“One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national election that no one in my little community yet knew exactly how to respond to. In my rush out the door, I’d grabbed my baseball cap, with the logo for my preferred presidential candidate on it, to shield my eyes from the sun’s glare. The bus arrived and left. I collected my charges and, just as we were preparing to walk home, a tall young man leapt from the passenger seat of a battered Chevy pickup truck parked at the side of the road. He shook one sunburned finger at my hat and yelled, ‘Traitor! Traitor!’ his face red with rage, or possibly alcohol — who knew?” (10/07/25)
“A great but unheralded feature of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July was an authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to raise $88 billion to $100 billion through electronic spectrum auctions. Selling this additional 600 to 800 megahertz of bandwidth to the private sector will enable the U.S. to expand 5G and even 6G technology, ensuring American dominance in internet, artificial intelligence and satellite technologies. President Donald Trump gets this …. Sen. Ted Cruz had proposed a spectrum deal twice as large: raising as much as $200 billion and creating a wireless ‘pipeline’ that would provide 5G reception and services to nearly all households and businesses.” (10/07/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Everything before October 7 explains why October 7 happened, and so does everything that’s happened since. Look at what happened before October 7 and you’ll see year after year of murder, oppression and abuse. Look at everything that’s happened since October 7 and you’ll understand the kind of sadistic, psychopathic regime the Palestinians have been living under this entire time. Israel supporters don’t want you looking at what happened before October 7, and they don’t want you looking at anything that’s happened since. They just want you to pretend history began and ended with a bunch of Hitlerite savages attacking innocent Jews for no reason. And they don’t even want you looking at the day of October 7 too closely, either.” (10/07/25)
“President Donald Trump is threatening significant layoffs of federal workers unless talks aimed at ending the ‘Schumer shutdown’ show some progress. They’re not even close; as Senator John Kennedy posted on X: ‘You’d need an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of all the Senate Democrats’ demands for re-opening the government.’ After all, Team Trump has been encouraging the downsizing of federal agencies since it took office. Just eight days after the president was inaugurated, the Office of Personnel Management sent an email inviting almost the entire federal workforce to resign. As of today, some 150,000 federal employees have taken advantage of the offer; most will be leaving their positions in coming weeks.” [editor’s note: The Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. The government is “shut down” because the Republicans want it “shut down” – TLK] (10/07/25)
“80 years following the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nobel Peace Prize Group, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, or IPPNW, has just completed their 24th World Congress in Nagasaki. This congress brought together 324 intergenerational health professionals, medical students, and activists from the Global South and North from 34 of IPPNW‘s 56 member nations. The theme of this meeting was: ‘A World Without Nuclear Weapons—Nagasaki as the Last A-bombed City’. The timing of this year’s congress in Nagasaki is significant. Our nuclear world at 80 stands at the brink of nuclear war either by intent, miscalculation, or from disruptive technology. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the minute hand of their infamous Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has been since the atomic bombings.” (10/07/25)
“Archaeologists in the United Kingdom recently unearthed ancient relics beneath a bustling marketplace — including the remains of a ‘vile’ dungeon. Announcing the discovery in a Sept. 23 press release, officials at the University of Leicester said the dig yielded ‘extraordinary evidence of 2,000 years of human activity’ in Leicester’s marketplace. Archaeologists uncovered the finds while working alongside construction crews who are redeveloping the market square. ‘Among the most poignant finds is the grave of a Roman infant, buried beneath a floor of a timber building dating back nearly 1,800 years,’ the university’s statement said. ‘Nearby, the team uncovered rarely found Roman pottery kilns, offering new insights into domestic life and industry in Roman Leicester.'” (10/07/25)
“President Trump wanted an excuse to send National Guard troops to Chicago, and now he’s got one. The Windy City in recent days has done its best imitation of Los Angeles, where resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations created the justification for a Guard deployment a couple months ago. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hate the notion of the National Guard in the streets of the city, but have failed to rally Chicago residents to do the one thing necessary to avoid the deployment — let federal officers do their job. The word should have gone out long ago: Don’t riot outside ICE facilities. Don’t ram cars into ICE vehicles.” [editor’s note: The word should have gon out long ago to beat the ICE thugs down hard so they quit being thugs and get real jobs – TLK] (10/07/25)
“U.S. President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Monday that an insurrection is taking place in Portland, Oregon, as he seeks to deploy National Guard troops to the city amid what he describes as surging crime. He made the comments during an interview on Newsmax. Earlier on Monday, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he might invoke the Insurrection Act of 1792, which would allow troops to directly participate in civilian law enforcement, for which there is little recent precedent.” (10/07/25)
“Costa Rica ’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal asked the country’s National Assembly on Tuesday to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his immunity so he can face charges that he has been using his bully pulpit to meddle in upcoming elections. The request came just two weeks after a historic vote by the congress to reject another attempt to lift the president’s immunity so that he could be prosecuted on corruption charges. Costa Rica’s Supreme Court had made that request of the congress. The electoral court says that Chaves has repeatedly violated the prohibition on public officials participating in or referencing issues related to the election. Chaves did not immediately comment publicly Tuesday. Chaves has been backing his party’s candidate for the Feb. 1 presidential election.” (10/07/25)
“After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the government began cracking down on hidden transfers of wealth. The purpose was to prevent money laundering that might finance terrorism. Some of this was codified in the USA PATRIOT Act. After the financial collapse of 2008, other safeguards were added. All this strengthened the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), with the side benefit of helping regulatory agencies track down other uses of concealed wealth, whether or not they are related to national security. But in the ensuing quarter-century, extreme wealth became ever more concentrated, and oligarchs became ever more crafty at hiding the true ownership of wealth through trusts and corporate forms that are utterly opaque to financial regulators, the IRS, and the national-security establishment, much less the public.” (10/07/25)
