Source: Washington Post
“President Javier Milei pledged that Argentina’s new Congress would be the most reformist in its history, following his party’s decisive win in legislative elections …. The vote came under global scrutiny after President Donald Trump tied a financial bailout for Argentina to Milei’s performance in the polls. Milei, a close ideological ally of Trump, was elected in 2023 with similar populist messaging, promising to slash Argentina’s bureaucracy, tamp down runaway inflation and take on its political elite. With more than 98 percent of ballots counted, Milei’s La Libertad Avanza party had won more than 40 percent of votes for the lower house compared with slightly over 24 percent for Fuerza Patria, the main opposition. His party also won more than 42 percent of votes for the senate, while Fuerza Patria won about 23 percent.” (10/26/25)
https://archive.is/gJxrG
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“‘TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A.,’ US president Donald Trump whined in an October 23 Truth Social post (all-caps treatment, of course, his). ‘Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.’ The egregious behavior in question? Telling the truth about tariffs in a $75 million ad campaign. Or, rather, having the late US president Ronald Reagan do so, in his own words …. Trump would like you to believe that [tariff] revenues are magic free money, paid by unspecified philanthropists from other countries and somehow accruing to your benefit when the US Treasury collects them. In fact, tariffs come out of YOUR pocket …” (10/25/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20098
Source: Serious Trouble
“Insider Betting.” (10/25/25)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/insider-betting
Source: decrypt
“Bitcoin and the broader crypto market surged over the weekend, fueled by potential de-escalation in the U.S.-China trade war. Bitcoin gained 3.5% on Sunday, rising from $110,960 to $115,400, before cooling slightly. … the report maintained a bullish view for the fourth quarter, with Tiger Research analysts forecasting a $200,000 target for Bitcoin, driven by global liquidity expansion, continued institutional inflows, and the Fed’s rate-cutting stance.” (10/26/25)
https://decrypt.co/346027/bitcoin-reclaims-115000-as-us-china-trade-hopes-lift-markets
Source: Reason
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
“Usually when we’re in the midst of a government shutdown, I’m in a good mood. Sure, recent shutdowns haven’t accomplished much in terms of shrinking the cost or scope of the federal government in the long run, but it’s nice to walk around feeling a little less governed than usual. But even that small pleasure has turned sour. Yes, fiscal restraint matters. … But the intense acceleration of the quest to aggregate power in the White House is now unambiguously the more immediate threat to liberty.” [for publication 12/25)
https://reason.com/2025/10/25/how-to-ruin-a-shutdown/
Source: NBC News
“A number of countries have offered to take part in the international stabilization force expected to operate in Gaza, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said, even as key details, including its mandate, were still being negotiated. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel would determine ‘which forces are unacceptable to us.’ ‘This is, of course, acceptable to the United States as well, as its most senior representatives have expressed in recent days,’ Netanyahu told a session of his Cabinet. During a visit to Israel, Rubio said Friday that the force would have to be made up of countries that Israel is ‘comfortable with,’ adding that any potential role for the Palestinian Authority has yet to be determined.” (10/26/25)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-israel-international-forces-unacceptable-rcna239820
Source: The American Conservative
by Harrison Berger
“[A] group of armed Israeli settlers in the West Bank staged an attack on American journalist and Drop Site News contributor Jasper Nathaniel and a group of Palestinians he was accompanying. Footage recorded by Nathaniel, a U.S. citizen, shows more than a dozen masked men chasing him and his group down a dirt road. Already horrifying, the story soon became even more egregious. When Nathaniel contacted the U.S. Embassy to report the attack, he was told that his own government could not protect him. As independent journalist Jeremy Loffredo — who was recently detained by the IDF for the ‘crime’ of doing journalism without military permission — observed on X: ‘If an American tourist was being chased and attacked by masked & armed government-backed terrorists in any country other than Israel, it would immediately become a major diplomatic crisis with wall-to-wall media coverage.’ He’s absolutely right.” (10/25/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/as-israeli-settlers-attack-americans-when-will-we-say-enough/
Source: The Hill
“President Trump on Sunday attended a ceremony to formalize a peace agreement between Thailand and Cambodia to put to rest a border dispute, giving the president a platform to bolster his image as a global peacemaker. … Trump was joined by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul for the event, which formalized an agreement the U.S. president helped broker earlier this year. Malaysia also played a central role in mediating the conflict between Thailand and Cambodia. The agreement covers issues that include withdrawing heavy weapons from the border of the two countries and new guidelines to address accusations of encroachment at the boundary. The agreement also calls for Thailand to release 18 detained Cambodian soldiers.” (10/26/25)
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5573666-trump-thailand-cambodia-peace-agreement/
Source: The UnPopulist
by Joshua Reed Eakle
“Liberalism’s early victories were bold and sweeping, in part because they had to be. Early liberals, advocating for human dignity and freedom against many different forms of oppression, were radicals within their own contexts. Liberalism, though, is not inherently radical: it does not possess the relentless internal logic of totalitarian systems that need an endless series of “enemies of the people” to war against. Nor does it seek to ceaselessly tear down. Neither is liberalism small-c conservative: At no point does liberalism proclaim itself satisfied with the status quo, content merely to treat politics as a defensive battle. Liberals seek to establish open and liberal societies—which sometimes requires sweeping revolution — but then to settle down to the more mundane tasks of both maintenance and refinement.” (10/25/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/liberalism-is-a-bold-force-that-ends
Source: Reuters
“Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for new strong sanctions against Russia and its allies after Russian drones killed three and injured 31, including six children, in an overnight air attack on Kyiv. The attack destroyed two high-rise apartment buildings and Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app that seven of the injured, including two children, were taken to city hospitals. Debris from destroyed Russian air weapons fell onto a nine-storey apartment building in Kyiv’s leafy Desnianskyi district, sparking a fire that engulfed several storeys, the mayor said.”(10/26/25)
https://archive.is/6ZNv1
