenage girl
13) Russia Regime Moves to Withdraw From Plutonium Agreement With US Regime
14) IL: Jesse Jackson Jr. launches comeback bid for Congress
15) As shutdown [sic] enters second week, IRS to furlough nearly half of its workforce
16) Ecuador: Protesters filmed throwing rocks in alleged presidential assassination attempt
17) Trump, Thunberg tied at back of Nobel Peace Prize pack in betting market
18) Flight delays reported for a second day over airport staffing issues
19) CA: Uber driver charged with starting LA’s deadly Palisades Fire
20) Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded to trio in field of metal-organic frameworks
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Open Borders: The Only Pro-Freedom Solution to America’s Immigration Morass
22) Understanding Theory: Labor Market Edition
23) Crypto and sound currency
24) Government failing at its only job
25) Rent Control Will Make the Housing Crisis Worse
26) Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide For Years And Then Demand Sympathy
27) TSA Watchlists Were Used as Tools of Political Warfare
28) Mitts off my bits: Rein in warrantless surveillance
29) Economic Populism the Key to Rust Belt Votes
30) Is Bari Weiss at CBS a New Direction or a Misdirection?
31) Trump Turning US Into the Planet’s Rogue Nation
32) We Hate Each Other More than We Understand
33) A Declaration of Independence From Fear
34) Luke Weaver, Meet David Hume
35) Cues vs. Content: A Proposal to Empirically Distinguish Lewis-Style Coalition Theory from Caplan’s Simplistic Theory
36) What if a Russian victory in Ukraine were only the beginning?
37) Bonuses for Cost Cutters Will Stop Government Waste
38) Spencer Cox Isn’t Here to Save Us
39) Europe’s center is crumbling as nationalism surges
40) The Managerial Tyranny of Boomer Environmentalism
41) Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Causing a Food Crisis
42) The Stick-to-it-iveness of the Deep State
43) War Criminals Don’t Face Trial — They Get Retirement Deals
44) Oregon’s E-Cigarette Censorship Is Unconstitutional — and Makes No Sense
45) National Guard isn’t permanent fix for cities; here’s what must happen next
46) GDP as ideological scam, part 4
47) Can Each Side’s Faith Break the Cycle of Mutually Assured Destruction for Israelis and Palestinians?
48) “Culture” Is the Weakest Argument for Immigration Controls
49) In Two Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC & CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest
50) The Contrary Influence of Universalism and Romanticism on Ayn Rand
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56) Reason Interview: Lionel Shriver
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60) Political Theater, 10/07/25
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1) Israeli regime, Hamas agree to first phase of Gaza ceasefire plan
Source: CNN
“Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a US-brokered ceasefire plan that will allow for the release of all hostages in Gaza, Israeli withdrawal to an agreed point, and the release of some Palestinian [hostages]. … Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his government today to vote on the agreement. The first phase of the deal can only proceed if the cabinet votes in favor. … The agreement was met with celebration in Gaza and Israel, though residents in both places expressed concern that a comprehensive peace deal may still not materialize.” (10/09/25)
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-agreement-10-09-25
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2) Appeals court gives Trump control over Oregon National Guard, but Portland occupation remains barred
Source: The Hill
“A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a judge’s order blocking President Trump from calling Oregon National Guard troops into federal service, but he still may not deploy them, for now. The temporary, administrative stay puts U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut’s order halting Trump’s federalization of the National Guard members on hold while the appeals court weighs whether to extend the pause as it considers the administration’s appeal. But it keeps in place her second order barring the president from sending the troops anywhere in the state. … California joined Oregon’s legal bid to keep the federalized troops out of Portland, and Immergut granted their request to block Trump from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all. That order remains in effect.” (10/08/25)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5545945-judge-blocks-trump-oregon-troops/
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3) Russian Strikes Knock Out More than Half of Ukraine Gas Production Ahead of Winter
Source: Bloomberg
“Russian strikes in recent days have wiped out more than half of Ukraine’s domestic natural gas production, likely forcing the war-battered country to spend 1.9 billion euros ($2.2 billion) on fuel imports to survive the looming winter. Kyiv told its allies earlier this week that a massive Russian barrage targeting the Kharkiv and Poltava regions on Oct. 3 took out roughly 60% of the country’s gas production, according to people with knowledge of the matter. They requested anonymity because the discussions are private. Ukraine’s gas infrastructure — able to meet domestic demand before the Russian full-scale invasion — has come under increasingly intensive missile and drone strikes since the beginning of this year.” (10/09/25)
https://archive.is/2OrkE
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4) US Senate rejects end to government “shutdown”
Source: CBS News
“The Senate failed to advance funding bills to end the government shutdown for the sixth time on Wednesday, continuing the stalemate as Democrats and Republicans traded blame for the impasse. The vote to move forward on the GOP measure, which has already passed the House, was 54 to 45. Sixty votes were needed to advance it. No new Democrats voted to advance the bill in Wednesday’s vote.” [editor’s note: Republicans control the Senate and have already uncorked the 51-vote “nuclear option” on other matters. If these bills aren’t passing, it’s because the GOP doesn’t want them to pass – TLK] (10/09/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/government-shutdown-latest-senate-votes-day-8/
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5) Comey pleads not guilty to charges of lying to, obstructing Congress
Source: MSNBC
“James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges that were demanded by President Donald Trump and secured by one of his former personal lawyers, who has never prosecuted a case before. … Grand jurors rejected one of the three counts [Lindsey] Halligan presented but approved two others: one for allegedly lying to Congress and another for allegedly obstructing Congress. … Comey headed the FBI when Trump took office in his first term and his 2016 campaign’s potential ties to Russia were under investigation. Trump fired Comey in 2017 after Comey said he refused to pledge loyalty to the president.” (10/08/25)
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/james-comey-pleads-not-guilty-trump-halligan-rcna236313
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6) China: Regime Punishes “Excessively Pessimistic” Social Media Users
Source: New York Times
“China’s censors are moving to stamp out more than just political dissent online. Now, they are targeting the public mood itself — punishing bloggers and influencers whose weary posts are resonating widely in a country where optimism is fraying. … The two-month campaign, launched by the Cyberspace Administration of China in late September, is aimed at purging content that incites ‘excessively pessimistic sentiment’ and panic or promotes defeatist ideas such as ‘hard work is useless,’ according to a notice from the agency. … Beijing is concerned that such pessimism doesn’t just discourage citizens from being productive members of society. It could turn into criticism of the ruling Communist Party.” (10/08/25)
https://archive.is/uLBtP
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7) WA: Seattle mayor signs orders to counter federal military occupation, ICE gang actions
Source: KOMO News
“Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell signed two executive orders on Wednesday in response to President Trump’s federal immigration policies and the deployment of troops in U.S. cities. The first executive order prepares the city for a deployment by preparing and evaluating all legal options in the case there is a deployment. It also lays out how the city will coordinate in the event of the national guard being sent here, and ensures that Seattle police know what they should and should not do. … The second executive order is meant to protect immigrant and refugee communities. The order bans the use of face masks by law enforcement, with few exceptions, and requires that all law enforcement have visible badges that identify their agency.” (10/08/25)
https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-mayor-to-sign-executive-orders-countering-federal-immigration-policies
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8) France: Le Pen says she’ll try to bring down any future PM until Macron calls new election
Source: Politico
“French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said her party would vote to topple any future prime minister that President Emmanuel Macron might appoint unless he calls new parliamentary elections. ‘Each new government is a device to circumvent the will of the people,’ Le Pen said Wednesday at a press conference. Le Pen’s comments come as outgoing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu scrambles to navigate a way out of the political crisis sparked by his resignation Monday. After accepting Lecornu’s resignation, Macron then tasked him with finding a path forward by Wednesday evening. Le Pen’s party, the National Rally, and other political forces that think they can win a majority of seats in the currently hung National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, want Macron to call new snap elections.” (10/08/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-says-she-will-try-bring-down-any-future-pm-until-emmanuel-macron-calls-new-election/
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9) IL: Charges dropped against couple in Broadview immigration protest after federal grand jury refuses to indict
Source: Chicago Tribune
“A federal grand jury has refused to indict a Chicago couple arrested during a violent protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [gang lair] in Broadview last month, a rare move that prompted prosecutors to abruptly drop the case and signals government overreach in bringing the charges in the first place. … Ray Collins, 21, and Jocelyne Robledo, 30, a husband and wife from the South Side of Chicago, were each allegedly carrying loaded guns with them as they scuffled with officers who were trying to widen a security perimeter during a melee in late September. Both have lawful permits to carry the firearms, but they were facing felony charges of assaulting or resisting a federal officer in performance of official duties, which carries up to 8 years in prison. … The charges stemmed from the same incident Sept. 29 outside the facility in Broadview that saw [gang members] deploy tear gas and other weapons on protesters.” (10/08/25)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/charges-dropped-couple-broadview-protest-grand-jury/
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10) Roofing material firm TopBuild buys rival SPI after antitrust delay
Source: Reuters
“TopBuild Corp said on Wednesday it has acquired Specialty Products and Insulation (SPI) for $1 billion in cash, about a year after the two building materials makers terminated an initial agreement over antitrust concerns. Shares of the company rose more than 7% in morning trade. … TopBuild first agreed to acquire SPI in 2023 for $960 million, which was terminated after the Department of Justice raised concerns over the deal harming competition, opens new tab. The deal comes as the U.S. building products industry, which is fairly protected from tariffs due to local sourcing, undergoes rapid consolidation to capture demand for new homes and repair services.” (10/08/25)
https://archive.is/th8CE
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11) Myanmar: Junta forces strike village in glider raid, killing at least 24 people including children
Source: ABC News
“Myanmar’s military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according to a member of a resistance group, villagers and media reports. The Monday night attack was carried out by a motorized paraglider, and targeted a village in the country’s central Sagaing region that was celebrating a Buddhist festival that included a rally calling for the release of political prisoners held by Myanmar’s military government, the reports said.” (10/08/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/myanmars-military-strikes-village-glider-raid-killing-24-126320944
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12) IN: Regime employees set to kill man convicted of 2001 rape & murder of small-town teenage girl
Source: SFGate
“Indiana will put to death a man who was convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl, the state’s third [pre-planned prisoner killing] since resuming capital punishment last year. The [pre-planned prisoner killing] of Roy Lee Ward is scheduled before sunrise Friday at the state prison in Michigan City, Indiana. The 53-year-old has exhausted his legal options to challenge the sentence. Ward’s [pre-planned prisoner killing] by lethal injection comes amid questions about Indiana’s handling of pentobarbital, the drug it has used in recent [pre-planned prisoner killings].” (10/08/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/indiana-set-to-execute-man-convicted-of-2001-rape-21090862.php
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13) Russia Regime Moves to Withdraw From Plutonium Agreement With US Regime
Source: US News & World Report
“Russia’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium left over from thousands of Cold War nuclear warheads. The Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA), signed in 2000, committed both the United States and Russia to dispose of at least 34 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium each, which U.S. officials said would have been enough for as many as 17,000 nuclear warheads. It came into force in 2011. … The aim of the PMDA was to dispose of the weapons-grade plutonium by converting it into safer forms – such as mixed oxide (MOX) fuel or by irradiating plutonium in fast-neutron reactors for electricity production.” (10/08/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-08/russia-moves-to-withdraw-from-plutonium-agreement-with-the-united-states
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14) IL: Jesse Jackson Jr. launches comeback bid for Congress
Source: Axios
“Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. formally launched his comeback bid for Congress on Tuesday, saying in a video shared with Axios he needs to ‘get back on the playing field and fight for my constituents.’ A poll that Jackson’s exploratory committee released last month suggests he is a strong contender for the seat he resigned in 2013 before being convicted and imprisoned for stealing campaign funds. The seat, which covers parts of South Chicago and the rural and suburban counties to the South, is coming open as Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) runs for U.S. Senate. Jackson joins a crowded field of Democrats vying for the seat, including state Sens. Robert Peters and Willie Preston, Cook County commissioner Donna Miller, Water Reclamation District commissioner Yumeka Brown and policy strategist Adal Regis.” (10/08/25)
https://archive.is/5RqHD
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15) As shutdown [sic] enters second week, IRS to furlough nearly half of its workforce
Source: SFGate
“The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as part of the ongoing government shutdown, according to the an updated contingency plan posted Wednesday to the agency website. Most IRS operations are closed, the agency said in a separate letter to IRS workers. The news comes after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to fund federal operations and the government shutdown has entered its second week, with no discernible endgame in sight. The agency’s initial Lapse in Appropriations Contingency Plan provided for the first five business days of operations, when states that the department would remain open using Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act funds. Now, only 39,870 employees, or 53.6%, will remain working as the shutdown continues. Last week Trump said roughly 750,000 federal workers nationwide were expected to be furloughed across agencies, with some potentially fired by his administration.” (10/08/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/irs-to-furlough-nearly-half-of-its-workforce-as-21090924.php
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16) Ecuador: Protesters filmed throwing rocks in alleged presidential assassination attempt
Source: ABC News [Australian state media]
“Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has survived an alleged assassination attempt in an attack on his motorcade by hundreds of protesters. Demonstrators were filmed throwing large rocks at Mr Noboa’s vehicle, which his government says was also shot at while he was passing through the town of El Tambo. Five people have been detained over the attack, and Mr Noboa’s office says those arrested would be processed under charges of terrorism and attempted assassination.” (10/08/25)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-08/ecuador-protesters-alleged-daniel-noboa-assassination-attempt/105866368
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17) Trump, Thunberg tied at back of Nobel Peace Prize pack in betting market
Source: The Daily Beast
“President Donald Trump is sure to be peeved if he looks at how oddsmakers are rating his chances of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Not only does Polymarket list Trump’s implied odds at a measly two percent as of Wednesday, two days before the prize is announced, but those long odds also place him at the same level as his 22-year-old nemesis, Greta Thunberg. Polymarket, which performed better than polling in the last presidential election, lists Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms as the runaway favorite to win the Nobel Peace Prize at 28 percent implied odds. Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is in second with implied odds of 10 percent.” (10/08/25)
https://archive.is/3oTfB
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18) Flight delays reported for a second day over airport staffing issues
Source: United Press International
“Flight delays have been reported throughout the United States for a second day due to staffing issues at airports as the government shutdown continues. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association called on its 20,000 members on Tuesday to remain on the job. ‘We’re asking America’s air traffic controllers, who get 45,000 U.S. flights safely to their destinations every day, to work without pay,’ it said in a statement on X. ‘Congress must #EndtheShutdown.’ … A ground stop was issued for flights late Tuesday at Nashville International Airport while delays were announced throughout Tuesday evening and day at international airports in Chicago, Boston, Newark, Orlando and Denver.” (10/08/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/10/08/flight-issues-government-shutdown/1321759896376/
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19) CA: Uber driver charged with starting LA’s deadly Palisades Fire
Source: SFGate
“Law enforcement officials have arrested a Florida man in connection with the start of the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles in January. Federal officials arrested Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, on Tuesday in Florida on suspicion of starting the conflagration that eventually burned over 6,700 structures and left 12 people dead. In a press conference on Wednesday, acting U.S. Attorney Bilal ‘Bill’ Essayli said Rinderknecht faces federal charges of destruction of property by means of fire, facing up to 20 years in federal prison. Rinderknecht is accused of igniting a fire in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day on a hilltop in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, along the Temescal Ridge Trail. That small fire, dubbed the Lachman Fire, was extinguished on the surface by firefighters but smoldered for days underground before high winds and dry weather helped reignite nearby vegetation. That so-called holdover fire became the Palisades Fire on Jan. 7.” (10/08/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/palisades-fire-arrest-21090578.php
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20) Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded to trio in field of metal-organic frameworks
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks. The three scientists, who won the award on Wednesday, come from the universities of Kyoto in Japan, Melbourne in Australia and Berkeley in the United States, respectively. The three have created ‘molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow,’ read a statement from the Nobel Prize. Such constructions can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions, it added.” (10/08/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/8/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded
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21) Open Borders: The Only Pro-Freedom Solution to America’s Immigration Morass
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The beautiful thing about a system of open borders is that not only does it work, it is the only system that is consistent with the principles of free markets, economic liberty, religion, and morality. It is a system that brings life, vitality, energy, entrepreneurship, harmony, and higher standards of living to a nation.” (10/08/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/10/08/open-borders-the-only-pro-freedom-solution-to-americas-immigration-morass/
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22) Understanding Theory: Labor Market Edition
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“Recently, the Trump Administration announced that H-1B applications would face a new $100,000 fee (in addition to the already existing fees, not to mention legal fees). … Will the fee lead to more hiring of American workers? It’s tempting to think so. After all, if the price of foreign workers rises, then fewer foreign workers will be hired. That is just the law of demand at work: as price goes up, quantity demanded goes down. But there is an implicit assumption in the Trump administration’s argument: that domestic workers are the next-best option for firms compared to foreign workers. That is not necessarily the case. … the firm could also opt to change its operations, or even relocate outside the country.” (10/08/25)
https://www.econlib.org/understanding-theory-labor-market-edition
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23) Crypto and sound currency
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Michael S Milano
“The future of money is being coded — not printed — and the preservation of our liberties hinges on whether the underlying protocols uphold the principles of sound money. As a commodity, money is unlike any other; it is not consumed, nor does it directly contribute to the production process. Individuals naturally seek to acquire as much as possible, yet paradoxically, from a societal perspective, more is not better. There is no such thing as an ‘optimal’ money supply; any quantity is sufficient, as long as prices can freely adjust. Statists often conflate monetary expansion with economic growth, but inflation merely erodes the purchasing power of existing monetary units — enriching the earliest recipients at everyone else’s expense.” (10/08/25)
https://fee.org/articles/crypto-and-sound-currency/
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24) Government failing at its only job
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Much of the conflict over government stems from different ideas about what its job is — or should be. If we strip away all the nonsense and propaganda — all the excuses — there’s only one justification for government that holds water; it’s there to protect the life, liberty, and property — the fundamental human rights — of the people forced to live with it. A job it seems unwilling or unable to do. Anything else it does is a direct betrayal of this purpose.” (10/08/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/10/08/voices/opinion-government-failing-at-its-only-job/231852.html
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25) Rent Control Will Make the Housing Crisis Worse
Source: The Daily Economy
by Kevin Lavery
“Rent control artificially sets the price of rent below market value, discouraging developers from investing in new buildings; incentivizing landlords to take their units off the rental market. After St. Paul, Minnesota capped rent increases to three percent annually, new building permits decreased by 80 percent within three months of the policy being passed. And in San Francisco, rent control sparked a wave of rental units being converted to condos, causing renters in rent-controlled units to drop 25 percent. Choking supply leads to large rent increases in the long run as units become more scarce, especially in low-income areas where condominiums are unaffordable and development is sparse.” (10/08/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/rent-control-will-make-the-housing-crisis-worse/
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26) Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide For Years And Then Demand Sympathy
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Never forget October 7th 2023, that fateful day when Israelis were brutally massacred by Israeli tanks and Israeli helicopters and Israeli drones and Israeli soldiers and Israeli bullets, and also by Hamas a bit. … I’m sorry but it’s just plain hilarious that we’re still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown exactly what it is that Hamas has been fighting. Only Israelis could spend two years committing genocide and then demand everyone feel very, very sorry for them on the anniversary their genocide started.” (10/08/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/08/only-israelis-could-commit-genocide-for-years-and-then-demand-sympathy-and-other-notes/
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27) TSA Watchlists Were Used as Tools of Political Warfare
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“The Trump administration receives well-justified criticism for using government power to punish political foes such as former FBI director James Comey, funder of left-wing causes George Soros, and law firms linked to the Democratic Party. But don’t forget that former President Joe Biden’s administration also weaponized the state against its enemies. It just did so quietly, behind the scenes, and with the approval of much of the media. The Biden administration not only leaned on tech companies to muzzle critics of the powers-that-be, but it also turned due-process-free watchlists into means of harassing people it didn’t like.” (10/08/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/08/tsa-watchlists-were-used-as-tools-of-political-warfare/
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28) Mitts off my bits: Rein in warrantless surveillance
Source: The hill
by Ron Yokubaitis
“Soon, Congress will once again debate whether to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — a law that was supposed to target foreign threats but has become a domestic dragnet. And I’m here to say that enough is enough. Lawmakers need to keep their mitts off our bits. This is not a partisan issue. It’s a constitutional issue. The Fourth Amendment doesn’t say ‘except when it’s digital.’ It doesn’t say ‘unless you’re using Google.’ It says the government must get a warrant — period. And yet, under Section 702, federal agencies like the National Security Agency, FBI and CIA can access Americans’ private emails, messages and cloud data — all without a warrant, and often without us ever knowing.” (10/08/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5543090-congress-must-defend-privacy/
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29) Economic Populism the Key to Rust Belt Votes
Source: Inequality.org
by Jared Abbott
“Democrats know they have a problem with working-class voters but don’t agree on the cause. Commentators chalk Kamala Harris’[s] 2024 loss to high prices, an unusually short campaign cycle, or voter resentment against the possibility of having an African American woman as president. But the Democratic Party’s working-class woes have much deeper roots. Many voters in key battleground states feel burned by decades of Democrats’ unrealized promises to improve the lives of working people, failure to reign in obscene economic inequality, and support for economically disastrous policies (from NAFTA to the entrance of China to the World Trade Organization) that led to the loss of countless jobs and futures in their states.” (10/08/25)
https://inequality.org/article/can-democrats-win-back-the-rust-belt/
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30) Is Bari Weiss at CBS a New Direction or a Misdirection?
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“On Monday, the long-rumored deal was made official as Paramount bought the online media outlet The Free Press and named its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss became a hero for certain factions of the anti-progressive coalition when she quit her job at The New York Times in 2020 to protest what she saw as the paper’s growing intolerance of dissenting opinions. She started The Free Press with her sister and wife, presenting the philosophy of the digital outlet as an inverse of the kind of progressive dogmatism she had seen at the Times. But now, she returns to the legacy press, taking the helm of an outlet much larger than her own. … Does Bari Weiss’s appointment as head of CBS News really represent a major shift away from the status quo in America’s media industry? The answer is no.” (10/08/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/bari-weiss-cbs-new-direction-or-misdirection
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31) Trump Turning US Into the Planet’s Rogue Nation
Source: The Crucial Years
by Bill Mckibben
“Tuesday was one of those days when you can feel the world shifting. The think tank Ember reported that for the first half of 2025 renewable energy produced more electricity than coal. More to the point, solar and wind grew so fast that they covered all the growth in demand for electricity so far this year, with room to spare. That means that fossil fuel emissions for producing electricity plateaued (even fell slightly) over the first half of the year. It’s an epochal moment: It demonstrates that the clean energy transition is not destined to be the slow, dragged-out affair that most analysts would have predicted even five years ago. ‘The fall overall of fossil may be small, but it is significant,’ said one of the Ember researchers.” (10/08/25)
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/something-extraordinary-just-happened
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32) We Hate Each Other More than We Understand
Source: The Bulwark
by Mona Charen
“Not only do Americans believe we’re bitterly polarized, they worry that we’re condoning political violence, and that we cannot agree on basic facts. When Republicans were asked to name the nation’s biggest problem, their first choice was the economy but their second was ‘Democrats.’ When Democrats were asked the same question, they put the economy second and named ‘Trump/Republicans’ first. Nations are not eternal, and domestic divisions often lead to destruction — especially when exploited by foreign enemies. So it’s important to pay attention to these red flags, but it’s equally important not to misinterpret them. When we consider how much of our discourse is mediated through partisan sources and the fact that the governing political party is dominated by incendiary extremists, it’s surprising we aren’t even more polarized.” (10/08/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/violence-hatred-americans-warped-beliefs-values-polls
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33) A Declaration of Independence From Fear
Source: Common Dreams
by Steven Day
“Cruelty, including a lust for vengeance, largely defines President Donald Trump’s character. And with an enemies list that is nearly limitless, he will never lack for targets. Among his self-declared enemies is the entire Democratic Party. Democrats, according to Trump, are a radical, evil, and dangerous lot. Going a step further, he has also declared that Democrats are ‘the party of hate, evil, and Satan.’ The same goes for the political left in general. To Trump’s mind, all these people, representing approximately half of the nation’s population based upon election results, are evil and deserve punishment. They are, as Trump tells us, the enemy within. But it would be a mistake to assume vengeance is Trump’s ultimate goal. Yes, he is vindictive, and, yes, he enjoys hurting people who he feels crossed him; but he clearly also has grander dreams.” (10/08/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/declare-independence-from-fear
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34) Luke Weaver, Meet David Hume
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
Luke Weaver, once a star relief pitcher for the New York Yankees, has run into a professional crisis. He can’t get any batter out.
“After a recent poor performance in the baseball playoffs, Weaver said, ‘I don’t really feel like myself. I don’t feel like my mind is completely clear to go out there and attack. I do feel physically strong. I do feel mentally strong overall.’ … We have all felt like Weaver. … You may have noticed times when you have a lot on your mind and your mind-chatter tries to defend your self-concept. David Hume would say that, no matter how it appears to us, our thought-based self-concept is not who we truly are.” (10/08/25)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/luke-weaver-meet-david-hume
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35) Cues vs. Content: A Proposal to Empirically Distinguish Lewis-Style Coalition Theory from Caplan’s Simplistic Theory
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“In The Myth of Left and Right, the Lewis brothers argue that the concept of there being a real, single dimensional political spectrum with a left wing at one end of it and a right wing at the other end of it that is timeless and spans borders is a myth. They claim that what we call ‘ideology’ in this domain is really a matter of who you belong with — not a coherent commitment to any underlying worldview such as markets or equality or any other single dimensional dichotomy for that matter. In contrast, Bryan Caplan’s ‘simplistic theory’ claims that leftists are, at bottom, anti-market, whereas rightists are anti-left. This means that the Lewis brothers and Caplan already have the same theory of what defines the right wing if you think about it.” (10/08/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/cues-vs-content-a-proposal-to-empirically
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36) What if a Russian victory in Ukraine were only the beginning?
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“What if Russia’s winning in Ukraine were only the beginning? The beginning of the enfeeblement of the United States? Putin strolled down Donald Trump’s red carpet in Alaska, then took none of the steps regarding Ukraine that Trump said were necessary for Russia to avoid ‘very severe consequences.’ Instead, Putin intensified Russian attacks. A connoisseur of Western dithering, Putin probably anticipated the response his current flurry of contemptuous aggressions has elicited.” (10/08/25)
https://archive.is/hidwD
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37) Bonuses for Cost Cutters Will Stop Government Waste
Source: Town Hall
by US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
“The federal government has, for decades, behaved as though the fundamentals of basic budgeting don’t apply. But that’s hardly surprising considering that Congress has rewarded this poor stewardship of taxpayer dollars again and again. Bureaucrats have every incentive to burn through taxpayer money and no incentive to save it. The widespread practice of ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ budgeting has been the result, and it has to stop. Imagine if an American family, having paid their bills to cover their monthly expenses, decided to intentionally spend their remaining paycheck as fast as they possibly could. Instead of using their remaining paycheck for investments, or add to their savings, or set money aside for a rainy day; their only objective is to spend their paycheck quickly on whatever they can find. No family spends money this way. Because money doesn’t grow on trees.” (10/08/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/senatorrandpaul/2025/10/08/bonuses-for-cost-cutters-will-stop-government-waste-n2664606
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38) Spencer Cox Isn’t Here to Save Us
Source: The Dispatch
by John McCormack
“In the weeks since the Kirk assassination, Cox has been widely praised for rising to the occasion in the wake of a national tragedy that occurred in his state. In a pair of press conferences following the assassination, the Utah governor spoke with moral clarity about both the human tragedy of the murder of a young father and how it struck at the foundational rights of all Americans. Cox pointed to Kirk’s willingness to engage in debate and Kirk’s own words imploring Americans to forgive and eschew violence as an example to live by. Part of what made Cox’s remarks so remarkable was what he didn’t say. He dispensed with the platitude that it’s a given that America’s brightest days are ahead. He didn’t pretend to be the leader — or that there is any leader — who was going to save us.” (10/08/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/spencer-cox-utah-charlie-kirk-republican-party/
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39) Europe’s center is crumbling as nationalism surges
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Ian Proud
“Support for mainstream political parties in Europe is crumbling against a rising tide of nationalism as voters increasingly want their governments to prioritize domestic issues. This might not be enough to end the war in Ukraine, which will cost Europe $50 billion it can ill afford in 2026. But we may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the uniparty in Europe.” (10/08/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-nationalism/
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40) The Managerial Tyranny of Boomer Environmentalism
Source: Law & Liberty
by Richard Morrison
“As Steven F. Hayward lays out in his forum lead this month, the environmental legal and activist movement that started in the 1960s, and which is best known culturally for the first observance of Earth Day in 1970, is rapidly coming to an end in ways that its advocates are just beginning to realize. While the underlying motives for modern environmentalism — primitivism, naturalistic fallacy, power lust, and an atheist/materialist hatred of humanity — will likely always be with us, their combination into an allegedly benevolent political movement is well past its effective peak.” (10/08/25)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-managerial-tyranny-of-boomer-environmentalism/
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41) Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Causing a Food Crisis
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Department of Labor’s new rule cutting farmworker wages bluntly states that souped-up immigration enforcement has devastated the agricultural workforce and created a significant ‘risk of supply shock-induced food shortages,’ according to a document filed in the Federal Register last week. The document also indicates that American workers are simply not interested in and do not have the skills to perform agricultural jobs, at odds with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’s claim that the farm workforce will soon be 100 percent American. ‘The near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal workforce, results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S consumers,’ the document says, adding that ‘this threat will grow’ given new federal funding for immigration enforcement under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” (10/08/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/trump-labor-department-immigration-ICE-food-crisis/
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42) The Stick-to-it-iveness of the Deep State
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“‘It is essential that we (CIA/NSA/FBI/ODNI) be on the same page and are all supportive of the report,’ wrote former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, ‘in the highest tradition of ‘that’s OUR story, and we’re sticking to it.” Clapper wrote that in a recently declassified email from late 2016. It’s about RussiaGate, which his inter-departmental team had concocted out of Clinton oppo campaign research leading up to Donald Trump’s unexpected win that year. … Do you remember where that phrase came from?” (10/08/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/10/08/the-stick-to-it-iveness-of-the-deep-state/
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43) War Criminals Don’t Face Trial — They Get Retirement Deals
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jon Reynolds
“Ten years from now, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and countless others who enabled or excused the destruction of Gaza will almost certainly be dead – perhaps passing away peacefully one night during a restful dream. What they leave behind, however, is a legacy shaped not only by their actions but by how those actions are remembered. History books may brand them as monsters or war criminals – or, just as easily, frame them as leaders caught in a ‘complicated’ era, sanitizing their complicity.” (10/08/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/jon_reynolds/2025/10/07/war-criminals-dont-face-trial-they-get-retirement-deals/
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44) Oregon’s E-Cigarette Censorship Is Unconstitutional — and Makes No Sense
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“In the stock room at Division Vapor in Portland, Oregon, a sign affixed to a metal rack holding various nicotine solutions reminds employees to ‘Censor Before [You] Stock!’ The sign alludes to state regulations that require merchants to obscure allegedly child-enticing images and words before displaying vaping products to their adult customers. The law that authorizes those bewildering rules, which in many cases require covering almost the entire label of products sold in stores that do not even admit minors, is at the center of a case that the Oregon Supreme Court is considering today. The case illustrates how concerns about underage vaping have become a pretext for overriding the rights of adult consumers and the businesses that serve them, including the right to communicate and receive information about potentially lifesaving products that offer a harm-reducing alternative to conventional cigarettes.” (10/08/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/08/oregons-e-cigarette-censorship-is-illogical-and-unconstitutional/
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45) National Guard isn’t permanent fix for cities; here’s what must happen next
Source: Fox News
by Jillian E Snider
“Calling in the National Guard and federal law enforcement isn’t a solution — it’s a signal that the system has cracked. Chicago is learning the hard way what happens when outdated police hiring practices collide with political cuts. Since 2019, more than 2,100 police positions have been eliminated, while the city added layers of bureaucracy. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) still has 795 unfilled vacancies, compounded by 833 position cuts under Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and 614 by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The result: President Donald Trump is now sending in the National Guard to cover gaps created by years of slow hiring pipelines, endless vacancies and deliberate downsizing.” [editor’s note: Snider is correct that military occupation of American cities isn’t a “solution” — to crime, anyway – TLK] (10/08/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/national-guard-isnt-permanent-fix-cities-heres-what-must-happen-next
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46) GDP as ideological scam, part 4
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“Whenever I criticize GDP, I am pressed as to what I’d replace it with, and many critics of GDP do indeed eagerly pitch their new and improved versions to equally clueless wonks and academics. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’m not even a little bit interested in such a nasty project, and a central pillar of my criticism of GDP is that it tries to measure the economic health of a country with a single test, even if an aggregate one. I’d suggest instead that no power center, state, or other authoritarian apparatus steering from the putative top should dictate or endorse a single standard of how communities or individuals assess their own wellbeing or economic outcomes.” (10/08/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/gdp-as-ideological-scam-part-4
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47) Can Each Side’s Faith Break the Cycle of Mutually Assured Destruction for Israelis and Palestinians?
Source: The UnPopulist
by Michale G Holzman & Mustafa Akyol
“An epistolary exchange between an Islamic scholar and a rabbi points to the concept of universal empathy in their traditions as the key.” (10/07/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/can-each-sides-faith-break-the-cycle
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48) “Culture” Is the Weakest Argument for Immigration Controls
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Thomas Eddlem
“My childhood haunts of eating breakfast at Bickford’s — a pancake house chain serving stale, microwaved pancakes — and the two styles of ‘ethnic’ food in my suburban Boston home of Norwood, Massachusetts — sub-par Greek-style pizza and my childhood Chinese food restaurant, also sub-par — have all gone out of business. The culture has been ‘ruined’ by the emergence of authentic Mexican, Indian, Ethiopian and Thai restaurants (all unheard of in my teenage years). Eek! They’ve overrun our culture! By all means, let us give up tacos and go back to America’s historic culture of boiled dinners.” (10/07/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/culture-is-the-weakest-argument-for-immigration-controls
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49) In Two Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC & CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest
Source: In These Times
by Adam Johnson
“Since Israel recommenced bombing Gaza after the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel — unleashing what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, a United Nations commision and the consensus among genocide scholars all agree is a genocide — U.S. corporate media has reduced Palestinian participation in the discussion about their own extermination to mariginal or token appearances. In the context of the Sunday morning news shows that set the agenda for Washington, DC, Palestinians have been excluded almost categorically. Last December, I detailed for The Nation how the major Sunday morning news shows were an object lesson in the ways corporate media has centered U.S. and Israel perspectives in the war on Gaza over that of Palestinians whose voices are systematically shut out of mainstream news coverage.” (10/07/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/gaza-israel-genocide-media-palestine
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50) The Contrary Influence of Universalism and Romanticism on Ayn Rand
Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden
“Universalism, writes philosopher Isaiah Berlin, is a worldview that dominated philosophy for two thousand years before being challenged by Romanticism. It is characterized by the idea that all knowledge and all truth can be discerned by reason. … The problem with universalism is that few agree on what the true answers are, especially when it comes to ethics and politics. And when one ascribes moral values to questions of truth, when truth is regarded as good and falsehood or error is regarded as evil, and if evil is regarded as dangerous, as something to be repressed by the state for the good of all, then we end up with authoritarianism and tyranny.” (10/07/25)
https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-contrary-influence-of-universalism.html
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51) The Political Orphanage, 10/08/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“The Fight Over Gay Characters in Public Schools.” (10/08/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/the-fight-over-gay-characters-in-public-schools
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52) Collateral Damage, episode 1
Source: The Intercept
“Dirty Business: The Atlanta Narcotics Unit’s Deadly Raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston.” (10/08/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/08/collateral-damage-episode-one-dirty-business/
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53) The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, 10/08/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Eternal Vigilance | Interview: Jay Nordlinger.” (10/08/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/eternal-vigilance-interview-jay-nordlinger/
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54) Rising, 10/08/25
Soure: The Hill
“Lindsey Granger delivers her lens on the growing divide between Trump and his base who got him elected, as republicans in congress are criticizing leadership over rising premiums and the ‘manosphere’ shifts their tone.” (10/08/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5544759-rising-october-8-2025/
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55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 10/08/25
Source: The New Republic
“Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Wrecked Trump’s Entire Shutdown Strategy.” (10/08/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/201463/marjorie-taylor-greene-just-wrecked-trump-entire-shutdown-strategy
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56) Reason Interview: Lionel Shriver
Source: Reason
“Are Americans Addicted to Conflict?” (10/08/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/08/are-americans-addicted-to-conflict/
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57) Quillette Narrated, 10/08/25
Source: Quillette
“The Malpractice of Menopausal Medicine Reveals a Broken Medical System.” (10/08/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/10/08/the-malpractice-of-menopausal-medicine-reveals-a-broken-medical-system/
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58) The Chris Hedges Report, 10/07/25
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“Can Love Persevere?” (10/07/25)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/chris-hedges-can-love-persevere
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59) Nonzero, 10/07/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Bari Weiss, CBS, and Israel | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov.” (10/07/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69053
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60) Political Theater, 10/07/25
Source: Roll Call
“An Orwell movie for Orwellian times.” (10/08/25)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL5875957411.mp3?updated=1759862868
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61) The Fifth Column, 10/07/25
Source: The Fifth Column
“UNLOCKED: Russ Roberts, on the Weight of History & the Elasticity of Memory.” (10/07/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/unlocked-russ-roberts-on-the-weight
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62) System Update, episode 528
Source: System Update
“Pam Bondi’s Malicious Ineptitude on Full Display During Senate Hearing; Pro-Spying Senators Complain About Being Surveilled; What New Candace/Charlie Kirk Messages Reveal.” (10/07/25)
https://rumble.com/v700486-system-update-show-528.html
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63) Trump Watch, 10/07/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Military and the Drug War.” (10/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OBPVXWZdik
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64) Politics Politics Politics, 10/07/25
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Are the Democrats Actually Winning this Shutdown? (with Bill Scher).” (10/07/25)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/are-the-democrats-actually-winning
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65) The Bryan Hyde Show, 10/07/25
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me to talk about pushing back on the narrative being fed to us by compensated endorsers. We also discuss overcoming the temptation to become more loyal to political personalities than we are to our principles.” (10/07/25)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-jvvwt-198865a
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