Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Last week, another mentally ill individual chose to be an evil loser and shot into a church full of children, killing two and injuring many more. The usual anti-gun voices immediately blamed guns and all the gun owners who didn’t commit murder. They never place blame on the evil loser because that doesn’t fit the agenda. Dancing in the blood of innocents is their only play, and they are experts at it. … everyone has the right to fight back if someone decides to use their tools to harm the innocent. Background checks and all other anti-weapon rules violate this right, making it safer for evil losers to commit atrocities without facing the possibility that someone may have the means to stop them before they do what they intend.” (09/03/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/09/03/voices/opinion-our-responsibility-to-defend-ourselves/231601.html
Source: Associated Press
“Russia fired more than 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine overnight, authorities said Wednesday, as Ukraine’s president and European leaders pressed on with talks on how to strengthen Ukrainian defenses and boost as-yet unsuccessful U.S.-led peace efforts. The main Russian nighttime targets were civilian infrastructure, especially energy facilities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as another winter approaches three years after Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. The attacks targeted mainly western and central Ukraine and wounded at least five people, the Ukrainian air force said.” (09/03/25)
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-zelenskyy-putin-9d6b9bf76a15971c17ae2de9ca1211b5
Source: The Daily Economy
by Michael Munger
“Earth is going to hit ‘peak population’ before the end of this century. Within 25 years, most of the world’s developed nations will be facing sharp population declines, with shrinking pools of young people working to support an ever-aging population. The reason is not famine, war, or pestilence. We did this to ourselves, by creating a set of draconian solutions to a problem that didn’t even exist. Fear has always been the best tool for social control, and the fear of humanity was deployed by generations of ‘thinkers’ on the control-obsessed left.” (09/03/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/peak-population-but-we-can-all-move-to-texas/
Source: SFGate
“Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and citizens safe from infectious diseases. State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an ‘immoral’ intrusion on people’s rights that hampers parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children. ‘People have a right to make their own decisions, informed decisions,’ Ladapo, who has frequently clashed with the medical establishment, said Wednesday at a news conference in Valrico. ‘They don’t have the right to tell you what to put in your body. Take it away from them.'” (09/03/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/florida-will-work-to-eliminate-all-childhood-21028869.php
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“We seem to need some kind of an explanation of why so many of us bend over backwards to defend systems that intentionally harm us. Why do exploited people so often become defenders of their own exploitation? The ideas of System Justification Theory (SJT) attempt to confront this paradox of consent and to help us understand how our deep desires for stability and meaning are actively manipulated to keep us docile. SJT has some clear implications for those interested in a free, equal world without needless suffering.” (09/03/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/why-are-we-defending-this-again
Source: New York Times
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned in an appearance on ‘Fox & Friends’ on Wednesday that a deadly U.S. military strike on a boat officials said was carrying drugs in the Caribbean was the start of a campaign against Venezuelan cartels that President Trump has blamed for bringing fentanyl into the United States. Mr. Hegseth said officials ‘knew exactly who was in that boat’ and ‘exactly what they were doing,’ although he did not offer evidence. ‘President Trump is willing to go on offense in ways that others have not seen,’ he added.” [editor’s note: Admission of murders, admission of those murders being intentional, admission of intent to commit further murders … why are these people not in jail? – TLK] (09/03/25)
https://archive.is/aoEva
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Apparently taking a page out of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte drug-war playbook, President Trump is taking credit for the intentional military killings of eleven people in international waters near Venezuela. Duterte is on trial right now before the International Criminal Court for allegedly ordering his drug-war goons to kill accused drug-war offenders on sight …. That’s what Trump just did. He ordered his military drug-war goons to blow a boat out of the water that was traveling in international waters near Venezuela, killing, Trump proudly claimed, eleven people in the process. No stopping of the boat to search it. No arrests. No grand-jury indictments. No trials in federal district court. None of that. … In my opinion, that’s just murder, pure and simple.” (09/03/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/09/03/trumps-drug-war-murders-in-the-caribbean/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I’ve been lucky enough not to have anyone significant in my life who doesn’t get it, so this isn’t an issue that I personally have had to navigate. But I have seen a lot of people struggle with the question of how their interpersonal relationships should be affected by the position that their friends and loved ones take on Gaza. From where I’m sitting this doesn’t look like you’re an asshole, it just kind of looks like the natural effects playing out of learning that someone in your life is a shitty person. If you found out that one of your friends likes to torture small animals or drug women and rape them, or that someone in your family watched a child drown in a swimming pool without doing anything, that would naturally change your relationship with them in a permanent way.” (09/01/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/01/what-about-my-friends-who-dont-care-about-gaza-and-other-questions/
Source: Reason
“We’re Moving Too Slow on AI.” (09/03/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/03/were-moving-too-slow-on-ai/
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“It is fashionable to ‘prayer shame’ those who offer ‘thoughts and prayers’ as a response to violence. Public response to the gun violence at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is an example. If you did not deliver an angry diatribe against gun ownership, your failure to fall in line with the politically correct position is taken as evidence that you condone violence or don’t feel tragedy deeply. Words are often inadequate. After a recent family hike during which the signs of fall were unmistakable, we felt the poignancy of the seasonal changes. Can that poignancy be expressed easily in words? Of course not, but penetrating feelings remain.” (09/03/25)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-thoughts-and-prayers
