Source: Common Dreams
by Pamela Shifman
“‘How can I be of service?’ That was the phone message Gloria Steinem kept leaving at the office of the African National Congress Parliamentary Women’s Caucus in Cape Town, South Africa in 1997. I had arrived in the country a year earlier, working as a young staffer for some of the first women elected to lead South Africa’s new democracy. When they asked if I wanted to call that American woman back, I jumped at the chance. Soon Gloria was on her way to Cape Town, and I was assigned to pick her up at the airport. As this global icon (something she hated to be called) stepped into my rusted car, the first thing I remember is asking her to keep her head near the window as exhaust crept in through a hole in the floor. (She didn’t flinch.)” (09/16/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gloria-steinem-hope-a-holic
Source: Politico
“The U.K. government plans to update the Online Safety Act to clamp down on so-called ‘doxxing’— publicly sharing private or personal information about a person online without their consent — following the harassment of volunteers at a charity which helps people at sea, Digital Secretary Lisa Nandy said. ‘We’re certainly going to be tightening up the law to make sure that where people’s addresses are being published online, that is an offense, and action has to be taken swiftly,’ Nandy said on BBC Breakfast on Wednesday.” (09/16/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-to-make-doxxing-a-criminal-offense/
Source: Homeschool Workshop
“We Built Stilts With My 9-Year-Old (Perfect First Project).” (09/16/26)
https://rumble.com/v7fkri0-we-built-stilts-with-my-9-year-old-perfect-first-project.html
Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“Holly [Mathnerd] warns that social media magnifies tribal hatred. Having written many essays on the horrors of tribalism, I think she is spot on. We can go further. We won’t get to the roots of tribal hatred if we don’t assess cause and effect. Our inner decision to cherish our tribal beast creates the demand to express our hatred on social media. No matter what political or social side we are on, Holly’s observation applies: ‘You cannot defend the individual by changing which collective gets put in the defendant’s chair.'” (09/16/26)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/is-tribalism-the-worst-idea-in-history
Source: SFGate
“The House will vote Wednesday on a broad package of sanctions targeting Russian officials and key pillars of its economy as lawmakers look to deprive Russian President Vladimir Putin of the financial resources needed to wage the war against Ukraine. The bill is named after the late Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who spent more than a year working on it. If the House passes the bill, it would go to President Donald Trump to be signed into law. The legislation represents the most ambitious effort to support Ukraine since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and would break nearly two years of relative gridlock on the issue following a 2024 emergency aid package. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been pushing for the bill’s passage and made a direct appeal to senators shortly before they passed it last month.” (09/16/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/house-nears-vote-on-russia-sanctions-bill-named-22434934.php
Source: New York Times
“48 Days Until the Midterms: Is a Blue Wave Coming?” (09/16/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imn5qjrOh6w
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jeffrey Polet
“NIMBYism is more than retrograde reaction—it is a democratic practice.” (09/16/26)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/put-it-in-your-own-backyard/
Source: Seattle Times
“The number of people aged 100 or older in Japan surpassed a record 100,000 this year, the latest government figures show, underscoring the country’s rapidly aging and declining population. The Health and Welfare Ministry statistics released Tuesday show Japan now has 107,677 centenarians, up 7,914 from the previous year and exceeding the 100,000 mark for the first time. Nearly 88% of them are women.” (09/16/26)
https://archive.is/nSpNU
Source: The Fifth Column
“AI Might Kill Us. Here’s Why It Matters: w/ Jim VandeHei.” (09/16/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/ai-might-kill-us-heres-why-it-matters
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Ben Freeman
“In the last two days, a pair of government reports confirmed what many outside analysts have claimed: the Iran war has been extraordinarily costly for the U.S. military and for the American public. … arlier this month, Trump claimed on Truth Social that the military has ‘virtually unlimited amounts of Mid to High Grade Ammunition.’ He called those who reported there were shortfalls ‘treasonous.'” (09/16/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/cost-of-iran-war/
