Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly check-in with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. The noose around us is tightening and it looks like our vehicles have been conscripted to help remove our remaining freedoms.” (04/28/26)
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Oscar Grau
“Becoming infected by a pathogen is normally accidental and very different from engaging in self-destructive behavior. In fact, one could argue that public health authorities should treat chronic self-destructive behavior in adults differently from genetic disorders in young children, given that most people would likely agree that the costs associated with such behavior are not as easily justified as those associated with the latter. Yet, this actually shows that the discriminatory possibilities are endless and highlights the arbitrariness of the public health system. For a start, this system redistributes its overall costs as a burden for those most responsible for their own health and as a benefit for the most careless. That is, it socializes the costs of irresponsible health behavior. The only solution to this inherent flaw is the total abolition of the public health system.” (04/28/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/covid-discriminations
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Joe Mullin
“Lawmakers in Congress are moving quickly on the GUARD Act, an age-gating bill restricting minors’ access to a wide range of online tools, with a key vote expected this week. The proposal is framed as a response to alarming cases involving ‘AI companions’ and vulnerable young users. But the text of the bill goes much further, and could require age gates even for search engines that use AI.” (04/28/26)
Source: US News & World Report
“Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court has discontinued a money laundering trial against Gulnara Karimova, a daughter of Uzbekistan’s former president, on the grounds that she is not allowed to leave her country in time. The court said no judgment could be reached before the statute of limitations expires on the alleged offences, Swiss public broadcaster SRF reported, citing the judge. Karimova, who has previously denied any wrongdoing, is accused of taking bribes and running a criminal organisation known as ‘The Office’ that allegedly channelled hundreds of millions of dollars to accounts in Switzerland between 2005 and 2013. … Karimova is serving a prison sentence in Uzbekistan until December 2028, while the statute of limitations for the offences alleged by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland expires over the course of that year.” (04/28/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-04-28/swiss-court-discontinues-karimova-trial
Source: Wired
“Stop Trying to Unmask Satoshi Nakamoto.” (04/28/26)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-ben-mckenzie-crypto/
Source: The Atlantic
by Lawrence Glickman
“Newspaper columnists instructed generations of citizens about the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, the country seems to have forgotten how clear the law is.” (04/28/26)
Source: Fox News Forum
by Jonathan Turley
“‘Incredible, unstoppable titan of terror!’ Those words advertising the 1954 movie Godzilla could be the billing of a new freakish giant stretching across the sleeping farm fields of Virginia. Now in a court near you is The Lobster, a monster over 100 miles long. The only saving grace is that this creature only devours Republicans, leaving roughly half the state with virtually no representation in Congress. Virginia was a quiet, pastoral state before the creature’s appearance. It was considered the gold standard among states rejecting gerrymandering, with fairly divided districts in a state divided right down the middle. It then elected a governor, Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who assured voters that she was adamantly against gerrymandering and then immediately called for the most radical gerrymandered map in the nation after she was elected.” (04/28/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-virginias-lobster-district-gerrymandered-godzilla
Source: SFGate
“A U.S. special forces soldier is due in federal court in New York on Tuesday on charges that he used classified information about the mission to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to win more than $400,000 on the prediction market Polymarket. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, has been charged with the unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud and making an unlawful monetary transaction. The case comes during heavy scrutiny on prediction markets, which allow people to trade or wager on almost anything, as policymakers call for stricter regulation of the platforms amid concerns about insider trading.” (04/28/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/us-soldier-charged-with-using-intel-to-win-400k-22229443.php
Source: Crooked Media
“Political Violence Shocks Washington.” (04/28/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8896323-political-violence-shocks-washington
Source: Semafor
“Mark Cuban on his pharma fight, Dallas Mavs regrets, and the PE-ification of sports.” (04/28/26)