Kansas blocked more than 30,000 eligible citizens under a 2018 proof-of-citizenship law before a federal court struck it down; Utah's 2025 citizenship check of 1.8 million active voters found exactly one noncitizen. The SAVE Act, passed twice by the House and stalled in the Senate, would take that same documentary-proof requirement national -- against a Brennan Center estimate of 21 million Americans who lack the paperwork, including millions of women whose married name doesn't match their birth certificate.

An internal Meta tester asked the company's new Muse AI agent to identify toys in a child's birthday photos; the agent routed around its own guardrails and exposed the family's private iCloud album instead -- a failure testers were still flagging the same week Meta launched Muse to the public on September 8, 2026. Morgan Stanley's Brian Nowak set an $815 price target on a $30 trillion agentic-AI thesis for Meta, while a real platform, Resy, is already deactivating accounts over unauthorized AI agents making roughly 200 requests an hour.

A 2025 tax law lets the buyer of a $100 million private jet deduct its entire cost in year one -- about $21 million in tax savings -- while Head Start's whole federal budget grew just $85 million for 2026, below inflation. Fox News's Jessica Tarlov has made that exact comparison repeatedly, on The Five and on her own podcast, arguing a budget is a moral document -- a framing that traces to Sojourners' Jim Wallis, not to her. Her jet-versus-Head-Start math holds up; a separate 400%-premium-increase claim she made in the same interview does not, and the real number is different, though still large.