“British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government is marking one year in power by banning direct action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization. Being a member of the group, or even expressing support verbally, could land you in prison for years. Palestine Action is a non-violent group, which only damages property owned by, or connected to, Israeli arms company Elbit Systems. Yet the order to ban it, approved by British parliamentarians, lumped the group in with violent, white-supremacist neo-Nazis such as the ’Maniacs Murder cult.’ In response to Palestine Action’s sustained and effective five-year direct action campaign, Elbit has lobbied the Home Office (Britain’s Homeland Security department), alongside Zionist organizations like We Believe in Israel, to ban the group.” (07/04/25)
“Towards the end of their lives, former President John Adams asked former President Thomas Jefferson whether he would live his life over again. The third president answered in the affirmative: ‘I think with you, that it is a good world on the whole; that it has been framed on a principle of benevolence, and more pleasure than pain dealt out to us.’ Not everyone agrees, of course. Jefferson called these people ‘gloomy and hypochondriac minds,’ who ‘always count that the worst will happen because it may happen.’ Jefferson has a challenge to those whom we today call ‘the black-pilled’: ‘How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened!’ Jefferson confessed to lacking hope sometimes, but not as often as the perpetually gloomy.” (07/04/25)
“Your liberty — your freedom to do everything you have a right to do — doesn’t hang in the balance, weighed against someone’s fear of what you may do with it. No one has a right to prevent you from using your life, liberty, or property as you wish as long as you don’t violate any other individual’s equal and identical rights. Their fear isn’t your problem, unless they choose to make it your problem — which they have no right to do. Government preys on the fears of those who don’t want you living in liberty. Fear is like winning the lottery for government, so it fans the flames of fear at every opportunity. Don’t play. Don’t be afraid, but if you can’t help being afraid in the moment, don’t let fear control you.” (07/02/25)
“In a state dominated by political machines and one-party rule, Californians — especially those in Southern California — deserve to hear a message they’re not getting from either of the old parties: No kings. … For more than 50 years, the Libertarian Party has been the only political party in the United States with a platform built entirely on this idea: that government exists to protect rights, not to grant them — and certainly not to violate them. We believe in individual liberty, voluntary cooperation and peaceful exchange. The No Kings spirit lives at the heart of what it means to be a libertarian.” (07/02/25)
“As Americans prepare to celebrate the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should also toast the 250th anniversary of a savvy political two-step that paved the way to formally breaking with Britain the following year. ‘We, your Majesty’s faithful subjects …’ began the petition beseeching reconciliation with King George from the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775. That offering became known as the Olive Branch Petition. The following day, Congress issued its Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, explaining why hostile British troops would henceforth be gunned down on the battlefields of America. Were the petition and the Declaration on Taking Up Arms sent to England on the same ship? If so, was a sticker attached to the Olive Branch petition saying, ‘Open me first?'” (07/02/25)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Paul H Kupiec & Alex J Pollock
“The Federal Reserve System has unique powers among Congressionally-chartered government bodies, and yet its powers do not include the authority to borrow money at taxpayer expense to pay for huge accumulating losses without Congressional approval. The Fed has invented its own unique financial accounting standard to disguise the fact that, under normal accounting rules, the system is deeply insolvent. From 2022 through 2025, the Fed system’s accumulated losses have completely consumed the system’s capital and forced the Fed to borrow over $185 billion more than the Fed owns in assets just to pay its bills — a fact it intentionally tries to hide from the public. Rather than earning seigniorage profits for taxpayers, something the Fed did for more than 100 years, the present-day Fed has instead accumulated losses of the staggering amount of $231 billion.” (07/02/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“My God Israel supporters are exhausting. I’ve never gotten used to it. ‘Wahh, Zohran Mamdani wants to murder Jews!’ ‘Wahh, the musician hurt the IDF’s feelings!’ Shut up. Shut up. Shut the whole entire fuck up. Everyone is sick of your bullshit. There is a genocide happening. A genocide. Babies are being starved. IDF soldiers are telling the Israeli press that they’re being ordered to massacre desperately hungry civilians at aid sites. There are vast stretches of the Gaza Strip that now look like the surface of the moon. Trump and Netanyahu are openly working to purge the Palestinian territory of Palestinians so the land can be permanently taken from them. Your feelings don’t matter. The world does not revolve around you and your feelings.” (07/02/25)
“A man who has a twisted, revisionist theory about the Holocaust and the history of Jewish suffering has a real chance to become the mayor of the largest populated Jewish city outside of Israel. Let that sink in. A man who was asked to condemn ‘Globalize the Intifada,’ a violent, vicious series of uprisings against Jews across Israel, and refused to do so may become mayor of New York City. ‘To me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights,’ Zohran Mamdani said, notably with no regrets. He never backed down, and instead of apologizing to the Jewish community, decided to take a moment to speak about Islamophobia.” [editor’s note: Ah, the usual use of Jews as human shields for the actions of Zionists and the Israeli regime — as if opposing Idi Amin meant hating black people – TLK] (07/02/25)
“Cryptocurrencies are largely speculative digital assets that investors buy in the hope that their value will go up, through a series of wild fluctuations, as other speculators also buy them. But the one prominent practical, real-world use that has emerged is that they are the perfect medium to curry favor with the president of the United States by increasing his net worth.” (07/02/25)
Source: Brennan Center for Justice
by Michael Waldman
“The 14th Amendment guarantees that all children born in the United States are citizens. It aimed to undo the notorious Dred Scott ruling, which held that some people born here (Black people, to be precise, free and formerly enslaved) nevertheless were not citizens. As you’ll recall, just hours into his term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship. The order was, and remains, unconstitutional. The Supreme Court chose this case, out of all the possible cases, to strip judges of a key power used to stop illegal actions. Instead of ruling on the merits in Trump v. CASA, the justices chose to rule on the legality of universal injunctions, among the strongest tools that lower courts use to block flagrantly unconstitutional policies like these from taking effect while cases play out.” (07/02/25)
