Source: The Daily Economy
by Antón Chamberlin
‘Nothing’s more American than baseball and taxes, but combining the two in 1932 cost millions their affordable day out.” (07/22/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/unseen-cost-of-a-ten-cent-tax-on-tickets-less-joy-in-dark-times/
Source: United Press International
“A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the criminal conviction of Peter Navarro, a longtime adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, for refusing to testify about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Navarro was convicted of contempt by a jury in 2023 after he rejected a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the insurrection. … Navarro has claimed that Trump asserted executive privilege to keep him from testifying. However, judges have repeatedly said he has failed to produce evidence of this, and Trump has not backed up his claim.” (07/21/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/07/21/court-upholds-navarro-conviction/5361784668064/
Source: LP Alliance
“Lydia Christensen for US Senate from LP Michigan!” (07/21/26)
Source: Persuasion
by Mitra Vand
“It is not surprising that June’s Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the United States has proven to be shaky to the touch. Nothing about this conflict has ever been resolved, only paused. Not because either side is incapable of diplomacy, but because neither side has ever fully believed the other side to be trustworthy. But for people inside Iran, the news meant what it has always meant: life was about to get harder. Both countries hold competing narratives about why, but the result is the same: the war has returned to Iran’s southern provinces.” (07/21/26)
Source: Antiwar.com
“Smotrich: Israel Has No Interest in Joining US-Iran War, Trump May Restart Yemen Bombing, and More.” (07/21/26)
Source: New York Post
by Shirin Yadegar
“As a California mom, I don’t wake up wondering whether an algorithm determined which coupon landed in my inbox. I wake up wondering why a quick trip to the grocery store now costs hundreds of dollars. I wonder whether my children will ever be able to afford a home in the state where they were raised. I wonder how many more families are quietly putting groceries on a credit card just to get through the month. Like millions of parents across California, I’m asking a simple question: When will Sacramento start making life more affordable instead of more complicated?” (07/21/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/21/opinion/let-california-moms-keep-our-grocery-coupons/
Source: Fox News
As reigning 2026 FIFA World Cup champions, Spain won $50 million in prize money, but a large portion of that could be subject to federal taxes in the United States — potentially up to 30%. ‘I think it’s a rip-off,’ Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital. ‘I’m not a fan of it, but Americans have to do it. American professional athletes do it, so they knew that when they came over here.’ Income earned from activities performed in America is generally, in almost all instances, taxable by the IRS. Under tax law in the U.S., certain payments to nonresident foreign athletes are generally subject to a 30% federal withholding unless reduced by a tax treaty or a different exception.” (07/21/26)
Source: Wired
by Maddy Varner
“Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.” (07/22/26)
Source: Reason
by Katarina Hall
“Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced on Sunday that the country will no longer hold elections, preventing the opposition from competing for power and further cementing his authoritarian grip on the country. … Ortega, now 80 years old, is a former guerrilla fighter who first came to power after the Sandinista Revolution and served as president from 1985 to 1990. After suffering a defeat in 1990, he returned to power in 2007 and has remained there ever since. His regime, which he now formally leads alongside his wife and ‘co-president,’ Rosario Murillo, had long since extinguished what remained of democracy in the country. Over the years, it has cracked down on political dissent, free speech, independent media, and civil society. Ortega’s most recent announcement is just an escalation of that trend.” (07/21/26)
https://reason.com/2026/07/21/nicaraguas-regime-drops-the-pretense-of-democracy/
Source: The American Conservative
by Daniel E Zoughbie
“‘If you cross the Halys River and attack the Persians, you will destroy a great empire.’ According to Herodotus, when Lydia’s King Croesus asked the Oracle at Delphi whether to make war on Cyrus the Great, he heard only what he wanted to hear, crossed the river and lost. The empire he destroyed was his own. Today’s oracles are far less discerning. When pastors gathered in the Oval Office this past March to lay hands on the president and pray for war, not one paused to warn him of the cost. Yet this modern hubris was not born in a vacuum. The crisis was a decade in the making.” (07/22/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-lesson-trump-can-take-from-herodotus-paradox/