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Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
“Donald Trump has long aspired to build an impregnable edifice. Now, finally, he has done it: He has constructed a narrative of election fraud that’s completely impervious to evidence. On Monday, nearly a week after his party was trounced in the midterms, Trump wrote on Truth Social …. ‘It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!’ Like all of Trump’s allegations about massive voter fraud, this one is baseless. But as a denialist innovation, it’s marvelous. It covers all the scenarios he failed to cover in his previous tales of rigging and cheating. Anytime he loses, no matter the facts or circumstances, he can say the election was stolen.” (11/10/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-electoral-fraud-claims-after-2026-midterms-are-evidence-proof
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Israeli forces have shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy and wounded two other teens during a raid on the village of Burqa in the occupied West Bank, according to officials. The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the victim on Tuesday as Moataz Iyad Daghlas and said Israeli authorities were withholding his body. … The Israeli military confirmed the shooting in Burqa, which is located near the city of Nablus. In a statement, the military said soldiers opened fire to prevent Palestinians from throwing stones at Israeli vehicles.” (11/10/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/10/israeli-forces-kill-14-year-old-palestinian-boy-in-occupied-west-bank
Source: The Corbett Report
“How to Create A GOOD Think Tank.” (11/10/26)
https://corbettreport.com/how-to-create-a-good-think-tank/
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Outrageous benefits have always been a feature, not a bug, of the Section 8 rental subsidy program created in 1974. In 1980, the US General Accounting Office concluded: ‘The high rents and quality of [Section 8] housing invite resentment on the part of the taxpaying public who see their subsidized neighbors living in better accommodations than they themselves can afford.’ GAO also observed that Section 8’s goal of mixing the poor and the middle class is often not achieved because Section 8 ‘housing is often so costly that … even middle-income unassisted households cannot afford to live in it.’ Federal rental handouts reward irresponsibility and perennially bring out the worst in many recipients.” (11/09/26)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/11/09/section-8-is-still-a-wrecking-ball/
Source: New York Post
by staff
“If its other failings weren’t maddening enough, now the $45 billion city Department of Education is hiring obvious psychos to work with kids and paying ‘principals’ $200,000 to run nonexistent schools. Sayed Mohassib allegedly slaughtered jogger Katie Suarez near the Belt Parkway in Bath Beach Oct. 30; he claims he found himself sitting on a nearby bench, drenched in blood but with no knowledge of why. Scariest of all, he was then working as a substitute paraprofessional at PS 200, a position of trust and responsibility helping young children. Did anyone check his background? After a red-flag few weeks with the NYPD, he joined the Marines only to get discharged on psychiatric grounds, then be rejected for reinstatement as a cop — and that very same day win transport to Bellevue because of his erratic behavior.” (11/10/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/11/10/opinion/nycs-public-schools-system-is-now-officially-a-45-billion-scandal-factory/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the Claude chatbot, could be valued at around $1.3 trillion (£1 trillion) when it lists its shares for sale on New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange. The loss-making company says it will offer its shares for between $70 and $78 each and will raise up to $64bn when it floats this month. It would value Anthropic at between $1.1tn and $1.3tn which, although large, is below the $2tn some backers of the firm predicted in summer, according to the Financial Times. The huge valuation comes despite the company warning last month that AI could pose ‘catastrophic or existential risks to humanity’. It is floating at a volatile time for big tech firms. After last week’s US midterm elections, the Nasdaq fell sharply on concerns a Democrat-led Congress could slow development of AI and the buildout of data centres.” (11/10/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crpdgd723x2zo
Source: Brennan Center for Justice
“Just days after polls close, we will host two conversations on what the electorate actually said and how those answers will influence lawmaking over the next two years.” (11/09/260
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoQhIl5RFjg
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“‘Together we will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America,’ said President Trump in a mid-term election spot. ‘America will never be a communist country.’ But what does he mean by those words? … ‘You can’t defeat socialism with an alternative form of collectivism,’ explains Agustina Vergara Cid of the Register, ‘only with its opposite: the principle that the individual is not a means to any group’s end.’ That’s unfortunately not how Trump or Vance approach the issue … but that may be of limited relevance, considering that their failures led to a backlash sending actual communists into Congress.” (11/09/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/11/09/socialism-vs-socialism/
Source: Asia Times
by Brian Garvey
“Last Tuesday’s election was a stunning defeat for President Donald Trump. Democrats won both houses of Congress, including Senate races in states they haven’t won in generations. Americans went to the polls angry about rising prices, government corruption, rising authoritarianism, and a war with Iran they never wanted. Those frustrations are deeply connected. But this moment can, and should, be an opportunity to do more than move beyond President Trump and his movement. It’s an opportunity for people across the country to question how we got here, and what needs to change about American power.” (11/10/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/11/beyond-trump-a-time-to-rethink-american-power/
Source: US News & World Report
“The United States will spurn a UN meeting on Tuesday where its human rights record under President Donald Trump was due to be examined, drawing criticism from rights groups who say violations have surged to levels not seen in decades. Washington disengaged from the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council last year, citing an anti-Israel bias, and this is the second year in a row that it has skipped its own review — a process that even dictatorships take part in. The US no-show will likely mean the event is postponed until January, according to a draft UN document and diplomats. A US State Department spokesperson said participation would imply endorsement of the council’s work.” (11/10/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-11-10/us-to-skip-un-human-rights-review-drawing-censure
