“The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked an order that told Missouri to keep implementing Republicans’ favored 7-1 congressional map, which sparked confusion about what boundaries would be used in the November election. By lifting that federal judge’s directive, it leaves in place a state court directive that tells elections officials to return to the existing map with a 6-2 split. The GOP had pushed for a pickup opportunity as part of the mid-decade redistricting war. Missouri state leaders have said reverting would cause chaos, as they already conducted their primaries using the new map. The Supreme Court did not publicly explain its decision, and no justice publicly noted a dissent.” (09/10/26)
“Once again, Peter Navarro seeks to explain why tariffs have failed. Back in December, Navarro chastised America for expecting results ‘on a news cycle.’ We were told that all of the positive results were coming; we just hadn’t waited long enough and shame on us for expecting results prematurely. … Now, Navarro claims that the reason tariffs aren’t working is because of foreigners. Once again, Navarro has found yet another scapegoat. Unfortunately for him, this one also falls apart upon further scrutiny. Navarro claims that foreigners are reorganizing their shipping routes in order to avoid the tariff. But that assumes that they are the ones actually paying the tariffs. In February, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a report finding that Americans, whether they be importers or end consumers, paid 94 percent of the tariffs in the first eight months since Liberation Day and were still paying 86 percent.” (09/10/26)
“At least two people were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Tula region, while eight people were injured in Russian air strikes which caused a fire in a nine-storey apartment building in Kyiv on Friday morning, the authorities said. … Russia returned to its near-constant air attacks on Kyiv this week after a brief halt during the visit to Moscow and Kyiv of U.S. President Donald Trump’s negotiators seeking to end the war which the Kremlin started by invading Ukraine in 2022.” (09/11/26)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“There is one thing that every libertarian supporter of the decades-long, deadly, and destructive U.S. immigration-control system and the harsh and brutal immigration police state that comes with it should be fully aware of: the nationwide immigration police-state tyranny will become a permanent part of American life. That should especially matter to libertarians for one simple reason: libertarians want to live a life of freedom, but the problem that is an immigration police state is the opposite of freedom — a destroyer of freedom. It is impossible to have a genuinely free society and an immigration police state. One has to make a choice.” (09/10/26)
“Leaders of the BRICS nations will meet in New Delhi this weekend as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and U.S.-China tensions test the group’s ability to act together. Host India will seek to balance its ties with China and Russia against its growing partnerships with the United States and other Western powers. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are among the leaders expected to attend. BRICS is a grouping of major emerging markets and developing countries, named after an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It has expanded from its original membership to include 11 countries that together represent about half the world’s population and a large share of its energy, resources and economic output.” (09/11/26)
“A longtime ally of Donald Trump resigned from his post leading a Department of Justice investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president. ‘Sometimes people want things done faster and that’s all you can do,’ Joe diGenova said on Thursday. He appeared to be referring to concerns among other Trump loyalists that the president’s retribution cases were not moving quickly enough. … DiGenova had previously asked the then US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to appoint him to the job and had openly and repeatedly claimed Trump was the victim of an intelligence community conspiracy. But five months later, no charges have been brought, and it remains unclear whether any will be, or what information has been gathered to support any basis for the idea of a plot against Trump by the government officials who investigated him.” (09/10/26)
“The Ukrainian imbroglio has now raged longer than the First World War and shows no sign of abating. Throughout the conflict, the Europeans and Americans have waged an increasingly bitter proxy war, sustaining Kiev’s defense and helping kill tens of thousands of Russian soldiers. Moscow appears to be intensifying its response, especially if it is responsible, as charged by Germany, for last month’s drone attack on Leipzig Airport. European policymakers are increasingly concerned about the potential for a broader conflict. … the allies—at least the U.S.—should step back, reducing their role in the conflict. Putin committed a great wrong against Ukraine, which warranted allied support for its survival. But NATO and especially America should avoid a broader military confrontation.” (09/10/26)
“Algeria decided to sever diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after what it described as the ‘exhaustion of all means to preserve bilateral ties’, Algerian state media said on Thursday. Algeria accused the UAE of ‘provocative and hostile acts’, without providing details in a statement released by the foreign ministry. … Shortly after Algeria’s announcement, Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said on X that diplomatic relations should be based on ‘rationality, communication and clarity of interests’, rather than ‘riddles and signals that require decoding’.” (09/10/26)
