Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“Peter Thiel recently gave a lecture on the End Times, described as ‘portraying the Antichrist as a technocratic leader exploiting fears of catastrophe to impose global control.’ Thiel suggested that maybe the Antichrist would use worries about global warming, or inequality, or AI safety, to frighten people into accepting some kind of evil surveillance state. His moral was that we need to stop living in fear of people’s scare stories. But isn’t the idea that if we try to regulate things, it will summon the literal Antichrist and plunge the world into eternal darkness, kind of a scare story? Isn’t Thiel using this scare story to frighten people into accepting the, uh, evil surveillance state he’s enabling?” (11/06/25)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-bloomers-paradox
Source: The Daily Economy
by David Hebert
“Food stamp failures have mobilized thousands of individuals and businesses to provide meals for the hungry. Why are we tasking the feds with this anyway?” (11/06/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/grassroots-safety-net-snap-gap-inspires-americans-to-help-out/
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces agreed to a proposal from the United States and Arab powers for a humanitarian ceasefire and is open to talks on a cessation of hostilities, it said on Thursday in a statement. Both the RSF and the Sudanese army have agreed to various ceasefire proposals during their two-and-a-half-year-old war, though none have succeeded. US President Donald Trump’s administration has said it was working towards ending fighting in Sudan. The announcement, which the Sudanese army did not immediately respond to, comes less than two weeks after the RSF took over the famine-stricken city of El-Fasher, consolidating its control over the vast, western region of Darfur.” (11/06/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251106-sudan-rsf-paramilitary-group-agrees-to-humanitarian-truce-proposed-by-mediators
Source: Lions of Liberty
“The Irony of Mamdani.” (11/06/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/madd-the-irony-of-mamdani
Source: The Atlantic
by Missy Ryan, Vivian Salama, Michael Scherer, & Nancy A Youssef
“With a U.S. armada floating off Venezuela’s shores, Maduro now faces the choice of whether to stay and suffer the potential consequences or to flee. And the United States faces the prospect that Trump, who has criticized America’s past ‘forever wars’ and spent much of this year focused on ending major foreign conflicts, might be about to start one in his own backyard. Since his first term as president, Trump has considered Venezuela a problem: a close ally of Communist Cuba run by a leftist demagogue with support from Russia and China in a hemisphere dominated by the United States.” (11/06/25)
https://archive.is/uUMfx
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Israel is still blocking humanitarian groups from delivering the aid necessary to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. In an article titled ‘Not enough tents, food reaching Gaza as winter comes, aid agencies say,’ Reuters reports that ‘Far too little aid is reaching Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire’ due to Israeli restrictions preventing aid trucks from getting to their destinations, and that according to an OSHA report last week ‘a tenth of children screened in Gaza were still acutely malnourished.’ A report from the UK’s Channel 4 News shows warehouses full of food that aid groups say isn’t being allowed into Gaza nearly as rapidly as needed. … Haaretz reports that ‘Israel has implemented a new procedure requiring all humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza and the West Bank to reapply for official approval, with many denied, despite the relative calm in Gaza following the cease-fire.'” (11/06/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/06/israel-is-still-starving-gaza-and-other-notes/
Source: US News & World Report
“A federal judge in Texas has agreed to dismiss a criminal conspiracy charge against Boeing in connection with two 737 Max jetliner crashes that killed 346 people. In a written decision issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor approved the federal government’s request to dismiss its case against Boeing as part of a deal that requires the aircraft maker to pay or invest an additional $1.1 billion in fines, compensation for the crash victims’ families, and internal safety and quality measures. The ruling came after an emotional hearing in early September when relatives of some of the victims urged O’Connor to reject the deal and instead appoint a special prosecutor to take over the case.” (11/06/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-11-06/criminal-case-against-boeing-over-deadly-737-max-plane-crashes-is-dismissed-by-a-us-judge
Source: Roll Call
“There is no such things as an off-year in politics.” (11/06/25)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL9741828959.mp3
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Connor Vasile
“Zohran Mamdani is now New York City’s first Democratic Socialist Mayor-elect, and with him comes a slew of initiatives marketed as making the Big Apple more affordable, safer, and more equitable. While this sounds good in theory (as political promises often do), Mamdani’s champagne socialism will only push rich New Yorkers away from the city, and leave the middle and working classes to foot the bill.” (11/06/25)
https://fee.org/articles/new-yorks-new-leadership-offers-champagne-socialism/
Source: Washington Post
by Jeff Flake
“In politics, migrations rarely happen all at once. They start quietly — one or two members of a herd moving toward safer ground while the rest pretend not to notice. But once the wind really changes, the movement becomes unmistakable. I believe that a migration has begun within the Republican Party. The first signs are visible. A few Republican members of Congress — some of them proud standard-bearers of the MAGA movement — have begun to distance themselves from President Donald Trump. … Republicans running in midterm races are going to face a choice. They can cling, as many Democrats did in 2024, to an economic message that ignores reality. Or they can begin the slow, necessary work of reclaiming the party of free markets and global engagement. The Republicans most likely to lead this migration are those senators not on the ballot in 2026. They have time, insulation and perhaps a touch of perspective.” (11/06/25)
https://archive.is/VGOEe
