Source: The Realist Review

“Onslaught, the 2026 film from director Adam Wingard, did not do particularly well at the box office or with reviewers. Dropping a few months ago to mostly middling reviews and an underwhelming box office performance, it was ignored by much of the public and dismissed by many critics. Having finally gotten around to seeing it, however, I have to vociferously disagree with what appears to be the general consensus as it exists thus far. Onslaught rocks. Not just as a stand-alone film that plays homage to the classics of John Carpenter, but, more importantly, it has something to say that is far more in line with the reality of post-War on Terror America than any number of self-serious, overwrought, Meryl Streep Starring, prestige cinema beloved by the NPR set ever could.” (11/02/26)

https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-war-on-terror-movie

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Jillian C York

“On November 11, Lina Attalah, founder and editor-in-chief of the independent Egyptian news outlet Mada Masr, will face trial for the second time in just two weeks. This time, she faces charges of spreading false news, an accusation that has become one of the Egyptian government’s most frequently used tools for prosecuting journalists. … Governments seeking to control the flow of information increasingly rely on a combination of legal harassment, financial pressure, criminal prosecution, and restrictions on the infrastructure that makes independent publishing possible. Egypt’s media licensing regime is a particularly troubling example.” (11/02/26)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/independent-digital-media-not-privilege-governments-can-revoke-fight-save-egypts

Source: New York Post
by Cindy Adams

“APOLOGIES for whoever dislikes me after this column. Praise The Big Man Upstairs for this blessed country where we’re permitted to think for ourselves. Love, hate or shrug — we’re not jailed or tortured. We can think, love or even demean the United States of America. Try that in Russia, China or Cuba. So I beg forgiveness, right now, for what I want to say. Don’t all love Donald? OK. But specialize in beauts who were not Donald? Biden? Whose son specialized in math? Previous Hizzoner whose wife possibly specialized in arithmetic? A back-aways married governor who had bedroom affairs with his knee socks still on? Also Barack, who finally opened his mouth to babble BS. So elect who?” (11/01/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/11/01/opinion/united-we-stand-divided-we-vote/

Source: Noahpinion
by Noah Smith

“Anthropic recently filed for IPO. At an estimated $1.5 to $2 trillion, it will be one of the biggest IPOs of all time, rivaling SpaceX, and possibly the biggest. For reference, Facebook’s valuation when it had its blockbuster IPO in 2012 was $104 billion, and Google’s valuation in 2004 was $23 billion. Anthropic will instantly become one of the world’s most valuable companies — Google itself is now worth $3.4 trillion, and Nvidia and Apple are both worth around $5 trillion. This naturally has a lot of people asking: What’s the upside to buying Anthropic?” (11/02/26)

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/anthropics-moat-is-claude

Source: Cato Institute
by Clark Packard & Alfredo Carrillo Obregon

“Recently, the American Primary Aluminum Association issued a report claiming as proof that the 50 percent Section 232 ‘national security’ tariffs should stay in place. Some of the report withstands scrutiny. High-purity aluminum matters for military hardware, and the report notes that no smelter in the United States or any NATO country can make it (p. 2). Aluminum also makes up a small share of costs for most finished goods, so the per-unit price effects are relatively modest. The defensible version of this argument is a very narrow, national security case. Yet the report does not make the case. Three problems stand out.” (11/02/26)

https://www.cato.org/blog/aluminum-industrys-new-tariff-study-argues-against-itself