Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“Making an enemies list is creepy. Publishing the names of people you dislike to fuel political supporters’ prejudices is even creepier and potentially dangerous. That’s what New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has done with the introduction of a property tax surcharge on relatively high-value second homes linked to a searchable online database of those who could be affected. The socialist mayor’s defenders point out that tax and property information is a matter of public record in New York, but the packaged publication of surcharge targets and Mamdani’s history of calling out opponents by name suggests something nastier is going on.” (08/03/26)
https://reason.com/2026/08/03/mamdanis-tax-database-doxed-wealthy-new-yorkers/
Source: American Greatness
by Stephen Soukup
“A long, long time ago (27 years, to be exact), my boss (the inimitable Mark Melcher) and I predicted that the European Monetary Union would be the death of the EU. The Euro, we wrote for our clients at a now-defunct big brokerage house, would be a disaster and would destroy everything that the post-war Europeans had spent the previous several decades working to build. Specifically, we wrote: ‘Psst! You wanna know a secret? The Euro, and the mess it represents, is going to be a social, economic and political catastrophe. Indeed, we think it is probable that the adoption of the Euro will be to 21st century Europe, what the killing of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was to 20th century Europe …” (08/03/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/08/03/the-eu-and-the-iron-law-of-oligarchy/
Source: SFGate
“Two Republican senators who threatened to block acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s confirmation to lead the Justice Department said Monday that they will support his nomination, ending an impasse over plans to create a fund to compensate allies of President Donald Trump. The endorsement from GOP Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis paves the way for the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance Blanche’s nomination on Tuesday after the Justice Department and lawmakers reached a deal to formally rescind the $1.8 billion ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ proposed to settle Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. Cornyn and Tillis had refused to back Blanche’s bid for the permanent post without official confirmation killing the fund meant to compensate people who believe they were unfairly prosecuted by the Justice Department.” (08/03/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/blanche-rescinds-fund-for-trump-supporters-after-22371121.php
Source: The Daily Economy
by Surse Pierpoint
“In 1925, John Maynard Keynes dismissed Marx’s Capital as an obsolete economic textbook that no serious economist would still assign. He was not being contrarian. By the time he wrote that, the marginal revolution of the 1870s had already done the intellectual work: Jevons, Menger, Walras, and later Wicksteed, Marshall, and Böhm-Bawerk had dismantled the labor theory of value that Marx’s entire economic system rested on. Among economists, the argument was over, and Marx had lost it. So why does Marx remain one of the most cited authors in the humanities and social sciences, a century and a half after his death, in fields far removed from the one where his core claims were actually tested?” (08/03/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-coup-in-search-of-a-philosophy/
Source: Seattle Times
“A cyberattack tapped the data of some 31,000 people in Liechtenstein’s register of people behind companies and foundations in the wealthy principality, the government said. The ‘register of economic beneficiaries’ was accessed at night from Wednesday into Thursday last week, the government said. It said that the breach was noticed on Thursday, that measures were taken to secure data and the system taken offline. The government said there were no indications that any data was altered or deleted.
The list of people behind companies, foundations and trusteeships is part of efforts to combat money laundering and terror financing.” (08/03/26)
https://archive.is/pPpVc
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Let’s Watch the August 2, 2026 LNC Meeting.” (08/02/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2xi_uYEETU
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Nolan Denaro
“The popular rightwing network spent months building a case for the Iran War. Now they are invested in keeping up support, even if hosts have to deny reality.” (08/03/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-war-fox-news/
Source: Fox News
“Police are still working to determine why a 24-year-old gunman opened fire at a crowded In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, killing three people and wounding seven others before taking his own life after taking fire from a bystander and an off-duty Idaho state trooper. Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said Sunday that investigators were confident Chad Williams acted alone in Saturday’s attack, but detectives had not yet established a motive or fully traced his movements before the shooting. … Police have not publicly identified the trooper or the bystander, but the Idaho Statesman detailed the heroics of Jordan Salinas, 35, of Kimberly, Idaho, strapped by the shoulder with a FN Five-seveN semi-automatic pistol fitted with a suppressor.” (08/03/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/idaho-in-n-out-burger-shooting-motive-mystery-armed-citizen-speaks
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Kym Robinson
“The desire to ban speech, in any form, is an example of insecurity inside society and government. Knowing that certain words or images may in some way draw revulsion and offense is a risk an individual must take. Not everyone will experience the same offense or revulsion, and some may even find arousal or delight in such words or images. It’s what makes the human experience unique and it is why free expression is a sacred thing.” (08/03/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/censorship-is-more-offensive-than-any-slur/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s saying you endorse all the violence, exploitation, ecocide and abuse of the current order. Politics are always happening all around you in every moment of every day, whether you are ‘into’ it or not. Everything you do in your everyday life is pervasively shaped by local and national laws, by economic systems, by oligarchy, by propaganda, by war, by militarism, by imperialist extraction, by government regulations and the lack thereof. Saying you don’t feel like paying attention to these factors is just saying you’re fine with the way they are presently happening..” (08/03/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/08/03/im-not-political-just-means-i-support-the-status-quo/
