Source: The Anarchist Experience
“Riley is out gallivanting, so Rich E Rich Reads the News. HEADLINES … On Larken Rose: The ‘Economics’ the Left ‘Doesn’t Understand’ Gets Dumber Every Day … Ten Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Arguments for Socialism and Why They’re Wrong.” (08/06/26)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/the-anarchist-experience-592/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Rachel Chiu
“Hawaiian residents are challenging ancestry-based housing restrictions in federal court. A pair of lawsuits filed in June and July takes aim at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, a state agency that reserves long-term homestead leases to individuals who meet the state’s ‘blood quantum’ requirement. To be eligible for a homestead lease—long-term, affordable leases for residential, agricultural, and pastoral purposes—an applicant must prove that he or she has 50% Native Hawaiian ancestry. In any other context, this type of requirement would be instantly illegal. No ordinary government agency or housing authority can deny your application or evict you because of your ancestry. Yet, these controversial rules are very common for determining benefits for indigenous populations, and continue to give the state inordinate power to withhold opportunities and take property from citizens according to overtly discriminatory justifications.” (08/06/26)
https://fee.org/articles/hawaiis-blood-quantum-rule-deepens-the-states-housing-crisis/
Source: Engadget
“After initially refusing to even review it, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Moderna’s mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the pharmaceutical company announced in a press release. Known as mFlusiva (or mRNA-1010), the immunization is effective against the four most common strains of influenza and has been in human testing trials since 2021. Those variants cause up to five million severe flu cases every year and result in as many as 650,000 respiratory deaths annually, the World Health Organization (WHO) wrote in 2017. The vaccine is approved for adults aged 50 and over.” (08/06/26)
https://www.engadget.com/2231390/fda-approves-modernas-mrna-flusiva-vaccine/
Source: Cato Institute
“Wealth Taxes Failed Abroad. Why Try Them Here?” (08/06/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/wealth-taxes-failed-abroad-why-try-them-here
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall
“Apparently: ‘Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts.’ That someone tries to measure how useful the producer of something is by their tax payments – rather than the value of their output – is deeply weird in itself. … Palantir pays its staff well, partly in shares. That’s it, that’s the one weird trick. They pay the staff well. British political discourse is so perverted that this is seen as a problem.” (08/06/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/palantirs-weird-tax-trick-paying-the-staff
Source: Law & Liberty
by Allen Mendenhall
“The dissent in Trump v. Barbara tries to undermine the colorblind Constitution.” (08/06/26)
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Four young women have told the BBC they were sexually assaulted and harassed at an Army training college for teenagers – with one saying she was raped by several fellow junior soldiers in an attack that lasted hours. The women all attended the Army Foundation College (AFC) at Harrogate, North Yorkshire, over the past five years and say the incidents happened when they were aged 17. The college has a dangerous culture of misogyny and sexual violence, say the women, who are all speaking out for the first time. These reports are ‘extremely distressing and serious’, said an Army spokesperson in a statement. The BBC can also reveal that North Yorkshire Police received 16 reports of sexual offences linked to the college in the year to June, according to a Freedom of Information request.” (08/06/26)
Source: Politico
“Can the GOP ‘defy history’ in the midterms? (with Speaker Mike Johnson).” (08/06/26)
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Andrew M Leonard
“Those who have served have experienced first hand what it’s like to fight in conflicts without clearly defined political goals or adequate tools of statecraft.” (08/06/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/veterans-us-foreign-policy/
Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper
“Abdul El-Sayed has done it in Michigan. Though the race was much closer than polling predicted, El-Sayed, a progressive epidemiologist and former state public-health official, has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens by about one percentage point. He had to fend off a veritable ocean of money from outside corporate groups and AIPAC, which together spent some $70 million trying to stop him, making it the most expensive Democratic Senate primary in American history. Though El-Sayed is not a Democratic Socialists of America member, Donavan McKinney is, and he narrowly won the primary to represent Michigan’s 13th House District, which covers Detroit and some of its suburbs; he will be a lock to win the general election. There will almost certainly be seven DSA members in the next Congress: McKinney, incumbents Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, and primary winners Chris Rabb, Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Melat Kiros.” (08/06/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/08/06/can-dsas-francesca-hong-win-in-cheese-country-wisconsin-governor/