“On Thursday, May 29, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation awarded an Honorary Bradley Prize to Jimmy Lai, a political prisoner of China’s General Secretary Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party. Lai was a serial entrepreneur who began with nothing and founded and grew major businesses in China before his imprisonment, where his Hong Kong-based media organizations, including Apple News, prospered and where he had become a symbol of free speech in the embattled city. Lai is also the most prominent persecuted Catholic in the world and should be all that Pope Leo XIV needs to know about Xi and his sinister plans for the church in China. (Leo should exit the ill-advised agreement his predecessor entered into with the Chinese communists, an agreement that is as sacrilegious as it is dangerous to the worldwide church.)” (06/03/25)
“A storm is brewing in U.S.-Mexico relations, and its epicenter is the newly appointed U.S. ambassador: Ronald Johnson, a former Green Beret and CIA operative with deep ties to U.S. military interventions in Central America. Johnson arrived in Mexico City on May 15 and presented his diplomatic credentials to President Claudia Sheinbaum on May 19, triggering alarm among activists, political observers, and civil society leaders on both sides of the border. To many, Johnson’s appointment is not just a diplomatic formality — it’s a signal. ‘It’s a declaration of war, basically, on Mexico,’ said Marco Castillo, co-executive director of Global Exchange, during a recent episode of the podcast WTF Is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean. ‘It feels like one step before Trump attempts to set foot in Mexico.'” (06/03/25)
“It’s official: The trend of migration out of large cities and into smaller towns among young professionals in the United States is not just a blip. It had already begun before the COVID-19 pandemic, and its continuing acceleration seems set to reimagine the future of small-town America. During the 2010s, around 30,000 big-city residents between the ages of 25 and 39 were moving away each year. That number grew tenfold to nearly 300,000 in 2023. A University of Virginia census analysis shows this was the first time since the 1970s that small towns beat out larger urban areas for net migration gains. The cost of housing – more space for less money – is, of course, a major driver. … But just as much as the dollars saved, the intangible values of life in the slow lane are a draw.” (06/02/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I publish my work in print form every month in a collection called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new edition is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This month’s issue features a painting based on a photo from Palestinian journalist Moaz Abutaha, and it’s titled ‘Never Forget What They Did To Gaza.’ Because we must never, ever let anyone forget. I will spend the rest of my life reminding the world what these bastards did to Gaza. No matter what happens and regardless of how this thing plays out, I will never, ever let anyone forget how the empire inflicted all these months of horror upon all those innocent people. The US-centralized western empire has demonstrated that it must cease to exist. The apartheid state of Israel has demonstrated that it must be dismantled.” (06/02/25)
“On Sunday, Mohamed Sabry Soliman — an Egyptian national admitted under the Biden administration who overstayed a tourist visa — was named as a suspect in a heinous anti-Semitic attack in Boulder, Colo. His arrest shows why ‘border czar’ Tom Homan can’t just focus on criminal illegal [sic] aliens. An estimated 8 million illegal [sic] migrants poured into the United States over the Southwest border under Biden, and the media’s attention has almost exclusively focused on them. But illegal [sic] entrants are just a part of a US unauthorized population the Center for Immigration Studies conservatively estimates at 15.4 million. The rest came legally [sic] as ‘nonimmigrants’ — students, tourists, businesspeople, etc.” (06/02/25)
“Nothing fills my heart more than when ordinary people speak up for the ones they love. That’s what our members just did last week in Washington, D.C., when thousands came from all across the country to demand our elected officials do their jobs and stop the Trump administration from ripping health care and housing away from tens of millions of Americans. That’s what will happen if the cruel budget Congressional Republicans have proposed gets passed. Nearly a trillion dollars will be cut from Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP food aid, education and housing. And every penny they take away from you and me will go to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-rich and big corporations. Our people spoke up, because they know firsthand the harm these cuts will cause to their families.” [editor’s note: I’m guessing this is the disinformation source Bono is citing – SAT] (06/01/25)
“A man who identifies himself as New Orleans jail escapee Antoine Massey released videos on social media while still on the run from authorities, leading to a police raid that failed to recapture him, an Associated Press source says. Authorities were so convinced about the authenticity of the videos that they searched a New Orleans home late Monday where they believe the videos were filmed, according to a senior law enforcement official who spoke to The AP on the condition of anonymity. The official said he was not authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing investigation into the May 16 jail escape by 10 inmates. Massey was not at the home, the official said, but authorities did locate some clothing they believe he wore during the filming. Authorities had been tipped to the videos, which were posted on Sunday, by relatives who recognized the residence from which Massey was speaking.” (06/03/25)
“Iowa Senator Joni Ernst told a group of liberals whining over the prospect of able-bodied adults without young children having to work to receive medical welfare that ‘Well, we’re all going to die.’ And yes, Medicaid is medical welfare – a program for the poor to cover their health care costs that was expanded by the left during COVID to cover people who are not poor. The idea of rolling back an expansion that didn’t exist 5 years ago is now considered (by Democrat drones) to be an attack on families, which is weird because they spend an awful lot of time trying to prevent families from coming into being with abortion.” (06/03/25)
“Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely — but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them. ‘This experiment is a huge feat in precision,’ said Tova Holmes, an experimental physicist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who is not part of the collaboration. The mysterious particles called muons are considered heavier cousins to electrons. They wobble like a top when inside a magnetic field, and scientists are studying that motion to see if it lines up with the foundational rulebook of physics called the Standard Model. Experiments in the 1960s and 1970s seemed to indicate all was well. But tests at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the late 1990s and early 2000s produced something unexpected: the muons weren’t behaving like they should.” (06/03/25)
“Last year, when the Supreme Court stripped the judicial deference granted to federal agencies to make decisions about implementing congressional statutes, many feared that judges would become the only real policymakers in America. Both the executive and the legislative branches would be diminished, and judges would have the power to permit or block virtually anything government attempted. That judicial-centric vision of the future lasted all of 11 months. In a unanimous ruling last week, the Court signaled that judges must exercise ‘substantial’ deference to agencies, at least when it comes to use of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires agency reports on environmental impacts for major infrastructure and construction projects to inform approval decisions.” (06/03/25)
