“James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, is rushing to escape his on-the-record gender insanity — but it’s clearly just a dodge, part of lefty candidates’ nationwide playbook to claim to embrace ‘normalcy’. Talarico has unambiguously claimed there are six genders and that God is nonbinary; as a state legislator he voted against bills to keep biological boys out of girls’ sports and to end gender-reassignment treatments for minors. Now he tells Fox News those six-gender comments ‘missed the mark’; he insists he supports a trans-athlete ban and a national ban on gender surgeries and hormones for kids. Has he seen the light of reason and started to actually follow the science on the issue? Don’t bet on it.” (09/12/26)
Source: In These Times
by Tina Al-khersan & Azadeh Shahshahani
“In early 2025, the world watched as masked federal agents abducted Pro-Palestinian activists across the country based on the premise that they were promoting or supporting terrorism. Having tested various legal boundaries through these cases, the Trump administration became further emboldened later that year, issuing the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) in September 2025. The memorandum effectively equated certain political and ideological beliefs with terrorism, and a slew of politically motivated attacks quickly followed. … Although these attacks have in many ways felt unprecedented, they must be seen as a continuation of the War on Terror, in which the security apparatus constructed over the last 25 years is now being used to aggressively target political dissent within the United States.” (09/11/26)
“I was in eighth grade at the time, attending a rural school over 2,000 miles from New York City, but nevertheless everyone was still greatly impacted by the human tragedy. However, while the experience of attending a government school had already made me sure the ‘adults in the room’ running society were largely a bunch of morons, this realization went into overdrive upon seeing the reaction to this event. It was one of the times in my life where it suddenly became apparent that few genuinely believed in anything of moral value. To me, our country’s incapacity to use reason has remained scarier, and a bigger threat to my physical safety and personal liberty, than anything terrorists could do. The worst was the general attitude of, ‘What did we ever do to anyone?'” (09/11/26)
“So: Trump is offering to pay you $5,000 and jack your cost of living up, in return for which he’s demanding your vote and $5,000 plus interest. If that sounds like a good deal to you, you suck at math and you’re probably a member of the rapidly shrinking ‘MAGA’ base.” (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)
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)
“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)
“‘He couldn’t get over the fact that Clancy viciously killed her children.’ Those are the words of one of the insufferably condescending female jurors from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial who have gone public with their disdain for the lone male juror who refused to go along with their not guilty verdict. Good for him. … Now that several of the jurors have come out and exposed themselves, we can see the immense pressure that the lone holdout juror was under day after day in that jury room, being harangued and browbeaten by women infuriated that he refused to be persuaded by their self-proclaimed superior wisdom.” (09/10/26)
“Across the country, a chilling shift is occurring. Political violence has become a twisted form of virtue signaling. Mahatma Gandhi is out and Luigi Mangione is in. For an increasing number of young people, nothing signals your values like a willingness to kill others for them. For decades, being nonviolent has been the touchstone for many on the left. Something is changing. On my campus and others around the country, students are rationalizing violence and even idolizing assassins.” (09/10/26)
