“Nearly 1,200 people registered to vote at a homeless shelter on Skid Row with 132 beds. 185 people registered at a homeless drop-in center — with no beds at all. That is likely illegal, and it is likely a key to the story of how socialist City Councilmember Nithya Raman overtook Palisades Fire victim Spencer Pratt for second place in the LA mayoral race. Under California law, homeless people can register to vote, even though they do not have a fixed residence. They can use their last fixed address as their voting domicile; they can even specify a geographic location, as long as it is where they live, or where they intend to return. If they do not return there within a year, it is no longer their voting domicile.” (06/09/26)
“I am not going to get into some of these more recent twists and turns, but I do want to shatter the mythos that the word ‘non-profit’ is somehow equivalent to ‘charitable’ or ‘well-intentioned.’ I know of many non-profits that do good work and for whom we should be grateful, but many many more do very little that is positive and are able to draft off the reputations of the ones who do. I want to describe what I call the original non-profit abuse, one that goes back to the very beginnings of the income tax system. I went to a private school in the 70’s and an Ivy League University in the 80’s and have seen what I am about to describe many times with my own eyes.” (06/09/26)
“The case of a young child at Texas Children’s Hospital following a near-drowning incident has reignited a debate that medicine has struggled with for more than half a century. According to multiple media reports, the family sought judicial intervention to obtain additional time, explore transfer options, and investigate alternative therapeutic approaches before any final determination regarding brain death would foreclose those possibilities. As so often happens in the modern United States of America, the story quickly moved beyond the walls of the hospital. Lawyers became involved. … this is not an argument against brain death. Nor is it an attempt to overturn decades of neurological science. The neurological criteria for death emerged from legitimate clinical challenges and remain accepted by most physicians, hospitals, and courts. Rather, this is a reflection on what happens when medicine becomes so confident in its conclusions that it stops listening to those most affected by them.” (06/09/26)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Today the Twitter algorithm served me up a bunch of Zionist tweets from accounts I’ve never followed, right at the top of my ‘For You’ feed. Elon and company decided on my behalf that this is the kind of information I need to be consuming, so they’ve taken it upon themselves to shove it down my throat without my permission. As Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation gets more and more aggressive in force-feeding us the official narrative of the day, we have to get a bit clever in making sure we see the information our rulers don’t want us to see. I like to use Twitter Lists for this, because for all its flaws Twitter is still where the journalists hang out and remains a great place for staying on top of the news if you can figure out how to cut through all the bullshit.” (06/09/26)
“In our present moment of global upheaval, it’s becoming fashionable to invoke parallels to previous episodes of global crisis. Commentators routinely compare the United States’ political situation to the late Roman Republic just before its slide into Caesarism. Others suggest 1920s Weimar Germany is a more apt comparison with its violent factionalism and loose morals. At the international level, one can find as many comparisons to the Cold War as one can to nineteenth-century Europe. Some, however, are now suggesting that the international situation bears a more striking resemblance to the years preceding the First World War.” (06/09/26)
“In his new book ‘Recession,’ economist Tyler Goodspeed argues that economic downturns are caused by real shocks, not predictable business cycles.” (06/09/26)
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Caleb O Brown, Amye L Bensenhaver, Kate Miller, & Heather Lemire
“Kentucky built its Open Records Act on a simple, powerful premise: that free and open examination of public records is in the public interest. For nearly 50 years, that premise provided a basic guarantee that Kentuckians could see what their government was doing in their name. That premise is now under a growing threat — from the legislature, and increasingly from the courts.” (06/09/26)
“Last week’s blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the Left who throughout Donald Trump’s now-five-and-a-half years in the White House keep getting the economy dead wrong. Just a few months ago a gaggle of economists on the Left, led by Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, started warning of ‘stagflation,’ a witch’s brew of high inflation and high unemployment at the same time. He wrote that ‘any statement that things aren’t as bad as they were in the 1970s should come with the caveat ‘so far.” … These are the same false claims made during Trump’s first term, when some critics warned his policies would cause ‘a second Great Depression.'” (06/09/26)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Even before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the ‘patsy,’ Lee Harvey Oswald, was a ‘Dead Man Walking.’ There was no way that the orchestrators of the assassination and the cover-up would have ever permitted him to come to trial. Silencing Oswald by killing him immediately after the assassination was always part and parcel of the assassination and its cover-up. How can we be certain of this? By examining the circumstances surrounding the fraudulent autopsy that the U.S. national-security establishment conducted on President Kennedy’s body on the very evening of the assassination.” (06/09/26)
Source: CounterPunch
by Bruce Schneier & Jon Penney
“Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent. This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has involved lawsuits, arrests, deportations and expulsions. … It’s increasingly clear to us that these impacts are not incidental or ancillary to Trump administration policy. Rather, the chilling effects are the point. This is the closest thing to a consistent governing strategy in Trump’s second term.” (06/09/26)
