Source: The Blessings of Liberty with Jeffrey Rosen
“Can states and municipalities sue oil companies over climate change?” (10/08/26)
https://rosenjeffrey.substack.com/p/can-states-and-municipalities-sue
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Elizabeth Mumper
“A birth cohort study at Henry Ford followed 18,000 children to compare chronic health outcomes between vaccinated and unvaccinated from birth through long‑term follow‑up. After multivariate adjustment, vaccination exposure showed a higher risk of chronic conditions, including asthma, autoimmune disease, atopic disease, eczema, and neurodevelopmental disorders. By 10 years of follow‑up, 57% of vaccinated children had chronic illness compared with 17% of the unvaccinated. Vaccination was independently associated with a 2.5‑fold increased likelihood of chronic health conditions. Academia chose not to publish the study, citing concerns about career repercussions.” (10/08/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/vaccine-injury-a-glimpse-of-the-scale/
Source: Townhall
by Armstrong Williams
“Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said something out loud this weekend that many in Washington have long understood: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), he argued, lives in fear of the far-left wing of his party. Thune pointed to Democrats blocking debate on military funding and a defense authorization bill, as well as resistance around the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He also recalled the backlash Schumer faced after voting to reopen the government during an earlier shutdown fight. In Thune’s telling, Schumer learned the price of defying his party’s loudest faction and has deferred to it ever since. Thune’s criticism deserves scrutiny. He is a Republican leader making a partisan argument, and his account is not the whole story. But the larger point is difficult to dismiss: Party leaders increasingly govern under threat from their own flanks.” (10/08/26)
Source: Fox News
“House GOP leadership is ratcheting up pressure on its Senate counterparts to pass legislation making daylight saving time permanent after President Donald Trump called on Congress to act. The House’s No. 2 leader, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox News Digital that ‘there’s no reason Americans should lose an hour of sunlight at the end of the day when more daylight means more time with our families, more activity for our businesses and safer communities.’ ‘President Trump has been pushing to make daylight saving time permanent, and House Republicans delivered by overwhelmingly passing the Sunshine Protection Act. It’s a commonsense change and the Senate should take it up,’ Scalise said.” (10/08/26)
Source: The Dispatch
“SUNCOR Gets Complicated.” (10/08/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/suncor-gets-complicated/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Wendy Ramadan-Alban
“These continuous calls by ultraconservatives to withdraw from the NPT have yet to produce an actual withdrawal because of a lack of political consensus. Iran has remained in the treaty despite the war, unprecedented economic pressure, and the return of U.N. sanctions. But is continued NPT membership still an asset for Iran?” (10/08/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-non-proliferation-treaty/
Source: Liberal Currents
by Adam Gurri
“Republicans always attempt to pin any incident of violence aimed in their direction on liberals, who have done nothing more than point to the objective fact of Trump’s authoritarianism. Republicans, meanwhile, are openly the party of rape and domestic abuse. … The Republican Party is the party of Andrew Tate, of Richard Hanania, and, more than anything, of Donald Trump—a rapist, an open misogynist, and all-around avatar of male supremacism.” (10/08/26)
Source: Yahoo! Finance
“Amazon has eliminated approximately 1,000 roles across several teams, including its Stores business, customer service, marketplace support, and retail engineering operations. Business Insider reported that employees received emails on Tuesday, 6 October 2026, stating that their roles had been eliminated. An Amazon spokesperson told the publication that ‘a small number’ of positions, mainly in the Stores business, had been removed that day. Messages reviewed by the publication from an internal Slack channel with almost 37,000 members indicated that employees in India and the UK were among those affected.” (10/08/26)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-cuts-approximately-1-000-085032527.html
Source: The American Conservative
“Is Trump Winning the Hormuz Battle? w/ Rosemary Kelanic.” (10/07/26)
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“The underlying drivers were never mysterious. Prime Minister Abiy’s centralizing ambitions, to say nothing of his authoritarian tactics and ethnic chauvinism, have understandably collided with Tigrayan and Amharan demands for security and autonomy. Eritrea, which fought alongside Ethiopian federal forces against the TPLF in the last war, has since turned hostile. Relations between Addis Ababa and its former province turned neighbor deteriorated sharply as Abiy began again to discuss openly Ethiopia’s dire need for cheap and secure Red Sea access – particularly through the Eritrean port of Assab.” (10/08/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/things-fall-apart-in-ethiopia/