Source: Washington Post
by Monica Hesse

“The verbal tic of President Donald Trump that has always most fascinated me is his predilection for the word ‘beautiful.’ North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un ‘wrote me beautiful letters and we fell in love.’ On the cover of Time magazine, Kamala Harris looked ‘like the most beautiful actress ever to live’ (this quickly devolved into an anti-compliment). On Trump’s first day back in office, he signed an executive order titled ‘Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.’ Golf courses are beautiful, but so are White House telephones, farming, fighter jets, notes from the Chinese president, chocolate cake, the Supreme Court, Harambe the gorilla and Christians. Do you know who doesn’t need 30 dolls? ‘A beautiful baby girl that’s 11 years old.’ Is this a vocabulary deficit? A real estate developer buzzword, such as ‘spacious’ or ‘walk-in pantry?'” (05/29/25)

https://archive.is/Btfwj

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Why was the mainstream press so eager to accept the official findings of the Warren Commission, no matter how ludicrous they were (e.g., the infamous ‘magic-bullet theory’), rather than assign fierce and competent investigative reporters to ferret out the truth behind the assassination? My answer: Fear. After all, why have big, powerful law firms capitulated to President Trump’s demands? Why have enormous universities done the same? In my opinion, the reason is fear. They know that with the overwhelming power of the presidency, Trump has the ability to do very bad things to them. … The mainstream press back in 1963 knew that Lyndon Johnson, who automatically became president on the death of JFK, was a vicious man, one who would not hesitate to use the overwhelming power of the presidency and the federal government to smash anyone he wanted, including any national news media outlet.” (05/29/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/05/29/the-mainstream-presss-fear-of-investigating-the-jfk-assassination/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson

“While Austrian economists from Ludwig von Mises to Henry Hazlitt to Murray Rothbard have dealt with the various fallacies that John Maynard Keynes laid out in The General Theory and other works — and they are legion — only Rothbard chose to deal with the philosophical/moral aspects of Keynes’s viewpoints in Keynes, the Man, and he finds that these viewpoints indeed influenced his economic thinking.” (05/29/25)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/immorality-keynesian-economics

Source: TomDispatch
by Juan Cole

“Colorful career criminal Willie Sutton once may (or may not) have been asked why he robbed banks. ‘Because that is where the money is,’ he supposedly replied. A similar principle may explain the first foreign trip of President Donald J. Trump’s second term, which was not to a traditional U.S. ally in Europe. Rather, he set off to visit the capitals of the Gulf hydrocarbon potentates Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. In royal palaces there, he feasted and was offered hundreds of billions of dollars in investments in American companies and opportunities for the Trump Organization, too. … Strikingly missing, however, was a side trip to Israel or any evident consultations with the extremist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Instead, Israel was frozen out and blindsided by Trump’s pronouncements.” (05/29/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/is-trumps-axis-of-the-plutocrats-marginalizing-israel/

Source: Liberal Currents
by Adam Gurri

“Immigration laws are restrictions on what citizens are allowed to do. From high-profile workplace raids to audits and digital surveillance, employers, whether citizens or not, face intense scrutiny and potential disruption from immigration authorities. Nor are businesses and business owners the only people who have to worry, or indeed the ones who should be the most worried. … Trump is certainly trying to take things further than they have been taken before, especially in attempting to throw habeas corpus out the door entirely. But the basic logic was always there. Immigration enforcement has long terrorized communities of citizens and permanent residents in order to find the handful of undocumented immigrants they were authorized to deport.” (05/29/25)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalitarian-logic-of-immigration-controls/