Source: The Erick Erickson Show
by Erick-Woods Erickson
“The United States of America is 3.8 million square miles, filled with three hundred forty million people, producing over $30 trillion in gross domestic product per year. We are the fourth largest country by land, third by population, and second by GDP. We no longer know each other, care for each other, nor like each other. We are a nation of isolated people staring at screens and filled with existential terrors about the other, whoever the other might be. On Tuesday night across America, those existential terrors played out with fear of the other. Hispanic voters who voted for Donald Trump and Republicans in 2024, swung back to Democrats in 2026. They were fine with deporting gang bangers and criminals, but maybe not Jose down the street, who works as a gardener.” (11/06/25)
https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/a-vast-divergent-land
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jeffrey D Sachs & Sybil Fares
“The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from ‘restoring democracy’ to ‘fighting narco-terrorists,’ the objective remains the same, which is control of Venezuela’s oil. The methods followed by the US are familiar: sanctions that strangle the economy, threats of force, and a $50 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as if this were the Wild West. The US is addicted to war.” (11/06/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/jeffrey_sachs/2025/11/05/venezuelas-oil-us-led-regime-change-and-americas-gangster-politics/
Source: SFGate
“The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity. The decision by the conservative-majority court is Trump’s latest win on the high court’s emergency docket, and it means his administration can enforce the policy while a lawsuit over it plays out. It halts a lower-court order requiring the government to keep letting people choose male, female or X on their passport to line up with their gender identity on new or renewed passports.” [editor’s note: Why should passports be required in the first place … and if they are required, why should a “sex marker” be part of one? – TLK] (11/06/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/supreme-court-lets-trump-block-transgender-and-21143728.php
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The Israeli military says it has launched a wave of air strikes targeting what it says are Hezbollah military sites in southern Lebanon as Israel escalates daily attacks on its northern neighbour in flagrant violation of a one-year-old ceasefire. The barrage on Thursday came soon after a separate Israeli raid targeted southern Lebanon’s Tyre district. The Israeli army claimed it hit members of Hezbollah’s construction unit and that it would ‘continue to operate in order to remove any threat to the territory of the state of Israel.’ … Despite reaffirming its commitment to the ceasefire, Hezbollah accused Israel of exploiting Lebanon’s internal divisions and continuing its attacks under the pretext of security operations.” (11/06/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/6/israel-ramps-up-lebanon-strikes-as-hezbollah-vows-to-defend-itself
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Critical Importance of Civil Liberties with Judge Andrew Napolitano.” (11/06/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GckSy_Vc-vU
Source: Politico
“Republicans face the Election Day music.” (11/06/25)
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL4060745024.mp3?updated=1762409183
Source: Cato Institute
by Patrick G Eddington
“If left unchecked, immigration enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology could potentially trigger a constitutional crisis.” (11/06/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/ice-cbps-use-facial-recognition-technology-needs-guardrails-now
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Recent data from The Wall Street Journal suggest that renters across the country — including in Kansas City — are gaining leverage. Rents are flattening, vacancy rates are ticking up, and landlords are offering incentives. The reason? More housing is finally coming online. This is a timely reminder for Kansas City officials: if the goal is to help renters and low-income residents, the most effective solution is to build more housing — not to add new layers of regulation.” (11/06/25)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/regulation/want-cheaper-housing-create-more-units-not-more-rules/
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod
“In the immediate hours after Zohran Mamdani’s victory was declared on Tuesday night, a new topic began trending on Elon Musks’s X: Repeal the 19th. The posts were exactly what you’d think. The idea that women shouldn’t vote has existed on the crank right for a long time. But increasingly, it’s made its way into more mainstream MAGA conversations, and many advocates have become successful influencers in right-wing media circles.” (11/06/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should-make-babies-not-vote-why-some-on-the-far-right-want-to-repeal-the-19th-amendment/
Source: Common Dreams
by Chuck Idelson
“If the Trump administration’s assaults on Venezuela and threats to Colombia and Mexico have a familiar stench, they should. For more than two centuries the United States government has acted as if it owned the Western Hemisphere, with the right of conquest, intervention, and interference part of the natural order. As of this writing, at least 66 people (Venezuelans, Colombians, and possibly some of other nationalities) have been extrajudicially murdered by President Donald Trump and the US military in 17 separate reported attacks. … And as though that total weren’t high enough, the project notes that this number is very much an undercount, since it doesn’t include indirect deaths of the war caused by ‘disease, displacement, and loss of access to food or clean drinking water.'” (11/06/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/cheney-trump-violence
