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Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that she will be resigning from her post as director of national intelligence effective June 30, 2026. In the statement announcing her resignation, Gabbard explained that she was stepping down because her husband has been diagnosed with “an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”“He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months,” Gabbard wrote. “At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.” President Donald Trump responded on Truth Social thanking Gabbard for her service and expressing support for her husband. “Tulsi…

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Image by Dominik Van Opdenbosch. Thwaites “the Doomsday Glacier” West Antarctica is the world’s most famous icon of global warming. It is acting up! Recent satellite images show a massive breakup in-process, to wit: “It’s dramatic. I was there in 2019/2020 and when I look at the satellite images now, I don’t recognize the shelf. There are huge gashes where there used to be none,” says Karen Alley at the University of Manitoba in Canada, who has been analyzing how this break-up is playing out.” (The ‘Doomsday’ Glacier’s Giant Ice Shelf is About to Break Away, New Scientist, May 18,…

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This is the story of an innovator who dared to challenge a $10-billion-a-year industry. Chris Horlacher and his company Equibit developed groundbreaking technology that threatened to completely disrupt the securities transfer agent and custodian sector, an outdated system that quietly drains billions from investors and issuers every year. Just as Equibit reached a multimillion-dollar valuation with eager customers lined up to adopt the platform, the company was suddenly and mysteriously dismantled. Critical intellectual property was stolen or destroyed, attempts were made to frame the company for securities fraud, and Canadian authorities subjected them to nearly two years of aggressive harassment.…

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Who’s failing at frugality? Though it’s sort of lame to bring online discourse into newsletter format, this made the rounds earlier this week and is worth pushing back on: This is bc they do not have the time or capacity to create home cooked meals. It’s an issue countless ppl have tried to raise w leftists but big leftists online continue to shame/abuse poor ppl for being forced to rely on these services for meals, which act as a tax on the poor https://t.co/F3azUiucBJ — Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) May 20, 2026 It’s wrong on a few levels. Poor people are not…

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For the Global South, Xi’s calmness at the summit offered an example of how to engage an unstable imperialist power. The United States remains militarily dangerous, but it no longer possesses unquestioned political authority. China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump in a welcoming ceremony on May 14 outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (White House /Daniel Torok) By Vijay PrashadZ Network The scenes that unfolded in Beijing were carefully choreographed, yet politics can never be reduced to mere spectacle. When U.S. President Donald Trump traveled to China for his summit meeting with President Xi Jinping,…

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May 22, 2026 Peter Hart Shell station, West Linn, Oregon. (This was the price on May 2. It’s 10 cents higher now.) In response to a question about the Iran War, President Trump (famously) said “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.” Around the same time, though, the White House was floating a policy that seemed designed to offer relief from rising gas prices: Suspending the federal gas tax. The policy is emblematic of the Trump brand of populism – something that sounds good but would do very little. Before considering its political viability, it’s worth understanding why this is…

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