DEVELOPING STORY: The Vaccine Mandate Walkout
1. Alex Berenson Reports - The sickout is still spreading; American Airlines cancelled over 300 flights, Southwest changing up its rhetoric: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-not-so-friendly-skies/comments
2. Over 100K workers are threatening to strike over vaccine mandates and burnout from overwork: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/13/report-over-100k-workers-threaten-strikes-supply-chain-crisis-citing-low-staffing-levels/
3. Purse-Strings Tactics - Covid relief funds distributed to cities and states require full compliance with Biden vax mandates; counties can use money to bankrupt and REPLACE local businesses: https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-10-14-covid-relief-funds-distributed-to-cities-and-states-require-full-compliance-with-biden-vax-mandates.html
4. Supply chain workers issue grim warning of impending complete breakdown of the system: https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-10-14-supply-chain-workers-warn-of-impending-breakdown-covid-shutdowns-product-shortages.html
5. #EmptyShelvesJoe begins trending on social media as supply chain crisis becomes very obvious: https://patriotrising.com/emptyshelvesjoe-becomes-no-1-trend-on-twitter-after-biden-attacks-us-economy/
6. Is the walkout far bigger than anyone has guessed? Based off the large numbers of everyday stories being shared across social media, it sure seems that way: https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/10/10/two-thousand-flights-cancelled-amid-rumors-of-mass-air-traffic-control-sick-out-in-protest-of-vaccine-mandates/
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OTHER HEADLINES
7. Kyrie Irving vindicated? Major scandal brewing for the NBA after revelation that a prominent player developed career-ending blood clots after getting COVID vaccine and NBA ordered him to keep quiet about it: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/nba-player-got-blood-clots-covid-vaccine-ends-season-nba-told-keep-quiet-video/
8. U.S. Navy announces official plans to expel all service members refusing the COVID vaccine: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/navy-announces-plans-expel-those-refusing-covid-vaccine-november-deadline
9. Showdown in Chicago - Police union facing down the city over the vaccine mandate: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/10/14/chicago-police-union-to-defy-vaccine-mandate-and-dare-the-city-to-enforce-it-n1523907
BONUS
Opinion - Only Subsidiarity Can Save the Republic: https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/only-subsidiarity-can-save-the-republic
Professor Wall and the Secession Minstrel discuss the recent explosion in publicity for the cause to separate the borough of Staten Island from New York City in the wake of the election of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York City. What does the steady growth in support for Staten Island separating from New York City, thanks to several recent controversies, say about the prospects for Staten Island becoming a truly self-governing enclave in the near-future?
Links:
(Let our people go! Zohran Mamdani victory spurs Staten Island pols to renew bid to pull out of NYC): https://nypost.com/2025/11/15/us-news/staten-island-pols-renew-bid-to-pull-out-of-nyc-in-response-to-mamdani-winning-mayoral-race/
(Lawmaker reads ‘Staten Island Independence Declaration,’ hopes to restart secession movement): https://www.silive.com/news/2025/11/lawmaker-reads-staten-island-independence-declaration-hopes-to-restart-secession-movement.html
(Could Staten Island Secede from NYC to Escape ...
Professor Wall and the Secession Minstrel discuss the first meeting of the Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission and what this means for the Downstate Illinois Separation Effort going forward. How strong were the arguments put forward by Downstate Illinois activists to the Commission in this first meeting? Why should Downstate Illinois activists welcome Indiana’s help to their cause regardless of whether it results in statehood or border moves?
Links:
(Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission Meeting - Live Stream 10/22/25): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EziEhPN8HLM
(Indiana moves to redefine border with Illinois, But Illinois shows no interest in Secession): https://www.wfiwradio.com/2025/07/01/indiana-moves-to-redefine-border-with-illinois-but-illinois-shows-no-interest-in-secession/
(Law taking effect July 1 has Indiana possibly acquiring parts of Illinois): ...
Professor Wall welcomes local self-determination activists Russell Kanning from New Hampshire and Jason Mills from Oregon for a discussion of a question which is vital to understanding the process of how the people governing themselves works. Which is more vital to self-governance? Local activism in the community? Or National activism across the whole country?
Links:
(NHexit.org): http://nhexit.org/
(Jason Mills @ Substack): https://substack.com/@jmillsy
(“Human Action” - By Ludwig von Mises): https://store.mises.org/Human-Action-Pocket-Edition-P10435.aspx
(“Conceived in Liberty: Volumes 1 - 4” - By Murray N. Rothbard): https://store.mises.org/Conceived-in-Liberty-Volumes-1-4-P10605.aspx
(“Conceived in Liberty - Volume 5: The New Republic 1784 - 1791” - By Murray N. Rothbard & Patrick Newman): https://store.mises.org/Conceived-in-Liberty-Volume-5-The-New-Republic-P11134.aspx
Professor Wall welcomes Downstate Illinois Secession activist and spokesperson Eric Ivers to “From Steal to Secession AM” to discuss the effort to separate the outstate Illinois areas from Chicago. What issues are driving the popularity of the idea of separating outstate Illinois from Chicago? What options are available to help in successful accomplishment of this goal? What role is Indiana playing in helping bring out this successful separation? Why is separation the only realistic hope of restoring the self-government rights of the people of outstate Illinois?
This piece from the Acton Institute speaks very much to our views here at "On This Terrestrial Ball" on what the relationship should be between family and the workplace. Here we always says that "Family Comes First". That means occasionally we will have gaps in our publication schedule when we need to tend to matters which affect family. However we are still committed to spreading the word on the causes which are important to the everyday people so that EVERYONE will be able to put family first in the not-too-distant future and it is why we value your support so much! Be a rebel, raise a family and show & tell the family how much you love them! https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124383-your-job-is-not-your-family.html
Professor Wall welcomes Daniel McAdams and Chris Rossini back to "From Steal to Secession AM" for a discussion on where America stands as Donald Trump's second term begins to really unravel due to foreign policy blunders, a collapsing domestic economy and dangerously spiking domestic tensions in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder. Has anything good for the people of America come out of Trump's second term? What are the odds of civil war in America in the near-future? Can National Divorce be accomplished in America in a way which restores peace and opens the doors for prosperity? How much of what is unfolding is real and how much is a façade for the public eye?
