Source: Our Future
by Sulma Arias
“I am glad that voters in Kansas, my home state, helped give Trump his final rebuke in the midterm elections. After all, Kansas was home to a girl named Dorothy, who pulled back a curtain to reveal that the Great Wizard who claimed only he could solve the world’s problems was nothing but a fraud. Dorothy is the hero of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel, ‘The Wizard of Oz’. Written in 1900, this beloved children’s story is also considered a parable about the injustices faced by working people during the Gilded Age. Swept away from her home by a storm, Dorothy believes only the Great Wizard has the power to help her. Then, when she visits his castle, she discovers that all along he was lying – and that she had the power to make her own way home.” (11/08/26)
https://ourfuture.org/20261108/voters-pull-back-the-curtain-on-trumps-lies
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Monday he was bringing forward a planned hike in the minimum wage to December from January, as he sought to defuse a cost-of-living crisis that has sparked some of France’s worst civil unrest in years. … The hike falls short of union demands, with the CFDT, France’s largest union, calling for a €100 increase, while the left-wing CGT union is demanding a 10% rise, equivalent to around €150 a month.’ (11/09/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261109-french-pm-lecornu-announces-increase-minimum-wage-bid-to-calm-protests
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on Rep. Hakeem Jeffries firing back at those on the left who are calling for him to be ousted as House leader.” (11/09/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/6201664-rising-november-9-2026/
Source: The Dispatch
by Nick Pompella
“People want to understand how the Columbine shooters, or Adam Lanza of Sandy Hook, or Payton Gendron of Buffalo—who murdered 10 black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on May 14, 2022—could do something so terrible to their fellow human beings. We seek and we find unsatisfactory answers. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were goths, were Mansonites, were bullied at school. Adam Lanza was autistic and had OCD. Or, in Payton Gendron’s case, we get the least helpful answer of all: He was ‘radicalized online.'” (11/09/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/payton-gendron-mass-shooters-buffalo-internet/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vincent Geloso
“Many complaints about immigration are really byproducts of state interventions elsewhere in the economy, preventing markets from responding to new arrivals.” (11/09/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/when-immigration-meets-an-economy-that-cant-adapt/
Source: Common Dreams
“As severe floods ravage Gaza, Israel is continuing to block the entry of tents, repair materials, and mobile homes despite the aid provisions of the October 2025 ‘ceasefire’ agreement. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported Monday that more than 150,000 tents are ready to be sent to Gaza, where it said more vacuum trucks and mobile dewatering pumps were urgently needed. At least 70,000 tents were flooded in a single day this weekend. At least one infant reportedly drowned. A mother and her two children, along with three other children from the same family, were killed when a sandbank collapsed onto their tents. ‘Over the weekend, while families slept, water flooded their tents and engulfed entire camps,’ said Ahmad Alhendawi, Save the Children’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.” (11/09/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-floods-shelter-blocked-israel
Source: Notes from the Middleground
“A recording from Damon Linker and Persuasion’s live video.” (11/09/26)
https://damonlinker.substack.com/p/ask-the-author-francis-fukuyama-and
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Working with family carries risks, but so does betting on the empty promises of higher education.” (11/09/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/when-nepotism-beats-college
Source: Law & Liberty
by Max Skjönsberg
“Nineteenth-century Ireland blended sectarian strife with sophisticated debate about representative government.” (11/09/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-irish-question-after-burke/
Source: Seattle Times
‘Novo Nordisk A/S and Eli Lilly & Co. must add warning labels to their weight-loss and diabetes drugs about a potential rare side effect that could permanently damage patients’ vision. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will now require GLP-1 drugs including Novo’s Wegovy and Ozempic and Lilly’s Mounjaro, Zepbound and Foundayo to carry warnings that they may increase the risk of non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION. The rare condition can cause decreased vision and potentially permanent vision loss.” (11/09/26)
https://archive.is/TWCWU
