Pink Flame of Liberty, 03/07/26
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Austin Martin’s Appeal to the JC (It’s BAD, its REALLY BAD, stinks up the place).” (03/07/26)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Kentucky Focus, 03/07/26
Source: Bluegrass Institute
“Bluegrass Institute CEO Caleb O. Brown discusses how localities raise your property taxes without your input.” (03/07/26)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/silent-property-tax-increases-in-kentucky-kentucky-focus-knn/
Don’t turn banks into citizenship police
Source: The Hill
by Solveig Singleton
“President Trump is reportedly considering an order requiring financial institutions to check customers’ citizenship, a curious departure from the administration’s professed concerns about the burden of bureaucracy and debanking. … Customers unnerved by the order might move their money from chartered depository institutions to informal family, religious, and community-based financial networks. … Federal statutes forbid financial service companies from alerting customers when surveillance reports are sent to authorities. But being asked to prove citizenship on everyday occasions is an intrusion people are sure to notice.” [editor’s note: Singleton’s wording implies that she MAY think moving money from state-surveilled institutions “to informal family, religious, and community-based financial networks” is a bad thing. I disagree. I consider it an essential precursor to restoring economic freedom, even though I also oppose the prospective “order” – TLK] (03/07/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5771913-financial-privacy-concerns-trump/
Video of ICE murder of Texas man raises questions about government claim
Source: Washington Post
“Video released by investigators in the [murder] last March of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent calls into question a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson’s claim that the victim ‘intentionally ran over’ a different agent before being shot. The investigative material released Friday by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows that Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was given conflicting instructions as he encountered law enforcement officers from multiple agencies near the scene of a previous vehicle accident in South Padre Island, Texas, in the early-morning hours of March 15. His car moved forward very slowly in the moments before Homeland Security Investigations Agent Jack C. Stevens fired three shots into Martinez’s blue Ford sedan. The footage does not show Martinez speeding up rapidly or appearing to target a second Homeland Security Investigations agent, Hector Sosa.” (03/07/26)
The Good Fight, 03/07/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Dean Ball on Who Should Control AI.” (03/07/26)
The Illegal News with Sarah Longwell, 03/07/26
Source: The Bulwark
“Trump Started a War. Congress Just Watched. (w/ Tess Bridgeman).” (03/07/26)
Laughs in grew up Southern Baptist
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“Who keeps insisting that no one look too deeply into their claims? It’s the Southern Baptist Convention, who covered up their rape crisis for decades. It’s the leadership of the rape cult that is Evangelical Christianity. It’s the Catholic Church. If sexual shame and stigma kept vulnerable people safe from rapists we’d have gotten rid of rape by now. Instead, where sexuality is most repressed, you see the highest rates of sexual abuse. This. Is. Not. A. Coincidence.” (03/06/26)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/laughs-in-grew-up-southern-baptist
US issues license authorizing sales of Venezuelan gold
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“The U.S. issued a license Friday that authorizes dealings with Minerven, Venezuela’s state-owned gold mining company, in the latest sign of the Trump administration’s intent to exercise more control over that country’s natural resources. The license was issued after U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met in Venezuela with acting President Delcy Rodríguez this week, as well as with representatives of more than two dozen U.S. mining and minerals companies. Many of them previously operated in Venezuela. Burgum said Venezuela’s government gave security assurances to mining companies interested in investing in the country, where mineral-rich areas have long been controlled by guerrilla members, gangs and other illegal groups. Under the license, people and companies from Russia, Iran, North Korea and Cuba are not authorized to engage in any contracts with Minerven.” (03/06/26)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/06/venezuela-gold/
OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
Source: The Intercept
by Sam Biddle
“OpenAI says Americans shouldn’t worry about the ethics of its new Pentagon contract. You’ll have to take their word for it (and Pete Hegseth’s).” (03/08/26)
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/08/openai-anthropic-military-contract-ethics-surveillance/
Matthew Hoh on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about an article he just wrote debunking the old lie, that is being pushed once again, that the Iranian government helped kill hundreds of American soldiers by supplying critical parts for armor-piercing roadside IEDs. He and Scott also discuss how insane Trump’s decision to attack Iran is.” (03/07/26)