Law & Liberty Podcast, 09/23/25
Source: Law & Liberty
“Ho, Hey! Western Civ Is Here to Stay.” (09/23/25)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/ho-hey-western-civ-is-here-to-stay/
Wall Street vs. Silicon Valley: The Defining Battle for the Next Financial Era
Source: Bitcoin.com
by Artem Gordadze
“For more than a decade, while institutions, governments, and fintech giants have pursued scale, control, and revenue monopolisation, DeFi projects have championed open-source innovation and community-driven models. At its core, this has always been a competition for the same prize: customers. However, while people are taking sides, the future is not about one camp defeating the other; it’s about the emergence of a new financial order. The next generation of winners will be those who can create hybrid solutions, combining the trust, distribution, and regulatory strength of TradFi with the speed, transparency, and innovation of DeFi.” (09/23/25)
Progressive Leftist Rot Goes All the Way Down to Local Politics
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“The assassination of Charlie Kirk is one of those moments in history that really exposes the divide in the country: on one side are the people who do not support the idea of murdering individuals for their political beliefs and on the other side are Democrats. While there is some crossover, the basics of that statement hold true. So, when someone is murdered for their beliefs it can be a confusing time for everyone, but especially kids. That’s where a friend of mine comes in. I asked my podcast listeners for their thoughts on the Kirk killing and my friend’s stood out. His was framed in the school system in Anne Arundel County, Maryland — one which doesn’t seem to care about parental concerns (if they come from conservatives), but were all in on a junkie who died of an overdose … because ‘social justice’ or something.” (09/23/25)
FL: DeSantis eyes land in downtown Miami for Trump presidential library
Source: SFGate
“Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing to establish President Donald Trump’s presidential library in an iconic stretch of downtown Miami. Paving the way for the president’s post-administration historical archives is another way DeSantis and conservative lawmakers are vying to demonstrate their loyalty to Trump, who has shifted the center of his political universe south to his adopted home state of Florida. ‘No state has better delivered the President’s agenda than the Free State of Florida, and we would be honored to house his presidential library here in his home state,’ DeSantis said in a statement announcing the plan Tuesday. The proposal sets aside a 2.63-acre (1.06-hectare) parcel of land adjacent to the Freedom Tower, a historic building that rises alongside the glitzy condos facing palm tree-lined Biscayne Bay.” (09/23/25)
Advisory Opinions, 09/23/25
Source: The Dispatch
“The Fall of Affirmative Action | Interview: Justin Driver.” (09/23/25)
Proposed war authorization could allow Trump to target 60+ countries
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Brett Heinz
“An ‘insanely broad’ draft AUMF could provide the president with wide latitude to go after supposed ‘narco-terrorists.'” (09/23/25)
ICC charges Duterte with crimes against humanity
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Former President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has been charged with three counts of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which alleges that he played a role in the murders of at least 76 people during his so-called ‘war on drugs.’ The charges against the 80-year-old, who has been held in a detention facility in the Netherlands since March, are set out in a document that was published by the ICC on Monday. They relate in part to the anti-drug crackdown Duterte led when he was president, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of alleged narcotics dealers and users.” (09/23/25)
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/23/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Officials: Venezuela Regime Change Is the Goal, Former AQ Chief Meets Former CIA Chief, and More.” (09/23/25)
Permissionless Journalism
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“The recent all-out assault on free speech by the Trump administration and its allies has some of my friends in the business grumbling about the fact that the United States has no national ‘shield law’ giving journalists certain kinds of legal protections …. The most recent attempt to pass such a law failed in the Senate last year, not because Senate Republicans thought through the issue carefully but because Donald Trump demanded it be killed. Trump probably does not understand the law, but he knows he hates journalists. … a federal shield law (there are many state-level versions) was a bad idea before Donald Trump and it is a bad idea now — not because of the proposed shield or shields per se, but because it raises the question of who is to be protected by such a law and implies a government power to make that decision.” (09/23/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/shield-law-journalism-free-speech/
NY: Secret Service dismantles “telecommunications threat” near UN General Assembly
Source: Fox News
“The U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday that it has ‘dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.’ The devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. ‘This network had the potential to disable cellphone towers and essentially shut down the cellular network in New York City,’ Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New York field office, said in a video released Tuesday. The Secret Service said it found ‘more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites…. In addition to carrying out anonymous telephonic threats, these devices could be used to conduct a wide range of telecommunications attacks.'” (09/23/25)