Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joel Salatin

“Question: What does a business do when nobody wants its product or services? Answer: It asks for the federal government to bail it out and pay for a product nobody wants. If this sounds silly to you, consider what’s going on with America’s soybean farmers who lost a quarter of their market when China decided to switch sourcing to Brazil and Argentina in the last couple of months. As a farmer myself, my heart breaks for the plummeting prices and the prospect of losing $200 per acre on the 2025 crop. But on the other side of my breaking heart is a desire to hear any soybean farmer say, ‘I’m going to grow something profitable.’ … What kind of economic gymnastics makes soybean farmers think they deserve taxpayer subsidies for a commodity in oversupply?” (10/25/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/dont-bail-out-soybeans/

Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by John Feffer

“The Trump administration aspires to deport a million people in its first year of office. The president has also spoken of the more ambitious goal of deporting 15-20 million undocumented people overall, even if that category probably covers only 14 million folks. The discrepancy of a couple million people shouldn’t bother President Donald Trump. He’s happy to deport those with green cards, H-1B visas, and even American citizens. Deporting a million people in a year is a heavy lift. The previous record, 409,849 people, was during the Obama administration, as part of the 1.5 million deportations he conducted in his first term. Trump, no doubt, wants to best Barack Obama in this category, since he’s determined to outshine the former president in every respect, even the dubious ones.” (10/25/25)

https://fpif.org/americas-disappeared/

Source: The Verge
by Emma Roth

“As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out raids across the country, the agency is working rapidly to expand an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of users on the web. Federal records uncovered by The Lever reveal that ICE is paying $5.7 million to use an AI-powered social media monitoring platform called Zignal Labs, something Will Owen, the communications director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), calls an ‘assault’ on democracy and free speech. The ‘real-time intelligence’ platform is capable of ingesting and analyzing vast amounts of publicly available data, like social media posts, according to its website. In a pamphlet shared by The Lever, Zignal Labs says it uses machine learning, computer vision, and optical character recognition to analyze more than 8 billion posts per day in over 100 languages.” (10/25/25)

https://archive.is/aLM84

Source: Bitcoin.com
by Robin Burns

“I’ve been watching how jurisdictional rules affect digital platforms for some time now, and it’s remarkable how much geography still determines access. What once depended purely on internet availability now hinges on where you live — and what laws apply there. From my perspective, regulation has become a defining factor in the online experience. Some users adapt comfortably within their country’s framework, while others seek flexibility by exploring international platforms. The balance between compliance and choice is more complicated than ever.” (10/25/25)

https://news.bitcoin.com/user-choice-and-jurisdiction-how-regulation-shapes-platform-preferences/