Source: Wired
by Katie Drummond
“The hedge fund billionaire turned gubernatorial candidate wants to tax California’s ultrawealthy, regulate AI, and keep Silicon Valley happy at the same time. Good luck with that.” (05/19/26)
Source: US News & World Report
“Twenty-six more suspected Ebola deaths were recorded in 24 hours in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said on Tuesday, and the head of the World Health Organization expressed deep concern about the outbreak’s spread. The new deaths bring to 131 the fatalities associated with the outbreak in eastern DRC. There have been 516 suspected cases and 33 confirmed cases in DRC, according to a daily bulletin published by health authorities, and two confirmed cases in neighbouring Uganda. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus a public health emergency of international concern on Saturday, the first time a WHO chief has done so before convening an emergency committee.” (05/19/26)
Source: Gracearchy with Jim Babka
“Did Libertarian Party national Chair Steven Nekhaila and Vice Chair Paul Darr call Jim Babka for a crucial LP history lesson? Did they take extraordinary action after that call? Who are these men, what makes them tick? And what will happen next, given that they’re moving on from their current positions?” (05/19/26)
Source: Antiwar.com
by Dan Steinbock
“The US/Iran-linked energy crisis has shifted from a commodity shock to structural geopolitics, with Asia at the epicenter due to its dependence on imported oil and LNG. Global reverberations can no longer be avoided.” (05/19/26)
Source: The Corbett Report
“The AI uprising has begun. But what kind of uprising will it be? Will it be a Butlerian Jihad? A neo-Luddite movement? Or something else entirely? Let’s find out …” (05/19/26)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Alexander William Salter
“If the American founding was radical, it was in the literal sense of the word: proceeding from the root.” (05/19/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/christianity-and-the-founders-liberalism/
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A federal judge in New York has banned US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting immigrants in or around three federal courthouses in lower Manhattan, where vigorous confrontations have played out since the start of Donald Trump’s second presidency. Under an order issued on Monday by P Kevin Castel, a US district judge, federal agents are no longer allowed to make arrests of immigrants except under exceptional circumstances at the sites where hearings are held before immigration judges. Castel’s ruling came in response to a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union, Make the Road NY and other groups.” (05/19/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/ice-arrests-ban-manhattan-courts-immigration
Source: Cato Institute
“Kicking the Can to Xi’s September Visit.” (05/19/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/kicking-can-xis-september-visit
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Sofia Karstens
“Eisenhower warned us: ‘Beware the military-industrial complex.’ Those words are widely remembered. Less so the companion warning: ‘Holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.’ That second warning may prove the more prophetic. The convergence of those two forces – the industrial machinery of power and the technological elite capable of shaping reality itself – is where we now find ourselves.” (05/19/26)
Source: Washington Monthly
by Alex Bronzini-Vender
“Theo Baker’s debut book is a film-worthy investigation of Stanford’s culture of fraud. But his disdain for the tech bros keeps him from understanding them.” (05/19/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/19/fear-and-loathing-in-palo-alto/