Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“I strongly disagree with the idea that it’s unhelpful to bully celebrities about their position on Palestine. On the contrary, I think we should bully them more. We tend to underestimate the consequences of the fact that all the most amplified voices in our society are millionaires. Under capitalism the people with the largest platforms and the biggest audiences are all wealthy enough to have a vested interest in preserving the status quo, so they’re reluctant to rock the boat politically in any major way. When all the most influential voices in our society are creating the illusion that the system is more or less fine the way it is by what they say and what they don’t say, it cannot help but significantly influence public political opinion. In this way celebrities function as a kind of goalkeeper preventing dissident thought from reaching the minds of the masses.” (09/23/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/09/23/its-good-to-bully-celebrities-about-palestine/

Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz

“I’ve written literally thousands of words about breadwinner jobs. I’ve explained why they are destroying family formation, family stability, and the fertility rate. I’ve pontificated about how this deficit explains so much of American politics. I’ve stated that we’re probably not going to fix anything politically until candidates focus on fixing this. Despite this, I’ve yet to really define the term. And I think my experience can help illuminate what a ‘breadwinner job’ is and why I think it matters so much. If I had to sum it up, I’d say a job is a breadwinner job if it makes a woman feel safe enough to get pregnant. Or get sick. Or otherwise become unwilling or unable to work outside the home.” (09/23/26)

https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/what-is-a-breadwinner-job

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“While one might assume that the most enthusiastic proponents of extending the federal government’s assistance programs would also be the most ardent fraud hunters — since fraud weakens the system they promote — one would be wrong. When individual assistance and healthcare fraud actually receive effective scrutiny, socialists and progressives can reliably found among the chief protesters. This is something to watch for, especially in light of what Vice President J. D. Vance announced yesterday — that the federal government has removed hundreds of thousands of Obamacare enrollments created for people who either do not meet eligibility requirements or … don’t exist.” (09/23/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/09/23/whos-against-fraud/

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“One of this year’s world-shaping elections has been largely hidden from the world. Since July, the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council have held three secret straw polls to select the U.N.’s next secretary-general by January. No clear front-runner has emerged. But here is the headline so far: Two of the top three candidates are women. In the U.N.’s 81 years, only men have been chosen as its top executive. Typically, a secretary-general ends up serving two five-year terms. What’s more, the two women leading the informal balloting are from Latin America. The last U.N. secretary-general from that region left 35 years ago. The Security Council’s choice this time will certainly reflect the usual backroom horse-trading among the body’s three major veto-wielding nations: Russia, China, and the United States. … The 193-member Assembly has the final say on the choice.” (09/22/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0922/Straws-in-the-wind-for-women-peacemakers

Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye

“The proposal offers vulnerable Republicans an immediate and visible response to an economic problem. It would let lawmakers say American fuel is being reserved for American consumers. That, though, ain’t the end of it. The United States would be trying to lower domestic prices by removing supply from an already undersupplied global market while interfering with the export business that helps keep American refineries operating near capacity.” (09/23/26)

https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/banning-diesel-exports-is-bad-policy

Source: The Daily Economy
by Doug Bandow

“As interest costs consume an ever-larger share of the federal budget, maintaining an informal global empire becomes fiscally and strategically indefensible.” (09/23/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/a-bankrupt-america-cant-defend-the-world/

Source: The UnPopulist
by Gregg Nunziata

“Judicial independence is a hard-won but easily lost feature of liberal democracy. As we’ve seen in Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere, aspiring autocrats prioritize delegitimizing, intimidating, and weakening the judiciary. Court packing would, inescapably, have this effect, which is why a Democratic Congress rejected Franklin Roosevelt’s court-packing proposal, calling it a ‘direct violation of the spirit of the American Constitution.’ As in medicine, the operating motto for any intervention in statecraft is: first, do no harm.” (09/’23/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-scheme-to-pack-and-unpack-the-supreme