NPR Politics Podcast, 05/27/26
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“In Texas Senate run-off, MAGA ousts the old guard.” (05/27/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5836356/texas-senate-primary-run-off-paxton-cornyn
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“In Texas Senate run-off, MAGA ousts the old guard.” (05/27/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5836356/texas-senate-primary-run-off-paxton-cornyn
Source: Gracearchy with Jim Babka
“Tom Massie: The Good News No One Else Has.” (05/27/26)
Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden
“Recently I read Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Nearer, a look at artificial intelligence and what it holds for the future. Kurzweil is very optimistic about AI and believes it will usher in an era of untold wealth and prosperity. Moreover, he believes the exponential growth of AI power will lead to revolutionary advances in medicine and the extension of human life expectancy to 120 and beyond. Not in the far distant future but within the next twenty to forty years. Older folks like me may or may not live long enough to benefit, but our children and grandchildren surely might.” (05/27/26)
https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-age-of-abundance-rethinking-wealth.html
Source: American Greatness
by Jeff Cunningham
“On the morning of May 18, 2026, on the granite steps of Manhattan’s Criminal Courts Building, three chic women arranged themselves like starlets at Cannes. The heels. The practiced hip-thrust. Weight cocked to one side, chin down, eyes up. With enough mascara between them to repaint Gracie Mansion. But the most revealing part, the part that showed the most skin, was the laminated press credential blessed by the office of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It certified they were card-carrying members of the working press. Only they were not here to cover a criminal. Luigi’s Angels, or as they call themselves, more affectionately, the Mangionistas, were there to worship a charismatic idol and to defend his violence.” (05/28/26)
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Anti-mafia investigators in Italy have seized cash, companies and other assets worth more than €200m (£175m) in an operation they say targeted the network of notorious late Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro. The funds, described as ‘huge amounts of capital’ by the financial police in Palermo, are said to be proceeds from over four decades of drugs trafficking linked to the presumed former head of the Cosa Nostra group. Announcing their results in Sicily on Thursday, investigators released a video showing masked police officers, some in riot gear, barging down doors and scaling walls to raid a series of vast luxury villas surrounded by palm tree-lined lawns. Messina Denaro spent three decades on the run until his arrest in 2023 as he left a clinic where he was being treated for cancer. He died in custody soon after.” (05/28/26)
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Doug Casey: America Is Headed for Civil War.” (05/27/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2764-doug-casey-america-is-headed-for-civil-war/
Source: Heartland Institute
“They Want to Dim the Sun to Save the Eart.” (05/27/26)
Source: Independent Institute
by Benjamin Powell
“The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are negotiating a new housing bill as Americans have become increasingly concerned with affordability. Unfortunately, any federal housing bill would do little to make housing more affordable and could even worsen the situation.” (05/27/26)
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“It is now unlawful, upheld by a judge and jury, in Northern Ireland, to preach a sermon about God’s love within earshot of a hospital. Over the centuries, English kings, queens, nobles, and lower classes have arrested, tried, convicted, imprisoned, fined, and even executed men (and women) for preaching something that the powers that be, including the established Church, didn’t want preached. The 78-year-old Cleve Johnstone was not killed: merely jailed and fined. Most folks believed that sort of nonsense went about a good 200 years (or more) ago.” (05/27/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/05/27/liberty-and-freedom-so-easily-lost/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“An Israeli air raid in northern Gaza has killed at least 10 people, including four children, health officials said, as Israel continues with its near-daily attacks despite a nominal ‘ceasefire’ being in place. More than 20 others were injured in the attack on a residential building in Gaza City late on Wednesday, officials said. … The air raid came hours after dozens of Palestinians attended the funeral of Mohammad Odeh, the head of Hamas’s armed wing, who was killed in an Israeli attack on Tuesday, as Israel continues its campaign to eliminate what remains of the group’s senior leadership. Odeh’s wife and son were also killed in the attack in Gaza City.” (05/28/26)