Source: Niskanen Center
by Will Raderman
“After years of deliberation, a bipartisan consensus is coalescing on the need for Congress to help states protect their Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs against improper payments and outright fraud, which cost the federal government, states, and taxpayers an estimated $135 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic alone. … An effective reform package would focus on fixing how UI administration is funded and establish new program guardrails. Congress can ensure that state UI agencies make use of more federal revenue raised specifically for program administration while offsetting past administrative funding lost to inflation.” (11/20/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/broaden-the-base-lower-the-improper-payment-rates
Source: Independent Institute
by K Lloyd Billingsley
“But remember the ‘failed’ playbook quarterbacked by Dr. Anthony Fauci.” (11/20/25)
https://www.independent.org/article/2025/11/20/nih-announces-new-pandemic-playbook/
Source: CNN
“The Trump administration is proposing to open federal waters off the entire coastline of California to drilling, as well as an area off the coast of Florida. Neither state’s waters have been open to new drilling for decades. President Donald Trump’s Interior Department released a five-year offshore drilling plan on Thursday that would open up vast parts of California’s coastline to drilling, which hasn’t happened in that state since the late 1960s. The Department is also proposing new oil drilling in parts of the Eastern Gulf — located approximately 100 nautical miles off Florida’s coast — a decision previously opposed by Florida’s Republican leadership.” (11/20/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/climate/trump-oil-drilling-offshore-california-florida
Source: The Fifth Column
“Moynihan vs. Moynihan (w/ Lydia Moynihan).” (11/20/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/533-w-lydia-moynihan
Source: Racket News
by Greg Collard
“Memo to members of Congress: never kick an Internet hornet’s nest, unless you’re a master bull artist.” (11/20/25)
https://www.racket.news/p/stacey-plasketts-nightmare-week-continues
Source: New York Post
by Kirsten Fleming
“Sensible people already know that medicalizing children in the name of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ is not only experimental, it’s barbaric. Now, a peer-reviewed study, commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, reports that the evidence used to back such practices as hormone therapy for kids is flimsy at best. There just isn’t enough known to justify such drastic medical interventions for young people. Back in January, President Trump slammed the brakes on the medicalization of minors with his Executive Order 14187, restricting ‘the maiming and sterilization’ of patients under 19, and ordered a study to look at the standards of care. First released in May, the report has been affirmed by 10 researchers and groups who found no fault with the findings — and advised that doctors treating minors with gender dysphoria should focus on psychotherapy until more is known about medical interventions.” (11/19/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/19/opinion/stop-the-madness-of-medical-intervention-for-gender-confused-kids/
Source: Associated Press
“A Philippine court on Thursday convicted a former mayor, who officials say is a Chinese national, of human trafficking charges for helping establish an illegal online gaming complex in a northern province where hundreds of Chinese and other foreign nationals were forced to conduct scams. The Pasig city regional trial court in metropolitan Manila sentenced Alice Guo to life in prison with seven other Filipino and Chinese co-accused, and ordered them to pay a fine of 2 million pesos ($34,000) each and compensate several trafficking victims, who filed the complaints. Guo denied all allegations against her and says she is a Filipino citizen.” (11/20/25)
https://apnews.com/article/philippines-online-scam-convictions-alice-guo-0193403684842b8858e2ef5cb3c2f604
Source: Roll Call
“The re-re-redistricting chronicles.” (11/20/25)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL2241501315.mp3
Source: The Political Orphanage
“Cash for Kidneys.” (11/20/25)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/cash-for-kidneys
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“The idea of eugenics originated with Galton, who proposed positive eugenics, policies to encourage the reproduction of the able. The idea of negative eugenics, preventing the reproduction of the unfit, was taken up by the British left, with supporters including Shaw, Wells, Keynes, Laski and the Webbs, and spread across the political spectrum; Winston Churchill was one of many enthusiastic supporters. The result was an attempt, in 1912, to enact compulsory eugenics into law. It was successfully opposed by Josiah Wedgewood, whom Ridley describes as a radical libertarian. His central argument was not that it was bad science but that it was a striking violation of individual liberty.” (11/20/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/eugenics-and-libertarianism-ce8
