Source: CBS News
“The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday to reinstate the criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported by the Trump administration last year, by reversing a lower court order that found them to be vindictive in nature. In May, a federal judge in Tennessee dismissed a criminal indictment against Abrego Garcia, who had been accused by federal prosecutors of smuggling immigrants in the U.S. illegally. The judge found that the Justice Department prosecuted Abrego Garcia in retaliation for his efforts to challenge his wrongful deportation to El Salvador last year. In a filing Monday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, the Justice Department denied that the prosecution was vindictive, arguing it had ‘multiple legitimate bases to prosecute’ Abrego Garcia.” (08/18/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-asks-court-reinstate-charges-kilmar-abrego-garcia/
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly conversation with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. We talk about how to become a human truth-detector in a time when deception rules our world.” (08/18/26)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-26fsi-1b3a8bb
Source: spiked
by Brendan O’Neill
“It is a testament to the moralism of the eco-doom movement that there has been so much focus on shaming ‘deniers’. Practical matters – like, I don’t know, making the case for the mass rollout of aircon – play second fiddle to the pillorying of heretics. The argument seems to be that these wicked doubters have landed us in the inferno of a neverending summer, just as their witchy forebears gave us crop failure and icy winters. I see it differently. To me, the punishing impact of the heatwaves is less the handiwork of ‘deniers’ than a byproduct of the moral circus of eco-alarmism itself.” (08/18/26)
https://archive.is/p5tbc
Source: Mother Jones
by Russ Choma
“His Oman resort sits just miles from the strait where he’s promising to send in the US military.” (08/18/26)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trumps-bombing-threats-have-a-golf-course-problem/
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“As monthly payments quadruple and defaults surge, Washington’s trillion-dollar higher-ed bubble proves politicians can’t fix the crisis they created.” (08/18/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/the-student-debt-trap-why-government
Source: Law & Liberty
by Alejandro Gomez
“While the colonies declared independence, liberty also found a foothold in the South Atlantic.” (08/18/26)
https://lawliberty.org/buenos-airess-contribution-to-1776/
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday that jailed former prime minister Imran Khan be moved to hospital for medical checks, after a petition by his lawyers over claims of poor health. Justice Shahid Waheed said 73-year-old Khan, who has been in jail since 2023 on corruption charges, will be shifted in the next two days to Shifa International hospital in the capital Islamabad. Khan and his wife and spiritual guide Bushra Bibi were both sentenced late last year to 17 years behind bars. … Khan was prime minister from 2018 to 2022 before being removed in a no-confidence vote during a political crisis over tensions between his government and the South Asian country’s powerful military establishment.” (08/18/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260818-pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-moved-to-hospital-from-jail-over-health-concerns
Source: Show-Me Institute
“Why Young People Are Turning Away from Capitalism with Robert C. Enlow.” (08/18/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/economy/why-young-people-are-turning-away-from-capitalism-with-robert-enlow/
Source: Quillette
by Jonathan Kay
“The disgraced academic was a pathological liar and lifelong con artist whose misdeeds were covered up for years by self-serving academic administrators. Exposing this kind of rot in elite institutions is our job.” (08/18/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/08/17/no-the-media-isnt-responsible-for-jason-ardays-suicide/
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“A recent Breitbart headline: ‘DSA Lawmaker Declares Stealing Should *Not* Be Illegal’. This was not, in the least, a surprising headline to me. These people have no conscience, and their only moral standard is whatever they say it is. I guarantee you that her meaning actually is, ‘stealing will be wrong for you, but it won’t be wrong for us’. I will prove to you, in this article, that that is the Left’s definition of ‘stealing’. Lenin did not make the mistake of telling his people what he was going to bring to them. Some of these really dumb Democrats are telling us what they intend, but nobody but people who know the true history of socialism/communism believes them.” (08/18/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/08/18/they-have-no-stopping-point-n2681361
