Source: The New Republic
“Trump TV Ads Backfire as New Poll Shows He’s Shockingly Toxic for GOP.” (10/01/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/216058/trump-tv-ads-backfire-new-poll-shows-he-shockingly-toxic-gop
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“What’s on the Supreme Court docket this term?” (10/01/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5987690/whats-on-the-supreme-court-docket-this-term
Source: ABC News
“Glaciers in Switzerland – the home to the most in the Alps – lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year, the second-biggest percentage drop on record due to heat waves and low winter snowfall, experts report. ‘Alpine glaciers have no chance of surviving in the long term under such conditions,’ the GLAMOS Swiss glacier monitoring service and Swiss Academy of Sciences said in a statement released Thursday. The trend has worsened in recent years: Over the past five years alone, the volume of ice in Switzerland has declined by nearly a fifth, the experts say.” (10/01/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/swiss-glaciers-lose-5-ice-volume-2026-heat-136905312
Source: The Dispatch
“Not a MAGA Court.” (10/01/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/not-a-maga-court/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Patrick Pillow
“On September 17, Julian Assange’s return to Twitter/X did not go unnoticed. With more than fifty-one million impressions, it becomes clear his and WikiLeaks’[s] impact is undeniable. Still, his journalism and WikiLeaks have not come without scrutiny. Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin stated Assange should be ‘hunted down.’ Current U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said regarding his work, ‘whoever in our government leaked that information is guilty of treason, and I think anything less than execution is too kind a penalty.’ Meanwhile, former secretary of state and CIA Chief Mike Pompeo considered kidnapping and killing Julian Assange, according to reports from Yahoo News.” (10/01/26)
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall
“We have, a number of times, insisted that China is one of the most free market economies on the planet. Yes, obviously, there’s all that national planning and state ownership of industry and so on. Commanding heights and the Communist Party and all that. And yet at the ground level entry into a market is near entirely free of restriction. In that free to enter the market sense of free market it probably is that most free market economy too. In the professional life of one of us we’ve seen a Chinese company go from idea to production in the time it takes to do the environmental paperwork in Europe. We’re even willing to agree that total freedom to do just anything might not be optimal. But more absence of regulation and where that’s non-optimal less and faster seems like a good idea to us.” (10/01/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-costs-of-the-regulatory-state
Source: Law & Liberty
by Robert P George
“The 25-year-old William F. Buckley Jr. wrote God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of ‘Academic Freedom’ with an appreciation of the contributions made by leading universities in the United States, Great Britain, and elsewhere in the building of our civilization. His special concern was with the civic order, and the role of institutions of higher education in forming citizens of a constitutional democratic republic. As James Madison said, a ‘well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.’ But is there not a tension between two ideals: that of education for citizenship (especially in a republic—that is, a regime in which government is not only of and for the people, but also by the people themselves), and that of liberal education: the unrestricted pursuit of truth, understood not as a means to other ends, but as an end-in-itself?” (10/01/26)
Source: CBS News
“Bolivian police arrested Attorney General Roger Mariaca on Wednesday, two days after the United States revoked his visa over alleged links to drug trafficking, a government source told AFP. ‘The arrest of Prosecutor Mariaca has been confirmed,’ said a source from the Ministry of Government, who requested anonymity. Santa Cruz prosecutor Alberto Zeballos, who has likewise been sanctioned by Washington, was also arrested, according to local media. Both were among the nearly 20 people from Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador whom the U.S. State Department accused this week of corruption, links to drug trafficking, or conspiring against their respective governments.” (10/01/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bolivia-attorney-general-roger-mariaca-arrested-drug-cartel-ties/
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Nicholas Provenzo on Lindsay Clancy and the Objective Law Initiative.” (09/30/26)
Source: UnHerd
by John P Ruel
“While genuine concern exists, constant warnings from AI companies serve as both a marketing tool and consolidation strategy.” (10/01/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/10/ais-apparent-danger-is-its-best-selling-point/