Hey, everyone …
Today is NOT a “Firehose Friday” at the freedom movement’s daily newspaper — we’ve got full 60-item email/social media editions for you. But we also have EXTRA content (another 20+ news stories, opinion pieces, and audio/video links) for you here at the web edition.
Yesterday was a “zero-dollar day” in our annual fundraiser. Our total remains at $1,151.50.
Our goal is $5,503. Once we’ve raised the first half ($2,751.50), supporter GL has pledged to “match funds” for the other half. We’re $1,600 short of — only 41% of the way to — the goal.
This weekend, help us out with a “great leap forward” to the $1,500 mark. If we raise $348.50 between now and Monday, we’ll be at $1,500 (and 54% of the way home). So …
… and then have a happy, healthy, and prosperous weekend!
Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: Checks & Balances
“He Left Trump’s FBI. Now He’s Speaking Out.” (11/06/26)
https://chkbal.substack.com/p/he-left-the-trumps-fbi-now-hes-speaking
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The US has announced a reward of up to $20 million for information about Iran’s nuclear programme. The State Department’s Rewards for Justice is also offering to potentially relocate the person who provides such details. President Donald Trump claimed last year that Iran’s nuclear facilities had been ‘completely and totally obliterated’ following a bombing campaign by the US and Israel. Iran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful and that it has no intention of developing a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, the US military says it is setting up a task force to enhance Washington’s efforts to restrict Iran’s movement of weapons and sanctioned material across its borders.” (11/07/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6d091ev3p0jo
Source: Asia Times
by Jeffrey D Sachs
“Voters across the United States were loud and clear on Tuesday in their historic drubbing of Trumpism. The election was a decisive rejection of Trump’s war on Iran and its staggering costs at home. While savoring their victory and the historic opportunity to restore America’s constitutional order, the Democrats should take the anti-war message of the election to heart, because they suffered the same verdict two years ago, when voters rejected the Biden administration’s wars in Ukraine and Gaza.” (11/06/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/11/us-democrats-please-take-note-peace-is-good-politics/
Source: CNN
“A Kenyan cult leader has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murder of 191 people, all but one of them children, in a campaign of abuse and forced fasting. Paul Mackenzie, founder of the Good News International Church, was sentenced Friday alongside more than two dozen others at the Mombasa High Court. Mackenzie preached that the world would end in August 2023 and that followers needed to fast in order to reach heaven. According to a Kenyan Senate report into the deaths, his teachings were based on ‘doomsday or end-times’ beliefs. Children were scheduled to die first, followed by young people and women. Men were expected to stay alive long enough to bury the bodies before dying.” (11/06/26)
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/11/06/africa/kenyan-cult-leader-sentenced-intl
Source: The Political Orphanage
“How to Talk to Your Neoliberal Shill.” (11/06/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/how-to-talk-to-your-neoliberal-shill
Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“You have hurt your allies more than your foes. You’ve discredited the religious right more thoroughly than Jimmy Swaggart ever could. You gave the neocons the kiss of death, destroyed the Israel alliance, while presiding over a wave of foul antisemitism — right and left. You made fools of those earnestly trying to build a new right-of-center coalition. The National Conservatives and the post-liberals and the Claremonsters and the AIPAC loonies all tried to find some string of policy coherence, and today? Well, they all look like idiots, and some of them are figuring that out. There is no coherent thread that connects the past ten years except your ego, stupidity, and cruelty. And deep down, you know it.” (11/06/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/resign-mr-president
Source: American Greatness
by Christian Toto
“Come back, Johnny Carson! Late-night TV no longer resembles the laughs-first model perfected by The Tonight Show legend and, later, Jay Leno. It’s all about pushing progressive talking points, often shoving comedy to the exits. A new study by the conservative NewsBusters highlights just how imbalanced late-night television has become in the Age of Kimmel. The study found that 87 percent of jokes that targeted senatorial candidates drew satirical blood against Republicans. The time period? Peak campaign season: September 8 through October 29. That’s no accident. Meanwhile, Democrats running for the Senate endured just seven jokes in toto.” (11/06/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/11/06/late-night-comedy-or-dnc-propaganda/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“New Zealand voted in a new government as fog choked the capital, Wellington, on Saturday – and the mood was as palpable as the grey weather. ‘It’s pretty flat,’ 21-year-old Imogen Vlutger says. ‘There’s this kind of apathy and a bit of dread.’ ‘Tired. I think we’re all tired,’ Symone, 28, admits. ‘I didn’t even vote,’ one man in his 40s sheepishly confesses. He couldn’t bring himself to tick any of the boxes, he explains, declining to chat further. ‘Wellington’s a bit of a bubble,’ another voter says, expressing a caveat I heard often, before describing feeling disillusioned. But polling shows this is a pervasive sentiment across the country: the national mood is low and faith in politics is even lower. More than half the country no longer sees it as a land of opportunity, a recent study found, while a similar portion fears that the future looks even worse.” (11/07/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxr5yyg2nj9eo
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Shivs Hegseth in Strange Aside as GOP Knives Come Out Big Time.” (11/06/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/217676/trump-shivs-hegseth-strange-aside-gop-knives-come-big-time
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Jillian C York
“On November 3, our colleagues at the Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in) received notifications from X that the Delhi Police had issued takedown requests targeting 42 URLs. Among the accounts and posts targeted were those belonging to SFLC.in, the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), and X account @geoblockedindia, as well as posts documenting legal notices and instances of online censorship. Takedown requests targeting SFLC.in and other digital rights groups threaten not only their work, but the public’s ability to know when and how online speech is being restricted.” (11/06/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/when-watchdogs-are-silenced-indias-crackdown-those-documenting-online-censorship
