Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon
“You can’t meet people where they are unless they know where they are. You can’t be sure they know if they aren’t told.” (05/10/26)
https://www.the-reframe.com/one-thing-you-can-never-say-is-you-havent-been-told
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Congressional Map Madness.” (05/10/26)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/politicks-congressional-map-madness
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mark Nayler
“Luis de Guindos escaped Spanish politics just in time. In March 2018, he stepped down as Economy Minister, having served under prime minister Mariano Rajoy since 2011; three months later, Rajoy was ousted in a no-confidence vote, his Popular Party engulfed in a huge corruption scandal. De Guindos, now 66, has spent the last eight years as Vice President of the European Central Bank (ECB), the institution responsible for maintaining price stability throughout the bloc. He hands over to Croatia’s Boris Vujĉić at the end of this month, leaving Spain without representation on the ECB’s six-member board for the first time in several years, a situation that Madrid is determined to rectify. Under the Socialist leadership of Pedro Sánchez, Spain has emerged as one of the strongest voices in the EU.” (05/10/26)
Source: Politico
“Fugitive former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro is now in the United States courtesy of a visa from President Donald Trump after fleeing Hungary. Ziobro had been in Hungary since 2025 after former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán granted the disgraced minister asylum. New Hungarian leader Péter Magyar, however, promised to launch extradition proceedings against Ziobro upon taking office. Ziobro is wanted in Poland over the alleged misuse of public funds and the deployment of Pegasus spyware against political opponents. He has consistently denied the charges, calling the investigation a political vendetta from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.” (05/10/26)
Source: Free Talk Live
“Gold statue of Trump consecrated by evangelical and Jewish clergy :: Marilyn Manson demonic? :: Woman giving birth was suddenly in Zoom court during labor for not agreeing to a C section :: Vaccines not tested against placebo :: Forkfest.wtf :: Forkfest will be great! :: Uber Jorge calls about a man (or zombie) absent mindedly walking into the road in front of him and not caring — video! :: Salt Lending :: Mark says God intended us to eat pigs :: Kai calls for official alien disclosure from her, personally :: Says good aliens are anarchists :: Says Jesus is a dragon which is the good version of the shape shifting lizards :: PrometheusLost.substack.com :: Mark, Lori and Bonnie share UFO and cryptid stories :: Underground tunnels on military bases :: Discussing the possibility of life on other planets, the number of observable stars :: 4th amendment is weak because there are so many exceptions like ‘welfare check’ :: 2026-05-10 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Mark Edge, Lori.” (05/10/26)
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman
“Interrogating the conventional wisdom that Europe is lagging America.” (05/11/26)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-europe-in-economic-decline
Source: Reason
by Thomas W Hazlett
“Turner held the lead spear when the Late 20th Century Barbarians stormed the gates of the Old Order in American media. Meeting the moment at the perfect instant — when a ‘deregulation wave’ was opening doors long shut — Turner flipped the script on ‘public interest’ regulation concocted during the Progressive Era. Intellectuals largely bemoaned the passing of the administrative state, and the Cronkite audience it favored, devoid of controversy and offered as the ‘news from nowhere’ (as a CBS executive bragged). But the closed-loop spoon feeding was inimical to freedom, open inquiry, and honest debate. Even before he was finished, the creative destruction triggered by Ted Turner’s wild gambits had left the tyranny of licensed, bureaucratic TV in rubble.” (05/10/26)
https://reason.com/2026/05/10/ted-turner-entrepreneur-of-his-age/
Source: Reuters
“Days after the U.S. floated an offer in the hopes of re-opening negotiations, Iran on Sunday released a response focused on ending the war on all fronts, especially Lebanon, where U.S. ally Israel is fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. Tehran also included a demand for compensation for war damage and emphasised Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state TV said. It also called on the U.S. to end its naval blockade, guarantee no further attacks, lift sanctions and end a U.S. ban on Iranian oil sales, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said. Within hours, Trump dismissed Iran’s proposal with a post on social media. ‘I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social, without giving further detail.” (05/11/26)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter
“As kids we may remember the old trope — often seen on TV or in movies — where a stronger kid would overpower a weaker kid and use the weaker kid’s hands and arms to hit him, asking mockingly, ‘Why are you hitting yourself?’ Most adults would recognize this as illegitimate for obvious reasons: though the weaker kid’s hands are literally hitting him, he is obviously being coerced against his will, such that the stronger kid is the aggressor. While most adults would pride themselves on the ability to distinguish between external coercion and self-inflicted punishment, they often fail this when it comes to the state. In fact, this is the very core of Thomas Hobbes’s social contract theory — since the state represents the people by social contract, whatever the state does to an individual, that individual has consensually done it to himself.” (05/08/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/hobbess-state-why-are-you-hitting-yourself
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Adar Weinreb on the Israel-Palestine conflict.” (05/10/26)
https://rumble.com/v79n98s-ff-446-adar-weinreb-on-the-israel-palestine-conflict.html