Source: Ottumwa Courier
“The International Criminal Court on Monday unsealed arrest warrants against four senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of the crime against humanity of gender persecution against women, girls and members of the LGBTQI+ community in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power in 2021. The court said in a statement that warrants were issued in July and September last year for the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and the head of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, Abdul Hakim Haqqani. Also wanted are Education Minister Habibullah Agha and Minister of Higher Education Neda Mohammad Nadim. The existence of the warrants against Akhundzada and Haqqani was revealed last year, but the warrants remained sealed. With the Taliban in control of Afghanistan and the court having no police force to execute warrants, the prospect of any of the suspects being arrested is remote.” (10/05/26)
https://www.ottumwacourier.com/news/national_news/icc-unseals-arrest-warrants-for-4-taliban-leaders-wanted-on-gender-persecution-charges/article_f16dbc63-632f-5bdf-900f-6842cb96b1cb.html
Source: Lawfare
by Ilya Somin
“Like tariffs, import restrictions are a congressional power under the Constitution, not an executive one. Thus, the president cannot impose import bans without congressional authorization. While some statutes delegate import restriction authority to the president, that power is strictly limited. And, as with tariffs, interpreting these authorities in a way that gives the president a blank check to impose import bans would run afoul of the major questions doctrine and constitutional nondelegation. It remains to be seen whether Trump or a future president might decide to claim sweeping authority to impose import bans at will. But when and if such an effort materializes, courts should strike it down.” (10/05/26)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-president-doesn-t-have-unlimited-power-to-impose-import-bans
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been busy for months wining and dining religious leaders and influencers to try to push their self-serving agenda and utopian fantasies. The Vatican’s response has been to pour cold water on bizarre claims that Anthropic is embarking on its own ‘creation story’ to give birth to new sentient beings in the form of computer software. Billionaire co-founder Chris Olah, a 34-year-old Canadian-born evangelical who has turned his back on Christianity, thinks their AI model, Claude, has feelings and a sort of moral consciousness. He’s worried about its ‘mental health’ and believes it experiences human emotions like love and ‘suffers perpetually’, The New York Times reported.” (10/04/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/10/04/opinion/anthropics-idiot-savants-are-trying-to-play-god-while-pushing-frightenting-utopian-fantasies/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Teachers in Libya have escalated their protests over salaries into an open-ended strike at public schools. Protests began on September 13, the day the school year was due to start. Sit-ins were held outside schools and government buildings in the capital, Tripoli. Two weeks later, Libya’s teachers union stepped up the campaign with a nationwide strike. It has kept students out of classrooms across the country. On Sunday, several Libyan unions representing other sectors threatened to join the strike unless the government entered talks to address a cost of living crisis.” (10/05/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/libyan-teachers-strike-escalates-as-union-demands-major-education-reforms
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers his notes on the Cornell 7 and the condemning online discourse surrounding the story despite no conviction in a court of law.” (10/05/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/6123364-rising-october-5-2026/
source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by George Ford Smith
“An unalienable right is not possible under a government that claims a monopoly on the legal use of force. Governments of that type, found everywhere, had the energy and incentive to create the hell its media tries to hide. Potemkin villages are abundant. A presidential candidate who pledged to liquidate government in an orderly fashion and return governance to free market institutions and incentives, as we mostly had during the Revolutionary period, is our only peaceful hope.” (10/05/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-should-liquidate-itself
Source: The Daily Economy
by Logan Tantibanchachai
“Brutus feared that unlimited borrowing power would eventually overwhelm political restraint. Congress has accumulated 40 trillion reasons to reconsider that warning.” (10/05/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-anti-federalist-warning-about-americas-debt-crisis/
Source: Payday Report
by Mike Elk
“With the Brazilian presidential election headed to a runoff, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is down 47% to 45% and faces a massive fight ahead. I wanted to give a quick analysis of what happened and where things are going next. Lula lost by only 2%, and several third-party candidates, who took a combined 8% of the vote, have publicly indicated they would not endorse Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round. Likewise, 29 million Brazilians did not vote in this round of the runoff and may be persuaded to vote for Lula in the second round if they fear Bolsonaro. While Brasil defeated Jair Bolsonaro narrowly in 2022, it swung right again, much like the United States. Voters are upset, and they are taking it out on the party in power.” (10/05/26)
https://paydayreport.com/what-caused-lulas-electoral-setback-how-he-could-still-win-the-runoff/
Source: Associated Press
“The Supreme Court is rebuffing an appeal from a Michigan woman fighting a school district’s ban on shirts with the phrase ‘Let’s Go Brandon,’ a jab at then-President Joe Biden with a coded reference to profanity. The mother of two boys says their First Amendment rights were violated when they were told to take off the sweatshirts she bought them for Christmas in 2022. A lower court disagreed, finding that the veiled vulgarity of the phrase, which functions as a stand-in for ‘F-— Joe Biden,’ allows schools to ban it. The woman’s attorneys argued that the decision wrongly gives school officials wide latitude to squelch political speech based on their personal ideas of what is vulgar. The phrase itself doesn’t contain any swear words or sexual implications, they said.” (10/05/26)
https://apnews.com/article/lets-go-brandon-michigan-school-supreme-court-d683aeba76e285321c9b38aa6a3271e4
Source: Brennan Center for Justice
“Can Congress be Fixed?” (10/05/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuAfQDv69MQ
