Source: The Guardian
“A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy won’t get an early medical release from his two-decade prison sentence for killing Sonya Massey inside her home after the [b]lack woman called 911 about a possible prowler, state officials decided on Friday. Sean Grayson had been diagnosed with colon cancer prior to the 2024 shooting, and his attorney noted in January that the cancer had advanced to his liver and lungs. The three-member Illinois prisoner review board voted unanimously on Friday to deny Grayson’s application for early medical release, panel spokesperson Liz Mitchell said in an email. Grayson, who is white, was convicted in October of second-degree murder for Massey’s killing, a case that sparked protests over systemic racism and a US justice department review.” (07/31/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/31/sonya-massey-shooting-prison
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Larry Johnson: How Can Iran Keep Bombing US Bases.” (07/31/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-guest-larry-johnson-how-can-iran-keep-bombing-us-bases/
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“The president’s protectionism has constituted the largest tax increase since 1993.” (07/31/26)
https://reason.com/2026/07/31/trumps-tariffs-will-cost-each-american-household-900-in-2026/
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Donald Trump is cheap in every sense of the word: cheap in that he is an infamous deadbeat who cheated his creditors; cheap in the sense of tacky; cheap in that he is the sort of man whose virtue, such as it is, can be overcome at no great expense — a cheap date. Trump is a $40 fake Rolex made copious flesh. … the CEO of Rolex, Jean-Frédéric Dufour, bought the whole Swiss watch industry a better deal on tariffs with a desk clock that was not even solid gold but merely gold plated, along with a 1-kg bar of gold engraved with the word ‘PRESIDENT’—in case Trump, who seems to believe that there is something called the Islamic Republic of Japan and who conflates Vladimir Putin with Volodymyr Zelensky, finally forgets which office it is he holds.” (07/31/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-moral-bribes-diamonds/
Source: New York Post
“A heroic armed citizen tried to take out a gunman as he opened fire on an Idaho In-N-Out, according to heart-stopping video and witnesses. Harrowing footage shows a man with a handgun exchanging fire with the shooter outside the restaurant in Twin Falls. Two people were killed and seven wounded. The gunman is believed to have killed himself, according to police. The actions of the good Samaritan may have saved lives by distracting the gunman long enough for diners and workers at the crowded burger joint to get away, according to Lane Koehn, who took the video from his car.” (08/02/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/08/02/us-news/hero-armed-citizen-opened-fire-on-idaho-in-n-out-gunman-during-deadly-shooting/
Source: Washington Post
“How to fix higher education without destroying it.” (07/31/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/how-to-fix-higher-education-without-destroying-it/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Miles Smith IV
“Faulkner provides a grave Augustinian understanding of the human capacity for self-delusion and self-aggrandizement.” (07/31/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-folly-of-golden-age-dreams/
Source: The American Prospect
by Naomi Bethune
“Understanding history is tricky. Classes in grade school are generally uneven and whitewashed, if not outright sanitized. Fewer and fewer students are studying it in college at all. Textbooks focus on a select few figures who are painted as defining social movements, particularly those who are looked back on as favorable, or even palatable. In many cases, the more revolutionary commitments of America’s greatest trailblazers are often reduced to a footnote, if not omitted completely. I myself encountered this phenomenon recently when I was working on my contribution to the Prospect Patriots issue, a profile of Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), one of the country’s first muckrakers and a courageous civil rights activist.” (08/01/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/08/01/hubert-harrison-civil-rights-activist-brian-kwoba/
Source: United Press International
“FIFA dropped Friday a plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors after severe backlash from worldwide soccer confederations. President Gianni Infantino had revealed earlier this week a plan to create FIFA Forward Enterprise, which would have offered a 20% stake to private investors in the $20 billion venture. … Finding investors for FFE would have been handled by Thrive Eternal — an investment firm owned by Joshua Kushner, who is the brother of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. But the move was widely panned. The Union of European Football Associations said its 55 national teams would boycott all upcoming FIFA competitions ‘so long as these proposals remain alive.'” (07/31/26)
https://www.upi.com/Sports_News/Soccer/2026/07/31/fifa-drops-ffe/2911785547844/
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Jacob expands on his recent article ‘The Housewives Underground,’ which is about the new book The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery by Kaitlyn Tiffany.” (07/31/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpS5b4nDTHw
