Source: Grist
by Austin Corona
“Geothermal companies face tough tradeoffs over water as they aim to power the data center buildout in Western states.” (09/22/26)
https://grist.org/energy/geothermal-clean-energy-source-water-use/
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Press Ban Backfires as Aides Leak Humiliating Motive Behind It.” (09/22/26)
Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov
“The apparent hope is that Saudi Arabia will suffer enough to abandon its diversification strategy and join the Abraham Accords, bending the knee to the U.S. and Israel. But the neocons, whether they know it or not, face a big problem: Even before Trump rejected MbS’s request to bomb the Houthis, Washington had shown it can’t be trusted as a Saudi partner. Trump’s refusal to help MbS out of the Yemeni jam serves to further highlight that fact, making Riyadh less likely to tighten its security relations with the U.S. and its client Israel.” (09/22/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-riyadh-wont-be-forced-into-israels-arms/
Source: Independent Institute
by Richard K Vedder
“Schools are desperately innovating to ward off destruction.” (09/21/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/21/value-college-degree-collapsing/
Source: United Press International
“Britain has become the second permanent member of the United Nations Security Council to formally commit to voluntarily refrain from using its veto in votes concerning mass atrocities. Britain made the commitment Monday as world leaders gathered in New York City for the start of the U.N. General Assembly’s annual high-level week. … Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States are the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, each holding veto power. The system has long attracted criticism for allowing a single permanent member to block action on major international issues, even when a resolution has the support of a majority of the 15-member council, such as Russia vetoing a Security Council draft condemning its invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and China and Russia vetoing a U.S.-sponsored resolution in March 2024 that said an immediate and sustained cease-fire in Gaza was imperative.” (09/22/26)
Source: The Corbett Report
“It’s the most common question confronting any would-be researcher of conspiracy reality: Who’s at the top of the pyramid?” (09/22/26)
Source: Pierre Lemieux
by Pierre Lemieux
“Pity the poor medical provider who, barely out of the Silk Road camel transport or Bell-era telephone communications, has to deal with patients (more properly called ‘customers’ in economics) who would rather use time-saving and efficient electronic communications! This medical provider will often use government regulation as an excuse and claim that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) forbids email communications with patients, while establishing a patient portal is too expensive. In reality, HIPAA bans neither encrypted nor unencrypted email.” (09/21/26)
https://pierrelemieux.substack.com/p/pity-the-poor-american-doctor
Source: Crooked Media
“Trump Bans Crooked Media.” (09/22/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8955383-trump-bans-crooked-media
Source: Cato Institute
by Mike Fox
“In the early morning hours of August 30, a baby petting zoo donkey named Heehaw was gunned down by a Cedartown, Georgia police officer Trenton Garner in his own pasture. Reports suggest that Cedartown officers were assisting Polk County Police with locating a missing person. The officers had entered his owner’s property without ‘permission or warning.’ When the baby donkey approached them in the dark, braying — as donkeys tend to do — an officer opened fire. HeeHaw’s owner, Hannah Israel, has vowed legal action. While such a high-profile case may induce the city to settle, absent a settlement offer, the doctrine of qualified immunity largely puts justice out of reach. But it wasn’t supposed to be this way. In 1982, contrary to congressional command, the Supreme Court inserted the words ‘“clearly established’ into the text of Section 1983 in the Civil Rights Act of 1871.” (09/21/26)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/no-justice-heehaw-why-police-wont-be-held-account-donkeys-death
Source: Persuasion
by Francis Fukuyama
“It has been very hard for people not obsessively focused on the subject of artificial intelligence to come away with reasonable opinions about what the future holds. There have been so many extreme predictions of both a positive and negative sort that broad skepticism about anything said on the subject is fully warranted. But while that skepticism is healthy, I have to admit my own views have evolved significantly just over the past few months.” (09/21/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-ai-risk