Source: The American Conservative
by Spencer Neale
“As Americans, our greatest battles lie here in the heartland, thousands of miles from Jerusalem, Tehran, the Gaza Strip, and the rest of the chaotic world out there. … We have enough issues here, in Pennsylvania, Idaho, Missouri, and California. It is here, not in the Middle East, where Americans are struggling to afford rising grocery prices and unaffordable housing costs. These United States are where Trump and his administration’s aims should be focused, not between the Golan Heights and Tehran. And yet when asked about such apparently trivial domestic issues by O’Donnell, Trump merely waved his hand and claimed that grocery prices, despite what our eyes and pocketbooks clearly tell us, are, in fact, falling; even if they aren’t, it is all President Biden’s fault. … Such is the MAGA that we have received: a shadow of the MAGA promised.” (11/05/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-kind-of-america-first-is-this/
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Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Dick Cheney, arguably the single government official most responsible for the expansion of US warmongering and militarism in the 21st century, has died. The worst worst war sluts of the US empire have issued statements expressing their condolences, including Democrats like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi. Because if there’s one thing that can bring Democrats and Republicans together, it’s war crimes and the slaughter of millions of middle easterners. Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization. In a truly sane society, Richard Bruce Cheney would have lived a life of relative obscurity, working as a gardener or something without ever getting anywhere close to power.” (11/05/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/05/cheney-should-have-died-alone-in-a-cage/
Source: USA Today
“The death toll in a catastrophic airplane crash that sent a United Parcel Service aircraft into a ball of flames has risen to nine on Wednesday as authorities continue search and rescue and investigate a cause, officials said. The UPS plane was departing for Honolulu from the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport when it crashed at about 5:15 p.m. local time Tuesday, authorities said. Video of the crash showed flames on one of the plane’s wings, and a huge fireball erupting as the aircraft hit the ground.” (11/05/25)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/11/05/ups-cargo-plane-crash-louisville-kentucky-live-updates/87098850007/
Source: Reason
“Veterans Are Suffering Because of FDA Red Tape.” (11/05/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/11/05/veterans-are-suffering-because-of-fda-red-tape/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Hannah Frankman Hood
“Families, entrepreneurs, and Fortune 500 companies alike are chasing better schools. Freedom to choose may be the quiet engine of the next American migration wave.” (11/05/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-school-choice-became-a-magnet-for-capital/
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“In his self-portrayal as a global peacemaker, President Donald Trump prefers to employ arm-twisting pressure to stop a conflict, such as in Gaza. Yet for one of the most intractable wars – a civil conflict in Africa’s third-largest country, Sudan – he might be relying on principled persuasion. The reason? Mass atrocities against civilians on both sides of that 18-month-long war have pushed many nations with a strategic stake in Sudan to join a Trump-led effort for a humanitarian truce. On Monday, the U.S. senior adviser for Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos, said Sudan’s rival military forces have agreed in principle to a three-month truce, which would allow safe corridors for delivery of vital aid. If a pause in fighting does help the millions of Sudanese in need, it would be a nod to a global norm that recognizes the innocence of civilians in battle zones.” (11/04/25)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1104/Trump-s-peace-tactics-in-Sudan
Source: Straits Times [Singapore]
“A palliative nurse was convicted on Nov 5 of the murder of 10 patients with lethal injections and the attempted murder of 27 others and was handed a life sentence by a German court. Prosecutors had argued that the nurse injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives to ease his workload at night. The crime was found to be particularly severe, said a spokesperson for the court in Aachen, meaning the nurse has little chance of being released after 15 years, the minimum time that can be served for a life sentence in Germany.” (11/05/25)
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/german-nurse-given-life-sentence-for-murdering-10-patients
Source: The Hill
“Tucker fires back at Ben Shapiro; the left is making Nick Fuentes seem cool?” (11/05/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5590619-rising-november-5-2025/
Source: The Atlantic
by Idrees Kahloon
“Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in one of those rare cases that could reshape all three branches of government. The justices deciding Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, a challenge to the current tariff regime, could determine whether the imperial presidency is entrenched or arrested. They could either cajole Congress out of its dormancy or render it even more inert. And they could buttress the legitimacy of the Court’s conservative majority — which in the past decade has aggressively intervened to limit the administrative state’s domestic operations — or undermine it by applying different standards to presidents of different parties.” (11/05/25)
https://archive.is/wRzFD
