08/04 -- Palestine: Israeli regime threatens to expand Gaza offensive; This is Still Tom Lehrer's Week That Was
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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Palestine: Israeli regime threatens to expand Gaza offensive
2) Bitcoin hovers at $114k after steep losses on tariff, economic fears
3) TX: Democrats flee state to prevent vote on redrawing congressional map
4) Modi Defiant as Trump Steps Up Pressure on India’s Russian Oil Purchases
5) Russia: Ukrainian drone attack sparks fire at oil depot in Sochi
6) House GOP offers to postpone Ghislaine Maxwell deposition as Supreme Court weighs her appeal
7) Mali: Former prime minister is arrested for supporting jailed critics of the ruling military junta
8) Leaked Hegseth Memo Suggests More US Troops on US Streets
9) US companies deny record number of shareholder votes
10) DC: Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to “go to hell”
11) Putin Widens Effort to Control Russia’s Internet
12) Hamas refuses to disarm until Palestinian state established [sic]
13) Challenge to Habba Appointment Needs Full Briefing, Judge Says
14) Study: Stevia could hold untapped potential to fight aggressive cancer
15) Russian and Chinese navies begin joint drills in Sea of Japan
16) Arrest made in robbery ring that nabbed $4 million, bombed Target ATM
17) FL: DeSantis whines about ICE gang poaching his own gang members
18) Slovenia becomes first EU regime to ban all weapons trade with Israel
19) Judge allows National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars
20) SpaceX Dragon delivers Crew-11 to International Space Station
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) This is Still Tom Lehrer’s Week That Was
22) Trump should heed, not hide, the jobs numbers
23) Canada, Where “Mischief” Considered Worse than Tyranny
24) Diocletian, the Roman Empire, and Forever Failing Price Controls
25) The IRS Is Now 25 Percent Smaller (and, Hopefully, Less Dangerous)
26) NYT Can’t Stop Sucking: How many times can one newspaper screw up a story?
27) An Arab light on a Hamas-free Gaza
28) “Hey, you there!”
29) Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls It A Genocide; Not So Bernie Sanders
30) The Complexity of Historical Narratives
31) Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy
32) Memo to All Demanding Palestinian Statehood: Hamas Still Has Hostages Debra J. Saunders
33) The Cruelty and Speciousness of Bret Stephens’ Denial of Genocide
34) How MTG became MAGA’s moral compass on Gaza
35) Trump Gets Rid of Those Pesky Statistics
36) The Dynamics of Difference: A Parable
37) As networks go nuts about her “genes,” ABC compares Sydney Sweeney ad to Nazis
38) There Is No Palestinian State
39) Pursuit of Happiness: The Growth of a Radical Idea
40) Economic Methodology
41) Making America Epstein Again
42) Science, Funding, and Economic Prosperity
43) By Right or Permission?
44) The Paranoia of Officialdom: Age Verification and Using the Internet in Australia
45) Mamdani’s NYC could look like Sadiq Khan’s far-left London, and New Yorkers should be terrified
46) Until the Democrats Adapt to New Media, They Will Never Win
47) The Muscle of Brussels
48) The Bobbies That Say NIII
49) How to Hide a Genocide
50) The Truth About the Indo-American Relationship
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51) Fountainhead Forum, episode 339
52) Pink Flame of Liberty, 08/02/25
53) Unattended Baggage, episode 302
54) The Good Fight, 08/02/25
55) The Fifth Column, episode 517
56) The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 08/01/25
57) Freakonomics Radio, episode 643
58) Anarcho Agenda, episode 140
59) Half the Answer, episode 24
60) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2675
61) System Update, episode 496
62) Rising, 08/01/25
63) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 08/01/25
64) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/01/25
65) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/01/25
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1) Palestine: Israeli regime threatens to expand Gaza offensive
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Israel is threatening to expand its military offensive into additional areas of Gaza in a bid to increase pressure on Hamas and force the militant group to release the remaining Israeli hostages it still holds. An Israeli official said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was ‘in dialogue’ with the administration of US President Donald Trump over the controversial proposal. … Hamas, for its part, has consistently said it wants guarantees that any deal leads to an end to the war, something Netanyahu has refused. Since negotiations broke down, Netanyahu’s government has discussed expanding the military offensive into Gaza City and the central region of the strip, to where most of the territory’s population has been forcibly evacuated.” (08/04/25)
https://archive.is/n8Fjn
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2) Bitcoin hovers at $114k after steep losses on tariff, economic fears
Source: Investing.com
“Bitcoin moved little on Monday, steadying after logging steep losses over the past week as concerns over softening U.S. economic growth and looming trade tariffs dented appetite for risk-driven assets. Broader crypto prices rose marginally, but were also nursing from last week’s risk-off move, while some elements of profit-taking remained in play. Bitcoin rose 0.6% to $114.268.8 by 01:25 ET (05:25 GMT). Recent buying by major corporate holders did little to stem losses in Bitcoin, which was down nearly 3% in the last five days. Bitcoin sank in tandem with Wall Street on Friday, after nonfarm payrolls data for July read substantially weaker than expected.” (08/024/25)
https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/bitcoin-price-today-hovers-at-114k-after-steep-losses-on-tariff-economic-fears-4166947
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3) TX: Democrats flee state to prevent vote on redrawing congressional map
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Texas Democrats are fleeing the state to prevent a vote on Monday that could see five new Republican-leaning seats created in the House of Representatives. About 30 Democrats said they planned to flee to Illinois, where they plan to stay for a week, to thwart Republican efforts by denying them a quorum, or the minimum number of members to validate the vote’s proceedings. … The plan to flee the state is not without potential consequences. Members of the Texas Democrats face a $500-a-day fine and possible arrest, a measure that was introduced in 2023, two years after Democrats left the state for three weeks to block election legislation that included several restrictions on voting access.” [editor’s note: “We’re defending democracy … unless a democratic vote isn’t going to go our way, in which case screw democracy” – TLK] (08/04/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/texas-democrats-fleeing-redistricting-vote
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4) Modi Defiant as Trump Steps Up Pressure on India’s Russian Oil Purchases
Source: Bloomberg
“Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck a defiant tone in the face of US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, urging the nation to buy local goods as his administration signaled it would continue buying Russian oil. … Over the weekend, Modi underscored the importance of shielding India’s economic interests during uncertain global conditions. The comments came just days after the Trump administration imposed a 25% tariff on Indian exports to the US. The White House is also threatening more action if India continues Russian oil purchases. … The New York Times reported Saturday that India would keep buying Russian crude despite a threat of penalties from Trump, citing two senior Indian officials it didn’t identify.” (08/04/25)
https://archive.is/EOScN
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5) Russia: Ukrainian drone attack sparks fire at oil depot in Sochi
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“An overnight Ukrainian drone attack has sparked a fire at an oil depot in Sochi, the southwestern Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, local authorities say. The attack came a day after Ukraine’s military said it struck the Ryazan oil refinery in central Russia, causing a fire. Ukraine has regularly hit Russian oil and gas infrastructure in response to attacks on its own territory since Russia began its war in February 2022. … On Sunday, Ukraine’s air force said on Telegram that Russia had launched 76 attack drones and seven missiles targeting Ukraine overnight, striking eight locations throughout Ukraine. Ukraine’s air defence units destroyed 60 of the drones and one missile, it said. In the front-line regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson, at least three people were killed and more than 12 injured in Russian attacks over the 24 hours into Sunday morning, regional governors said.” (08/03/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/3/ukrainian-drone-attack-sparks-fire-at-oil-depot-in-sochi-southwest-russia
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6) House GOP offers to postpone Ghislaine Maxwell deposition as Supreme Court weighs her appeal
Source: CBS News
“The chair of the House Oversight Committee said Friday he’s willing to postpone convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell’s deposition until the Supreme Court reviews the appeal she filed in her criminal case. Maxwell, a longtime friend and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was convicted in 2021 on five federal counts related to sex trafficking. The committee, which is chaired by Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, subpoenaed Maxwell last week, ordering her to sit for a deposition on Aug. 11. The move came as the Trump administration faces bipartisan scrutiny over its handling of the Epstein case, with lawmakers calling on the government to release records on Maxwell and Epstein. … Maxwell was transferred from a low-security prison in Florida to a smaller, all-female minimum-security facility in Texas, CBS News learned Friday. No reason was given for the move, which outraged some Epstein and Maxwell accusers.” (08/01/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-gop-postpones-ghislaine-maxwell-deposition/
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7) Mali: Former prime minister is arrested for supporting jailed critics of the ruling military junta
Source: ABC News
“Mali’s former prime minister was taken into pretrial detention on Friday after expressing solidarity in a media post with jailed critics of the military junta ruling the West African country, his lawyer and a close associate said. Moussa Mara’s arrest is the latest in a crackdown on dissent by Mali’s military rulers following the country’s first pro-democracy rally since soldiers seized power nearly four years ago. Abdoulaye Yaro, a close associate of the former prime minister, told The Associated Press that Mara was arrested after a cybercrime prosecutor ordered his detention pending trial for expressing compassion for people jailed for political beliefs. A member of the cybercrime unit said Mara has been accused of ‘damaging the state’s credibility’ and that his trial would start on Sept. 29, 2025.” (08/01/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/malis-prime-minister-arrested-supporting-jailed-critics-ruling-124292424
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8) Leaked Hegseth Memo Suggests More US Troops on US Streets
Source: Common Dreams
“New reporting based on a leaked briefing memo from a recent meeting between high-level officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department sparked fresh warnings on Saturday about the Trump administration’s internal plans to increase its domestic use of the U.S. military. According to Greg Sargent of The New Republic, which obtained the memo, the document ‘suggests that Trump’s use of the military for domestic law enforcement on immigration could soon get worse.’ The ‘terrifying’ memo (which the outlet recreated and published online with certain redactions that concealed operational and personnel details) ‘provides a glimpse into the thinking of top officials as they seek to involve the Defense Department more deeply in these domestic operations, and it has unnerved experts who believe it portends a frightening escalation.'” (08/02/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/leaked-memo-dhs-pentagon-domestic-military
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9) US companies deny record number of shareholder votes
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Companies denied votes on a record number of resolutions during this proxy season after US regulators made it harder for shareholders to demand changes related to climate, diversity and labour rights. The US Securities and Exchange Commission granted 195 ‘no-action’ requests for companies to exclude a shareholder proposal from its proxy materials this year compared with 147 in 2024. That is a nearly 33 per cent increase and the highest number of omissions since ISS-Corporate started tracking the data in 2007.” (08/03/25)
https://archive.is/rvPpM
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10) DC: Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to “go to hell”
Source: SFGate
“The Senate left Washington Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees, calling it quits after days of contentious bipartisan negotiations and Trump posting on social media that Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer can ‘GO TO HELL!’ Without a deal in hand, Republicans say they may try to change Senate rules when they return in September to speed up the pace of confirmations. Trump has been pressuring senators to move quickly as Democrats blocked more nominees than usual this year, denying any fast unanimous consent votes and forcing roll calls on each one, a lengthy process that can take several days per nominee.” (08/02/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/senate-heads-home-with-no-deal-to-speed-20799620.php
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11) Putin Widens Effort to Control Russia’s Internet
Source: New York Times
“Russia is escalating its efforts to curtail online freedom, taking new steps toward a draconian state-controlled internet. The authorities are cracking down on workarounds that Russians have been using for access to foreign apps and banned content, including through new laws signed by President Vladimir V. Putin this week. … the Kremlin is building out a domestic ecosystem of easily monitored and censored Russian alternatives to Western tech products. That includes a new state-sanctioned messaging service, MAX, which will come preinstalled by law on all new smartphones sold in Russia starting in September. The idea, experts say, is to migrate more Russians from an open internet dominated by the products of Western tech giants to a censored online ecosystem, where Russians primarily use software under the gaze and influence of the state.” (08/03/25)
https://archive.is/eLtst
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12) Hamas refuses to disarm until Palestinian state established [sic]
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Hamas has reaffirmed that it will not agree to disarm unless a sovereign Palestinian state is established [sic], in response to one of Israel’s key demands in talks about a ceasefire in Gaza. The Palestinian armed group said it was responding to remarks it attributed to US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff that Hamas had ‘expressed its willingness’ to lay down its weapons. Israel considers the disarmament of Hamas one of several key conditions for any deal to end the conflict. Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas to secure a ceasefire and the release of hostages stalled last week.” [editor’s note: The state of Palestine was established in 1988; what Hamas wants is a totalitarian theocratic state under its control, which is why, ever since it won one election in 2006, it has refused to let Palestinians in Gaza vote again – TLK] (08/02/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce35nx49reko
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13) Challenge to Habba Appointment Needs Full Briefing, Judge Says
Source: Bloomberg
“A federal judge deferred ruling on a New Jersey criminal defendant’s challenge of Alina Habba’s appointment as acting US attorney, saying he wanted to more fully consider the dispute before reaching a decision. The Friday order leaves some uncertainty among New Jersey federal trial courts, where judges earlier this week started pausing criminal matters to allow the legal dispute over Habba’s role play out in court. … Trump in March appointed Habba as an interim US attorney, and under federal law, federal judges can pick a temporary successor when a 120-day interim term expires. Judges in New Jersey tapped Desiree Grace, Habba’s top deputy, to replace her. But the administration responded by firing Grace and appointing Habba as a special attorney and naming her a first assistant, enabling Habba to remain in the office as an acting US attorney.” (08/01/25)
https://archive.is/2qQYg
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14) Study: Stevia could hold untapped potential to fight aggressive cancer
Source: Fox News
“A household sweetener could hold the potential to create an anti-cancer treatment. New research from Hiroshima University in Japan revealed that stevia leaf extract could help fight pancreatic cancer cells. The leaves of the stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana) are used to make stevia extract, a naturally sweet substance commonly used as a sugar substitute. The study, published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, investigated the anti-cancer properties of stevia leaf extract when it is fermented with a certain strain of bacteria. In laboratory research, the fermented extract exhibited ‘significantly enhanced antioxidant activity and cytotoxicity’ against pancreatic cancer cells, the researchers revealed. This led them to believe that this substance could serve as a ‘promising candidate for pancreatic cancer treatment.'” (08/03/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/health/common-sweetener-could-hold-untapped-potential-fight-aggressive-cancer-study-finds?msockid=02013b5a406a67380e922e1d419b66f7
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15) Russian and Chinese navies begin joint drills in Sea of Japan
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Russia and China began joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan on Sunday as they seek to reinforce their ‘no-limits’ strategic partnership – signed shortly before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The drills take place two days after US President Donald Trump announced he had deployed two nuclear submarines to ‘the appropriate regions’ in response to comments by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. … However, they were scheduled well before Trump’s action. Interfax news agency quoted the Pacific Fleet as saying Russian and Chinese vessels were moving in a joint detachment including a large Russian anti-submarine ship and two Chinese destroyers.” (08/03/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250803-russian-and-chinese-navies-begin-joint-drills-in-sea-of-japan
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16) Arrest made in robbery ring that nabbed $4 million, bombed Target ATM
Source: SFGate
“Federal authorities have arrested a man on charges he took part in a string of ATM robberies that nabbed more than $4 million in a monthslong spree that targeted dozens of institutions along the West Coast, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California. Authorities arrested Diego Ananias Arellano Diaz, who also allegedly used the alias Fabio Cristian Hernandez, in Newport Beach on July 29 on charges of bank robbery and conspiracy to commit bank robbery. Officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office alleged Diaz is part of an 11-person robbery crew that targeted at least 29 vulnerable banks and credit unions in California, Oregon and Washington since October 2024.” (08/01/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bomb-solves-target-atm-heist-20797775.php
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17) FL: DeSantis whines about ICE gang poaching his own gang members
Source: Florida Politics
“Florida’s Governor is griping about the Department of Homeland Security looking to ‘poach’ local and state law enforcement for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ‘Sheriffs losing deputies who are in this fight to just wear a different jersey, basically, but still be in the fight, that doesn’t necessarily add to what we’re doing. It’s just moving someone over,’ Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday. … ICE is offering benefits that can’t be matched locally, in what it calls a ‘robust’ package of federal law enforcement incentives, including a ‘maximum $50,000 signing bonus.’ Depending on how hiring progresses, it could exacerbate long-term shortages in law enforcement agencies. Enhanced retirement benefits, student loan forgiveness, 25% Law Enforcement Availability Pay (LEAP) for HSI Special Agents, and ‘Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime (AUI) for Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) Deportation Officers’ are among the incentives.” (08/01/25)
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/749430-ron-desantis-ice-poaching/
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18) Slovenia becomes first EU regime to ban all weapons trade with Israel
Source: Politico
“Slovenia became the first EU country to ban all weapons trade with Israel, citing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The government also prohibited the transit of weapons to or from Israel through Slovenia, the administration in Ljubljana said in a statement Thursday. Slovenia said that it decided to act independently from the EU, as ‘due to internal disagreements and disunity,’ the bloc is unable to take action against Israel. Though the European Commission proposed partially suspending Israel’s association agreement with the EU this week, member countries have yet to agree on it.” (08/01/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/slovenia-bans-weapons-sales-israel-eu-palestine-gaza-humanitarian-crisis
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19) Judge allows National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars
Source: SFGate
“The National Science Foundation can continue to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars from researchers in several states until litigation aimed at restoring it plays out, a federal court ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge John Cronan in New York declined to force the NSF to restart payments immediately, while the case is still being decided, as requested by the sixteen Democrat-led states who brought the suit …. Cronan said he would not grant the preliminary injunction in part because it may be that another court, the Court of Federal Claims, has jurisdiction over what is essentially a case about money. He also said the states failed to show that NSF’s actions were counter to the agency’s mandate. The lawsuit filed in May alleges that the National Science Foundation’s new grant-funding priorities as well as a cap on what’s known as indirect research expenses ‘violate the law and jeopardize America’s longstanding global leadership in STEM.'” (08/01/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/judge-allows-the-national-science-foundation-to-20798628.php
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20) SpaceX Dragon delivers Crew-11 to International Space Station
Source: United Press International
“The four Crew-11 crew members joined seven other astronauts in the International Space Station early Saturday morning following a 15-hour journey from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, entered the ISS at 3:46 a.m. EDT, NASA said. At 2:27 a.m., the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked at the ISS’s Harmony module, and then the crew conducted standard leak checks and pressurization between the two spacecraft. The docking occurred as the two spacecraft were 264 miles above the South Pacific Ocean.” (08/02/25)
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2025/08/02/Nasa-SpaceX-Crew-11-docks-International-Space-Station/8051754139869/
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21) This is Still Tom Lehrer’s Week That Was
Source: Garrison Center
by Joel Schlosberg
“Six decades after Tom Lehrer adapted his songs on such then-current topics as the Second Vatican Council and the vice-presidency of Hubert Horatio Humphrey from NBC’s That Was the Week That Was into his final album That Was the Year That Was, it remains clear that his works will remain relevant weeks, and years, after his passing on July 26 at 97. … Admittedly, as LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik noted on Lehrer’s 90th birthday, writing about ‘racial conflict, pollution, religious intolerance, nuclear brinkmanship’ ensured engaging issues that ‘have never gone away.’ If anything, Lehrer underestimated the political rancor to come.” (08/02/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19827
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22) Trump should heed, not hide, the jobs numbers
Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“For months, commentators have been asking why tariffs aren’t weighing on the economy more heavily. Importers — including many manufacturers — have been worried that they will. But the headline jobs and gross domestic product data have looked pretty good. Then came Friday’s jobs report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, a unit of the Labor Department, revised its estimates for May and June payrolls sharply downward, by more than 250,000 jobs, and estimated that the economy added only 73,000 jobs in July, well below analysts’ expectations. Virtually all these new jobs came from health care and social services. The numbers contain no sign of the manufacturing boom that President Donald Trump has promised. … So Trump took immediate, decisive action: He hopped on Truth Social and announced that he would fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.” (08/02/25)
https://archive.is/9uK55
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23) Canada, Where “Mischief” Considered Worse than Tyranny
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“According to Canada’s top prosecutors, the only thing worse than tyranny is ‘mischief.’ And the worst possible ‘mischief’ is objecting to tyranny. In a sentencing hearing earlier this week, the Canadian government sought a ludicrous eight-year sentence for Chris Barber, one of the leaders of the Covid ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest that riled Ottawa in early 2022. For another leader, Tamara Lich, the Crown asked for an outlandish seven years. In April, a court ruled that Barbers and Lich were not guilty of obstructing police or intimidation during the demonstrations. But they were convicted of ‘mischief’ — in part because the truckers in the 40-mile convoy honked their horns to protest some of the most oppressive Covid mandates in the world. Crown prosecutor Siobhain Wetscher justified the harsh prison sentences saying ‘it’s difficult to imagine an offense of mischief with greater impact.'” (08/02/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/08/02/n-y-post-canada-where-mischief-considered-worse-than-tyranny/
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24) Diocletian, the Roman Empire, and Forever Failing Price Controls
Source: EconLog
by Tarnell Brown
“By the time Diocletian came to power in 284 CE, his (non-immediate) predecessor, Aurelius, had done much to restore some semblance of order to the Empire, reunifying what had broken into three kingdoms and expelling invaders such as the Sarmatians and Vandals from Roman territory. Diocletian expanded on these actions, even going so far as to form a quartet of governing individuals, called the Tetrarchy, which co-administered the Empire with him at the head. However, the inflation continued, and the Emperor worsened it via a massive increase in military and public works spending. … Citing the influence of ‘evil traders,’ in 301 CE, Diocletian issued his Edict on Maximum Prices, which instituted widespread price controls on over one thousand different items …. Diocletian preemptively placed the blame for any failures of his policy on greed, launching into invective against wicked speculators and evil profiteers who conspired to rob into beggary a helpless public.” (08/01/25)
https://www.econlib.org/diocletian-the-roman-empire-and-forever-failing-price-controls/
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25) The IRS Is Now 25 Percent Smaller (and, Hopefully, Less Dangerous)
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“Most of us hate taxes, and for good reason: They’re legalized muggings to support a government that no decent person would want to fund or empower. Ideally, Congress would dramatically slash taxes, make remaining impositions less intrusive, and cut government to match. But while we got a bit of tax relief in the One Big Beautiful Bill, it did little to cut the expense or reach of the state, nor did it reform the byzantine tax code. The good news is that there are fewer tax collectors to enforce the federal government’s demands now that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been reduced by a quarter.” (08/01/25)
https://reason.com/2025/08/01/the-irs-is-now-25-percent-smaller-and-hopefully-less-dangerous/
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26) NYT Can’t Stop Sucking: How many times can one newspaper screw up a story?
Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi
“Predictably, the New York Times pooh-poohed the release of the classified annex to the Durham report. … Mr. Trump and his aides have coupled those releases with wild and inaccurate claims about what they show, spinning the reports as proof of his long-running narrative that the investigation was a hoax instigated by enemies for political reasons. This whole ‘assembled by Russian spies’ line is based on one assessment about a pair of emails likely pulled by Russians from other real American victims of hacking. Beyond this instance of a ‘composite’, the paper ignores the gigantic load of material from the same source, which has been described in multiple other reports as real and affecting numerous American ‘victims’ from the Executive and Legislative branches, as well as think-tanks and NGOs.” (08/01/25)
https://www.racket.news/p/the-new-york-times-cant-stop-sucking
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27) An Arab light on a Hamas-free Gaza
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Leaders of almost the entire Muslim world, from Morocco to Indonesia, recently signed on to an extraordinary statement. They endorsed a call for Hamas to end its control of Gaza and hand over its weapons. In effect, the demand, led by the 22-state Arab League, acknowledges that the individual sovereignty of the people in Gaza, not Hamas, must determine the territory’s governance. While the statement is a historic first for Arab nations, the universal principle of individual sovereignty – or a person’s inherent right to be free and treated equally – has been gaining ground among Gaza’s 2 million residents. Even before its 2023 attack on Israel, Hamas had lost much of its legitimacy. As its popularity further dropped, protests began to break out in March openly condemning the Islamist group – despite threats of retaliation.” (08/01/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0801/An-Arab-light-on-a-Hamas-free-Gaza
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28) “Hey, you there!”
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“In empirical terms we are living during one of the most economically unequal periods in modern history, across multiple measures. … An empirical evaluation of the relationship between capital and the state requires us to analyze capital’s dependence on state power, the extent of state-corporate symbiosis or capture, and the relationship between the state’s many favors and the real-world outcomes we observe. The evidence strongly supports the conclusion that this extreme inequality is the result of mechanisms that fall within a broad, structural definition of rent extraction through state power.” (08/02/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/hey-you-there
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29) Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls It A Genocide; Not So Bernie Sanders
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“MAGA wingnut Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling the Gaza holocaust a genocide while progressive hero Bernie Sanders continues to adamantly refuse to do so, despite the solidified consensus among human rights groups and genocide experts that that’s what this is. This is humiliating for everything that passes for the ‘left’ in mainstream US politics. Imagine being such a dogshit human being that you’d let Marjorie Taylor Greene be a better person than you. I keep seeing people say we shouldn’t use the label genocide until Israel has been found guilty by an international court, but that’s exactly the same as saying you can’t say a murderer is trying to murder someone and intervene to stop him until he has been convicted of murder in a court of law.” (08/02/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/08/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-called-it-a-genocide-before-bernie-sanders/
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30) The Complexity of Historical Narratives
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“There are many reasons why people twist historical facts to fit their preconceived narrative, but of specific interest in this article are the dominant collectivist interpretations of history. Collectivists err in attempting to explain history entirely by reference to the notion that each man must have reacted to historical events in the same way as would be expected of any and all members of his group. The collectivist subsumes all human behavior within the general framework of the group whose history is being discussed, therefore, identifying and classifying groups assumes paramount importance in collectivist theories of history. They streamline history into neat accounts of what everyone in the identified group generally did — and assume that the ‘very rare exceptions,’ which do not affect the truth of the narrative, may safely be ignored.” (08/01/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/complexity-historical-narratives
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31) Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmire war between Russia and Ukraine. His instincts — that continued involvement in that conflict was not in America’s best interests — were sound. Indeed, he signaled throughout the 2024 presidential campaign that he intended to terminate military and financial aid to Kyiv as soon as possible. Most of his MAGA supporters seemed to agree that the Biden administration’s willingness to send billions of dollars to Ukraine when the United States had pressing needs at home was disgraceful. Just months into his term, however, the president seems to have abandoned the goal of jettisoning the Ukraine commitment. Instead, he has continued weapons shipments to Kyiv and authorized new ones.” (08/01/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2025/08/01/climbing-aboard-the-titanic-trumps-new-ukraine-policy/
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32) Memo to All Demanding Palestinian Statehood: Hamas Still Has Hostages Debra J. Saunders
Source: Town Hall
by Debra J Saunders
“‘The fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!’ President Donald Trump wrote Thursday morning on Truth Social. Amen. While in Scotland on Monday, Trump had voiced a very human concern about the children of Gaza, when he said, ‘I mean, some of those kids are — that’s real starvation stuff. I see it, and you can’t fake it. So we’re going to be even more involved.’ His remarks come ahead of the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September. So begins another pressure campaign from the all-bow international community to weaken Israel’s self-defense in a war Hamas started on Oct. 7, 2023, by murdering some 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages.” [editor’s note: The Israeli regime was holding, and continues to hold, far more than 250 hostages; why don’t they count? – TLK] (08/02/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2025/08/02/memo-to-all-demanding-palestinian-statehood-hamas-still-has-hostages-n2661295
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33) The Cruelty and Speciousness of Bret Stephens’ Denial of Genocide
Source: Common Dreams
by Ralph Nader
“After the long-time skittish New York Times published a lengthy essay by the renowned genocide scholar, Prof. Omer Bartov of Brown University, titled ‘I’m a Genocide Scholar, I Know It When I see It,’ the Palestinian-hater, Times columnist Bret Stephens, immediately jumped into the Netanyahu‑style rebuttal mode. His column was titled ‘No, Israel is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza.’ His cruel and specious assertion, contradicted by many genocide scholars, was that if the Israeli regime was truly genocidal, they would have committed ‘hundreds of thousands of deaths’ in Gaza instead of the mere 60,000 deaths reported by the Hamas‑run Health Ministry. Get real, Mr. Stephens, the Israeli military has destroyed the lives of at least one out of four Palestinians there, or about half a million at least, from the daily bombing since October 7, 2023, of civilians and their infrastructure.” (08/02/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/bret-stephens-genocide-denial
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34) How MTG became MAGA’s moral compass on Gaza
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jack Hunter
“Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene has bucked her president, called for yanking aid to Israel, and was the first Republican to call what is happening ‘a genocide.'” (08/01/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/marjorie-taylor-greene-gaza/
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35) Trump Gets Rid of Those Pesky Statistics
Source: The Atlantic
by Alexandra Petri
“For decades, Donald Trump has been at war with numbers. Some capitulated more swiftly than others. His weight, his golf scores, and his net worth have long fallen in line. As I understand it, a Trump doctor appointment consists of going to a medical professional and announcing how much you would like to weigh and what your resting heart rate ought to be …. Some data, such as the number of votes he received at the polls in 2020, initially refused to budge. But with a little bit of threatening from some extra-patriotic patriots, the election turned out to have been a Trump blowout. Just ask any elected Republican; he’ll tell you! … And now at last Donald Trump has fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Once these disloyal statisticians are out of the way, the data will finally start to cooperate.” (08/01/25)
https://archive.is/k4QrH
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36) The Dynamics of Difference: A Parable
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“In an distant world, a group of funny-colored aliens must confront the contradictions of clashing worldviews.” (08/01/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-dynamics-of-difference-a-parable
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37) As networks go nuts about her “genes,” ABC compares Sydney Sweeney ad to Nazis
Source: Fox News
by Tim Graham
“The typical time that broadcast networks report on the advertising world is just before Super Bowl Sunday, to give viewers an advance peek at what companies will be shelling out millions to display. The clothing company American Eagle just scored a marketing coup with ad with White actress Sydney Sweeney making a sly joke about her ‘genes’ and her jeans. ‘Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color,’ cooed the actress. ‘My jeans are blue.’ This quickly spurred outrage from purple-haired TikTokers and leftist websites complaining about ‘centering Whiteness’ and ‘fascist propaganda.’ On Tuesday, July 29, ABC’s ‘Good Morning America First Look’ was already employing the word ‘backlash.'” (08/02/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/broadcast-bias-abc-compares-sydney-sweeney-ad-nazis-networks-go-nuts-about-her-genes
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38) There Is No Palestinian State
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“There is one big problem with recognizing a Palestinian state, as the United Kingdom, France, and Canada apparently intend to do: There is no Palestinian state. You wouldn’t know that from the formalities: Almost as many countries recognize the so-called Palestinian state as recognize Israel. But a Palestinian state cannot be wished into existence. It cannot be created by means of a declaration or a polite diplomatic fiction. A state is not a moral condition or an accoutrement of a people’s shared aspiration. A state is an apparatus that does things: providing security, law, governance, and other public goods. There is nothing in Gaza that even comes close to approximating a Palestinian state, nor is there a functioning state overseen by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank in anything but name.” (08/01/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/palestinian-statehood-israel-starmer-macron/
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39) Pursuit of Happiness: The Growth of a Radical Idea
Source: The Daily Economy
by John C Goodman
“The idea that people have an unalienable right to pursue their own happiness is a very radical idea. Prior to the eighteenth century, almost no one in the world believed it. Even today, only a small sliver of humankind agrees with it. Equally radical is the idea that the only purpose of government is to protect that right. We can quibble about some of the details, but the central idea is unequivocal. If you and I both have the right to pursue our own happiness, it would be wrong for a government to impose burdens on you just to make me happier. Critics of this political philosophy invariably note that some of the authors of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves. But remember, just about everyone else in the world at the time thought that there was no such thing as an individual right.” (08/01/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/pursuit-of-happiness-the-growth-of-a-radical-idea/
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40) Economic Methodology
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“I conclude that the correct way of doing economics combines a priori theory with evidence. You form plausible conjectures on the basis of theory and evidence, where part of forming them is deciding what simplifications, what unrealistic features of the model, assume away inessential complications while retaining the essential features of what you are trying to understand. You find out how good a job you have done by using the conjectures to make predictions and testing them. An added benefit of that process, as I discovered in the course of revising what became my first published journal article in economics in response to an initial rejection, is that finding real world predictions of your model may force you to think through the model itself more carefully. That is the Chicago School methodology as I understand and practice it.” (08/01/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/economic-methodology
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41) Making America Epstein Again
Source: The American Prospect
by Maureen Tkacik
“Dahud Ortiz is a post-traumatic Marine Corps veteran who traveled to Madrid to kill an attorney who’d been chatting with his wife and ended up killing an associate and two clients instead, setting fire to the office to cover his tracks. Vladimir Antonio Arevalo Chavez is a high-ranking MS-13 official who allegedly forged alliances with major Mexican drug organizations that ultimately cartelized the theretofore fragmented ‘coyote’ business of migrating to the United States, putting poor border-crossers in debt to organized crime figures. … Eric Adams allegedly took millions of dollars in direct bribes and illegal campaign contributions and is accused by a former police chief of transforming the New York Police Department into a ‘criminal enterprise’ for enriching allies and illegally arresting and launching tabloid smear campaigns against political enemies.” (08/01/25)
https://prospect.org/power/2025-08-01-making-america-epstein-again/
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42) Science, Funding, and Economic Prosperity
Source: Quillette
by Zachary Robert Caverley
“The most recent estimate suggests that basic research endowments will fall by US$15 billion in 2026. In a recent Quillette essay, Lawrence Krauss writes that these cuts threaten ‘the economic health and security of the US’ and ‘the future of scientific research and innovation at the country’s universities and scientific institutions.’ … These claims are worth examining in more detail. For a start, the best available evidence does not demonstrate that federal science funding predicts economic growth. This claim has been evaluated multiple times, sometimes decades apart. In 1989, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) audited R&D investments and determined that federally financed research was having no significant effect on the economy.” (08/01/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/08/01/science-funding-and-economic-prosperity-reply-to-lawrence-kraus/
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43) By Right or Permission?
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“If the deal struck by Paramount and President Donald Trump sickens you, your intuitions and perhaps your principles are in good working order. Make no mistake about what’s at the root of such things: ominipotent government. You need its permission for all kinds of things — so much for individual rights. As the NPR story states, the headline termination of The Late Show (which I’ve never watched) came ‘amid a flurry of steps taken by Paramount and Skydance Media — which has been seeking to acquire the media conglomerate — to appease the Trump administration. On Thursday, federal regulators announced they had voted to approve the deal valued at $8 billion.’ … In a market economy, two companies are free to combine if that’s what their owners want.” (08/01/25)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2025/08/tgif-by-right-or-permission.html
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44) The Paranoia of Officialdom: Age Verification and Using the Internet in Australia
Source: CounterPunch
by Binoy Kampmark
“Australia, in keeping with its penal history, has a long record of paranoid officialdom and paternalistic wowsers. Be it perceived threats to morality, the tendency of the populace to be corrupted, and a general, gnawing fear about what knowledge might do, Australia’s governing authorities have prized censorship. This recent trend is most conspicuous in an ongoing regulatory war being waged against the Internet and the corporate citizens that inhabit it. Terrified that Australia’s tender children will suffer ruination at the hand of online platforms, the entire population of the country will be subjected to age verification checks. Preparations are already underway in the country to impose a social media ban for users under the age of 16, ostensibly to protect the mental health and wellbeing of children.” (08/01/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/01/the-paranoia-of-officialdom-age-verification-and-using-the-internet-in-australia/
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45) Mamdani’s NYC could look like Sadiq Khan’s far-left London, and New Yorkers should be terrified
Source: New York Post
by Patricia Posner
“Many of my friends and former neighbors in New York — where I lived for 27 years — are anxious about the city’s future if it elects as mayor a self-proclaimed Muslim socialist. Another great world capital already offers a glimpse of what might lie ahead: London, under its far-left mayor, Sadiq Khan. I recently returned to my native London for the first time in more than two decades. What I found wasn’t the inclusive, cosmopolitan capital I had known and loved but a city so altered in tone and appearance that I scarcely recognized it. Over the course of a fortnight in June, neighborhood after neighborhood left me feeling not just like a visitor, but like a stranger in my own birthplace.” (08/02/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/opinion/zohran-mamdanis-nyc-could-look-like-sadiq-khans-far-left-london/
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46) Until the Democrats Adapt to New Media, They Will Never Win
Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn
“For a long period during the 2000s, when the Democratic Party establishment seemed largely to have lost the ability to connect to swing voters, it was more or less Comedy Central that acted as the real locus of the Democratic Party — it was very difficult to watch Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert and not end up feeling that Republicans were humorless fanatics and that the Dems, if absurd in their own way, were at least roughly on the side of sanity and good governance. But what has happened, with a change-over in the structure of informational flows over the past decade, is that Democrats have lost that advantage — and still somehow haven’t processed the change or how catastrophic it is for their party’s prospects.” (08/01/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/until-the-democrats-adapt-to-new
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47) The Muscle of Brussels
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“In a world where global power is measured by military strength, technological innovation, or cultural influence, it is striking that the European Union, without housing major tech giants or centers of disruptive innovation, has turned bureaucracy into a tool of global power. It shapes the behavior of global companies, including American big tech firms, which adapt their products to comply with European norms. This phenomenon is known as the ‘Brussels Effect’ and has positioned the EU as the world’s regulatory superpower, fueling growing tensions, particularly with the United States following the re-election of Donald Trump.” (08/01/25)
https://fee.org/articles/the-muscle-of-brussels/
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48) The Bobbies That Say NIII
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“In Great Britain, you can get police to show up at your door just by posting an unauthorized opinion on social media. Things are about to get worse. By talking about it online, Britons who think that the country has an immigration problem could draw the attention of a new police unit, National Internet Intelligence Investigations. Saying ‘we’ve got to protest about this’ will probably cause the sirens to go off.” (08/01/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/08/01/the-bobbies-that-say-niii/
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49) How to Hide a Genocide
Source: In These Times
by Alberto Toscano
“Over the past week, as multiple international bodies, human rights organizations and health workers warn that Gaza’s starvation crisis has reached a tipping point, and Palestinians there are facing ‘the worst-case scenario of famine,’ politicians and pundits across the political spectrum have discovered a new sense of urgency. On July 24, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), speaking on the Senate floor, decried mass starvation and pleaded with Israel to change course. Two days later, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) posted on X about Gaza’s ’humanitarian crisis’ and the need to ’flood the zone’ with aid, noting that ’the strategy of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ has failed. The day after that, former President Barack Obama denounced ‘the travesty of innocent people dying of preventable starvation.’ But it wasn’t just centrist Democrats. Within the last week, there have been abrupt shifts in many corners of the Right as well.” (08/01/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/centrist-dems-republicans-change-stance-on-gaza-to-hide-genocide
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50) The Truth About the Indo-American Relationship
Source: The American Conservative
by Sumantra Maitra
“There is no Trump Doctrine; it is a fool’s errand to justify strategic irrationality. This administration is increasingly running on instincts. Some of them are coherent: Burden-shifting in Europe is one example. The policy execution of these instincts, however, often leaves a lot to be desired. But, even by that standard, this new tariff regime is a bit difficult to understand. Tariffs on India can seem like a strange policy, especially, given the desire to pivot to Asia and balance China. … That said, this is a deeper issue, one lurking under sophisticated analysis. India is turning out to be a global problem. And it is in part the Indian government to blame.” (08/01/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-truth-about-the-indo-american-relationship/
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Fountainhead Forum, episode 339
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Panel discussion in honor of Ed Clark.” (08/01/25)
https://rumble.com/v6wz3u8-ff-339-tribute-panel-for-ed-clark.html
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52) Pink Flame of Liberty, 08/02/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Bigotry is Irrational and Repugnant: Where the Libertarian Party Went Horribly Wrong.” (08/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bxd9d14Lzo
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53) Unattended Baggage, episode 302
Source: Unattended Baggage
“An Alcoholic Ragemonster’s Guide to Etiquette.” (08/02/25)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-302-an-alcoholic-ragemonsters
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54) The Good Fight, 08/02/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Thomas Chatterton Williams on the Age of False Certainty.” (08/02/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/thomas-chatterton-williams-summer-2020
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55) The Fifth Column, episode 517
Source: The Fifth Column
“‘Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Male Gaze’ w/ Robbie Soave.” (08/02/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/517-pimp-o-nomics-how-i-learned-to
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56) The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 08/01/25
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Shannon Minter On Trans Life And Politics.” (08/01/25)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/shannon-minter-on-trans-life-and
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57) Freakonomics Radio, episode 643
Source: Freakonomics
“Why Do Candles Still Exist?” (08/01/25)
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-do-candles-still-exist/
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58) Anarcho Agenda, episode 140
Source: Anarcho Agenda
“Bitchute founder and CEO Ray Vahey sits down with me to discuss the value of digital privacy, and Bitchute’s commitment to your privacy.” (08/01/25)
https://anarchoagenda.libsyn.com/anarcho-agenda-ep-140-2025-08-01
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59) Half the Answer, episode 24
Source: Liberal Currents
“Civil Rights Under Trump.” (08/01/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-answer-24-civil-rights-under-trump/
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60) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2675
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Murray Sabrin on Navigating a Rigged Financial System.” (08/01/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2675-murray-sabrin-on-navigating-a-rigged-financial-system/
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61) System Update, episode 496
Source: System Update
“New Russiagate Disclosures Show Depths of CIA & FBI Guilt; Trump Forcing Universities to Adopt DEI Programs Only for Jewish Students; The “Pogrom” at FSU.” (08/01/25)
https://rumble.com/v6x01gs-system-update-show-496.html
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62) Rising, 08/01/25
Source: The Hill
“Niall Stanage and Amber Duke discuss the latest bombshell in the Russiagate scandal after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) declassified an appendix to the Durham Report.” (08/01/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5431838-rising-august-1-2025/
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63) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 08/01/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Press Sec’s Weird Fawning Rant Goes Awry as Poll Slide Worsens.” (08/01/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/198680/trump-press-sec-weird-fawning-rant-goes-awry-poll-slide-worsens
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64) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/01/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Tariffs & Manipulating Interest Rates Never Work — with Phillip Patrick.” (08/012/25)
https://rumble.com/v6wzrd4-tariffs-and-manipulating-interest-rates-never-work-with-phillip-patrick.html
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65) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/01/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Witkoff Meets Netanyahu, Trump Threatens Canada Over Palestine Recognition, and More.” (08/01/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_fO1oTc6ho
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Palestine: Israeli regime threatens to expand Gaza offensive
2) Bitcoin hovers at $114k after steep losses on tariff, economic fears
3) TX: Democrats flee state to prevent vote on redrawing congressional map
4) Modi Defiant as Trump Steps Up Pressure on India’s Russian Oil Purchases
5) Russia: Ukrainian drone attack sparks fire at oil depot in Sochi
6) House GOP offers to postpone Ghislaine Maxwell deposition as Supreme Court weighs her appeal
7) Mali: Former prime minister is arrested for supporting jailed critics of the ruling military junta
8) Leaked Hegseth Memo Suggests More US Troops on US Streets
9) US companies deny record number of shareholder votes
10) DC: Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to “go to hell”
11) Putin Widens Effort to Control Russia’s Internet
12) Hamas refuses to disarm until Palestinian state established [sic]
13) Challenge to Habba Appointment Needs Full Briefing, Judge Says
14) Study: Stevia could hold untapped potential to fight aggressive cancer
15) Russian and Chinese navies begin joint drills in Sea of Japan
16) Arrest made in robbery ring that nabbed $4 million, bombed Target ATM
17) FL: DeSantis whines about ICE gang poaching his own gang members
18) Slovenia becomes first EU regime to ban all weapons trade with Israel
19) Judge allows National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars
20) SpaceX Dragon delivers Crew-11 to International Space Station
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) This is Still Tom Lehrer’s Week That Was
22) Trump should heed, not hide, the jobs numbers
23) Canada, Where “Mischief” Considered Worse than Tyranny
24) Diocletian, the Roman Empire, and Forever Failing Price Controls
25) The IRS Is Now 25 Percent Smaller (and, Hopefully, Less Dangerous)
26) NYT Can’t Stop Sucking: How many times can one newspaper screw up a story?
27) An Arab light on a Hamas-free Gaza
28) “Hey, you there!”
29) Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls It A Genocide; Not So Bernie Sanders
30) The Complexity of Historical Narratives
31) Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy
32) Memo to All Demanding Palestinian Statehood: Hamas Still Has Hostages Debra J. Saunders
33) The Cruelty and Speciousness of Bret Stephens’ Denial of Genocide
34) How MTG became MAGA’s moral compass on Gaza
35) Trump Gets Rid of Those Pesky Statistics
36) The Dynamics of Difference: A Parable
37) As networks go nuts about her “genes,” ABC compares Sydney Sweeney ad to Nazis
38) There Is No Palestinian State
39) Pursuit of Happiness: The Growth of a Radical Idea
40) Economic Methodology
41) Making America Epstein Again
42) Science, Funding, and Economic Prosperity
43) By Right or Permission?
44) The Paranoia of Officialdom: Age Verification and Using the Internet in Australia
45) Mamdani’s NYC could look like Sadiq Khan’s far-left London, and New Yorkers should be terrified
46) Until the Democrats Adapt to New Media, They Will Never Win
47) The Muscle of Brussels
48) The Bobbies That Say NIII
49) How to Hide a Genocide
50) The Truth About the Indo-American Relationship
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Fountainhead Forum, episode 339
52) Pink Flame of Liberty, 08/02/25
53) Unattended Baggage, episode 302
54) The Good Fight, 08/02/25
55) The Fifth Column, episode 517
56) The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 08/01/25
57) Freakonomics Radio, episode 643
58) Anarcho Agenda, episode 140
59) Half the Answer, episode 24
60) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2675
61) System Update, episode 496
62) Rising, 08/01/25
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64) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/01/25
65) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/01/25
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1) Palestine: Israeli regime threatens to expand Gaza offensive
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Israel is threatening to expand its military offensive into additional areas of Gaza in a bid to increase pressure on Hamas and force the militant group to release the remaining Israeli hostages it still holds. An Israeli official said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was ‘in dialogue’ with the administration of US President Donald Trump over the controversial proposal. … Hamas, for its part, has consistently said it wants guarantees that any deal leads to an end to the war, something Netanyahu has refused. Since negotiations broke down, Netanyahu’s government has discussed expanding the military offensive into Gaza City and the central region of the strip, to where most of the territory’s population has been forcibly evacuated.” (08/04/25)
https://archive.is/n8Fjn
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2) Bitcoin hovers at $114k after steep losses on tariff, economic fears
Source: Investing.com
“Bitcoin moved little on Monday, steadying after logging steep losses over the past week as concerns over softening U.S. economic growth and looming trade tariffs dented appetite for risk-driven assets. Broader crypto prices rose marginally, but were also nursing from last week’s risk-off move, while some elements of profit-taking remained in play. Bitcoin rose 0.6% to $114.268.8 by 01:25 ET (05:25 GMT). Recent buying by major corporate holders did little to stem losses in Bitcoin, which was down nearly 3% in the last five days. Bitcoin sank in tandem with Wall Street on Friday, after nonfarm payrolls data for July read substantially weaker than expected.” (08/024/25)
https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/bitcoin-price-today-hovers-at-114k-after-steep-losses-on-tariff-economic-fears-4166947
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3) TX: Democrats flee state to prevent vote on redrawing congressional map
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Texas Democrats are fleeing the state to prevent a vote on Monday that could see five new Republican-leaning seats created in the House of Representatives. About 30 Democrats said they planned to flee to Illinois, where they plan to stay for a week, to thwart Republican efforts by denying them a quorum, or the minimum number of members to validate the vote’s proceedings. … The plan to flee the state is not without potential consequences. Members of the Texas Democrats face a $500-a-day fine and possible arrest, a measure that was introduced in 2023, two years after Democrats left the state for three weeks to block election legislation that included several restrictions on voting access.” [editor’s note: “We’re defending democracy … unless a democratic vote isn’t going to go our way, in which case screw democracy” – TLK] (08/04/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/texas-democrats-fleeing-redistricting-vote
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4) Modi Defiant as Trump Steps Up Pressure on India’s Russian Oil Purchases
Source: Bloomberg
“Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck a defiant tone in the face of US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, urging the nation to buy local goods as his administration signaled it would continue buying Russian oil. … Over the weekend, Modi underscored the importance of shielding India’s economic interests during uncertain global conditions. The comments came just days after the Trump administration imposed a 25% tariff on Indian exports to the US. The White House is also threatening more action if India continues Russian oil purchases. … The New York Times reported Saturday that India would keep buying Russian crude despite a threat of penalties from Trump, citing two senior Indian officials it didn’t identify.” (08/04/25)
https://archive.is/EOScN
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5) Russia: Ukrainian drone attack sparks fire at oil depot in Sochi
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“An overnight Ukrainian drone attack has sparked a fire at an oil depot in Sochi, the southwestern Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, local authorities say. The attack came a day after Ukraine’s military said it struck the Ryazan oil refinery in central Russia, causing a fire. Ukraine has regularly hit Russian oil and gas infrastructure in response to attacks on its own territory since Russia began its war in February 2022. … On Sunday, Ukraine’s air force said on Telegram that Russia had launched 76 attack drones and seven missiles targeting Ukraine overnight, striking eight locations throughout Ukraine. Ukraine’s air defence units destroyed 60 of the drones and one missile, it said. In the front-line regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson, at least three people were killed and more than 12 injured in Russian attacks over the 24 hours into Sunday morning, regional governors said.” (08/03/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/3/ukrainian-drone-attack-sparks-fire-at-oil-depot-in-sochi-southwest-russia
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6) House GOP offers to postpone Ghislaine Maxwell deposition as Supreme Court weighs her appeal
Source: CBS News
“The chair of the House Oversight Committee said Friday he’s willing to postpone convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell’s deposition until the Supreme Court reviews the appeal she filed in her criminal case. Maxwell, a longtime friend and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was convicted in 2021 on five federal counts related to sex trafficking. The committee, which is chaired by Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, subpoenaed Maxwell last week, ordering her to sit for a deposition on Aug. 11. The move came as the Trump administration faces bipartisan scrutiny over its handling of the Epstein case, with lawmakers calling on the government to release records on Maxwell and Epstein. … Maxwell was transferred from a low-security prison in Florida to a smaller, all-female minimum-security facility in Texas, CBS News learned Friday. No reason was given for the move, which outraged some Epstein and Maxwell accusers.” (08/01/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-gop-postpones-ghislaine-maxwell-deposition/
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7) Mali: Former prime minister is arrested for supporting jailed critics of the ruling military junta
Source: ABC News
“Mali’s former prime minister was taken into pretrial detention on Friday after expressing solidarity in a media post with jailed critics of the military junta ruling the West African country, his lawyer and a close associate said. Moussa Mara’s arrest is the latest in a crackdown on dissent by Mali’s military rulers following the country’s first pro-democracy rally since soldiers seized power nearly four years ago. Abdoulaye Yaro, a close associate of the former prime minister, told The Associated Press that Mara was arrested after a cybercrime prosecutor ordered his detention pending trial for expressing compassion for people jailed for political beliefs. A member of the cybercrime unit said Mara has been accused of ‘damaging the state’s credibility’ and that his trial would start on Sept. 29, 2025.” (08/01/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/malis-prime-minister-arrested-supporting-jailed-critics-ruling-124292424
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8) Leaked Hegseth Memo Suggests More US Troops on US Streets
Source: Common Dreams
“New reporting based on a leaked briefing memo from a recent meeting between high-level officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department sparked fresh warnings on Saturday about the Trump administration’s internal plans to increase its domestic use of the U.S. military. According to Greg Sargent of The New Republic, which obtained the memo, the document ‘suggests that Trump’s use of the military for domestic law enforcement on immigration could soon get worse.’ The ‘terrifying’ memo (which the outlet recreated and published online with certain redactions that concealed operational and personnel details) ‘provides a glimpse into the thinking of top officials as they seek to involve the Defense Department more deeply in these domestic operations, and it has unnerved experts who believe it portends a frightening escalation.'” (08/02/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/leaked-memo-dhs-pentagon-domestic-military
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9) US companies deny record number of shareholder votes
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Companies denied votes on a record number of resolutions during this proxy season after US regulators made it harder for shareholders to demand changes related to climate, diversity and labour rights. The US Securities and Exchange Commission granted 195 ‘no-action’ requests for companies to exclude a shareholder proposal from its proxy materials this year compared with 147 in 2024. That is a nearly 33 per cent increase and the highest number of omissions since ISS-Corporate started tracking the data in 2007.” (08/03/25)
https://archive.is/rvPpM
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10) DC: Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to “go to hell”
Source: SFGate
“The Senate left Washington Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees, calling it quits after days of contentious bipartisan negotiations and Trump posting on social media that Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer can ‘GO TO HELL!’ Without a deal in hand, Republicans say they may try to change Senate rules when they return in September to speed up the pace of confirmations. Trump has been pressuring senators to move quickly as Democrats blocked more nominees than usual this year, denying any fast unanimous consent votes and forcing roll calls on each one, a lengthy process that can take several days per nominee.” (08/02/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/senate-heads-home-with-no-deal-to-speed-20799620.php
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11) Putin Widens Effort to Control Russia’s Internet
Source: New York Times
“Russia is escalating its efforts to curtail online freedom, taking new steps toward a draconian state-controlled internet. The authorities are cracking down on workarounds that Russians have been using for access to foreign apps and banned content, including through new laws signed by President Vladimir V. Putin this week. … the Kremlin is building out a domestic ecosystem of easily monitored and censored Russian alternatives to Western tech products. That includes a new state-sanctioned messaging service, MAX, which will come preinstalled by law on all new smartphones sold in Russia starting in September. The idea, experts say, is to migrate more Russians from an open internet dominated by the products of Western tech giants to a censored online ecosystem, where Russians primarily use software under the gaze and influence of the state.” (08/03/25)
https://archive.is/eLtst
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12) Hamas refuses to disarm until Palestinian state established [sic]
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Hamas has reaffirmed that it will not agree to disarm unless a sovereign Palestinian state is established [sic], in response to one of Israel’s key demands in talks about a ceasefire in Gaza. The Palestinian armed group said it was responding to remarks it attributed to US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff that Hamas had ‘expressed its willingness’ to lay down its weapons. Israel considers the disarmament of Hamas one of several key conditions for any deal to end the conflict. Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas to secure a ceasefire and the release of hostages stalled last week.” [editor’s note: The state of Palestine was established in 1988; what Hamas wants is a totalitarian theocratic state under its control, which is why, ever since it won one election in 2006, it has refused to let Palestinians in Gaza vote again – TLK] (08/02/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce35nx49reko
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13) Challenge to Habba Appointment Needs Full Briefing, Judge Says
Source: Bloomberg
“A federal judge deferred ruling on a New Jersey criminal defendant’s challenge of Alina Habba’s appointment as acting US attorney, saying he wanted to more fully consider the dispute before reaching a decision. The Friday order leaves some uncertainty among New Jersey federal trial courts, where judges earlier this week started pausing criminal matters to allow the legal dispute over Habba’s role play out in court. … Trump in March appointed Habba as an interim US attorney, and under federal law, federal judges can pick a temporary successor when a 120-day interim term expires. Judges in New Jersey tapped Desiree Grace, Habba’s top deputy, to replace her. But the administration responded by firing Grace and appointing Habba as a special attorney and naming her a first assistant, enabling Habba to remain in the office as an acting US attorney.” (08/01/25)
https://archive.is/2qQYg
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14) Study: Stevia could hold untapped potential to fight aggressive cancer
Source: Fox News
“A household sweetener could hold the potential to create an anti-cancer treatment. New research from Hiroshima University in Japan revealed that stevia leaf extract could help fight pancreatic cancer cells. The leaves of the stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana) are used to make stevia extract, a naturally sweet substance commonly used as a sugar substitute. The study, published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, investigated the anti-cancer properties of stevia leaf extract when it is fermented with a certain strain of bacteria. In laboratory research, the fermented extract exhibited ‘significantly enhanced antioxidant activity and cytotoxicity’ against pancreatic cancer cells, the researchers revealed. This led them to believe that this substance could serve as a ‘promising candidate for pancreatic cancer treatment.'” (08/03/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/health/common-sweetener-could-hold-untapped-potential-fight-aggressive-cancer-study-finds?msockid=02013b5a406a67380e922e1d419b66f7
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15) Russian and Chinese navies begin joint drills in Sea of Japan
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Russia and China began joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan on Sunday as they seek to reinforce their ‘no-limits’ strategic partnership – signed shortly before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The drills take place two days after US President Donald Trump announced he had deployed two nuclear submarines to ‘the appropriate regions’ in response to comments by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. … However, they were scheduled well before Trump’s action. Interfax news agency quoted the Pacific Fleet as saying Russian and Chinese vessels were moving in a joint detachment including a large Russian anti-submarine ship and two Chinese destroyers.” (08/03/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250803-russian-and-chinese-navies-begin-joint-drills-in-sea-of-japan
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16) Arrest made in robbery ring that nabbed $4 million, bombed Target ATM
Source: SFGate
“Federal authorities have arrested a man on charges he took part in a string of ATM robberies that nabbed more than $4 million in a monthslong spree that targeted dozens of institutions along the West Coast, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California. Authorities arrested Diego Ananias Arellano Diaz, who also allegedly used the alias Fabio Cristian Hernandez, in Newport Beach on July 29 on charges of bank robbery and conspiracy to commit bank robbery. Officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office alleged Diaz is part of an 11-person robbery crew that targeted at least 29 vulnerable banks and credit unions in California, Oregon and Washington since October 2024.” (08/01/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bomb-solves-target-atm-heist-20797775.php
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17) FL: DeSantis whines about ICE gang poaching his own gang members
Source: Florida Politics
“Florida’s Governor is griping about the Department of Homeland Security looking to ‘poach’ local and state law enforcement for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ‘Sheriffs losing deputies who are in this fight to just wear a different jersey, basically, but still be in the fight, that doesn’t necessarily add to what we’re doing. It’s just moving someone over,’ Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday. … ICE is offering benefits that can’t be matched locally, in what it calls a ‘robust’ package of federal law enforcement incentives, including a ‘maximum $50,000 signing bonus.’ Depending on how hiring progresses, it could exacerbate long-term shortages in law enforcement agencies. Enhanced retirement benefits, student loan forgiveness, 25% Law Enforcement Availability Pay (LEAP) for HSI Special Agents, and ‘Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime (AUI) for Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) Deportation Officers’ are among the incentives.” (08/01/25)
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/749430-ron-desantis-ice-poaching/
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18) Slovenia becomes first EU regime to ban all weapons trade with Israel
Source: Politico
“Slovenia became the first EU country to ban all weapons trade with Israel, citing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The government also prohibited the transit of weapons to or from Israel through Slovenia, the administration in Ljubljana said in a statement Thursday. Slovenia said that it decided to act independently from the EU, as ‘due to internal disagreements and disunity,’ the bloc is unable to take action against Israel. Though the European Commission proposed partially suspending Israel’s association agreement with the EU this week, member countries have yet to agree on it.” (08/01/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/slovenia-bans-weapons-sales-israel-eu-palestine-gaza-humanitarian-crisis
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19) Judge allows National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars
Source: SFGate
“The National Science Foundation can continue to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars from researchers in several states until litigation aimed at restoring it plays out, a federal court ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge John Cronan in New York declined to force the NSF to restart payments immediately, while the case is still being decided, as requested by the sixteen Democrat-led states who brought the suit …. Cronan said he would not grant the preliminary injunction in part because it may be that another court, the Court of Federal Claims, has jurisdiction over what is essentially a case about money. He also said the states failed to show that NSF’s actions were counter to the agency’s mandate. The lawsuit filed in May alleges that the National Science Foundation’s new grant-funding priorities as well as a cap on what’s known as indirect research expenses ‘violate the law and jeopardize America’s longstanding global leadership in STEM.'” (08/01/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/judge-allows-the-national-science-foundation-to-20798628.php
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20) SpaceX Dragon delivers Crew-11 to International Space Station
Source: United Press International
“The four Crew-11 crew members joined seven other astronauts in the International Space Station early Saturday morning following a 15-hour journey from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, entered the ISS at 3:46 a.m. EDT, NASA said. At 2:27 a.m., the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked at the ISS’s Harmony module, and then the crew conducted standard leak checks and pressurization between the two spacecraft. The docking occurred as the two spacecraft were 264 miles above the South Pacific Ocean.” (08/02/25)
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2025/08/02/Nasa-SpaceX-Crew-11-docks-International-Space-Station/8051754139869/
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21) This is Still Tom Lehrer’s Week That Was
Source: Garrison Center
by Joel Schlosberg
“Six decades after Tom Lehrer adapted his songs on such then-current topics as the Second Vatican Council and the vice-presidency of Hubert Horatio Humphrey from NBC’s That Was the Week That Was into his final album That Was the Year That Was, it remains clear that his works will remain relevant weeks, and years, after his passing on July 26 at 97. … Admittedly, as LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik noted on Lehrer’s 90th birthday, writing about ‘racial conflict, pollution, religious intolerance, nuclear brinkmanship’ ensured engaging issues that ‘have never gone away.’ If anything, Lehrer underestimated the political rancor to come.” (08/02/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19827
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22) Trump should heed, not hide, the jobs numbers
Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“For months, commentators have been asking why tariffs aren’t weighing on the economy more heavily. Importers — including many manufacturers — have been worried that they will. But the headline jobs and gross domestic product data have looked pretty good. Then came Friday’s jobs report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, a unit of the Labor Department, revised its estimates for May and June payrolls sharply downward, by more than 250,000 jobs, and estimated that the economy added only 73,000 jobs in July, well below analysts’ expectations. Virtually all these new jobs came from health care and social services. The numbers contain no sign of the manufacturing boom that President Donald Trump has promised. … So Trump took immediate, decisive action: He hopped on Truth Social and announced that he would fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.” (08/02/25)
https://archive.is/9uK55
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23) Canada, Where “Mischief” Considered Worse than Tyranny
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“According to Canada’s top prosecutors, the only thing worse than tyranny is ‘mischief.’ And the worst possible ‘mischief’ is objecting to tyranny. In a sentencing hearing earlier this week, the Canadian government sought a ludicrous eight-year sentence for Chris Barber, one of the leaders of the Covid ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest that riled Ottawa in early 2022. For another leader, Tamara Lich, the Crown asked for an outlandish seven years. In April, a court ruled that Barbers and Lich were not guilty of obstructing police or intimidation during the demonstrations. But they were convicted of ‘mischief’ — in part because the truckers in the 40-mile convoy honked their horns to protest some of the most oppressive Covid mandates in the world. Crown prosecutor Siobhain Wetscher justified the harsh prison sentences saying ‘it’s difficult to imagine an offense of mischief with greater impact.'” (08/02/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/08/02/n-y-post-canada-where-mischief-considered-worse-than-tyranny/
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24) Diocletian, the Roman Empire, and Forever Failing Price Controls
Source: EconLog
by Tarnell Brown
“By the time Diocletian came to power in 284 CE, his (non-immediate) predecessor, Aurelius, had done much to restore some semblance of order to the Empire, reunifying what had broken into three kingdoms and expelling invaders such as the Sarmatians and Vandals from Roman territory. Diocletian expanded on these actions, even going so far as to form a quartet of governing individuals, called the Tetrarchy, which co-administered the Empire with him at the head. However, the inflation continued, and the Emperor worsened it via a massive increase in military and public works spending. … Citing the influence of ‘evil traders,’ in 301 CE, Diocletian issued his Edict on Maximum Prices, which instituted widespread price controls on over one thousand different items …. Diocletian preemptively placed the blame for any failures of his policy on greed, launching into invective against wicked speculators and evil profiteers who conspired to rob into beggary a helpless public.” (08/01/25)
https://www.econlib.org/diocletian-the-roman-empire-and-forever-failing-price-controls/
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25) The IRS Is Now 25 Percent Smaller (and, Hopefully, Less Dangerous)
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“Most of us hate taxes, and for good reason: They’re legalized muggings to support a government that no decent person would want to fund or empower. Ideally, Congress would dramatically slash taxes, make remaining impositions less intrusive, and cut government to match. But while we got a bit of tax relief in the One Big Beautiful Bill, it did little to cut the expense or reach of the state, nor did it reform the byzantine tax code. The good news is that there are fewer tax collectors to enforce the federal government’s demands now that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been reduced by a quarter.” (08/01/25)
https://reason.com/2025/08/01/the-irs-is-now-25-percent-smaller-and-hopefully-less-dangerous/
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26) NYT Can’t Stop Sucking: How many times can one newspaper screw up a story?
Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi
“Predictably, the New York Times pooh-poohed the release of the classified annex to the Durham report. … Mr. Trump and his aides have coupled those releases with wild and inaccurate claims about what they show, spinning the reports as proof of his long-running narrative that the investigation was a hoax instigated by enemies for political reasons. This whole ‘assembled by Russian spies’ line is based on one assessment about a pair of emails likely pulled by Russians from other real American victims of hacking. Beyond this instance of a ‘composite’, the paper ignores the gigantic load of material from the same source, which has been described in multiple other reports as real and affecting numerous American ‘victims’ from the Executive and Legislative branches, as well as think-tanks and NGOs.” (08/01/25)
https://www.racket.news/p/the-new-york-times-cant-stop-sucking
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27) An Arab light on a Hamas-free Gaza
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Leaders of almost the entire Muslim world, from Morocco to Indonesia, recently signed on to an extraordinary statement. They endorsed a call for Hamas to end its control of Gaza and hand over its weapons. In effect, the demand, led by the 22-state Arab League, acknowledges that the individual sovereignty of the people in Gaza, not Hamas, must determine the territory’s governance. While the statement is a historic first for Arab nations, the universal principle of individual sovereignty – or a person’s inherent right to be free and treated equally – has been gaining ground among Gaza’s 2 million residents. Even before its 2023 attack on Israel, Hamas had lost much of its legitimacy. As its popularity further dropped, protests began to break out in March openly condemning the Islamist group – despite threats of retaliation.” (08/01/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0801/An-Arab-light-on-a-Hamas-free-Gaza
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28) “Hey, you there!”
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“In empirical terms we are living during one of the most economically unequal periods in modern history, across multiple measures. … An empirical evaluation of the relationship between capital and the state requires us to analyze capital’s dependence on state power, the extent of state-corporate symbiosis or capture, and the relationship between the state’s many favors and the real-world outcomes we observe. The evidence strongly supports the conclusion that this extreme inequality is the result of mechanisms that fall within a broad, structural definition of rent extraction through state power.” (08/02/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/hey-you-there
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29) Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls It A Genocide; Not So Bernie Sanders
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“MAGA wingnut Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling the Gaza holocaust a genocide while progressive hero Bernie Sanders continues to adamantly refuse to do so, despite the solidified consensus among human rights groups and genocide experts that that’s what this is. This is humiliating for everything that passes for the ‘left’ in mainstream US politics. Imagine being such a dogshit human being that you’d let Marjorie Taylor Greene be a better person than you. I keep seeing people say we shouldn’t use the label genocide until Israel has been found guilty by an international court, but that’s exactly the same as saying you can’t say a murderer is trying to murder someone and intervene to stop him until he has been convicted of murder in a court of law.” (08/02/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/08/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-called-it-a-genocide-before-bernie-sanders/
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30) The Complexity of Historical Narratives
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“There are many reasons why people twist historical facts to fit their preconceived narrative, but of specific interest in this article are the dominant collectivist interpretations of history. Collectivists err in attempting to explain history entirely by reference to the notion that each man must have reacted to historical events in the same way as would be expected of any and all members of his group. The collectivist subsumes all human behavior within the general framework of the group whose history is being discussed, therefore, identifying and classifying groups assumes paramount importance in collectivist theories of history. They streamline history into neat accounts of what everyone in the identified group generally did — and assume that the ‘very rare exceptions,’ which do not affect the truth of the narrative, may safely be ignored.” (08/01/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/complexity-historical-narratives
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31) Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmire war between Russia and Ukraine. His instincts — that continued involvement in that conflict was not in America’s best interests — were sound. Indeed, he signaled throughout the 2024 presidential campaign that he intended to terminate military and financial aid to Kyiv as soon as possible. Most of his MAGA supporters seemed to agree that the Biden administration’s willingness to send billions of dollars to Ukraine when the United States had pressing needs at home was disgraceful. Just months into his term, however, the president seems to have abandoned the goal of jettisoning the Ukraine commitment. Instead, he has continued weapons shipments to Kyiv and authorized new ones.” (08/01/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2025/08/01/climbing-aboard-the-titanic-trumps-new-ukraine-policy/
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32) Memo to All Demanding Palestinian Statehood: Hamas Still Has Hostages Debra J. Saunders
Source: Town Hall
by Debra J Saunders
“‘The fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!’ President Donald Trump wrote Thursday morning on Truth Social. Amen. While in Scotland on Monday, Trump had voiced a very human concern about the children of Gaza, when he said, ‘I mean, some of those kids are — that’s real starvation stuff. I see it, and you can’t fake it. So we’re going to be even more involved.’ His remarks come ahead of the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September. So begins another pressure campaign from the all-bow international community to weaken Israel’s self-defense in a war Hamas started on Oct. 7, 2023, by murdering some 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages.” [editor’s note: The Israeli regime was holding, and continues to hold, far more than 250 hostages; why don’t they count? – TLK] (08/02/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2025/08/02/memo-to-all-demanding-palestinian-statehood-hamas-still-has-hostages-n2661295
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33) The Cruelty and Speciousness of Bret Stephens’ Denial of Genocide
Source: Common Dreams
by Ralph Nader
“After the long-time skittish New York Times published a lengthy essay by the renowned genocide scholar, Prof. Omer Bartov of Brown University, titled ‘I’m a Genocide Scholar, I Know It When I see It,’ the Palestinian-hater, Times columnist Bret Stephens, immediately jumped into the Netanyahu‑style rebuttal mode. His column was titled ‘No, Israel is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza.’ His cruel and specious assertion, contradicted by many genocide scholars, was that if the Israeli regime was truly genocidal, they would have committed ‘hundreds of thousands of deaths’ in Gaza instead of the mere 60,000 deaths reported by the Hamas‑run Health Ministry. Get real, Mr. Stephens, the Israeli military has destroyed the lives of at least one out of four Palestinians there, or about half a million at least, from the daily bombing since October 7, 2023, of civilians and their infrastructure.” (08/02/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/bret-stephens-genocide-denial
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34) How MTG became MAGA’s moral compass on Gaza
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jack Hunter
“Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene has bucked her president, called for yanking aid to Israel, and was the first Republican to call what is happening ‘a genocide.'” (08/01/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/marjorie-taylor-greene-gaza/
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35) Trump Gets Rid of Those Pesky Statistics
Source: The Atlantic
by Alexandra Petri
“For decades, Donald Trump has been at war with numbers. Some capitulated more swiftly than others. His weight, his golf scores, and his net worth have long fallen in line. As I understand it, a Trump doctor appointment consists of going to a medical professional and announcing how much you would like to weigh and what your resting heart rate ought to be …. Some data, such as the number of votes he received at the polls in 2020, initially refused to budge. But with a little bit of threatening from some extra-patriotic patriots, the election turned out to have been a Trump blowout. Just ask any elected Republican; he’ll tell you! … And now at last Donald Trump has fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Once these disloyal statisticians are out of the way, the data will finally start to cooperate.” (08/01/25)
https://archive.is/k4QrH
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36) The Dynamics of Difference: A Parable
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“In an distant world, a group of funny-colored aliens must confront the contradictions of clashing worldviews.” (08/01/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-dynamics-of-difference-a-parable
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37) As networks go nuts about her “genes,” ABC compares Sydney Sweeney ad to Nazis
Source: Fox News
by Tim Graham
“The typical time that broadcast networks report on the advertising world is just before Super Bowl Sunday, to give viewers an advance peek at what companies will be shelling out millions to display. The clothing company American Eagle just scored a marketing coup with ad with White actress Sydney Sweeney making a sly joke about her ‘genes’ and her jeans. ‘Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color,’ cooed the actress. ‘My jeans are blue.’ This quickly spurred outrage from purple-haired TikTokers and leftist websites complaining about ‘centering Whiteness’ and ‘fascist propaganda.’ On Tuesday, July 29, ABC’s ‘Good Morning America First Look’ was already employing the word ‘backlash.'” (08/02/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/broadcast-bias-abc-compares-sydney-sweeney-ad-nazis-networks-go-nuts-about-her-genes
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38) There Is No Palestinian State
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“There is one big problem with recognizing a Palestinian state, as the United Kingdom, France, and Canada apparently intend to do: There is no Palestinian state. You wouldn’t know that from the formalities: Almost as many countries recognize the so-called Palestinian state as recognize Israel. But a Palestinian state cannot be wished into existence. It cannot be created by means of a declaration or a polite diplomatic fiction. A state is not a moral condition or an accoutrement of a people’s shared aspiration. A state is an apparatus that does things: providing security, law, governance, and other public goods. There is nothing in Gaza that even comes close to approximating a Palestinian state, nor is there a functioning state overseen by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank in anything but name.” (08/01/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/palestinian-statehood-israel-starmer-macron/
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39) Pursuit of Happiness: The Growth of a Radical Idea
Source: The Daily Economy
by John C Goodman
“The idea that people have an unalienable right to pursue their own happiness is a very radical idea. Prior to the eighteenth century, almost no one in the world believed it. Even today, only a small sliver of humankind agrees with it. Equally radical is the idea that the only purpose of government is to protect that right. We can quibble about some of the details, but the central idea is unequivocal. If you and I both have the right to pursue our own happiness, it would be wrong for a government to impose burdens on you just to make me happier. Critics of this political philosophy invariably note that some of the authors of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves. But remember, just about everyone else in the world at the time thought that there was no such thing as an individual right.” (08/01/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/pursuit-of-happiness-the-growth-of-a-radical-idea/
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40) Economic Methodology
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“I conclude that the correct way of doing economics combines a priori theory with evidence. You form plausible conjectures on the basis of theory and evidence, where part of forming them is deciding what simplifications, what unrealistic features of the model, assume away inessential complications while retaining the essential features of what you are trying to understand. You find out how good a job you have done by using the conjectures to make predictions and testing them. An added benefit of that process, as I discovered in the course of revising what became my first published journal article in economics in response to an initial rejection, is that finding real world predictions of your model may force you to think through the model itself more carefully. That is the Chicago School methodology as I understand and practice it.” (08/01/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/economic-methodology
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41) Making America Epstein Again
Source: The American Prospect
by Maureen Tkacik
“Dahud Ortiz is a post-traumatic Marine Corps veteran who traveled to Madrid to kill an attorney who’d been chatting with his wife and ended up killing an associate and two clients instead, setting fire to the office to cover his tracks. Vladimir Antonio Arevalo Chavez is a high-ranking MS-13 official who allegedly forged alliances with major Mexican drug organizations that ultimately cartelized the theretofore fragmented ‘coyote’ business of migrating to the United States, putting poor border-crossers in debt to organized crime figures. … Eric Adams allegedly took millions of dollars in direct bribes and illegal campaign contributions and is accused by a former police chief of transforming the New York Police Department into a ‘criminal enterprise’ for enriching allies and illegally arresting and launching tabloid smear campaigns against political enemies.” (08/01/25)
https://prospect.org/power/2025-08-01-making-america-epstein-again/
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42) Science, Funding, and Economic Prosperity
Source: Quillette
by Zachary Robert Caverley
“The most recent estimate suggests that basic research endowments will fall by US$15 billion in 2026. In a recent Quillette essay, Lawrence Krauss writes that these cuts threaten ‘the economic health and security of the US’ and ‘the future of scientific research and innovation at the country’s universities and scientific institutions.’ … These claims are worth examining in more detail. For a start, the best available evidence does not demonstrate that federal science funding predicts economic growth. This claim has been evaluated multiple times, sometimes decades apart. In 1989, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) audited R&D investments and determined that federally financed research was having no significant effect on the economy.” (08/01/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/08/01/science-funding-and-economic-prosperity-reply-to-lawrence-kraus/
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43) By Right or Permission?
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“If the deal struck by Paramount and President Donald Trump sickens you, your intuitions and perhaps your principles are in good working order. Make no mistake about what’s at the root of such things: ominipotent government. You need its permission for all kinds of things — so much for individual rights. As the NPR story states, the headline termination of The Late Show (which I’ve never watched) came ‘amid a flurry of steps taken by Paramount and Skydance Media — which has been seeking to acquire the media conglomerate — to appease the Trump administration. On Thursday, federal regulators announced they had voted to approve the deal valued at $8 billion.’ … In a market economy, two companies are free to combine if that’s what their owners want.” (08/01/25)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2025/08/tgif-by-right-or-permission.html
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44) The Paranoia of Officialdom: Age Verification and Using the Internet in Australia
Source: CounterPunch
by Binoy Kampmark
“Australia, in keeping with its penal history, has a long record of paranoid officialdom and paternalistic wowsers. Be it perceived threats to morality, the tendency of the populace to be corrupted, and a general, gnawing fear about what knowledge might do, Australia’s governing authorities have prized censorship. This recent trend is most conspicuous in an ongoing regulatory war being waged against the Internet and the corporate citizens that inhabit it. Terrified that Australia’s tender children will suffer ruination at the hand of online platforms, the entire population of the country will be subjected to age verification checks. Preparations are already underway in the country to impose a social media ban for users under the age of 16, ostensibly to protect the mental health and wellbeing of children.” (08/01/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/01/the-paranoia-of-officialdom-age-verification-and-using-the-internet-in-australia/
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45) Mamdani’s NYC could look like Sadiq Khan’s far-left London, and New Yorkers should be terrified
Source: New York Post
by Patricia Posner
“Many of my friends and former neighbors in New York — where I lived for 27 years — are anxious about the city’s future if it elects as mayor a self-proclaimed Muslim socialist. Another great world capital already offers a glimpse of what might lie ahead: London, under its far-left mayor, Sadiq Khan. I recently returned to my native London for the first time in more than two decades. What I found wasn’t the inclusive, cosmopolitan capital I had known and loved but a city so altered in tone and appearance that I scarcely recognized it. Over the course of a fortnight in June, neighborhood after neighborhood left me feeling not just like a visitor, but like a stranger in my own birthplace.” (08/02/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/opinion/zohran-mamdanis-nyc-could-look-like-sadiq-khans-far-left-london/
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46) Until the Democrats Adapt to New Media, They Will Never Win
Source: Persuasion
by Sam Kahn
“For a long period during the 2000s, when the Democratic Party establishment seemed largely to have lost the ability to connect to swing voters, it was more or less Comedy Central that acted as the real locus of the Democratic Party — it was very difficult to watch Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert and not end up feeling that Republicans were humorless fanatics and that the Dems, if absurd in their own way, were at least roughly on the side of sanity and good governance. But what has happened, with a change-over in the structure of informational flows over the past decade, is that Democrats have lost that advantage — and still somehow haven’t processed the change or how catastrophic it is for their party’s prospects.” (08/01/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/until-the-democrats-adapt-to-new
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47) The Muscle of Brussels
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“In a world where global power is measured by military strength, technological innovation, or cultural influence, it is striking that the European Union, without housing major tech giants or centers of disruptive innovation, has turned bureaucracy into a tool of global power. It shapes the behavior of global companies, including American big tech firms, which adapt their products to comply with European norms. This phenomenon is known as the ‘Brussels Effect’ and has positioned the EU as the world’s regulatory superpower, fueling growing tensions, particularly with the United States following the re-election of Donald Trump.” (08/01/25)
https://fee.org/articles/the-muscle-of-brussels/
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48) The Bobbies That Say NIII
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“In Great Britain, you can get police to show up at your door just by posting an unauthorized opinion on social media. Things are about to get worse. By talking about it online, Britons who think that the country has an immigration problem could draw the attention of a new police unit, National Internet Intelligence Investigations. Saying ‘we’ve got to protest about this’ will probably cause the sirens to go off.” (08/01/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/08/01/the-bobbies-that-say-niii/
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49) How to Hide a Genocide
Source: In These Times
by Alberto Toscano
“Over the past week, as multiple international bodies, human rights organizations and health workers warn that Gaza’s starvation crisis has reached a tipping point, and Palestinians there are facing ‘the worst-case scenario of famine,’ politicians and pundits across the political spectrum have discovered a new sense of urgency. On July 24, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), speaking on the Senate floor, decried mass starvation and pleaded with Israel to change course. Two days later, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) posted on X about Gaza’s ’humanitarian crisis’ and the need to ’flood the zone’ with aid, noting that ’the strategy of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ has failed. The day after that, former President Barack Obama denounced ‘the travesty of innocent people dying of preventable starvation.’ But it wasn’t just centrist Democrats. Within the last week, there have been abrupt shifts in many corners of the Right as well.” (08/01/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/centrist-dems-republicans-change-stance-on-gaza-to-hide-genocide
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50) The Truth About the Indo-American Relationship
Source: The American Conservative
by Sumantra Maitra
“There is no Trump Doctrine; it is a fool’s errand to justify strategic irrationality. This administration is increasingly running on instincts. Some of them are coherent: Burden-shifting in Europe is one example. The policy execution of these instincts, however, often leaves a lot to be desired. But, even by that standard, this new tariff regime is a bit difficult to understand. Tariffs on India can seem like a strange policy, especially, given the desire to pivot to Asia and balance China. … That said, this is a deeper issue, one lurking under sophisticated analysis. India is turning out to be a global problem. And it is in part the Indian government to blame.” (08/01/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-truth-about-the-indo-american-relationship/
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51) Fountainhead Forum, episode 339
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Panel discussion in honor of Ed Clark.” (08/01/25)
https://rumble.com/v6wz3u8-ff-339-tribute-panel-for-ed-clark.html
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52) Pink Flame of Liberty, 08/02/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Bigotry is Irrational and Repugnant: Where the Libertarian Party Went Horribly Wrong.” (08/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bxd9d14Lzo
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53) Unattended Baggage, episode 302
Source: Unattended Baggage
“An Alcoholic Ragemonster’s Guide to Etiquette.” (08/02/25)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-302-an-alcoholic-ragemonsters
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54) The Good Fight, 08/02/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Thomas Chatterton Williams on the Age of False Certainty.” (08/02/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/thomas-chatterton-williams-summer-2020
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55) The Fifth Column, episode 517
Source: The Fifth Column
“‘Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Male Gaze’ w/ Robbie Soave.” (08/02/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/517-pimp-o-nomics-how-i-learned-to
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56) The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 08/01/25
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Shannon Minter On Trans Life And Politics.” (08/01/25)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/shannon-minter-on-trans-life-and
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57) Freakonomics Radio, episode 643
Source: Freakonomics
“Why Do Candles Still Exist?” (08/01/25)
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-do-candles-still-exist/
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58) Anarcho Agenda, episode 140
Source: Anarcho Agenda
“Bitchute founder and CEO Ray Vahey sits down with me to discuss the value of digital privacy, and Bitchute’s commitment to your privacy.” (08/01/25)
https://anarchoagenda.libsyn.com/anarcho-agenda-ep-140-2025-08-01
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59) Half the Answer, episode 24
Source: Liberal Currents
“Civil Rights Under Trump.” (08/01/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-answer-24-civil-rights-under-trump/
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60) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2675
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Murray Sabrin on Navigating a Rigged Financial System.” (08/01/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2675-murray-sabrin-on-navigating-a-rigged-financial-system/
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61) System Update, episode 496
Source: System Update
“New Russiagate Disclosures Show Depths of CIA & FBI Guilt; Trump Forcing Universities to Adopt DEI Programs Only for Jewish Students; The “Pogrom” at FSU.” (08/01/25)
https://rumble.com/v6x01gs-system-update-show-496.html
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62) Rising, 08/01/25
Source: The Hill
“Niall Stanage and Amber Duke discuss the latest bombshell in the Russiagate scandal after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) declassified an appendix to the Durham Report.” (08/01/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5431838-rising-august-1-2025/
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63) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 08/01/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Press Sec’s Weird Fawning Rant Goes Awry as Poll Slide Worsens.” (08/01/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/198680/trump-press-sec-weird-fawning-rant-goes-awry-poll-slide-worsens
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64) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/01/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Tariffs & Manipulating Interest Rates Never Work — with Phillip Patrick.” (08/012/25)
https://rumble.com/v6wzrd4-tariffs-and-manipulating-interest-rates-never-work-with-phillip-patrick.html
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65) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/01/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Witkoff Meets Netanyahu, Trump Threatens Canada Over Palestine Recognition, and More.” (08/01/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_fO1oTc6ho
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