Source: The Dispatch
by Scott Lincicome
“In the coming days, one set of dubious replacement tariffs will give way to another. The ‘Section 122′ tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed this spring—intended to replace the ’emergency’ tariffs the Supreme Court invalidated in February—expire Friday, 150 days after he invoked them. Into that potential void will likely step a fresh batch of ‘Section 301’ duties, supposedly targeting the use of ‘forced labor’ around the world. As we’ve discussed, the issue of forced labor is real and complicated. … In the current Section 301 case, however, ‘forced labor’ is nothing more than legal cover.” (07/23/26)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-markets/trump-tariffs-section-301-forced-labor-pretext/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Charles Zug
“Building the first interstate was a Sisyphean task.” (07/23/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-long-road/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A man who pleaded guilty to assassinating a top Democratic lawmaker in the state of Minnesota has been sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison, in a case that underscored growing concerns over political violence in the United States. Vance Boelter, who pleaded guilty in June to the slaying of House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, was sentenced on Thursday. The 59-year-old also seriously wounded state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the attacks in June of last year. … Boelter stated that he spent months identifying and stalking his planned targets. He then drove to their homes disguised as a police officer to carry out the attacks, which were followed by the largest police search in the Midwestern state’s history.” (07/23/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/23/minnesota-man-who-killed-democratic-lawmaker-sentenced-to-life-in-us-prison
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Why Nobody Trusts the News: Isaac Saul.” (07/23/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/why-nobody-trusts-the-news-isaac-saul
Source: The Anarchist Experience
“Rich and Riley talk about the Bricks & Minifigs dashcam footage that was recently released, and how one should interact with police.” (07/23/26)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/the-anarchist-experience-590/
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman
“Republicans have settled on their midterm argument: Democrats are all Communists. As an election strategy, this is as lame as it is ludicrous. But there is a small kernel of political reality underlying the new right-wing red-baiting: The emergence of a widespread public backlash against the extreme concentration of wealth in the hands of billionaires. … billionaires have had immense political power for decades, but they chose to exercise that power from the shadows, veiling their actions through patriotic sounding right-wing PACs and think tanks. Only political junkies understood what was going on underneath the surface. Today, however, the new generation of the hyper-wealthy are out there and in your face, flaunting their influence rather than concealing it. And the poster child for this change is, of course, Elon Musk.” (07/23/26)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-the-new-hero-of-populism
Source: Foreign Policy
by Antonio De Loera-Brust
“In 1982, Argentina’s military invaded and occupied Britain’s overseas holdings in the South Atlantic, eventually surrendering after 74 days of conflict. The territorial dispute remains a deep source of grievance and national trauma for Argentina. With the navies of both nations a shadow of their 1982 selves, a resumption of armed conflict remains unlikely. This makes the diplomatic debate over the Falklands—both in multilateral international forums and in bilateral relationships between Argentina and Britain and the rest of the world—all the more decisive. The future of British sovereignty over the Falklands is in greater question now than at any time since the end of the war, while Argentina’s claims to the island have become both more persistent and politically unifying.” (07/23/26)
https://archive.is/QV6IY
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Something Big is Happening in Iran. The Dumbest Right-Wing Media Outrage Ever (with Josh Jennings).” (07/23/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/something-big-is-happening-in-iran
Source: SFGate
“A filing in San Francisco court last week has researchers from the University of California feeling bullish about an ongoing legal fight with the Trump administration. Last year, the administration, through various agencies, cut money from thousands of research grants within the UC system. … the researchers’ lawyers wrote that per sworn statements, the agencies in question ‘used ‘search terms, keywords, or phrases’—and in some cases ‘artificial intelligence tools or software’—‘to identify grants for termination review.’’ The lawyers argue those cuts violate the First Amendment because they targeted researchers who work in Democratic-leaning states or were pursuing ideas that were not favorable to the Trump administration, like projects that prioritized disadvantaged communities or grants that mentioned working on diversity within the workplace. Additionally, the lawyers say, because the administration never rerouted that money elsewhere, the terminations violated the Constitution’s appropriations clause.” (07/23/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/trump-research-money-california-22354016.php
Source: Bet On It
“After talking about the socialist credentials of the Nazis with Bob Lawson and Phil Magness, I had this spirited conversation with Kristian Niemietz, author of the astoundingly good Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies. Niemietz pushes back against my thesis more than Lawson or Magness, so if you enjoy a serious argument, don’t miss our exchange.” (07/23/26)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/how-socialist-were-the-nazis-really
