A 2026 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey found that 35% of U.S. adults could not name all three branches of government — executive, legislative and judicial.

While 65% identified all three branches, others named only one or two or none.

Americans also struggled with First Amendment knowledge, with only 9% able to name all five protected rights and 24% unable to name any.

The survey included 1,034 U.S. adults from Aug. 6–9, with a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.

Source: Axios

Lukashenko on Iran:

Iran. Why did the Americans have to fight against the successors of the Persians? They have never kneeled before anyone.

Don’t Americans know this history? They do. They say that back in the 1970s Iranians trashed the embassy of the United States of America.

So this is the response. Well then, if during World War II nearly 30 million people of ours died, should we once again rush to the West and tear apart Germans once again? No.

They have decided to start a war. But it was not the reason. Iran’s riches are. A battle is in progress now.

Lukashenko:

They say that I am the last dictator, the one before the last dictator in Europe. Dictator and dictator.

Well, Putin and I often make jokes about which one of us is the bigger dictator.

Lukashenko:

In 1939, without any wars, the Red Army "liberated" Western Belarus and Western Ukraine.

The Soviet troops reclaimed what belonged to Belarusians and to the huge country where we lived.

We reclaimed that. We did not capture Polish lands.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on China:

You can steal a blueprint and order a million copies and then be protected by their government.

American patents are nothing but Chinese instruction manuals.

They will take our designs, often build copies of them, sell them to the same people that we're trying to sell.

Lukashenko:

They tried to tear us away from Russia in 2020.

Had they succeeded, we would have faced the very same situation that is currently unfolding in Ukraine.

What happened in Ukraine, a rich, powerful, and strong country, would have happened to us as well.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey:

Deterrence for Taiwan cannot depend on convincing party leadership that they are physically incapable of getting forces into Taiwan.

The real objective is to convince Beijing that getting here is not victory.

What looks like the end of an invasion plan from the outside is actually the beginning of a fight that could continue for years or even decades.

Taiwan's job is to force Beijing into exactly that calculation, into understanding that the cost of winning makes it impossible to win.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on China:

This is a war that may be winnable, but it is not worth winning.

The CCP has spent years practicing how to win without fighting because they are so afraid of what the cost would be.

The answer to their dilemma is to make sure there's no version of their plans militarily, economically, socially, culturally in which they can gain an easy victory.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey:

This is not a hopeless fight. Nobody should believe that.

Everyone who says that has a reason to believe it. Many of them are funded by your adversaries.

If they weren't worried about your ability to put up a fight, they wouldn't be taking over Hollywood and putting movies about how they're impossibly powerful.

Lukashenko to Belarusian youth:

They say, "Lukashenko is hanging on to power with all his might."

I am already as fed up with this power as possible.

There is only one question: are you capable of taking the country today and keeping it? If you are, do it tomorrow.

Honestly speaking, I cannot give a positive answer to this question for now. Don’t take offense.

Lukashenko:

Before 1939, our people lived in constant fear of another raid by the Polish political police.

That’s exactly why people in our western regions welcomed the Red Army with flowers, seeing them as true liberators.

Lukashenko:

We Belarusians are known as potato people, but potato production has been decreasing little by little.

We need to produce more potatoes in Belarus.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Iran:

At some point, I do believe we’re going to see another uprising in Iran.

And perhaps there will be a way that the people can be better prepared, armed, and be able to truly resist what will be an incredibly even more weakened Iranian government.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Lebanon:

The Lebanese realized Israel does not want to annex one meter of Lebanese property.

They don’t want to be there. They want to go home. They’re reservists. They’re exhausted. They want to be back with their families.

But they’re not going to abandon the people in the northern part of Israel to continued rocket, missile and drone attacks.

They’re going to stay until the LAF is strong enough to be the securing force.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

The Mecca Alliance is not being threatened by Israel. Israel has no intention of attacking Türkiye, Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. And the U.S. has no ambitions to go into these countries.

So whatever agreement they are making, they clearly believe that it is in their best interest. Perhaps it’s to protect against the Houthis or terrorist organizations.

I never certainly saw or heard any anxiety in Washington that, "Oh my gosh, this is a terrible thing." I don’t think that anyone saw it that way.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

Just suppose, for example, that on one day there was an invasion from Tijuana into San Diego and 40,000 people in San Diego were not just murdered — they were massacred.

They were butchered in ways that are indescribable and unspeakable, and then 10,000 additional Americans were taken hostage, starved, beaten, raped, kept in dark tunnels for two years.

Ask ourselves as Americans, what would we do? How would we respond?

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

The Israelis would love to have a security agreement with the Saudis. Would love for the Saudis to be part of the Abraham Accords.

Certainly not because of any hesitancy in Israel. The hesitancy is in the KSA. We have to hope that there will be a warming of ideas.

I can say that there is a good military-to-military relationship. There’s a good intel-to-intel [relationship], and everyone would benefit.

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Robert Kraft recently pressured Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore from his tour over pro-Palestine comments.

Then claimed he's spent "decades" supporting Palestinians and pledged $2M in aid.

But an Intercept analysis of tax records tells a different story.

Since 2006, Kraft's foundation donated $196K to Friends of the IDF (earmarked for promoting education for young Jewish soldiers), $3M through his LLC to AIPAC's super PAC (which targets pro-Palestine candidates), and $20M to found an organization that explicitly opposes the BDS movement.

He's also funded CAMERA ($63.5K), a group that calls evidence of genocide in Gaza "the Gaza GenoLie," and the Investigative Project on Terrorism ($50K), which CAIR considers part of the U.S. Islamophobia network.

Netanyahu himself once called Kraft Israel's "most loyal friend."

None of these groups appear to create jobs or dialogue for Palestinians, as Kraft claims.

He didn't disclose which organizations would receive his $2M pledge.

Palestinian artists in Gaza painted a mural of Macklemore wrapped in a Palestinian flag after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour over "Free Palestine" remarks.

Macklemore pledged $1M from tour earnings to Gaza aid.

Pentagon probe found that the Feb. 28 US missile strike on an Iranian elementary school in Minab — killing 123 children — resulted from a cascade of failures.

Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility, compressed timelines as the administration demanded 1,000+ strikes in 24 hours, overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system (which personnel wrongly expected to flag stale data), and Hegseth's 90% cuts to civilian-harm-mitigation teams.

The site had visibly operated as a school for nearly a decade, was on Google Maps, and had its own website.

UN report this week said the failures "went beyond negligence" and may constitute war crimes.

The Pentagon investigation has been effectively complete for months but remains unreleased.

The administration still hasn't publicly accepted responsibility.

Source: Bloomberg