Source: NBC News
“Fresh off last week’s primary loss, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., announced Monday he had filed paperwork for a 2028 run for the House — or something else. ‘I filed with the [Federal Election Commission] for the 2028 House race. This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office,’” Massie wrote on X. ‘I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run,’ he added. In an interview Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ Massie declined to rule out a 2028 presidential bid.” (05/25/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-thomas-massie-files-paperwork-run-2028-says-hasnt-made-final-decis-rcna346831
Source: Yascha Mounk
“H.W. Brands on the Making of George Washington.” (05/26/26)
https://writing.yaschamounk.com/p/hw-brands
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vincent Geloso
“Jeffery Degner’s recent book makes the case that monetary policy reshapes time preference, and with it, decisions about family formation.” (05/26/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/could-inflation-help-explain-falling-birth-rates/
Source: Fox News
by Carlos Trujillo & Alberto Martinez
“On May 20, 1902, the Cuban flag flew for the first time over an independent country. One hundred and twenty-four years later, the Cuban people are still not free. Every president before Donald Trump either did nothing about Cuba, did too little, or did too much for the regime. Trump is the first to recognize that the regime is a threat to America itself and to resolve to confront it once and for all. That his predecessors failed to do so is not only the Cuban people’s tragedy. It is ours. Cuba’s communist regime is a designated State Sponsor of Terrorism. It ran two of the most damaging espionage operations against the United States in modern memory. It was the intelligence backbone of the Maduro narco-state. It has served as a coordinating hub for the migration flows and drug routes flooding American communities. The suffering Havana exports has cost American lives.” (05/26/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-understands-washington-politicians-forgot-cuba-major-threat-america
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Rescuers are racing against time to free seven people who have been trapped for nearly a week in a flooded cave in Laos. The seven were part of a group of villagers from the central province of Xaysomboun who had gone into the cave on Wednesday in search of gold and wildlife, but could not get out as rain and landslides blocked the cave’s entrance. Footage shared by the rescue groups show the cave divers crawling into the cave through narrow, muddy passageways that are almost completely flooded. Several experts involved in the dramatic rescue of a team of teenage footballers trapped deep inside a Thai cave back in 2018 are among those helping with the current rescue effort. A survivor who had managed to escape alerted the authorities about those still trapped, according to reports.” (05/26/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cglpp1g388zo
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Israel’s Gaza-ization of Lebanon.” (05/26/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1PKqrrNwNBnGb
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Karthik Sankaran
“For all the uncertainty about what will happen next on the military and diplomatic front in the Iran war, there is certainty about what has already happened on the economic front. And it is not good.” (05/26/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/economy-iran-war/
Source: UnHerd
by Sohrab Ahmari
“A two-millennia-old institution with one foot in the Roman Empire challenges Silicon Valley’s masters of AI and automation to do better. That’s the generic read on Pope Leo XIV’s debut encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, dramatized by photos from the Vatican of the pontiff shaking hands with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah. And that’s true enough: ‘artificial intelligence’ is right there in the encyclical’s subtitle, and many of its 245 paragraphs are devoted to the topic. Yet Magnifica Humanitas only incidentally concerns the promise and peril of the AI revolution. A closer examination reveals that Leo’s ultimate project is nothing less than a defense of moral and political universalism — the collective struggle for ‘a universal truth about the good, knowable by human reason,’ as the pope puts it — just when universal reason is menaced on every side by various irrationalisms.” (05/26/26)
https://archive.is/co6Wr
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Senegal is mired in a deep political crisis after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Friday sacked the popular Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the government after months of tensions. Sonko’s election as parliament speaker comes a day after Faye named senior economist Ahmadou Al Aminou, former regional central bank official, as prime minister. … Faye essentially owes his position to Sonko, his one time mentor who would almost certainly have taken the top job had he not been barred from running in the last presidential election due to a defamation conviction. The two men have fallen out in recent months as Senegal battles public debt. Faye wants to discuss a new aid programme with the IMF, while Sonko prefers a domestic, sovereigntist approach.” (05/26/260
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260526-senegal-ousted-pm-sonko-elected-parliament-speaker-in-challenge-to-president-faye
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Tirades Take Unhinged Turn as His Epic Poll Collapse Rattles GOP.” (05/26/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/210866/trump-tirades-take-unhinged-turn-epic-poll-collapse-rattles-gop
