Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko

“Between 2018 and 2019, Silverman was accused of sexually abusing as many as 15 children. (It still isn’t clear exactly how many accusations there were.) The alleged abuse took place at a preschool operated by the Washington Hebrew Congregation (WHC), a large and influential synagogue …. For 18 months, three law enforcement agencies thoroughly investigated Silverman. They went through every electronic device he owned, scoured his past, and interviewed friends and family up and down the East Coast. Then, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. and the D.C. Metro Police Department cleared him with an unusual, strongly-worded public statement: ‘After exhausting all investigative avenues, the universal determination of the investigative team was that there was insufficient probable cause to establish that an offense occurred or to make an arrest.’ … But the statement didn’t persuade Silverman’s accusers. It only further infuriated them.” (10/27/25)

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/accusing-jordan-silverman

Source: The Daily Economy
by Donavan Lingerfelt & Ma Junjie

“Trade has made us wealthy and resilient, but also vulnerable to coercion. As China’s economic power peaks, its political model may be reaching its limits.” (10/27/25)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-china-remade-global-trade-and-then-broke-it/

Source: Law & Liberty
by James Andrews

“AI is a language engine. It does not invent meaning; it predicts plausibility. Trained on vast stores of text, it reproduces the judgments, insights, and blind spots of sources that no one, least of all its builders, fully understands. What it produces is not truth but a statistical echo of human choices about data and rules. That limitation reveals something fundamental about how it works. The model learns by detecting and reproducing statistical patterns in language, predicting which words are most likely to follow others based on training data. … The result is a system that can reproduce the language of knowledge but not the reasoning that makes knowledge possible. AI threatens our grasp of truth not because it lies, but because it lacks any shared framework for determining what truth is.” (10/27/25)

https://lawliberty.org/ais-truth-problem/

Source: TomDispatch
by Tom Engelhardt

“Yes, in the ever more ominously unsettled (dis-)United States of Donald J. Trump, I recently went to the ‘hate America’ rally in New York City. Or at least that’s what Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson insisted it was. Who knew that so unbelievably many Americans, millions of us across the United States, would ‘hate’ this country enough to go out and march in the recent No Kings demonstrations, even in places where we might have feared being in distinct danger from the troops of ‘our’ president? In the days before the latest No Kings demonstrations, no matter whom I talked to or where they lived, they seemed to be planning to go to their local version of that march/rally. My neighbors, other city people, suburbanites, even friends living in the countryside.” (10/27/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/no-kings-the-second-time-around/

Source: The Dispatch
by Claire Lehmann

“Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, podcaster and influencer Candace Owens has floated a succession of conspiracy theories implicating everyone in the murder, from the Israeli government to Kirk’s own organization, Turning Point USA. This week, her speculation reached its apogee when she suggested that Donald Trump himself was involved. In a recent broadcast, Owens linked the commemorations of Kirk’s death to a supposed plot, remarking that ‘when they give you a holiday and a boulevard … they definitely killed you.’ Owens’[s] wild theorizing isn’t an anomaly; it’s part of something older and darker. There’s a distinctly medieval quality to much of the conspiratorial right — a world animated by unseen cabals, moral corruption, and divine punishment disguised as politics.” (10/27/25)

https://thedispatch.com/article/medieval-candace-owens-conspiracy-kirk/