I keep having to resort to these roundups. Too much news; hard to choose! And so we have the following:

(1) The left suddenly wonders whether John Fetterman is cognitively impaired. But of course, he used to be a lot more impaired when he ran for the Senate, and they were just fine with that because they felt he would always side with the left. Same with a bout of serious depression for which he was treated early in his term. But as his mind and emotions improved, he started taking maverick-y positions, especially on Israel and the border. Therefore he is now the target of this sort of hit piece.

(2) There is a crisis in Israel concerning Ronen Bar, the head of Israel’s Shin Bet, the rough equivalent of our FBI. The whole thing mirrors the attacks on Trump from Comey and company during Trump’s first term, although in a way it’s even worse, in part because the country is at war. The Israeli media is much like our media, almost entirely on the left. If you want to get up to speed on what I consider a fascinating story with fascinating parallels, please watch the first half or so (or even less, if you don’t have that kind of time) of this. I’ve cued it up to begin where they discuss Ronen Bar:

(3) China is in trouble, it seems, in the fallout from Trump’s tariffs:

From the cramped streets of Sichuan in the southwest to the cold outskirts of Inner Mongolia in the northeast, furious workers are demanding back pay and protesting mass layoffs as factories shutter under pressure from Trump’s tariffs. …

The wave of unrest follows a brutal plunge in China’s export orders, now at their lowest since the COVID lockdowns. Goldman Sachs estimates up to 16 million Chinese jobs could vanish as Trump’s tariffs bite deeper into the regime’s weak underbelly.

Trump said the tariffs placed on China are having their intended effect.

“They were making from us a trillion dollars a year. They were ripping us off like nobody’s ever ripped us off,” he stated. “They’re not doing that anymore.”

Chinese authorities have no reluctance to be harsh with its protesting people. The more basic question is – at least, from the US-centric point of view – what will they do about the tariffs?

(4) This news is potentially very big and perhaps deserves a thread of its own. Here’s Margot Cleveland on the ruling:

HUGE win from Trump Administration and D.C. Circuit enters stay of lower court injunction. Lower court barred Trump Administration from managing Voice of America. D.C. Circuit stayed decision allowing Trump to move forward w/ firings/grant terminations. …

Court of Appeals decision is based on fundamental issue of “jurisdiction.” This conclusion should have wide-spread ramifications because many of challenges to Trump Administration are about employment decisions which CONGRESS said are NOT for district courts to decide.

That second paragraph is the heart of the matter.

More:

The Court of Appeals decision is also significant because it addresses the “wholesale” “dismantling” argument being presented in several cases (such as USAID cases). The Administrative Procedures Act is NOT for such claims either & Congress did not waive such immunity! …

In sum, this opinion is a HUGE win for Trump because it establishes 3 key principles that apply to many of the other cases being brought against Trump Administration: a) no jurisdiction over firings; b) no jurisdiction over grant terminations; c) you can’t get around Congress limiting district court jurisdiction by creative pleading of claims under other theories; d) with no bond harm to government will outweigh other harm; e) public has interest in Article III obey Article I.

(5) As Canada goes, so goes Australia, as the left wins the election.