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Thomas L. Knapp
May 14, 2025, 6:27:56 AMMay 14
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Palestine: Israeli forces murder 28 in Gaza hospital attack
2) US regime sells $142 billion worth of weapons to Saudi terror kingpin
3) Macron: EU readying new Russia sanctions “in coming days”
4) Schumer places hold on Trump DOJ nominees over Qatar jet emolument
5) AZ: Hobbs vetoes two crypto bills, cracks down on Bitcoin ATMs
6) US Delinquency Rates Climb to Five-Year High on Student Loans
7) OK: “ChiefsAholic” superfan gets state prison sentence tacked onto federal term for bank robberies
8) SpaceX Starship Flight 9 Gets A New Launch Date As Firm Ships Rocket To Launch Site
9) Apple to pay customers $95 million in Siri spying settlement
10) Trump says US regime will remove all sanctions on Syria
11) UK: Man jailed for 1986 murder acquitted after 38 years
12) NY: Federal judge seizes control of NYC jail system, including Rikers
13) Trump Regime Terminates Another $450 Million in Grants to Harvard
14) Peru: Outrage as Chan Chan ancient site daubed with obscene graffiti
15) AZ: Budget airline begins deportation flights for ICE with start of operations
16) South Korea: Presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo says party will not expel impeached Yoon
17) Hogg slams “fast-track” effort to oust him as DNC vice chair
18) France: Depardieu receives suspended 18-month sentence for sexual assault
19) Trump says he will ease sanctions on Syria, moves to restore relations with new leader
20) NC: Homeowner fatally shoots intruder armed with axe
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Free Speech for Me, Deportation for Thee
22) Blink Or Head Fake? Tariff Uncertainty Remains The Biggest Problem
23) Why Liberal Libertarians Avoid Social Liberalism
24) Pseudo-Libertarian Tech Bros
25) The Republicans’ Debt Delusion
26) A win for peaceful accord in Turkey
27) Can nuclear save us from the next energy crisis?
28) Do Gifts To Trump Keep On Giving?
29) Poof! It’s Gone: Disappearing the America We Once Knew
30) Trumpism is struggling to win over the world
31) Does Britain Hate Wealth?
32) How To Make Your Mind Harder For The Propagandists To Manipulate
33) Free Trade Dogma Runs Very Deep
34) Trump’s Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher
35) Republicans Want You to Die
36) Lying About Killing for Votes
37) Geothermal policy reform: Bridging the gaps
38) Without a SALT Fix, the Republican Majority May Be Doomed
39) Schumpeter on the Dangers of the “Tax State”
40) Democrats Just Can’t Stop Pushing Nonsensical Assault Weapon Bans
41) “Victory Day for WW I” would be an embarrassment on global scale
42) Making GDP Great Again: A Complementary Approach
43) Universalism versus Nihilism: the True Divide in American Politics
44) Will Trump Invade or Bomb Mexico to Win the Drug War?
45) “We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril”: Interview With Naomi Klein
46) Germany: Regime bans “extremist” group, arrests leaders
47) Faith, Fanaticism, and False Prophets
48) Pronatalism’s Brave New World
49) Trump’s Unquenchable, Unconstitutional Greed is Deforming America
50) Qatar’s “Palace in the Sky” jet NOT a “free gift,” and Trump shouldn’t accept it as one
51) Exclusion — dealing with people who cannot be tolerated in society
52) They Didn’t Take Our Jobs
53) The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs
54) The Best Protection For Students Is a Mass Movement
55) The Kashmir Dilemma
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
56) Kelley Vlahos on The Kyle Anzalone Show
57) Advisory Opinions, 05/13/25
58) Power Problems, 05/13/25
59) Good On Paper, 05/13/25
60) Trump Watch, 05/13/25
61) Capital Record, episode 233
62) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 05/13/25
63) Antiwar News with Dave Decamp, 05/13/25
64) The Corbett Report, episode 476
65) Finding Freedom, 05/12/25
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1) Palestine: Israeli forces murder 28 in Gaza hospital attack
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“An Israeli air strike has killed 28 people and injured dozens at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, a spokesman for the Hamas-run civil defence agency has said. Israeli warplanes dropped six bombs simultaneously on the Gaza hospital, hitting both its inner courtyard and surrounding area, according to local sources. The Israeli military said it had conducted a ‘precise strike’ on ‘Hamas terrorists in a command and control centre’ which it claimed was beneath the hospital. A freelance journalist working for the BBC in Gaza was among those injured in the air strike, and is now in a stable condition after receiving medical attention.” (05/13/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jvx3yjg3o
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2) US regime sells $142 billion worth of weapons to Saudi terror kingpin
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed a $142bn arms deal touted by the White House as the ‘largest defence sales agreement in history’ in the first stop of Donald Trump’s four-day diplomatic tour to the Gulf states aimed at securing big deals and spotlighting the benefits of Trump’s transactional foreign policy. … The meeting between Trump and [Saudi terror kingpin Mohammed bin] Salman was characterised by smiles and friendly backslapping, a sharp contrast to past summits when the Saudi leader was mired in controversy over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. While his administration touted big deals, Trump also admitted that his geopolitical goals of Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic recognition of Israel would take time due in large part to the Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza.” (05/13/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/us-saudi-arabia-arms-deal-trump-meeting-syria
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3) Macron: EU readying new Russia sanctions “in coming days”
Source: Politico
“French President Emmanuel Macron teased potential new sanctions on Russia and an extended French nuclear deterrent during a major prime-time interview on French television on Tuesday. … Macron said that the European Commission was readying ‘in the coming days’ a new package of measures targeting ‘financial services, and oil, on secondary sellers’ in cooperation with the U.S. in case the Kremlin does not move toward agreeing to an unconditional ceasefire. … Macron reiterated that he was not in favor of seizing the €200 billion of Russian assets held in Brussels-based financial institution Euroclear that were frozen after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, despite reports that France has reportedly warmed to the idea.” (05/13/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-vladimir-putin-russia-france-sanctions-package/
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4) Schumer places hold on Trump DOJ nominees over Qatar jet emolument
Source: NBC News
“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday he is placing a hold on all Trump Justice Department nominees as he seeks answers on the administration’s plan to accept a luxury jet from Qatar to be used as Air Force One. ‘In light of the deeply troubling news of a possible Qatari-funded Air Force One, and the reports that the Attorney General personally signed off on this clearly unethical deal, I am announcing a hold on all DOJ political nominees, until we get more answers,’ Schumer said on the Senate floor. … Meanwhile, some legal experts have questioned how a gift from Qatar that would follow Trump out of office could be permissible under the emoluments clause. Democrats and even some Trump allies have suggested the jet could be perceived as a conflict of interest.” [editor’s note: “Questioned how?” Here’s how — it can’t be – TLK] (05/13/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-place-hold-trump-doj-nominees-questions-qatars-luxury-jet-gift-rcna206464
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5) AZ: Hobbs vetoes two crypto bills, cracks down on Bitcoin ATMs
Source: CoinTelegraph
“Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed two key cryptocurrency-related bills that aimed to expand the state’s involvement in digital assets while signing a strict regulatory measure targeting Bitcoin ATMs. On May 12, Hobbs rejected Senate Bill 1373, which sought to establish a Digital Assets Strategic Reserve Fund. The fund would have allowed Arizona to hold crypto assets obtained through seizures or legislative allocations. … That decision followed her veto of Senate Bill 1025 — the more ambitious ‘Arizona Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act’ — on May 3. It would have authorized up to 10% of the state’s treasury and retirement funds to be invested in Bitcoin and other digital assets. … Hobbs also vetoed Senate Bill 1024, which would have permitted state agencies to accept cryptocurrency payments for taxes, fines and fees via approved service providers. … On May 12, Hobbs approved House Bill 2387, which introduces new consumer protection rules for cryptocurrency kiosk (ATM) operators, aiming to reduce fraud and improve transparency.” (05/13/25)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/arizona-governor-vetoes-crypto-bills-approves-bitcoin-atm-law
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6) US Delinquency Rates Climb to Five-Year High on Student Loans
Source: Bloomberg
“The share of outstanding US consumer debt that’s in delinquency rose in the first quarter to the highest in five years, reflecting an end to the pandemic-era pause on reporting delinquent student loan payments on credit reports. Some 4.3% of debt was delinquent in the first three months of this year, the most since 2020 and up from 3.6% in the prior quarter, the New York Fed said Tuesday in its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit. Outside of student loans, however, transition to early delinquency held steady for nearly all debt types. Missing payments on federal student loans have just begun to reappear on credit reports, following a years-long payment freeze. As a result, about 8% of student debt fell into serious delinquency — or was 90 or more days late — in the first quarter, up from less than 1% a year earlier.” (05/13/25)
https://archive.is/QkNEd
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7) OK: “ChiefsAholic” superfan gets state prison sentence tacked onto federal term for bank robberies
Source: Yahoo! News
“Like Patrick Mahomes marching the Kansas City Chiefs on another game-winning drive, Xavier Michael Babudar — aka the ‘ChiefsAholic’ superfan — can put numbers on the board. A court on Monday in Oklahoma sentenced the serial bank robber to a 32-year term in state prison that will run concurrently with his federal sentence of 17 1/2 years. After Babudar serves the federal term — without the possibility of parole — he will be transferred to state prison to spend 14 1/2 more years. Babudar, 30, admitted to 11 robberies in 2022 and 2023 across seven states from California to Tennessee. His guilty and no contest pleas in both federal and state courts squeezed what could have been drawn-out trial proceedings into the judicial equivalent of two-minute drills.” (05/13/25)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chiefsaholic-superfan-gets-state-prison-164534794.html
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8) SpaceX Starship Flight 9 Gets A New Launch Date As Firm Ships Rocket To Launch Site
Source: Wccf
“SpaceX has shipped its Starship upper stage ship destined to fly on Flight 9, back to its production facilities after a static fire and rolled out the Super Heavy booster for the flight to the launch pad. The movements come as a fresh Coast Guard notice points to May 21st as the earliest lift-off date for the highly anticipated Flight 9. With the upcoming flight, SpaceX will fly the second generation upper stage for the third time in 2025 and after both its earlier tests ended in failure. Starship Flight 9 will also be the first test flight that reuses a Super Heavy booster for an important milestone in the test program. … SpaceX hasn’t confirmed any launch details about Starship yet despite the fact that the firm conducted a static fire of the upper stage spacecraft and shipped it back to its production facilities yesterday and this morning, local time.” (05/13/25)
https://wccftech.com/spacex-starship-flight-9-gets-a-new-launch-date-as-firm-ships-rocket-to-launch-site/
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9) Apple to pay customers $95 million in Siri spying settlement
Source: New York Post
“If you have owned an Apple device since 2014, you could be due for some cash. Anyone with a Siri-enabled device may be eligible to file a claim as part of a $95 million class-action lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit, Lopez v. Apple, accused the tech giant’s voice assistant of spying on users and recording private conversations after unintentionally activating Siri. It is alleged that recordings happened even when users didn’t say the prompt, ‘Hey, Siri’. Eligible enabled devices include the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, iMac, HomePod, iPod touch and Apple TV.” (05/13/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/tech/apple-to-pay-customers-95m-in-siri-spying-settlement-heres-how-to-get-your-payout/
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10) Trump says US regime will remove all sanctions on Syria
Source: CNBC
“The U.S. will remove all sanctions on Syria, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday. … Syria has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. government since 1979. Additional U.S. sanctions were imposed on the country in 2004 and again in 2011, after the regime of then-President Bashar Assad launched a brutal crackdown on anti-government uprisings. … The toppling of the Assad regime during a shock offensive by anti-Assad militia groups in December of 2024 stunned the global community, and brought about the prospect of a new beginning for the devastated country. Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa — a former al-Qaeda member who describes himself as reformed — currently leads the country’s transitional government.” (05/13/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/trump-says-us-will-remove-all-sanctions-on-syria.html
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11) UK: Man jailed for 1986 murder acquitted after 38 years
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A man who has served almost 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal after new DNA evidence emerged. Peter Sullivan was jailed over the 1986 killing of 21-year-old barmaid Diane Sindall, who was subjected to a frenzied sexual attack in Birkenhead, Merseyside, as she walked home from a shift. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) – the statutory body set up to investigate potential miscarriages of justice – had referred Mr Sullivan’s case back to the appeal court last year after fresh testing found a DNA profile pointing to an unknown attacker in semen samples preserved from the crime scene. Mr Sullivan, appearing on video-link from HMP Wakefield, sobbed and held his hand over his mouth as he was told he would be released.” (05/13/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce809e3gd1xo
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12) NY: Federal judge seizes control of NYC jail system, including Rikers
Source: New York Post
“A federal judge seized control of New York City’s troubled jail system Tuesday — ordering that an outside official be brought in to clean up Rikers Island and other lockups. The 77-page order by Manhattan federal Judge Laura Swain effectively appoints a federal receiver — a move long desired by advocates — to correct dangerous conditions in Rikers that city and Department of Correction officials have tried and failed to do under a decade-old court case known as Nunez. ‘The Nunez Remediation Manager will be granted broad powers, similar to those described in the Receivership Proposal,’ Swain wrote. Swain gave the city and advocates an Aug. 29 deadline to recommend potential candidates.” (05/13/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/us-news/federal-judge-seizes-control-of-nycs-jail-system-rikers-island/
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13) Trump Regime Terminates Another $450 Million in Grants to Harvard
Source: US News & World Report
“The Trump administration said on Tuesday that eight federal agencies will terminate another $450 million in grants to Harvard University, on top of $2.2 billion in federal funding it canceled last week. An administration antisemitism task force cited what it described as a failure by the elite Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school to confront what it called ‘pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus.’ … Harvard did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Harvard is already suing over the administration’s decision to cut off grant funding after it refused to cede to what the university’s president has said are illegal demands from the administration ‘to control whom we hire and what we teach.'” (05/13/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-05-13/trump-administration-terminates-another-450-million-in-grants-to-harvard
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14) Peru: Outrage as Chan Chan ancient site daubed with obscene graffiti
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A vandal has daubed an image of a penis on a wall at a centuries-old Peruvian city recognised by Unesco as a World Heritage Site. The man was filmed while spraying the graffiti on one of the original walls of Chan Chan, a pre-Columbian city 500km (300 miles) north of Lima that is visited by thousands of people a month. Peru’s ministry of culture said the culprit showed ‘a grave disrespect toward our history and cultural heritage, as well as a violation of the regulations that protect archaeological heritage sites’. Some Peruvians questioned how he was able to damage the wall unchallenged, while others said they were disappointed that the site was not better protected. The video of the incident was widely shared on social media. The culprit could face up to six years in prison if caught.” (05/13/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rejddyyjdo
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15) AZ: Budget airline begins deportation flights for ICE with start of operations
Source: SFGate
“A budget airline that serves mostly small U.S. cities began federal deportation flights Monday out of Arizona, a move that’s inspired an online boycott petition and sharp criticism from the union representing the carrier’s flight attendants. Avelo Airlines announced in April it had signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to make charter deportation flights from Mesa Gateway Airport outside Phoenix. It said it will use three Boeing 737-800 planes for the flights. The Houston-based airline is among a host of companies seeking to cash in on President Donald Trump’s campaign for mass deportations. Congressional deliberations began last month on a tax bill with a goal of funding, in part, the removal of 1 million immigrants annually and housing 100,000 people in U.S. detention centers. The GOP plan calls for hiring 10,000 more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and investigators.” (05/13/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/budget-airline-begins-deportation-flights-for-ice-20324218.php
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16) South Korea: Presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo says party will not expel impeached Yoon
Source: United Press International
“Kim Moon-soo, the candidate from the conservative People Power Party in next month’s snap presidential election, said Tuesday that the party was not considering expelling impeached former President Yoon Suk Yeol. ‘Whether former President Yoon decides to leave the party is entirely up to him,’ Kim told reporters during a campaign stop in the southeastern city of Daegu. ‘It’s not right for our party to tell a president to leave or not,’ Kim said. ‘If we believe that Yoon did something wrong and demand that he leave, then the party shares responsibility too.'” (05/13/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/05/13/South-Korea-Kim-Moon-soo-PPP-candidate-president-not-expel-Yoon-Suk-Yeol/1541747116788/
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17) Hogg slams “fast-track” effort to oust him as DNC vice chair
Source: Fox News
“Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg on Monday slammed the Credentials Committee’s decision to elevate a procedural challenge to his leadership position as ‘the first steps to remove me from my position’, amid an ongoing intraparty dispute. ‘While this vote was based on how the DNC conducted its officers’ elections, which I had nothing to do with, it is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party which loomed large over this vote,’ Hogg said, as he described a country ‘in crisis’ and a Democratic Party ‘asleep at the wheel’. ‘I ran to be DNC Vice Chair to help make the Democratic Party better, not to defend an indefensible status quo that has caused voters in almost every demographic group to move away from us.'” (05/13/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/david-hogg-slams-fast-track-effort-oust-him-dnc-vice-chair
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18) France: Depardieu receives suspended 18-month sentence for sexual assault
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“[French actor Gerard] Depardieu was found guilty on Tuesday of sexually assaulting two women on the set of a movie in which he starred in 2021 and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence. He was also fined 29,040 euros (US$32,350), and the court requested that he be registered in the national sex offender database. … The actor, 76, has been convicted of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters). The case was widely seen as a key post-#MeToo test of how French society and its film industry address allegations of sexual misconduct involving prominent figures. Depardieu, who has denied the accusations, didn’t attend the hearing in Paris. Depardieu’s lawyer said that his client would appeal the decision.” (05/13/25)
https://archive.is/OYYNQ
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19) Trump says he will ease sanctions on Syria, moves to restore relations with new leader
Source: SFGate
“President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will move to normalize relations and lift sanctions on Syria’s new government to give the country ‘a chance at peace’. Trump was set to meet Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of former leader Bashar Assad. He said the effort at rapprochement came at the urging of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi de facto ruler, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ‘There is a new government that will hopefully succeed,’ Trump said of Syria, adding, ‘I say good luck, Syria. Show us something special.’ The developments were a major boost for the Syrian president who at one point was imprisoned in Iraq for his role in the insurgency following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the Arab country.” (05/13/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/trump-to-meet-with-syria-s-al-sharaa-as-he-weighs-20324942.php
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20) NC: Homeowner fatally shoots intruder armed with axe
Source: WCTI 12 News
“A man was fatally shot by a homeowner after Duplin County authorities say he was attempting to break into the homeowner’s residence with an axe. The Duplin County Sheriff’s Office responded to a Sheffield Road home on Sunday morning, May 11 where they say they found David Bradley White lying on his back at the bottom of some steps with multiple gunshot wounds. White was pronounced dead at the scene, per officials. According to a release, the residents of the home were confronted by a man armed with an axe trying to enter their home through the back door, and in response, the homeowners fired multiple shots through the door, striking the intruder.” (05/12/25)
https://wcti12.com/news/local/homeowner-fatally-shoots-intruder-armed-with-axe-in-duplin-county
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21) Free Speech for Me, Deportation for Thee
Source: Antiwar.com
by Joseph D Terwilliger
“The same conservatives who erupted in fury when YouTube suspended Senator Rand Paul for questioning mask mandates, and who whined when universities blocked conservative speakers for ‘security reasons,’ are the same ones now cheering when ICE uses an obscure Cold War-era immigration law to deport a Turkish grad student for writing an op-ed. Apparently, the First Amendment is sacrosanct until someone with the wrong accent has a dangerous idea. The same people who once called this ‘cancel culture’ now call it ‘law and order.’ Which brings us to the larger point. Conservatives once ridiculed campus ‘safe spaces.’ Now they want speech banned because it makes them feel unsafe. They mocked trigger warnings and microaggressions, but now they want slogans banned, students expelled, and foreigners jailed. It’s funny how fast ‘suck it up, buttercup’ becomes ‘call the cops’ when someone else is holding the megaphone. Who are the snowflakes now?” (05/13/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/joseph_terwilliger/2025/05/12/free-speech-for-me-deportation-for-thee/
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22) Blink Or Head Fake? Tariff Uncertainty Remains The Biggest Problem
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“From early April to mid-May, US trade policy went from the bizarre ‘Liberation Day’ tariff schedule — ‘reciprocal’ tariffs that weren’t reciprocal and wouldn’t have made sense if they had been — to US president Donald Trump’s announcements of ‘major’ trade agreements with the Chinese and British regimes. … The obvious question is whether Trump blinked after his tariff madness produced predictably damaging economic results for Americans and those Americans noticed, or whether this is another one of his head fakes and we can expect him to reverse himself yet again in the coming months …. the latter seems more likely … and that continuing uncertainty, even more than the obvious and irrefutable stupidity of protective tariffs, is the problem.” (05/13/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19581
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23) Why Liberal Libertarians Avoid Social Liberalism
Source: Aaron Ross Powell
by Aaron Ross Powell
“Last week I wrote about how liberals, by focusing exclusively on institutional and value neutrality, cede conversations about ethics to illiberals, and particularly illiberals on the right, with the result that people looking for ethical talk about how to live meaningful lives (e.g., young men) end up finding meaning in reactionary ideologies. Today I want to offer a hypothesis pointing to why this is — and particularly why libertarians, who often position themselves as the radical wing of liberalism, are so hesitant to talk about liberal values (and virtues) in the cultural and social spheres. … this takes the form of a focus on the state, and a disinterest (or at least silence) about anything outside of it: the only matter of ethical concern is when it’s permissible to apply coercive force, and so if the application of coercive force isn’t at issue, libertarianism (and, so, libertarians) must say nothing at all.” (05/13/25)
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/why-liberal-libertarians-avoid-social-liberalism
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24) Pseudo-Libertarian Tech Bros
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Casey Waterman
“These days, when people say the word ‘libertarian,’ they are thinking of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and other tech bros who have tried to claim the label. Because of their support for Donald Trump, and particularly Musk’s recent actions as de facto president, libertarianism has gotten a rather bad reputation. This is unfortunate, since none of these men are actually libertarians. Libertarians believe in free speech, freedom of association, property rights, equality before the law, non-violence (except in self-defense), free enterprise and free trade. Even if you don’t call yourself a libertarian, you probably agree with these principles. The tech bros, on the other hand, do not believe in any of these. They are violent authoritarians who merely pay lip service to freedom.” (05/13/25)
https://c4ss.org/content/60397
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25) The Republicans’ Debt Delusion
Source: The Dispatch
by Yuval Levin
“If you listen to how Republicans in Washington talk about federal spending these days, you might imagine that we have entered an era of budget restraint. ‘Fiscal responsibility is what we do as conservatives,’ House Speaker Mike Johnson said in February. ‘And we have a $36 trillion federal debt. We have a giant deficit that we’re contending with. I think we need to pay down the credit card.’ … But although Republicans’ concerns about the debt are well grounded, their claims to have picked up the mantle of reform in response are baffling. … The tax and spending proposals that Republicans are crafting this spring are in fact recklessly profligate. And no one dares to touch the entitlement programs that are the actual chief sources of the government’s fiscal challenges.” (05/13/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/congress-trump-administration-budget-deficits-entitlements/
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26) A win for peaceful accord in Turkey
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“In a decisive shift toward peaceful change, Turkey’s long-outlawed major separatist group is disbanding. The announcement Monday by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) brings a welcome end to four decades of armed conflict and the loss of nearly 40,000 lives. Turkey is not the only country feeling the repercussions of this decision. Some 25 million to 35 million ethnic Kurds live in mountainous areas that share porous borders between Iraq, Syria, and Iran, as well as Turkey. Turkish forces have pursued Kurdish separatists in cross-border raids in Iraq and Syria over the years. … Aiming to establish a Kurdish homeland, the PKK took up arms in 1984, attacking civilian and military targets. In recent years, the Turkish military has forcefully limited the PKK’s reach and abilities.” (05/12/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0512/A-win-for-peaceful-accord-in-Turkey
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27) Can nuclear save us from the next energy crisis?
Source: spiked
by Ruari McCallion
“If the UK were really serious about cleaner, more efficient energy, then nuclear is the only feasible option. Big schemes like Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C can supply almost 10 per cent of the UK’s needs each by themselves, but they take too long to build and always come in over budget. An alternative, however, is already at hand – small, modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) and advanced modular reactors (AMRs).” (05/13/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/13/can-nuclear-save-us-from-the-next-energy-crisis/
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28) Do Gifts To Trump Keep On Giving?
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“Q: What do Air Force One and Edan Alexander have in common? The answer I’m looking for is not ‘they were both paid for by Qatar,’ even though Qatar has historically been one of the largest funders of Hamas. The answer I’m looking for is: they were both gifts. And unlike in private relationships, where people may give each other gifts simply out of an expression of love, in public life gifts are given in order to curry favor and to induce in the receiving party the feeling of obligation. … what we’re looking at is that Qatar is trying to shape American policy by offering a personal reward to the president. I’m not so naive as to think that corruption of that sort hasn’t gone on frequently in the past in one form or another, but there’s something sobering about seeing it done so blatantly.” (05/13/25)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/do-gifts-to-trump-keep-on-giving
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29) Poof! It’s Gone: Disappearing the America We Once Knew
Source: TomDispatch
by Karen J Greenberg
“In these first 100-plus days of the nation’s 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a frightful spell over the country. As if brandishing wands from inside their capes — poof! — offices and their employees, responsibilities and aims, norms and policies have simply disappeared. The two have decreed a flurry of acts of dismantlement that span the government, threatening to disappear a broad swath of what once existed, much of it foreshadowed by Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for drastically reorganizing and even dismantling government as we know it during a second Trump administration. To my mind, the recent massive removals of people, data, photos, and documents remind me of the words of Czech novelist Milan Kundera in his classic novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ‘The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.'” (05/13/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/poof-its-gone/
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30) Trumpism is struggling to win over the world
Source: Washington Post
by Eduardo Porter
“The biggest impediment might be the president himself.” (05/13/25)
https://archive.is/BtWkQ
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31) Does Britain Hate Wealth?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“Do the wealthy hate Britain? You would be forgiven for thinking so, from the way wealthy people and companies are fleeing the country. As many as 11,000 millionaires have left since the beginning of 2024, often taking their businesses with them. The effects are finally being felt: in April 2025, The Times reported that the receipts from Capital Gains Tax (CGT) fell from £14.5 billion ($19.3 billion) to £13 billion ($17 billion) — a 10% drop. But when one considers the reasons for this exodus and decline, the question that should be posed seems to be the exact opposite: Does Britain hate wealth?” (05/13/25)
https://fee.org/articles/does-britain-hate-wealth/
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32) How To Make Your Mind Harder For The Propagandists To Manipulate
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The worst mistake you can make when reading the news is to assume there’s a good reason why the mass media report on something in the way that they do. That there’s a good reason why Israel-Palestine gets framed as a complex and morally ambiguous issue with no clear path forward, even though it all looks pretty self-evident to you. That there must be a valid and legitimate reason why one story gets more coverage than a seemingly far more important story, like how the release of one Israeli-American hostage is currently getting far more news media coverage than the deliberate starvation of an entire enclave full of civilians. In reality there is no valid and legitimate reason why such things are covered the way they are..” (05/13/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/05/13/how-to-make-your-mind-harder-for-the-propagandists-to-manipulate/
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33) Free Trade Dogma Runs Very Deep
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“People in cults often find it nearly impossible to get outside the cult outlook on the world. This is very much true of the leading intellectuals in our policy discussions. They all talk about ‘free trade’ as though it is something that the United States has been moving toward in our trade agreements. This is a dogma held both by the proponents of the trade deals made over the last four decades, who dub them as ‘free trade’ agreements and the opponents who proudly pronounce themselves as critics of free trade.” (05/13/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/13/free-trade-dogma-runs-very-deep/
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34) Trump’s Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher
Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig
“The embrace of authoritarian notions isn’t just a matter of base emotional impulses dressed up in formalistic language. There’s a deadly serious set of ideas behind it, revealing the disturbingly widespread influence of Carl Schmitt, a German jurist and political philosopher who became a prominent propagandist during the early years of the Nazi regime. You might think a literal Nazi would be thoroughly discredited, but the grim reality is he has been embraced as a respectable thinker and even a laudable role model long after the regime he served died in a bunker in Berlin. Trump himself has surely never studied Schmitt. But those around him, influencing him, and shaping the movement which supports him, certainly have.” (05/13/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-effort-to-become-the-supreme
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35) Republicans Want You to Die
Source: Common Dreams
by Mike Lofgren
“Let’s suppose someone decides it would be a good idea to drive 80 miles per hour through a school zone while the amber lights are flashing. If something bad happens, as it would be likely to, and he kills one or more children, how would the law treat it? He could tell the court that he sincerely ‘didn’t mean’ to kill anyone, but that wouldn’t exonerate him. The court would consider the case at minimum as vehicular homicide, and more likely, given the aggravating circumstance of lethal speed in a school zone, it might well result in conviction for aggravated murder. … If someone commits a reckless act whose adverse consequences are clearly foreseeable, then for all practical purposes, that person willed the consequences. This principle (who wills the means wills the ends) is applicable in law, but should also be valid in everyday life.” (05/13/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/republicans-want-you-to-die
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36) Lying About Killing for Votes
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Some foreign policy issues, such as regarding Israel and Palestine, are confusing enough that many of us tend to be wary of sharing our opinions. But no matter how reticent we may be, we can agree on this: there should be no outright lying about our positions.” (05/13/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/05/13/lying-about-killing/
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37) Geothermal policy reform: Bridging the gaps
Source: Niskanen Center
by Swad Sathe & Kenneth Sercy
“Geothermal energy, a reliable clean-firm power source, is steadily gaining attention as part of the clean energy transition. Despite significant barriers to its expansion, strategic policy design can address many of these challenges. To enable meaningful progress, it is essential to bridge the gap between the expanding body of research advocating for geothermal development and the limited legislative action taken thus far in Congress.” (05/13/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/geothermal-policy-reform-bridging-the-gaps
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38) Without a SALT Fix, the Republican Majority May Be Doomed
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Froma Harrop
“At least six congressional Republicans are demanding a radical fix in the 2017 tax law targeting residents of high-income states. If they don’t get it, they may sink Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending package, his ‘one big beautiful bill.’ And who can blame these reps from New York, New Jersey and California? At issue is the unfair cap on the state and local taxes (SALT) their constituents may deduct from federally taxable income. The SALT deduction, unlimited before 2017, was set at a maximum $10,000. What made it sweet to other Republicans was that it paid for some of those tax cuts by milking taxpayers in wealthier Democratic states. And that has made voters in key suburban districts sore.” [editor’s note: As I’ve noted before, the SALT cap whining reveals the hypocrisy of those who oppose it while simultaneously yelling “TAX THE RICH!” – TLK] (05/13/25)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/13/without_a_salt_fix_the_republican_majority_may_be_doomed_152780.html
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39) Schumpeter on the Dangers of the “Tax State”
Source: Cobden Centre
by Max Rangeley
“While Joseph Schumpeter and the Austrian School often find themselves at odds over fundamental questions in economic theory … it would be a mistake to overlook the significant common ground they share when it comes to their diagnosis of the state and its dangerous proclivity to grow. Indeed, despite methodological and theoretical disagreements, Schumpeter’s critique of state power — especially as laid out in his 1918 essay ‘The Crisis of the Tax State’ — resonates powerfully with the warnings issued by Austrian thinkers like Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. For Schumpeter, the state is not some idealized public institution tending toward the public good, as the mainstream of both classical and progressive political thought might have it. Rather, it is a historically contingent formation, one whose size, shape, and role are primarily defined by its ability to raise revenue, especially through taxation.” (05/13/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/05/schumpeter-on-the-dangers-of-the-tax-state/
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40) Democrats Just Can’t Stop Pushing Nonsensical Assault Weapon Bans
Source: Town Hall
by John R Lott, Jr.
“Democrats just can’t let go of their push for an assault weapons ban. Meanwhile, Americans are waiting for the Supreme Court to intervene. Thirteen times, the court has relisted the Snope v. Brown case, which addresses Maryland’s ban on semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines. It seems increasingly likely the court will hear the case next year, and the decisions in Heller and Bruen make it clear that these bans are unconstitutional. These laws ban guns ‘in common use’, and no comparable historical analog exists for these bans. But on April 30, Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA] introduced the so-called ‘Assault Weapons Ban of 2025’. It picks up where his predecessor, Dianne Feinstein, left off.” (05/13/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2025/05/13/the-democrats-just-cant-stop-pushing-nonsensical-assault-weapon-bans-n2656972
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41) “Victory Day for WW I” would be an embarrassment on global scale
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Doug Bandow
“Trump should stop calling what was a political disaster that unleashed a century of horrors an American achievement.” (05/13/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/victory-day-trump/
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42) Making GDP Great Again: A Complementary Approach
Source: The Daily Economy
by Chandler S Reilly & Vincent Geloso
“Including government spending in GDP distorts our understanding of value: spending more on tanks and bullets doesn’t mean civilians are getting wealthier during wartime.” (05/13/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/making-gdp-great-again-a-complementary-approach/
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43) Universalism versus Nihilism: the True Divide in American Politics
Source: Liberal Currents
by Jason Tebbe
“It is imperative that the nihilism destroying our society be named and confronted directly if we are to have any kind of future.” (05/13/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/universalism-versus-nihilism-the-true-divide-in-american-politics/
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44) Will Trump Invade or Bomb Mexico to Win the Drug War?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“I thought that when U.S. officials recently sentenced El Chapo himself to life in a U.S. prison, the war on drugs was supposed to have been won. Alas, apparently not. It turns out that El Chapo has several sons who took over the family drug business. … does that mean that if officials capture or kill all the Chapitos, the drug war will finally be over? If you believe that, I’ve got a nice bridge across the Rio Grande I’d like to sell you. President Trump knows that the drug war is a long way from being over, no matter how many Chapitos are killed or captured. Trump now wants to use military force against drug cartels inside Mexico.” (05/13/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/05/13/will-trump-invade-or-bomb-mexico-to-win-the-drug-war/
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45) “We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril”: Interview With Naomi Klein
Source: The American Prospect
by Cerise Castle
“The marriage of Silicon Valley billionaires and far-right MAGA voters has given rise to ‘end-times fascism’ characterized by ‘monstrous, supremacist survivalism’, author Naomi Klein writes in her latest essay with Astra Taylor for The Guardian. Klein describes tech oligarchs preparing for an apocalyptic end to life on Earth, fueled by the carbon emissions generated by the companies they own, by escaping to bunkers or through colonizing Mars. Capital & Main’s Cerise Castle spoke with Klein on Wednesday about what she sees as the path forward at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Nimoy Theater in Westwood ahead of her lecture ‘Fascism or Eco-Populism—Our Stark Choice’, presented by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.” (05/13/25)
https://prospect.org/culture/2025-05-13-moment-of-unparalleled-peril-interview-naomi-klein/
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46) Germany: Regime bans “extremist” group, arrests leaders
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“German authorities on Tuesday banned an extremist group called the ‘Kingdom of Germany,’ raided multiple locations nationwide and arrested four of its leading members. The group is part of a right-wing conspiracy theorist movement known as the ‘Citizens of the Reich’ (‘Reichsbuerger’), which rejects the legitimacy of the modern German republic. Among those detained was the group’s self-proclaimed ‘king’ Peter Fitzek, 59, a former chef and karate instructor. He founded the organisation, which has claimed to have about 6,000 members. … About 800 security forces searched properties in seven states linked to the group, known in German as ‘Koenigreich Deutschland.’ The interior ministry said that the group had established ‘pseudo-state structures and institutions,’ issuing its own currency and identity papers and running an insurance scheme for its members.” (05/13/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250513-police-raid-conspiracy-theorist-group-kingdom-of-germany
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47) Faith, Fanaticism, and False Prophets
Source: Quillette
by Timothy Devinney & Christopher A Hartwell
“When Donald Trump was re-elected US president last November, contemporary American politics shifted decisively towards populism. ‘Populism’ is a contentious term, often used in modern parlance as a synonym for ‘policies I do not like.’ The academic literature on the subject, however, generally agrees that it is defined by a Manichean worldview that pits a wicked elite against a virtuous people, and that populist movements are often (but not always) led by a charismatic figure. The us vs. them dynamic seems to be a feature of every strain of populism — left-wing or right-wing, pro- or anti-business, globalist or nativist. In each instance, shadowy elites are alleged to have sold out the people or the nation, and a revolutionary movement is required to overthrow them and restore the true spirit of the country.” (05/13/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/05/13/faith-fanaticism-and-false-prophets-religion-populism-donald-trump/
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48) Pronatalism’s Brave New World
Source: Law & Liberty
by Rachel Lu
“Is the New Right opening a bright new chapter for American families, or leading us down a dark alleyway?” (05/13/25)
https://lawliberty.org/pronatalisms-brave-new-world/
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49) Trump’s Unquenchable, Unconstitutional Greed is Deforming America
Source: The Bulwark
by Jill Lawrence
“Say what you will about MAGA podcasters and influencers and the media owners making humiliating moves to stay on Donald Trump’s good side, but actual reporters by and large are doing their jobs and informing the public. The same can’t be said of the Republican Congress. There’s no outrage dark or damaging enough to spur it to action. It is an epic, ongoing institutional failure. The latest test for U.S. leaders came early Sunday morning when ABC News revealed that Trump is getting a $400 million gift from Qatar: A ‘palace in the sky’ for use while he’s in the White House and then later at his planned presidential library. So what’s the big deal? It’s not like we didn’t know Trump was transactional, even when the transactions are illegal and/or unconstitutional.” (05/13/15)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-unquenchable-unconstitutional-qatar-air-force-one-memecoin-fundraiser-hotel
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50) Qatar’s “Palace in the Sky” jet NOT a “free gift,” and Trump shouldn’t accept it as one
Source: New York Post
by staff
“What is President Trump thinking? He’s bragging of winning a $400 million ‘gift’ — a ‘palace in the sky’ Boeing 747-8 jet — from Qatar that, in effect, he’ll eventually own personally. Sorry, this ‘gift’ is far from free; Qatar will surely expect something in return. And the optics are beyond awful, especially as Congress mulls hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts. ‘The fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE … so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane,’ Trump posted on social media. Yes, Qatar’s opulently decked-out 747 would be transferred first to the Defense Department and used as Air Force One when needed …. But the plan calls for the jet to be donated later to Trump’s presidential library, arguably making him its personal owner.” (05/12/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/opinion/no-pres-trump-qatars-palace-in-the-sky-jet-isnt-a-free-gift-and-you-shouldnt-accept-it-as-one/
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51) Exclusion — dealing with people who cannot be tolerated in society
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Coventry is an idea proposed many times but perhaps best known in Heinlein’s version. The basic concept is similar to penal colonies in general: particularly the larger ones, like the present State of Georgia, or present New South Wales or Victoria State in Australia. It serves a dual purpose: to protect society from the actions of the convict (and at less cost and more humanely than a term in jail or prison, or execution) and to deny the felon most if not all of the benefits of society – to cast him or her out, to banish or excommunicate them. It is a long traditional method of dealing with those who commit acts of aggression and do other ‘uncivil’ things – including teaching matters contrary to the wishes of the powers that be. Does it work?” (05/12/25)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/05/12/exclusion-dealing-with-people-who-cannot-be-tolerated-in-society/
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52) They Didn’t Take Our Jobs
Source: EconLog
by Tyler Watts
“In my previous post, I took on the common claim that America is losing manufacturing jobs. Not only are jobs growing, but job growth has outpaced population growth — i.e. the increase in the number of people available to fill those jobs — and this has been the case for most of the last four decades. Is the fact that more people are working good news for the economy? As is often the case in economics, it depends. If real wages are rising and people want to work more in order to improve their standard of living, then sure, let’s celebrate the growth in productivity, output, and earnings. If wages are stagnant and some people would rather pursue non-labor vocations, but feel the need to earn a paycheck in order to keep up with the cost of living, then job growth would be at best a mixed bag.” (05/12/25)
https://www.econlib.org/they-didnt-take-our-jobs/
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53) The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs
Source: The Atlantic
by David Frum
“If you’ve ever watched a game of three-card monte, you’ve noticed that the dealer talks nonstop. The chatter serves two functions. First, it distracts the victims. Second, and maybe more important, the dealer is deceiving his victims about what’s befalling them. The spiel invites them to imagine they’re playing a game in which they stand a fair chance. In reality, they are being swindled. The Trump White House’s press releases about its so-called trade agreements and negotiations — first with the United Kingdom, now with China — are just so much dealer patter. The tariff numbers go up. Up and up and up. Ooh, now they come down. Up! Down! And all the while, everybody involved is telling contradictory stories about what’s being done and why.” (05/12/25)
https://archive.is/V5vVp
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54) The Best Protection For Students Is a Mass Movement
Source: In These Times
by Nidaa Lafi & Momodou Taal
“On March 20, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) hosted a conversation with Cornell University student and pro-Palestinian activist Momodou Taal. Less than a week prior, Taal had filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging the new executive orders that sought to target international noncitizen students for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza. The day after this conversation, Taal was told to surrender into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. On March 31, he self-deported. In this conversation, in which Taal is interviewed by Nidaa Lafi, an organizer with PYM’s Dallas chapter, Taal shares his first-hand experience with being targeted for peacefully protesting, discusses the true function of universities today and offers wisdom on why the increasing repression against students is a sign of empire’s weakness, not its strength.” (05/13/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/momodou-tall-students-mass-movement-pym
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55) The Kashmir Dilemma
Source: Persuasion
by Rashmee Roshan Lall
“India and Pakistan just had their worst clash in decades. History suggests the hostility won’t die down any time soon.” (05/12/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-kashmir-dilemma
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
56) Kelley Vlahos on The Kyle Anzalone Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Is Trump Becoming a Peace President?” (05/13/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/kelley-vlahos-is-trump-becoming-a-peace-president-new-episode-of-the-kyle-anzalone-show/
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57) Advisory Opinions, 05/13/25
Source: The Dispatch
“The Clash of Culture and Employment Rights.” (05/13/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/the-clash-of-culture-and-employment-rights/
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58) Power Problems, 05/13/25
Source: Cato Institute
“Can Trump Make a Deal with Iran?” (05/13/25)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/power-problems/can-trump-make-deal-iran
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59) Good On Paper, 05/13/25
Source: The Atlantic
“The Myth of the Poverty Trap.” (05/13/25)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/the-myth-of-the-poverty-trap/682786
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60) Trump Watch, 05/13/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Suspending Habeas Corpus.” (05/13/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIyogrTrEA
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61) Capital Record, episode 233
Source: National Review
“Conservative vs. Libertarian Economics.” (05/13/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/conservative-vs-libertarian-economics/
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62) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 05/13/25
Source: The New Republic
“Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Plane Scam Draws Blood.” (05/13/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/195165/jamie-raskin-harsh-takedown-trump-qatar-plane-scam-draws-blood
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63) Antiwar News with Dave Decamp, 05/13/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Hamas Releases US-Israeli Captive, US Replaces B-2s at Diego Garcia With B-52s, and More.” (05/13/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTXABMSmhiA
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64) The Corbett Report, episode 476
Source: The Corbett Report
“I Read ‘Conspiracy Theory in America’ (And You Can, Too!).” (05/12/25)
https://corbettreport.com/i-read-conspiracy-theory-in-america/
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65) Finding Freedom, 05/12/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Talking Baseball, Softball and Exercise with my Daughter Rubie.” (05/12/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/talking-baseball-softball-and-exercise-with-my-daughter-rubie
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1) Palestine: Israeli forces murder 28 in Gaza hospital attack
2) US regime sells $142 billion worth of weapons to Saudi terror kingpin
3) Macron: EU readying new Russia sanctions “in coming days”
4) Schumer places hold on Trump DOJ nominees over Qatar jet emolument
5) AZ: Hobbs vetoes two crypto bills, cracks down on Bitcoin ATMs
6) US Delinquency Rates Climb to Five-Year High on Student Loans
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9) Apple to pay customers $95 million in Siri spying settlement
10) Trump says US regime will remove all sanctions on Syria
11) UK: Man jailed for 1986 murder acquitted after 38 years
12) NY: Federal judge seizes control of NYC jail system, including Rikers
13) Trump Regime Terminates Another $450 Million in Grants to Harvard
14) Peru: Outrage as Chan Chan ancient site daubed with obscene graffiti
15) AZ: Budget airline begins deportation flights for ICE with start of operations
16) South Korea: Presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo says party will not expel impeached Yoon
17) Hogg slams “fast-track” effort to oust him as DNC vice chair
18) France: Depardieu receives suspended 18-month sentence for sexual assault
19) Trump says he will ease sanctions on Syria, moves to restore relations with new leader
20) NC: Homeowner fatally shoots intruder armed with axe
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Free Speech for Me, Deportation for Thee
22) Blink Or Head Fake? Tariff Uncertainty Remains The Biggest Problem
23) Why Liberal Libertarians Avoid Social Liberalism
24) Pseudo-Libertarian Tech Bros
25) The Republicans’ Debt Delusion
26) A win for peaceful accord in Turkey
27) Can nuclear save us from the next energy crisis?
28) Do Gifts To Trump Keep On Giving?
29) Poof! It’s Gone: Disappearing the America We Once Knew
30) Trumpism is struggling to win over the world
31) Does Britain Hate Wealth?
32) How To Make Your Mind Harder For The Propagandists To Manipulate
33) Free Trade Dogma Runs Very Deep
34) Trump’s Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher
35) Republicans Want You to Die
36) Lying About Killing for Votes
37) Geothermal policy reform: Bridging the gaps
38) Without a SALT Fix, the Republican Majority May Be Doomed
39) Schumpeter on the Dangers of the “Tax State”
40) Democrats Just Can’t Stop Pushing Nonsensical Assault Weapon Bans
41) “Victory Day for WW I” would be an embarrassment on global scale
42) Making GDP Great Again: A Complementary Approach
43) Universalism versus Nihilism: the True Divide in American Politics
44) Will Trump Invade or Bomb Mexico to Win the Drug War?
45) “We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril”: Interview With Naomi Klein
46) Germany: Regime bans “extremist” group, arrests leaders
47) Faith, Fanaticism, and False Prophets
48) Pronatalism’s Brave New World
49) Trump’s Unquenchable, Unconstitutional Greed is Deforming America
50) Qatar’s “Palace in the Sky” jet NOT a “free gift,” and Trump shouldn’t accept it as one
51) Exclusion — dealing with people who cannot be tolerated in society
52) They Didn’t Take Our Jobs
53) The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs
54) The Best Protection For Students Is a Mass Movement
55) The Kashmir Dilemma
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57) Advisory Opinions, 05/13/25
58) Power Problems, 05/13/25
59) Good On Paper, 05/13/25
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61) Capital Record, episode 233
62) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 05/13/25
63) Antiwar News with Dave Decamp, 05/13/25
64) The Corbett Report, episode 476
65) Finding Freedom, 05/12/25
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1) Palestine: Israeli forces murder 28 in Gaza hospital attack
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“An Israeli air strike has killed 28 people and injured dozens at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, a spokesman for the Hamas-run civil defence agency has said. Israeli warplanes dropped six bombs simultaneously on the Gaza hospital, hitting both its inner courtyard and surrounding area, according to local sources. The Israeli military said it had conducted a ‘precise strike’ on ‘Hamas terrorists in a command and control centre’ which it claimed was beneath the hospital. A freelance journalist working for the BBC in Gaza was among those injured in the air strike, and is now in a stable condition after receiving medical attention.” (05/13/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jvx3yjg3o
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2) US regime sells $142 billion worth of weapons to Saudi terror kingpin
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed a $142bn arms deal touted by the White House as the ‘largest defence sales agreement in history’ in the first stop of Donald Trump’s four-day diplomatic tour to the Gulf states aimed at securing big deals and spotlighting the benefits of Trump’s transactional foreign policy. … The meeting between Trump and [Saudi terror kingpin Mohammed bin] Salman was characterised by smiles and friendly backslapping, a sharp contrast to past summits when the Saudi leader was mired in controversy over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. While his administration touted big deals, Trump also admitted that his geopolitical goals of Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic recognition of Israel would take time due in large part to the Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza.” (05/13/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/us-saudi-arabia-arms-deal-trump-meeting-syria
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3) Macron: EU readying new Russia sanctions “in coming days”
Source: Politico
“French President Emmanuel Macron teased potential new sanctions on Russia and an extended French nuclear deterrent during a major prime-time interview on French television on Tuesday. … Macron said that the European Commission was readying ‘in the coming days’ a new package of measures targeting ‘financial services, and oil, on secondary sellers’ in cooperation with the U.S. in case the Kremlin does not move toward agreeing to an unconditional ceasefire. … Macron reiterated that he was not in favor of seizing the €200 billion of Russian assets held in Brussels-based financial institution Euroclear that were frozen after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, despite reports that France has reportedly warmed to the idea.” (05/13/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-vladimir-putin-russia-france-sanctions-package/
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4) Schumer places hold on Trump DOJ nominees over Qatar jet emolument
Source: NBC News
“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday he is placing a hold on all Trump Justice Department nominees as he seeks answers on the administration’s plan to accept a luxury jet from Qatar to be used as Air Force One. ‘In light of the deeply troubling news of a possible Qatari-funded Air Force One, and the reports that the Attorney General personally signed off on this clearly unethical deal, I am announcing a hold on all DOJ political nominees, until we get more answers,’ Schumer said on the Senate floor. … Meanwhile, some legal experts have questioned how a gift from Qatar that would follow Trump out of office could be permissible under the emoluments clause. Democrats and even some Trump allies have suggested the jet could be perceived as a conflict of interest.” [editor’s note: “Questioned how?” Here’s how — it can’t be – TLK] (05/13/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-place-hold-trump-doj-nominees-questions-qatars-luxury-jet-gift-rcna206464
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5) AZ: Hobbs vetoes two crypto bills, cracks down on Bitcoin ATMs
Source: CoinTelegraph
“Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed two key cryptocurrency-related bills that aimed to expand the state’s involvement in digital assets while signing a strict regulatory measure targeting Bitcoin ATMs. On May 12, Hobbs rejected Senate Bill 1373, which sought to establish a Digital Assets Strategic Reserve Fund. The fund would have allowed Arizona to hold crypto assets obtained through seizures or legislative allocations. … That decision followed her veto of Senate Bill 1025 — the more ambitious ‘Arizona Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act’ — on May 3. It would have authorized up to 10% of the state’s treasury and retirement funds to be invested in Bitcoin and other digital assets. … Hobbs also vetoed Senate Bill 1024, which would have permitted state agencies to accept cryptocurrency payments for taxes, fines and fees via approved service providers. … On May 12, Hobbs approved House Bill 2387, which introduces new consumer protection rules for cryptocurrency kiosk (ATM) operators, aiming to reduce fraud and improve transparency.” (05/13/25)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/arizona-governor-vetoes-crypto-bills-approves-bitcoin-atm-law
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6) US Delinquency Rates Climb to Five-Year High on Student Loans
Source: Bloomberg
“The share of outstanding US consumer debt that’s in delinquency rose in the first quarter to the highest in five years, reflecting an end to the pandemic-era pause on reporting delinquent student loan payments on credit reports. Some 4.3% of debt was delinquent in the first three months of this year, the most since 2020 and up from 3.6% in the prior quarter, the New York Fed said Tuesday in its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit. Outside of student loans, however, transition to early delinquency held steady for nearly all debt types. Missing payments on federal student loans have just begun to reappear on credit reports, following a years-long payment freeze. As a result, about 8% of student debt fell into serious delinquency — or was 90 or more days late — in the first quarter, up from less than 1% a year earlier.” (05/13/25)
https://archive.is/QkNEd
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7) OK: “ChiefsAholic” superfan gets state prison sentence tacked onto federal term for bank robberies
Source: Yahoo! News
“Like Patrick Mahomes marching the Kansas City Chiefs on another game-winning drive, Xavier Michael Babudar — aka the ‘ChiefsAholic’ superfan — can put numbers on the board. A court on Monday in Oklahoma sentenced the serial bank robber to a 32-year term in state prison that will run concurrently with his federal sentence of 17 1/2 years. After Babudar serves the federal term — without the possibility of parole — he will be transferred to state prison to spend 14 1/2 more years. Babudar, 30, admitted to 11 robberies in 2022 and 2023 across seven states from California to Tennessee. His guilty and no contest pleas in both federal and state courts squeezed what could have been drawn-out trial proceedings into the judicial equivalent of two-minute drills.” (05/13/25)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chiefsaholic-superfan-gets-state-prison-164534794.html
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8) SpaceX Starship Flight 9 Gets A New Launch Date As Firm Ships Rocket To Launch Site
Source: Wccf
“SpaceX has shipped its Starship upper stage ship destined to fly on Flight 9, back to its production facilities after a static fire and rolled out the Super Heavy booster for the flight to the launch pad. The movements come as a fresh Coast Guard notice points to May 21st as the earliest lift-off date for the highly anticipated Flight 9. With the upcoming flight, SpaceX will fly the second generation upper stage for the third time in 2025 and after both its earlier tests ended in failure. Starship Flight 9 will also be the first test flight that reuses a Super Heavy booster for an important milestone in the test program. … SpaceX hasn’t confirmed any launch details about Starship yet despite the fact that the firm conducted a static fire of the upper stage spacecraft and shipped it back to its production facilities yesterday and this morning, local time.” (05/13/25)
https://wccftech.com/spacex-starship-flight-9-gets-a-new-launch-date-as-firm-ships-rocket-to-launch-site/
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9) Apple to pay customers $95 million in Siri spying settlement
Source: New York Post
“If you have owned an Apple device since 2014, you could be due for some cash. Anyone with a Siri-enabled device may be eligible to file a claim as part of a $95 million class-action lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit, Lopez v. Apple, accused the tech giant’s voice assistant of spying on users and recording private conversations after unintentionally activating Siri. It is alleged that recordings happened even when users didn’t say the prompt, ‘Hey, Siri’. Eligible enabled devices include the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, iMac, HomePod, iPod touch and Apple TV.” (05/13/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/tech/apple-to-pay-customers-95m-in-siri-spying-settlement-heres-how-to-get-your-payout/
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10) Trump says US regime will remove all sanctions on Syria
Source: CNBC
“The U.S. will remove all sanctions on Syria, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday. … Syria has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. government since 1979. Additional U.S. sanctions were imposed on the country in 2004 and again in 2011, after the regime of then-President Bashar Assad launched a brutal crackdown on anti-government uprisings. … The toppling of the Assad regime during a shock offensive by anti-Assad militia groups in December of 2024 stunned the global community, and brought about the prospect of a new beginning for the devastated country. Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa — a former al-Qaeda member who describes himself as reformed — currently leads the country’s transitional government.” (05/13/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/trump-says-us-will-remove-all-sanctions-on-syria.html
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11) UK: Man jailed for 1986 murder acquitted after 38 years
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A man who has served almost 38 years in prison for the murder of a woman has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal after new DNA evidence emerged. Peter Sullivan was jailed over the 1986 killing of 21-year-old barmaid Diane Sindall, who was subjected to a frenzied sexual attack in Birkenhead, Merseyside, as she walked home from a shift. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) – the statutory body set up to investigate potential miscarriages of justice – had referred Mr Sullivan’s case back to the appeal court last year after fresh testing found a DNA profile pointing to an unknown attacker in semen samples preserved from the crime scene. Mr Sullivan, appearing on video-link from HMP Wakefield, sobbed and held his hand over his mouth as he was told he would be released.” (05/13/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce809e3gd1xo
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12) NY: Federal judge seizes control of NYC jail system, including Rikers
Source: New York Post
“A federal judge seized control of New York City’s troubled jail system Tuesday — ordering that an outside official be brought in to clean up Rikers Island and other lockups. The 77-page order by Manhattan federal Judge Laura Swain effectively appoints a federal receiver — a move long desired by advocates — to correct dangerous conditions in Rikers that city and Department of Correction officials have tried and failed to do under a decade-old court case known as Nunez. ‘The Nunez Remediation Manager will be granted broad powers, similar to those described in the Receivership Proposal,’ Swain wrote. Swain gave the city and advocates an Aug. 29 deadline to recommend potential candidates.” (05/13/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/us-news/federal-judge-seizes-control-of-nycs-jail-system-rikers-island/
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13) Trump Regime Terminates Another $450 Million in Grants to Harvard
Source: US News & World Report
“The Trump administration said on Tuesday that eight federal agencies will terminate another $450 million in grants to Harvard University, on top of $2.2 billion in federal funding it canceled last week. An administration antisemitism task force cited what it described as a failure by the elite Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school to confront what it called ‘pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus.’ … Harvard did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Harvard is already suing over the administration’s decision to cut off grant funding after it refused to cede to what the university’s president has said are illegal demands from the administration ‘to control whom we hire and what we teach.'” (05/13/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-05-13/trump-administration-terminates-another-450-million-in-grants-to-harvard
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14) Peru: Outrage as Chan Chan ancient site daubed with obscene graffiti
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A vandal has daubed an image of a penis on a wall at a centuries-old Peruvian city recognised by Unesco as a World Heritage Site. The man was filmed while spraying the graffiti on one of the original walls of Chan Chan, a pre-Columbian city 500km (300 miles) north of Lima that is visited by thousands of people a month. Peru’s ministry of culture said the culprit showed ‘a grave disrespect toward our history and cultural heritage, as well as a violation of the regulations that protect archaeological heritage sites’. Some Peruvians questioned how he was able to damage the wall unchallenged, while others said they were disappointed that the site was not better protected. The video of the incident was widely shared on social media. The culprit could face up to six years in prison if caught.” (05/13/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rejddyyjdo
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15) AZ: Budget airline begins deportation flights for ICE with start of operations
Source: SFGate
“A budget airline that serves mostly small U.S. cities began federal deportation flights Monday out of Arizona, a move that’s inspired an online boycott petition and sharp criticism from the union representing the carrier’s flight attendants. Avelo Airlines announced in April it had signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to make charter deportation flights from Mesa Gateway Airport outside Phoenix. It said it will use three Boeing 737-800 planes for the flights. The Houston-based airline is among a host of companies seeking to cash in on President Donald Trump’s campaign for mass deportations. Congressional deliberations began last month on a tax bill with a goal of funding, in part, the removal of 1 million immigrants annually and housing 100,000 people in U.S. detention centers. The GOP plan calls for hiring 10,000 more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and investigators.” (05/13/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/budget-airline-begins-deportation-flights-for-ice-20324218.php
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16) South Korea: Presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo says party will not expel impeached Yoon
Source: United Press International
“Kim Moon-soo, the candidate from the conservative People Power Party in next month’s snap presidential election, said Tuesday that the party was not considering expelling impeached former President Yoon Suk Yeol. ‘Whether former President Yoon decides to leave the party is entirely up to him,’ Kim told reporters during a campaign stop in the southeastern city of Daegu. ‘It’s not right for our party to tell a president to leave or not,’ Kim said. ‘If we believe that Yoon did something wrong and demand that he leave, then the party shares responsibility too.'” (05/13/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/05/13/South-Korea-Kim-Moon-soo-PPP-candidate-president-not-expel-Yoon-Suk-Yeol/1541747116788/
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17) Hogg slams “fast-track” effort to oust him as DNC vice chair
Source: Fox News
“Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg on Monday slammed the Credentials Committee’s decision to elevate a procedural challenge to his leadership position as ‘the first steps to remove me from my position’, amid an ongoing intraparty dispute. ‘While this vote was based on how the DNC conducted its officers’ elections, which I had nothing to do with, it is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party which loomed large over this vote,’ Hogg said, as he described a country ‘in crisis’ and a Democratic Party ‘asleep at the wheel’. ‘I ran to be DNC Vice Chair to help make the Democratic Party better, not to defend an indefensible status quo that has caused voters in almost every demographic group to move away from us.'” (05/13/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/david-hogg-slams-fast-track-effort-oust-him-dnc-vice-chair
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18) France: Depardieu receives suspended 18-month sentence for sexual assault
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“[French actor Gerard] Depardieu was found guilty on Tuesday of sexually assaulting two women on the set of a movie in which he starred in 2021 and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence. He was also fined 29,040 euros (US$32,350), and the court requested that he be registered in the national sex offender database. … The actor, 76, has been convicted of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters). The case was widely seen as a key post-#MeToo test of how French society and its film industry address allegations of sexual misconduct involving prominent figures. Depardieu, who has denied the accusations, didn’t attend the hearing in Paris. Depardieu’s lawyer said that his client would appeal the decision.” (05/13/25)
https://archive.is/OYYNQ
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19) Trump says he will ease sanctions on Syria, moves to restore relations with new leader
Source: SFGate
“President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will move to normalize relations and lift sanctions on Syria’s new government to give the country ‘a chance at peace’. Trump was set to meet Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of former leader Bashar Assad. He said the effort at rapprochement came at the urging of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi de facto ruler, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ‘There is a new government that will hopefully succeed,’ Trump said of Syria, adding, ‘I say good luck, Syria. Show us something special.’ The developments were a major boost for the Syrian president who at one point was imprisoned in Iraq for his role in the insurgency following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the Arab country.” (05/13/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/trump-to-meet-with-syria-s-al-sharaa-as-he-weighs-20324942.php
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20) NC: Homeowner fatally shoots intruder armed with axe
Source: WCTI 12 News
“A man was fatally shot by a homeowner after Duplin County authorities say he was attempting to break into the homeowner’s residence with an axe. The Duplin County Sheriff’s Office responded to a Sheffield Road home on Sunday morning, May 11 where they say they found David Bradley White lying on his back at the bottom of some steps with multiple gunshot wounds. White was pronounced dead at the scene, per officials. According to a release, the residents of the home were confronted by a man armed with an axe trying to enter their home through the back door, and in response, the homeowners fired multiple shots through the door, striking the intruder.” (05/12/25)
https://wcti12.com/news/local/homeowner-fatally-shoots-intruder-armed-with-axe-in-duplin-county
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21) Free Speech for Me, Deportation for Thee
Source: Antiwar.com
by Joseph D Terwilliger
“The same conservatives who erupted in fury when YouTube suspended Senator Rand Paul for questioning mask mandates, and who whined when universities blocked conservative speakers for ‘security reasons,’ are the same ones now cheering when ICE uses an obscure Cold War-era immigration law to deport a Turkish grad student for writing an op-ed. Apparently, the First Amendment is sacrosanct until someone with the wrong accent has a dangerous idea. The same people who once called this ‘cancel culture’ now call it ‘law and order.’ Which brings us to the larger point. Conservatives once ridiculed campus ‘safe spaces.’ Now they want speech banned because it makes them feel unsafe. They mocked trigger warnings and microaggressions, but now they want slogans banned, students expelled, and foreigners jailed. It’s funny how fast ‘suck it up, buttercup’ becomes ‘call the cops’ when someone else is holding the megaphone. Who are the snowflakes now?” (05/13/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/joseph_terwilliger/2025/05/12/free-speech-for-me-deportation-for-thee/
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22) Blink Or Head Fake? Tariff Uncertainty Remains The Biggest Problem
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“From early April to mid-May, US trade policy went from the bizarre ‘Liberation Day’ tariff schedule — ‘reciprocal’ tariffs that weren’t reciprocal and wouldn’t have made sense if they had been — to US president Donald Trump’s announcements of ‘major’ trade agreements with the Chinese and British regimes. … The obvious question is whether Trump blinked after his tariff madness produced predictably damaging economic results for Americans and those Americans noticed, or whether this is another one of his head fakes and we can expect him to reverse himself yet again in the coming months …. the latter seems more likely … and that continuing uncertainty, even more than the obvious and irrefutable stupidity of protective tariffs, is the problem.” (05/13/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19581
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23) Why Liberal Libertarians Avoid Social Liberalism
Source: Aaron Ross Powell
by Aaron Ross Powell
“Last week I wrote about how liberals, by focusing exclusively on institutional and value neutrality, cede conversations about ethics to illiberals, and particularly illiberals on the right, with the result that people looking for ethical talk about how to live meaningful lives (e.g., young men) end up finding meaning in reactionary ideologies. Today I want to offer a hypothesis pointing to why this is — and particularly why libertarians, who often position themselves as the radical wing of liberalism, are so hesitant to talk about liberal values (and virtues) in the cultural and social spheres. … this takes the form of a focus on the state, and a disinterest (or at least silence) about anything outside of it: the only matter of ethical concern is when it’s permissible to apply coercive force, and so if the application of coercive force isn’t at issue, libertarianism (and, so, libertarians) must say nothing at all.” (05/13/25)
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/why-liberal-libertarians-avoid-social-liberalism
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24) Pseudo-Libertarian Tech Bros
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Casey Waterman
“These days, when people say the word ‘libertarian,’ they are thinking of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and other tech bros who have tried to claim the label. Because of their support for Donald Trump, and particularly Musk’s recent actions as de facto president, libertarianism has gotten a rather bad reputation. This is unfortunate, since none of these men are actually libertarians. Libertarians believe in free speech, freedom of association, property rights, equality before the law, non-violence (except in self-defense), free enterprise and free trade. Even if you don’t call yourself a libertarian, you probably agree with these principles. The tech bros, on the other hand, do not believe in any of these. They are violent authoritarians who merely pay lip service to freedom.” (05/13/25)
https://c4ss.org/content/60397
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25) The Republicans’ Debt Delusion
Source: The Dispatch
by Yuval Levin
“If you listen to how Republicans in Washington talk about federal spending these days, you might imagine that we have entered an era of budget restraint. ‘Fiscal responsibility is what we do as conservatives,’ House Speaker Mike Johnson said in February. ‘And we have a $36 trillion federal debt. We have a giant deficit that we’re contending with. I think we need to pay down the credit card.’ … But although Republicans’ concerns about the debt are well grounded, their claims to have picked up the mantle of reform in response are baffling. … The tax and spending proposals that Republicans are crafting this spring are in fact recklessly profligate. And no one dares to touch the entitlement programs that are the actual chief sources of the government’s fiscal challenges.” (05/13/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/congress-trump-administration-budget-deficits-entitlements/
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26) A win for peaceful accord in Turkey
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“In a decisive shift toward peaceful change, Turkey’s long-outlawed major separatist group is disbanding. The announcement Monday by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) brings a welcome end to four decades of armed conflict and the loss of nearly 40,000 lives. Turkey is not the only country feeling the repercussions of this decision. Some 25 million to 35 million ethnic Kurds live in mountainous areas that share porous borders between Iraq, Syria, and Iran, as well as Turkey. Turkish forces have pursued Kurdish separatists in cross-border raids in Iraq and Syria over the years. … Aiming to establish a Kurdish homeland, the PKK took up arms in 1984, attacking civilian and military targets. In recent years, the Turkish military has forcefully limited the PKK’s reach and abilities.” (05/12/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0512/A-win-for-peaceful-accord-in-Turkey
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27) Can nuclear save us from the next energy crisis?
Source: spiked
by Ruari McCallion
“If the UK were really serious about cleaner, more efficient energy, then nuclear is the only feasible option. Big schemes like Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C can supply almost 10 per cent of the UK’s needs each by themselves, but they take too long to build and always come in over budget. An alternative, however, is already at hand – small, modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) and advanced modular reactors (AMRs).” (05/13/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/13/can-nuclear-save-us-from-the-next-energy-crisis/
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28) Do Gifts To Trump Keep On Giving?
Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman
“Q: What do Air Force One and Edan Alexander have in common? The answer I’m looking for is not ‘they were both paid for by Qatar,’ even though Qatar has historically been one of the largest funders of Hamas. The answer I’m looking for is: they were both gifts. And unlike in private relationships, where people may give each other gifts simply out of an expression of love, in public life gifts are given in order to curry favor and to induce in the receiving party the feeling of obligation. … what we’re looking at is that Qatar is trying to shape American policy by offering a personal reward to the president. I’m not so naive as to think that corruption of that sort hasn’t gone on frequently in the past in one form or another, but there’s something sobering about seeing it done so blatantly.” (05/13/25)
https://gideons.substack.com/p/do-gifts-to-trump-keep-on-giving
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29) Poof! It’s Gone: Disappearing the America We Once Knew
Source: TomDispatch
by Karen J Greenberg
“In these first 100-plus days of the nation’s 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a frightful spell over the country. As if brandishing wands from inside their capes — poof! — offices and their employees, responsibilities and aims, norms and policies have simply disappeared. The two have decreed a flurry of acts of dismantlement that span the government, threatening to disappear a broad swath of what once existed, much of it foreshadowed by Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for drastically reorganizing and even dismantling government as we know it during a second Trump administration. To my mind, the recent massive removals of people, data, photos, and documents remind me of the words of Czech novelist Milan Kundera in his classic novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: ‘The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.'” (05/13/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/poof-its-gone/
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30) Trumpism is struggling to win over the world
Source: Washington Post
by Eduardo Porter
“The biggest impediment might be the president himself.” (05/13/25)
https://archive.is/BtWkQ
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31) Does Britain Hate Wealth?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“Do the wealthy hate Britain? You would be forgiven for thinking so, from the way wealthy people and companies are fleeing the country. As many as 11,000 millionaires have left since the beginning of 2024, often taking their businesses with them. The effects are finally being felt: in April 2025, The Times reported that the receipts from Capital Gains Tax (CGT) fell from £14.5 billion ($19.3 billion) to £13 billion ($17 billion) — a 10% drop. But when one considers the reasons for this exodus and decline, the question that should be posed seems to be the exact opposite: Does Britain hate wealth?” (05/13/25)
https://fee.org/articles/does-britain-hate-wealth/
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32) How To Make Your Mind Harder For The Propagandists To Manipulate
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The worst mistake you can make when reading the news is to assume there’s a good reason why the mass media report on something in the way that they do. That there’s a good reason why Israel-Palestine gets framed as a complex and morally ambiguous issue with no clear path forward, even though it all looks pretty self-evident to you. That there must be a valid and legitimate reason why one story gets more coverage than a seemingly far more important story, like how the release of one Israeli-American hostage is currently getting far more news media coverage than the deliberate starvation of an entire enclave full of civilians. In reality there is no valid and legitimate reason why such things are covered the way they are..” (05/13/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/05/13/how-to-make-your-mind-harder-for-the-propagandists-to-manipulate/
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33) Free Trade Dogma Runs Very Deep
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“People in cults often find it nearly impossible to get outside the cult outlook on the world. This is very much true of the leading intellectuals in our policy discussions. They all talk about ‘free trade’ as though it is something that the United States has been moving toward in our trade agreements. This is a dogma held both by the proponents of the trade deals made over the last four decades, who dub them as ‘free trade’ agreements and the opponents who proudly pronounce themselves as critics of free trade.” (05/13/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/13/free-trade-dogma-runs-very-deep/
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34) Trump’s Effort to become the Supreme Leader Has Roots in a Nazi Philosopher
Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig
“The embrace of authoritarian notions isn’t just a matter of base emotional impulses dressed up in formalistic language. There’s a deadly serious set of ideas behind it, revealing the disturbingly widespread influence of Carl Schmitt, a German jurist and political philosopher who became a prominent propagandist during the early years of the Nazi regime. You might think a literal Nazi would be thoroughly discredited, but the grim reality is he has been embraced as a respectable thinker and even a laudable role model long after the regime he served died in a bunker in Berlin. Trump himself has surely never studied Schmitt. But those around him, influencing him, and shaping the movement which supports him, certainly have.” (05/13/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-effort-to-become-the-supreme
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35) Republicans Want You to Die
Source: Common Dreams
by Mike Lofgren
“Let’s suppose someone decides it would be a good idea to drive 80 miles per hour through a school zone while the amber lights are flashing. If something bad happens, as it would be likely to, and he kills one or more children, how would the law treat it? He could tell the court that he sincerely ‘didn’t mean’ to kill anyone, but that wouldn’t exonerate him. The court would consider the case at minimum as vehicular homicide, and more likely, given the aggravating circumstance of lethal speed in a school zone, it might well result in conviction for aggravated murder. … If someone commits a reckless act whose adverse consequences are clearly foreseeable, then for all practical purposes, that person willed the consequences. This principle (who wills the means wills the ends) is applicable in law, but should also be valid in everyday life.” (05/13/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/republicans-want-you-to-die
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36) Lying About Killing for Votes
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Some foreign policy issues, such as regarding Israel and Palestine, are confusing enough that many of us tend to be wary of sharing our opinions. But no matter how reticent we may be, we can agree on this: there should be no outright lying about our positions.” (05/13/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/05/13/lying-about-killing/
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37) Geothermal policy reform: Bridging the gaps
Source: Niskanen Center
by Swad Sathe & Kenneth Sercy
“Geothermal energy, a reliable clean-firm power source, is steadily gaining attention as part of the clean energy transition. Despite significant barriers to its expansion, strategic policy design can address many of these challenges. To enable meaningful progress, it is essential to bridge the gap between the expanding body of research advocating for geothermal development and the limited legislative action taken thus far in Congress.” (05/13/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/geothermal-policy-reform-bridging-the-gaps
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38) Without a SALT Fix, the Republican Majority May Be Doomed
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Froma Harrop
“At least six congressional Republicans are demanding a radical fix in the 2017 tax law targeting residents of high-income states. If they don’t get it, they may sink Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending package, his ‘one big beautiful bill.’ And who can blame these reps from New York, New Jersey and California? At issue is the unfair cap on the state and local taxes (SALT) their constituents may deduct from federally taxable income. The SALT deduction, unlimited before 2017, was set at a maximum $10,000. What made it sweet to other Republicans was that it paid for some of those tax cuts by milking taxpayers in wealthier Democratic states. And that has made voters in key suburban districts sore.” [editor’s note: As I’ve noted before, the SALT cap whining reveals the hypocrisy of those who oppose it while simultaneously yelling “TAX THE RICH!” – TLK] (05/13/25)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/05/13/without_a_salt_fix_the_republican_majority_may_be_doomed_152780.html
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39) Schumpeter on the Dangers of the “Tax State”
Source: Cobden Centre
by Max Rangeley
“While Joseph Schumpeter and the Austrian School often find themselves at odds over fundamental questions in economic theory … it would be a mistake to overlook the significant common ground they share when it comes to their diagnosis of the state and its dangerous proclivity to grow. Indeed, despite methodological and theoretical disagreements, Schumpeter’s critique of state power — especially as laid out in his 1918 essay ‘The Crisis of the Tax State’ — resonates powerfully with the warnings issued by Austrian thinkers like Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. For Schumpeter, the state is not some idealized public institution tending toward the public good, as the mainstream of both classical and progressive political thought might have it. Rather, it is a historically contingent formation, one whose size, shape, and role are primarily defined by its ability to raise revenue, especially through taxation.” (05/13/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/05/schumpeter-on-the-dangers-of-the-tax-state/
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40) Democrats Just Can’t Stop Pushing Nonsensical Assault Weapon Bans
Source: Town Hall
by John R Lott, Jr.
“Democrats just can’t let go of their push for an assault weapons ban. Meanwhile, Americans are waiting for the Supreme Court to intervene. Thirteen times, the court has relisted the Snope v. Brown case, which addresses Maryland’s ban on semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines. It seems increasingly likely the court will hear the case next year, and the decisions in Heller and Bruen make it clear that these bans are unconstitutional. These laws ban guns ‘in common use’, and no comparable historical analog exists for these bans. But on April 30, Sen. Adam Schiff [D-CA] introduced the so-called ‘Assault Weapons Ban of 2025’. It picks up where his predecessor, Dianne Feinstein, left off.” (05/13/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2025/05/13/the-democrats-just-cant-stop-pushing-nonsensical-assault-weapon-bans-n2656972
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41) “Victory Day for WW I” would be an embarrassment on global scale
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Doug Bandow
“Trump should stop calling what was a political disaster that unleashed a century of horrors an American achievement.” (05/13/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/victory-day-trump/
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42) Making GDP Great Again: A Complementary Approach
Source: The Daily Economy
by Chandler S Reilly & Vincent Geloso
“Including government spending in GDP distorts our understanding of value: spending more on tanks and bullets doesn’t mean civilians are getting wealthier during wartime.” (05/13/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/making-gdp-great-again-a-complementary-approach/
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43) Universalism versus Nihilism: the True Divide in American Politics
Source: Liberal Currents
by Jason Tebbe
“It is imperative that the nihilism destroying our society be named and confronted directly if we are to have any kind of future.” (05/13/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/universalism-versus-nihilism-the-true-divide-in-american-politics/
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44) Will Trump Invade or Bomb Mexico to Win the Drug War?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“I thought that when U.S. officials recently sentenced El Chapo himself to life in a U.S. prison, the war on drugs was supposed to have been won. Alas, apparently not. It turns out that El Chapo has several sons who took over the family drug business. … does that mean that if officials capture or kill all the Chapitos, the drug war will finally be over? If you believe that, I’ve got a nice bridge across the Rio Grande I’d like to sell you. President Trump knows that the drug war is a long way from being over, no matter how many Chapitos are killed or captured. Trump now wants to use military force against drug cartels inside Mexico.” (05/13/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/05/13/will-trump-invade-or-bomb-mexico-to-win-the-drug-war/
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45) “We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril”: Interview With Naomi Klein
Source: The American Prospect
by Cerise Castle
“The marriage of Silicon Valley billionaires and far-right MAGA voters has given rise to ‘end-times fascism’ characterized by ‘monstrous, supremacist survivalism’, author Naomi Klein writes in her latest essay with Astra Taylor for The Guardian. Klein describes tech oligarchs preparing for an apocalyptic end to life on Earth, fueled by the carbon emissions generated by the companies they own, by escaping to bunkers or through colonizing Mars. Capital & Main’s Cerise Castle spoke with Klein on Wednesday about what she sees as the path forward at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Nimoy Theater in Westwood ahead of her lecture ‘Fascism or Eco-Populism—Our Stark Choice’, presented by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.” (05/13/25)
https://prospect.org/culture/2025-05-13-moment-of-unparalleled-peril-interview-naomi-klein/
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46) Germany: Regime bans “extremist” group, arrests leaders
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“German authorities on Tuesday banned an extremist group called the ‘Kingdom of Germany,’ raided multiple locations nationwide and arrested four of its leading members. The group is part of a right-wing conspiracy theorist movement known as the ‘Citizens of the Reich’ (‘Reichsbuerger’), which rejects the legitimacy of the modern German republic. Among those detained was the group’s self-proclaimed ‘king’ Peter Fitzek, 59, a former chef and karate instructor. He founded the organisation, which has claimed to have about 6,000 members. … About 800 security forces searched properties in seven states linked to the group, known in German as ‘Koenigreich Deutschland.’ The interior ministry said that the group had established ‘pseudo-state structures and institutions,’ issuing its own currency and identity papers and running an insurance scheme for its members.” (05/13/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250513-police-raid-conspiracy-theorist-group-kingdom-of-germany
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47) Faith, Fanaticism, and False Prophets
Source: Quillette
by Timothy Devinney & Christopher A Hartwell
“When Donald Trump was re-elected US president last November, contemporary American politics shifted decisively towards populism. ‘Populism’ is a contentious term, often used in modern parlance as a synonym for ‘policies I do not like.’ The academic literature on the subject, however, generally agrees that it is defined by a Manichean worldview that pits a wicked elite against a virtuous people, and that populist movements are often (but not always) led by a charismatic figure. The us vs. them dynamic seems to be a feature of every strain of populism — left-wing or right-wing, pro- or anti-business, globalist or nativist. In each instance, shadowy elites are alleged to have sold out the people or the nation, and a revolutionary movement is required to overthrow them and restore the true spirit of the country.” (05/13/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/05/13/faith-fanaticism-and-false-prophets-religion-populism-donald-trump/
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48) Pronatalism’s Brave New World
Source: Law & Liberty
by Rachel Lu
“Is the New Right opening a bright new chapter for American families, or leading us down a dark alleyway?” (05/13/25)
https://lawliberty.org/pronatalisms-brave-new-world/
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49) Trump’s Unquenchable, Unconstitutional Greed is Deforming America
Source: The Bulwark
by Jill Lawrence
“Say what you will about MAGA podcasters and influencers and the media owners making humiliating moves to stay on Donald Trump’s good side, but actual reporters by and large are doing their jobs and informing the public. The same can’t be said of the Republican Congress. There’s no outrage dark or damaging enough to spur it to action. It is an epic, ongoing institutional failure. The latest test for U.S. leaders came early Sunday morning when ABC News revealed that Trump is getting a $400 million gift from Qatar: A ‘palace in the sky’ for use while he’s in the White House and then later at his planned presidential library. So what’s the big deal? It’s not like we didn’t know Trump was transactional, even when the transactions are illegal and/or unconstitutional.” (05/13/15)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-unquenchable-unconstitutional-qatar-air-force-one-memecoin-fundraiser-hotel
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50) Qatar’s “Palace in the Sky” jet NOT a “free gift,” and Trump shouldn’t accept it as one
Source: New York Post
by staff
“What is President Trump thinking? He’s bragging of winning a $400 million ‘gift’ — a ‘palace in the sky’ Boeing 747-8 jet — from Qatar that, in effect, he’ll eventually own personally. Sorry, this ‘gift’ is far from free; Qatar will surely expect something in return. And the optics are beyond awful, especially as Congress mulls hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts. ‘The fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE … so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane,’ Trump posted on social media. Yes, Qatar’s opulently decked-out 747 would be transferred first to the Defense Department and used as Air Force One when needed …. But the plan calls for the jet to be donated later to Trump’s presidential library, arguably making him its personal owner.” (05/12/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/opinion/no-pres-trump-qatars-palace-in-the-sky-jet-isnt-a-free-gift-and-you-shouldnt-accept-it-as-one/
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51) Exclusion — dealing with people who cannot be tolerated in society
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Coventry is an idea proposed many times but perhaps best known in Heinlein’s version. The basic concept is similar to penal colonies in general: particularly the larger ones, like the present State of Georgia, or present New South Wales or Victoria State in Australia. It serves a dual purpose: to protect society from the actions of the convict (and at less cost and more humanely than a term in jail or prison, or execution) and to deny the felon most if not all of the benefits of society – to cast him or her out, to banish or excommunicate them. It is a long traditional method of dealing with those who commit acts of aggression and do other ‘uncivil’ things – including teaching matters contrary to the wishes of the powers that be. Does it work?” (05/12/25)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/05/12/exclusion-dealing-with-people-who-cannot-be-tolerated-in-society/
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52) They Didn’t Take Our Jobs
Source: EconLog
by Tyler Watts
“In my previous post, I took on the common claim that America is losing manufacturing jobs. Not only are jobs growing, but job growth has outpaced population growth — i.e. the increase in the number of people available to fill those jobs — and this has been the case for most of the last four decades. Is the fact that more people are working good news for the economy? As is often the case in economics, it depends. If real wages are rising and people want to work more in order to improve their standard of living, then sure, let’s celebrate the growth in productivity, output, and earnings. If wages are stagnant and some people would rather pursue non-labor vocations, but feel the need to earn a paycheck in order to keep up with the cost of living, then job growth would be at best a mixed bag.” (05/12/25)
https://www.econlib.org/they-didnt-take-our-jobs/
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53) The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs
Source: The Atlantic
by David Frum
“If you’ve ever watched a game of three-card monte, you’ve noticed that the dealer talks nonstop. The chatter serves two functions. First, it distracts the victims. Second, and maybe more important, the dealer is deceiving his victims about what’s befalling them. The spiel invites them to imagine they’re playing a game in which they stand a fair chance. In reality, they are being swindled. The Trump White House’s press releases about its so-called trade agreements and negotiations — first with the United Kingdom, now with China — are just so much dealer patter. The tariff numbers go up. Up and up and up. Ooh, now they come down. Up! Down! And all the while, everybody involved is telling contradictory stories about what’s being done and why.” (05/12/25)
https://archive.is/V5vVp
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54) The Best Protection For Students Is a Mass Movement
Source: In These Times
by Nidaa Lafi & Momodou Taal
“On March 20, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) hosted a conversation with Cornell University student and pro-Palestinian activist Momodou Taal. Less than a week prior, Taal had filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging the new executive orders that sought to target international noncitizen students for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza. The day after this conversation, Taal was told to surrender into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. On March 31, he self-deported. In this conversation, in which Taal is interviewed by Nidaa Lafi, an organizer with PYM’s Dallas chapter, Taal shares his first-hand experience with being targeted for peacefully protesting, discusses the true function of universities today and offers wisdom on why the increasing repression against students is a sign of empire’s weakness, not its strength.” (05/13/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/momodou-tall-students-mass-movement-pym
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55) The Kashmir Dilemma
Source: Persuasion
by Rashmee Roshan Lall
“India and Pakistan just had their worst clash in decades. History suggests the hostility won’t die down any time soon.” (05/12/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-kashmir-dilemma
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56) Kelley Vlahos on The Kyle Anzalone Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Is Trump Becoming a Peace President?” (05/13/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/kelley-vlahos-is-trump-becoming-a-peace-president-new-episode-of-the-kyle-anzalone-show/
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57) Advisory Opinions, 05/13/25
Source: The Dispatch
“The Clash of Culture and Employment Rights.” (05/13/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/the-clash-of-culture-and-employment-rights/
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58) Power Problems, 05/13/25
Source: Cato Institute
“Can Trump Make a Deal with Iran?” (05/13/25)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/power-problems/can-trump-make-deal-iran
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59) Good On Paper, 05/13/25
Source: The Atlantic
“The Myth of the Poverty Trap.” (05/13/25)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/the-myth-of-the-poverty-trap/682786
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60) Trump Watch, 05/13/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Suspending Habeas Corpus.” (05/13/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIyogrTrEA
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61) Capital Record, episode 233
Source: National Review
“Conservative vs. Libertarian Economics.” (05/13/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/conservative-vs-libertarian-economics/
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62) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 05/13/25
Source: The New Republic
“Jamie Raskin’s Harsh Takedown of Trump’s Qatar Plane Scam Draws Blood.” (05/13/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/195165/jamie-raskin-harsh-takedown-trump-qatar-plane-scam-draws-blood
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63) Antiwar News with Dave Decamp, 05/13/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Hamas Releases US-Israeli Captive, US Replaces B-2s at Diego Garcia With B-52s, and More.” (05/13/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTXABMSmhiA
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64) The Corbett Report, episode 476
Source: The Corbett Report
“I Read ‘Conspiracy Theory in America’ (And You Can, Too!).” (05/12/25)
https://corbettreport.com/i-read-conspiracy-theory-in-america/
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65) Finding Freedom, 05/12/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Talking Baseball, Softball and Exercise with my Daughter Rubie.” (05/12/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/talking-baseball-softball-and-exercise-with-my-daughter-rubie
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