Source: Fox News
by David Marcus
“In the past few weeks there has been a lot of conversation and controversy over advertising. First, we had the wild allegation that American Eagle jeans ads with Sydney Sweeney were racist, then a kerfuffle over the Cracker Barrel logo. Ever since trans celebrity Dylan Mulvaney popped open his first Bud Light, advertising has seemed less and less like an effort to sell widgets and more and more like ground zero in our society’s culture wars. An early example of an ad that had significant backlash was in April 2017, when Pepsi aired a spot with Kendall Jenner in which she magically subdues angry protests by offering everyone a soda. Reaction from the left was swift and angry.” (09/08/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-our-last-shared-experience-its-shaping-culture-wars
Source: Reuters
“The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump on Monday to keep a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission away from her post for now, temporarily pausing a judicial order that required the reinstatement of the commissioner who the Republican president has sought to oust. The court’s action, known as an administrative stay, gives the justices additional time to consider Trump’s formal request to let him fire Rebecca Slaughter from the consumer protection and antitrust agency prior to her term expiring.” (09/08/25)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-lets-trump-remove-ftc-member-now-2025-09-08/
Source: The Hill
by Corey Kvasnick
“They are now painting the border wall black. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently announced that, at President Trump’s request, the steel fence along our southern border will be coated in dark paint so it heats under the sun and becomes harder to climb. But isn’t that like decorating the house before you’ve built the roof? This structure, once Trump’s rallying cry, has been lost in all the noise of his second term. I had nearly forgotten it myself, until I saw pictures of men with paint rollers freshening up the unfinished monument. The image is striking: darkened to intimidate, a monument less to function than to appearance. It is a perfect metaphor for Trump’s presidency.” (09/07/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5486806-unfinished-wall-trump-presidency/
Source: Reuters
“[Police] killed at least 19 people in Nepal on Monday, authorities said, as police in the capital fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament in anger at a social media shutdown and corruption. Some of the mainly youth protesters forced their way into the parliament complex in Kathmandu by breaking through a barricade, a local official said, setting fire to an ambulance and hurling objects at lines of riot police guarding the legislature. … Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the unrest, which erupted after thousands of young people, including many wearing their school or college uniforms, took to the streets earlier on Monday. Many carried flags and placards with slogans such as ‘Shut down corruption and not social media,’ ‘Unban social media,’ and ‘Youths against corruption,’ as they marched through Kathmandu.” (09/08/25)
https://archive.is/uK13i
Source: LP Alliance
“Libertarian National Committee Meeting 09/07/25.” (09/07/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkTXH1nY-I
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Kyle Anzalone
“President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social account that India and Russia are now firmly tied to China and have drifted away from the US orbit. Trump also demanded that Europe end Russian oil imports and place pressure on China. ‘Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!’ Trump wrote on Friday. The post is a response to a trilateral meeting between Chinese President Xi, Russian President Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Modi. … Trump appears to be prepared to force countries to choose between their relations with the US or Russia and China.” (09/07/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/trump-looks-like-we-lost-india-and-russia-to-china
Source: SFGate
“The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for federal agents to conduct sweeping immigration operations for now in Los Angeles, the latest victory for President Donald Trump’s administration at the high court. The conservative majority lifted a restraining order from a judge who found that roving patrols were conducting indiscriminate stops in and around LA. The order had barred immigration agents from stopping people solely based on their race, language, job or location. The court’s 6-3 decision followed a pattern of at least temporarily allowing some of the Republican administration’s harshest policies, while leaving room for the possibility of a different outcome after the legal case plays out fully.” (09/08/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/supreme-court-lifts-restrictions-on-la-21036914.php
Source: The Atlantic
by Scott Lincicome
“When the populist strongman Juan Perón ran Argentina’s economy from his presidential palace in the mid-20th century—personally deciding which companies received favors, which industries got nationalized or protected, and which businessmen profited from state largesse — economists warned that the experiment would end badly. They were right. Over decades of rule by Perón and his successors, a country that had once been among the world’s wealthiest nations devolved into a global laughingstock, with uncontrollable inflation, routine fiscal crises, rampant corruption, and crippling poverty. Peronism became a cautionary tale of how not to manage an economy. President Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.” (09/07/25)
https://archive.is/kz3vP
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“In March, Democrats faced a decision: shut down the government over the litany of lawless actions and usurped spending powers by the Trump administration, or fall in line. They decided not to fight, reinforcing the fundamental fault lines in current-day Democratic politics between weakness and fortitude. Fast-forward six months and Democrats have the same decision. The government spending that was extended for the full fiscal year by a continuing resolution in March runs out at the end of the month. Twelve appropriations bills aren’t going to be passed in a few weeks, so some stopgap continuing resolution will probably be offered for a vote. Any spending bill, needed by September 30, will require 60 votes in the Senate (because of the Senate filibuster), meaning Democrats will have to supply some of them if it’s going to pass.” (09/08/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-08-democrats-bet-on-briefly-preventing-health-insurance-apocalypse/
Source: Axios
“Jack Schlossberg, a writer and grandson of President John F. Kennedy, said Sunday he is forming an exploratory committee to run for Congress in New York. Schlossberg is a high-profile figure in the Democratic Party who would likely bring additional attention to what is already expected to be a hotly contested race in the media capital of the U.S. The seat, New York’s 12th congressional district, became open this week after Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he will not run for an 18th term. In addition to Schlossberg, non-profit CEO Liam Elkind and state Assemblyman Micah Lasher are running for the seat.” (09/07/25)
https://archive.is/DrwrZ
