The Kyle Anzalone Show, 08/06/25
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Michael Vlahos – America’s Military Is in Big Trouble.” (08/06/25)
November 1963: Pulp Fiction and CIA Realities
Source: JFK Facts
by Jefferson Morley
“When CIA agents advertised for an assassin to kill Fidel Castro on the cover of a popular men’s magazine in the fall of 1963, a spy called ‘Howard’ could plausibly deny any involvement.” (08/06/25)
https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/november-1963-pulp-fiction-and-pulp
Silicon Valley Godzilla vs. Wall Street Mothra
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Trump economy has created a lot of losers among workers and consumers, yes, but also among businesses. Retailers are dealing with high tariffs. Auto and energy manufacturers have lost tax credits. Construction, agriculture, and other industries with significant immigrant workforces are having trouble retaining employees. Even health care, thought to be totally recession-proof, is showing cracks with the looming slashing of government funding and UnitedHealth’s troubles. A combination of sluggish hiring and higher inflation could tip the country into recession and have a spiraling effect. But there are two winning sectors in the Trump economy: Big Tech and big banks. Due to positive trends and extremely favorable government treatment, banking and tech companies are absolutely soaring..” (08/07/25)
https://prospect.org/power/2025-08-07-silicon-valley-godzilla-vs-wall-street-mothra/
Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years
Source: ABC News
“The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But due to increasing coral cover since 2017, the coral deaths — caused mainly by bleaching last year associated with climate change — have left the area of living coral across the iconic reef system close to its long-term average, the Australian Institute of Marine Science said in its annual survey on Wednesday. … Because of record global heat in 2023 and 2024, the world is still going through its biggest — and fourth ever recorded — mass coral bleaching event on record, with heat stress hurting nearly 84% of the world’s coral reef area, including the Great Barrier Reef, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s coral reef watch.” (08/06/25)
Bulwark Takes, 08/06/25
Source: The Bulwark
“Sam Stein, Tim Miller, and Will Sommer take on the craziest MAGA influencer drama you’ve ever seen — complete with enough NSFW dirt to make Jerry Springer blush. Buckle up, baby!” (08/06/25)
Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/06/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Trump Pulls Trigger On India Mega-Tariff: Will It Backfire?” (08/06/25)
https://rumble.com/v6x7z8o-trump-pulls-trigger-on-india-mega-tariff-will-it-backfire.html
Show-Me Institute Podcast, 08/06/25
Source: Show-Me Institute
“The One Big Education Opportunity with Shaka Mitchell.” (08/06/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/education/the-one-big-education-opportunity-with-shaka-mitchell/
The sickening state of modern media
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, American media was dominated by the Big Three television networks, and a few national magazines. ABC, NBC, and CBS are still with us. Most of the old national magazines are gone or bizarrely changed into odd parodies of their original incarnation …. All these magazines had a very profound impact on American culture, society, and politics in the quarter-century after World War Two. It is claimed that they influenced public opinion and policy, and that they ‘reflected the cultural and social changes’ of the era. The reality seems to be darker: yes, they influenced opinion and policy, but the publications actually created many (or most) of the changes in society and culture.” (008/06/25)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2025/08/06/the-sickening-state-of-modern-media/
New Trump tax hikes on Americans take effect
Source: NBC News
“After months of delays and extensions, President Donald Trump’s comprehensive and sweeping tariffs slate took effect Thursday just after midnight ET, shifting his global trade reset into high gear. [American buyers of m]ost imports into the United States will now face a baseline 10% duty, with the overall average effective tariff rate rising to more than 17% — the highest since 1935, during the Great Depression — thanks to higher duties on [American buyers of goods from] some of the biggest U.S. trading partners, according to the nonpartisan Yale Budget Lab think tank. … Yale’s Budget Lab calculates that the inflationary effect of tariffs will cost a typical household an average of as much as $2,400 this year.” (08/07/25)
Trumpworld Knows Epstein Is a Problem. But They Can’t Solve It
Source: Wired
by Jake Lahut
“Privately, some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal allies have come to a sobering conclusion. There’s simply nothing that can be done, they’ve come to believe, to salvage the ongoing catastrophe that is the MAGA base fraying over the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein. People aren’t jumping off the Trump train yet — at least not in significant numbers, though polling shows at least 60 percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of the Epstein case in recent weeks — but the damage has been done with supporters. ‘Honestly, like, fuck Trump,’ a Trumpworld source who works in conservative media tells me. ‘I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but there’s obviously something nefarious that went on.’ … The Epstein story has been a viral content machine on the right for years, and it has too much momentum behind it to simply be shut down and stopped in its tracks.” (08/06/25)