Source: Niskanen Center
“Gil Guerra joined a discussion hosted by Florida International University. He breaks down the findings from his recent report and examines how shifting migration patterns may affect security, humanitarian concerns, and policy decisions.” (07/31/25)
Source: New York Times
“A Trade Deadline Frenzy, and Trump’s Push to Redraw Congressional Maps.” (07/31/25)
Source: LP Alliance
“We’ll be talking about the importance of grassroots, member-based advocacy in the LP, the critical dynamic between causes and candidates, and how members, affiliates, and the LNC can deploy it effectively.” (07/30/25)
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Katie Ratke & Shloka Mehta
“Nearly 250 years ago, mere steps from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, a group of men locked in sweltering rooms debated the blueprint for a new nation, conceived in liberty. First among the freedoms they secured was the right to speak one’s mind, free from the chill of government meddling or the heat of mob intimidation. Today, the floor echoes in the National Constitution Center. The walls are lined with powerful quotes. Along the gentle curve of the tall, marble ceilings hang the flags of all 50 states. And normally, these rooms are relatively still. But this July, the Center came alive when over 100 students from 70 universities across the country gathered there, not to write a constitution, but to figure out how to keep its promises alive.” (07/30/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/philly-new-generation-finds-it-voice-and-tools-defend-it
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Tyler Tone
“[T]he Paramount settlement provides only a small window into a larger attempt — on the part of the president and his administration — to transform the relationship between the government and America’s media industry, powered by the machinery of the FCC. It’s an extortion regime much bigger than any one-time cash grab, enveloping the media industry in a cloud of weaponized uncertainty created by lawsuits, selective regulatory investigations, and slow-walked merger approvals. The ultimate aim? Getting some of America’s largest media companies to bend the knee and do the administration’s bidding. Call it the extortion-industrial complex, and Paramount has been just one victim of it.” (07/30/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/inside-trump-administrations-extortion-industrial-complex
Source: New York Post
by staff
“So much for the prophecies of Trumponomics doom: Not only did the US economy grow at a 3% rate in the second quarter, the growth was all in the private sector as the government portion shrank. Meanwhile, ADP reports that private-sector employment rose by 104,000 jobs in July, with annual wages jumping 4.4% — well above the rate of inflation, which also remains markedly lower than the conventional-wisdom crew predicted. That is, growth was half again the consensus forecast for April-June, while July looks like a huge boon for American workers — all as many of President Donald Trump’s policies have only begun to kick in. Trump’s tariffs have neither crashed the economy nor kicked off fresh inflation — though of course those predictions largely came from ‘experts’ who never expected the bane of Bidenflation.” (07/30/25)
Source: The Daily Beast
“Hell hath no fury like a Jeffrey Epstein-defending pierogi lover scorned. Notorious defense attorney Alan Dershowitz announced that he’s suing a farmer’s market on Martha’s Vineyard after the market’s resident pierogi stand refused to serve him. … the retired Harvard law professor stopped by the pierogi stand and asked if he could have six of the potato dumplings. ‘No,’ replied the vendor. ‘Oh, you’ve run out of pierogi? Too bad,’ Dershowitz said he replied. ‘No, we have plenty of pierogi,’ the person behind the counter replied, according to the lawyer. ‘I just won’t sell them to you. … I don’t approve of who you’ve represented. I don’t approve of who you support.’ … ‘The clear implication was that he opposed me because I defended Donald Trump and because I was a Zionist,’ Dershowitz said.” [editor’s note: The police threatened to arrest Dershowitz if he didn’t quit harassing the vendor – TLK] (07/31/25)
Source: Politico
“Joe Biden’s next act.” (07/31/25)
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL7056273395.mp3?updated=1753937465
Source: System Update
“Stephen Miller’s False Denials About Trump’s Campus ‘Hate Speech’ Codes; Sohrab Ahmari on the MAGA Splits Over Antitrust, Foreign Wars, and More.” (07/30/25)
Source: hypertext.com
by Olivia Webb Kosloff
“Over the last few months, internecine battles between abundance and antitrust advocates have been fought across book reviews, podcasts, and social media. Yet if the two camps were to put together a list of proposed policies, there would be a surprising amount of mutual compatibility, certainly enough for both factions to camp under the same tent in American politics in 2025. This is most true when it comes to healthcare.” (07/30/25)
https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/why-healthcare-should-unite-abundance