Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin

“‘An elective despotism is not the government we fought for.’ Thomas Jefferson warned about the dangers of unchecked power even in a system where the people get to choose their leaders. But what if you were told that’s just what we ended up with? Because the system we live under today is virtually the same – in practice – as the British system the founders fought a long, bloody war to secede from. And it all gets down to sovereignty – or final authority. To the founders, any government that gets to determine the extent of its own power is the very definition of tyranny. America didn’t escape the British system. We rebuilt it.” (09/29/25)

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/09/29/america-rebuilt-the-british-system-the-founders-fought-to-escape/

Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille

“Two things can be simultaneously true. One is that President Donald Trump and his aides are petty, vindictive people who, like other members of the political class, misuse power to punish opponents. The other is that some of their targets currently or recently within government are abusive, untrustworthy, and should be held to account. That brings us to former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey and the law enforcement agency he once led. Comey’s indictment is undoubtedly an act of political payback. But Comey and his agency really are dangerous and worthy of scrutiny and deprivation of power to prevent future harm.” (09/29/25)

https://reason.com/2025/09/29/in-trumps-tussle-with-james-comey-you-should-hope-everybody-loses/

Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko

“One of the more frustrating dynamics of the Trump era is being called hysterical for warning that the president would do exactly what he has said he would do. There was a lot of this before the 2024 election, as anti-anti Trumpers lectured those of us worried about authoritarianism that Trump is all bluster, or that our institutions would hold, or that he would be too incompetent to carry out his worst campaign promises. You’d think that the last nine months would have shut those people up. Alas, no.” (09/29/25)

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/as-trump-vows-to-end-asylum-a-tech

Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard

“The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual ‘food security’ report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced that it is canceling that annual survey because ‘the data is rife with inaccuracies slanted to create a narrative that is not representative of what is actually happening in the countryside.’ That annual survey was ‘costly, politicized, and [does] nothing more than fear monger,’ USDA said. Those were some of the most honest statements out of USDA since Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz confessed in 1973 that the federal peanut program was driving him crazy.” (09/29/25)

https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/09/29/trump-pulls-plug-on-hunger-hucksters/