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Thomas L. Knapp
Sep 4, 2025, 6:22:35 AM (8 days ago) Sep 4
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Israelis stage “day of disruption” against reservist call-up for Gaza genocide
2) Epstein accusers put pressure on Congress to release the files
3) Ukraine war: Russian forces attack with more than 500 drones
4) FL: Regime plans to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates
5) Hegseth Says Caribbean Boat Murders Are Start of Campaign
6) UK: Arrest of comedy writer sparks free speech row
7) United plane at San Francisco airport collides with another jet while pulling back from gate
8) Trump-backed Bitcoin company begins trading on Nasdaq
9) Pakistan: 25 Killed, Dozens Injured In Three Bomb Blasts
10) UN nuclear chief presses Iran to strike deal on inspections soon
11) US Judge to Hear Objections to Deal That Allows Boeing to Avoid Prosecution Over Crashes
12) Thailand: Ruling party seeks new election as a way out of political crisis
13) Newsmax sues Fox News in battle of right-wing TV networks
14) Survivors of Maine mass shooting and victims’ relatives sue US regime alleging negligence
15) US regime approves $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger
16) Bosnia: Serb Separatist Dodik Defies Opposition in Regime Reshuffle
17) Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality
18) Appeals court blocks Trump deportations under Alien Enemies Act
19) Man with felony conviction abducted at Burning Man, allegedly possessing firearms & drugs
20) Google avoids breakup but must share search data with rivals, judge rules
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Everyday Miracle: Value Is Not Cost
22) Our responsibility to defend ourselves
23) Peak Population: Prepare for a Shrinking World
24) Why are we defending this again?
25) Trump’s Drug-War Murders in the Caribbean
26) “What About My Friends Who Don’t Care About Gaza?”
27) In Defense of Thoughts and Prayers
28) Economics Problems of Grocery Delivery
29) Trump’s Immigration Policies Feeding Private Prison Industrial Complex
30) Can we reduce the imprisonment rate without endangering public safety? The promise of electronic monitoring
31) The Left’s [sic] Vision for America
32) Chat Control
33) How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza
34) Decadent Ideology, Decaying Fraternity
35) Cultural Erasure
36) As Public School Enrollment Drops, Alternative Options Gain Traction
37) It’s not the economy, stupid: Dems’ real path out of the wilderness
38) The Venezuela Military Deployment Is about Cronyism, Not National Security
39) Keeping Up Appearances
40) How the media enables Trump on crime
41) The Republican Epstein Strategy Is Failing
42) American Capitalism is Being Remade by State Power
43) Department of War?
44) Protection from Us?
45) NYC needs a mayor like Rudy Giuliani again
46) Transmission: the Ozempic for our energy bills
47) On the “Ersatz Religion” of Transhumanism: Interview With Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
48) The fight to define social media could redefine free speech
49) Fighting Fascism Through Solidarity
50) President Trump should consider rescheduling more than just marijuana
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51) The Political Orphanage, 09/03/25
52) Reason Interview: Pablos Holman
53) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 09/03/25
54) Rising, 09/03/25
55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/03/25
56) Ill Literacy, episode 181
57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/03/25
58) Nonzero, 09/02/25
59) Pink Flame of Liberty, 09/02/25
60) Politics Politics Politics, 09/02/25
61) The Good Fight, 09/02/25
62) Reason Roundtable, 09/02/25
63) The Lou Perez Podcast, 09/02/25
64) Bulwark Takes, 09/02/25
65) Trump Watch, 09/02/25
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1) Israelis stage “day of disruption” against reservist call-up for Gaza genocide
Source: euronews [EU]
“Protesters took to the streets across Israel for what they called a ‘day of disruption’ on Wednesday, denouncing the call-up of tens of thousands of reservists for an offensive in Gaza City that critics fear could endanger the lives of the hostages still being held by Hamas. Demonstrators have accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet of failing to secure a ceasefire deal and intensifying an offensive in Gaza instead.” (09/03/25)
https://www.euronews.com/2025/09/03/israelis-stage-day-of-disruption-against-reservists-call-up-for-gaza-city-operation
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2) Epstein accusers put pressure on Congress to release the files
Source: NBC News
“A group of Jeffrey Epstein accusers on Wednesday told emotional, gut-wrenching stories of sexual abuse at the hands of the late convicted sex offender and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, raising pressure on lawmakers to back the release of all of the files in the Justice Department’s years-long Epstein investigation. … The bombshell news conference was organized by Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and comes as the bipartisan duo push to collect 218 signatures — half of the members of the House of Representatives — to force a vote to compel the Justice Department to release all of the files in the Epstein case. The accusers at the conference said that if Congress isn’t willing to release all of the investigative documents pertaining to Epstein, they would compile their own list of names to hold those in Epstein’s orbit accountable.” (09/03/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/epstein-accusers-put-pressure-congress-release-files-rcna228762
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3) Ukraine war: Russian forces attack with more than 500 drones
Source: Associated Press
“Russia fired more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine overnight, authorities said Wednesday, as Ukraine’s president and European leaders pressed on with talks on how to strengthen Ukrainian defenses and boost as-yet unsuccessful U.S.-led peace efforts. The main Russian nighttime targets were civilian infrastructure, especially energy facilities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as another winter approaches three years after Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. The attacks targeted mainly western and central Ukraine and wounded at least five people, the Ukrainian air force said.” (09/03/25)
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-zelenskyy-putin-9d6b9bf76a15971c17ae2de9ca1211b5
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4) FL: Regime plans to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates
Source: SFGate
“Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and citizens safe from infectious diseases. State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an ‘immoral’ intrusion on people’s rights that hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children. ‘People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,’ Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, said Wednesday at a news conference in Valrico. ‘They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.'” (09/03/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/florida-will-work-to-eliminate-all-childhood-21028869.php
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5) Hegseth Says Caribbean Boat Murders Are Start of Campaign
Source: New York Times
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned in an appearance on ‘Fox & Friends’ on Wednesday that a deadly U.S. military strike on a boat officials said was carrying drugs in the Caribbean was the start of a campaign against Venezuelan cartels that President Trump has blamed for bringing fentanyl into the United States. Mr. Hegseth said officials ‘knew exactly who was in that boat’ and ‘exactly what they were doing,’ although he did not offer evidence. ‘President Trump is willing to go on offense in ways that others have not seen,’ he added.” [editor’s note: Admission of murders, admission of those murders being intentional, admission of intent to commit further murders … why are these people not in jail? – TLK] (09/03/25)
https://archive.is/aoEva
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6) UK: Arrest of comedy writer sparks free speech row
Source: NE Iowa News
“The arrest of an Emmy award-winning comedy writer for allegedly insulting transgender people online has reignited a UK row over freedom of speech, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday urging police to ‘focus on the most serious issues.’ Irish writer Graham Linehan, who co-created the popular 1990s sitcom ‘Father Ted,’ says he was arrested by five armed officers at London’s Heathrow Airport on Monday over social media posts. London’s Metropolitan Police said a man was arrested after arriving on a flight from the United States on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to posts on X. … [Lineham] is due to appear in court in London on Thursday in another case, in which he is charged with harassment and criminal damage against a transgender person.” (09/03/25)
https://www.communitynewspapergroup.com/news/nation/arrest-of-comedy-writer-sparks-uk-free-speech-row/article_943a2651-c779-5225-a582-cdc5e4d145eb.html
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7) United plane at San Francisco airport collides with another jet while pulling back from gate
Source: Fox News
“Two United Airlines planes were involved in a minor collision at San Francisco International Airport on Labor Day, the airline confirmed. ‘Monday night, a United aircraft being pushed back from the gate at San Francisco International Airport made contact with the tail of a parked United aircraft,’ a United spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. No injuries were reported, and passengers on both planes were able to board other planes to reach their destinations. The collision between UA796 (headed to Boston) and UA1871 (headed to Denver) garnered social media attention.” (09/03/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/united-plane-san-francisco-airport-collides-another-jet-while-pulling-back-gate
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8) Trump-backed Bitcoin company begins trading on Nasdaq
Source: ABC News
“A bitcoin treasury and mining company linked to the Trump family began trading Wednesday on the Nasdaq stock market. American Bitcoin’s listing follows a completed merger with Gryphon Digital Mining. The company is backed by President Donald Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. … Public companies accumulating bitcoin as a corporate treasury has become a popular trend in crypto as the world’s most popular digital asset is priced near an all-time high. The parent company of Trump’s Truth Social has also moved to accumulate bitcoin. American Bitcoin said it plans to use ‘self-mining operations and opportunistic bitcoin purchases’ to stand out in a growing field.” (09/03/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/trump-backed-bitcoin-company-begins-trading-nasdaq-125218223
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9) Pakistan: 25 Killed, Dozens Injured In Three Bomb Blasts
Source: NDTV [India]
“At least 25 people were killed in three attacks in Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said, including 14 who died after a suicide bomber targeted a political rally in the southwestern province of Balochistan. Dozens of people were wounded in that explosion, which took place in the parking lot of a stadium in the provincial capital, Quetta, where hundreds of members of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) had gathered, two provincial officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. At least seven of the wounded were in critical condition, the officials said. Another attack in Balochistan, near the border with Iran, claimed five lives on Tuesday, while six soldiers were killed after a suicide attack on their base in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.” (09/03/25)
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/11-killed-in-bomb-blast-at-rally-in-pakistans-quetta-9205840
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10) UN nuclear chief presses Iran to strike deal on inspections soon
Source: Reuters
“The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s talks with Iran on how to resume inspections at sites including those Israel and the United States bombed cannot go on for months on end, its chief told Reuters on Wednesday, pushing for a deal as early as this week. The International Atomic Energy Agency has had no information from Iran on the status or whereabouts of its stock of highly enriched uranium since Israel launched the first attacks on its enrichment sites on June 13, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi confirmed in an interview.” (09/03/25)
https://archive.is/Jsozz
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11) US Judge to Hear Objections to Deal That Allows Boeing to Avoid Prosecution Over Crashes
Source: US News & World Report
“A U.S. judge on Wednesday will hold a hearing on whether to approve a deal between the Justice Department and Boeing that allows the planemaker to avoid prosecution on a charge stemming from two fatal 737 MAX plane crashes that killed 346 people. Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas will consider objections from relatives of some of those killed in the crashes in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019 to the agreement that enables Boeing to escape oversight from an independent monitor for three years. … Some family members argue dismissal of the charge is not in the public interest, citing O’Connor’s statement in 2023 that ‘Boeing’s crime may properly be considered the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history.'” (09/03/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-03/us-judge-to-hear-objections-to-deal-that-allows-boeing-to-avoid-prosecution-over-crashes
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12) Thailand: Ruling party seeks new election as a way out of political crisis
Source: ABC News
“Thailand, which has been under a caretaker government since last week, saw competing efforts to resolve its political crisis on Wednesday, as the country’s main opposition party agreed to support its rival to be the next prime minister while the party in power said it wants a new election. The Pheu Thai party, which heads the caretaker government, announced it was asking the country’s king to dissolve Parliament and call a new poll instead of having the current House of Representatives vote for a new prime minister. No date has yet been set for a vote in Parliament, nor was it clear if the king would endorse dissolution.” (09/03/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/thailands-ruling-party-seeks-new-election-political-crisis-125207451
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13) Newsmax sues Fox News in battle of right-wing TV networks
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Right-wing US media network Newsmax is suing Fox News over what it claims are anticompetitive tactics to suppress competition, teeing up a legal battle in the American conservative news space. The lawsuit, filed in a Florida federal court, accuses Fox News of using its market power to coerce TV providers to restrict competing right-leaning channels. ‘Newsmax cannot sue their way out of their own competitive failures in the marketplace to chase headlines simply because they can’t attract viewers,’ a Fox News spokesperson said. The company, owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch, is consistently ranked the most popular conservative news outlet in the US with a market value of nearly $26bn (£19bn).” (09/03/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jzlgw1d7eo
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14) Survivors of Maine mass shooting and victims’ relatives sue US regime alleging negligence
Source: Seattle Times
“Survivors of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting and relatives of victims are suing the federal government, alleging that the U.S. Army could and should have stopped one of its reservists from carrying out what they call ‘one of the most preventable mass tragedies in American history.’ Eighteen people were killed in October 2023 when Robert Card opened fire at a bowling alley and a bar and grill. An independent commission appointed by Maine’s governor later concluded that there were numerous opportunities for intervention by both Army officials and civilian law enforcement as Card’s mental health deteriorated. He was found dead by suicide two days after the shootings. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on behalf of more than 100 survivors and victims’ family members, accuses the U.S. government of negligence, saying its conduct ‘directly and proximately caused the mass shooting.'” (09/03/25)
https://archive.is/9FHIK
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15) US regime approves $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger
Source: SFGate
“The United States has approved $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger, in a rare shift in U.S. foreign policy since former President Donald Trump suspended most aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development. The funding will provide food assistance and nutritional support to internally displaced people in conflict-affected areas, the U.S mission to Nigeria said in a statement on Wednesday. Insecurity and funding cuts have put northern Nigeria in the grip of ‘an unprecedented hunger crisis’ that could leave more than 1.3 million people without food and force the closure of 150 nutrition clinics in Borno state, Margot van der Velden, the World Food Program’s regional director for West Africa, said in July. In July, the WFP suspended food assistance across crisis-hit West and Central African countries as a result of U.S. and other global aid cuts that are grinding its operations to a halt.” (09/03/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/us-approves-32-5-million-in-assistance-to-21029050.php
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16) Bosnia: Serb Separatist Dodik Defies Opposition in Regime Reshuffle
Source: US News & World Report
“The parliament of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic has approved a government reshuffle that the opposition says is illegal because it was initiated by the region’s president who has been banned from politics. The vote late on Tuesday deepens a crisis over a Serb separatist drive that amounts to one of the biggest threats to peace in the Balkans since the wars that followed Yugoslavia’s collapse. The Serb Republic makes up Bosnia and Herzegovina along with a federation shared by Bosniaks and Croats under the Dayton peace accords that ended a 1992-95 conflict that killed about 100,000 people and displaced around 2 million. The Serb Republic government reshuffle was set in motion by Milorad Dodik, who last month was stripped of his mandate as the Serb Republic’s president by Bosnia’s election commission.” (09/03/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-03/serb-separatist-dodik-defies-bosnian-state-in-government-reshuffle
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17) Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been overheard discussing organ transplants as a means of prolonging life on the sidelines of a military parade in Beijing. Putin suggested even eternal life could be achievable as a result of innovations in biotechnology, according to a translation of remarks caught on a hot mic. The unguarded moment was captured on a livestream carried by Chinese state TV as the two leaders and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un walked together through China’s historic Tiananmen Square. Xi and Putin have been in power for 13 and 25 years respectively. Neither has expressed any intention of stepping down.” (09/03/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr70rvrd41ko
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18) Appeals court blocks Trump deportations under Alien Enemies Act
Source: Axios
“The Trump administration can’t use a centuries-old wartime law to quickly deport Venezuelans it alleges are suspected gang members, a federal appeals court ruled in a 2-1 decision on Tuesday night. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling it would grant a preliminary injunction ‘to prevent removal because we find no invasion or predatory incursion’ had occurred. President Trump issued a proclamation in March to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 that allows for the removal of foreign nationals if ‘any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated’ to fast-track the deportations process. The New Orleans-based appellate court is the first federal appeals court to directly rule on the proclamation in a case that’s likely to end up in the Supreme Court, per Reuters.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/3I4Bb
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19) Man with felony conviction abducted at Burning Man, allegedly possessing firearms & drugs
Source: SFGate
“Nevada officials arrested a convicted felon allegedly in possession of ‘large quantities’ of a number of illicit drugs early Monday morning, this time within the confines of Burning Man proper, according to a news release from the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office. The man was also allegedly in possession of two firearms, in violation of federal law [sic], which prohibits those with felony convictions from having guns or ammunition, as well as the temporary closure order set down by the Bureau of Land Management that allows Burning Man to operate each year in the Black Rock Desert. During a traffic stop on the Esplanade (which is considered Burning Man’s ‘main street’ and serves as the divider between the man sculpture and the event’s many themed camps), officers performed a ‘probable cause search’ just after 2 a.m. Monday, the release said.” [editor’s note: The only applicabnle “federal law” is the 2nd Amendment – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/burningman/article/man-arrested-burning-man-firearms-drugs-21026051.php
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20) Google avoids breakup but must share search data with rivals, judge rules
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“A US judge on Tuesday rejected the government’s demand that Google sell its Chrome web browser as part of a major antitrust case but ordered sweeping changes to restore competition in online search. The ruling follows Judge Amit Mehta’s August 2024 finding [sic] that Google maintained illegal search monopolies [sic] through billion-dollar exclusive agreements.” (09/03/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20250902-google-chrome-federal-antitrust
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21) The Everyday Miracle: Value Is Not Cost
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Value is not cost. Value is what you get; cost is what you pay; and they are not the same. Not even close. In this world of ours, some things have immense value and immense cost, like a cure for aging. Some things have trivial value and trivial cost, like a speck of dust floating through the air in front of you. Some things have trivial value and immense cost, like a mud pie a hundred miles wide. And finally, some things have immense value and trivial cost, like food, water, and air. Value is not cost. It is thanks to this simple principle that life is worth living.” (09/03/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-everyday-miracle-value-is-not
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22) Our responsibility to defend ourselves
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Last week, another mentally ill individual chose to be an evil loser and shot into a church full of children, killing two and injuring many more. The usual anti-gun voices immediately blamed guns and all the gun owners who didn’t commit murder. They never place blame on the evil loser because that doesn’t fit the agenda. Dancing in the blood of innocents is their only play, and they are experts at it. … everyone has the right to fight back if someone decides to use their tools to harm the innocent. Background checks and all other anti-weapon rules violate this right, making it safer for evil losers to commit atrocities without facing the possibility that someone may have the means to stop them before they do what they intend.” (09/03/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/09/03/voices/opinion-our-responsibility-to-defend-ourselves/231601.html
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23) Peak Population: Prepare for a Shrinking World
Source: The Daily Economy
by Michael Munger
“Earth is going to hit ‘peak population’ before the end of this century. Within 25 years, most of the world’s developed nations will be facing sharp population declines, with shrinking pools of young people working to support an ever-aging population. The reason is not famine, war, or pestilence. We did this to ourselves, by creating a set of draconian solutions to a problem that didn’t even exist. Fear has always been the best tool for social control, and the fear of humanity was deployed by generations of ‘thinkers’ on the control-obsessed left.” (09/03/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/peak-population-but-we-can-all-move-to-texas/
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24) Why are we defending this again?
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“We seem to need some kind of an explanation of why so many of us bend over backwards to defend systems that intentionally harm us. Why do exploited people so often become defenders of their own exploitation? The ideas of System Justification Theory (SJT) attempt to confront this paradox of consent and to help us understand how our deep desires for stability and meaning are actively manipulated to keep us docile. SJT has some clear implications for those interested in a free, equal world without needless suffering.” (09/03/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/why-are-we-defending-this-again
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25) Trump’s Drug-War Murders in the Caribbean
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Apparently taking a page out of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte drug-war playbook, President Trump is taking credit for the intentional military killings of eleven people in international waters near Venezuela. Duterte is on trial right now before the International Criminal Court for allegedly ordering his drug-war goons to kill accused drug-war offenders on sight …. That’s what Trump just did. He ordered his military drug-war goons to blow a boat out of the water that was traveling in international waters near Venezuela, killing, Trump proudly claimed, eleven people in the process. No stopping of the boat to search it. No arrests. No grand-jury indictments. No trials in federal district court. None of that. … In my opinion, that’s just murder, pure and simple.” (09/03/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/09/03/trumps-drug-war-murders-in-the-caribbean/
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26) “What About My Friends Who Don’t Care About Gaza?”
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I’ve been lucky enough not to have anyone significant in my life who doesn’t get it, so this isn’t an issue that I personally have had to navigate. But I have seen a lot of people struggle with the question of how their interpersonal relationships should be affected by the position that their friends and loved ones take on Gaza. From where I’m sitting this doesn’t look like you’re an asshole, it just kind of looks like the natural effects playing out of learning that someone in your life is a shitty person. If you found out that one of your friends likes to torture small animals or drug women and rape them, or that someone in your family watched a child drown in a swimming pool without doing anything, that would naturally change your relationship with them in a permanent way.” (09/01/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/01/what-about-my-friends-who-dont-care-about-gaza-and-other-questions/
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27) In Defense of Thoughts and Prayers
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“It is fashionable to ‘prayer shame’ those who offer ‘thoughts and prayers’ as a response to violence. Public response to the gun violence at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is an example. If you did not deliver an angry diatribe against gun ownership, your failure to fall in line with the politically correct position is taken as evidence that you condone violence or don’t feel tragedy deeply. Words are often inadequate. After a recent family hike during which the signs of fall were unmistakable, we felt the poignancy of the seasonal changes. Can that poignancy be expressed easily in words? Of course not, but penetrating feelings remain.” (09/03/25)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-thoughts-and-prayers
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28) Economics Problems of Grocery Delivery
Source: EconLog
by Kevin Corcoran
“Occasionally, I use a grocery delivery service—not always, and not for every item. In a vacuum, one might think that having someone else take the time to gather grocery items for me and bring those items to my house seems clearly advantageous. So why don’t I always use this service? A few ideas from economics help explain why.” (09/03/25)
https://www.econlib.org/economics-problems-of-grocery-delivery/
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29) Trump’s Immigration Policies Feeding Private Prison Industrial Complex
Source: Informed Comment
by F Douglas Stephenson
“When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking salt water: The more they drink, the thirstier they get. Roman proverbs say that the more money a rich man has, the more driven and addicted he becomes to accumulating even more money. Wealth addiction is at the root of giant private prison corporations’ domination of the US government as communities take a back seat to the need for private profit. Many government leaders from both political parties share the same ‘profits over people’ ideology. The industry is preparing for explosive growth. On recent earnings calls, CoreCivic executives announced plans to triple the number of beds in their facilities within a few months. That would mean an additional $1.5 billion in revenue for the corporation, more than doubling its annual earnings.” (09/03/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-immigration-private-prisons
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30) Can we reduce the imprisonment rate without endangering public safety? The promise of electronic monitoring
Source: Niskanen Center
by Jenny Williams & Donald Weatherburn
“After a long period of steady decline, the U.S. imprisonment rate rose by 2 percent between 2021 and 2022. In Maine, Connecticut, Kentucky, Rhode Island, North Dakota, Minnesota, Tennessee, Colorado, and Montana, the increase in prisoner numbers exceeded 6 percent. Mississippi’s prison population over this period grew by almost 15 percent. This is enormously expensive. The cost of imprisonment in the U.S. amounts to more than $80 billion per annum — money that could otherwise be spent on imperatives like public infrastructure, education, and healthcare. … The appeal of electronic monitoring is that it provides a low-cost means of depriving offenders of their liberty and monitoring their movements.” (09/03/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/can-we-reduce-the-imprisonment-rate-without-endangering-public-safety-the-promise-of-electronic-monitoring/
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31) The Left’s [sic] Vision for America
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“The Left [sic] wants to change America. Duh. I’m not talking about technological changes here. We’d all like to see improvements in technology, science, and medicine make life easier and healthier for all. But that has nothing to do with the eternal principles of virtue, morality, righteousness, or love thy neighbor as thyself. Those principles can, and should, apply as much in an industrial society as they do in an agricultural one. Industry and technology don’t justify murder, theft, adultery, etc. Virtuous principles are eternal and apply in whatever age man finds himself. But industrial ‘progress’ is not what the Left means by ‘progress.’ The main thing the Left wants is power. They want godless tyranny, not virtuous freedom to dominate and to rule. That’s the America they envision, one where, as in previous and current leftist societies, they dictate what the rest of us can and cannot say and do.” (09/03/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2025/09/03/the-lefts-vision-for-america-n2662683
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32) Chat Control
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“Soon, the European Union is set to vote on the so-called ‘Chat Control’ legislation. Under the pretext of protecting children from online predators, the privacy of millions of users could be undermined. If passed, this means that Brussels will impose its vision on the world, one increasingly detached from liberty. Concerns about Chat Control have been growing among Europeans in the leadup to the vote, scheduled for October. However, the attempt to control citizens’ private conversations is not new: the debate has dragged on since 2021, and in the United Kingdom, similar legislation passed through the Online Safety Act of 2023.” (09/03/25)
https://fee.org/articles/chat-control/
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33) How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza
Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“One year ago, the United Nations General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within 12 months. The General Assembly voted, by 124 votes to 14, with 43 abstentions, for a strong resolution that not only ‘demanded’ an end to the occupation within a year, but called on all countries to refrain from trade involving Israeli settlements and from transfers of weapons ‘where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that they may be used in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.’ … A year later, Israel has failed to comply with any of the demands of the 124 states. … In response to this unconscionable state of affairs, Palestine’s UN representative has formally asked the UN to authorize an international military protection force for Gaza to help with the delivery of humanitarian aid and protect civilians.” (09/03/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/un-end-gaza-genocide
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34) Decadent Ideology, Decaying Fraternity
Source: Law & Liberty
by Richard M Reinsch II
“Delsol argues that republicanism requires generous actions, not ideological control over people. If citizens do not freely choose to place the country first, then forcing such actions smacks of authoritarianism. Yet French citizens now freely indulge in a technologically driven individualism, making it almost impossible to envisage the civic fraternity needed to make the republican ideal possible. No one, though, will admit to a reduced identification with republicanism. Delsol wonders why the former trappings of republicanism no longer captivate French hearts. She answers that republicanism as a government ideal has become ideologically corrupted.” (09/03/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/decadent-ideology-decaying-fraternity/
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35) Cultural Erasure
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“It was ‘woke’ for corporations to remove beloved commercial icons such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben (now ‘Ben’s Original’), and ‘Mia,’ the Land O’Lakes Indian maiden. In each of these logos the supposedly ‘offensive’ and ‘stereotypical’ images were removed ostensibly to avoid offending the easily offended. Leaving customers with blank, unoriginal, uninspiring and non-comforting signage. Exactly what happened when the corporate bigwigs took out the iconography from the Cracker Barrel logo: All nostalgia liquidated. Cultural erasure used to be a leftist theme, but thanks to today’s enlightened corporations, it has become universal, as the soullessness of modish symbology has become painfully obvious.” (09/03/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/09/03/cultural-erasure
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36) As Public School Enrollment Drops, Alternative Options Gain Traction
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“A new school year is here, and while millions of students still trudge off to public school classrooms and days divided by subjects, there are fewer kids making that trek than in the past, and their experiences aren’t nearly so similar as once was the case. The ranks of public school students are thinning, partly because of the declining birth rate, but also because a growing share of the population prefers alternatives like private schools and homeschooling. They’re increasingly assisted with funding from education choice programs. It’s a familiar journey to me, since my wife and I mostly homeschooled our son, with detours through charter and private schools. We’re less alone in our choices than ever before.” (09/03/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/03/as-public-school-enrollment-drops-alternative-options-gain-traction/
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37) It’s not the economy, stupid: Dems’ real path out of the wilderness
Source: Fox News
by Michael LaRosa
“For decades, Democrats have clung to James Carville’s mantra: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’. It became the default excuse for every campaign message, every strategy and every setback. We need to retire that phrase from our political lexicon. My fellow Democrats forget that Carville’s first rule on his whiteboard in Little Rock wasn’t the economy, stupid. It was ‘Change vs. more of the same.’ Voters still want change — not numbers, not excuses. And if President Donald Trump offers change while Democrats defend the system as it is, Democrats will lose. Today, my party is jumping onto a shiny substitute considered to be the winning message that unites all (‘affordability’) as if the idea that lower prices are better than higher ones is a revelation. Has a candidate ever campaigned on the reverse?” (09/03/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/its-not-economy-stupid-democrats-real-path-out-wilderness
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38) The Venezuela Military Deployment Is about Cronyism, Not National Security
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“So far, much of the reaction to Trump’s recent order to use military assets against foreign drug cartels has been focused on the cartels in Mexico. But the administration has described the recent deployment of naval assets to Venezuela’s coast as part of the same effort. In fact, yesterday they claimed those assets struck a vessel carrying drugs. But it’s still a bit out of the way from the areas where the bulk of drug smuggling is believed to take place, which suggests that countering Maduro’s regime may be just as big a priority as Trump’s escalation of the war on drugs. But if the hostility between the US and Venezuela is nothing new, what explains the recent escalation? Well, the answer appears to be, as it often is, cronyism.” (09/03/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/venezuela-military-deployment-about-cronyism-not-national-security
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39) Keeping Up Appearances
Source: The Dispatch
by Jonah Goldberg
“Trump’s desire to look strong might be his greatest weakness.” (09/03/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-autocracy-flag-burning-tariffs/
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40) How the media enables Trump on crime
Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum & Rebecca Crosby
“Chicago is part of a nationwide trend of declining violent crime. 2024 was the safest year in America since the mid-60s. Yet, most Americans believe Trump’s narrative that crime is rampant. A recent Associated Press poll found that 81% of Americans believe that crime is a ‘major problem’ in large cities. The same poll found that 55% of Americans believe that it is ‘acceptable’ for the U.S. military to ‘assist’ local police. Aggregate crime trends, however, are an example of something that no person can observe. People form their beliefs largely on what they learn from the media.” (09/03/25)
https://popular.info/p/how-the-media-enables-trump-on-crime
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41) The Republican Epstein Strategy Is Failing
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“House Republicans tucked tail and left early after fearing the possibility of having to vote for transparency about the biggest underage sex ring in U.S. history, which gives you a good sense of where we are with that party right now. House Speaker Mike Johnson had six weeks to figure out how to manage the intra-party rebellion over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Republican members were still getting an earful at home, so ducking a vote wasn’t practical. But Johnson needed to uphold his prime directive of acting as a human shield for the president and keeping his name out of any revelations. So after weeks of rumination, here’s what Johnson came up with: a resolution, hastily added to the week’s floor voting schedule on Monday, that would ‘direct’ the House Oversight Committee to continue investigating the federal cases against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, which is already in progress.” (09/03/25)
https://prospect.org/justice/epstein-republican-congress-release-files/
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42) American Capitalism is Being Remade by State Power
Source: CounterPunch
by H Sami Karaca
“Is the Trump administration trying to reshape American capitalism? Recent moves by Washington, such as taking a 10% share of semiconductor maker Intel, point to a shift in that direction. For decades, Washington has supported free-market capitalism. Today, the government appears to be supporting a new direction – state-directed capitalism. As a professor at the Questrom School of Business who studies different economic systems, I find this reversal striking.” [editor’s note: Even if such a thing as “free-market capitalism” existed — the free market and capitalism are opposites — the notion that DC has ever supported it would be nonsense on stilts – TLK] (09/03/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/03/american-capitalism-is-being-remade-by-state-power/
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43) Department of War?
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“Last week President Trump took steps to re-name the Department of Defense the ‘Department of War.’ The President explained his rationale for the name change: ‘It used to be called the Department of War and it had a stronger sound. We want defense, but we want offense too … As Department of War we won everything … and I think we … have to go back to that.’ At first it sounds like a terrible idea. A ‘Department of War’ may well make war more likely – the ‘stronger sound’ may embolden the US government to take us into even more wars. There would no longer be any need for the pretext that we take the nation to war to defend this country and its interests – and only as a last resort. … But at the same time, the US has been at war nearly constantly since the end of World War II, so it’s not like the “Defense Department” has been in any way a defensive department.” (09/03/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2025/09/02/department-of-war/
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44) Protection from Us?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“On Labor Day, National Review pointed out that less than 10 percent of all U.S. workers currently belong to unions. This percentage has been declining for decades. Even during the Biden administration, when the president and his puppeteers did their best to pump up unions, the percentage declined. In the private sector, only 5.9 percent of workers are union members. This is great news because unions are typically bad news.” [editor’s note: Absent government force, unions are just market actors like any others – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/09/02/protection-from-us/
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45) NYC needs a mayor like Rudy Giuliani again
Source: New York Post
by Michael Goodwin
“Whew, better late than never! That was my first reaction to the news that President Trump intends to give Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The announcement followed the serious weekend car crash in New Hampshire that sent the 81-year-old Giuliani to the hospital. Thankfully, his injuries, said to include a broken vertebrae, are not life-threatening and he has been released from the hospital. A likely result is Trump’s presentation will focus almost exclusively on Giuliani’s greatest achievement: His stellar tenure as New York’s mayor. Although he later served as Trump’s pugnacious lawyer during the disputed aftermath of the 2020 election, it was during Giuliani’s two terms as Gotham’s fearless leader that he proved he is fully worthy of America’s highest civilian honor.” [editor’s note: Giuliani moved NYC’s emergency center to the most likely place for a terror attack, failed to get first responders on radio frequencies, and tried to screw the 9/11 cleanup workers who got sick – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/02/opinion/michael-goodwin-nyc-needs-a-mayor-like-rudy-giuliani-again-a-bold-sensible-leader-in-the-face-of-rampant-decline/
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46) Transmission: the Ozempic for our energy bills
Source: Niskanen Center
by Chelsey Gilchrist
“Households across America are feeling the pinch of rising energy bills. Policymakers are desperate for fixes — subsidies, new power plants, or small upgrades to local grids — but costs keep climbing. What’s needed is a different solution. And that’s where transmission comes in. Think of transmission like Ozempic. At first glance they couldn’t be more different, one being a groundbreaking diabetes medication, and the other long wires stretching across the nation. Yet they share a common role: both are systemic fixes that can replace stopgap solutions and provide ripple effects benefitting long-term stability.” [editor’s note: Centralized generation and long-distance transmission over vulnerable lines are both inherently unstable. Decentralized hyper-local generation, not “grids,” is the fix – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/transmission-the-ozempic-for-our-energy-bills
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47) On the “Ersatz Religion” of Transhumanism: Interview With Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi
Kheriaty: “If you take transhumanism far enough, you get to the point where essentially there is no such thing as a human nature or a healthy, well-working human body that would be normative. The idea is that we’re just raw biological material. We’re a blank slate that you can refashion or remake with whatever technologies we’re capable of developing. And there’s this implicit idea in traditional Hippocratic medicine that there is a natural norm of health that the body tends toward when it’s working well. … that’s what medicine needs to aim toward. But for someone like Bostrom, what we have instead is raw biological material that can be hacked and upgraded and the hardware is potentially infinitely malleable.” (09/02/25)
https://www.racket.news/p/on-the-ersatz-religion-of-transhumanism
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48) The fight to define social media could redefine free speech
Source: Expression
by Karan Kuppa-Apte
“Social media platforms are having a First Amendment moment. From content moderation to so-called ‘addictive’ features such as unlimited scrolling, lawmakers are putting bipartisan pressure on these companies to change their policies and even the fundamental designs of their platforms. But to do so, they have to first define what a social media platform is.” (09/02/25)
https://expression.fire.org/p/the-fight-to-define-social-media
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49) Fighting Fascism Through Solidarity
Source: In These Times
by Naomi Braine
“In October 2023, I was part of an online training on self-managed medication abortion. The workshop was hosted on Zoom by two women living in a state with an abortion ban, tailored for attendees who also live in ’red’ states that restrict abortion to varying degrees, and covering the medical basics about how to self-manage a medication abortion. The majority of the training, however, focused on how participants could pass the lessons along — educating other people about those medical basics, the practical realities of what to expect during a first-trimester medication abortion, how to recognize the signs of problems and, importantly, how to do all this while remaining within the law. The last part required some role-playing for participants to practice staying within the boundaries of ’sharing information’ without crossing over into anything that could potentially be prosecuted as giving medical advice.” (09/03/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/solidarity-fascism-abortion-reproductive-rights-immigration-lgbtq-rights
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50) President Trump should consider rescheduling more than just marijuana
Source: Orange County Register
by Rafael Perez
“As far as modern-day affronts to our autonomy go, the outlawing of drugs is one of the most egregious. Since the mid-to-late 19th century when drug laws started to crop up in the US, it has been the status-quo for the government to have the power to partly command what we choose to put into our bodies and dole out punishment when we fail to comply. There is no argument in favor of outlawing drugs that isn’t characterized by excessive paternalism …. it was pleasing to learn that the Trump administration is considering rescheduling marijuana …. it’s a step in the right direction. It’s also a step that the government should be taking with all other drugs.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/ASaGf
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) The Political Orphanage, 09/03/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“What Happens When the Ayatollah Falls?” (09/03/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/what-happens-when-the-ayatollah-falls
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52) Reason Interview: Pablos Holman
Source: Reason
“We’re Moving Too Slow on AI.” (09/03/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/03/were-moving-too-slow-on-ai/
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53) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 09/03/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“A Free-Market Guide to Zoning with David Stokes.” (09/03/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/state-and-local-government/a-free-market-guide-to-zoning-with-david-stokes/
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54) Rising, 09/03/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers radar on the chatter surrounding the state of President Trump’s health.” (09/03/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5483456-rising-september-3-2025/
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55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/03/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Angry, Crazed Rants to Media Unnerve Legal Experts: ‘Very Bad.'” (09/03/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/199910/trump-angry-crazed-rants-media-unnerve-legal-experts-very-bad
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56) Ill Literacy, episode 181
Source: Heartland Institute
“From Dakota to Dixie (Guest: Jonathan W. White).” (09/03/25)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/oill-literacy-episode-181-from-dakota-to-dixie-guest-jonathan-w-white/
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/03/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Bombs Boat Near Venezuela, Trump Says He Bombed Iran for Israel, IDF Kills 89 in Gaza, and More.” (09/03/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N51Vgk4mHw
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58) Nonzero, 09/02/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Drugs and Mayhem in the US Special Forces | Robert Wright & Seth Harp.” (09/02/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/68980
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59) Pink Flame of Liberty, 09/02/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Is Trump in Cognitive Decline? Or Just Callously Clueless?” (09/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpI-xnA0Oao
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60) Politics Politics Politics, 09/02/25
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Breaking Down Prop 50 Ads! Jumping Into the Democratic Primary Machine (with Dillon Fleharty).” (09/02/25)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/breaking-down-prop-50-ads-jumping
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61) The Good Fight, 09/02/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Cass Sunstein on Defending Liberalism.” (09/02/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/cass-sunstein-on-defending-liberalism
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62) Reason Roundtable, 09/02/25
Source: Reason
“RFK Jr.’s Wild Week.” (09/02/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/02/rfk-jr-s-wild-week/
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63) The Lou Perez Podcast, 09/02/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“TFP’s Lucy Biggers'[s] Climate Change Change.” (09/02/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/tlpp-tfps-lucy-biggers-climate-change-change
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64) Bulwark Takes, 09/02/25
Source: The Bulwark
“Bizarre Trump Interview Spirals Into Absurdity.” (09/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqAoagBXfAE
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65) Trump Watch, 09/02/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“War in Venezuela and the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal.” (09/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35Egi7FglE
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Israelis stage “day of disruption” against reservist call-up for Gaza genocide
2) Epstein accusers put pressure on Congress to release the files
3) Ukraine war: Russian forces attack with more than 500 drones
4) FL: Regime plans to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates
5) Hegseth Says Caribbean Boat Murders Are Start of Campaign
6) UK: Arrest of comedy writer sparks free speech row
7) United plane at San Francisco airport collides with another jet while pulling back from gate
8) Trump-backed Bitcoin company begins trading on Nasdaq
9) Pakistan: 25 Killed, Dozens Injured In Three Bomb Blasts
10) UN nuclear chief presses Iran to strike deal on inspections soon
11) US Judge to Hear Objections to Deal That Allows Boeing to Avoid Prosecution Over Crashes
12) Thailand: Ruling party seeks new election as a way out of political crisis
13) Newsmax sues Fox News in battle of right-wing TV networks
14) Survivors of Maine mass shooting and victims’ relatives sue US regime alleging negligence
15) US regime approves $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger
16) Bosnia: Serb Separatist Dodik Defies Opposition in Regime Reshuffle
17) Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality
18) Appeals court blocks Trump deportations under Alien Enemies Act
19) Man with felony conviction abducted at Burning Man, allegedly possessing firearms & drugs
20) Google avoids breakup but must share search data with rivals, judge rules
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Everyday Miracle: Value Is Not Cost
22) Our responsibility to defend ourselves
23) Peak Population: Prepare for a Shrinking World
24) Why are we defending this again?
25) Trump’s Drug-War Murders in the Caribbean
26) “What About My Friends Who Don’t Care About Gaza?”
27) In Defense of Thoughts and Prayers
28) Economics Problems of Grocery Delivery
29) Trump’s Immigration Policies Feeding Private Prison Industrial Complex
30) Can we reduce the imprisonment rate without endangering public safety? The promise of electronic monitoring
31) The Left’s [sic] Vision for America
32) Chat Control
33) How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza
34) Decadent Ideology, Decaying Fraternity
35) Cultural Erasure
36) As Public School Enrollment Drops, Alternative Options Gain Traction
37) It’s not the economy, stupid: Dems’ real path out of the wilderness
38) The Venezuela Military Deployment Is about Cronyism, Not National Security
39) Keeping Up Appearances
40) How the media enables Trump on crime
41) The Republican Epstein Strategy Is Failing
42) American Capitalism is Being Remade by State Power
43) Department of War?
44) Protection from Us?
45) NYC needs a mayor like Rudy Giuliani again
46) Transmission: the Ozempic for our energy bills
47) On the “Ersatz Religion” of Transhumanism: Interview With Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
48) The fight to define social media could redefine free speech
49) Fighting Fascism Through Solidarity
50) President Trump should consider rescheduling more than just marijuana
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) The Political Orphanage, 09/03/25
52) Reason Interview: Pablos Holman
53) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 09/03/25
54) Rising, 09/03/25
55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/03/25
56) Ill Literacy, episode 181
57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/03/25
58) Nonzero, 09/02/25
59) Pink Flame of Liberty, 09/02/25
60) Politics Politics Politics, 09/02/25
61) The Good Fight, 09/02/25
62) Reason Roundtable, 09/02/25
63) The Lou Perez Podcast, 09/02/25
64) Bulwark Takes, 09/02/25
65) Trump Watch, 09/02/25
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1) Israelis stage “day of disruption” against reservist call-up for Gaza genocide
Source: euronews [EU]
“Protesters took to the streets across Israel for what they called a ‘day of disruption’ on Wednesday, denouncing the call-up of tens of thousands of reservists for an offensive in Gaza City that critics fear could endanger the lives of the hostages still being held by Hamas. Demonstrators have accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet of failing to secure a ceasefire deal and intensifying an offensive in Gaza instead.” (09/03/25)
https://www.euronews.com/2025/09/03/israelis-stage-day-of-disruption-against-reservists-call-up-for-gaza-city-operation
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2) Epstein accusers put pressure on Congress to release the files
Source: NBC News
“A group of Jeffrey Epstein accusers on Wednesday told emotional, gut-wrenching stories of sexual abuse at the hands of the late convicted sex offender and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, raising pressure on lawmakers to back the release of all of the files in the Justice Department’s years-long Epstein investigation. … The bombshell news conference was organized by Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and comes as the bipartisan duo push to collect 218 signatures — half of the members of the House of Representatives — to force a vote to compel the Justice Department to release all of the files in the Epstein case. The accusers at the conference said that if Congress isn’t willing to release all of the investigative documents pertaining to Epstein, they would compile their own list of names to hold those in Epstein’s orbit accountable.” (09/03/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/epstein-accusers-put-pressure-congress-release-files-rcna228762
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3) Ukraine war: Russian forces attack with more than 500 drones
Source: Associated Press
“Russia fired more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine overnight, authorities said Wednesday, as Ukraine’s president and European leaders pressed on with talks on how to strengthen Ukrainian defenses and boost as-yet unsuccessful U.S.-led peace efforts. The main Russian nighttime targets were civilian infrastructure, especially energy facilities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as another winter approaches three years after Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. The attacks targeted mainly western and central Ukraine and wounded at least five people, the Ukrainian air force said.” (09/03/25)
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-zelenskyy-putin-9d6b9bf76a15971c17ae2de9ca1211b5
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4) FL: Regime plans to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates
Source: SFGate
“Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and citizens safe from infectious diseases. State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an ‘immoral’ intrusion on people’s rights that hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children. ‘People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,’ Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, said Wednesday at a news conference in Valrico. ‘They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.'” (09/03/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/florida-will-work-to-eliminate-all-childhood-21028869.php
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5) Hegseth Says Caribbean Boat Murders Are Start of Campaign
Source: New York Times
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned in an appearance on ‘Fox & Friends’ on Wednesday that a deadly U.S. military strike on a boat officials said was carrying drugs in the Caribbean was the start of a campaign against Venezuelan cartels that President Trump has blamed for bringing fentanyl into the United States. Mr. Hegseth said officials ‘knew exactly who was in that boat’ and ‘exactly what they were doing,’ although he did not offer evidence. ‘President Trump is willing to go on offense in ways that others have not seen,’ he added.” [editor’s note: Admission of murders, admission of those murders being intentional, admission of intent to commit further murders … why are these people not in jail? – TLK] (09/03/25)
https://archive.is/aoEva
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6) UK: Arrest of comedy writer sparks free speech row
Source: NE Iowa News
“The arrest of an Emmy award-winning comedy writer for allegedly insulting transgender people online has reignited a UK row over freedom of speech, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday urging police to ‘focus on the most serious issues.’ Irish writer Graham Linehan, who co-created the popular 1990s sitcom ‘Father Ted,’ says he was arrested by five armed officers at London’s Heathrow Airport on Monday over social media posts. London’s Metropolitan Police said a man was arrested after arriving on a flight from the United States on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to posts on X. … [Lineham] is due to appear in court in London on Thursday in another case, in which he is charged with harassment and criminal damage against a transgender person.” (09/03/25)
https://www.communitynewspapergroup.com/news/nation/arrest-of-comedy-writer-sparks-uk-free-speech-row/article_943a2651-c779-5225-a582-cdc5e4d145eb.html
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7) United plane at San Francisco airport collides with another jet while pulling back from gate
Source: Fox News
“Two United Airlines planes were involved in a minor collision at San Francisco International Airport on Labor Day, the airline confirmed. ‘Monday night, a United aircraft being pushed back from the gate at San Francisco International Airport made contact with the tail of a parked United aircraft,’ a United spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. No injuries were reported, and passengers on both planes were able to board other planes to reach their destinations. The collision between UA796 (headed to Boston) and UA1871 (headed to Denver) garnered social media attention.” (09/03/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/united-plane-san-francisco-airport-collides-another-jet-while-pulling-back-gate
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8) Trump-backed Bitcoin company begins trading on Nasdaq
Source: ABC News
“A bitcoin treasury and mining company linked to the Trump family began trading Wednesday on the Nasdaq stock market. American Bitcoin’s listing follows a completed merger with Gryphon Digital Mining. The company is backed by President Donald Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. … Public companies accumulating bitcoin as a corporate treasury has become a popular trend in crypto as the world’s most popular digital asset is priced near an all-time high. The parent company of Trump’s Truth Social has also moved to accumulate bitcoin. American Bitcoin said it plans to use ‘self-mining operations and opportunistic bitcoin purchases’ to stand out in a growing field.” (09/03/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/trump-backed-bitcoin-company-begins-trading-nasdaq-125218223
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9) Pakistan: 25 Killed, Dozens Injured In Three Bomb Blasts
Source: NDTV [India]
“At least 25 people were killed in three attacks in Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said, including 14 who died after a suicide bomber targeted a political rally in the southwestern province of Balochistan. Dozens of people were wounded in that explosion, which took place in the parking lot of a stadium in the provincial capital, Quetta, where hundreds of members of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) had gathered, two provincial officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. At least seven of the wounded were in critical condition, the officials said. Another attack in Balochistan, near the border with Iran, claimed five lives on Tuesday, while six soldiers were killed after a suicide attack on their base in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.” (09/03/25)
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/11-killed-in-bomb-blast-at-rally-in-pakistans-quetta-9205840
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10) UN nuclear chief presses Iran to strike deal on inspections soon
Source: Reuters
“The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s talks with Iran on how to resume inspections at sites including those Israel and the United States bombed cannot go on for months on end, its chief told Reuters on Wednesday, pushing for a deal as early as this week. The International Atomic Energy Agency has had no information from Iran on the status or whereabouts of its stock of highly enriched uranium since Israel launched the first attacks on its enrichment sites on June 13, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi confirmed in an interview.” (09/03/25)
https://archive.is/Jsozz
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11) US Judge to Hear Objections to Deal That Allows Boeing to Avoid Prosecution Over Crashes
Source: US News & World Report
“A U.S. judge on Wednesday will hold a hearing on whether to approve a deal between the Justice Department and Boeing that allows the planemaker to avoid prosecution on a charge stemming from two fatal 737 MAX plane crashes that killed 346 people. Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas will consider objections from relatives of some of those killed in the crashes in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019 to the agreement that enables Boeing to escape oversight from an independent monitor for three years. … Some family members argue dismissal of the charge is not in the public interest, citing O’Connor’s statement in 2023 that ‘Boeing’s crime may properly be considered the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history.'” (09/03/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-03/us-judge-to-hear-objections-to-deal-that-allows-boeing-to-avoid-prosecution-over-crashes
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12) Thailand: Ruling party seeks new election as a way out of political crisis
Source: ABC News
“Thailand, which has been under a caretaker government since last week, saw competing efforts to resolve its political crisis on Wednesday, as the country’s main opposition party agreed to support its rival to be the next prime minister while the party in power said it wants a new election. The Pheu Thai party, which heads the caretaker government, announced it was asking the country’s king to dissolve Parliament and call a new poll instead of having the current House of Representatives vote for a new prime minister. No date has yet been set for a vote in Parliament, nor was it clear if the king would endorse dissolution.” (09/03/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/thailands-ruling-party-seeks-new-election-political-crisis-125207451
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13) Newsmax sues Fox News in battle of right-wing TV networks
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Right-wing US media network Newsmax is suing Fox News over what it claims are anticompetitive tactics to suppress competition, teeing up a legal battle in the American conservative news space. The lawsuit, filed in a Florida federal court, accuses Fox News of using its market power to coerce TV providers to restrict competing right-leaning channels. ‘Newsmax cannot sue their way out of their own competitive failures in the marketplace to chase headlines simply because they can’t attract viewers,’ a Fox News spokesperson said. The company, owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch, is consistently ranked the most popular conservative news outlet in the US with a market value of nearly $26bn (£19bn).” (09/03/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jzlgw1d7eo
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14) Survivors of Maine mass shooting and victims’ relatives sue US regime alleging negligence
Source: Seattle Times
“Survivors of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting and relatives of victims are suing the federal government, alleging that the U.S. Army could and should have stopped one of its reservists from carrying out what they call ‘one of the most preventable mass tragedies in American history.’ Eighteen people were killed in October 2023 when Robert Card opened fire at a bowling alley and a bar and grill. An independent commission appointed by Maine’s governor later concluded that there were numerous opportunities for intervention by both Army officials and civilian law enforcement as Card’s mental health deteriorated. He was found dead by suicide two days after the shootings. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on behalf of more than 100 survivors and victims’ family members, accuses the U.S. government of negligence, saying its conduct ‘directly and proximately caused the mass shooting.'” (09/03/25)
https://archive.is/9FHIK
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15) US regime approves $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger
Source: SFGate
“The United States has approved $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger, in a rare shift in U.S. foreign policy since former President Donald Trump suspended most aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development. The funding will provide food assistance and nutritional support to internally displaced people in conflict-affected areas, the U.S mission to Nigeria said in a statement on Wednesday. Insecurity and funding cuts have put northern Nigeria in the grip of ‘an unprecedented hunger crisis’ that could leave more than 1.3 million people without food and force the closure of 150 nutrition clinics in Borno state, Margot van der Velden, the World Food Program’s regional director for West Africa, said in July. In July, the WFP suspended food assistance across crisis-hit West and Central African countries as a result of U.S. and other global aid cuts that are grinding its operations to a halt.” (09/03/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/us-approves-32-5-million-in-assistance-to-21029050.php
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16) Bosnia: Serb Separatist Dodik Defies Opposition in Regime Reshuffle
Source: US News & World Report
“The parliament of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic has approved a government reshuffle that the opposition says is illegal because it was initiated by the region’s president who has been banned from politics. The vote late on Tuesday deepens a crisis over a Serb separatist drive that amounts to one of the biggest threats to peace in the Balkans since the wars that followed Yugoslavia’s collapse. The Serb Republic makes up Bosnia and Herzegovina along with a federation shared by Bosniaks and Croats under the Dayton peace accords that ended a 1992-95 conflict that killed about 100,000 people and displaced around 2 million. The Serb Republic government reshuffle was set in motion by Milorad Dodik, who last month was stripped of his mandate as the Serb Republic’s president by Bosnia’s election commission.” (09/03/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-03/serb-separatist-dodik-defies-bosnian-state-in-government-reshuffle
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17) Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been overheard discussing organ transplants as a means of prolonging life on the sidelines of a military parade in Beijing. Putin suggested even eternal life could be achievable as a result of innovations in biotechnology, according to a translation of remarks caught on a hot mic. The unguarded moment was captured on a livestream carried by Chinese state TV as the two leaders and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un walked together through China’s historic Tiananmen Square. Xi and Putin have been in power for 13 and 25 years respectively. Neither has expressed any intention of stepping down.” (09/03/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr70rvrd41ko
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18) Appeals court blocks Trump deportations under Alien Enemies Act
Source: Axios
“The Trump administration can’t use a centuries-old wartime law to quickly deport Venezuelans it alleges are suspected gang members, a federal appeals court ruled in a 2-1 decision on Tuesday night. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling it would grant a preliminary injunction ‘to prevent removal because we find no invasion or predatory incursion’ had occurred. President Trump issued a proclamation in March to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 that allows for the removal of foreign nationals if ‘any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated’ to fast-track the deportations process. The New Orleans-based appellate court is the first federal appeals court to directly rule on the proclamation in a case that’s likely to end up in the Supreme Court, per Reuters.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/3I4Bb
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19) Man with felony conviction abducted at Burning Man, allegedly possessing firearms & drugs
Source: SFGate
“Nevada officials arrested a convicted felon allegedly in possession of ‘large quantities’ of a number of illicit drugs early Monday morning, this time within the confines of Burning Man proper, according to a news release from the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office. The man was also allegedly in possession of two firearms, in violation of federal law [sic], which prohibits those with felony convictions from having guns or ammunition, as well as the temporary closure order set down by the Bureau of Land Management that allows Burning Man to operate each year in the Black Rock Desert. During a traffic stop on the Esplanade (which is considered Burning Man’s ‘main street’ and serves as the divider between the man sculpture and the event’s many themed camps), officers performed a ‘probable cause search’ just after 2 a.m. Monday, the release said.” [editor’s note: The only applicabnle “federal law” is the 2nd Amendment – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/burningman/article/man-arrested-burning-man-firearms-drugs-21026051.php
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20) Google avoids breakup but must share search data with rivals, judge rules
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“A US judge on Tuesday rejected the government’s demand that Google sell its Chrome web browser as part of a major antitrust case but ordered sweeping changes to restore competition in online search. The ruling follows Judge Amit Mehta’s August 2024 finding [sic] that Google maintained illegal search monopolies [sic] through billion-dollar exclusive agreements.” (09/03/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20250902-google-chrome-federal-antitrust
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21) The Everyday Miracle: Value Is Not Cost
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“Value is not cost. Value is what you get; cost is what you pay; and they are not the same. Not even close. In this world of ours, some things have immense value and immense cost, like a cure for aging. Some things have trivial value and trivial cost, like a speck of dust floating through the air in front of you. Some things have trivial value and immense cost, like a mud pie a hundred miles wide. And finally, some things have immense value and trivial cost, like food, water, and air. Value is not cost. It is thanks to this simple principle that life is worth living.” (09/03/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-everyday-miracle-value-is-not
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22) Our responsibility to defend ourselves
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Last week, another mentally ill individual chose to be an evil loser and shot into a church full of children, killing two and injuring many more. The usual anti-gun voices immediately blamed guns and all the gun owners who didn’t commit murder. They never place blame on the evil loser because that doesn’t fit the agenda. Dancing in the blood of innocents is their only play, and they are experts at it. … everyone has the right to fight back if someone decides to use their tools to harm the innocent. Background checks and all other anti-weapon rules violate this right, making it safer for evil losers to commit atrocities without facing the possibility that someone may have the means to stop them before they do what they intend.” (09/03/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/09/03/voices/opinion-our-responsibility-to-defend-ourselves/231601.html
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23) Peak Population: Prepare for a Shrinking World
Source: The Daily Economy
by Michael Munger
“Earth is going to hit ‘peak population’ before the end of this century. Within 25 years, most of the world’s developed nations will be facing sharp population declines, with shrinking pools of young people working to support an ever-aging population. The reason is not famine, war, or pestilence. We did this to ourselves, by creating a set of draconian solutions to a problem that didn’t even exist. Fear has always been the best tool for social control, and the fear of humanity was deployed by generations of ‘thinkers’ on the control-obsessed left.” (09/03/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/peak-population-but-we-can-all-move-to-texas/
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24) Why are we defending this again?
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“We seem to need some kind of an explanation of why so many of us bend over backwards to defend systems that intentionally harm us. Why do exploited people so often become defenders of their own exploitation? The ideas of System Justification Theory (SJT) attempt to confront this paradox of consent and to help us understand how our deep desires for stability and meaning are actively manipulated to keep us docile. SJT has some clear implications for those interested in a free, equal world without needless suffering.” (09/03/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/why-are-we-defending-this-again
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25) Trump’s Drug-War Murders in the Caribbean
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Apparently taking a page out of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte drug-war playbook, President Trump is taking credit for the intentional military killings of eleven people in international waters near Venezuela. Duterte is on trial right now before the International Criminal Court for allegedly ordering his drug-war goons to kill accused drug-war offenders on sight …. That’s what Trump just did. He ordered his military drug-war goons to blow a boat out of the water that was traveling in international waters near Venezuela, killing, Trump proudly claimed, eleven people in the process. No stopping of the boat to search it. No arrests. No grand-jury indictments. No trials in federal district court. None of that. … In my opinion, that’s just murder, pure and simple.” (09/03/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/09/03/trumps-drug-war-murders-in-the-caribbean/
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26) “What About My Friends Who Don’t Care About Gaza?”
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I’ve been lucky enough not to have anyone significant in my life who doesn’t get it, so this isn’t an issue that I personally have had to navigate. But I have seen a lot of people struggle with the question of how their interpersonal relationships should be affected by the position that their friends and loved ones take on Gaza. From where I’m sitting this doesn’t look like you’re an asshole, it just kind of looks like the natural effects playing out of learning that someone in your life is a shitty person. If you found out that one of your friends likes to torture small animals or drug women and rape them, or that someone in your family watched a child drown in a swimming pool without doing anything, that would naturally change your relationship with them in a permanent way.” (09/01/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/01/what-about-my-friends-who-dont-care-about-gaza-and-other-questions/
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27) In Defense of Thoughts and Prayers
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“It is fashionable to ‘prayer shame’ those who offer ‘thoughts and prayers’ as a response to violence. Public response to the gun violence at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is an example. If you did not deliver an angry diatribe against gun ownership, your failure to fall in line with the politically correct position is taken as evidence that you condone violence or don’t feel tragedy deeply. Words are often inadequate. After a recent family hike during which the signs of fall were unmistakable, we felt the poignancy of the seasonal changes. Can that poignancy be expressed easily in words? Of course not, but penetrating feelings remain.” (09/03/25)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-thoughts-and-prayers
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28) Economics Problems of Grocery Delivery
Source: EconLog
by Kevin Corcoran
“Occasionally, I use a grocery delivery service—not always, and not for every item. In a vacuum, one might think that having someone else take the time to gather grocery items for me and bring those items to my house seems clearly advantageous. So why don’t I always use this service? A few ideas from economics help explain why.” (09/03/25)
https://www.econlib.org/economics-problems-of-grocery-delivery/
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29) Trump’s Immigration Policies Feeding Private Prison Industrial Complex
Source: Informed Comment
by F Douglas Stephenson
“When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking salt water: The more they drink, the thirstier they get. Roman proverbs say that the more money a rich man has, the more driven and addicted he becomes to accumulating even more money. Wealth addiction is at the root of giant private prison corporations’ domination of the US government as communities take a back seat to the need for private profit. Many government leaders from both political parties share the same ‘profits over people’ ideology. The industry is preparing for explosive growth. On recent earnings calls, CoreCivic executives announced plans to triple the number of beds in their facilities within a few months. That would mean an additional $1.5 billion in revenue for the corporation, more than doubling its annual earnings.” (09/03/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-immigration-private-prisons
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30) Can we reduce the imprisonment rate without endangering public safety? The promise of electronic monitoring
Source: Niskanen Center
by Jenny Williams & Donald Weatherburn
“After a long period of steady decline, the U.S. imprisonment rate rose by 2 percent between 2021 and 2022. In Maine, Connecticut, Kentucky, Rhode Island, North Dakota, Minnesota, Tennessee, Colorado, and Montana, the increase in prisoner numbers exceeded 6 percent. Mississippi’s prison population over this period grew by almost 15 percent. This is enormously expensive. The cost of imprisonment in the U.S. amounts to more than $80 billion per annum — money that could otherwise be spent on imperatives like public infrastructure, education, and healthcare. … The appeal of electronic monitoring is that it provides a low-cost means of depriving offenders of their liberty and monitoring their movements.” (09/03/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/can-we-reduce-the-imprisonment-rate-without-endangering-public-safety-the-promise-of-electronic-monitoring/
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31) The Left’s [sic] Vision for America
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“The Left [sic] wants to change America. Duh. I’m not talking about technological changes here. We’d all like to see improvements in technology, science, and medicine make life easier and healthier for all. But that has nothing to do with the eternal principles of virtue, morality, righteousness, or love thy neighbor as thyself. Those principles can, and should, apply as much in an industrial society as they do in an agricultural one. Industry and technology don’t justify murder, theft, adultery, etc. Virtuous principles are eternal and apply in whatever age man finds himself. But industrial ‘progress’ is not what the Left means by ‘progress.’ The main thing the Left wants is power. They want godless tyranny, not virtuous freedom to dominate and to rule. That’s the America they envision, one where, as in previous and current leftist societies, they dictate what the rest of us can and cannot say and do.” (09/03/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2025/09/03/the-lefts-vision-for-america-n2662683
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32) Chat Control
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“Soon, the European Union is set to vote on the so-called ‘Chat Control’ legislation. Under the pretext of protecting children from online predators, the privacy of millions of users could be undermined. If passed, this means that Brussels will impose its vision on the world, one increasingly detached from liberty. Concerns about Chat Control have been growing among Europeans in the leadup to the vote, scheduled for October. However, the attempt to control citizens’ private conversations is not new: the debate has dragged on since 2021, and in the United Kingdom, similar legislation passed through the Online Safety Act of 2023.” (09/03/25)
https://fee.org/articles/chat-control/
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33) How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza
Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“One year ago, the United Nations General Assembly demanded that Israel must end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories within 12 months. The General Assembly voted, by 124 votes to 14, with 43 abstentions, for a strong resolution that not only ‘demanded’ an end to the occupation within a year, but called on all countries to refrain from trade involving Israeli settlements and from transfers of weapons ‘where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that they may be used in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.’ … A year later, Israel has failed to comply with any of the demands of the 124 states. … In response to this unconscionable state of affairs, Palestine’s UN representative has formally asked the UN to authorize an international military protection force for Gaza to help with the delivery of humanitarian aid and protect civilians.” (09/03/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/un-end-gaza-genocide
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34) Decadent Ideology, Decaying Fraternity
Source: Law & Liberty
by Richard M Reinsch II
“Delsol argues that republicanism requires generous actions, not ideological control over people. If citizens do not freely choose to place the country first, then forcing such actions smacks of authoritarianism. Yet French citizens now freely indulge in a technologically driven individualism, making it almost impossible to envisage the civic fraternity needed to make the republican ideal possible. No one, though, will admit to a reduced identification with republicanism. Delsol wonders why the former trappings of republicanism no longer captivate French hearts. She answers that republicanism as a government ideal has become ideologically corrupted.” (09/03/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/decadent-ideology-decaying-fraternity/
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35) Cultural Erasure
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“It was ‘woke’ for corporations to remove beloved commercial icons such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben (now ‘Ben’s Original’), and ‘Mia,’ the Land O’Lakes Indian maiden. In each of these logos the supposedly ‘offensive’ and ‘stereotypical’ images were removed ostensibly to avoid offending the easily offended. Leaving customers with blank, unoriginal, uninspiring and non-comforting signage. Exactly what happened when the corporate bigwigs took out the iconography from the Cracker Barrel logo: All nostalgia liquidated. Cultural erasure used to be a leftist theme, but thanks to today’s enlightened corporations, it has become universal, as the soullessness of modish symbology has become painfully obvious.” (09/03/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/09/03/cultural-erasure
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36) As Public School Enrollment Drops, Alternative Options Gain Traction
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“A new school year is here, and while millions of students still trudge off to public school classrooms and days divided by subjects, there are fewer kids making that trek than in the past, and their experiences aren’t nearly so similar as once was the case. The ranks of public school students are thinning, partly because of the declining birth rate, but also because a growing share of the population prefers alternatives like private schools and homeschooling. They’re increasingly assisted with funding from education choice programs. It’s a familiar journey to me, since my wife and I mostly homeschooled our son, with detours through charter and private schools. We’re less alone in our choices than ever before.” (09/03/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/03/as-public-school-enrollment-drops-alternative-options-gain-traction/
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37) It’s not the economy, stupid: Dems’ real path out of the wilderness
Source: Fox News
by Michael LaRosa
“For decades, Democrats have clung to James Carville’s mantra: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’. It became the default excuse for every campaign message, every strategy and every setback. We need to retire that phrase from our political lexicon. My fellow Democrats forget that Carville’s first rule on his whiteboard in Little Rock wasn’t the economy, stupid. It was ‘Change vs. more of the same.’ Voters still want change — not numbers, not excuses. And if President Donald Trump offers change while Democrats defend the system as it is, Democrats will lose. Today, my party is jumping onto a shiny substitute considered to be the winning message that unites all (‘affordability’) as if the idea that lower prices are better than higher ones is a revelation. Has a candidate ever campaigned on the reverse?” (09/03/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/its-not-economy-stupid-democrats-real-path-out-wilderness
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38) The Venezuela Military Deployment Is about Cronyism, Not National Security
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“So far, much of the reaction to Trump’s recent order to use military assets against foreign drug cartels has been focused on the cartels in Mexico. But the administration has described the recent deployment of naval assets to Venezuela’s coast as part of the same effort. In fact, yesterday they claimed those assets struck a vessel carrying drugs. But it’s still a bit out of the way from the areas where the bulk of drug smuggling is believed to take place, which suggests that countering Maduro’s regime may be just as big a priority as Trump’s escalation of the war on drugs. But if the hostility between the US and Venezuela is nothing new, what explains the recent escalation? Well, the answer appears to be, as it often is, cronyism.” (09/03/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/venezuela-military-deployment-about-cronyism-not-national-security
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39) Keeping Up Appearances
Source: The Dispatch
by Jonah Goldberg
“Trump’s desire to look strong might be his greatest weakness.” (09/03/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-autocracy-flag-burning-tariffs/
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40) How the media enables Trump on crime
Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum & Rebecca Crosby
“Chicago is part of a nationwide trend of declining violent crime. 2024 was the safest year in America since the mid-60s. Yet, most Americans believe Trump’s narrative that crime is rampant. A recent Associated Press poll found that 81% of Americans believe that crime is a ‘major problem’ in large cities. The same poll found that 55% of Americans believe that it is ‘acceptable’ for the U.S. military to ‘assist’ local police. Aggregate crime trends, however, are an example of something that no person can observe. People form their beliefs largely on what they learn from the media.” (09/03/25)
https://popular.info/p/how-the-media-enables-trump-on-crime
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41) The Republican Epstein Strategy Is Failing
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“House Republicans tucked tail and left early after fearing the possibility of having to vote for transparency about the biggest underage sex ring in U.S. history, which gives you a good sense of where we are with that party right now. House Speaker Mike Johnson had six weeks to figure out how to manage the intra-party rebellion over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Republican members were still getting an earful at home, so ducking a vote wasn’t practical. But Johnson needed to uphold his prime directive of acting as a human shield for the president and keeping his name out of any revelations. So after weeks of rumination, here’s what Johnson came up with: a resolution, hastily added to the week’s floor voting schedule on Monday, that would ‘direct’ the House Oversight Committee to continue investigating the federal cases against Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, which is already in progress.” (09/03/25)
https://prospect.org/justice/epstein-republican-congress-release-files/
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42) American Capitalism is Being Remade by State Power
Source: CounterPunch
by H Sami Karaca
“Is the Trump administration trying to reshape American capitalism? Recent moves by Washington, such as taking a 10% share of semiconductor maker Intel, point to a shift in that direction. For decades, Washington has supported free-market capitalism. Today, the government appears to be supporting a new direction – state-directed capitalism. As a professor at the Questrom School of Business who studies different economic systems, I find this reversal striking.” [editor’s note: Even if such a thing as “free-market capitalism” existed — the free market and capitalism are opposites — the notion that DC has ever supported it would be nonsense on stilts – TLK] (09/03/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/03/american-capitalism-is-being-remade-by-state-power/
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43) Department of War?
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“Last week President Trump took steps to re-name the Department of Defense the ‘Department of War.’ The President explained his rationale for the name change: ‘It used to be called the Department of War and it had a stronger sound. We want defense, but we want offense too … As Department of War we won everything … and I think we … have to go back to that.’ At first it sounds like a terrible idea. A ‘Department of War’ may well make war more likely – the ‘stronger sound’ may embolden the US government to take us into even more wars. There would no longer be any need for the pretext that we take the nation to war to defend this country and its interests – and only as a last resort. … But at the same time, the US has been at war nearly constantly since the end of World War II, so it’s not like the “Defense Department” has been in any way a defensive department.” (09/03/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2025/09/02/department-of-war/
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44) Protection from Us?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“On Labor Day, National Review pointed out that less than 10 percent of all U.S. workers currently belong to unions. This percentage has been declining for decades. Even during the Biden administration, when the president and his puppeteers did their best to pump up unions, the percentage declined. In the private sector, only 5.9 percent of workers are union members. This is great news because unions are typically bad news.” [editor’s note: Absent government force, unions are just market actors like any others – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/09/02/protection-from-us/
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45) NYC needs a mayor like Rudy Giuliani again
Source: New York Post
by Michael Goodwin
“Whew, better late than never! That was my first reaction to the news that President Trump intends to give Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The announcement followed the serious weekend car crash in New Hampshire that sent the 81-year-old Giuliani to the hospital. Thankfully, his injuries, said to include a broken vertebrae, are not life-threatening and he has been released from the hospital. A likely result is Trump’s presentation will focus almost exclusively on Giuliani’s greatest achievement: His stellar tenure as New York’s mayor. Although he later served as Trump’s pugnacious lawyer during the disputed aftermath of the 2020 election, it was during Giuliani’s two terms as Gotham’s fearless leader that he proved he is fully worthy of America’s highest civilian honor.” [editor’s note: Giuliani moved NYC’s emergency center to the most likely place for a terror attack, failed to get first responders on radio frequencies, and tried to screw the 9/11 cleanup workers who got sick – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/02/opinion/michael-goodwin-nyc-needs-a-mayor-like-rudy-giuliani-again-a-bold-sensible-leader-in-the-face-of-rampant-decline/
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46) Transmission: the Ozempic for our energy bills
Source: Niskanen Center
by Chelsey Gilchrist
“Households across America are feeling the pinch of rising energy bills. Policymakers are desperate for fixes — subsidies, new power plants, or small upgrades to local grids — but costs keep climbing. What’s needed is a different solution. And that’s where transmission comes in. Think of transmission like Ozempic. At first glance they couldn’t be more different, one being a groundbreaking diabetes medication, and the other long wires stretching across the nation. Yet they share a common role: both are systemic fixes that can replace stopgap solutions and provide ripple effects benefitting long-term stability.” [editor’s note: Centralized generation and long-distance transmission over vulnerable lines are both inherently unstable. Decentralized hyper-local generation, not “grids,” is the fix – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/transmission-the-ozempic-for-our-energy-bills
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47) On the “Ersatz Religion” of Transhumanism: Interview With Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi
Kheriaty: “If you take transhumanism far enough, you get to the point where essentially there is no such thing as a human nature or a healthy, well-working human body that would be normative. The idea is that we’re just raw biological material. We’re a blank slate that you can refashion or remake with whatever technologies we’re capable of developing. And there’s this implicit idea in traditional Hippocratic medicine that there is a natural norm of health that the body tends toward when it’s working well. … that’s what medicine needs to aim toward. But for someone like Bostrom, what we have instead is raw biological material that can be hacked and upgraded and the hardware is potentially infinitely malleable.” (09/02/25)
https://www.racket.news/p/on-the-ersatz-religion-of-transhumanism
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48) The fight to define social media could redefine free speech
Source: Expression
by Karan Kuppa-Apte
“Social media platforms are having a First Amendment moment. From content moderation to so-called ‘addictive’ features such as unlimited scrolling, lawmakers are putting bipartisan pressure on these companies to change their policies and even the fundamental designs of their platforms. But to do so, they have to first define what a social media platform is.” (09/02/25)
https://expression.fire.org/p/the-fight-to-define-social-media
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49) Fighting Fascism Through Solidarity
Source: In These Times
by Naomi Braine
“In October 2023, I was part of an online training on self-managed medication abortion. The workshop was hosted on Zoom by two women living in a state with an abortion ban, tailored for attendees who also live in ’red’ states that restrict abortion to varying degrees, and covering the medical basics about how to self-manage a medication abortion. The majority of the training, however, focused on how participants could pass the lessons along — educating other people about those medical basics, the practical realities of what to expect during a first-trimester medication abortion, how to recognize the signs of problems and, importantly, how to do all this while remaining within the law. The last part required some role-playing for participants to practice staying within the boundaries of ’sharing information’ without crossing over into anything that could potentially be prosecuted as giving medical advice.” (09/03/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/solidarity-fascism-abortion-reproductive-rights-immigration-lgbtq-rights
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50) President Trump should consider rescheduling more than just marijuana
Source: Orange County Register
by Rafael Perez
“As far as modern-day affronts to our autonomy go, the outlawing of drugs is one of the most egregious. Since the mid-to-late 19th century when drug laws started to crop up in the US, it has been the status-quo for the government to have the power to partly command what we choose to put into our bodies and dole out punishment when we fail to comply. There is no argument in favor of outlawing drugs that isn’t characterized by excessive paternalism …. it was pleasing to learn that the Trump administration is considering rescheduling marijuana …. it’s a step in the right direction. It’s also a step that the government should be taking with all other drugs.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/ASaGf
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51) The Political Orphanage, 09/03/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“What Happens When the Ayatollah Falls?” (09/03/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/what-happens-when-the-ayatollah-falls
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52) Reason Interview: Pablos Holman
Source: Reason
“We’re Moving Too Slow on AI.” (09/03/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/03/were-moving-too-slow-on-ai/
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53) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 09/03/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“A Free-Market Guide to Zoning with David Stokes.” (09/03/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/state-and-local-government/a-free-market-guide-to-zoning-with-david-stokes/
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54) Rising, 09/03/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers radar on the chatter surrounding the state of President Trump’s health.” (09/03/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5483456-rising-september-3-2025/
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55) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/03/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Angry, Crazed Rants to Media Unnerve Legal Experts: ‘Very Bad.'” (09/03/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/199910/trump-angry-crazed-rants-media-unnerve-legal-experts-very-bad
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56) Ill Literacy, episode 181
Source: Heartland Institute
“From Dakota to Dixie (Guest: Jonathan W. White).” (09/03/25)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/oill-literacy-episode-181-from-dakota-to-dixie-guest-jonathan-w-white/
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57) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/03/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Bombs Boat Near Venezuela, Trump Says He Bombed Iran for Israel, IDF Kills 89 in Gaza, and More.” (09/03/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N51Vgk4mHw
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58) Nonzero, 09/02/25
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Drugs and Mayhem in the US Special Forces | Robert Wright & Seth Harp.” (09/02/25)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/68980
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59) Pink Flame of Liberty, 09/02/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Is Trump in Cognitive Decline? Or Just Callously Clueless?” (09/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpI-xnA0Oao
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60) Politics Politics Politics, 09/02/25
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Breaking Down Prop 50 Ads! Jumping Into the Democratic Primary Machine (with Dillon Fleharty).” (09/02/25)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/breaking-down-prop-50-ads-jumping
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61) The Good Fight, 09/02/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Cass Sunstein on Defending Liberalism.” (09/02/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/cass-sunstein-on-defending-liberalism
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62) Reason Roundtable, 09/02/25
Source: Reason
“RFK Jr.’s Wild Week.” (09/02/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/02/rfk-jr-s-wild-week/
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63) The Lou Perez Podcast, 09/02/25
Source: Lions of Liberty
“TFP’s Lucy Biggers'[s] Climate Change Change.” (09/02/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/tlpp-tfps-lucy-biggers-climate-change-change
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64) Bulwark Takes, 09/02/25
Source: The Bulwark
“Bizarre Trump Interview Spirals Into Absurdity.” (09/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqAoagBXfAE
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65) Trump Watch, 09/02/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“War in Venezuela and the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal.” (09/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35Egi7FglE
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