The Good Fight, 10/02/25
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Justin Marozzi on Slavery in the Islamic World.” (10/02/25)
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Justin Marozzi on Slavery in the Islamic World.” (10/02/25)
Source: Antiwar.com
by Rick Sterling
“Factual information about Israel and Palestine may soon be outlawed in the California K-12 school system. Assembly Bill 715 is currently on Governor Newsom’s desk. The legislation was recently rushed through the California legislature, amended just days before passage, and voted on at 1 a.m. with almost no time for public comment. The hurry is intentional because opposition grows whenever people learn about it. … If passed, AB715 will result in strict regulation of education and educational material that might subject Jewish students to ‘unlawful discrimination.’ Facts and informed opinions about the reality in Israel and Palestine may be considered ‘antisemitic’ or likely to cause discomfort.” (10/02/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/rick_sterling/2025/10/01/will-california-zionise-k-12-education/
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Elias Tsapelas
“Missouri’s Medicaid enrollment numbers are telling a story, but it may not be one that the federal government wants to hear. Late last year, I wrote about a sharp and troubling decline in the number of permanently and totally disabled (PTD) Missourians enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program. Since then, the enrollment numbers have continued their downward trend, and now have fallen by more than 30,000, or 20%, since 2019, which is significantly lower than any point Missouri has seen in the last two decades. At first glance, some might assume this drop is simply a byproduct of the state’s post-pandemic Medicaid redeterminations. But as I’ve written before, I fear that explanation doesn’t add up. Permanently disabled recipients aren’t people you expect to lose coverage once their eligibility is established, given that they’re unlikely to re-enter the workforce. Instead, the data and a new quote suggest a different story: PTD shifting.” (10/01/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/medicaid/medicaid-in-trouble/
Source: United Press International
“Jane Fonda and other Hollywood actors, directors, writers and producers relaunched the post-World War II Committee for the First Amendment to fight back against the Trump administration’s targeting of free speech. Originally formed in 1947 by Hollywood heavyweights Gene Kelly, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and others, the Committee for the First Amendment pushed back against the so-called Red Scare political repression of left-wing individuals during the 1940s and 1950s. In a statement Wednesday, the Committee for the First Amendment said it was relaunching at a time when it sees similar political oppression emanating from the Trump administration.” (10/02/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/10/02/Jane-Fonda-first-amendment-committee/2401759382714/
Source: Politico
“How the shutdown could pierce the bubble.” (10/02/25)
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL1718449020.mp3?updated=1759380767
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel To Treat Gaza City Civilians as ‘Terrorists,’ IDF Starts Boarding Flotilla Boats, and More.” (10/02/25)
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“A website specializing in data visuals offered a helpful graphic on global inflation, 2020-2025, with no other comment about how or why this happened. The results are eye-popping and amazing, and a reminder that hardly anyone has fully come to terms with what transpired over five years. Most currencies in the world took a 25-35 percent haircut, Far East excepted. That’s a technical description that obscures what actually happened. The measures by which most people in the world hold the liquid part of their worldly possessions – the money they earned through hard work and saving – was robbed by a quarter and more. Where did it go? After all, the wealth didn’t sink in the ocean. It was transferred from one group to another. It went from the poor and middle class to the elites in well-connected industries and government.” (10/01/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-coup-the-calamity-and-the-conspiracy/
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder
“After Hamas'[s] horrific Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 Jews and the seizure of 250 Jewish hostages, the headlines cried out in shock, anger and astonishment. The New York Times wrote, ‘As world leaders condemned the attacks — and questions arose about how Israeli intelligence had been so surprised — ordinary citizens tried to make sense of what was happening.’ On Oct. 7, 2023, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote: ‘Thanks to defensive systems like Iron Dome, Hamas’s punches, while frequent and menacing, rarely landed. For Israelis, Gaza seemed relatively contained. That was, until this weekend. Whatever happens next in the current war, this concept (to borrow another term from the Yom Kippur War era, related to Israel’s confidence that it wouldn’t be attacked) has clearly failed. Israel has a clear interest not just in punishing Hamas but also in ending its rule for good.'” (10/02/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2025/10/02/how-did-oct-7-become-a-distant-memory-n2664333
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The man who was photographed as a baby on the cover of Nirvana’s classic album Nevermind has failed in his attempts to sue the band for distributing child pornography. A four-month-old Spencer Elden was pictured swimming naked underwater on the 1991 LP’s famous cover. He sued the rock band and photographer Kirk Weddle, but a judge has ruled that ‘neither the pose, focal point, setting, nor overall context suggest the album cover features sexually explicit conduct.’ A lawyer for Nirvana said: ‘We are delighted the court has ended this meritless case and freed our creative clients of the stigma of false allegations.’ Mr Elden originally filed a lawsuit in 2021, arguing that his identity and name were ‘forever tied to the commercial sexual exploitation he experienced as a minor which has been distributed and sold worldwide.'” (10/02/25)
Source: ABC News
“A vehicle was driven toward a crowd of people and a man was stabbed near a synagogue in Manchester, a northern British city, police said. ‘One man has been shot, believed to be the offender,’ the Greater Manchester Police said on social media. The incident occurred outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in a northern suburb of the city on Thursday morning, law enforcement said. … Police said at least four people had been injured …. Police said they had declared the major incident, along with a ‘PLATO’ designation, a law enforcement shorthand that means the incident was being treated as a potential marauding terrorist attack. Thursday is Yom Kippur, which is considered the holiest day of the year in Judaism.” (10/02/25)