Source: Our Future
by Sulma Arias
“We’re celebrating 250 years since the founding of the United States of America. Yes, celebrating, and I hope you did, too. I know this moment brings up so many conflicting emotions. On the one hand, this country is our home. Some of us have no other place to go. Some of us have chosen to make this our home, and some of us are still grappling with the centuries of injustice that brought us here. Whatever this landmark celebration means to you, I hope you take time to reflect, as I have, on what brought us here, and find ways to take lessons from those who found reasons to fight to build a better future in this country, across the many injustices that wound our nation’s journey. In doing so, these courageous women and men made a way for us to be here today.” (07/06/26)
https://ourfuture.org/20260705/we-the-people-will-prevail
Source: CBS News
“FIFA is being criticized over its decision to lift the red card suspension for lead U.S. Men’s National Team scorer Folarin Balogun, allowing him to play against Belgium on Monday. Sources familiar with the matter told CBS News that Balogun’s reinstatement came after President Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Thursday and spoke about the suspension, which would have kept the 25-year-old striker from playing in the round of 16 World Cup match. The Union of European Football Associations, Europe’s soccer governing body, said FIFA ‘crossed a red line,’ and expressed its ‘disbelief’ at a decision it called ‘unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable.’ … The Royal Belgian Football Association, whose national team will face the U.S. Monday, said it was ‘astonished’ by the decision, and added it contradicts FIFA’s own rules.” (07/06/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fifa-infantino-trump-red-card-folarin-balogun-criticism/
Source: Checks & Balances
“Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Dr. Edward Larson, on the Declaration of Independence, the Election of 1800, and America at 250.” (07/06/26)
https://chkbal.substack.com/p/bonus-episode-why-1776-still-matters
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“If you really want to get a European politician wound up, try suggesting that, in the 21st century, human civilization has progressed to the point that we need not be at the mercy of the elements; if the temperature outside is uncomfortable, we can adjust the climate in our homes and businesses to our taste. That will get you a stuffy lecture about the virtues of suffering for the good of the planet. Well, unless powerful people are being inconvenienced; then the air conditioning comes on.” (07/06/26)
https://reason.com/2026/07/06/europe-may-never-be-cool-but-it-can-be-air-conditioned/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Huge crowds have lined the streets of Tehran for the funeral procession of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war with the US and Israel. Footage from Iranian state TV showed many tens of thousands of mourners gathered to watch Khamenei’s flag-draped coffin being transported by a lorry along a 10km (6-mile) route that passed through the capital’s landmark Enghelab Square. The procession took place after his body lay in state for two days at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla mosque. Three of Khamenei’s sons prayed beside his coffin there on Sunday. But Mojtaba, the son who succeeded him as supreme leader, did not make an appearance. He has not been seen in public since reporting being seriously wounded in the same Israeli air strike in Tehran on 28 February that killed his father and his wife.” (07/06/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdejj44kl70o
Source: The Hill
“JD Vance rejects Milton Friedman, embraces socialism?” (07/06/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/5951297-rising-july-6-2026/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul McDonnold
“In ‘The Rise of Hip Capitalism,’ author Joseph de León traces how Rolling Stone fused countercultural rebellion with entrepreneurial ambition, turning cultural dissent into a media empire.” (07/06/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/rolling-stone-and-the-making-of-a-counterculture-capitalist-success-story/
Source: ABC News
“The Philippine Senate, acting as an impeachment court, opened the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday in a politically volatile event that will unfold with the backdrop of her bitter political feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. More than 6,000 police officers, including anti-riot squads, were deployed to secure the Senate, where about 400 anti-Duterte demonstrators converged, chanting ‘convict Sara now.’ Duterte did not appear but was represented by her lawyers at the start of the trial, which will run for 92 days, according to a pretrial plan seen by The Associated Press. If convicted of the charges, which include amassing unexplained wealth and publicly threatening to have Marcos assassinated, Duterte may be permanently disqualified from holding public office. She denies the charges.” (07/06/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/philippine-senate-opening-politically-volatile-impeachment-trial-vice-134505996
Source: EconTalk
“EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni).” (07/06/26)
https://www.econtalk.org/econtalk-book-club-on-the-iliad-with-ido-hevroni/
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“How can Trump condemn socialism and communism in the run-up to the mid-terms, given that he fell in love with the brutal communist dictator of North Korea and is now partnering with the brutal socialist-communist regime in Venezuela? Or is that Trump is only prejudiced against Democratic Party socialists and communists but has nothing against foreign socialists and communists?” (07/06/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/07/06/whats-trumps-beef-with-communism/
