Source: NBC News
“The Federal Aviation Administration was experiencing staffing issues or anticipating shortages at airports and other air traffic control facilities in the United States on Monday night. Reports of the staffing shortfalls came hours after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said there has been a slight increase in sick calls since the government shutdown began on Wednesday. No air traffic controllers were expected at the tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport in the Los Angeles area for hours Monday night because of staffing issues, a source familiar with the situation said. … Because of the federal government shutdown, air traffic controllers were working without pay Monday. … The National Air Traffic Controllers Association union pointed to a national shortage of air traffic controllers. Officials have warned about the shortage since before the government shut down.” (10/06/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-reports-staffing-issues-airports-government-shutdown-continues-rcna236049
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“When John Searle exposes the errors of materialists, dualists can only be delighted. Searle and dualists, both minorities in academic philosophy of mind, have something crucial in common: Namely, they agree that mental states as standardly conceived exist; they are not ‘really’ illusions, behavior, functions, or computer programs. Denial of the reality of the mental, rather than being the necessary implication of science, is in fact a profoundly unscientific attempt to say that reality can only contain what our theories adequately account for. Despite these points of agreement, Searle’s solution to the mind-body problem is avowedly anti-dualistic; and even if he requested admission to the dualist camp, it is likely that they should be uneasy to receive him.” (10/06/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/solving-the-mind-body-problem-dualism
Source: CoinTelegraph
“Cryptocurrency investment products recorded their highest-ever inflows last week, as the US government shutdown fueled a rally in spot crypto markets. Global crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded $5.95 billion of inflows in the week ending Friday — the largest ever seen — CoinShares reported on Monday. … With inflows reaching $5.95 billion, crypto ETPs surpassed the previous $4.4 billion record from mid-July by 35%. Unlike the previous record inflows, which were almost equally distributed between Bitcoin and Ether, the latest gains were heavily dominated by BTC, with Bitcoin funds attracting a record-breaking $3.6 billion.” (10/06/25)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-funds-record-5-95-billion-inflows-amid-shutdown-concerns
Source: Reason
by CJ Ciaramella
“When the second Trump administration issued an order threatening to strip federal funding from K-12 schools that teach children ‘anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies’ related to gender and race, it was lifting from Florida’s playbook. Likewise, the administration’s campaign against universities on such issues as anti-Israel protests, transgender athletes, and critical race theory were all preceded by Florida, where a powerful executive branch, Republican-controlled Legislature, and conservative state Supreme Court allowed Gov. Ron DeSantis to apply intense pressure to public universities and school districts. … In March, Maria Rojas, a Texas midwife who operated four clinics for low-income women in Harris and Waller counties, became the first person in the state arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions. Rojas'[s] case was the first opportunity for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office to flex its new criminal and civil powers under a trio of anti-abortion bills passed in 2021.” (for publication 11/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/06/culture-war-police-state/
Source: ABC News
“The judge overseeing the Maryland deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Monday denied the government’s request to delay proceedings because of the government shutdown. The ruling came Monday during a status conference held in the case of Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man deported in error to El Salvador last March and then returned back to the United States in June to face criminal charges in Tennessee. … The judge gave the government until Wednesday afternoon to file any evidence about steps taken to remove Abrego Garcia to Eswatini. She also asked the government to provide witnesses who can speak firsthand to those efforts.” (10/06/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/kilmar-abrego-garcias-deportation-case-back-maryland-judge/story?id=126237666
Source: CounterPunch
by Jeff Cohen & Richard Eskow
“Parts of the plan are uncontroversial. All sane people want the war to end quickly. And few would object to point 18, which calls for ‘an interfaith dialogue …based on the values of tolerance and peaceful co-existence.’ And yet, I wonder how many Americans noticed that #5 calls on Israel to release the 1,700 people it has seized from Gaza since 2023, ‘including all women and children …’ How many Americans even knew that Israel routinely imprisons children before they saw that sentence? Our media doesn’t mention it much. … Under international law, the United States and other countries should condemn this child abuse and demand that the children be released. however, the Trump plan uses this longstanding criminal practice as leverage, saying that the children will only be released when Hamas accedes to the demands in this proposal.” (10/06/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/06/the-trump-peace-plan-is-itself-a-war-crime/
Source: TomDispatch
by Alfred McCoy
“In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat ‘discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth, [and] became convinced … that the only livable life was one of show.’ In amassing unchecked power spiced with unimaginable cruelty, that fictional dictator extinguished any flicker of opposition in his imaginary Caribbean country, reducing its elite to a craven set of courtiers. Even though he butchered opponents, plundered the treasury, raped the young, and reduced his nation to penury, ‘lettered politicians and dauntless adulators … proclaimed him the corrector of earthquakes, eclipses, leap years and other errors of God.'” (10/06/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/in-the-autumn-of-americas-empire/
Source: Boston Globe
“Representative Jared Golden, the Maine Democrat known for his maverick streak, has for the first time drawn a serious Democratic primary challenger — setting up an intra-party battle with potentially significant implications for the balance of power in the U.S. House. On Monday, State Auditor Matt Dunlap, who has been active in Maine politics for decades, launched his campaign for the Second Congressional District. He first announced in May that he was interested in challenging Golden and began filing necessary paperwork last month. … ‘Jared Golden has shown a consistent pattern of voting with the Republican conference on significant issues that affect people in Maine,’ Dunlap said, citing Golden’s vote last month for the Republican-backed government funding bill. He was the only Democrat to do so, as his party coalesced behind a strategy to oppose the stopgap bill unless the GOP negotiated on expiring Affordable Care Act premium subsidies.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/pRsya
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Rogue Judges and Birthright Citizenship.” (10/06/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/rogue-judges-and-birthright-citizenship
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Patrick Carroll
“With the Bureau of Labor Statistics generating all this attention, many are taking the opportunity to highlight its perceived shortcomings and ways that it might be reformed and improved. But there is a much more foundational question that we ought to be asking: Should the BLS even exist in the first place?” (10/06/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/abolish-bureau-labor-statistics
