Source: Washington Post
“A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member. Tech giants Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million, the top contribution amount, the list shows. The Adelson family, one of the GOP’s largest donor dynasties, committed that sum as well, as did billionaire Charles Ergen, co-founder and chairman of telecommunications company Dish Network. Absent from the list is Trump himself, who has said that he is helping to pay for the project.” (10/15/26)
https://archive.is/ST0bw
Source: spiked
by Claire Fox
“Everyone claims to believe in free speech – until someone says something they dislike. That produces a censorious tit-for-tat cancel culture, not just on the left but increasingly on the right. Instead, we must uphold free speech as a principle for all. And we need to start exercising our free-speech muscles that risk atrophying in an era of progressive censorship. That is why the Battle of Ideas, the original free-speech festival, matters.” (10/15/26)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/15/why-the-battle-of-ideas-matters-in-our-age-of-censorship/
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The AI Companion Question | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom.” (10/15/26)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69793
Source: SFGate
“After a 28-minute-long bidding war, a fully functional ‘Hatfield’ Apple-1 computer sold at Bonhams for $1.15 million on Oct. 14, setting a new world auction record for commercially released Apple-1 computers, the institution said in a recent news release. The primitive personal computer, which was created by engineer Steve Wozniak in 1976, includes a signed letter from Steve Jobs, the original operations manual and a typed invitation to the ‘Apple I Owners Club,’ as well as several hardware components. Perhaps most importantly, Wozniak’s signature is on the motherboard, which still operates 50 years later. Born in San Jose in 1950, Wozniak met Steve Jobs when they were still mischievous teenagers hacking into public telephone networks. Together, they collaborated on the Apple-1 and brought it to the Homebrew Computer Club, a group of hobbyists who gathered in Menlo Park to exchange ideas about personal computing, which was still a novel concept in the mid-1970s.” (10/15/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/rare-apple-computer-sale-22478843.php
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Considers Using Mother of All Bombs in Iran, Ansar Allah Hits Aden Presidential Palace, and More.” (10/15/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZtbFcQPI5o
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Surprise! Blowing Up Boats Didn’t End ‘Narco-terrorism.'”
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vJpPNmjYLwJE
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“A Class-A Dirty Midterms Trick. The Story Behind ‘The Social Reckoning’ (with Karol Markowicz and Katie Harbath).” (10/15/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/a-class-a-dirty-midterms-trick-the
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Would it be possible, given the growing divide between the Red and Blue States from coast to coast, to go back more than 200 years, and come up with a new version of the Articles of Confederation? That was, after all, what the men in Philadelphia were supposed to do. Not replace the Articles with a ‘Constitution’ but improve them. Address the issues that were keeping things in an uproar? Today, we find that in the last 237 years, we’ve come up with a lot of ideas, techniques, that would let us address those issues while still restoring the full sovereignty that the 12 States had.” (10/15/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/10/15/can-the-states-again-become-a-confederation/
Source: Independent Institute
by Jennifer Hernandez & Kristian Fors
“This report analyzes 498 appellate court decisions involving the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) from 2013 to 2023, finding that housing remains the leading target of CEQA litigation. It explores how CEQA has become a major obstacle to development in California and how various interest groups exploit the law to obstruct projects. It also offers recommendations for reform aimed at removing barriers to development, encouraging economic growth, and promoting greater prosperity in the Golden State.” (10/15/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/10/15/why-california-cant-build-reliable-and-affordable-essential-projects/
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Executions open to the public, once a popular spectacle in early America, began to lose whatever moral purpose they once had nearly two centuries ago. The last legally sanctioned public execution in the United States was in 1936. And, as a sign of how sentiments have shifted, a monument was erected in Massachusetts just nine years ago to mark the site of the most famous public hangings: 19 people accused of witchcraft in 1692 Salem. This week, three TV news networks reported that the Trump White House is leaning against a plan by the Pentagon to livestream an execution – by firing squad on Dec. 3 – of an ex-Army major convicted of killing 13 people at a Texas military facility in 2009. Not only has airing such an official and gruesome act ignited bipartisan backlash in Congress, but House Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President JD Vance also say they would not watch the broadcast.” (10/14/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/1014/The-backlash-against-livestreaming-an-execution
