Source: Cato Institute
by Benjamin Giltner
“Russia is escalating its war against Ukraine, killing at least 30 Ukrainian civilians during an October 8 glide bomb attack on two public buses. Rightly, most of the world is outraged. Civilians, tragically, are always killed in wars. But deliberately targeting them is another thing altogether. What this outrage means, unfortunately, is that this war will not end anytime soon. Anger is a major catalyst for wars, and Ukrainians are angry. It’s unclear what the Kremlin’s calculation was in carrying out this strike, perhaps chalked up to growing desperation on the Russian side. Yet bombing civilians doesn’t break a people’s morale and will to fight; in fact, such acts usually strengthen that will.” (10/09/26)
https://www.cato.org/blog/war-ukraine-not-ending-anytime-soon
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“Our Founding Fathers did not put ‘charity’ in the Constitution as a responsibility — power — of Congress or the national government. Thus, the entire American welfare system is unconstitutional, and if anyone disagrees, please ‘lay [your] finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents’ and point it out to me. And prove to me that you know more about the Constitution than the man who wrote it. The Founders didn’t put [it there] for a quite obvious reason: if the government starts giving out free money, the lazy, shiftless, and selfish (which is far too many of mankind) will line up for miles to get as much of it as possible.” (10/10/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/10/10/weve-handed-government-our-work-and-were-paying-the-price-n2684447
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“Indian authorities deployed a sweeping security crackdown across New Delhi and [abducted] thousands of protesters Saturday as India’s youth ‘Cockroach’ movement sought to intensify a nationwide campaign against a contentious voter list revision that has fuelled anger at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government and election authorities. Police moved to break up the demonstration before it could begin, intercepting demonstrators on their way to Jantar Mantar, the designated protest site in the heart of India’s capital, chasing off some and [abducting] many others. Some demonstrators were dragged away before being bundled into police vehicles and taken to temporary detention centres. Several leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), along with opposition lawmakers and student activists, were [abducted] before arriving, effectively crippling the protest ahead of its start.” (10/10/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/india-detains-thousands-youth-protests-9.7377069
Source: Law & Liberty
by Anna Smith Lacey
“When Americans think of monuments to George Washington in Europe, Paris usually comes to mind: Daniel Chester French’s majestic equestrian statue, presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution as a tribute to France’s indispensable role in securing American independence. Others may know the bronze statue in London’s Trafalgar Square, a replica of Jean-Antoine Houdon’s celebrated likeness of Washington, cast from the original that still stands on Virginia soil. Almost no one thinks of Budapest. Yet the Washington statue standing beside a quiet lake in Budapest’s picturesque City Park may be the most American of them all. Not because it is the oldest or the grandest, but because of who built it and why.” (10/09/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-most-american-statue-in-europe/
Source: SFGate
“The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether the decision of the White House television press pool to halt coverage of President Donald Trump last month violated antitrust law, an agency spokesperson said Saturday. Emily Covington, a spokesperson for the department, said group boycotts among business competitors might violate U.S. law. ‘The Antitrust Division is simply investigating to determine whether these news organizations have violated the antitrust laws,’ she said. The announcement came after the television pool of five broadcasters last month ceased presidential coverage after the administration barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.” (10/10/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/doj-says-it-s-investigating-whether-white-house-22471871.php
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“The poll data is in sync with history. Trump’s abysmal job approval and economic record should lead to healthy Democratic gains, including in places where, a year ago, most would not have expected Democrats to win. That Democrats are not guaranteed a sweep of every contested Senate race, let alone an above-average net House gain, is not because the polls are untrustworthy. The polls themselves tell us to remain uncertain and tell the parties not to be complacent.” (10/09/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/10/09/why-you-should-believe-the-polls-this-time/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“A US-based nonprofit is planning to use AI surveillance to check for ‘hateful’ speech about Israel inside classrooms in the genocide-ravaged Gaza Strip. The Associated Press reports: ‘A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed ‘hateful’ or ‘inciting.’ … So inside the ruins of Gaza an American charity funded by Israelis is going to be teaching schoolchildren not to hold negative beliefs toward the US-backed ethnostate which just destroyed their neighborhoods, killed their families, and laid siege to their entire population, and will be enforcing these standards using AI tech surveillance which will be shared with God knows whom.” (10/10/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/10/10/theyre-setting-up-ai-surveillance-to-de-radicalize-classrooms-in-gaza/
Source: The Guardian
“A federal judge ruled on Friday that the US justice department’s policy of collecting states’ unredacted voter rolls to check them against a federal immigration database is unlawful. The ruling, by the US district judge Sparkle Sooknanan, was a setback for Donald Trump, who has pushed his administration to ramp up investigations into non-citizen voting ahead of the November midterm elections, with control of Congress at stake. The department’s list maintenance policy, adopted to comply with the president’s election integrity executive order, violated privacy laws and risked disenfranchising voters, Sooknanan said.” (10/09/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/09/federal-judge-rules-against-trump-push-state-voter-rolls
Source: Serious Trouble
“Not Paid for By the US Government.” (10/09/26)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/not-paid-for-by-the-us-government
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced that the U.S. military’s planned execution by firing squad of Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist, who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, will be live-streamed. Of one thing we can be fairly certain: Leading up to Hasan’s execution, U.S. officials will either (1) do everything they can to avoid mentioning what motivated Hasan to commit those murders or (2) lie about it by claiming that he just hates America for its ‘freedom and values.'” (10/09/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/10/09/dont-forget-hasans-motive/
