Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The administration is dressing up these crimes as a ‘conflict,’ but there is no one fighting on the other side.” (10/23/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-presidents-murder-spree-expands
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The New York attorney general, Letitia James, on Thursday revealed that her legal team plans to ask a federal judge to dismiss the criminal charges against her on the grounds that the US attorney in eastern Virginia who obtained the indictment was unlawfully appointed, according to a court filing. James’s legal team made the move the day before James is scheduled to be arraigned in the US district court in Norfolk, Virginia, where she is expected to plead not guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution. Lindsey Halligan was appointed by Donald Trump last month as US attorney for Virginia’s eastern district, after her predecessor was forced out of his job after he expressed concerns with the strength of the evidence against both James and the former FBI director James Comey.” (10/23/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/letitia-james-challenge-criminal-charges
Source: US News & World Report
“British counterterrorism police arrested three men in London on Thursday on suspicion of spying for Russia. The Metropolitan Police force said that the men, ages 44, 45 and 48, were detained at addresses in the city under the National Security Act ‘on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service.’ Police said that the country in question is Russia. The force said that officers were searching several London properties in connection with the investigation. British authorities allege that Russia is conducting an increasingly bold campaign of espionage, sabotage and cybermeddling against the U.K.” (10/23/25)
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Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: National Review
“Replacing Work with Screen Time Is Not New.” (10/23/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/replacing-work-with-screen-time-is-not-new/
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“MORE Graham Platner Oppo! What’s George Santos Up To After Prison? (with Juliegrace Brufke).” (10/23/25)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/more-graham-platner-oppo-whats-george
Source: Orange County Register
by Veronique de Rugy
“When House Speaker Mike Johnson lashed out at last weekend’s ‘No Kings’ rallies soon to arrive on Washington’s National Mall, he reached for an old conservative refrain: ‘They hate capitalism. They hate our free enterprise system.’ I am sure he’s correct about some of the protesters. But the message rings hollow coming from a party leader that stands by as President Donald Trump does precisely what Johnson rightly decries: substituting political control for market choice and ruling by executive order. Indeed, what began as a populist revolt against so-called elites has become a program of state ownership, price fixing and top-down industrial control. Take a look.” (10/23/25)
Source: Independent [UK]
“A Washington, D.C. man is suing police, a National Guard member, and the district itself, claiming his constitutional rights were violated after being detained last month for trailing a National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme from the Star Wars franchise.Sam O’Hara, 35, represented by an attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against four D.C. police officers, an Ohio National Guard member, and the District of Columbia itself.” (10/23/25)
Source: Reuters
“U.S. prosecutors have accused a former executive of a government contractor that provides cyber intelligence tools to federal agencies of selling trade secrets to a buyer in Russia for $1.3 million.
In an October 14 filing in U.S. District Court in Washington, prosecutors said Peter Williams stole eight trade secrets of two unnamed companies from April 2022 to June 2025, with the intent to sell those secrets to a Russian-based buyer. The filing does not identify where Williams worked or the companies whose trade secrets were allegedly stolen. But Williams is listed in British business records as general manager of L3Harris Trenchant from October 2024 until his resignation on August 21. The company develops hacking tools that support national security operations and says it has U.S. government contracts.” (10/23/25)
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A Russian drone has killed two Ukrainian journalists and wounded another in the eastern [formerly] Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, according to their outlet and the regional governor of the Donetsk region. Freedom Media, a state-funded news organisation, said on Thursday that Olena Gramova, 43, and Yevgen Karmazin, 33, had been killed by a Russian Lancet drone while in their car at a petrol station in the industrial city. Another reporter, Alexander Kolychev, was hospitalised after the attack. … Kramatorsk, which had a pre-war population of about 150,000 people, is one of the few remaining civilian hubs in the Donetsk region still under Ukrainian control [after Donetsk’s secession from Ukraine in 2014]. Russian forces are approximately 16 kilometres (10 miles) from the city, where officials earlier this month announced the mandatory evacuation of children from some parts of the town and outlying villages.” (10/23/25)