“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy revoked the citizenship of Odesa mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov on Tuesday, which Ukraine’s security service said was due to Trukhanov also being a Russian citizen. Trukhanov denied having Russian citizenship and said he would take his case to court. Ukraine prohibits its citizens from holding Russian citizenship …. ‘I now have evidence that I could not, either physically or legally, obtain Russian citizenship or passports,’ Trukhanov told public broadcaster Suspilne. Ukraine’s SBU security service said the decision to strip Trukhanov’s citizenship had been made thanks to evidence it had provided that Trukhanov had a valid Russian passport.” (10/14/25)
“Scientific journals have had enormous positive impact on the development of science, but in some ways, they are now hampering rather than enhancing open scientific discourse. After reviewing the history and current problems with journals, a new academic publishing model is proposed. It embraces open access and open rigorous peer review, it rewards reviewers for their important work with honoraria and public acknowledgement, and it allows scientists to publish their research in a timely and efficient manner without wasting valuable scientists’ time and resources.” (10/14/25)
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“[T]he borders of present-day Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, taken together, trace almost exactly the outer boundaries of the British Mandate for Palestine, as established in 1922, meaning that Palestine as a political entity long predates the 1948 creation of the State of Israel. This means that when Britain governed Palestine, all of those three major present-day parts (Gaza, West Bank, Israel) were one political unit, under one legal system, governed from Jerusalem.” (10/14/25)
“The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid to revive a lawsuit brought by two Colorado families who alleged their parental rights were violated when their children attended school-sponsored club meetings that included discussions of gender identity and sexuality and were allegedly discouraged from telling their parents about it. … The families challenged policies implemented by the Poudre School District R-1 in Wellington, Colorado, which they say urge district employees not to disclose information about a students’ gender identity, including to parents.” (10/14/25)
“Robby Soave delivers his case to give Donald Trump a Nobel Peace Prize after successfully implementing the first phase of a peace deal that, on Monday, led to the release of the last remaining hostages from the October 7th, 2023 massacre.” (10/14/25)
“Some commentators are of the view that an important driver in the increases of the prices of goods is businesses that push prices higher in order to secure higher profits. According to the Ground Work Collaborative think tank report, Prices are simply the sum of costs and corporate profits. While rising costs of inputs can drive up what Americans pay at the gas pump or the grocery store, corporate profits can just as easily. The report, found corporate profits accounted for about 53% of inflation during the second and the third quarter of 2023. But does it make any sense that profits cause price inflation? We suggest that businesses cannot raise prices to secure higher profits without the buyers’ agreement.” (10/14/25)
“An explosion at a farmhouse in northern Italy during a police raid killed three Carabinieri officers and injured 12 others, Italy’s fire service said on X on Tuesday. The explosion occurred in Castel d’Azzano, near the city of Verona, overnight and caused the farmhouse to collapse, firefighters said. A woman was also injured and seven firefighters were taken to hospital for checks, they added. Italian media reported that the officers were trying to carry out an eviction order and that the initial indications were that gas canisters had exploded in the building. … Corriere della Sera reported that three siblings lived in the building and had been resisting attempts to evict them for several years.” (10/14/25)
“And as with science research grant administration, so with quite a lot of the modern regulatory state. It is a hard thing to accept that you might be part of a system that impedes overall prosperity, or that your primary income stream may come from acting as a type of bridge troll representing some legally privileged party that must be paid off to get out of people’s way. Rent extraction is, of course, what the other guy does; even hereditary landlords prefer to construct a story about themselves as custodians of the shared patrimony. But in the nicest and mildest possible terms, Klein and Thompson are trying to deliver the same message in 2025 as Teles and Lindsay were in 2017: The system isn’t working as intended. There are too few people rowing and too many pretending to steer.” (10/14/25)
“In a year marked early on by a string of explosive failures, SpaceX’s Starship is on track to end 2025 on a high note. The commercial spaceflight company, founded in 2002 by billionaire Elon Musk, launched the gargantuan rocket on a second successful uncrewed test flight in a row …. The launch system vehicle’s lower stage, known as Super Heavy, ignited all of its 33 engines …. Starship’s upper stage, the vehicle where crew and cargo would one day ride, separated within a few minutes of liftoff to fire its own six Raptor engines and continue on its own flight …. the vehicle … deployed mock Starlink internet satellites for the second time in a row and relighted a Raptor engine in space for the third time ever in a necessary maneuver to one day bring a vehicle back to the ground.” (10/14/25)
