THANK YOU to subscribing contributor BT, whose $2.50 monthly donation yesterday saved us from a “zero-dollar day” and brings our annual fundraister total to (as of 5am) $1,289.50!
We’re about 47% of the way through our 92-day “annual fundraiser window,” and about 47% of the way to our goal … technically “on track,” but the faster we get there, the sooner I can stop bothering you about it every day.
Thanks to supporter GL’s “matching funds” pledge, we only have to raise $2,751.50 from everyone else to get $2,751.50 from him.
Another sweetener: GL usually pays his pledged half in Bitcoin, and it’s my impression that Bitcoin’s price is at or near its current bottom — so wrapping this fundraiser up early would likely result in a “bonus” as the value of that second half goes up after we receive it.
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Thanks in advance for helping us put this thing to bed!
Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: The American Conservative
“A Russian Insider Looks at Ukraine War, w/ Fyodor Lukyanov.” (11/12/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/tac-right-now-a-russian-insider-looks-at-ukraine-war-w-fyodor-lukyanov/
Source: Liberal Currents
by Samantha Hancox-Li
“Donald Trump is not well. His hands are swollen and discolored. He brags about ‘acing’ a cognitive test that is used as an instrument to detect dementia. He appears to have suffered from a stroke which led to visible irregularities on his face. He regularly falls asleep during press conferences and shits himself on camera. Donald Trump is not well. But he still retains his power to terrorize his own closest supporters.” (11/12/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-family-annihilator-presidency/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The Financial Times has published a new article titled ‘Humanoid robot start-up backed by Eric Trump in talks with Israel’s military’ which is exactly as horrifying as its headline suggests. The article features photographs of bipedal armored robots which look like they came from the set of a post-apocalyptic Hollywood movie, and opens as follows: ‘A company backed by Eric Trump is in talks with the Israel Defense Forces to supply humanoid robots to patrol Hamas tunnels beneath Gaza and potentially engage in combat. Foundation Future Industries co-founder and president Mike LeBlanc said he had met senior Israeli military officials for preliminary discussions in September and toured tunnels with the US start-up’s Phantom MK1. ‘We’re in direct talks with the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces,’ the former US Marine told the FT, adding that his company was in discussions to supply up to 1,000 Phantoms.'” (11/12/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/11/12/eric-trumps-humanoid-robots-to-be-used-in-gaza-genocide/
Source: Semafor
“Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned from the chipmaker on Thursday, sending shares down 7% and capping a whirlwind week that cast a pall over what was once the most valuable company in the world. The chipmaker’s CFO Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO, while the board conducts a search for a permanent successor, looking at both internal and external candidates, the company said Thursday. … Huang’s ouster came less than a week after he admitted to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy; on Wednesday, multiple media reports detailed that Huang had another extramarital affair with a subordinate, leaving his position untenable at the company he founded 33 years ago.” (11/12/26)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/12/2026/jensen-huang-resigns-as-nvidia-ceo
Source: New York Times
“A Second Affair Revelation Rocks Nvidia, and a Democrat Wins Mississippi in a Major Senate Upset.” (11/12/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDIm3-3tCHE
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Sinead Murphy
“At school, my son is studying King Lear. In a recent test, he came fifth best of twenty-two students. ‘What was the subject of the test?’ I asked him. ‘It is impossible to feel sorry for Lear in the first two scenes of Act One,’ he told me. ‘What did you write?’ I asked. ‘That it is not impossible to feel sorry for Lear. Because of Lear’s cognitive decline.’ Lear, victim of Alzheimer’s disease. One of the richest literary outputs of human history: swallowed by a diagnosis.” (11/12/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/diagnosis-in-place-of-reason-and-feeling/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jacob Howland
“When Vladimir Bukovsky’s memoir of his public struggle against Soviet tyranny appeared in 1978 in Michael Scammell’s energetic English translation, reviewers welcomed it as an exceptional book. Written with literary flair and suffused with quiet moral authority, it exposed, in excruciating detail, the demonic brutality of the psychiatric repression of political prisoners under Khrushchev and Brezhnev. To Build a Castle also vividly portrayed the misery of life on both sides of the barbed wire in a country ruled by fear, plagued by pervasive aggression, alcoholism, and nightmarish bureaucratic torments, and impoverished by universal corruption and an economically murderous ideology.” (11/12/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/a-soviet-handbook-for-fighting-totalitarianism/
Source: The Nation
by Michael T Klare
“The offenses cited by Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) in commencing impeachment proceedings against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth—that he initiated and sustained the war with Iran without required congressional approval, conducted military operations in Yemen and the Caribbean without such approval, and eroded protections for civilians trapped in overseas war zones—are all valid and fully justify his removal from office in accordance with constitutional precepts. But however worthy, they fail to capture his essential, unpardonable offense: strategic malpractice when commanding troops in battle.” (11/12/26)
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/pete-hegseth-iran-war-military-strategic-failure/
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Ordinary Men Chp 15 w/John Weeks.” (11/12/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/ordinary-men-chp-15-w-john-weeks/
Source: Cobden Centre
by Patrick Barron
“When French finances go deeply negative France cannot simply demand that the Bank of France print more francs out of thin air. The franc is gone and the Bank of France, which still exists, is an intermediate entity between French banks and the European Central Bank. The power to print more euros and buy French bonds is difficult because the other members of the European Union have power to oppose what they easily see as monetization of French debt that probably will not be repaid in euros of purchasing power as lent. If they accede to a new round of bond buying at all, the interest rate will be much, much higher.” (11/12/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/11/says-law-and-the-riots-in-france/
