By Notes on the Crises Originally published by Notes on the Crises on October 27, 2026. Republished by the Park Center for Independent Media with permission. Editor’s Note: Thank you, dear readers, for bearing with us as we have developed this open-ended OMB research project. This series took a two month hiatus for the incidental reason of my family emergency and deeper reasons of scope and research. So many complicated and fundamental issues of government come with using the OMB as a research method; that is in part why I chose it. Over the course of our research on Trump’s

by Mickey Huff The forty-fourth annual Banned Books Week (BBW) takes place October 4 through 10 this year, but given the significant, sustained efforts to restrict what young people can read, Banned Books Week should likely be observed every week. We are living in a time of increased attacks on the free press, free speech, academic freedom, and the rights to read and know. This year’s BBW theme, “Let Books Be: Protect the Freedom to Read,” reflects these concerns. A recently published five-year report compiled by the American Library Association (ALA), Book Riot, Florida Freedom to Read Project, and the

by Nolan Higdon Please note that this article is part of a series. To catch up, please review the previous stories here. “Who on your team advised you to raise the Epstein files? You voted to cover up the evidence, Mike. Listen folks, I wanna repeat it again. It’s important to understand. When Congress was voting on whether to release that evidence, we all knew what had happened. But you voted to cover the evidence even though you knew 14-year-old girls had been raped, because Donald Trump told you to. Donald Trump, who by the way, is named a thousand