Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Microsoft founder Bill Gates has announced that he is going to leave less than 1 percent of his vast wealth to his children and is going to donate the rest — an estimated $200 billion — to worthy causes. I suspect that that rankles proponents of America’s welfare state because they say that wealthy (and middle-class) people need to be forced to help the poor, needy, and disadvantaged. That’s, of course, what the income tax, the IRS, and the welfare state are all about — forcibly seizing the money of people to whom it belongs and then giving it to people to whom it does not belong — under the guise of mandatory ‘charity.'” (05/30/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/05/30/charity-versus-coerced-charity/

Source: Common Dreams
by Brian Hudson

“Imagine a U.S. president embarking on a lavish trip to the Middle East, signing major deals with Arab leaders, while Israel, its long-time ally, isn’t even invited to the table. This hypothetical scenario, which could easily have occurred with Donald Trump’s return to power in 2025, is a warning bell for a decades-old policy that has held America’s credibility hostage: unconditional support for Israel. This alliance has not only stripped the U.S. of its role as a credible peace broker but has also made it complicit in human rights violations and an obstacle to democracy in the region. The time has come for the U.S. to drastically curtail its massive aid to Israel and instead invest in democratic institutions and comprehensive peace across the Middle East. Every time a genuine hope for peace has emerged in the Middle East, Israel’s actions have worked to destroy it.” (05/31/25)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/end-us-support-of-israel

Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders

“We’ve got to talk about how to replace the legacy healthcare and retirement systems that are threatening to sink us all. Competing mutuals and fraternal societies can help us reimagine these systems.” (05/30/25)

https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-mutual-society-how-to-replace

Source: CounterPunch
by John & Nisha Whitehead

“The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. As we stand on the brink of a new technological order, the machinery of power is quietly shifting into the hands of algorithms. Under Donald Trump’s watch, that shift is being locked in for at least a generation.” (05/30/25)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/30/the-algocracy-agenda-how-ai-and-the-deep-state-are-digitizing-tyranny/

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by George Beebe

“If the Trump administration truly makes good on its threats to walk away from its efforts to settle the war in Ukraine, the situation is very likely to get worse for all parties to the conflict, including for the United States. Potentially far worse.” (05/30/25)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-walk-away-ukraine/

Source: New York Post
by staff

“As Elon Musk steps back from his role at the Department of Government Efficiency, making the savings his team found stick is now in Congress’s hands. DOGE’s crack team of mostly young techies shined a light on surreal instances of fraud and waste, from the literal mine where all federal government employee resignations are processed by hand to millions of dollars in fake unemployment claims filed with birth dates 15 years in the future. But for all of the fanfare, outrage, and outright hysteria over DOGE’s supposedly drastic measures, the department’s actual power was limited to mostly cancelling grants and contracts, which put a major cap on how much in savings could actually be realized. Much of the discretionary spending it lined up for the chopping block was approved by Congress, and Congress alone can decide its fate.” (05/31/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/05/31/opinion/doge-started-war-on-waste-its-up-to-congress-to-finish-it/