curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Babylon Bee:
Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government
DALLAS, TX — In his keynote speech at the 2026 RNC Midterm Convention, President Donald Trump pledged that if voters defeat socialism in November, they will each get an equal redistribution of wealth from the government.
Trump detailed his plan to take money from taxpayers, divide it up into equal $5,000 shares, and redistribute it to every citizen if they would simply vote to keep socialism at bay.
“Socialism is so dangerous, it’s terrifying, really. We have to stop it by whatever means necessary, even if it means redistributing everyone’s wealth,” explained Trump.
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At publishing time, President Trump had also vowed to reward the defeat of socialism by lowering gasoline costs through the federal government seizing control of private oil companies.
(Babylon Bee more…)
WSJ:
Trump Has a $5,000 Bridge to Sell You
Tom Schaller:
Trumpflation is here
Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – September 10, 2026
We woke up today to news that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of the city and seaport of Mocha and much of the shoreline of the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, another chokepoint for world trade including trade in oil. With the Strait of Hormuz largely closed, Saudi Arabia has relied for seagoing transport on the Red Sea route that empties into the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.
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The price of oil jumped to $109 a barrel, and U.S. gasoline rose to an average of about $4.28 a gallon. GasBuddy said the national average price of diesel had hit $6.00 for the first time in history. Just a year ago, the national average was about $3.70.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Adam Unikowsky:
So why is the Postal Service doing this?…
Well, I don’t know, but my guess is that it’s to get the lists. That’s the point of this rule: for the federal government to vacuum up information on who is receiving, and who is returning, mail ballots. The Postal Service’s list-checking isn’t to detect fraud; it’s to give the government a means of enforcing the requirement to send the lists. If the states don’t send lists, they don’t get to use the mail.Why does the Postal Service want the lists? Answer: the Postal Service plans to share them with other law enforcement entities. This isn’t a paranoid fantasy, it’s what the rule itself says: “The information generated by the implementation of those standards would be available for use by appropriately authorized law enforcement entities to help ensure the faithful execution of federal law.”
(Adam Unikowsky more…)Join No Kings 4: The Early Vote
Jennifer Rubin:
54 Days to the Midterms
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Rebecca Solnit:
Two-thirds of fossil energy is wasted as heat
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Jessica Washington @ Intercept:
Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still UnemployedA year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech.
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Kathryn Rubino @ Above the Law:
DOJ Says Berkeley Law Rigged Its Admissions To Favor Black Students. There Are 51 Of Them.… Berkeley Law’s October 2025 enrollment was 1,128 students. Of those, 516 are white and 293 are Asian. The number of Black students is
51. (No, there is not a digit missing in that number.)
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Thom Hartmann:
The Old America Is Dying. Who Will Build the New One?Economic desperation opened the door to both FDR and Hitler. Nearly a century later, America again faces competing visions of who should rule and whom government should serve…
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Chris Geidner:
SCOTUS blocks TRO that had thrown Missouri’s congressional elections into chaosThe map used for the current congressional delegation will be used in the general election — not the HB1 map backed by Republicans and used in the primaries.
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Ashley Belanger @ arsTECHNICA:
Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
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Samantha Cole @ 404 Media:
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on ‘Leave of Absence’
Last Days in Two Nations
Climate.us
formerly Climate.gov
Climate Solutions Explorer
Have I Been Flocked?
Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- August 31: Pierre Damas Bel
- August 1: Edwin Lopez-Cornejo
- July 19: Jose Chajon-Raxon
- July 14: Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran
- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
- June 4: Mamuka Artmeladze
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
Suffering Under President Obama
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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