Source: New York Post
by Santiago Vidal Calvo
“Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants New Yorkers to think he got DoorDash, one of the country’s biggest food delivery companies, to pay a huge $131.5 million settlement to its workers at his command. ’DoorDash underpaid more than 260,000 workers, and today we are getting that money back,’ he boasted last week. Headlines aside, that’s hardly the full story. Yes, DoorDash made a mistake. The company admitted that $6.6 million in payments never reached NYC Dashers, and that a further $5.7 million arrived late. That’s unacceptable: Gig-delivery workers deserve their earned wages, and the administration was right to ask for compensation and corrections. Yet that doesn’t mean $131.5 million was stolen from workers by a greedy delivery company, as Mamdani suggested Tuesday in a press conference complete with a giant prop check.” (09/28/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/09/28/opinion/mamdanis-triumph-over-doordash-greed-isnt-all-it-seems/
Source: Town Hall
by Alan Joseph Bauer
“Western countries, including the US, will have to make a choice. … One can spend endless hours dissecting October 7th, a fake genocide claim, Hamas, the Palestinians, etc. Or one can make the topic a very simple choice. The West can once again get rid of its Jews, or it can value their role in society and send away those who are fanning the flames against them. One does not have to like Jews. He can list reasons, real or imagined, why he doesn’t like Jewish people. They have all of the money! They control everything! They are rude! Our religion teaches us to hate them! It doesn’t matter. All of us may have affinities or the opposite towards various groups, and far from this being ‘racism’, it is called being normal. If a person acts on these feelings, then his behavior might enter the world of racism.” (09/28/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/09/28/the-least-bad-option-n2683665
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A British child chess prodigy has become the youngest player in history to earn the woman [sic] grandmaster (WGM) title. Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, from north-west London, secured her third and final WGM norm – a certified title-level performance – while representing England at the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) confirmed. Speaking to FIDE, Sivanandan said she was happy about the achievement but wanted to ‘keep making history’. It is the latest milestone in a remarkable rise for the schoolgirl, who has already become Britain’s youngest women’s [sic] chess champion and the youngest person to represent England internationally in any sport.” [editor’s note: The BBC headline calls her a “woman”; I attempted to fix that, since last I knew an 11-year-old human was still a “child” – SAT] [additional editor’s note: Whether the person in question is either biologically or mentally a “child” or “adult” isn’t something that can be determined by drawing a number out of a hat; all the number indicates is that she is legally a “minor” – TLK] (09/28/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqwyzrg7xm2zo
Source: The Dispatch
“Inside Israel’s War Room | Interview: Elliot Kaufman and Yonah Jeremy Bob.” (09/28/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/inside-israels-war-room-interview-elliot-kaufman-and-yonah-jeremy-bob/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño
“The tone shifts from one administration to the next. The premise never does. Every president treats European defense budgets as figures for Washington to set, audit, and enforce. That premise collapses on its own terms. Europe’s security belongs to Europeans. The continent commands an economy many times larger than Russia’s and fields two nuclear powers of its own. If Poland wants to pour 5% of its GDP into its army, Warsaw should make that call. If Spain values its welfare state more, Madrid should make that call. … As long as Washington sits at the head of the table, NATO serves as a vehicle for schemes hatched in the Pentagon, in think tanks, and among the oligarchs and defense contractors who profit from every new benchmark.” (09/28/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/let-europe-defend-europe/
Source: Liberal Currents
by WBF
“Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.” (09/28/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media-has-not-brought-liberation/
Source: ABC News
“Hungary’s Parliament voted on Monday to lift the parliamentary immunity of three lawmakers, including the country’s prime minister, Péter Magyar, as prosecutors proceed with ongoing criminal investigations. Prosecutors are investigating Magyar on suspicion of misdemeanor theft after he allegedly took a man’s mobile phone during a nightclub altercation and threw it into the Danube River in June 2024, nearly two years before his party won a landslide election that unseated former populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. … Lawmakers on Monday also voted to suspend the immunity of two former ministers in Orbán’s government who are suspected of, separately, criminal mismanagement of 17.3 billion forints ($53.6 million) of public funds and accepting more than 12 billion forints ($37.2 million) in bribes and kickbacks.” (09/28/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/hungarys-parliament-suspends-immunity-prime-minister-magyar-orbn-136815485
Source: Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
“‘Late Empire Floundering’: The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Makes No Sense w/ Nat Wilson Turner.” (09/27/26)
https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/nwturner9-25-26/
Source: The American Conservative
by Joseph Addington
“Delcy Rodriguez, acting president of Venezuela, is preparing to put herself out of a job. In an address to the United Nations General Assembly this week, Rodriguez declared that Venezuela is getting ready for a return to democracy. ‘I want to make this very clear at this General Assembly: There will be elections in Venezuela,’ said Rodriguez Wednesday. ‘Venezuela has initiated a process of democratic transformation for its rebirth, an orderly, institutional, and verifiable process.’ Exactly when that orderly process will produce an election is not yet clear, although a rough plan is beginning to take shape.” (09/28/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/democracy-is-coming-to-venezuela-eventually/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Mark Pulliam
“Justice Clarence Thomas’s brand of originalism is ‘going further,’ and he is now on track to set the Supreme Court’s longevity record.” [editor’s note: Sure, but how early in his tenure did that “brand of originalism” start getting tainted by the bribes he’s since been caught taking? – TLK] (09/28/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/clarence-thomas-a-profile-in-courage/
