The Unspun News for American Citizens · Sunday Edition · Sunday, October 11, 2026 06:12 AM EDT
Noise removed — for independent thinkers.
Voting · Diesel · Suppressors · Fed · Ethics · Press · Execution · Houthis · Iran · ICC
Executive Summary
Congress stayed away all week, and the decisions came from courts, agencies and the White House. On Friday a federal judge vacated the Justice Department’s program of checking state voter rolls against a citizenship database. The same day the Treasury licensed Russian diesel imports through April, and lawmakers in both parties moved to block the deal. The ATF stopped enforcing federal registration rules for suppressors nationwide. The president set a Nov. 5 hearing on whether to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook. On Saturday a missile killed 12 people at Riyadh’s airport, an American among them. The strike followed days of Houthi attacks on the airport after a Saudi-led coalition opened an offensive in Yemen. President Trump said the United States may join Saudi strikes.
Iran: Trump wrote Thursday that the United States will not attack Iran before the midterms. On Saturday a U.S. jet disabled a ship running the blockade, and a tanker was hit in the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran’s answer, promised “within a few days,” has not come. Immigration: the Justice Department filed 40 cases to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans, DHS proposed a $70,000 charge for each foreign student who works after graduation, and a judge barred the deportation of the man ICE shot in Manhattan. The machinery of government: a White House panel will weigh Cook’s removal, a Justice Department memo frees senior officials to campaign, and antitrust lawyers are examining the networks that paused White House pool coverage.
Ahead: Georgia’s early voting opens Tuesday, a ruling in the press-pool case is due the same day, and September’s inflation report lands Wednesday. A voter list run through a database, a diesel deal closed by phone, an execution planned for a screen — three tests of what the public sees and who decides: that was the week the country lived.
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