Source: Free Talk Live
“Is voting pointless? :: Tim in FL calls and talks about death :: Dying :: Dave Ridley calls about a religious lawsuit against Dover NH :: Property taxes :: NHcornerstone.org :: Film the authorities when they harass you! :: Expatriation laws :: Sarah in NM calls about mail in ballots being smeared with fentanyl :: Skeeter calls to accuse and project :: Taxation is (not?) theft :: Should kids be educated? :: David in NM calls to educate us on how to end a call :: I love you, bye :: 2026-10-25 :: Hosts: Stu, Mr. Penguin, Mark Edge.” (10/25/26)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2026-10-25
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andy Worthington
“Under international humanitarian law, as most noticeably enshrined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977, ‘Civilian journalists engaged in professional missions in areas of armed conflict must be respected and protected as long as they are not taking a direct part in hostilities.’ (emphasis added). The State of Israel, however, has nothing but contempt for international humanitarian law. As far as they are concerned, everyone who works for a media outlet that is, in any way, aligned with the military wing of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any other militant faction in Gaza, is a terrorist, and can be targeted and killed, and anyone who works as a journalist but has previously had any suspected involvement with any of these military factions in any kind of capacity can also be targeted and killed.” (10/26/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/worthington/2026/10/25/how-israel-used-ai-to-relentlessly-murder-palestinian-journalists-and-their-families-in-their-homes/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“US singer Chris Brown has avoided jail after striking a man twice in the head with a glass tequila bottle in a London nightclub. The R&B star was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, over the attack at private members’ club Tape in Mayfair, in the early hours of 19 February 2023. Brown’s vocal coach, rapper Omololu Akinlolu, who joined the attack, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months. Both men, who had pleaded guilty to affray, were also ordered to pay £1,500 costs. Judge Tony Baumgartner said Brown’s use of the glass bottle to hit the victim twice over the head ‘was plainly dangerous’, adding that the violence of the attack was ‘intense’. The sentence means Brown will not be imprisoned unless he commits another offence during the 12-month period of suspension.” (10/26/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq3dje4g4d5jo
Source: Fox News
by David L Bernstein
“Philadelphia parents noticed troubling signs in their children’s social studies curriculum and asked to see all the materials. They couldn’t get them. Now those materials have been brought to light in a congressional investigation. A new majority staff report from the House Education and Workforce Committee documents how a small group of school personnel turned Philadelphia’s social studies curriculum into a political platform for extremist causes. When those parents approached my organization, the North American Values Institute (NAVI), asking for help, we tried to find out what the district was teaching but we also hit a wall. Eventually, a teacher shared the curriculum with us with considerable trepidation. She asked that we protect her anonymity. That alone should give us pause: A teacher feared sharing public school instructional materials with people seeking to understand what children were learning.” (10/26/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/parents-shouldnt-need-help-congress-see-children-school-curriculum
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“In addition to illegally usurping congressional power over taxation, the Trump trade war against Canada damages our economy and poisons relations with a key ally. Courts should strike it down, just as they did with the IEEPA tariffs and the more recent Section 122 tariffs. They should also invalidated the massive Section 301 ‘forced labor’ tariffs, which have been challenged in three cases currently before the US Court of International Trade.” (10/25/26)
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/10/25/trump-exempts-some-canadian-products-from-section-338-tariffs-but-his-illegal-trade-war-continues/
Source: The UnPopulist
“Liberals Need to Live Their Creed: A Conversation Between Jonathan Rauch and Alexandre Lefebvre.” (10/25/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/liberals-need-to-live-their-creed
Source: CounterPunch
by Imran Khalid
“Asked at the White House whether he would sit down with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s APEC summit in Shenzhen, Donald Trump steered the conversation from Ukraine to warheads. ‘We would have it to talk about nuclear weapons and denuclearization,’ he said. Russia, he added, ‘has been fine on Ukraine.’ In the same exchange he suggested it was time for someone other than Volodymyr Zelensky to negotiate for Kyiv. Two proposals now ride on one invitation.” (10/26/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/26/arms-control-not-ukraine-should-be-on-the-superpowers-agenda/
Source: CNBC
“SpaceX has closed $40 billion in debt financing to buy graphics processing units, or GPUs, used to power artificial intelligence systems. In a post on X on Sunday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said it had closed the financing, adding that the company was investment grade and generated revenue from its Starlink satellite internet and rocket launch businesses. In a follow-up post, he added that the financing primarily consisted of callable debt for graphics processing units, which are expected to arrive in the first and second quarters of 2027. In a regulatory filing Monday, SpaceX said it signed a binding commitment with an Apollo-managed entity for roughly $40 billion in GPU financing.” (10/26/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/spacex-closes-40-billion-debt-deal-for-ai-chips-elon-musk-.html
Source: Antiwar.com
“Report: Netanyahu Clashes With IDF Chief Over Iran, Saudi Airstrikes Kill 17 Civilians, and More.” (10/25/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYdNkJu9zyc
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“The American grindhouse has long been a playground for fomenting radical notions among thrill seeking proles with a few bucks to spare and a taste for something right to the point. The high-brow critics call this exploitation cinema and wag their bony fingers at such fare for indulging in spectacle and bad taste and they aren’t totally wrong. The problem is that modern late-capitalist civilization has reduced us all to a slumbering horde of flesh-eating zombies and the spectacle of ‘bad taste’ or transgressing our prescribed bourgeoise sensibilities is the only thing that will ever wake us. I know because it has before and not that long ago. The neon bathed grindhouses of pre-Giuliani Time Square achieved this goal with a rash of garish subcultural revolutions while Godard sold out and every new wave became assimilated into Spielbergian Hollywood dreck.” (10/25/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-grindhouse-is-opera-of-oppressed.html
