Source: Cato Institute
by Ryan Bourne & Nathan Miller
“In reaction to Mamdani’s success, some Republicans want to carve out their own affordability policy offer. Tyler Cowen has a good piece in The Free Press that warns about the consequences of both parties rushing headlong into fighting on this ‘affordability politics’ front. He is right, not least because the context has changed since I advocated for just such a focus. We’ve just lived through the sharpest burst of inflation since 1981, and inflation is still above target. Groceries (food-at-home) prices are up 30 percent since January 2020, having previously taken sixteen years to increase by that proportion. The pre-inflation price level is still recent enough that people remember how sharply prices have risen and hanker for those good ol’ days at the old price level.” (11/07/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/tyler-cowen-correct-risks-affordability-politics
Source: NBC News
“Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department’s case against ‘sandwich guy,’ the D.C. resident who chucked a Subway sandwich at the chest of a federal officer, finding him not guilty Thursday after several hours of deliberations. The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches — deliberated the charges for several hours Wednesday and Thursday before delivering the verdict. The resident, Sean Dunn, a former Justice Department paralegal, faced a single misdemeanor count after a federal grand jury rejected more serious charges over the encounter, which took place in the nightlife area of U Street in August.” (11/06/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/dc-sandwich-guy-verdict-rcna242142
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“At September’s televised memorial service for Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump commented on the conservative commentator’s character, saying, ‘He did not hate his opponents; he wanted the best for them.’ He then added, ‘That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents. And I don’t want the best for them.’ Like too much of the political class across the ideological spectrum, Trump is prone to despising those he disagrees with. It raises questions about why people should ever submit to the governance of those who hate them — and whether politicians realize they’re a big part of what brought us to this unfortunate moment.” (for publication 12/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/06/politicians-make-political-tensions-worse/
Source: The Anarchist Experience
“Rich, Riley, and Lori discuss the inevitable outcome of socialist policies in New York City, an update on dealing with the Science Deniers of Economics regarding scalping, dealing with the City’s shit, and this HEADLINE: Universal Basic Income – Making Slavery Great Again.” (11/06/25)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/the-anarchist-experience-553/
Source: CoinTelegraph
“United States spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded a $239.9 million net inflow on Thursday, ending a six-day slump of outflows draining almost $1.4 billion from the market. According to data from Farside Investors, the reversal came after a turbulent week of profit-taking driven by macroeconomic uncertainty, which led to redemptions across the largest institutional Bitcoin investment vehicles.” (11/07/25)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-etfs-end-six-day-outflow-streak-with-240m-inflows
Source: The Hill
by Ray Nothstine
“In the spirit of American democracy and federalism, New Yorkers are now going all in on socialism — choosing to leave behind more traditional Democrats who signal at least some allegiance to economic reality and free markets. Mamdani’s big win New York gives the Democratic Party an even stronger leftward shove, making socialism less a fringe ideal and more a governing philosophy. A common refrain among socialists is that socialism has never been properly tried or implemented — a convenient coping mechanism to dismiss the wreckage that socialist policies have caused throughout history. … Federalism offers New Yorkers a chance at another swing at the utopian dream, while limiting much of the damage to the city’s five boroughs. Yes, this will be an expensive civics lesson, but many Americans need another reminder of the ruins and rubble socialism leaves behind it.” (11/06/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5592259-federalism-will-let-new-yorkers-find-out-the-hard-way/
Source: Washington Post
“Republican senators on Thursday voted down a bipartisan measure that sought to block President Donald Trump from attacking Venezuelan territory, the GOP’s latest show of deference to his expansive use of military force in Latin America. The resolution failed 51-49, with only two Republicans — Sen. Rand Paul (Kentucky) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — supporting it. Ahead of the vote, the administration made a concerted push to reassure potential GOP defectors, walking back Trump’s repeated threats of escalation and sharing with them more details about its aggressive activities to [distract from the Epstein files by pretending to] disrupt the Latin American drug trade.” [editor’s note: Unless Congress declares war, such attacks are illegal in any case; “we’re not going to vote to mention it’s illegal” doesn’t make it illegal – TLK] (11/06/25)
https://archive.is/6rdwV
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Thousands of flights will be canceled because the federal government is in a supposed ‘shutdown.’ Air traffic controllers are working without pay until that ‘shutdown’ gets resolved. As you might imagine, employees who aren’t getting paychecks become less reliable about showing up for work. Some of them quit. Others call in sick. Towers are short-staffed. … Now we’re reaching the point where there just aren’t enough controllers working to safely handle the 10 million commercial flights that take off and land each year at American airports. … There’s an easy long-term solution to this problem, and it doesn’t involve screaming at politicians to get their act together, pass a spending bill, and start paying all those air traffic controllers again. It’s time to take air traffic control away from the government, at least with respect to letting the Federal Aviation Administration serve as the controllers’ employer.” (11/06/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20143
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to find the money to fully fund food stamps for 42 million low-income Americans in November by Friday, in a rebuke to the government’s plan to only provide reduced aid during the shutdown. US district judge John J McConnell Jr criticized the administration’s plan to partly fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) benefits in November, saying it had failed to comply with an order he issued on Saturday requiring the government to ensure Americans received full or partial benefits no later than Wednesday. He also said the administration plowed ahead with a plan to partly cover benefits without addressing – as required — the fact that in many states, it could take weeks or months to implement the reduced benefits.” (11/06/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/ruling-snap-benefits-funding-trump
Source: CounterPunch
by John W Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
“America has been backsliding into kleptocratic territory for years now, but this may finally be it. A kleptocracy is literally ‘rule by thieves.’ It is a form of government in which a network of ruling elites ‘steal public funds for their own private gain using public institutions.’ … One could fairly say that a kleptocracy was always going to be the end result of the oligarchy that was America. The signs were visible long before now: power and wealth have been trading places for decades.” (11/06/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/06/rule-by-thieves-the-police-state-becomes-a-pay-to-play-shadow-government/
