Useful @gelliottmorris look at who the undecided voters are and what they care about. gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10…

HUGE new Ct. of Appeal decision holds that CA homeowners whose ADU application was denied may sue city for damages. The logic sweeps broadly, probably reaching all housing projects subject to ministerial approval under state law -- and perhaps even more. 🧵/23

My latest for @PostOpinions is a first look at the new & improved "Freedom in the 50 States" report from @CatoInstitute, discussing how common partisan breakdowns of economic & personal freedom in the US are mostly wrong: wapo.st/4igStdq (🎁)

Trump White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers — as Trump allies press the administration to protect lower-ranked officials from prosecution and other legal challenges, according to two sources familiar with the conversations. washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…

OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.

Palmer Luckey warns America cannot compete with China’s population advantage forever through innovation alone: “We need 1 BILLION Americans minimum. Probably more like 2 or 3 billion.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳 “Yes, we need to get our act together. We need to do better at manufacturing, at defense, all these things. But everything is just biting around the margins if we’re 350 million people and they’re 2 billion people who are roughly the same. How exceptional do we have to be to achieve a 10-to-1 ratio forever, in perpetuity? It’s not practical. It’s not logical. I would say it’s even possibly a racist thing to believe that we can be so much better than China and the Chinese people that we’ll just beat them with a tiny fraction of the population. We need to do better with what we’ve got. But we also just need a lot more people. We need 1 billion Americans minimum, probably more like 2 or 3 billion, with better demographics and better natural resources. The Dutch once had the most powerful navy in the world. They didn’t lose that position because they fell behind on factories or shipbuilding. They became economically irrelevant.” Both countries are competing with respect to declining birth rates. Both nations must be more willing to have children and expand the population growth exponentially over the next decade. The current economic path is unsustainable if our labor force begins to shrink even with artificial intelligence on the rise.

New York doesn't have to be complicit. Hochul's 2022 executive order bars state agencies from contracting with firms doing business in Russia while federal sanctions stand. They still stand. Any terminal or buyer that takes this cargo should lose state business. 4/5