Source: United Press International
“Lululemon sued Costco for selling ‘confusingly similar’ items of its clothing line. In a lawsuit filed on Friday, Lululemon claimed certain Costco products have ‘unlawfully traded’ on the brand’s ‘reputation, goodwill and sweat equity by selling unauthorized and unlicensed apparel employing knockoff, infringing versions’ of its clothing line. The company claimed that Costco’s products violate trademark law due to ‘some customers incorrectly believ[ing] these infringing products are authentic Lululemon apparel.’ … According to Lululemon, the infringed products from Costco include; Danskin Ladies Half-Zip Hoodie, Danskin Half-Zip Pullover, Jockey Ladies Yoga Jacket, Spyder Women’s Yoga Jacket, Hi-Tec Men’s Scuba Full Zip, and Kirkland 5 Pocket Performance Pant.” [editor’s note: Lululemon’s entire case seems to be that they believe think the people who want to buy their stuff are stupid and/or illiterate such that they can’t read, you know, labels – TLK] (07/01/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/07/01/lululemon-is-suing-costco/8731751378669/
Source: National Review
“The Jeff Bezos Wedding and Some Life Principles.” (07/01/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/the-jeff-bezos-wedding-and-some-life-principles/
Source: CounterPunch
by John Whitbeck
“It is now widely accepted that Iraq’s alleged possession of nuclear weapons was the excuse, not the reason, for the Israeli/American desire to destroy Iraq. It should also be obvious than Iran’s alleged aspiration to develop and possess nuclear weapons is the excuse, not the reason, for the Israeli/American desire to destroy Iran. If such an alleged nuclear weapons aspiration were a genuine Israeli concern, Prime Minister Netanyahu would not have opposed the negotiation of the JCPOA and would not have pressured President Trump to withdraw from and effectively negate it during his first administration. The reason why Israel opposed the JCPOA is that it removed any alleged ‘Iranian nuclear threat’ and hence deprived Israel of any excuse to attack and seek to destroy Iran.” (07/01/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/01/the-excuse-of-the-iranian-nuclear-threat/
Source: Fox News
“Two Chinese nationals face serious charges after they allegedly acted as agents of the People’s Republic of China’s government to collect intelligence about U.S. Navy service members and bases, while also recruiting other military members to carry out tasks for the country’s main foreign intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security (MSS). The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Chinese national Yuance Chen, who resides in Happy Valley, Oregon, and Liren Lai, who traveled to Houston on a tourist visa in April 2025, were arrested on Friday. Both individuals face charges of overseeing and carrying out various clandestine intelligence tasks in the U.S. on behalf of the Ministry of State Security. Along with assisting with the recruitment of potential MSS assets and gathering intel about service members and bases, the two men are accused of facilitating a ‘dead drop’ payment of cash on behalf of the MSS.” (07/01/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/two-chinese-nationals-arrested-spying-us-navy-personnel-bases
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“Methodological individualism is best known for its applications in economics, and its importance for historical analysis is often overlooked. The main significance for historical inquiry lies in rejecting the dominant discourse which explains historical events purely by reference to collective group identity such as race or class. According to activist historians, the heritage of a people is ascertained not from how it was understood by individuals, or by the families, neighborhoods, counties, or states with whom such individuals joined cause of their own volition, but is to be decided on everyone’s behalf by Marxist-adjacent ‘experts’ who designate collective group heritage based on people’s race, class, or national identity.” [editor’s note: “National identity” is no different than “family, neighborhood, county, or state”-based “understanding;” those collective units are not individuals; “paleoconservative” identity politics is just a verion of the “Marxist” take – TLK] (07/01/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/methodological-individualism-historical-analysis
Source: ABC News
“Turkish police detained three more employees of a satirical magazine on Tuesday, raising the number of people taken into custody over a cartoon that allegedly depicted the Prophet Muhammad to four. The cartoon, published in LeMan magazine, drew a string of condemnation from government officials who stated it represented the Prophet Muhammad and sparked an angry protest outside the magazine’s Istanbul office. LeMan, in a statement late Monday, denied the allegations and insisted the drawing was intended to portray a Muslim man named Muhammad and was meant to highlight the suffering of Muslims. … Authorities on Monday launched an investigation into the weekly magazine over accusations of ‘publicly insulting religious values’ and detained the cartoonist, Dogan Pehlevan, from his home. Overnight, LeMan’s Editor-in-Chief Zafer Aknar, graphic designer Cebrail Okcu and manager Ali Yavuz were also detained, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.” (07/01/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkish-police-detain-3-employees-satirical-magazine-prophet-123365654
Source: Law & Liberty
“Woke delusions.” (07/01/25)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/woke-delusions/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Sergio Martinez
“On June 1, 2025, Mexicans were called to vote for judges, magistrates, and Supreme Court justices. It was the first major implementation of a sweeping judicial reform passed in the twilight of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration. The change was framed as a democratization of justice, but it was a masterclass in judicial capture. People should be alarmed. Mexico is undergoing a transformation that compromises the separation of powers, individual rights, and the very conditions that allow for sustained prosperity.” 907/01/25)
https://fee.org/articles/the-end-of-justice-in-mexico/
Source: TomDispatch
by William D Hartung
“The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed ‘big beautiful bill.’ It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory. The version that passed the House recently would cut $1.7 trillion, mostly in domestic spending, while providing the top 5% of taxpayers with roughly $1.5 trillion in tax breaks. Over the next few years, the same bill will add another $150 billion to a Pentagon budget already soaring towards a record $1 trillion. In short, as of now, in the battle between welfare and warfare, the militarists are carrying the day.” (07/01/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/feeding-the-warfare-state/
Source: Reuters
“U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday toured a remote [concentration camp] in the Florida Everglades dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as his Republican allies advanced a sweeping spending bill that could ramp up deportations. The facility sits some 37 miles (60 km) from Miami in a vast subtropical wetland teeming with alligators, crocodiles and pythons, fearsome imagery the White House has leveraged to show its determination to purge migrants it says were wrongly allowed to stay in the country under former President Joe Biden’s administration.” (07/01/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-play-up-alligator-alcatraz-deportations-florida-ahead-bill-deadline-2025-07-01/
