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[ad_1] Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Be better than this loser this week—stay true to your roots and don’t root for your girlfriend’s team. I had a great newsletter for this week planned, but after playing 102 holes of golf in one day my travel back home hit a snag and I wasn’t able to write. Fortunately, two Reason staffers helped cover the major collisions of sports and politics this week, so I still have plenty of content to share with you. Thank you, colleagues! Don’t miss sports coverage from Jason Russell and Reason. Pride Night…

[ad_1] Only a small percentage of western conifer forests were open and park-like. Ponderosa pine near Mill Creek, Ochoco National Forest, Oregon. Photo by George Wuerthner One of the frustrations I face as an advocate for forest protection is the continuous stream of misinformation from government agencies such as the Forest Service and state forestry, as well as from many conservation organizations like the Nature Conservancy. For example, I received an article from the Forest Service titled “Multiple treatments are key to resilient Western Forests. In the opening paragraph, the article asserts: “Forests in the West used to be a…

[ad_1] Chairman Kevin Warsh should pursue a slate of reforms to rebuild market confidence. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Days after Trump applied his electronic signature to the agreement, the exact terms of the pact remain known to only a few. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Katya Schwenk, The Lever The Trump administration has escalated its pressure campaign against lawyers representing unaccompanied migrant children. After freezing payments and demanding sensitive client data. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents attempted to raid the offices of attorneys for unaccompanied migrant children this week, lawyers tell The Lever, the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s attempt to collect sensitive data on children in the U.S. immigration system. As The Lever first reported last week, the legal services providers for unaccompanied migrant children — who represent the youth in deportation proceedings — have been locked in a standoff with the Trump administration over requests for sensitive case…

[ad_1] As crypto world notches political wins in Texas and beyond, some of its emerging political action committees ditch bipartisan approach for a Republican focus. What to know: The Fairshake PAC and its affiliates are still the major force in crypto election clout, and they’re marking a number of significant congressional campaign victories bought with tens of millions in spending. But a number of new crypto PACs have emerged, and their Republican focus could shift some of the bipartisan energy carefully built over multiple campaign cycles. The Texas primary runoffs this week — and the loss of longtime incumbent U.S.…

[ad_1] Ending LA's Homeless Industrial Complex [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] As critics demand escalation or retreat, Trump is attempting what Bismarck understood best. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Nate Bear for Do Not Panic This will be looked back on as the year in which American power, hard and soft, entered into accelerated collapse. The World Cup is, in so many ways, a distraction from the war, mass murder and genocide inflicted by the empire and its proxies, but it has signalled the further fracturing of the soft power which has been integral to maintaining the myth of benign American empire. The last four World Cup hosts – South Africa, Brazil, Russia and Qatar – used the event to bolster their soft power by doing everything…

[ad_1] South Africa witnessed a historic Conference of the Left convened by the South African Communist Party (SACP) from 29–31 May 2026. The gathering brought together communist parties, socialist organisations, trade unions, community formations, women’s organisations, youth movements, progressive intellectuals and academics, progressive traditional leadership, faith based organisations and international solidarity partners in what can confidently be described as the most significant gathering of the South African Left in the democratic era. For more than three decades after the democratic breakthrough of 1994, progressive forces often engaged each other through fragmented campaigns, issue-based coalitions and sectoral struggles. Never before had…