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Thomas L. Knapp
Apr 25, 2025, 6:23:22 AMApr 25
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Today's Freedom News:
0) HYBRID FRIDAY!
1) Ukraine hit by another night of deadly Russian strikes despite Trump’s “Vladimir, STOP!” plea
2) Judge: Abducted Tufts student must be moved to Vermont
3) Indian, Pakistani regimes revoke each other’s visas as tensions rise after deadly Kashmir attack
4) Judge halts parts of Trump’s election meddling scheme
5) Trump regime asks SCOTUS to allow transgender troops ban enforcement
6) Top international official in Bosnia cuts financing for ruling Serb parties to pressure separatists
7) Feds accidentally publish secret plan to kill NYC congestion pricing
8) China: Regime says Trump’s lying about tariff talks
9) Report: Harvard endowment holds $7 million per student, still receives $550 million from government annually
10) March US home sales slowed in a lethargic opening to the spring buying season
11) Fetterman calls for bombing Iranian nuclear facilities
12) NH: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s push to end DEI in K-12 public schools
13) As US FDA Delays Novavax’s COVID Vaccine Approval, Patients Fight Back
14) XX-XY Athletics founder slams Nike over alleged funding of child transgender athletes study
15) Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to “sanctuary cities”
16) Federal judge orders US regime to pay North Dakota regime $28 million over oil pipeline protests
17) NJ: 19-year-old accused of sparking massive wildfire, charged with arson
18) DR Congo: Regime, rebels announce ceasefire after talks in Qatar
19) Study: Bonobos in Congo form “girl groups” to fend off male aggression
20) CA: Homeowner shoots naked burglar during home invasion
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) How a President Becomes a Dictator: By Executive Order
22) Every Accusation is a Confession: “Insurrection” Edition
23) The Illusion of Inflationary Prosperity
24) Paper Money as a Weapon of War
25) Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?
26) In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism
27) The constitutionally dubious law empowering Trump’s ’emergency’ tariff authority
28) Four Explanatory Models for Trump’s Chaos
29) In postwar Ethiopia, a stand on higher ground
30) The Road to Campus Serfdom
31) Leftists [sic] to blame for much of US housing crisis
32) Europe Must Stop Playing Pawn to American Power
33) The Gutting of American Mental Health Care
34) What Scrooge Effect? Americans Keep Giving, Despite the Welfare State
35) Discourse on Race Has a Conformity Problem
36) An Absurd Rationale for Provoking a Constitutional Crisis
37) Dems, Clintons & globalists work together to censor Americans … for “democracy”
38) Ukraine, Europe can’t afford to refuse Trump’s peace plan
39) Saving the World is Not America’s Responsibility
40) Apple’s battle with the UK surveillance state
41) What Is To Be Done? Take Hold of Our History
42) A Cuomo Indictment?
43) Seven Reasons Why It’s Absurd To Bomb Iran
44) Rümeysa Öztürk’s Ordeal Is Our Nation’s Disgrace
45) Electric Vehicles: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
46) Reinventing the Trade Deal Wheel, Only Much Worse
47) What Happens When You Abuse People
48) For Earth Day, Let’s Try Speeding Up Instead of Slowing Down
49) The Permanent Tariff Damage
50) The corrupt nature of mainstream media
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52) The Kyle Anzalon Show, 04/24/25
53) Is This Constitutional? Here’s How Due Process Works
54) Capital Record, episode 229
55) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2635
56) Pink Flame of Liberty, 04/24/25
57) The Political Orphanage, 04/25/25
58) Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, 04/24/25
59) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 04/24/25
60) The Corbett Report, episode 475
61) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 04/24/25
62) Conversation: Garry Kasparov and Yascha Mounk
63) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
64) The Permanent Problem, episode 8
65) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 04/23/25
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1) Ukraine hit by another night of deadly Russian strikes despite Trump’s “Vladimir, STOP!” plea
Source: CNN
“Moscow has inflicted another round of deadly strikes on Ukraine despite US President Donald Trump’s plea for Russian President Vladimir Putin to ‘STOP!’ attacking its neighbor. At least eight people were killed in drone strikes across the country, a night after Russia launched its deadliest bombardment of Ukraine since the middle of last year. A drone attack on the eastern city of Pavlohrad on Friday killed three people, including a 76-year-old woman and a child, and injured 10 others, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak said. In southern Ukraine, two people were also killed in strikes on Kherson, the region’s governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said, adding the strikes targeted critical infrastructure and residential buildings. … On Friday, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to arrive in Moscow for further talks with Putin on reaching an agreement.” (04/25/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/europe/russia-strikes-ukraine-trump-vladimir-intl-hnk/index.html
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2) Judge: Abducted Tufts student must be moved to Vermont
Source: NBC News
“A judge on Thursday denied the government’s request to pause the transfer of Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who is fighting deportation after she co-wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza, back to Vermont. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions ruled that the federal government is now obligated to ensure that Öztürk, who is being held in Louisiana, is moved to Vermont by May 1. The Justice Department appealed Sessions’[s] previous order to transfer Öztürk to Vermont, where her habeas corpus petition challenging her [abduction] was filed. Federal officials had also asked Session to pause the order from taking effect while it was on appeal. … Homeland security agents grabbed Öztürk, a doctoral student in the United States on a student visa, off a Massachusetts street in late March. DHS accused her of engaging ‘in activities in support of Hamas.'” (04/24/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-vermont-deportation-rcna202902
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3) Indian, Pakistani regimes revoke each other’s visas as tensions rise after deadly Kashmir attack
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Tensions between India and Pakistan were high on Thursday as New Delhi mounted a diplomatic offensive against Islamabad, blaming it for a deadly attack that killed 26 people in Kashmir …. The Indian government did not publicly produce any evidence connecting the attack to its neighbour …. Pakistan denied any connection to the attack, which was claimed by a previously unknown militant group that called itself the Kashmir Resistance. In a statement issued on Thursday, India’s foreign ministry said all visas issued to Pakistani nationals will be revoked with effect from Sunday. It also advised Indians citizens not to travel to Pakistan. Pakistan retaliated by cancelling visas for Indian nationals, closed its airspace for all Indian owned or Indian operated airlines, and suspended all trade with India, including to and from any third country.” (04/24/25)
https://archive.is/qv8xR
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4) Judge halts parts of Trump’s election meddling scheme
Source: Associated Press
“A judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form. The decision is a setback for President Donald Trump, who has argued the requirement is needed to restore public confidence in elections. But the judge allowed other parts of Trump’s sweeping executive order on U.S. elections to go forward for now, including a directive to tighten mail ballot deadlines around the country. … U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington sided with voting rights groups and Democrats, [noting] that the Constitution gives the power to regulate federal elections to states and Congress — not the president.” (04/24/25)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-citizenship-lawsuit-4b683fe2e1106316fdb05621be9b7d0e
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5) Trump regime asks SCOTUS to allow transgender troops ban enforcement
Source: The Hill
“The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow President Trump to enforce his ban on transgender troops serving openly in the military. The emergency application asks the justices to lift a Seattle-based federal judge’s nationwide injunction blocking the policy. ‘The district court’s injunction cannot be squared with the substantial deference that the Department’s professional military judgments are owed,’ Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the application. At minimum, Sauer told the high court it should limit the judge’s nationwide order so it only blocks enforcement of the policy against the eight transgender service members suing. Justice Elena Kagan, who received the request because she handles emergency requests arising from Washington state by default, ordered the service members’ legal team respond in writing by May 1.” (04/24/25)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5265347-doj-supreme-court-transgender-troops-ban
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6) Top international official in Bosnia cuts financing for ruling Serb parties to pressure separatists
Source: Toronto Star [Canada]
“The top international official in Bosnia on Thursday cut all budgetary financing for ruling political parties in the Serb-run part of the country, increasing the pressure on the entity’s pro-Russian president who is wanted over his separatist policies. Christian Schmidt, a German diplomat tasked with overseeing peace in Bosnia, accused the leadership of the Serb-run Republika Srpska entity of undermining the Dayton accords that ended the 1992-95 war in the country. Schmidt announced his move a day after Bosnian state police officers attempted to detain Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, but were prevented by armed Bosnian Serb police. Schmidt’s Office of the High Representative has the authority to change and impose laws in Bosnia.” (04/24/25)
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/europe/top-international-official-in-bosnia-cuts-financing-for-ruling-serb-parties-to-pressure-separatists/article_c292fc74-d560-5b20-a3d1-8acab52366c7.html
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7) Feds accidentally publish secret plan to kill NYC congestion pricing
Source: Gothamist
“Lawyers for the federal government briefly published internal correspondence on Wednesday evening detailing a laundry list of flaws in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s legal strategy to shut down the MTA’s congestion pricing tolls. The document appears to have been mistakenly posted on the docket of the MTA’s federal lawsuit challenging U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s effort to kill the tolls by revoking federal approval. … The three assistant U.S. attorneys in Manhattan wrote that Duffy’s current argument to shut down the tolls isn’t likely to hold up in court. … The letter advises U.S. DOT officials to instead argue they’re revoking approval for the tolls through Office of Management and Budget regulations, which could allow for such a move ‘as a matter of changed agency priorities.’ Still, the letter notes that argument isn’t airtight because the DOT did not give the MTA any money to launch congestion pricing.” (04/24/25)
https://gothamist.com/news/feds-accidentally-publish-secret-plan-to-kill-nyc-congestion-pricing
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8) China: Regime says Trump’s lying about tariff talks
Source: NBC News
“China on Thursday directly contradicted President Donald Trump’s claims that Beijing and Washington are actively discussing resolutions to a trade war that threatens to upend the global economy. While Trump said Wednesday that the world’s two largest economies are ‘actively’ talking, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson responded that ‘China and the U.S. have not engaged in any consultations or negotiations regarding tariffs, let alone reached an agreement.’ The spokesperson, Guo Jiakun, made the comments at a briefing in Beijing, saying that reports of ongoing talks were false. He added that while China is open to negotiations, ‘if it’s a fight, we will fight to the end.'” (04/24/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tariff-trade-war-china-beijing-trump-washington-us-economy-markets-rcna202535
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9) Report: Harvard endowment holds $7 million per student, still receives $550 million from government annually
Source: Fox News
“Amid Harvard’s battle with the Trump administration, which has already pulled billions in federal funding from the university and floated taking even more, fiscal watchdog OpenTheBooks decided to take a peek at how much money the top-tier Ivy League school actually stands to lose. Harvard has received at least $4.4 billion in federal funding through grants, contracts, sub-grants and subcontracts since the first Trump administration in 2017, the watchdog found through open-source analysis of government spending records and other publicly available data. Meanwhile, based on these numbers, Harvard collected more in federal grants and contracts than they stood to gain through tuition, room and board in any given year. OpenTheBooks also unearthed that Harvard’s $53.2 billion endowment has grown by $14 billion, or $2 billion annually, since 2018. In total, the top-tier Ivy League school has more than $7 million per undergraduate student, the watchdog’s report indicated.” (04/24/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harvards-endowment-holds-7-million-per-student-still-receives-550m-from-govt-annually-report
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10) March US home sales slowed in a lethargic opening to the spring buying season
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in March, a sluggish start to the spring homebuying season as elevated mortgage rates and rising prices discouraged prospective home shoppers. Existing home sales fell 5.9% last month from February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.02 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. The March sales decline is the largest monthly drop since November 2022, when sales fell 6.7% from the previous month. Sales fell 2.4% compared with March last year. The latest home sales fell short of the 4.12 million pace economists were expecting, according to FactSet. The average cost of a U.S. mortgage, which climbed to its highest level in two months last week, is a significant barrier for would-be homebuyers, said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.” (04/24/25)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/24/home-sales-slowed-spring-buying/
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11) Fetterman calls for bombing Iranian nuclear facilities
Source: Fox News
“Sen. John Fetterman [D-PA] is continuing to advocate for the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program. ‘Waste that s—,’ the lawmaker declared to the Washington Free Beacon. ‘You’re never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities. Years ago, I completely understood why Trump withdrew from the Obama deal. Today, I can’t understand why Trump would negotiate with this diseased regime. The negotiations should be comprised of 30,000-pound bombs and the IDF.’ The IDF is the Israel Defense Forces.” (04/24/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fetterman-calls-bombing-iranian-nuclear-facilities
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12) NH: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s push to end DEI in K-12 public schools
Source: SFGate
“A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s guidance forbidding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in K-12 public schools. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the Republican administration of violating teachers’ due process and First Amendment rights. In February, the U.S. Education Department told schools and colleges they needed to end any practice that differentiates people based on their race or they would risk losing their federal funding. Earlier this month, the department ordered states to gather signatures from local school systems certifying compliance with civil rights laws, including the rejection of what the federal government calls ‘illegal DEI practices’. The directive does not carry the force of law but threatens to use civil rights enforcement to rid schools of DEI practices.” (04/24/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-s-push-20292549.php
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13) As US FDA Delays Novavax’s COVID Vaccine Approval, Patients Fight Back
Source: US News & World Report
“Thousands of Americans campaigning for the Novavax COVID-19 booster got some good news this week: the FDA signaled it might still win approval after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr cast doubt on its efficacy. The Novavax vaccine is the only COVID-19 booster in the United States that does not use messenger RNA technology — which some states have begun to ban — and the only option for many people who cannot or will not take an mRNA vaccine. … Novavax has been available since 2022 through a pandemic-era Emergency Use Authorization. A decision on full approval – which rival mRNA shots from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech already have – was due from the Food and Drug Administration by April 1, but had been delayed by the FDA without explanation.” (04/24/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-04-24/as-fda-delays-novavax-covid-vaccine-approval-patients-fight-back
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14) XX-XY Athletics founder slams Nike over alleged funding of child transgender athletes study
Source: Fox News
“XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey slammed Nike over its alleged funding of a study on puberty blockers for children and how it would affect their athletic and training performance. … The first notion [?] that Nike was allegedly funding was in a New York Times article published over the weekend about the plight of Blaire Fleming – the San Jose State Spartans transgender female volleyball player who played a controversial role in the 2024-25 NCAA women’s volleyball season. OutKick pointed out that the piece mentions Joanna Harper, a trans woman who studies transgender athletes, is ‘currently helping to lead an ambitious study of trans adolescents that measures their results on a 10-step fitness test before they start hormone therapy and then, after they have begun to medically transition, every six months for five years.'” (04/24/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/xx-xy-athletics-founder-jennifer-sey-slams-nike-over-its-alleged-funding-child-transgender-athletes-study
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15) Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to “sanctuary cities”
Source: SFGate
“A federal judge in California on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions. U.S. Judge William Orrick said a preliminary injunction was appropriate because the executive orders were unconstitutional just as they were in 2017 when President Donald Trump announced a similar order. Orrick issued the injunction sought by San Francisco and more than a dozen other municipalities that sued over a pair of executive orders the Republican president issued targeting local municipalities that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. Orrick, based in San Francisco, wrote that defendants are restrained and enjoined ‘from directly or indirectly taking any action to withhold, freeze, or condition federal funds’ and the administration must provide written notice of his order to all federal departments and agencies by Monday.” (04/24/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/judge-bars-trump-from-denying-federal-funds-to-20292507.php
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16) Federal judge orders US regime to pay North Dakota regime $28 million over oil pipeline protests
Source: United Press International
“A federal judge has ruled the U.S. government must pay North Dakota nearly $28 million in damages stemming from the Dakota Access oil pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor issued his ruling Wednesday, siding with North Dakota’s claims of negligence, gross negligence, civil trespass and public nuisance against the United States in connection with the protests. … The state’s claims focused on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers use of a Special Use Permit to allow the protesters to demonstrate on Corps land. In his ruling on Wednesday, the President Donald Trump appointee said the Corps had not officially granted the SUP despite saying one had been issued, and this so-called de factor permit prevented law enforcement from taking action against the protesters.” (04/24/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/24/Dakota-Access-pipeline-ruling/1641745484489/
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17) NJ: 19-year-old accused of sparking massive wildfire, charged with arson
Source: New York Post
“A 19-year-old man has been charged with arson for allegedly sparking the massive wildfire in the New Jersey Pine Barrens that has torched 15,000 acres, prosecutors said. Joseph Kling, of Ocean Township, allegedly started a bonfire in the vast Forked River Mountains Wilderness Area with wooden pallets that exploded out of control when he did not properly put it out, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. Kling was taken into custody at Ocean Township police headquarters and taken to the Ocean County Jail, where he is awaiting his detention hearing. A column of smoke was first spotted from the Cedar Bridge Fire Tower in Barnegat Township around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, officials said. The fire quickly spread out of control, forcing the evacuation of 5,000 residents of Ocean and Lacey townships.” (04/24/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/us-news/teen-accused-of-sparking-massive-nj-wildfire-charged-with-arson/
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18) DR Congo: Regime, rebels announce ceasefire after talks in Qatar
Sourc: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have agreed to pause fighting as they work towards a broader peace deal, according to their joint statement. The truce, declared late on Wednesday after a round of negotiations in Qatar’s capital Doha, has raised hopes that the latest wave of violence, spurred by M23’s bloody January assault and capture of the DRC’s two largest cities, may begin to subside. … The decades-long conflict has roots in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, with M23 made up primarily of ethnic Tutsi fighters. Many were former rebels integrated into the DRC army who later defected, citing discrimination and broken peace deals.” (04/24/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/24/drc-m23-rebels-commit-to-pause-fighting-amid-peace-talks
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19) Study: Bonobos in Congo form “girl groups” to fend off male aggression
Source: SFGate
“Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study finds. Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are among humans’ closest relatives. Scientists have long wondered why bonobos live in generally female-dominated societies since the males are physically bigger and stronger. Three decades of observations in Congo — the only place the endangered bonobos are found in the wild — lend support to the idea of a sisterhood where female bonobos band together to assert their power. These girl groups chased male bonobos out of trees, securing food for themselves, and females that grouped more ranked higher in their community’s social ladder, researchers found. ‘It’s very clear that you don’t want to overstep as a male bonobo,’ said study author Martin Surbeck from Harvard University. Findings were published Thursday in the journal Communications Biology.” (04/24/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/bonobos-in-congo-form-girl-groups-to-fend-off-20292360.php
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20) CA: Homeowner shoots naked burglar during home invasion
Source: CBS News
“A naked burglar was shot by a homeowner in Chino on Tuesday, police said. They were dispatched to the 4300 block of Lombardy Court at around 11:35 a.m. after receiving a call from someone saying that a man had broken into their home through a front window, according to the Chino Police Department. ‘The caller stated that her husband had shot the intruder inside the residence,’ police said. When they arrived, they found the suspect, who was ‘completely disrobed and appeared to be under the influence of drugs,’ inside of the home. He was arrested and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment on gunshot wounds to his lower body. He is said to be in stable condition.” (04/23/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/chino-homeowner-shoots-naked-burglar-during-home-invasion/
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21) How a President Becomes a Dictator: By Executive Order
Source: Rutherford Institute
by John & Nisha Whitehead
“130 executive orders in under 100 days. Sweeping powers claimed in the name of ‘security’ and ‘efficiency.’ One president acting as lawmaker, enforcer, and judge. No debate. No oversight. No limits. This is how the Constitution dies — not with a coup, but with a pen. The Unitary Executive Theory is no longer a theory — it’s the architecture of a dictatorship in motion.” (04/23/25)
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/how_a_president_becomes_a_dictator_by_executive_order
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22) Every Accusation is a Confession: “Insurrection” Edition
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“The problem [US Senator Mike] Lee’s trying to solve, if it really is a problem, is that individual US District Court judges can, and sometimes do, issue injunctions with nationwide effect. Lee’s proposal would require such actions to be heard by panels of three judges rather than by a single judge, with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court selecting the judges. It would also require the Supreme Court to hear all appeals of injunctions issued by those panels. No problem, I guess. It seems well within Congress’s powers …. Federal judges doing what federal judges are, at the moment, authorized to do (issue injunctions) based on what they’re constitutionally bound to support (due process) doesn’t really seem very insurrectiony, though.” (04/24/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19514
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23) The Illusion of Inflationary Prosperity
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Richard M Ebeling
“Nothing is as enticing as a free lunch. The idea of getting something for nothing surely is appealing to almost everyone. …. there is no end to the list of things we would all like to have with no cost attached, with nothing to have to give up to get what we want. Economists are usually considered the perennial party-poopers … reminding people that often nothing is as expensive as something that is said to be for ‘free.’ … What are we to think, then, when a Nobel Laureate economist, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and his coauthor, Mark Weisbrot, tell us that there is ‘A No-Brainer for Global Growth and U.S. Jobs’ (Project Syndicate, January 10, 2025) at almost no cost and all benefit to the world. All that is needed is for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to digitally print more of a version of paper money known as Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).” (04/24/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/04/the-illusion-of-inflationary-prosperity/
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24) Paper Money as a Weapon of War
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Lawrence W Reed
“Ships of Britain’s massive Royal Navy, the largest in the world, inflicted great damage on American ports, property, and vessels during the years of the Revolution (1775-1783). Perhaps none of those ships wreaked more havoc than HMS Phoenix, and it accomplished its devious work not with a cannon but with a printing press. … the Second Continental Congress authorized the printing of paper money …. What began with a modest batch of six million in continental dollars turned into a blizzard of several hundred million by the war’s end, yielding a steady depreciation and giving rise to the famous phrase ‘not worth a continental.’ With nothing to back the money but murky promises to redeem it in precious metal at a future date, Congress didn’t need any help to make it worthless, but the British were happy to assist, nonetheless.” (04/24/25)
https://fee.org/articles/paper-money-as-a-weapon-of-war/
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25) Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC) and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey announced they were launching an ambitious legislative plan called the Green New Deal. While people who had a grounding in economic thought found this new initiative to be naïve at best and destructive at worst, nonetheless it has energized American progressives and other environmental true believers. … this kind of largesse needs legislation behind it and the true believers—led by AOC herself—settled on the infamous (and hilariously named) Inflation Reduction Act. In fact, AOC served as a cheerleader for what was the cornerstone measure of the Biden administration, one that supposedly would create nine million jobs and totally transform the US economy. However, the promised transformation never occurred.” (04/24/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/whatever-happened-green-new-deal
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26) In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism
Source: Washington Monthly
by Joel Dodge
“In a 2023 New York Times column, Ezra Klein coined the term ‘everything-bagel liberalism’ to describe the phenomenon of projects that liberals favor getting weighed down by seemingly ancillary requirements liberals impose on them. He noted, for instance, that in California, strict labor and environmental standards embedded in various pieces of legislation passed by the Democratic legislature over the years have made it too costly and time-consuming to build subsidized housing for the homeless. This same problem, he warned, would imperil one of the centerpieces of the Biden administration’s economic policy: the CHIPS and Science Act. Klein praised the aims of this flagship legislation to reshore semiconductor manufacturing with a $39 billion fund to attract companies to the United States.” (04/24/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/24/in-defense-of-everything-bagel-liberalism/
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27) The constitutionally dubious law empowering Trump’s ’emergency’ tariff authority
Source: Orange County Register
by Ben Bayer
“Donald Trump’s April 2 tariffs paralyzed businesses that rely on international trade, wreaked havoc with financial markets, and injected new economic uncertainty into everyone’s life. Far from offering ‘liberation,’ Trump’s executive orders embody an arbitrary lawlessness that threatens the individual liberties of the entrepreneurs who create goods and services so many of us depend upon. In an effort to stand up for the rights of aggrieved small businesses, two recent lawsuits argue that the executive orders lack statutory authority. … It may be prudent for businesses facing closure to seek relief from these tariffs by asking the courts to overturn the executive orders as lawless. But in truth, the IEEPA itself is lawless at its heart. Its key provisions are ripe for the abuse of tyrants opposed to individual freedom.” (04/24/25)
https://archive.is/zT87K
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28) Four Explanatory Models for Trump’s Chaos
Source: Foreign Policy
by Emma Ashford
“Vladimir Lenin once noted that there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. By that standard, the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency have comprised at least 20 years of foreign-policy change. The administration’s ‘move fast and break things’ approach to foreign policy has been consistent only in its chaos. … how are we to make sense of the chaos? It’s clear that the second Trump administration is aiming for change — not inertia — in U.S. foreign policy, though the direction of that change is unclear. Still, there are four explanatory models worth considering as we try to explain its choices so far.” (04/24/25)
https://archive.is/KV9TK
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29) In postwar Ethiopia, a stand on higher ground
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Nations prone to split over ethnic or religious divides often find ways to bond by embracing a higher civic identity. Ethiopia just set a small example of that. Two top leaders – from different ethnic groups – found a way to avert a renewal of a vicious war that ended two years ago. Peace prevails for now in Ethiopia’s restive state of Tigray, as does a desire for unity around national ideals. Less than a month ago, most observers of East African politics widely expected that simmering tensions in Tigray would boil over into conflict again. Their concerns were heightened when disgruntled members of Tigray’s security forces seized key government buildings in an intra-Tigrayan dispute over jobs. Three officers had been suspended by the state’s interim administration. The then-head of Tigray called for direct federal intervention after he fled in March to the nation’s capital.” (04/23/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0423/In-postwar-Ethiopia-a-stand-on-higher-ground
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30) The Road to Campus Serfdom
Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis
“It seems remarkable that seemingly antisemitic protests by undergraduates, such as those at my own university of Northwestern, could threaten the biomedical research funding of its medical school. But the structure of civil rights laws as applied to universities has long allowed the federal government to cut off funding to the entire university based on the wrongful actions of particular units or departments. Ironically, the left, now alarmed by the federal government’s intrusive reach, bears direct responsibility for crafting the very legal weapons wielded against the universities it dominates. ” (04/24/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-road-to-campus-serfdom/
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31) Leftists [sic] to blame for much of US housing crisis
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“It was typical of Joe Biden’s presidency that, when faced with a difficult problem, he would take the cynical approach of finding a scapegoat to blame while making a promise he never intended to keep. His response to the housing affordability crisis last year was a textbook case: Blame ‘rent-gouging’ landlords and greedy realtors, make the false promise that his administration would build 2 million new homes via more deficit spending, and hope nobody asks questions — a safe bet, considering the incurious media that surrounded him. ‘Folks are tired of being played for suckers and I’m tired of letting them be played for suckers,’ Biden said in a campaign speech hammering his scapegoats last year. Having promised to lower housing costs during his State of the Union address earlier in the spring, Biden’s fiery rhetoric showed he had not the faintest idea of how to solve the problem.” (04/23/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/opinion/miranda-devine-leftists-to-blame-for-much-of-the-us-housing-crisis-as-almost-a-third-of-americans-are-housing-poor/
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32) Europe Must Stop Playing Pawn to American Power
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jose Nino
“As the world experiences significant geopolitical changes, political blocs like the European Union have a unique opportunity to chart a new path. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union and its twenty-seven member states have delivered nearly $155 billion in financial, military, humanitarian, and refugee assistance to Ukraine. Of that aid sent to Ukraine, the combined military support from the EU and its member states is estimated at €49.6 billion ($53 billion). This represented a transatlantic initiative to draw Russia into a protracted conflict in Ukraine through proxy warfare. However, this Western-backed proxy war appears to have fallen short, as Russia continues to make incremental gains on the battlefield and now seems positioned to preside over a de facto east-west partition of the country.” (04/24/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/europe-must-stop-playing-pawn-to-american-power
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33) The Gutting of American Mental Health Care
Source: TomDispatch
by Mattea Kramer & Sean Fogler
“The United States has been in the throes of a mental health and overdose crisis so severe it has spanned five presidential administrations and been classified as an official state of emergency in three of them. No one knows exactly how this emergency will play out during the current Trumpian cocktail of uncertainty, fear, and cuts to social services, but charts of the recent turbulence of the stock market suggest a relevant visual: imagine the nervous systems of millions of already struggling Americans, along with millions more who are being pushed to the limits of what they can handle, all experiencing deep emotional crashes, briefly recovering, only to collapse again into new lows.” (04/24/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/this-mental-health-awareness-month/
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34) What Scrooge Effect? Americans Keep Giving, Despite the Welfare State
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller
“Despite a large welfare state and high taxes, most Americans continue to donate money — even without any federal tax benefit.” (04/24/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/philanthropy-despite-the-state-americans-give-generously-even-without-tax-breaks/
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35) Discourse on Race Has a Conformity Problem
Source: Persuasion
by John McWhorter
“A graduate school colleague told me that her subfield of linguistics was more valid as science than the subfield some other students were working in. Her metric was that the findings in her subfield were more counterintuitive, as opposed to applying terminology to things we basically know are true already. I didn’t like it. My work was commonly (mis-)associated with the kind she was dissing. … However, her valuation of the counterintuitive was also correct. I have carried her lesson with me since. It’s important to describe things and to give them careful labels. But the real magic is figuring out workings of the world that we would not have expected. Motion is matter’s default state rather than stasis. English, Polish, Persian, and Hindi began as the same grandfather language. Tomatoes are fruits. Betty Boop was originally a dog.” (04/24/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/discourse-on-race-has-a-conformity
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36) An Absurd Rationale for Provoking a Constitutional Crisis
Source: The Dispatch
by John McCormack
“[T]he argument that the Alien Enemies Act is a key tool necessary to carry out mass deportations is absurd on its face. Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act applied only to a very tiny percentage of the more than 500,000 Venezuelan unauthorized [sic] immigrants in the country — those who are members of the gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). While there aren’t reliable estimates for the total number of TdA members in the United States, it is perhaps a number in the thousands. The gang MS-13, which is much more well-established in America than Tren de Aragua, has an estimated 10,000 members in the United States according to the Department of Justice. In other words, Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation likely applies to less than 0.1 percent of the entire population of 15 million illegal [sic] immigrants in the United States.” (04/14/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-supreme-court-immigration-constitution/
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37) Dems, Clintons & globalists work together to censor Americans … for “democracy”
Source: Fox News
by Jonathan Turley
“In his historic speech in Munich this year, Vice President JD Vance confronted the Europeans over their attacks on free speech, declaring ‘If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.’ That is manifestly true, but it appears that there is something that certain Americans can still do for Europe. As the European Union ramps up its long-standing campaign against free speech, it is increasingly calling upon Americans to make the case against both free speech and the United States. Europeans and globalists see the Trump administration as a threat to efforts to create transnational governance systems.” (04/24/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-democrats-clintons-globalists-work-together-censor-americans-democracy
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38) Ukraine, Europe can’t afford to refuse Trump’s peace plan
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Anatol Lieven
“Most of the peace plan for Ukraine now sketched out by the Trump administration is not new, is based on common sense, and has indeed already been tacitly accepted by Kyiv. Ukrainian officials have acknowledged that its army has no chance in the foreseeable future of reconquering the territories now occupied by Russia. Vice President J.D. Vance’s statement that the U.S. plan would ‘freeze the territorial lines … close to where they are today’ simply acknowledges an obvious fact. On the other hand, by reportedly agreeing to a ceasefire along the present front line, Putin has indicated his readiness to abandon Russia’s demand that Ukraine withdraw from the parts of the provinces claimed by Russia that Ukraine still holds. This too is common sense.” (04/24/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ukraine-peace-plane/
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39) Saving the World is Not America’s Responsibility
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“The world can be an ugly place. Russia invaded Ukraine. Sudan is consumed by civil war. Haiti is overrun by violent gangs. Conflict has surged in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Somalia is ravaged by violence. Israel is waging war on Palestinians. In Burma the military regime is committing murder and mayhem. The list goes on …. These and other conflicts and potential conflicts are terrible. Many people, especially in Washington, look to the U.S. for answers. In their view, if only Uncle Sam is willing to “lead,” the lion will be forced to lie down with the lamb. And all will be well. Unfortunately, this strategy, as evidenced by the last three decades, has proved to be disastrous. Fixing the world proved to be well beyond Washington’s capability. Equally important, these battles aren’t Americans’ responsibility.” (04/24/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/saving-the-world-is-not-americas-responsibility/
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40) Apple’s battle with the UK surveillance state
Source: spiked
by Freddie Attenborough
“A UK court has struck a rare blow for civil liberties. The highly secretive Investigatory Powers Tribunal rejected the British government’s bid last month to repress all public reporting of its attempts to gain ‘backdoor’ access to our private, encrypted data. The legal challenge was brought by Apple, which provides its UK customers with what is known as its Advanced Data Protection, or ADP, service. The ruling has barely been reported on in the British press, but is nonetheless of great significance.” (04/24/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/24/apples-battle-with-the-uk-surveillance-state/
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41) What Is To Be Done? Take Hold of Our History
Source: Common Dreams
by Harvey J Kaye
“The time has come. The crisis intensifies, and the struggle is being joined. Abraham Lincoln’s warning of 1862 (‘We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth’) speaks ever more directly to us. But keep listening. Lincoln did not merely issue a warning to his fellow citizens. Believing they already essentially knew what he was to say, he reminded them of who they were and made it perfectly clear to them what they had to do to overcome the crisis and prevail against the enemy they confronted. He told them that winning the war and sustaining the Union required not simply defeating the Confederacy, but also making America’s revolutionary promise all the more real for all the more Americans. He told them that to truly secure the United States they had to end slavery.” (04/24/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/take-hold-of-radical-u-s-history
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42) A Cuomo Indictment?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Can there be ‘pandemic justice?’ On June 11th of last year, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the House of Representatives interviewed former Governor of the State of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, in pursuance of getting to the bottom of the disaster that was COVID in New York and beyond. Cuomo had counsel; the interrogation was transcribed. The focus? The governor’s disastrous decision to send coronavirus patients back to his state’s nursing homes, where they quickly spread the new disease to its most vulnerable targets.” (04/24/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/04/24/a-cuomo-indictment/
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43) Seven Reasons Why It’s Absurd To Bomb Iran
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“‘There are two ways Iran can be handled,’ U.S. President Donald Trump has said, ‘militarily, or you make a deal.’ National Security Adviser Mike Waltz advocated for the military solution; Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Vice President JD Vance advocated for diplomacy. Trump has opted for diplomacy. But all options are still on the table, and if the diplomatic path fails, Trump says ‘the other will solve the problem.’ But there are several reasons why all options should not be on the table and why bombing Iran to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear bomb would be absurd. Here are seven of them.” (04/24/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2025/04/23/seven-reasons-why-its-absurd-to-bomb-iran/
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44) Rümeysa Öztürk’s Ordeal Is Our Nation’s Disgrace
Source: The Bulwark
by Bill Lueders
“In his comments on Öztürk’s arrest, [US Secretary of State Marco] Rubio alleged that the students now being expelled came to the United States ‘not just to study but to participate in movements that vandalize universities, harass students, take over buildings, and cause chaos.’ Yet there is no evidence that Öztürk did any of these things, or even that she played a significant role in last year’s protests at Tufts. The only actual illegal actions in her case are those being committed by the government, starting with its defiance of a court order issued six hours after Öztürk’s arrest that prohibited her removal from Massachusetts without advance notice.” (04/23/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/rumeysa-ozturk-ordeal-our-nations-disgrace-tufts-deportation-student-visa
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45) Electric Vehicles: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder
“Are electric vehicles better for the planet than gasoline-powered vehicles? This is the question we explore in my new documentary. Whether one agrees with former President Joe Biden, who calls climate change ‘an existential threat,’ or whether one agrees with the late physicist Freeman Dyson, who dismissed Al Gore and his ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ as ‘lousy science,’ this question remains. Are electric vehicles better for planet Earth than ‘gas guzzlers?’ After all, fossil-fuel-generated energy is required to manufacture an electric vehicle and then to transport it to the dealership. The electricity required to charge it comes mostly from fossil-fuel-generated power. Electric vehicles are a triumph of technology, with incredible features. They are quiet, fast and fun to drive. The self-driving feature, while not foolproof, will likely save lives because human driving error is more common.” (04/24/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/04/24/electric-vehicles-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-n2656008
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46) Reinventing the Trade Deal Wheel, Only Much Worse
Source: Cato Institute
by Scott Lincicome
“We didn’t need the trade wars, but good deals take time.” (04/23/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/reinventing-trade-deal-wheel-only-much-worse
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47) What Happens When You Abuse People
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“[T]he big reason for the drop in demand for U.S. bonds is an informal, unorganized international boycott of such bonds. Why would any foreigner who lives in a country that has been targeted for damage or destruction by the U.S. government be interested by investing in bonds issued by the U.S. government? … We are seeing this informal-boycott phenomenon with respect to tourism. Foreigners are canceling their vacation plans to the United States, which might well have an adverse impact on U.S. tourism businesses. Moreover, foreigners who own vacation homes in the U.S. are selling them and staying away from our country. Why wouldn’t the same mindset apply to the purchase of U.S. bonds? This is what happens when a government abuses and mistreats people.” (04/23/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/04/23/what-happens-when-you-abuse-people/
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48) For Earth Day, Let’s Try Speeding Up Instead of Slowing Down
Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Brian Yablonski
“As we celebrate Earth Day this April 22 and reflect on how far environmental stewardship has come, we have an opportunity to reimagine conservation to speed up action and get results to meet today’s challenges. When Earth Day first began in 1970, it was in the midst of a remarkable wave of environmental legislation: the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, National Environmental Policy Act and other landmark laws fundamentally changed America’s relationship with its natural resources. … over the decades, these well-intentioned laws have calcified into bureaucratic processes that impede progress due to a fear of reform and misguided belief that only regulation can solve these issues.” (04/23/25)
https://www.perc.org/2025/04/17/for-earth-day-lets-try-speeding-up-instead-of-slowing-down/
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49) The Permanent Tariff Damage
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“As my colleague Bob Kuttner wrote yesterday, Donald Trump, after starting April like a lion, is going out like a lamb. He has said publicly that tariffs on China will ‘come down substantially’, with an unnamed aide floating rollbacks as high as 65 percent. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave a similar story at a closed-door meeting hosted by JPMorganChase (why was he delivering market-moving information in secret to bankers?), and publicly at the Institute of International Finance on Tuesday. ‘There is an opportunity for a big deal here’ with China, Bessent said, and ‘if they want to rebalance [their economy], let’s do it together.’ Wall Street is certainly desperate for any note of conciliation, and Trump saying he has ‘no intention’ of firing Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell made them even more ebullient. But let’s get real.” [editor’s note: First step: Audit the Fed – SAT] (04/24/25)
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-24-permanent-tariff-damage/
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50) The corrupt nature of mainstream media
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“TPOL tends to be very hard on so-called ‘legacy’ or mainstream media (MSM). That is, the television and radio networks and their local affiliated TV and radio stations, together with the newspapers (chains or independents and especially the ‘national’ press) and national magazines (Time, Life, Newsweek, and the like, including People and its ilk), and the entertainment industry, including Holywood, New York, and Nashville. Although the power and influence of many of these have waned significantly in recent years, the sad legacy still is with us. Morality, civic integrity, and the love of liberty have all been hugely and negatively impacted by what the MSM has done over more than a century. Not just in the States but in the world.” (04/23/25)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/04/23/the-corrupt-nature-of-mainstream-media/
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51) The Libertarian Angle, 04/24/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Trump’s War against the Fed.” (04/24/25)
https://www.fff.org/freedom-in-motion/video/libertarian-angle-trumps-war-against-the-fed/
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52) The Kyle Anzalon Show, 04/24/25
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Keaton Weiss: Israeli Ministry of Defense running US Middle East Policy.” (04/24/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/keaton-weiss-israeli-ministry-of-defense-running-us-middle-east-policy-new-episode-of-the-kyle-anzalone-show/
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53) Is This Constitutional? Here’s How Due Process Works
Source: Reason
“The Founders made due process central to the Constitution not because they loved criminals, but because they understood that any system of justice will give people a chance to publicly challenge the government before it deprives them of their liberty indefinitely, as the government has done here. That should be important to anyone who cares about the Constitution and the rule of law.” (04/24/25)
https://reason.com/video/2025/04/24/is-this-constitutional-heres-how-due-process-works/
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54) Capital Record, episode 229
Source: National Review
“Two Ways to Hurt the Working Class.” (04/24/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/two-ways-to-hurt-the-working-class/
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55) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2635
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Marty Bent on Bitcoin, Not ‘Crypto.'” (04/24/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2635-marty-bent-on-bitcoin-not-crypto/
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56) Pink Flame of Liberty, 04/24/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“A third term? Trump’s DANGEROUS RHETORIC!” (04/24/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTDyA_0rVGU
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57) The Political Orphanage, 04/25/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Is it Racist? Is it Sexist?” (04/24/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/is-it-racist-is-it-sexist
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58) Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, 04/24/25
Source: Politico
“Trump ratchets up pressure on Zelenskyy.” (04/24/25)
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL9742894469.mp3?updated=1745469105
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59) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 04/24/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Suddenly in Retreat on Many Fronts as Poll Reveals Key Weakness.” (04/24/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/194327/trump-suddenly-retreat-many-fronts-poll-reveals-key-weakness
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60) The Corbett Report, episode 475
Source: The Corbett Report
“Meet Mark Carney, Globalist Insider.” (04/24/25)
https://corbettreport.com/meet-mark-carney-globalist-insider/
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61) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 04/24/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Slams Zelensky for Delaying Peace Talks, Ben Gvir: GOP Supports Bombing Food in Gaza, and More.” (04/24/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cq-3il8-_8
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62) Conversation: Garry Kasparov and Yascha Mounk
Source: Yascha Mounk
“This morning, I had the pleasure of co-hosting a Substack Live with the great Garry Kasparov. We spoke about Donald Trump; about the prospects for peace in Ukraine; about whether Europe can avoid its fate as a museal continent; and about how Americans can defend their democracy.” (04/23/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/garry-kasparov-and-yascha-mounk
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63) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
“The government’s money, the government’s rules?” (04/23/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/podcasts/so-speak-free-speech-podcast/governments-money-governments-rules
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64) The Permanent Problem, episode 8
Source: Niskanen Center
“Christianity and democracy, with Jonathan Rauch.” (04/23/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/christianity-and-democracy-with-jonathan-rauch/
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65) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 04/23/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“The Three-Legged Stool of Taxes with David Stokes.” (04/23/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/state-and-local-government/the-three-legged-stool-of-taxes-with-david-stokes/
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2) Judge: Abducted Tufts student must be moved to Vermont
3) Indian, Pakistani regimes revoke each other’s visas as tensions rise after deadly Kashmir attack
4) Judge halts parts of Trump’s election meddling scheme
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23) The Illusion of Inflationary Prosperity
24) Paper Money as a Weapon of War
25) Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?
26) In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism
27) The constitutionally dubious law empowering Trump’s ’emergency’ tariff authority
28) Four Explanatory Models for Trump’s Chaos
29) In postwar Ethiopia, a stand on higher ground
30) The Road to Campus Serfdom
31) Leftists [sic] to blame for much of US housing crisis
32) Europe Must Stop Playing Pawn to American Power
33) The Gutting of American Mental Health Care
34) What Scrooge Effect? Americans Keep Giving, Despite the Welfare State
35) Discourse on Race Has a Conformity Problem
36) An Absurd Rationale for Provoking a Constitutional Crisis
37) Dems, Clintons & globalists work together to censor Americans … for “democracy”
38) Ukraine, Europe can’t afford to refuse Trump’s peace plan
39) Saving the World is Not America’s Responsibility
40) Apple’s battle with the UK surveillance state
41) What Is To Be Done? Take Hold of Our History
42) A Cuomo Indictment?
43) Seven Reasons Why It’s Absurd To Bomb Iran
44) Rümeysa Öztürk’s Ordeal Is Our Nation’s Disgrace
45) Electric Vehicles: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
46) Reinventing the Trade Deal Wheel, Only Much Worse
47) What Happens When You Abuse People
48) For Earth Day, Let’s Try Speeding Up Instead of Slowing Down
49) The Permanent Tariff Damage
50) The corrupt nature of mainstream media
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56) Pink Flame of Liberty, 04/24/25
57) The Political Orphanage, 04/25/25
58) Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, 04/24/25
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60) The Corbett Report, episode 475
61) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 04/24/25
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1) Ukraine hit by another night of deadly Russian strikes despite Trump’s “Vladimir, STOP!” plea
Source: CNN
“Moscow has inflicted another round of deadly strikes on Ukraine despite US President Donald Trump’s plea for Russian President Vladimir Putin to ‘STOP!’ attacking its neighbor. At least eight people were killed in drone strikes across the country, a night after Russia launched its deadliest bombardment of Ukraine since the middle of last year. A drone attack on the eastern city of Pavlohrad on Friday killed three people, including a 76-year-old woman and a child, and injured 10 others, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak said. In southern Ukraine, two people were also killed in strikes on Kherson, the region’s governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said, adding the strikes targeted critical infrastructure and residential buildings. … On Friday, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to arrive in Moscow for further talks with Putin on reaching an agreement.” (04/25/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/europe/russia-strikes-ukraine-trump-vladimir-intl-hnk/index.html
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2) Judge: Abducted Tufts student must be moved to Vermont
Source: NBC News
“A judge on Thursday denied the government’s request to pause the transfer of Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who is fighting deportation after she co-wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza, back to Vermont. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions ruled that the federal government is now obligated to ensure that Öztürk, who is being held in Louisiana, is moved to Vermont by May 1. The Justice Department appealed Sessions’[s] previous order to transfer Öztürk to Vermont, where her habeas corpus petition challenging her [abduction] was filed. Federal officials had also asked Session to pause the order from taking effect while it was on appeal. … Homeland security agents grabbed Öztürk, a doctoral student in the United States on a student visa, off a Massachusetts street in late March. DHS accused her of engaging ‘in activities in support of Hamas.'” (04/24/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-vermont-deportation-rcna202902
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3) Indian, Pakistani regimes revoke each other’s visas as tensions rise after deadly Kashmir attack
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“Tensions between India and Pakistan were high on Thursday as New Delhi mounted a diplomatic offensive against Islamabad, blaming it for a deadly attack that killed 26 people in Kashmir …. The Indian government did not publicly produce any evidence connecting the attack to its neighbour …. Pakistan denied any connection to the attack, which was claimed by a previously unknown militant group that called itself the Kashmir Resistance. In a statement issued on Thursday, India’s foreign ministry said all visas issued to Pakistani nationals will be revoked with effect from Sunday. It also advised Indians citizens not to travel to Pakistan. Pakistan retaliated by cancelling visas for Indian nationals, closed its airspace for all Indian owned or Indian operated airlines, and suspended all trade with India, including to and from any third country.” (04/24/25)
https://archive.is/qv8xR
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4) Judge halts parts of Trump’s election meddling scheme
Source: Associated Press
“A judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form. The decision is a setback for President Donald Trump, who has argued the requirement is needed to restore public confidence in elections. But the judge allowed other parts of Trump’s sweeping executive order on U.S. elections to go forward for now, including a directive to tighten mail ballot deadlines around the country. … U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington sided with voting rights groups and Democrats, [noting] that the Constitution gives the power to regulate federal elections to states and Congress — not the president.” (04/24/25)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-citizenship-lawsuit-4b683fe2e1106316fdb05621be9b7d0e
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5) Trump regime asks SCOTUS to allow transgender troops ban enforcement
Source: The Hill
“The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow President Trump to enforce his ban on transgender troops serving openly in the military. The emergency application asks the justices to lift a Seattle-based federal judge’s nationwide injunction blocking the policy. ‘The district court’s injunction cannot be squared with the substantial deference that the Department’s professional military judgments are owed,’ Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the application. At minimum, Sauer told the high court it should limit the judge’s nationwide order so it only blocks enforcement of the policy against the eight transgender service members suing. Justice Elena Kagan, who received the request because she handles emergency requests arising from Washington state by default, ordered the service members’ legal team respond in writing by May 1.” (04/24/25)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5265347-doj-supreme-court-transgender-troops-ban
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6) Top international official in Bosnia cuts financing for ruling Serb parties to pressure separatists
Source: Toronto Star [Canada]
“The top international official in Bosnia on Thursday cut all budgetary financing for ruling political parties in the Serb-run part of the country, increasing the pressure on the entity’s pro-Russian president who is wanted over his separatist policies. Christian Schmidt, a German diplomat tasked with overseeing peace in Bosnia, accused the leadership of the Serb-run Republika Srpska entity of undermining the Dayton accords that ended the 1992-95 war in the country. Schmidt announced his move a day after Bosnian state police officers attempted to detain Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, but were prevented by armed Bosnian Serb police. Schmidt’s Office of the High Representative has the authority to change and impose laws in Bosnia.” (04/24/25)
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/europe/top-international-official-in-bosnia-cuts-financing-for-ruling-serb-parties-to-pressure-separatists/article_c292fc74-d560-5b20-a3d1-8acab52366c7.html
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7) Feds accidentally publish secret plan to kill NYC congestion pricing
Source: Gothamist
“Lawyers for the federal government briefly published internal correspondence on Wednesday evening detailing a laundry list of flaws in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s legal strategy to shut down the MTA’s congestion pricing tolls. The document appears to have been mistakenly posted on the docket of the MTA’s federal lawsuit challenging U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s effort to kill the tolls by revoking federal approval. … The three assistant U.S. attorneys in Manhattan wrote that Duffy’s current argument to shut down the tolls isn’t likely to hold up in court. … The letter advises U.S. DOT officials to instead argue they’re revoking approval for the tolls through Office of Management and Budget regulations, which could allow for such a move ‘as a matter of changed agency priorities.’ Still, the letter notes that argument isn’t airtight because the DOT did not give the MTA any money to launch congestion pricing.” (04/24/25)
https://gothamist.com/news/feds-accidentally-publish-secret-plan-to-kill-nyc-congestion-pricing
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8) China: Regime says Trump’s lying about tariff talks
Source: NBC News
“China on Thursday directly contradicted President Donald Trump’s claims that Beijing and Washington are actively discussing resolutions to a trade war that threatens to upend the global economy. While Trump said Wednesday that the world’s two largest economies are ‘actively’ talking, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson responded that ‘China and the U.S. have not engaged in any consultations or negotiations regarding tariffs, let alone reached an agreement.’ The spokesperson, Guo Jiakun, made the comments at a briefing in Beijing, saying that reports of ongoing talks were false. He added that while China is open to negotiations, ‘if it’s a fight, we will fight to the end.'” (04/24/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tariff-trade-war-china-beijing-trump-washington-us-economy-markets-rcna202535
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9) Report: Harvard endowment holds $7 million per student, still receives $550 million from government annually
Source: Fox News
“Amid Harvard’s battle with the Trump administration, which has already pulled billions in federal funding from the university and floated taking even more, fiscal watchdog OpenTheBooks decided to take a peek at how much money the top-tier Ivy League school actually stands to lose. Harvard has received at least $4.4 billion in federal funding through grants, contracts, sub-grants and subcontracts since the first Trump administration in 2017, the watchdog found through open-source analysis of government spending records and other publicly available data. Meanwhile, based on these numbers, Harvard collected more in federal grants and contracts than they stood to gain through tuition, room and board in any given year. OpenTheBooks also unearthed that Harvard’s $53.2 billion endowment has grown by $14 billion, or $2 billion annually, since 2018. In total, the top-tier Ivy League school has more than $7 million per undergraduate student, the watchdog’s report indicated.” (04/24/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harvards-endowment-holds-7-million-per-student-still-receives-550m-from-govt-annually-report
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10) March US home sales slowed in a lethargic opening to the spring buying season
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in March, a sluggish start to the spring homebuying season as elevated mortgage rates and rising prices discouraged prospective home shoppers. Existing home sales fell 5.9% last month from February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.02 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. The March sales decline is the largest monthly drop since November 2022, when sales fell 6.7% from the previous month. Sales fell 2.4% compared with March last year. The latest home sales fell short of the 4.12 million pace economists were expecting, according to FactSet. The average cost of a U.S. mortgage, which climbed to its highest level in two months last week, is a significant barrier for would-be homebuyers, said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.” (04/24/25)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/24/home-sales-slowed-spring-buying/
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11) Fetterman calls for bombing Iranian nuclear facilities
Source: Fox News
“Sen. John Fetterman [D-PA] is continuing to advocate for the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program. ‘Waste that s—,’ the lawmaker declared to the Washington Free Beacon. ‘You’re never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities. Years ago, I completely understood why Trump withdrew from the Obama deal. Today, I can’t understand why Trump would negotiate with this diseased regime. The negotiations should be comprised of 30,000-pound bombs and the IDF.’ The IDF is the Israel Defense Forces.” (04/24/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fetterman-calls-bombing-iranian-nuclear-facilities
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12) NH: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s push to end DEI in K-12 public schools
Source: SFGate
“A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s guidance forbidding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in K-12 public schools. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the Republican administration of violating teachers’ due process and First Amendment rights. In February, the U.S. Education Department told schools and colleges they needed to end any practice that differentiates people based on their race or they would risk losing their federal funding. Earlier this month, the department ordered states to gather signatures from local school systems certifying compliance with civil rights laws, including the rejection of what the federal government calls ‘illegal DEI practices’. The directive does not carry the force of law but threatens to use civil rights enforcement to rid schools of DEI practices.” (04/24/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-s-push-20292549.php
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13) As US FDA Delays Novavax’s COVID Vaccine Approval, Patients Fight Back
Source: US News & World Report
“Thousands of Americans campaigning for the Novavax COVID-19 booster got some good news this week: the FDA signaled it might still win approval after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr cast doubt on its efficacy. The Novavax vaccine is the only COVID-19 booster in the United States that does not use messenger RNA technology — which some states have begun to ban — and the only option for many people who cannot or will not take an mRNA vaccine. … Novavax has been available since 2022 through a pandemic-era Emergency Use Authorization. A decision on full approval – which rival mRNA shots from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech already have – was due from the Food and Drug Administration by April 1, but had been delayed by the FDA without explanation.” (04/24/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-04-24/as-fda-delays-novavax-covid-vaccine-approval-patients-fight-back
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14) XX-XY Athletics founder slams Nike over alleged funding of child transgender athletes study
Source: Fox News
“XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey slammed Nike over its alleged funding of a study on puberty blockers for children and how it would affect their athletic and training performance. … The first notion [?] that Nike was allegedly funding was in a New York Times article published over the weekend about the plight of Blaire Fleming – the San Jose State Spartans transgender female volleyball player who played a controversial role in the 2024-25 NCAA women’s volleyball season. OutKick pointed out that the piece mentions Joanna Harper, a trans woman who studies transgender athletes, is ‘currently helping to lead an ambitious study of trans adolescents that measures their results on a 10-step fitness test before they start hormone therapy and then, after they have begun to medically transition, every six months for five years.'” (04/24/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/xx-xy-athletics-founder-jennifer-sey-slams-nike-over-its-alleged-funding-child-transgender-athletes-study
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15) Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to “sanctuary cities”
Source: SFGate
“A federal judge in California on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions. U.S. Judge William Orrick said a preliminary injunction was appropriate because the executive orders were unconstitutional just as they were in 2017 when President Donald Trump announced a similar order. Orrick issued the injunction sought by San Francisco and more than a dozen other municipalities that sued over a pair of executive orders the Republican president issued targeting local municipalities that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. Orrick, based in San Francisco, wrote that defendants are restrained and enjoined ‘from directly or indirectly taking any action to withhold, freeze, or condition federal funds’ and the administration must provide written notice of his order to all federal departments and agencies by Monday.” (04/24/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/judge-bars-trump-from-denying-federal-funds-to-20292507.php
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16) Federal judge orders US regime to pay North Dakota regime $28 million over oil pipeline protests
Source: United Press International
“A federal judge has ruled the U.S. government must pay North Dakota nearly $28 million in damages stemming from the Dakota Access oil pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor issued his ruling Wednesday, siding with North Dakota’s claims of negligence, gross negligence, civil trespass and public nuisance against the United States in connection with the protests. … The state’s claims focused on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers use of a Special Use Permit to allow the protesters to demonstrate on Corps land. In his ruling on Wednesday, the President Donald Trump appointee said the Corps had not officially granted the SUP despite saying one had been issued, and this so-called de factor permit prevented law enforcement from taking action against the protesters.” (04/24/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/24/Dakota-Access-pipeline-ruling/1641745484489/
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17) NJ: 19-year-old accused of sparking massive wildfire, charged with arson
Source: New York Post
“A 19-year-old man has been charged with arson for allegedly sparking the massive wildfire in the New Jersey Pine Barrens that has torched 15,000 acres, prosecutors said. Joseph Kling, of Ocean Township, allegedly started a bonfire in the vast Forked River Mountains Wilderness Area with wooden pallets that exploded out of control when he did not properly put it out, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. Kling was taken into custody at Ocean Township police headquarters and taken to the Ocean County Jail, where he is awaiting his detention hearing. A column of smoke was first spotted from the Cedar Bridge Fire Tower in Barnegat Township around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, officials said. The fire quickly spread out of control, forcing the evacuation of 5,000 residents of Ocean and Lacey townships.” (04/24/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/us-news/teen-accused-of-sparking-massive-nj-wildfire-charged-with-arson/
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18) DR Congo: Regime, rebels announce ceasefire after talks in Qatar
Sourc: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have agreed to pause fighting as they work towards a broader peace deal, according to their joint statement. The truce, declared late on Wednesday after a round of negotiations in Qatar’s capital Doha, has raised hopes that the latest wave of violence, spurred by M23’s bloody January assault and capture of the DRC’s two largest cities, may begin to subside. … The decades-long conflict has roots in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, with M23 made up primarily of ethnic Tutsi fighters. Many were former rebels integrated into the DRC army who later defected, citing discrimination and broken peace deals.” (04/24/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/24/drc-m23-rebels-commit-to-pause-fighting-amid-peace-talks
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19) Study: Bonobos in Congo form “girl groups” to fend off male aggression
Source: SFGate
“Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study finds. Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are among humans’ closest relatives. Scientists have long wondered why bonobos live in generally female-dominated societies since the males are physically bigger and stronger. Three decades of observations in Congo — the only place the endangered bonobos are found in the wild — lend support to the idea of a sisterhood where female bonobos band together to assert their power. These girl groups chased male bonobos out of trees, securing food for themselves, and females that grouped more ranked higher in their community’s social ladder, researchers found. ‘It’s very clear that you don’t want to overstep as a male bonobo,’ said study author Martin Surbeck from Harvard University. Findings were published Thursday in the journal Communications Biology.” (04/24/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/bonobos-in-congo-form-girl-groups-to-fend-off-20292360.php
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20) CA: Homeowner shoots naked burglar during home invasion
Source: CBS News
“A naked burglar was shot by a homeowner in Chino on Tuesday, police said. They were dispatched to the 4300 block of Lombardy Court at around 11:35 a.m. after receiving a call from someone saying that a man had broken into their home through a front window, according to the Chino Police Department. ‘The caller stated that her husband had shot the intruder inside the residence,’ police said. When they arrived, they found the suspect, who was ‘completely disrobed and appeared to be under the influence of drugs,’ inside of the home. He was arrested and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment on gunshot wounds to his lower body. He is said to be in stable condition.” (04/23/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/chino-homeowner-shoots-naked-burglar-during-home-invasion/
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21) How a President Becomes a Dictator: By Executive Order
Source: Rutherford Institute
by John & Nisha Whitehead
“130 executive orders in under 100 days. Sweeping powers claimed in the name of ‘security’ and ‘efficiency.’ One president acting as lawmaker, enforcer, and judge. No debate. No oversight. No limits. This is how the Constitution dies — not with a coup, but with a pen. The Unitary Executive Theory is no longer a theory — it’s the architecture of a dictatorship in motion.” (04/23/25)
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/how_a_president_becomes_a_dictator_by_executive_order
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22) Every Accusation is a Confession: “Insurrection” Edition
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“The problem [US Senator Mike] Lee’s trying to solve, if it really is a problem, is that individual US District Court judges can, and sometimes do, issue injunctions with nationwide effect. Lee’s proposal would require such actions to be heard by panels of three judges rather than by a single judge, with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court selecting the judges. It would also require the Supreme Court to hear all appeals of injunctions issued by those panels. No problem, I guess. It seems well within Congress’s powers …. Federal judges doing what federal judges are, at the moment, authorized to do (issue injunctions) based on what they’re constitutionally bound to support (due process) doesn’t really seem very insurrectiony, though.” (04/24/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19514
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23) The Illusion of Inflationary Prosperity
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Richard M Ebeling
“Nothing is as enticing as a free lunch. The idea of getting something for nothing surely is appealing to almost everyone. …. there is no end to the list of things we would all like to have with no cost attached, with nothing to have to give up to get what we want. Economists are usually considered the perennial party-poopers … reminding people that often nothing is as expensive as something that is said to be for ‘free.’ … What are we to think, then, when a Nobel Laureate economist, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and his coauthor, Mark Weisbrot, tell us that there is ‘A No-Brainer for Global Growth and U.S. Jobs’ (Project Syndicate, January 10, 2025) at almost no cost and all benefit to the world. All that is needed is for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to digitally print more of a version of paper money known as Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).” (04/24/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/04/the-illusion-of-inflationary-prosperity/
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24) Paper Money as a Weapon of War
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Lawrence W Reed
“Ships of Britain’s massive Royal Navy, the largest in the world, inflicted great damage on American ports, property, and vessels during the years of the Revolution (1775-1783). Perhaps none of those ships wreaked more havoc than HMS Phoenix, and it accomplished its devious work not with a cannon but with a printing press. … the Second Continental Congress authorized the printing of paper money …. What began with a modest batch of six million in continental dollars turned into a blizzard of several hundred million by the war’s end, yielding a steady depreciation and giving rise to the famous phrase ‘not worth a continental.’ With nothing to back the money but murky promises to redeem it in precious metal at a future date, Congress didn’t need any help to make it worthless, but the British were happy to assist, nonetheless.” (04/24/25)
https://fee.org/articles/paper-money-as-a-weapon-of-war/
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25) Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC) and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey announced they were launching an ambitious legislative plan called the Green New Deal. While people who had a grounding in economic thought found this new initiative to be naïve at best and destructive at worst, nonetheless it has energized American progressives and other environmental true believers. … this kind of largesse needs legislation behind it and the true believers—led by AOC herself—settled on the infamous (and hilariously named) Inflation Reduction Act. In fact, AOC served as a cheerleader for what was the cornerstone measure of the Biden administration, one that supposedly would create nine million jobs and totally transform the US economy. However, the promised transformation never occurred.” (04/24/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/whatever-happened-green-new-deal
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26) In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism
Source: Washington Monthly
by Joel Dodge
“In a 2023 New York Times column, Ezra Klein coined the term ‘everything-bagel liberalism’ to describe the phenomenon of projects that liberals favor getting weighed down by seemingly ancillary requirements liberals impose on them. He noted, for instance, that in California, strict labor and environmental standards embedded in various pieces of legislation passed by the Democratic legislature over the years have made it too costly and time-consuming to build subsidized housing for the homeless. This same problem, he warned, would imperil one of the centerpieces of the Biden administration’s economic policy: the CHIPS and Science Act. Klein praised the aims of this flagship legislation to reshore semiconductor manufacturing with a $39 billion fund to attract companies to the United States.” (04/24/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/24/in-defense-of-everything-bagel-liberalism/
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27) The constitutionally dubious law empowering Trump’s ’emergency’ tariff authority
Source: Orange County Register
by Ben Bayer
“Donald Trump’s April 2 tariffs paralyzed businesses that rely on international trade, wreaked havoc with financial markets, and injected new economic uncertainty into everyone’s life. Far from offering ‘liberation,’ Trump’s executive orders embody an arbitrary lawlessness that threatens the individual liberties of the entrepreneurs who create goods and services so many of us depend upon. In an effort to stand up for the rights of aggrieved small businesses, two recent lawsuits argue that the executive orders lack statutory authority. … It may be prudent for businesses facing closure to seek relief from these tariffs by asking the courts to overturn the executive orders as lawless. But in truth, the IEEPA itself is lawless at its heart. Its key provisions are ripe for the abuse of tyrants opposed to individual freedom.” (04/24/25)
https://archive.is/zT87K
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28) Four Explanatory Models for Trump’s Chaos
Source: Foreign Policy
by Emma Ashford
“Vladimir Lenin once noted that there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. By that standard, the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency have comprised at least 20 years of foreign-policy change. The administration’s ‘move fast and break things’ approach to foreign policy has been consistent only in its chaos. … how are we to make sense of the chaos? It’s clear that the second Trump administration is aiming for change — not inertia — in U.S. foreign policy, though the direction of that change is unclear. Still, there are four explanatory models worth considering as we try to explain its choices so far.” (04/24/25)
https://archive.is/KV9TK
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29) In postwar Ethiopia, a stand on higher ground
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Nations prone to split over ethnic or religious divides often find ways to bond by embracing a higher civic identity. Ethiopia just set a small example of that. Two top leaders – from different ethnic groups – found a way to avert a renewal of a vicious war that ended two years ago. Peace prevails for now in Ethiopia’s restive state of Tigray, as does a desire for unity around national ideals. Less than a month ago, most observers of East African politics widely expected that simmering tensions in Tigray would boil over into conflict again. Their concerns were heightened when disgruntled members of Tigray’s security forces seized key government buildings in an intra-Tigrayan dispute over jobs. Three officers had been suspended by the state’s interim administration. The then-head of Tigray called for direct federal intervention after he fled in March to the nation’s capital.” (04/23/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0423/In-postwar-Ethiopia-a-stand-on-higher-ground
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30) The Road to Campus Serfdom
Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis
“It seems remarkable that seemingly antisemitic protests by undergraduates, such as those at my own university of Northwestern, could threaten the biomedical research funding of its medical school. But the structure of civil rights laws as applied to universities has long allowed the federal government to cut off funding to the entire university based on the wrongful actions of particular units or departments. Ironically, the left, now alarmed by the federal government’s intrusive reach, bears direct responsibility for crafting the very legal weapons wielded against the universities it dominates. ” (04/24/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-road-to-campus-serfdom/
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31) Leftists [sic] to blame for much of US housing crisis
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“It was typical of Joe Biden’s presidency that, when faced with a difficult problem, he would take the cynical approach of finding a scapegoat to blame while making a promise he never intended to keep. His response to the housing affordability crisis last year was a textbook case: Blame ‘rent-gouging’ landlords and greedy realtors, make the false promise that his administration would build 2 million new homes via more deficit spending, and hope nobody asks questions — a safe bet, considering the incurious media that surrounded him. ‘Folks are tired of being played for suckers and I’m tired of letting them be played for suckers,’ Biden said in a campaign speech hammering his scapegoats last year. Having promised to lower housing costs during his State of the Union address earlier in the spring, Biden’s fiery rhetoric showed he had not the faintest idea of how to solve the problem.” (04/23/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/opinion/miranda-devine-leftists-to-blame-for-much-of-the-us-housing-crisis-as-almost-a-third-of-americans-are-housing-poor/
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32) Europe Must Stop Playing Pawn to American Power
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jose Nino
“As the world experiences significant geopolitical changes, political blocs like the European Union have a unique opportunity to chart a new path. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union and its twenty-seven member states have delivered nearly $155 billion in financial, military, humanitarian, and refugee assistance to Ukraine. Of that aid sent to Ukraine, the combined military support from the EU and its member states is estimated at €49.6 billion ($53 billion). This represented a transatlantic initiative to draw Russia into a protracted conflict in Ukraine through proxy warfare. However, this Western-backed proxy war appears to have fallen short, as Russia continues to make incremental gains on the battlefield and now seems positioned to preside over a de facto east-west partition of the country.” (04/24/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/europe-must-stop-playing-pawn-to-american-power
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33) The Gutting of American Mental Health Care
Source: TomDispatch
by Mattea Kramer & Sean Fogler
“The United States has been in the throes of a mental health and overdose crisis so severe it has spanned five presidential administrations and been classified as an official state of emergency in three of them. No one knows exactly how this emergency will play out during the current Trumpian cocktail of uncertainty, fear, and cuts to social services, but charts of the recent turbulence of the stock market suggest a relevant visual: imagine the nervous systems of millions of already struggling Americans, along with millions more who are being pushed to the limits of what they can handle, all experiencing deep emotional crashes, briefly recovering, only to collapse again into new lows.” (04/24/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/this-mental-health-awareness-month/
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34) What Scrooge Effect? Americans Keep Giving, Despite the Welfare State
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller
“Despite a large welfare state and high taxes, most Americans continue to donate money — even without any federal tax benefit.” (04/24/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/philanthropy-despite-the-state-americans-give-generously-even-without-tax-breaks/
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35) Discourse on Race Has a Conformity Problem
Source: Persuasion
by John McWhorter
“A graduate school colleague told me that her subfield of linguistics was more valid as science than the subfield some other students were working in. Her metric was that the findings in her subfield were more counterintuitive, as opposed to applying terminology to things we basically know are true already. I didn’t like it. My work was commonly (mis-)associated with the kind she was dissing. … However, her valuation of the counterintuitive was also correct. I have carried her lesson with me since. It’s important to describe things and to give them careful labels. But the real magic is figuring out workings of the world that we would not have expected. Motion is matter’s default state rather than stasis. English, Polish, Persian, and Hindi began as the same grandfather language. Tomatoes are fruits. Betty Boop was originally a dog.” (04/24/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/discourse-on-race-has-a-conformity
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36) An Absurd Rationale for Provoking a Constitutional Crisis
Source: The Dispatch
by John McCormack
“[T]he argument that the Alien Enemies Act is a key tool necessary to carry out mass deportations is absurd on its face. Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act applied only to a very tiny percentage of the more than 500,000 Venezuelan unauthorized [sic] immigrants in the country — those who are members of the gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). While there aren’t reliable estimates for the total number of TdA members in the United States, it is perhaps a number in the thousands. The gang MS-13, which is much more well-established in America than Tren de Aragua, has an estimated 10,000 members in the United States according to the Department of Justice. In other words, Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation likely applies to less than 0.1 percent of the entire population of 15 million illegal [sic] immigrants in the United States.” (04/14/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-supreme-court-immigration-constitution/
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37) Dems, Clintons & globalists work together to censor Americans … for “democracy”
Source: Fox News
by Jonathan Turley
“In his historic speech in Munich this year, Vice President JD Vance confronted the Europeans over their attacks on free speech, declaring ‘If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.’ That is manifestly true, but it appears that there is something that certain Americans can still do for Europe. As the European Union ramps up its long-standing campaign against free speech, it is increasingly calling upon Americans to make the case against both free speech and the United States. Europeans and globalists see the Trump administration as a threat to efforts to create transnational governance systems.” (04/24/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-democrats-clintons-globalists-work-together-censor-americans-democracy
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38) Ukraine, Europe can’t afford to refuse Trump’s peace plan
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Anatol Lieven
“Most of the peace plan for Ukraine now sketched out by the Trump administration is not new, is based on common sense, and has indeed already been tacitly accepted by Kyiv. Ukrainian officials have acknowledged that its army has no chance in the foreseeable future of reconquering the territories now occupied by Russia. Vice President J.D. Vance’s statement that the U.S. plan would ‘freeze the territorial lines … close to where they are today’ simply acknowledges an obvious fact. On the other hand, by reportedly agreeing to a ceasefire along the present front line, Putin has indicated his readiness to abandon Russia’s demand that Ukraine withdraw from the parts of the provinces claimed by Russia that Ukraine still holds. This too is common sense.” (04/24/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ukraine-peace-plane/
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39) Saving the World is Not America’s Responsibility
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow
“The world can be an ugly place. Russia invaded Ukraine. Sudan is consumed by civil war. Haiti is overrun by violent gangs. Conflict has surged in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Somalia is ravaged by violence. Israel is waging war on Palestinians. In Burma the military regime is committing murder and mayhem. The list goes on …. These and other conflicts and potential conflicts are terrible. Many people, especially in Washington, look to the U.S. for answers. In their view, if only Uncle Sam is willing to “lead,” the lion will be forced to lie down with the lamb. And all will be well. Unfortunately, this strategy, as evidenced by the last three decades, has proved to be disastrous. Fixing the world proved to be well beyond Washington’s capability. Equally important, these battles aren’t Americans’ responsibility.” (04/24/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/saving-the-world-is-not-americas-responsibility/
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40) Apple’s battle with the UK surveillance state
Source: spiked
by Freddie Attenborough
“A UK court has struck a rare blow for civil liberties. The highly secretive Investigatory Powers Tribunal rejected the British government’s bid last month to repress all public reporting of its attempts to gain ‘backdoor’ access to our private, encrypted data. The legal challenge was brought by Apple, which provides its UK customers with what is known as its Advanced Data Protection, or ADP, service. The ruling has barely been reported on in the British press, but is nonetheless of great significance.” (04/24/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/24/apples-battle-with-the-uk-surveillance-state/
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41) What Is To Be Done? Take Hold of Our History
Source: Common Dreams
by Harvey J Kaye
“The time has come. The crisis intensifies, and the struggle is being joined. Abraham Lincoln’s warning of 1862 (‘We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth’) speaks ever more directly to us. But keep listening. Lincoln did not merely issue a warning to his fellow citizens. Believing they already essentially knew what he was to say, he reminded them of who they were and made it perfectly clear to them what they had to do to overcome the crisis and prevail against the enemy they confronted. He told them that winning the war and sustaining the Union required not simply defeating the Confederacy, but also making America’s revolutionary promise all the more real for all the more Americans. He told them that to truly secure the United States they had to end slavery.” (04/24/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/take-hold-of-radical-u-s-history
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42) A Cuomo Indictment?
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Can there be ‘pandemic justice?’ On June 11th of last year, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the House of Representatives interviewed former Governor of the State of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, in pursuance of getting to the bottom of the disaster that was COVID in New York and beyond. Cuomo had counsel; the interrogation was transcribed. The focus? The governor’s disastrous decision to send coronavirus patients back to his state’s nursing homes, where they quickly spread the new disease to its most vulnerable targets.” (04/24/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/04/24/a-cuomo-indictment/
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43) Seven Reasons Why It’s Absurd To Bomb Iran
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“‘There are two ways Iran can be handled,’ U.S. President Donald Trump has said, ‘militarily, or you make a deal.’ National Security Adviser Mike Waltz advocated for the military solution; Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Vice President JD Vance advocated for diplomacy. Trump has opted for diplomacy. But all options are still on the table, and if the diplomatic path fails, Trump says ‘the other will solve the problem.’ But there are several reasons why all options should not be on the table and why bombing Iran to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear bomb would be absurd. Here are seven of them.” (04/24/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2025/04/23/seven-reasons-why-its-absurd-to-bomb-iran/
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44) Rümeysa Öztürk’s Ordeal Is Our Nation’s Disgrace
Source: The Bulwark
by Bill Lueders
“In his comments on Öztürk’s arrest, [US Secretary of State Marco] Rubio alleged that the students now being expelled came to the United States ‘not just to study but to participate in movements that vandalize universities, harass students, take over buildings, and cause chaos.’ Yet there is no evidence that Öztürk did any of these things, or even that she played a significant role in last year’s protests at Tufts. The only actual illegal actions in her case are those being committed by the government, starting with its defiance of a court order issued six hours after Öztürk’s arrest that prohibited her removal from Massachusetts without advance notice.” (04/23/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/rumeysa-ozturk-ordeal-our-nations-disgrace-tufts-deportation-student-visa
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45) Electric Vehicles: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder
“Are electric vehicles better for the planet than gasoline-powered vehicles? This is the question we explore in my new documentary. Whether one agrees with former President Joe Biden, who calls climate change ‘an existential threat,’ or whether one agrees with the late physicist Freeman Dyson, who dismissed Al Gore and his ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ as ‘lousy science,’ this question remains. Are electric vehicles better for planet Earth than ‘gas guzzlers?’ After all, fossil-fuel-generated energy is required to manufacture an electric vehicle and then to transport it to the dealership. The electricity required to charge it comes mostly from fossil-fuel-generated power. Electric vehicles are a triumph of technology, with incredible features. They are quiet, fast and fun to drive. The self-driving feature, while not foolproof, will likely save lives because human driving error is more common.” (04/24/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/04/24/electric-vehicles-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-n2656008
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46) Reinventing the Trade Deal Wheel, Only Much Worse
Source: Cato Institute
by Scott Lincicome
“We didn’t need the trade wars, but good deals take time.” (04/23/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/reinventing-trade-deal-wheel-only-much-worse
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47) What Happens When You Abuse People
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“[T]he big reason for the drop in demand for U.S. bonds is an informal, unorganized international boycott of such bonds. Why would any foreigner who lives in a country that has been targeted for damage or destruction by the U.S. government be interested by investing in bonds issued by the U.S. government? … We are seeing this informal-boycott phenomenon with respect to tourism. Foreigners are canceling their vacation plans to the United States, which might well have an adverse impact on U.S. tourism businesses. Moreover, foreigners who own vacation homes in the U.S. are selling them and staying away from our country. Why wouldn’t the same mindset apply to the purchase of U.S. bonds? This is what happens when a government abuses and mistreats people.” (04/23/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/04/23/what-happens-when-you-abuse-people/
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48) For Earth Day, Let’s Try Speeding Up Instead of Slowing Down
Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Brian Yablonski
“As we celebrate Earth Day this April 22 and reflect on how far environmental stewardship has come, we have an opportunity to reimagine conservation to speed up action and get results to meet today’s challenges. When Earth Day first began in 1970, it was in the midst of a remarkable wave of environmental legislation: the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, National Environmental Policy Act and other landmark laws fundamentally changed America’s relationship with its natural resources. … over the decades, these well-intentioned laws have calcified into bureaucratic processes that impede progress due to a fear of reform and misguided belief that only regulation can solve these issues.” (04/23/25)
https://www.perc.org/2025/04/17/for-earth-day-lets-try-speeding-up-instead-of-slowing-down/
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49) The Permanent Tariff Damage
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“As my colleague Bob Kuttner wrote yesterday, Donald Trump, after starting April like a lion, is going out like a lamb. He has said publicly that tariffs on China will ‘come down substantially’, with an unnamed aide floating rollbacks as high as 65 percent. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave a similar story at a closed-door meeting hosted by JPMorganChase (why was he delivering market-moving information in secret to bankers?), and publicly at the Institute of International Finance on Tuesday. ‘There is an opportunity for a big deal here’ with China, Bessent said, and ‘if they want to rebalance [their economy], let’s do it together.’ Wall Street is certainly desperate for any note of conciliation, and Trump saying he has ‘no intention’ of firing Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell made them even more ebullient. But let’s get real.” [editor’s note: First step: Audit the Fed – SAT] (04/24/25)
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-24-permanent-tariff-damage/
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50) The corrupt nature of mainstream media
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“TPOL tends to be very hard on so-called ‘legacy’ or mainstream media (MSM). That is, the television and radio networks and their local affiliated TV and radio stations, together with the newspapers (chains or independents and especially the ‘national’ press) and national magazines (Time, Life, Newsweek, and the like, including People and its ilk), and the entertainment industry, including Holywood, New York, and Nashville. Although the power and influence of many of these have waned significantly in recent years, the sad legacy still is with us. Morality, civic integrity, and the love of liberty have all been hugely and negatively impacted by what the MSM has done over more than a century. Not just in the States but in the world.” (04/23/25)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/04/23/the-corrupt-nature-of-mainstream-media/
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51) The Libertarian Angle, 04/24/25
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Trump’s War against the Fed.” (04/24/25)
https://www.fff.org/freedom-in-motion/video/libertarian-angle-trumps-war-against-the-fed/
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52) The Kyle Anzalon Show, 04/24/25
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Keaton Weiss: Israeli Ministry of Defense running US Middle East Policy.” (04/24/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/keaton-weiss-israeli-ministry-of-defense-running-us-middle-east-policy-new-episode-of-the-kyle-anzalone-show/
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53) Is This Constitutional? Here’s How Due Process Works
Source: Reason
“The Founders made due process central to the Constitution not because they loved criminals, but because they understood that any system of justice will give people a chance to publicly challenge the government before it deprives them of their liberty indefinitely, as the government has done here. That should be important to anyone who cares about the Constitution and the rule of law.” (04/24/25)
https://reason.com/video/2025/04/24/is-this-constitutional-heres-how-due-process-works/
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54) Capital Record, episode 229
Source: National Review
“Two Ways to Hurt the Working Class.” (04/24/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/two-ways-to-hurt-the-working-class/
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55) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2635
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Marty Bent on Bitcoin, Not ‘Crypto.'” (04/24/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2635-marty-bent-on-bitcoin-not-crypto/
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56) Pink Flame of Liberty, 04/24/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“A third term? Trump’s DANGEROUS RHETORIC!” (04/24/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTDyA_0rVGU
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57) The Political Orphanage, 04/25/25
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Is it Racist? Is it Sexist?” (04/24/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/is-it-racist-is-it-sexist
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58) Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, 04/24/25
Source: Politico
“Trump ratchets up pressure on Zelenskyy.” (04/24/25)
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL9742894469.mp3?updated=1745469105
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59) The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, 04/24/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Suddenly in Retreat on Many Fronts as Poll Reveals Key Weakness.” (04/24/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/194327/trump-suddenly-retreat-many-fronts-poll-reveals-key-weakness
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60) The Corbett Report, episode 475
Source: The Corbett Report
“Meet Mark Carney, Globalist Insider.” (04/24/25)
https://corbettreport.com/meet-mark-carney-globalist-insider/
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61) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 04/24/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Slams Zelensky for Delaying Peace Talks, Ben Gvir: GOP Supports Bombing Food in Gaza, and More.” (04/24/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cq-3il8-_8
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62) Conversation: Garry Kasparov and Yascha Mounk
Source: Yascha Mounk
“This morning, I had the pleasure of co-hosting a Substack Live with the great Garry Kasparov. We spoke about Donald Trump; about the prospects for peace in Ukraine; about whether Europe can avoid its fate as a museal continent; and about how Americans can defend their democracy.” (04/23/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/garry-kasparov-and-yascha-mounk
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63) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
“The government’s money, the government’s rules?” (04/23/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/podcasts/so-speak-free-speech-podcast/governments-money-governments-rules
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64) The Permanent Problem, episode 8
Source: Niskanen Center
“Christianity and democracy, with Jonathan Rauch.” (04/23/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/christianity-and-democracy-with-jonathan-rauch/
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65) Show-Me Institute Podcast, 04/23/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“The Three-Legged Stool of Taxes with David Stokes.” (04/23/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/state-and-local-government/the-three-legged-stool-of-taxes-with-david-stokes/
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