Links for 3–27-25
sleepwalking into a cashless society
🚩 Sleepwalking into a cashless society. From: Jared Dillian/Reason. Central bank digital currencies would destroy any chance for financial privacy, but society is willingly moving in that direction.
Agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7B and savings of $3.3B. From: DOGE/X. Includes a $145K USDA consulting contract for “Peru climate change activities”.
👍 AG Bondi promises prosecutions are coming. From: Cole Harrison/PJ Newsletter. After DOGE exposed massive fraud in government.
DOGE coming for NPR, PBS. From: Joseph A Wulfsohn/Fox News. Leaders to testify before subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
👏 Trump admin ends taxpayer-funded housing for illegal immigrants. From: Zero Hedge. American citizens have taken a back seat to illegal immigrants for too long...
The FDA’s outdated prescription rules are failing women and opioid users. From: Jeffrey A Singer/CATO. Women in more than 100 countries can get birth control pills over the counter, yet the U.S. government requires women to ask other adults for permission slips.
🔎 Trump declassifies FBI files related to Trump-Russia election collusion hoax. From: Brett Samuels/The Hill. “This was total weaponization. It’s a disgrace…but now you’ll be able to see for yourselves,” Trump said as he signed the memo.
Trump Administration Revokes Billions In COVID Spending. From: Emily Kopp/Daily Caller News. As $11 billion could be cut in grants and cooperative agreements identified by CDC as no longer necessary.
⭐️ Trump orders states to require proof of citizenship to vote. From: Sierra Marlee/American Wire. The order accuses the United States of failing “to enforce basic and necessary election protections” in the past.
Hearing reveals scope of Biden administration censorship efforts. From: Thérèse Boudreaux/The Center Square. The agency even tried to create a “Disinformation Governance Board” in 2022, which would have used “federal law enforcement power to address disinformation.”
🤐 Mollie Hemingway delivers masterclass explainer on the ‘government-funded’ war on free speech. From: Shawn Fleetwood/The Federalist. ‘They know our voice is so powerful and influential that they can’t accomplish their goals unless they shut us down.’
A brief history of the freedom of speech. From: Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. The Supreme Court recognized that the speech we love needs no protection; the speech we hate does.
🍩 ‘It is taxpayer funds’: Charles Payne Details ‘Serious abuse’ of food stamps. From: Harold Hutchison/Daily Caller News. 23 percent is squande red on junk food.
“Climate change is going to fade from view like overpopulation did.” From: Schellenberger & Pielke/Public. → Lack of protests over Trump’s action on energy shows how little anyone every really cared about global warming.
👉 The sociology of party decline. From: John Halpin/Liberal Patriot. Democrats are having trouble with working-class voters because many of them don't come from these communities or occupational backgrounds.
Low number of permits issued for rebuilding homes after Palisades Fire is 'concerning.’ From: Carlos Granda/ABC7. More than two months after the Palisades Fire, only four permits had been issued for homeowners to rebuild their properties.
🇦🇷 Milei unmasks the UN. From: Rafa Gomez-Santos Martin/Gateway Hispanic. The lockdowns were a crime against humanity.