George S. Custer Deserved the Little Bighorn Massacre
Source: JimBovard.com
Video by Jim Bovard. (06/25/26)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/06/25/video-george-s-custer-deserved-the-little-bighorn-massacre/
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
$10.63 Billion Bitcoin and Ethereum Options Expire as Markets Search for a Bottom
Source: Yahoo! Finance
“Roughly $10.63 billion in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) options expire on Deribit Friday. The settlement drops into a market that keeps sliding lower while traders hunt for a floor. Bitcoin trades near $60,200 after a 2% daily drop, while ether sits around $1,580 after a steeper 4.43% fall. Both rest far below their options max pain levels. Friday’s settlement ranks as the quarter’s largest options event on Deribit. The bulk of expiring value sits in Bitcoin, with notional contracts worth about $9.06 billion against ether’s $1.57 billion. Max pain marks the price where the most options expire worthless.” (06/26/26)
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/10-63-billion-bitcoin-ethereum-082102564.html
What Comes After the Nation-State?
Source: Law & Liberty
by Graham McAleer
“In the long history of the world, the nation-state is anomalous. In 1900, only 25 percent of the global population lived in a nation-state; today it is close to 100 percent. Nearly 50 percent of today’s states were founded in the thirty years after WWII. … After Nations tells a great historical story, yet plebian uprisings against oligarchy are one of our oldest political tales. Resentment seems as likely a part of our digital future as emancipation. [Rana] Dasgupta thinks, maybe correctly, that oligarchy can jettison the creaking state.” (06/25/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/what-comes-after-the-nation-state/
SCOTUS blocks thousands of lawsuits over Roundup maker’s pesticide warning labels
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The US supreme court has found in favor of the former Monsanto company in a ruling that is expected to block thousands of lawsuits filed by people alleging the key ingredient in the weed killer Roundup causes cancer. The decision was made in a 7-2 vote, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh offering the majority opinion and justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing the dissenting opinion, joined by justice Neil Gorsuch. The case, Monsanto v Durnell, specifically dealt with the question of whether a federal law that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulatory authority over pesticides preempts state claims that a company failed to warn users of certain product risks when the EPA itself has not required such warnings.” (06/25/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/25/monsanto-supreme-court-pesticide-case
Why Those in Political Power Are in a Hurry
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Richard M Ebeling
“Those in political power always seem to be in a hurry. It is not surprising that their time horizons for ‘action’ never extend more than a few years ahead of them, though for different reasons. If it is a dictatorship, the tyrant in power can never be sure when an assassin’s bullet might cut his life short, or if some of his ‘loyal’ followers may be conspiring to overthrow him …. Little by little, however, some began to make the case that of course liberty is essential and property rights are important, but there are some particular needs or problems for which, surely, there can be an exception. … So why is it the case that in America today (and in most other modern democratic countries), those who hold political office seem so much in a hurry with short-term horizons guiding their actions, in their own way similar to dictatorships?” (06/25/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/06/why-those-in-political-power-are-in-a-hurry/
Fresh Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries trigger fuel panic-buying
Source: Irish Times [Ireland]
“Ukraine said its drones hit two oil refineries in the Russian city of Ufa, the latest in a wave of strikes on its foe’s energy infrastructure that have led to fuel shortages. The drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck the Ufaneftekhim and Bashneft Novoil refineries, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a Telegram statement on Thursday. The attacks caused a fire at the two facilities’ primary processing units, SBU said in a separate statement. The plants in question are owned by Rosneft, Russia’s top oil producer and refiner. … Ukraine’s refinery strikes set a record in May, forcing Russia’s oil-processing rates runs to drop to a 20-year low at the start of June. Damage to the plants, including an attack on a facility in Moscow last week, has triggered panic buying of petrol, driving up pump prices and disrupting supplies across many parts of the country.” (06/25/26)
The High Price of Free Speech
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Angela Manaco
“In 399 B.C., Socrates chose to drink hemlock and suffer a painful death rather than submit to the state and live a life devoid of critical examination. He would be horrified to see how close we have come to constructing his nightmare: a society willing to jettison free speech and embrace state-defined ‘safety’ over the messy, painful, and necessary work of questioning why we believe what we believe.” (06/25/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-high-price-of-free-speech/
Venezuela: Rescue efforts intensify as earthquake death toll hits 235
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Rescue teams are racing to find survivors trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings after two major, back-to-back earthquakes hit Venezuela. The country’s health minister says at least 235 people have been killed and 4,300 others wounded, with most casualties recorded in the northern coastal region of La Guaira. … More than 4,300 people are wounded, with hospitals ‘full of patients,’ according to Venezuela’s Health Minister Carlos Alvarado.” (06/25/26)
How The Free Press spun Trump’s cruelty toward migrants as a heroic campaign to “save” kids
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“In my last post, I looked at how The Free Press’s coverage of the refugee resettlement program sanitized MAGA and Trump administration rhetoric, praising Trump for ‘fixing’ a refugee program he’s aggressively sought to eliminate for everyone but white South Africans. Today, I want to look at another issue where The Free Press’s coverage has been sensationalist, overtly partisan, and consistently wrong on the facts: what happens to kids who show up at the border to request asylum.” (06/25/26)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/how-the-free-press-spun-trumps-cruelty
US Judge Blocks Trump Regime’s New Student Loan Restrictions
Source: US News & World Report
“A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule that would impose lower federal student loan limits for people pursuing graduate degrees in nursing and other healthcare-related fields. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., late on Wednesday sided with eight trade organizations including the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the PA Education Association who sought to block the rule from taking effect on July 1. … That law scaled back a federal loan program for students pursuing graduate degrees, eliminating one type of loan that allowed students to borrow up to the full cost of attendance and imposing new caps on another type of loan.” (06/25/26)