Source: CounterPunch
by John Feffer
“The United States is generally a place where comedy is king. As the weekly cartoon series South Park demonstrates, by routinely putting Trump in bed with Satan, nothing is sacred in this country. Trump, like most would-be dictators, has no real sense of humor aside from making fun of other people. Can he wipe out the great scourge of comedy in America? He has many models to choose from.” (09/29/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/29/trump-its-not-funny-anymore/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Seychelles is set to hold a rerun of its presidential elections between the two main contenders, after no outright winner was announced. Opposition leader Patrick Herminie received 48.8% of the vote against the incumbent President Wavel Ramkalawan who garnered 46.4%, the electoral commission announced. According to the electoral rules, a candidate must obtain more than 50% of the vote to be declared the winner, and a run-off election has subsequently been scheduled for next week. Seychelles is Africa’s smallest country, a 115-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean with a population of just over 120,000. There were eight presidential hopefuls in last week’s election.” (09/29/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36kre10g8eo
Source: We Are Libertarians
“Christian Nationalism, Free Expression, and the Future of Liberty.” (09/28/25)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/christian-nationalism-free-expression
Source: Law & Liberty
by Paul Moreno
“Constitutional limits just keep stymieing progress.” (09/29/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-anatomy-of-constitutional-despair/
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“In the wake of James Comey’s indictment, Democrats like Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Eric Swalwell are issuing dark warnings with a straight face that ‘what goes around comes around’ and that anyone who cooperates with Donald Trump’s ‘vengeance prosecutions’ will face retribution when Dems are back in charge. But their threats fall on deaf ears because they started it. Democrats long ago weaponized the justice system against their political opponents. Let us count the ways.” (09/28/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/28/opinion/this-is-a-reckoning-of-james-comeys-own-making-and-dems-for-weaponizing-justice-system-first/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Donald Trump has repeated his threat to impose a 100% tariff on {American viewers of] all films not made in the US, claiming the American industry had been ‘stolen’ by other countries. He said on Monday that California had been heavily affected and the levy ‘would solve this long time, never ending problem.’ In May, the US president said he would talk to Hollywood executives about his plan and to begin the process of imposing the levy because America’s film industry was ‘dying a very fast death.’ Trump’s remarks come as he announced a new wave of tariffs last week, including a 100% levy on [American buyers of] branded or patented drug imports as well as 50% levies on [American buyers of] kitchen and bathroom cabinets.” (09/29/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g78e809zqo
Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser
Cartoon. (09/29/25)
https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2554
Source: The Hill
“Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) signed the state’s new congressional map into law, setting the GOP up to gain one additional seat in the House in next year’s elections. … Kehoe signed it after the measure comfortably passed in both houses of the state Legislature, along mostly party-line votes, though some Republicans in the state House broke with their party to vote against it. The law redraws the lines of Missouri’s congressional map ahead of the midterms to likely increase the number of Republicans representing the state in the U.S. House to seven and reduce the number of Democrats to one.” (09/28/25)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5500453-missouri-redistricting-gop-gains/
Source: Brian Wilson
“With God on Our Side.” (09/28/25)
https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/p/with-god-on-our-side
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by James Park
“During North Korea’s parliamentary session last week, Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, delivered a speech expressing his clear willingness to engage in diplomacy with the United States. But under one strict precondition: the United States must stop seeking to denuclearize North Korea. … Pyongyang’s stern rejection of denuclearization is disturbing and hard to accept for Washington, but it also provides a reality check as the Trump administration seeks to engage North Korea. Trump may have fond memories of his talks with Kim Jong Un from 2018 to 2019 and may hope for a repeat. The harsh reality is that diplomacy with North Korea based on ‘denuclearization’ looks more unlikely than ever.” (09/29/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/north-korea-trump/
