Source: SFGate
“The head of the U.N. refugee agency suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law, and criticized a wider ‘backlash’ in some countries against migrants and refugees. Filippo Grandi, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, used a speech to lament that drastic funding cuts and shortages have forced his agency, UNHCR, to slash nearly 5,000 jobs this year, or nearly a quarter of its workforce. The cuts may not be finished, he said. ‘This was certainly not an easy year for any of us,’ Grandi told the opening of UNHCR’s executive committee. ‘But remember, please: There has never been an easy year to be a refugee – and there never will be.’ He did cite some bright spots and praised the Trump administration-led peace efforts in Congo, where conflict has displaced millions of people.” (10/06/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/un-refugee-agency-chief-suggests-that-us-21086764.php
Source: The American Conservative
by James P Pinkerton
“‘Tennessee River’ = Tennessee Valley Authority, the giant public operation, established in 1933 during the New Deal, stretching across Tennessee and parts of six adjoining states. History buffs also know that TVA’s status as a government-run entity has been sacrosanct. After all, in 1964, Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater mused about selling off TVA, and he was clobbered in the November election, losing 44 states, including the Volunteer State. So with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe, it has seemed that the idea of privatizing TVA would forever be met with a dark and stark nevermore. Yet … a century ago, in the cheery days before the 1929 Crash and the subsequent Depression, the idea of private development was ripe.” (10/06/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/will-the-tva-survive-trumps-new-deal/
Source: US News & World Report
“Georgian prosecutors on Monday charged five opposition figures with attempting to overthrow the government, after protests on Saturday culminated in clashes between police and demonstrators in the capital of the South Caucasus country of 3.7 million. Georgian opposition supporters rallied in central Tbilisi on Saturday, with some leaders promising a ‘peaceful revolution’ on the day of local elections that were boycotted by the largest opposition blocs. Minutes before polls closed, a smaller group of protesters attempted to seize the presidential palace, before being repelled by riot police using gas and water cannon. The charges against the five men carry a maximum prison sentence of nine years. Officials have said the protests represented an attempt to seize power.” (10/06/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-06/georgia-charges-five-protest-leaders-for-plotting-government-overthrow-promises-more-arrests
Source: The UnPopulist
“China’s Authoritarian Regime Is Censoring American Universities: A Conversation with Sarah McLaughlin.” (10/05/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/chinas-authoritarian-regime-is-censoring
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin
“‘Invasions on the rights of the people.’ That phrase isn’t hyperbole; it’s straight out of the Declaration of Independence. Say ‘invasion,’ and people picture foreign armies crossing a border. To the Founders, a far more dangerous invasion came from within. They used that same word for what happens when government violates your liberty and seizes power it was never given. To them, that wasn’t a mere policy debate. It was the most dangerous ‘invasion’ we face.” (10/05/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/10/05/the-most-dangerous-invasion-we-face/
Source: Town Hall
by Kurt Schlichter
“I think I am going to form a hip-hop group with some of my retired officer friends that we will call the Phat Generalzzz – dibs on being the human beatbox! That is, of course, a ridiculous idea, but you know how it differs from the nonsense the Dems keep trying to sell us? The difference is that I don’t mean it. I am not actually going to form a hip-hop group with some of my retired officer friends that we will call the Phat Generalzzz, though if I did, I would call dibs on being the human beatbox. But the Dems are serious about the ridiculous stuff they say and seek to put in effect as policy …” (10/06/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/10/06/is-being-insanely-stupid-actually-a-cunning-democrat-strategy-n2664479
Source: Reuters
“Illinois filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump from deploying hundreds of federalized National Guard troops into the streets of Chicago. The Democratic-led state and the city of Chicago filed the lawsuit hours after a federal judge in Oregon on Sunday temporarily blocked Trump’s administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, Oregon. The lawsuit took aim at a decision by the Trump administration over the weekend to federalize up to 300 members of the Illinois National Guard over the objections of Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker and another 400 from Texas to deploy into Chicago.” (10/06/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/illinois-sues-block-trump-deploying-national-guard-troops-chicago-2025-10-06/
Source: The Bulwark
by Jonathan Cohn
“Democrats are demanding a reversal of Medicaid cuts that Donald Trump and the Republicans enacted over the summer — and a renewal of a temporary boost to Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire in December. Trump and the Republicans are not inclined to take either step. And to get the public on their side, they’ve been arguing the real Democratic agenda is different — that, as Vice President JD Vance posted on X Thursday, ‘Democrats shut down the government to give health care money to illegal [sic] aliens.’ The problem for Republicans is that most of the Democratic demands have nothing to do with immigration, while the portion that does deals almost entirely with people here lawfully [sic]. As critics have called out the lie, Vance and his allies have retreated to a narrower argument about one tiny item on the list of cuts Democrats would reverse.” (10/05/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/government-shutdown-emergency-medical-care-illegal-immigrants
Source: Engadget
“The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has plans to build out a 24/7/365 surveillance team that focuses on scouring social media for case leads, as revealed in documents first discovered by Wired. According to public records, ICE has put out a request for information — which allows the agency to detail its preliminary scope of work to gauge any interest from contractors — that details using social media platforms like Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and YouTube to develop leads on wanted individuals. … According to the documents, ICE wants at least 12 full-time staff to work at its National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center in Williston, Vermont …. On the other side of the country, ICE is looking for a minimum staff of 16 full-time contractors for its Pacific Enforcement Response Center in Santa Ana, California …” (10/05/25)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/ice-is-planning-to-create-a-surveillance-team-that-hunts-for-leads-on-social-media-163743143.html?src=rss
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Ted Snider on the Conditions Necessary for the War in Ukraine to End.” (10/05/25)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/10-3-25-ted-snider-on-the-conditions-necessary-for-the-war-in-ukraine-to-end/
