European Regimes Renew Their Attacks On Free Speech

Roblox Crashes After User Miss, Soft Guidance Triggers Wall Street Downgrades Roblox shares plunged 21% in premarket trading in New York - the most in two years if losses hold through the cash session - after second-quarter users and bookings missed Bloomberg Consensus estimates, reflecting softer engagement following the rollout of new child-safety measures. Daily active users reached 123 million versus the 128.7 million consensus, while bookings totaled $1.56 billion, below the $1.6 billion estimate. Roblox forecast third-quarter bookings of $1.58 billion to $1.65 billion, representing a 14% to 18% decline...

5 Warning Signs That America's Systems Are Under Strain Authored by Madge Waggy via 'A lot will happen in 2026!', Most people carry a mental image of collapse that looks like a movie scene. Tanks rolling through streets. Banks locking their doors overnight. Crowds panicking in front of empty stores. These dramatic moments do happen, but they're usually the endpoint of a much longer process, not the beginning. By the time things get visibly chaotic, the foundations have already shifted in ways that are harder to see but easier to prepare...

Hawaii's 'Blood Quantum' Rule Deepens The State's Housing Crisis Authored by Rachel Chiu via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Hawaiian residents are challenging ancestry-based housing restrictions in federal court. A pair of lawsuits filed in June and July takes aim at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, a state agency that reserves long-term homestead leases to individuals who meet the state’s “blood quantum” requirement. To be eligible for a homestead lease—long-term, affordable leases for residential, agricultural, and pastoral purposes—an applicant must prove that he or she has 50 percent Native Hawaiian ancestry....