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: 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/

Source: Persuasion
by Phillips P OBrien

“If a crisis can also be seen as an opportunity, the United States Department of Defense is staring at the greatest opportunity of its existence. In the last eight months of warfare with Iran, the U.S. military has produced arguably the worst performance in American history. It had many months, if not years, to prepare for an air campaign against Iran. It was facing an enemy with an already devastated air force, which had been bombed heavily by Israel and once by the United States the year before. The United States had the benefit of an advanced mixed force of land-based and sea-based air power, missiles which the Iranians could not intercept, and excellent intelligence on Iranian activity. Furthermore, the U.S. military also had access to supposedly world-leading, cutting-edge artificial intelligence capabilities …. And the U.S. military failed miserably.” (10/09/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/is-it-time-to-end-the-pentagon

Source: Los Angeles Times
by LZ Granderson

“Laws, no matter how well intended, are only as strong as people’s beliefs in them. And there is no higher law in life than the one that says we are to treat each other as we wish to be treated.” (10/09/26)

https://archive.is/1hie0

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M Vance

“The plain fact is that it is immoral to take money by coercion from one party and give it to another party. Just because the government does it does not make it any less immoral. Welfare is immoral in any country.” (10/09/26)

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/welfare-is-immoral-in-any-country/