Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Trace Mitchell

“Most coverage calls it a privacy case. But a jury judged whether Facebook’s moderation claims were true, creating a blueprint for policing moderation.” (10/23/26)

https://www.fire.org/news/new-mexicos-25-billion-verdict-against-meta-fundamentally-about-speech

Source: Los Angeles Times
by Robin Abcarian

“The end of the Trump era is in sight. … But we also know that Trump will never go gently. This is not conjecture. We already have proof that Trump is incapable of accepting defeat, that he is not above trying to cheat to get what he wants and that he is perfectly willing to sit back and watch a violent mob try to overturn election results he didn’t like. The Washington Post reported last week that a small, nonpartisan group of current and former U.S. national security officials ‘motivated by a growing sense of alarm’ has been quietly advising state and federal lawmakers on how to prepare for Trump administration interference with the midterm elections. It’s not just security officials. Most of the country is worried.” (10/25/26)

https://archive.is/58XPc

Source: Liberalism.org
by David T Beito

“It is doubtful that any other American small town has contributed so much to the advancement of human freedom during the twentieth century as Mound Bayou. Without it, such civil rights icons as Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, and possibly Rosa Parks might have remained invisible to history. Evers and Hamer both lived and worked in Mound Bayou during the early 1950s, and as we shall see, Parks’s story intersects with it as well. … One precondition of Mound Bayou’s success as an outpost for free expression was a political environment that encouraged business ownership and law and order. In this respect, the founders of the community shared the same view as their ally Booker T. Washington, who argued that economic power provided the most secure foundation for the protection of individual rights.” (10/23/26)

https://www.liberalism.org/p/the-greatest-little-town-you-ve-probably-never-heard-of

Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman

“We need not agree with every detail to see what Sumner was getting at. Reality is real; everything is something specific; A is A. To live properly—life is conditional—we must understand the facts. Further, people differ in intelligence, talents, preferences, and predispositions. That’s the way it is. The behaviorist delusion that all individuals are essentially the same and could achieve anything given the right environment is balderdash.” (10/23/26)

https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-sumners-worries-should-be-our

Source: New York Post
by Dominic Green

“The English say all bad ideas come from France, but that is unfair to the Germans. The scenes of riot and destruction from France may arise from our Gallic friends’ particular circumstances and peculiar habits, but they reflect Europe’s general malaise — one to which the United States is not immune. The ‘French intifada’ is overthrowing the icons of France. The images are as memorable as the menu at Maxim’s restaurant. A statue of Joan of Arc is defiled with the Palestinian flag. A bust of Marianne, the icon of the French Revolution, is cast to the ground in the trashed city hall of Marseilles. The 19th-century town hall of Limoges goes up in flames. The statistics are as stunning as Maxim’s prices.” (10/24/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/10/24/opinion/forget-the-riots-frances-finances-will-be-its-downfall/