Source: New York Post
by Ben Domenech
“The off-year governor’s election in purple Virginia is almost always a win for the party that doesn’t hold the White House, but this year the race is showing how much Democrats have refused to learn their lessons from their massive culture-war losses of 2024. The battle in the Old Dominion has all the hallmarks of Democrats’ White House defeat in November. An uninspiring political-insider candidate, hand-picked by the party establishment, is running a campaign that relies on hype from friendly media. She’s dodging questions about hot-button cultural issues — including trans athletes in school sports and men [sic] in girls’ dressing rooms — and betting she can coast to victory on resistance-fueled backlash to President Donald Trump.” (10/05/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/05/opinion/in-virginia-gov-race-spanberger-exposes-dems-woke-weaknesses/
Source: Salem Statesman Journal
“U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut issued an order Oct. 5 barring any National Guard troops from any state from deploying to Portland to perform federal duties. The order comes after Oregon and the city of Portland filed a motion Oct. 5 asking the court to block the federalization of California National Guard troops in Portland. The U.S. military reassigned around 200 California National Guard troops to Portland after Immergut on Oct. 4 blocked the federal government’s deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troop to Portland. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced the move and amended lawsuit Oct. 5, which added California as a party in the suit.” (10/05/25)
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2025/10/05/judge-blocks-national-guard-deployment-to-portland-oregon/86543443007/
Source: Associated Press
“Semiconductor maker AMD will supply its chips to artificial intelligence company OpenAI as part of an agreement to team up on building AI infrastructure, the companies said Monday. OpenAI will also get the option to buy as much as a 10% stake in AMD, according to a joint statement announcing the deal. It’s the latest deal for the ChatGPT maker as it races to beef up its AI computing resources. Under the terms of the deal, OpenAI will buy the latest version of the company’s high performance graphics chips, the Instinct MI450, which is expected to debut next year. The agreement calls for supplying 6 gigawatts of computing power for OpenAI’s ‘next generation’ AI infrastructure, with the first batch of chips worth 1 gigawatt to be deployed in the second half of 2026.” (10/06/25)
https://apnews.com/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-chips-a4714748ede46621863f4860f608ac98
Source: EconTalk
“The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart).” (10/06/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/the-invisible-hierarchies-that-rule-our-world-with-toby-stuart/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle
“Buyers are sidelined by high prices, while owners cling to historically cheap loans and high equity. The freeze is reshaping labor markets and family formation.” (10/06/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/housings-deep-freeze-existing-home-sales-at-25-year-lows/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s cute how the Zionists think they’ll be able to manipulate and propagandize the world into liking Israel again. Yeah, saturate all online platforms with weird-faced influencers telling us Israel is awesome. That’ll make us forget those years of genocidal atrocities. Sure, buy up the social media platforms that young people are using so you can censor criticism of Israel. That’ll convince them that Zionism is cool. Go on, take control of CBS and make Bari Weiss the boss. That’ll make us forget all those videos of mutilated Palestinian children. Right, use Zionist oligarchs and influence operations to manipulate governments and institutions into crushing free speech which opposes a genocidal apartheid state. That’ll get everyone supporting the genocidal apartheid state. Propaganda is an effective tool of mass-scale psychological manipulation, but it isn’t magic. It isn’t going to miraculously erase what people know in their bones to be true.” (10/06/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/06/they-really-think-theyll-be-able-to-propagandize-the-world-into-liking-israel-again/
Source: Reuters
“Israel said it deported on Monday campaigner Greta Thunberg and another 170 activists from an international flotilla it prevented last week from delivering aid to Gaza, sending them to Greece and Slovakia. Earlier, Swiss and Spanish activists from the flotilla said they were subjected to inhumane conditions during their [abduction] by Israeli [pirates]. Monday’s expulsions brought the total number deported to 341, from 479 detained.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/wip/lXsiC
Source: Law & Liberty
by Adam Tomkins
“If free speech is broken in Britain, here’s how to fix it.” (10/06/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-uks-speech-problem/
Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffrey D Sachs & Sybil Fares
“President Trump’s 20-point plan offers some constructive proposals on hostages, humanitarian aid, and reconstruction. Yet it is marred by an unmistakable colonial framework: Gaza is to be overseen by Trump himself, with Tony Blair and other outsiders cast as trustees for Palestinian governance — while Palestinian statehood is deferred indefinitely. This logic is not new. It reprises the century-long Anglo-American approach to Palestine since the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, when Britain acquired the Mandate over Palestine, and through successive U.S. interventions, direct and indirect, in the region since 1945. A real peace plan must eliminate the colonial scaffolding.” (10/06/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/20-point-peace-plan-for-gaza
Source: New York Times
“The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of the criminal conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein. The court’s action ends Ms. Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction, meaning her only chance of an early release from prison is likely to be clemency from President Trump, with whom she used to socialize in the Florida and New York party scenes. Ms. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2021 on federal charges related to facilitating the crimes of Mr. Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Federal prosecutors have opposed her release.” (10/06/25)
https://archive.is/s3j4i
