Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Adam Goldstein
“It may well be that some people who engage in politically motivated violence have anti-American beliefs, oppose the traditional family, or dislike organized religion. They should be prosecuted. And if there’s evidence of conspiracy or concrete steps toward violence, that may warrant an investigation. But we cannot start investigating other people simply because they happen to share those beliefs. Doing so would open the door to investigations of any political movement or ideology if any one of its adherents happened to engage in violence.” (10/01/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/trumps-domestic-terrorism-memo-chillingly-targets-people-ideology
Source: Politico
“The White House published an executive order on Wednesday vowing to defend Qatar in the event of an attack from another country …. The order, which President Donald Trump signed Monday, states that the White House will now consider ‘any armed attack’ on Qatar ‘as a threat to the peace and security of the United States.’ And, in the event of any attack, the U.S. would take ‘all lawful and appropriate measures — including diplomatic, economic and, if necessary, military — to defend the interests of the United States and the State of Qatar.’ Trump signed the executive order on the same day that he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House and orchestrated a phone call with the Qatari prime minister during which Israel’s leader apologized for missile strikes last month targeting Hamas officials while they were in Doha for ceasefire talks.” (10/01/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/01/trump-promises-to-defend-qatar-in-wake-of-israeli-missile-strikes-00589638?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Long ago, someone pointed out to me that if I alter my behavior for no reason but to defy someone, they are controlling me as surely as if I were obeying their every command. I don’t want to be a puppet. Wouldn’t you feel stupid if you ended up damaging your health, the health of your child, or costing yourself extra money simply because you wanted to do the opposite of what some politician told you? It’s smarter to weigh everything someone tells you to do. If it makes sense and is good for you, do it. If it seems like it would be bad for you, do something else.” (10/01/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/10/01/voices/opinion-dont-be-puppet-for-government/231802.html
Source: ABC News
“Concerns are again mounting over the safety of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has been cut off from an external supply of electricity for more than a week. Captured by Russian forces early in the war, the facility no longer supplies power to the grid but still needs electricity to cool its six inactive reactors and spent fuel. Emergency generators are currently keeping the systems running. Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said conditions remain stable for now but warned that restoring reliable external power is vital.” (10/01/25)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ukrainian-nuclear-plants-longest-power-outage-war-began-126123372
Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg
“Modern democracies have a very distinct engine driving corruption within them, and it’s not what you’d expect. There are many drivers of government corruption, of course, but this one empowers corruption in ways that others do not and cannot. Democracies and democratic republics, especially now, involve professional politicians. And politicians, to put it very directly, are the winners of popularity contests. In fact, if we’re to be honest about it, modern elections might best be described as a type of beauty pageant, or a ‘popularity pageant.'” (10/01/25)
https://thefindings.substack.com/p/the-engine-of-corruption-in-democracies
Source: Fox News
“FBI Director Kash Patel is cutting ties with the Anti-Defamation League that the bureau forged under its former boss James Comey. ‘James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger,’ Patel told Fox News Digital. … The ADL has recently faced backlash from Elon Musk and Republican lawmakers for listing Turning Point USA (TPUSA), Charlie Kirk’s organization, as an extremist group. As a result, the group removed its entire ‘Glossary of Extremism and Hate’ on Tuesday.” (10/01/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/patel-cuts-ties-comeys-fbi-made-adl-organization-faces-backlash-tpusa-criticism
Source: Persuasion
by Cathy Young
“The horrific murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on September 10 should have started a long-overdue conversation about the danger of political violence and of rhetoric that demonizes political opponents. Instead, all too predictably, it set off a cycle of finger-pointing and attempts to prove that violence is only—or primarily — a problem for the ‘other side.'” (10/01/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/yes-you-should-both-sides-political
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The Trumpanyahu administration is pushing a ‘peace plan’ for Gaza which critics are saying would damn Palestinians to permanent subjugation under the thumb of Israel. The proposed plan would see Gaza supervised by Trump and by war criminal Tony Blair, and Netanyahu is already saying that the deal will allow the IDF to remain in the Palestinian territory indefinitely. The last time the US brokered a ‘peace plan’ between Israel and Hamas, the US and Israel torched it in a few weeks, laid siege to the enclave, and announced a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. So even without all the major problems with the offer, there’s not going to be a whole lot of enthusiasm about it.” (10/01/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/01/the-trumpanyahu-peace-plan-and-other-notes/
Source: CNBC
“Private payrolls saw their biggest decline in 2½ years during September, a further sign of labor market weakening that compounds the data blackout accompanying the U.S. government shutdown. Companies shed a seasonally adjusted 32,000 jobs during the month, the biggest slide since March 2023, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Wednesday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for an increase of 45,000. In addition to the drop in September, the August payrolls number was revised to a loss of 3,000 from an initially reported increase of 54,000.” (10/01/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/private-payrolls-declined-in-september-by-32000-in-key-adp-report-coming-amid-shutdown-data-blackout.html
Source: The Atlantic
“Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons. Plus: Donald Trump’s politicization of prosecutions and Robert Proctor’s The Nazi War on Cancer.” (10/01/25)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/10/the-david-frum-show-sam-harris/684424
