America’s Worst Appeals Court
Source: Law & Liberty
by Robert G Natelson
“The Montana Supreme Court should serve as a cautionary tale about judicial oligarchy.” (05/07/26)
Category: Opinion
There Is No Evidence the Trump Assassination Attempts Were Staged. People Still Believe They Were
Source: Wired
by David Gilbert
“WIRED has looked at the main claims that conspiracy theorists point to when claiming both the Butler and Correspondents’ Dinner shootings were staged, and why none of the claims stand up to scrutiny.” (05/07/26)
Minnesota Joins Wealth Tax Push—Despite Their Risks
Source: The Daily Economy
by John Phelan
“Minnesota lawmakers are pursuing a wealth tax, despite evidence it will drive out taxpayers and erode the tax base.” (05/07/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/minnesotas-joins-wealth-tax-push-despite-their-risks/
AI Will Change the Labor Landscape
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“A particular legal case from China has also caught the interest and attention of many commentators in the West for its potential future significance. In a major landmark decision, the Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court upheld a ruling, reached after three years, that a company had unlawfully transferred the risks and costs of technological change onto an employee, in violation of China’s Labor Contract Law. In other words, the Court ruled that the company illegally fired one of their employees for automating his role through AI.” (05/07/26)
https://fee.org/articles/ai-will-change-the-labor-landscape/
South Sudan, A Case Study in State Failure
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“In 2011, the world welcomed its newest country. Fifteen years later, South Sudan is less a symbol of self-determination than a case study in state failure. Its politics remain dominated by factional strongmen, its economy is almost entirely dependent on oil, and the threat of renewed large-scale violence never quite recedes. For most Americans, it barely registers — just another distant tragedy filed away under ‘Africa.’ But South Sudan did not simply emerge from the mists of post-colonial history. It was, in no small part, a project of Washington.” (05/07/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/south-sudan-a-case-study-in-state-failure
The Parasocial Style in American Politics
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod
“Our screens are two-way but we can easily forget that the people on the other end exist as more than characters for our enjoyment.” (05/07/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-parasocial-style-in-american-politics/
Obliteration Ecocide from Gaza to Lebanon and Beyond
Source: Antiwar.com
by Dan Steinbock
“Modern warfare in Gaza is no longer just counterinsurgency but systems-level destruction of the environmental and infrastructural substrate of life – water, soil, agriculture, energy, and urban continuity.” (05/07/26)
Oliver Larkin vs. the Epstein State
Source: The American Prospect
by Maureen Tkacik
“Oliver Larkin spent most of the 2024 election season spamming out ‘I’ll be blunt’ emails on behalf of Adam Schiff: ‘We had a massive fundraising list from the Trump impeachment, and I was up until 3 in the morning sending emails and texts. And in those first 24 hours, we raised like $1.6 or $1.7 million.’ Chained to his computer screens in a Deerfield Beach bungalow 3,000 miles from Schiff’s campaign headquarters, he began to feel disconnected from man’s innate feedback loops of longing and satisfaction. ‘Trump loved to single him out, he was attacking Schiff all the fucking time, every week, calling him ‘Pencil Neck’ or ‘Watermelon Head’ or ‘Shifty Schiff,’ and every time something like that happened it was like, this could raise ten thousand dollars, this could raise twenty thousand dollars,’ the candidate told the Prospect.” (05/07/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/05/07/oliver-larkin-jared-moskowitz-jeffrey-epstein-ron-desantis-florida/
Will MAGA Come for Thomas Massie?
Source: The Dispatch
by David M Drucker
“The unshakably conservative voters of northern Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District sent Rep. Thomas Massie to Congress 14 years ago because he promised to stick to his principles under pressure from the GOP establishment in Washington, D.C., and aggressively fight the man—the man back then being President Barack Obama. But grassroots Republicans may pull the plug on the libertarian iconoclast precisely because he insists on keeping that commitment, because Republicans here now like the man—President Donald Trump—and support a party establishment on Capitol Hill laboring to deliver almost everything he wants.” (05/07/26)
A Symphony of Scandal
Source: Law & Liberty
by George Hawley
“Honest politicians are all alike; every crook is crooked in his own fashion.” (05/07/26)