Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Not long ago, you would’ve been labeled a conspiracy theorist if you suggested that a government report about how terribly unhealthy gas stoves are and how they ought to be banned meant that plans were in the works to ban gas stoves. ‘No, the government’s not taking your stove,’ CNET said in January 2024. What were we all worried about? Tightening regulations, that’s what.” (07/30/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/07/30/ban-banning-gas-stoves/
Source: Fox News
by Corey DeAngelis
“The National Education Association (NEA) tried scrubbing its radical 2025 handbook from the internet after I leaked its contents on X, but I saved a copy of their 434-page manifesto. This document, meant to guide America’s largest teachers’ union, exposes a radical agenda: erasing Jews from the Holocaust, blaming ‘white supremacy culture’ for systemic racism, pushing illegal racial quotas, calling for ‘educational reparations,’ and attacking homeschooling while ignoring their own failing schools. The NEA, armed with a unique 1906 federal charter, has become a money-laundering operation for the Democratic Party, funneling over 99% of its 2022 political contributions to Democrats. Its president, Becky Pringle, an at-large Democratic National Committee member, engages in histrionics to rally this partisan machine.” (07/30/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/teaching-hate-hiding-truth-neas-real-agenda-revealed-leaked-handbook
Source: SFGate
“Kauai’s north shore is known for its lush landscapes, beaches, waterfalls and the famed Kalalau Trail. It’s also where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have an oceanfront compound that the pair is actively expanding. Earlier this year, the tech titan and his wife purchased another large piece of land on Kauai’s north shore. The acquisition brings their total land holdings from about 1,400 acres to over 2,300 acres. Reported to cost around $65 million, the new purchase is 962 acres inland and across the road from Zuckerberg’s oceanfront compound near the town of Kilauea. The previous owner had plans to build 80 luxury homes, but those plans were canceled after the sale, a spokesperson for Zuckerberg and Chan told SFGATE. Several billionaires in Hawaii have drawn attention for buying up plots of land and increasing their footprint on the Islands.” (07/30/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-zuckerberg-buys-kauai-land-20792415.php
Source: The New Republic
“As the emerging details of Trump’s trade agreement with Europe puncture his hype, economist Paul Krugman explains at length why it’s actually a big loss for our country — and especially for Trump’s MAGA base.” (07/30/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/198577/paul-krugman-brutally-wrecks-trump-europe-deal-scam-voters
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Paul R Pillar
“What is taking place in Gaza now is mostly not a war, even though that term commonly is applied to the violence there. It is instead a largely unilateral assault on a population and its means of living. It is a situation in which one side, Israel, has — as Trump might put it — nearly all the cards. The news stories emerging almost daily from Gaza are not about pitched battles between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas fighters. They are mostly not about battles at all. Instead, they are about the latest large-scale killing by Israel of Gazans, mostly civilians, at a rate that has averaged about 150 deaths per day since the current round of carnage began in late 2023. Civilians are killed largely with airstrikes but also more recently through getting shot while seeking ever-scarcer food.” (07/30/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/hamas-israel-starvation/
Source: Bloomberg
“US economic activity rebounded in the second quarter on a modest pickup in consumer spending and a marked drop in imports after a scramble to secure foreign goods earlier in the year. Inflation-adjusted gross domestic product, which measures the value of goods and services produced in the US, increased an annualized 3% after shrinking at a 0.5% rate in the previous period, according to preliminary government data out Wednesday. Net exports added 5 percentage points to GDP after subtracting the most on record in the first three months of the year, the Bureau of Economic Analysis report showed. Goods and services that aren’t produced in the US are subtracted from the GDP calculation but counted when consumed.” (07/30/25)
https://archive.is/A84PL
Source: The Corbett Report
“How to Leave the Cage.” (07/30/25)
https://corbettreport.com/how-to-leave-the-cage-solutionswatch/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“Donald Trump announced on Sunday that his administration had reached a trade deal with the European Union, which would place a 15 percent tariff on all goods Americans buy from Europe and require the EU to purchase a certain amount of oil and weapons from some US firms. Although European officials clarified that this was a legally non-binding outline and the two sides are still working out some details, Trump is characteristically celebrating the ‘deal’ as a major win for the American people. But it really isn’t. Every supposed benefit that comes from the agreement applies only to a small subset of the country while leaving the American public, as a whole, worse off.” (07/30/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/us-eu-trade-deal-nothing-celebrate
Source: Gothamist
“Police arrested and issued summonses to eight rabbis who blocked traffic during a pro-humanitarian aid protest Monday night, officials said. An NYPD spokesperson said the incident happened around 6 p.m. during a planned demonstration outside the Israeli Consulate on Second Avenue and 43rd Street. Organizers said the arrests were noteworthy because it was the first time a group of rabbis the Jewish community’s political center had risked arrest over the war in Gaza. … 11 rabbis in total joined the act of civil disobedience, but only eight were arrested because the NYPD was simultaneously responding to the mass shooting at a nearby office tower.” (07/29/25)
https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-rabbis-arrested-while-protesting-hunger-in-gaza
Source: Washington Monthly
‘Has Donald Trump Ended Free Trade?.” (07/30/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/30/has-donald-trump-ended-free-trade/
