Source: SFGate
“Attorneys for Sami Hamdi, a British political commentator being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in California, are challenging his detention in court, his legal team said Wednesday. Hamdi, who is Muslim, was detained Sunday by ICE officers at San Francisco International Airport, according to federal officials. His lawyers say the arrest was triggered by his criticism of the Israeli government, while U.S. officials have pointed to comments he made after Hamas'[s] Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, which they claim celebrated the violence.” (10/29/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/lawyers-for-british-political-commentator-sami-21127061.php
Source: Antiwar.com
“Netanyahu Orders ‘Powerful’ Airstrikes on Gaza, US Bombs 4 More Alleged Drug Boats, and More.” (10/29/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Ugtb5iWnY
Source: Antiwar.com
by David Vine
“Amid some extremely cautious optimism for peace following a tenuous and incomplete ceasefire in Gaza, any hope for Gaza’s future depends significantly on a little-noticed point in President Donald Trump’s original 20-point peace plan. The plan’s twelfth point says, ‘No one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and free to return.’ The plan goes even further, saying, ‘We will encourage people to stay and offer them the opportunity to build a better Gaza.’ Although there are reasons to doubt many elements of the Trump ‘peace plan’ – which neither side has agreed to in full – the assertion that no one will be forced to leave Gaza represents a major reversal: prior Israeli and U.S. government policy clearly aimed to force some or all Palestinians from the Strip.” (10/29/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/david-vine/2025/10/28/peace-in-gaza-depends-on-palestinians-right-to-remain-and-return/
Source: Washington Post
“The White House on Tuesday fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that had expected to review some of President Donald Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch and White House ballroom. … The commission, which was established by Congress more than a century ago and traditionally includes a mix of architects and urban planners, is charged with providing advice to the president, Congress and local government officials on design matters related to construction projects in the capital region. Its focus includes government buildings, monuments and memorials. White House officials have traditionally sought the agency’s approval.” (10/28/25)
https://archive.is/Sqw7Q
Source: Underthrow
“Know Your Enemy. Know Yourself.” (10/28/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIAZRnBIF54
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“A few weeks after taking office, President Donald Trump called the Second Amendment ‘an indispensable safeguard of security and liberty,’ declaring that ‘the right to keep and bear arms must not be infringed.’ But in a case that the Supreme Court recently agreed to hear, the Trump administration is urging the justices to uphold one of the federal government’s most constitutionally dubious restrictions on that right. Since 1968, Congress has prohibited gun possession by illegal drug users, a provision that affects millions of peaceful Americans who pose no plausible threat to public safety. That gun ban is illogical, unjust, and inconsistent with ‘this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,’ meaning it fails the constitutional test that the Supreme Court established in 2022.” (10/29/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/29/trump-an-avowed-second-amendment-champion-defends-a-gun-ban-with-no-historical-justification/
Source: Fox News
“A new ‘quiet’ supersonic X-59 jet designed to revolutionize air travel successfully completed its first test flight, Lockheed Martin announced this week. The sleek, needle-point aircraft built for NASA is designed to break the sound barrier while reducing the sonic boom to a ‘thump’, according to the aerospace contractor. The aircraft aims to overcome one of the major hurdles to supersonic travel, which is noise restrictions over land. The plane took off from Palmdale, Calif., at Skunk Works’ facility at U.S. Air Force Plant 42, accompanied by a NASA chase plane. It landed safely about an hour later at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. The plane’s unique shape is designed to greatly lower the volume of the sonic boom typically produced when a plane breaks the sound barrier.” (10/29/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nasas-quiet-supersonic-jet-completes-first-flight-potential-breakthrough-commercial-air-travel
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Trump Administration Planning Panama-Style Attack On Venezuela?” (10/28/25)
https://rumble.com/v70wkqg-rump-administration-planning-panama-style-attack-on-venezuela.html
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Lucus Peters
“From 1820 to 1914, the classical gold standard provided the monetary foundation for one of the greatest economic transformations in history. Stable prices, disciplined credit, and broad trust in long-term savings enabled railroads, canals, telegraphs, electricity, and steel construction to flourish without the distortions of modern fiat debt. The result was a century of rapid innovation and rising living standards that reshaped the modern world.” (10/29/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/sound-money-and-the-forgotten-engine-of-progress
Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper
“Since Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump last year, various Democratic elected officials, think tanks, and strategists have been frantically attempting to find some magic political formula that will allow the party to beat Republicans once more. The latest version comes from a new big donor–backed strategist group called Welcome, and it’s titled ‘Deciding to Win.’ The advice, surprise surprise, is that Democrats should punch the left — abandon progressive policy like Medicare for All, stop talking about LGBTQ people and climate change, and focus on milquetoast kitchen-table issues.” [editor’s note: More delulu from “progressive” pundits; I still shudder every time I contemplate the bullet that missed us, even though the one that hit is no prize – SAT] [additional editor’s note: And I shudder every time SAT mistakenly uses the word “delulu” to refer to something other than what that word means – TLK] (10/29/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/10/29/voters-did-not-understand-stakes-in-2024/
