Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Israel says it has killed Mohammed Odeh, the leader of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, in an air strike in the northern part of the strip, as a fragile ‘ceasefire’ comes under growing strain. Israeli authorities said on Wednesday that Odeh was killed in an attack the previous day in Gaza City. There was no immediate comment from the Palestinian group. Odeh, a former Hamas intelligence chief, reportedly succeeded Izz al-Din al-Haddad as the head of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group, after the latter was killed in an Israeli strike earlier this month, although Hamas did not officially confirm the appointment.” (05/27/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/27/israel-claims-head-of-hamas-military-wing-killed-in-gaza-strike?traffic_source=rss
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The Pope Takes On AI | Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov.” (05/26/26)
https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69507
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Yesterday, we commemorated those men and women of the United States who lost their lives prematurely in the various wars fought by and in the United States of America. But it is important to remember, and commemorate (mourn) those other than the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines – and their civilian support forces – who died. There is no war, whether declared or not, whether internal or external, that does not have many more casualties. And almost always, in external wars, it is the enemy who suffers the greater number of dead. And the civilians, not the support forces, but the ordinary civilians. Let us also pause to remember those, of whatever nation, with whatever stake in the outcome of the war or whatever the conflict is called.” (05/26/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/05/26/casualties-of-war/
Source: SFGate
“Puerto Rico’s governor announced a state of emergency Wednesday to fight a surge in coastal erosion along the U.S. territory ’s north coast. Gov. Jenniffer González said the executive order would allow her administration to accelerate projects to protect natural resources and vulnerable coastal communities. The government said in a statement that rising sea levels, storm surges and other factors have intensified coastal erosion in Puerto Rico. González pledged to help northern towns including Loiza, where people have been evacuated and chunks of asphalt from coastal roads have tumbled into the ocean following heavy swells. The order was signed just days before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. The cost of the projects has not yet been determined.” (05/27/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/puerto-rico-governor-announces-emergency-to-fight-22278723.php
Source: Independent Institute
by Raymond J March
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came into office with three ambitious goals: radical transparency, improved national health, and rebuilding trust in America’s public health agencies. More than a year in, it seems he has only one tool for the job — firing people. Lots of them.” (05/26/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/05/26/firing-make-america-healthy-again/
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“The Justice Department’s $1.776 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund, which would pay out public money in compensation for alleged overreach in federal prosecutions, including for the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, has been accurately described as one of the most nakedly corrupt actions in American history. It would give a tacit endorsement from every American taxpayer to the notion that the Capitol Riot’s only transgression, for example, came from those who tried to punish its perpetrators for attempting to halt the outcome of an election. News of the fund has triggered massive political backlash and at least temporarily derailed a party-line reconciliation bill funding immigration enforcement operations for the next three years. Senate Republicans didn’t want to go on the record siding with Donald Trump’s crony slush fund, and left Washington rather than being confronted with such a question in a reconciliation ‘vote-a-rama.'” (05/27/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/05/27/trumps-slush-fund-could-end-up-costing-recipients-billions/
Source: Fox 13 News
“A Hyde Park man living in fear because his house had been broken into before opened fire on a home intruder early Tuesday morning, police said. … Officers arrived to find the suspect — later identified as Simeon Pratcher — laying ‘face down’ in one of the home’s bedrooms, police said. … The homeowner told investigators that he was in his living room when he heard someone entering his home. He went to one of his bedrooms and saw an intruder in the doorframe, leading the homeowner to fire two shots, MPD said. No one was struck by the gunfire. The homeowner told MPD that his home had been broken into three times, adding that he felt like he ‘had to protect himself.'” (05/26/26)
https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/hyde-park-homeowner-opens-fire-on-intruder-during-attempted-break-in-mpd-says/article_b85bb7cc-7716-4af8-ad14-7c625afc1aaf.html
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Prof. Joe Terwilliger on Getting ‘Loomered’ and the Potential for a Deal with North Korea.” (05/26/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-with-prof-joe-terwilliger-on-getting-loomered-and-the-potential-for-a-deal-with-north-korea/
Source: Reason
by Matthew Petti
“The administration is avoiding conflict with China to focus on war in the Middle East. Taiwan’s democracy hangs in the balance.” (05/26/26)
https://reason.com/2026/05/26/why-has-trump-stopped-selling-weapons-to-taiwan/
Source: Axios
“Republican primary voters on Tuesday rejected U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, one of the Senate’s most senior GOP members, in favor of Trump-backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. … ‘Tonight is the beginning of the fight to preserve every value we hold dear,’ Paxton told supporters, referring to his upcoming general election campaign against Democrat James Talarico. … Cornyn and his supporters warned that the outcome could complicate Republicans’ efforts to hold the seat in November against Talarico, a state representative from Austin.” [editor’s note: Paxton seems to think Texas Republicans hold fraud, bribery, and adultery “dear” as “values.” And he just may be right – TLK] (05/27/26)
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2026/05/27/texas-senate-gop-cornyn-paxton
