Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his take on Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey’s endorsement of Rep. Thomas Massie (R – Ky.) for president amid partisan gridlock over the budget.” (10/21/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5564940-rising-october-21-2025/
Source: CoinDesk
“Bitcoin’s two-way price action is squeezing both leveraged bullish and bearish plays, underscoring challenging market conditions for traders. In the past 24 hours, BTC’s price has traded back and forth between $107,000 and $113,000, wiping out roughly $600 million in market-wide bullish and bearish futures bets. … Leveraged positions on perpetual futures exchanges are automatically closed when traders’ margin levels fall below maintenance thresholds, often causing cascading price moves as positions are sold into thin liquidity.” [editor’s note: A good case for either buying and holding/spending crypto or not doing so, rather than treating the market as a casino gaming table – TLK] (10/22/25)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Thomas D Howes
“Especially prominent in New Right conversations are thinkers of the right-wing European continental tradition like De Maistre, Bonald, Donoso Cortés, Maurras, and Carl Schmitt. The latter, we are told, has profound insights into politics despite his membership in the Nazi Party, and thus we should not dismiss him outright because of ideological puritanism. … There are indeed academics like Adrian Vermeule who are genuinely attracted to Schmitt’s criticisms of liberalism, his theory of history, and his views on the economic-technical rationality of liberalism, which they consider to be on the point of collapse. … Let’s not fool ourselves, however, about why the non-academic New Right appeals to Schmitt. It’s not about theoretical illumination. In popular politics, people push Carl Schmitt because he helps them rationalize their tribal politics …” (10/21/25)
Source: New York Times
“A federal marshal and a man targeted by immigration authorities were injured by gunfire during an [abduction] operation in Los Angeles on Tuesday, federal officials said. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said that during a targeted traffic stop, an undocumented immigrant who was trying to flee had rammed a law enforcement vehicle with his car. Officers with the Homeland Security [gang] fired shots, striking the man in the elbow. A federal marshal was struck in the hand by a ricochet bullet, Ms. McLaughlin said. The [kidnapping victim] and the injured [gang member] were both hospitalized, according to the Department of Homeland Security.” (10/21/25)
Source: National Health Federation
by Scott Tips
“Wearable technology, or ‘wearables,’ is one of the latest, hot consumer technologies. Wearable technology is any kind of electronic device designed to be worn on the user’s body, and can take many different forms, including jewelry, accessories, medical devices, and clothing. An Apple Watch, which combines fitness tracking, health monitoring, and smartphone capabilities in a wrist-worn device, is one of the earliest examples of a wearable. The advance in wearable technology has been rapid. And these devices are transmitting their information to data banks that house increasingly personal information, from how many steps you take per day to how many trips you take to the bathroom per night. Yet many public leaders are promoting wearables.” (10/21/25)
Source: Expression
by Jacob N Gaba
“Last week, authorities in England banned fans of Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending the team’s November 6 match against Aston Villa in Birmingham, calling the event ‘high risk.’ The ban comes on the heels of a terror attack on Jews attending Yom Kippur services about 90 miles north in Manchester. Birmingham police cited security concerns for their decision, ostensibly anticipating a repeat of last year’s violence between Maccabi fans, Ajax Amsterdam fans, and protestors before a match in Holland. … Security concerns must never become a cudgel for viewpoint discrimination. By excluding only Maccabi fans, Birmingham authorities effectively granted critics of the team, or its home nation, a heckler’s veto.” (10/21/25)
https://expression.fire.org/p/hecklers-veto-at-the-turnstiles
Source: Reuters
“U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Hamas on Tuesday with ‘FAST, FURIOUS & BRUTAL’ force if it does not ‘do what is right’ as he pushes for the next, more complex, stage of a Gaza ceasefire that has already been repeatedly [violated by Israeli forces]. Increasing the pressure on the Palestinian militant group, Trump said in a social media post that numerous U.S. allies had said they would welcome the chance to go into Gaza and hit Hamas but he had told them and Israel ‘not yet.’ … U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who arrived on Tuesday, was due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for talks Israel said would focus on security challenges and political opportunities.” (10/21/25)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“One of the U.S. government’s most successful propaganda campaigns has been to convince Americans that its system of immigrant controls brings adverse consequences (e.g., death, arrest, incarceration, and deportation) only to foreigners. In actuality, America’s immigration-control system also operates to destroy the liberty and privacy of the American people. Thus, when anyone supports the federal government’s system of immigration controls, one is, at the same time, supporting the destruction of his own liberty and privacy.” (10/21/25)
Source: CBS News
“Ecuador has released a man who survived a U.S. strike on a suspected drug-trafficking submersible vessel, the attorney general’s office said Monday, adding that the authorities had found no evidence that he had committed a crime. A government official, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on the matter, told The Associated Press that the Ecuadorian man, identified as Andrés Fernando Tufiño, was in good health after medical evaluations. A U.S. Navy helicopter transported the survivors of the attack from the semi-submersible to a Navy ship, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News on Friday. The attack also killed two crew members.” (10/21/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ecuador-releases-survivor-us-strike-narco-sub-no-evidence-crime/
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Randall Kennedy on Racism in America.” (10/21/25)