Source: The UnPopulist
by Robert Tracinski
“More candidates should embrace his blend of affordability, anti-racism, and restoring congressional checks on abusive executives.” (10/13/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/jon-ossoff-is-the-article-i-candidate
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
“The ruling in Bernstein v. Department of Justice held that code is speech and so is protected by the First Amendment – a precedent that underpins the internet as we know it today. This landmark case was led by Cindy Cohn, then a young pro bono lawyer working on behalf of EFF, who went on to become EFF’s legal director and then executive director.” (10/13/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/privacys-defenders-podcast-no-privacy-without-encryption
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“I am not telling you to do anything illegal. I merely note that finding out where the cameras are in your driving range gives you options.” (10/13/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/10/13/the-fight-against-flock/
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jonah Goldberg
“In the early Trump era, many prominent pundits were fairly conventional conservatives. When the audience veered towards populism and MAGA, the hosts followed the advice widely attributed to the French 19th century politician, Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin: ‘There go the people, I must follow them, for I am their leader.’ (In fairness, he didn’t say it, critics ascribed it to him.) But the most dangerous realm for this dynamic isn’t political journalism. It’s politics. Politicians often are captured by their true-believing base.” (10/13/26)
Source: Politics Politic Politics
“What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth).” (10/13/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/what-the-hell-is-happening-in-kansas
Source: Niskanen Center
by Larry Bafundo
“States often find it easier to secure millions of dollars to replace an aging IT system than a few thousand to understand why it no longer works. They can pay a vendor to build a new website, but struggle to hire the staff who decide what to do next. These problems run deeper than budgeting. The processes that states use to procure and manage technology are largely designed for projects with defined scopes and clear endpoints. That works reasonably well when the work has a clear finish line, but less well for services that need to keep changing after launch, which is the case with most digital services.” (10/13/26)
Source: ABC News
“Confirmed cases in Congo’s Ebola outbreak have surpassed 9,000, with more than 4,300 deaths, as health authorities struggle to contain an outbreak spreading across seven provinces, according to government figures released Tuesday. The Health Ministry reported 9,066 confirmed cases and 4,381 deaths, with the death toll approaching half the number of confirmed cases. … The outbreak has created new hot spots as it spreads to more communities, with 65 health zones across seven provinces now affected.” (10/13/26)
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott interviews Larry Johnson about the status of Washington’s campaign to weaken the current Russian regime.” (10/13/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/10-9-26-larry-johnson-sanctioning-russia-wont-work/
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“The State of Wyoming, generally considered to be a conservative, not-quite one-party state, but with a strong streak of minarchist libertarianism, have some odd quirks. One of those has to do with gambling. Take an interesting little ‘fun game’ called ‘shake-a-day’ featured in many saloons, bars, and lounges in the Cowboy State. According to a recent Cowboy State Daily article, Wyoming this game is definitely illegal, since the State ‘clarified’ its laws and regulations. Which are, to put it mildly, confusing.” (10/13/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/10/13/gambling-government-and/
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