Source: Reason
by Joe Lancaster

“When the U.S. launched a war against Iran in February, it sent the prices of goods like fuel and fertilizer skyrocketing. Hoping to remediate the damage, President Donald Trump issued a waiver of Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. Better known as the Jones Act, the statute says cargo moving between American ports must be carried on a ship that was built in America, with predominantly American owners and crew. … Since the waiver has been in effect, America’s shipping lanes have thrived—providing further evidence that we should scrap the Jones Act altogether.” (07/06/26)

https://reason.com/2026/07/06/shipping-thrived-after-trump-waived-the-jones-act/

Source: In These Times
by Adam Johnson and Steven Thrasher

“In late May, Adam Johnson, author of How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza spoke with Steven Thrasher, author of The Overseer Class: A Manifesto, about their respective books’ efforts to catalogue the ways that many of the same elite voices now opposed to Trump resorted to similarly Orwellian and even violent tactics in their effort to quell the movement for Palestinian liberation after Oct. 7. Their talk dissects the way these powerful liberals, as Thrasher puts it, exist to ​’police the boundaries of what we’re allowed to think about and what we’re allowed to do.'” (07/06/26)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/steven-thrasher-adam-johnson-books-palestinian-liberation-complicity

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“Is it selfish, asks Good Morning Britain, to want air conditioning? Yes, it’s selfish to want to live and prosper and be comfortable in 90 degree heat. And this ‘selfish’ cooling is bad because … ? According to ‘the experts’ queried by the Good Morning Britain presenters — which broadcasts using ‘non-green’ energy — it’s bad because ‘we know’ that the cooling of indoor air will heat up the outdoors — and therefore the planet. Catastrophically, of course. But we don’t know. It’s one of many unproven assertions about the future of weather that get tossed around to make us feel guilty about not wanting to live in caves and eat dandelions.” (07/06/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/07/06/air-conditioners/

Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders

“We live in condition Z. The libertarian anarchists both want condition A, which is a society without a monopoly government. The gnostic anarchist looks at A, sees the vision clearly, and falls in love with what he sees. He pictures the end state in fine detail and then, in his mind, simply arrives: Z to A, with no intervening steps. Because A is the only acceptable condition to the gnostic anarchist, every other governance arrangement is equally illegitimate to him, and fighting over any of them is silly or wrong-headed. … The directional anarchist keeps the same destination in view and never loses sight of A. But he knows he is standing on real ground, and that the climb has a topography. … A direct path to A is not on the board. It is not a path he nobly refuses; it is a path that does not exist.” (07/06/26)

https://underthrow.substack.com/p/gnostic-anarchists