“Seth Moulton is not a progressive; he will tell you that himself. He’s a New Democrat Coalition member, he rather prominently picked a fight by opposing trans participation in youth sports right after the 2024 elections, and he’s generally a down-the-line, center-left Democrat. Yet the moment he jumped into a U.S. Senate primary against progressive Ed Markey, he essentially kicked off his campaign with the announcement that he would be returning all donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and would refuse any further contributions from them. ‘AIPAC has aligned itself too closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government’, Moulton wrote in a statement. This is far from an isolated incident. Mallory McMorrow, running for Senate in Michigan, has called Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide, and after appearing to solicit support from AIPAC in a leaked message, said she would not accept any.” (10/27/25)
“Live long enough and everything will happen, at some point. Even bizarre, incomprehensible things, such as Saturday’s Washington Post editorial, ‘In defense of the White House ballroom.’ In short, a defense of, ahem … Trump. The paper began by noting the ballroom was something of a Rorschach test, with Trump’s opponents viewing his actions as ‘reckless’ while his supporters see ‘a change agent unafraid to decisively take on the status quo.’ But the editors add that ‘it has become far too difficult to build anything in America,’ before concluding: ‘Trump’s undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere.'” (10/27/25)
“‘Neocon’ may have become a dirty word, but after a few years, their agenda is back in play. And no doubt many of their players, too. After being banished to the wilderness for plunging the nation into a 20-year war, the neocons fell flat with the Trump base in Ukraine and lost the thread with MAGA in Israel. Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere are another matter. The neocons have evolved, and regime change is back on the menu. How? Rather than pushing ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ like George W. Bush’s famous second inaugural speech at the height of the Iraq War, neoconservatives have adopted the prevailing MAGA/New Right language of ‘America First’ to inject regime change back into fashion.” (10/27/25)
“Throughout his time as Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent has regularly fought against claims that the tariffs adored by his boss, President Donald Trump, are really just taxes on consumers. ‘Tariffs are a surcharge, not a tax,’ Bessent told a reporter this week. ‘They could be paid by the exporter, they could be paid by the country.’ Bessent likely thinks that’s a great point, but he shouldn’t drop the mic just yet. Regardless of the word games, Americans are suffering from the end result. We are paying higher prices as a result of Trump’s tariffs. According to analysis from the Tax Foundation, Trump’s tariffs have raised consumer prices by 4.9 percentage points. … make no mistake: tariffs are taxes.” (10/26/25)
“Democrats have lost their minds. This time last year, the conversation was about what is the acceptable number of apartment complexes in Colorado that we can tolerate being taken over by Venezuelan gangs of illegal migrants. Now the big issue is the president’s big, beautiful ballroom. The ‘No Kings’ folk are melting down. In just two days last week, there were 10,000 comments on The Washington Post’s website railing against the ballroom, which is being built at a cost to the taxpayer of zero dollars. ‘I can’t wait for the day they hold Trump’s funeral in that gaudy ballroom,’ was a typical ‘recommended’ comment from someone calling herself CindyintheSuburbs. Donald Trump is living inside their heads.” [editor’s note: He’s obviously living in Devine’s head. Alone, with nothing else in there – TLK] (10/26/25)
“To put it bluntly, this wasn’t a peace deal; it was an attempt to cover up an ongoing genocide by dressing the tombstones of the killing fields in shiny yellow ribbons, and Trump’s supposed opponents in the EU and on the mainstream liberal media backed it because they are all just as complicit in this heinous slaughter as the man they pretend to oppose in front of the cameras. While the US is by far the largest financier of Benjamin Netanyahu’s crusade against impoverished infants, kicking up $22 billion in military aid to his regime since October 2023, the rest of the ‘free’ world did their part too.” (10/26/25)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Michael Alcorn
“A ballot measure passed in Massachusetts last November gives [sic] rideshare drivers the right to unionize. At first glance, this sounds good. After all, ‘supporting workers’ is a message that resonates with many of us, but the reality is worrisome for rideshare drivers who value flexibility and independence. … I saw firsthand at Trader Joe’s what happens when a union inserts itself where it isn’t wanted. If Massachusetts wants to help rideshare drivers, it should protect their flexibility, not undermine it by forcing independent rideshare drivers into a union they never voted for.” [editor’s note: All workers always have a right to join a union. Whether they can get other workers to also join it, or get an employer to bargain exclusively with it, isn’t a matter of the unionized workers’ rights, it’s a matter of everyone else’s – TLK] (10/26/25)
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“It may be that there is today no feature of our legal or our economic system more misunderstood than patents. They are the premier example of a policy where there is a fathomless breach between its public reputation and its real purpose. These special state-granted powers are among the most freedom-limiting counterfeit rights the modern age has ever produced, and they should be abolished completely, with not a one left. We can’t even open a conversation about something like ‘free markets’ or ‘economic freedom’ before that step has been taken.” (10/26/25)
“Rodrick Johnson, 67, had just returned home from a trip to the hospital and was trying to get some rest. But in the early hours of September 30, bright lights suddenly flooded his apartment. A fleet of Black Hawk helicopters descended on his five-story building — a 130-unit apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive — shortly before armed, masked men stormed past the doors of the ground floor. ‘The next thing I knew, they were kicking my door in,’ Johnson says. He and dozens of his neighbors were marched outside at gunpoint during the multiagency raid carried out by some 300 federal agents in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. Black and Latino residents were zip-tied, separated by race and detained inside cargo vans, as South Side Weekly reported in the raid’s aftermath.” (10/27/25)
“Donald Trump continues to order strikes on boats carrying supposed drug traffickers in the Carribean and the Pacific, killing an estimated 43 people so far. I have previously written about why these attacks are both illegal and unjust. … Drug smuggling is, at most, a criminal law issue, not an act of war. And, in many cases, the people targeted either were not actually smuggling drugs or were not on their way to the US (US law cannot and does not forbid mere possession of drugs in international waters). … This equation of drug overdoses with terrorist attacks overlooks the fundamental moral and legal difference between deaths that occur as a result of violent attack and those that occur because consumers voluntarily imbibed a dangerous drug.” (10/26/25)
