Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, announced on Sunday that he is abandoning his faltering bid to win re-election, just over a month before election day, delivering the message in a social media video set to the strains of My Way. Adams, who was trailing in the polls, was elected as a Democrat but ran for re-election as an independent after he was indicted on federal corruption charges, which were then dropped by the Trump administration in exchange for his cooperation on immigration raids. … The withdrawal of Adams narrows the race to lead the country’s largest city to a three-way contest between the Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani; the former governor, Andrew Cuomo; and the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa.” (09/28/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/eric-adams-drops-out-new-york-mayor-race
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“It seems like Comey’s tenure was mostly lies. So pardon me if I decline to break out even the world’s smallest violin for his current legal problems. On the other hand, it’s also true that this prosecution has nothing whatsoever to do with the alleged lie in question. It’s partly about Donald Trump’s desire to ‘get’ Comey for having proven insufficiently loyal to Donald Trump. It’s mostly about Trump’s need for distractions from his close personal relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein.” (09/28/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19958
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Libertarians Debate Israel/Palestine: Jacob Hornberger vs. Walter Block.” (09/26/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2695-libertarians-debate-israel-palestine-jacob-hornberger-vs-walter-block/
Source: Boston Herald
“On the eve of meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel is working on a new ceasefire plan with the White House, but details are still being sorted out. Netanyahu has come under heavy international pressure to end the war, especially during the ongoing offensive in Gaza City. The death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has topped 66,000 Palestinians, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Sunday. In Monday’s White House meeting, Trump is expected to share a new proposal for ending the conflict.” (09/28/25)
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/09/28/netanyahu-says-israel-working-on-ceasefire-plan-on-eve-of-trump-meeting-gaza-death-toll-tops-66000/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Schwennesen
“National Public Radio recently aired a segment on the evils of ‘Surveillance Pricing’— the practice of employing customer data and AI to tailor prices for individual consumers. The coverage, predictably, is overwhelmingly negative: an interviewee warned that it would let corporations prey on people’s vulnerabilities, as the Federal Trade Commission frets about ‘privacy, competition, and consumer protection.’ … In truth, this is simply a scary name for something we already know: dynamic pricing. Airlines, ride-share companies, hotels, and supermarkets have been doing it for years. Arguably, it has been done since time immemorial: I have little doubt that Arab traders offered ‘special’ prices for visiting Englishmen to Jumma Bazaars — and I know this because they still do, from Kuwait to Karachi. … The fact that dynamic pricing exists is a net win to all of us.” (09/26/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/surveillance-pricing-is-just-pricing/
Source: Axios
“Oregon and Portland are suing President Trump in an effort to block his move to deploy National Guard troops to the state’s largest city. The lawsuit that was filed on Sunday noted that following Trump’s directive, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had signed a memorandum ‘calling 200 members of the Oregon National Guard into federal service for a period of 60 days’ — which the suit called ‘patently unlawful.’ Trump authorized troops in Portland on Saturday in an effort to quash protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [gang lair] in the Democrat-led city that began in early June, saying they could use ‘Full Force’ if necessary.” (09/29/25)
https://archive.is/FPQkK
Source: Yascha Mounk
by Yascha Mounk
“One of the most awesome powers of the modern state is its ability to imprison people who have violated the law. This is why the Founding Fathers were so obsessed with procedures and principles meant to protect citizens from arbitrary arrest. As they recognized, no liberty worth its name is possible when a head of government, even one elected by popular vote, can direct the machinery of the state to punish those who have displeased him. And yet, that is precisely what Donald Trump is attempting to do in the case of James Comey.” (09/27/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/the-comey-indictment-is-a-five-alarm
Source: The Hill
“Russia targeted Ukraine in a massive drone and missile attack on Sunday, killing at least four people in Kyiv and wounding dozens more days after President Trump said Ukraine could win the war against Moscow. The overnight attack lasted more than 12 hours and primarily targeted Kyiv and the nearby region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on the social platform X. Zelensky said other regions struck included Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odesa.” (09/27/25)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5525554-russia-ukraine-massive-drone-attack/
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Thomas Harrington
“Sadly, for most people today, World War I, or what some older Brits still refer to as the Great War, doesn’t mean too much. This is too bad, as it is perhaps the best mirror we have on the behavior of people and countries during the Covid era. For those who have forgotten, WWI occurred at a time when technological advances enabled a sudden quantum leap in man’s ability to slaughter his fellow man. And armed with these new killing powers, people proceeded to go out and do precisely that in absolutely staggering numbers, and on the most flimsy of nationalist pretexts. But, believe it or not, this heretofore unthinkable level of calculated murder is not even the most instructive element of this history for us today. Rather, it is the fact that, at the time, most people not only bought into these flimsy pretexts, but that they did so with an astonishingly high degree of zeal and enthusiasm.” (09/27/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/hysteria-is-a-force-that-gives-us-meaning/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to uphold its executive order [pretending to end] birthright citizenship in the US. US President Donald Trump signed the order, which [pretends the president can veto the citizenship of] children of migrants who are either in the US illegally [sic] or on temporary visas, on his first day back in office in January. The order has been blocked from taking effect by lower court judges after a series of lawsuits which [noted] it was unconstitutional.” (09/28/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly98jqrmjgo
