It’s Thanksgiving week in the US, and we are thankful for our readers … especially the readers who financially support what we do.
One of those readers, TH, sent us what he calls his “widow’s mite” (those of you who read the Bible will get that reference) over the weekend. He does that several times a year, and he’s one of our favorite people indeed! His $15 contribution this time around brings our year-end fundraiser total (as of 5am) to $1,285.84!
Our “mini-goal” is to reach $2,000 this week. We’re $714.16 short of that mark. Will YOU kick in?
Our final goal is $5,501. After we’ve raised $2,750.50 from all y’all, another one of our favorite people, GL, will “match funds” for the other half. So we’re looking for another $1,464.66 altogether. PLEASE SUPPORT THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT’S DAILY NEWSPAPER!
Our “guarantee” for this week is three editions (today, tomorrow, and Wednesday), but we usually do at least one “weekend special edition” over the four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Have a great day, and a great week!
Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
“Canada will resume trade discussions with the United States ‘when it’s appropriate,’ Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Sunday, noting he did not have a pressing issue to address with President Donald Trump. Trump last month suspended the talks over an anti-tariff advertisement issued by Ontario’s provincial government. ‘We are very busy with the future of Canada, and with new partnerships. There will be conversations with the president, probably in the next two weeks,’ Carney told reporters on the sidelines of the G20 leaders’ meeting in Johannesburg. ‘We will re-engage when it’s appropriate.'” (11/23/25)
“A U.K. patrol ship has intercepted a Russian corvette and a tanker after shadowing them through the English Channel, the Defense Ministry said Sunday, adding that Russian naval activity around U.K. waters had increased by 30% over the past two years. With the past two weeks, the patrol ship HMS Severn intercepted the Russian corvette RFN Stoikiy and tanker Yelnya as they sailed through the English Channel, the ministry said. The Severn eventually handed over monitoring duties to an unidentified NATO ally off the coast of Brittany. … The news comes just days after Defense Secretary John Healey told reporters that the Russian spy ship Yantar had aimed lasers at the pilots of surveillance aircraft monitoring its activities off the coast of Scotland.” (11/23/25)
“Every generation rediscovers the dream of purity, and every generation pays for it. The forms change, but the rhythm remains the same. We’re currently watching a small version of that drama unfold again, this time in the theatre of New York City politics. Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor might seem like an old story of a political party’s young Turks taking on the old guard. But it is also possible to see a mood shift as that party shifts away from incrementalism and sets its sights on more radical, transformational change. Yes, the old machine could be venal and often shabby, but at least there was an occasional pragmatism to it. The new tone is all religious big-tent revival, the old hymns replaced by slogans of justice and liberation — the saviours of the republic are set to unseat capitalism and usher in the age of the redeemed.” (11/23/25)
“One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election after an official lost an encryption key needed to unlock results stored in a verifiable and privacy-preserving voting system. The International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) said Friday that the votes were submitted and tallied using Helios, an open source voting system that uses peer-reviewed cryptography to cast and count votes in a verifiable, confidential, and privacy-preserving way. … Per the association’s bylaws, three members of the election committee act as independent trustees. To prevent two of them from colluding to cook the results, each trustee holds a third of the cryptographic key material needed to decrypt results. ‘Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key, an honest but unfortunate human mistake, and therefore cannot compute their decryption share,’ the IACR said.” (11/21/25)
“Democracy requires decency because it requires mutual respect: to defend others even as we disagree with them, to accept decisions others have made and elections we have lost, to distinguish between robust rhetoric and dehumanizing cruelty, to accept objective truth when it proves us wrong, to maintain a baseline of civility, to accept that we are all in this together. … This is why I reject the shallow accusation that I have ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome.’ It’s too glib, too dismissive. Yes, some have gone overboard in opposing this president …. But the core impulse to reject Trump outright, to see him as uniquely hideous in American political history — as a national, collective disgrace — remains a vitally important one. Because Donald Trump is the most indecent man, by far, to ever hold the presidency.” (11/21/25)
“Ten large Indian trade unions have condemned the government’s rollout on Friday of new labour codes, the biggest such overhaul in decades, as a ‘deceptive fraud’ against workers. The unions, aligned with parties opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanded in a statement late on Friday that the laws be withdrawn before nationwide protests they plan to hold on Wednesday. … Modi’s government implemented the four labour codes, approved by parliament five years ago, as it seeks to simplify work rules, some dating to British colonial rule, and liberalise conditions for investment. It says the changes improve worker protections. While the new rules offer social security and minimum-wage benefits, they also allow companies to hire and fire workers more easily.” (11/22/25)
