Source: Town Hall
by Sally C Pipes
“The midterms are approaching fast, and polls paint a grim picture for Republicans. GOP candidates are struggling to win over voters concerned about healthcare costs. Since President Trump returned to office, congressional Republicans have enacted several significant healthcare reforms. Some aim to restrain government spending. Others could put more money in patients’ pockets, expand their control over healthcare expenses, or address practices that contribute to high prices. Consider the Medicaid reforms included in last year’s Working Families Tax Cut legislation. Medicaid spending more than doubled between 2010 and 2024, rising from $397 billion to $932 billion. The new law seeks to restrain that growth, in part by requiring certain working-age beneficiaries to work, volunteer, or participate in education or job training for at least 80 hours per month to maintain their coverage.” (10/28/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/sallycpipes/2026/10/28/republicans-can-tout-a-record-of-healthcare-reform-this-november-n2685425
Source: Yahoo! News
“Brazil’s defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro arrived at a Miami-area airport on Wednesday, after the US State Department said it would issue visas to him and his family following his loss to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s runoff election. … Bolsonaro’s arrival in the United States follows conflicting reports about his movements after leaving Brazil despite a court order banning him from travelling abroad. … Bolsonaro, who received tacit support from US President Donald Trump, is under investigation in Brazil for alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. He was ordered to surrender his passport and is expected to lose his parliamentary immunity following his election defeat.” (10/28/26)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/flavio-bolsonaro-arrives-miami-fleeing-172228550.html
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on a proposal from Washington DC City Council member Robert White to keep landlords from evicting tenants who fail to pay rent.” (10/28/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/6168269-rising-october-28-2026/
Source: Wired
by Miles Klee
“Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.” (10/28/26)
https://archive.is/owOv5
Source: The Hill
by Jeremy Tedesco
“For years, Americans who lost their bank accounts over their beliefs were told they were imagining things. Banks sent form letters. Customer service read from scripts. Nobody would say why. The federal regulator that oversees the nation’s largest banks recently confirmed what many of us have argued all along: Politicized debanking was real, it was widespread, and it can easily happen again. … Trump’s executive order declared that no American should be denied financial services because of protected beliefs, affiliations or political views, and it set this report in motion. But executive orders and regulators change with administrations. Laws passed by legislatures provide more durable protection. That’s why the states matter.” (10/28/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/6176942-trump-order-fair-banking/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Humanity has the freedom to fail this test and go the way of the dinosaur. We’re allowed to take that path if that’s what we collectively choose to do. We can allow a few massively outnumbered plutocrats and empire managers to drive our species to extinction via climate disaster, nuclear holocaust, or AI apocalypse if we want to. We are completely free to do that. I don’t know about you, but I actually find this a comforting thought. When you take a close look at the existential hurdles that humanity is faced with, it can feel pretty bleak. Global capitalism is destroying the biosphere we all depend on for survival. The western empire is getting increasingly comfortable engaging in reckless brinkmanship with nuclear-armed rivals.” (10/28/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/10/28/revolution-or-extinction-the-choice-is-ours/
Source: Independent [UK]
“A judge in Milan has freed a 30-year-old researcher accused by police of helping orchestrate violent protests in Italy this month, in a ruling that has infuriated Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who denounced the decision as ‘shameful’. Youssef Siher, an Italian freelance journalist and geopolitics graduate of Moroccan origin, was detained by Milan prosecutors on 24 October on charges of incitement to commit crimes, aggravated by alleged terrorist purposes. … Prosecutors had portrayed Siher as a dangerous militant, but Milan judge Tiziana Landoni said in her ruling that the investigation appeared deeply flawed. ‘There are no serious grounds for believing that (Siher) committed the offences with which he has been charged, nor is there a risk of flight,’ Landoni wrote in her ruling.” (10/28/26)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-protests-meloni-youssef-siher-b3074930.html
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul McDonnold
“The entrepreneur behind the peanut butter cup once worked at Hershey’s. In his own basement, he discovered the power of turning failure into opportunity.” (10/28/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-h-b-reese-turned-failure-into-sweet-success/
Source: Free the People
“Join Free the People for Liberty Pub Live with Jack Hunter, Jim Antle, and Matt Kibbe to prognosticate on the coming midterm elections. What are the policies, good, bad, and ugly, that will determine who wins, and who loses? Spoiler: It ain’t pretty.” (10/28/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL5fZeuPAcE
Source: Time
by Philip Wang
“In recent days, Trump officials have sued to potentially block the certification of a Senate race in Alaska, threatened election officials in California with jail time, and implied that the outcome in a Senate race in Minnesota couldn’t be trusted if the Republican didn’t win. Trump’s allies have also been urging the President to potentially take drastic measures, including declaring martial law to seize ballots. Election officials in dozens of states are preparing for a wide range of possible interference on Tuesday when millions of voters will cast ballots, as well as in the days that follow as the votes are counted, the final batches of mail-in ballots come in and the election outcomes are certified. … Here’s how the Trump Administration could potentially interfere in each step of the election process—and how state and local officials, and various outside groups, are preparing for each scenario …” (10/28/26)
https://time.com/article/2026/10/28/Trump-voting-election-interference-ballots-DOJ-fraud-investigation/
