- Exclusive: Libertarian Party is Paying Chair’s Domestic Partner Through Unidisclosed Hidden Delaware LLC
Source: Jake Porter
by Jake Porter“A few weeks ago, we broke the story on how Libertarian Party Chair, Angela McArdle lobbied the Libertarian Party to accept a joint fundraising agreement that secretly paid her domestic partner $12,000 through a hidden Delaware LLC. Today, we are breaking a much bigger story. … In February 2024, the Libertarian National Committee starts paying Freedom Calls LLC approximately $4,000 per month totaling $45,600 from February 2024 to November 2024. … This brings the total payments to Padgett from the Libertarian National Committee to $78,065.38 from August 2023 to November 2024.” (01/21/25)
https://jakeporter.substack.com/p/exclusive-libertarian-party-is-paying
- Politics is Still the Problem
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders“Let’s replace every politician with at least two honest entrepreneurs.” (01/21/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/politics-is-still-the-problem
- Shock and Awe
Source: The Dispatch
by Nick Catoggio“Let’s say, hypothetically, that you’re a convicted criminal whose basic mental stability is in doubt and whose previous term as president ended in a failed coup attempt. How would you choose to spend the first day of your second term, apart from thanking the gods that you live in a country foolish enough to restore someone like you to power? What you might do is seize the opportunity to reassure the wary center of American politics that they were right to gamble on you again. … That wasn’t how Day 1 of the Trump restoration went, as you might have expected if you spent even five minutes over the past decade observing Donald Trump.” (01/21/25)
- Trump Promised a Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal. Where Is It?
Source: The Intercept
by Nick Turse“Just hours into President Donald Trump’s second term, he has already blown his first deadline. During a 2023 CNN town hall, Trump bragged that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours. ‘I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,’ he said. ‘I’ll get the war with Ukraine and Russia ended,’ Trump announced during an ABC News debate last September. ‘If I’m president-elect, I’ll get it done before even becoming president.’ Yet as Trump was being sworn into office in a ceremony surrounded by billionaires, the conflict in Ukraine raged on.” (01/21/22)
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/21/trump-russia-ukraine-war/
- If We Solve Aging
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman“The human body is a very complicated interrelated system and decline due with age consists of multiple interrelated changes. Solving any one of them can be expected to add at most a few years to life expectancy, to add a century or centuries may require us to solve all or at least most. In principle it should be doable, since the information to reconstruct my body is in every cell, massively redundant; if the information in one cell is degraded by mutation it can be reconstructed by majority vote of several others. In practice … Suppose we do it. What would the world be like? I am certainly in favor of my being able to live for centuries but it is less clear whether I should be in favor of everyone being able to do so.” (01/21/25)
