Source: The Daily Economy
by Thomas L Hogan
“The stock market crash may have started the trouble, but Federal Reserve failures and New Deal interventions transformed a downturn into the Great Depression.” (10/20/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/what-turned-a-stock-market-crash-into-the-great-depression/
Source: United Press International
“The use of force in an officer-involved-shooting that resulted in the death of a 1-year-old in Mississippi has been ruled justified by the state of Mississippi on Monday. … The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said the driver of the vehicle, Kohen’s aunt, drove toward the police officers and struck one of them. An officer then fired on the vehicle, hitting the driver and fatally shooting Kohen [Wiley]. … An independent autopsy report found that Kohen’s death was a homicide. His family is being represented by civil rights attorney Ben Crump as they seek the release of surveillance footage from the Walmart and the bureau of investigation.” (10/19/26)
Source: The Chris Spangle Show
“Interview: Chris Spangle on How Indiana Historical Society Seeks to Preserve Hoosier History.” (10/19/26)
https://www.chrisspangle.com/p/interview-chris-spangle-on-how-indiana
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Adam Schwartz
“Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are mass surveillance. They photograph every passing car and log where and when it was captured, building a searchable record of where nearly everyone drives. Cities should not buy them, and cities that already have them should shut them down. Where these systems still operate, courts and state legislatures must reduce their harms by (among other things) requiring police to get a warrant before searching stored ALPR data. A warrant requirement would not make mass surveillance acceptable, but it would require police to justify a search to a judge before accessing records of people’s movements.” (10/19/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/require-police-get-warrant-search-alpr-data
Source: New York Post
by staff
“With Saturday’s mid-day murder in the tourist-packed 7th Avenue subway station at 53rd Street, the city has now seen seven transit killings since January — almost double the number over the same period last year — and the politicians plainly won’t do what’s needed to seriously reverse the trend. That grim milestone indicts Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his movement’s anti-public-safety policies — as he all but acknowledged Monday with a long, ugly silence before claiming to be ‘heartbroken’ over the death of Darrel Rodriguez and vague noises about addressing gun violence. Progressives have been on a ‘criminal justice reform’ roll for over a decade now — starting with the disastrous ‘success’ of getting city district attorneys to quit prosecuting fare-beating, even though such perps are regularly wanted for more serious offenses.” (10/20/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/opinion/why-mamdani-wont-act-to-reverse-soaring-subway-violence/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The re-arrests announced on Tuesday relate to a 24-year-old man who was initially arrested on 27 September near the base and a 25-year-old who was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts days later on 1 October in the borough of Westminster. The other five men – who also include a 22-year-old British national arrested in Westminster on 6 October – remain on police bail. The head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said: ‘This is very much a live investigation, and our evidence gathering continues, but at this time our position remains the same; we consider it highly likely that there is Iranian state involvement. Our investigators are continuing to examine what that level of involvement was and the ambition behind it’.” (10/20/26)
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“How Trump Plans to Steal the Midterm Elections.” (10/19/26)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-trump-plans-to-steal-the-midterm
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“Are Democrats spending money quixotically and stretching themselves too thin? Is there any chance Democrats can win in places that Donald Trump has consistently won by double digits? Especially in Senate races that could seal control of the upper chamber? Yes, there is a chance. Probable, no. A chance, yes.” (10/20/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/10/20/kansas-montana-mississippi-where-will-the-blue-wave-crest/
Source: The UnPpoulist
by Andy Craig
“The House’s control over its own membership does not put members beyond the reach of the ordinary law. A representative who takes a bribe can be investigated, indicted, and convicted like anyone else, and nothing in Article I stands in the way. A conviction is not among the qualifications and does not by itself cost anyone a seat. What is different about the Omar investigation is its purpose. It is not aimed at punishing a crime but at taking away one of the three constitutional qualifications for the office she already holds, her citizenship. … The House may have ultimate control over its membership, but the attempt to short-circuit that authority by abusing other processes does real damage. The House would keep its power on paper while being dared to assert it, and to assert her privileges as a member in full standing.” (10/19/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-attack-on-congresswoman-omar
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“[M]aking homelessness invisible generally means forcing people into shelters, or letting the weather do that for you. But solving homelessness? That is more complicated.” (10/19/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/10/19/the-homeless-problem-and-government/