LPA Solidarity Stream, episode 7
Source: LP Alliance
“Tim Krenz’s Plan for the Constitution!” (09/10/25)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
AI, Inevitability, and Human Sovereignty
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Josh Stylman
“I didn’t want to feed my soul into a machine. That was my first instinct when AI tools started appearing everywhere – not concern about jobs or privacy, but something deeper. These tools promise to make us smarter while systematically making us more dependent. After decades of working in the internet industry, I’d already watched it transform into something more insidious than just a surveillance machine – a system designed to shape how we think, what we believe, and how we see ourselves. AI felt like the culmination of that trajectory. But resistance became futile when I realized we’re already participating whether we know it or not.” (09/10/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/ai-inevitability-and-human-sovereignty/
Moaning about foreign competition is a great American tradition
Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“Having seen New England, Kentucky’s Henry Clay (1777-1852) was aghast. … ‘In passing along the highway, one frequently sees large and spacious buildings, with the glass broken out of the windows, the shutters hanging in ruinous disorder, without any appearance of activity, and enveloped in solitary gloom. Upon inquiring what they are, you are almost always informed that they were some cotton or other factory, which their proprietors could no longer keep in motion against the overwhelming pressure of foreign competition.’ Somehow New England thrived despite the end of whaling, the southward migration of the textile industry, the departure of many shoemakers, and other supposed setbacks. Protectionists, however, persist in imagining recent calamities that they think validate government curtailments of economic freedom. Hence their lingering preoccupation with the ‘China shock,’ the alleged damage done to American industries and communities by imports from China.” (09/10/25)
Reason Interview: Lenore Skenazy
Source: Reason
“How We Criminalized Childhood.” (09/10/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/10/how-we-criminalized-childhood/
UN inspectors can resume work at Iran nuclear sites after breakthrough deal
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Tehran and the UN nuclear inspectorate have reached an agreement that will allow UN inspectors to return to inspect all of Iran’s nuclear sites, including those bombed by Israel and the US in June. The breakthrough, confirmed by Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, came during a three-hour meeting on Monday between Grossi and the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Cairo. Agreement on the return of the UN inspectors is one of the preconditions set by European leaders for them to defer a plan to reimpose sweeping UN sanctions on Iran at the end of this month. … One of Iran’s concerns is that the IAEA, an agency distrusted by Iranian conservatives, would feed the information it garnered to Israel or the US on the state of its nuclear plans and this would be used to refine further military assaults on Iran’s nuclear sites.” (09/10/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/un-inspectors-iran-nuclear-sites-breakthrough-deal
Your liberty just as important as mine
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Caring about people means caring about their liberty. Liberty is a universal principle. It isn’t just for me, those I like, or those who agree with me. It’s for everyone or it’s not liberty at all. If I didn’t care about people, I would demand my rights while trampling yours; anything to get my way. But that’s not liberty; it’s tyranny dressed up with moralizing words. Liberty is the foundation of a life worth living. It’s the ability to make your own choices, pursue your own happiness, protect your own property, and build your future without anyone’s boot on your neck. It’s a two-way street.” (09/10/25)
FL: Court notices state regime’s open carry ban is unconstitutional
Source: CBS News
“In a major decision, a state appeals court Wednesday ruled that Florida’s ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, pointing to U.S. Supreme Court rulings on Second Amendment issues, said the open-carry ban is incompatible with the nation’s ‘historical tradition of firearm regulation.’ ‘No historical tradition supports Florida’s open carry ban,’ Judge Stephanie Ray wrote in a 20-page opinion joined by Judges Lori Rowe and M. Kemmerly Thomas. ‘To the contrary, history confirms that the right to bear arms in public necessarily includes the right to do so openly. That is not to say that open carry is absolute or immune from reasonable regulation.'” [editor’s note: The Second Amendment says EXACTLY that the right to keep and bear arms is absolute and that there’ no such thing as “reasonable” regulation – TLK] (09/10/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/appeals-court-rules-floridas-open-carry-ban-is-unconstitutional/
The Right’s Performative Toughness
Source: The Dispatch
by Jeremiah Johnson
“Today’s right-wing politics don’t revolve around results or competence, nor even an identifiable ideology. The central organizing principle of the Trumpian right — to the extent that there is an organizing principle other than ‘Do things that benefit Donald Trump personally’ — is the performance of toughness and the pantomime of warrior culture.” (09/10/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-hegseth-vance-war-tough/
NASA discovers “clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars”
Source: Washington Post
“Rolling across the rugged, rusty red terrain on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover came upon some rocks with peculiar green, blue, black and white dots. After detailed image analysis, scientists have come to a potentially encouraging conclusion: If those speckled rocks were formed like they are on Earth, they might be evidence of past life on the dusty planet. The rocks ‘very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting,’ acting NASA administrator Sean P. Duffy said in a news conference Wednesday. The findings were published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The rocks, or mudstones, are composed of finely packed sediment and covered in specks resembling poppy seeds and leopard spots. The colorful features, the study found, are minerals that — on Earth — have traditionally been created from microbial activity.” (09/10/25)
The Trump Administration’s Half-Baked Plan To Disarm Transgender People Is Legally Bankrupt
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“When Justice Department officials anonymously floated the idea of prohibiting gun possession by transgender people last week, they may have hoped to score points with President Donald Trump’s base or get a rise out of ‘woke’ Democrats. Instead, they elicited howls of outrage from every major gun rights group. It is not hard to see why. This half-baked proposal, which has no obvious statutory basis, is flagrantly inconsistent with ‘the right of the people’ to ‘keep and bear arms’ — a right that Trump claims he is keen to protect.” (09/10/25)