Source: Firstpost [India]
“Russia on Wednesday (May 28) confirmed that it had drafted a peace ‘memorandum’ mentioning its terms for ending the Ukraine conflict. Moscow said that this document would be presented to Kyiv at a new round of direct talks in Istanbul next week. The development comes on the heels of the two sides trading waves of massive aerial attacks in recent weeks, with Ukraine unleashing one of its largest-ever drone barrages on Russia overnight, according to the defence ministry in Moscow. … Earlier, on May 16, delegations from Russia and Ukraine had met in Istanbul for their first face-to-face talks on the conflict in over three years amid a United States-led diplomatic push to end the fighting.” (05/28/25)
https://www.firstpost.com/world/russia-ukraine-war-ceasefire-peace-memorandum-direct-talks-turkey-june-2-13892587.html
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Humans are tribal. They’ll join or create tribes around anything. There are tribes around sports teams, clothing styles, music genres, and movie franchises. There are tribes based on careers, vehicle preferences, and phone brands. Tribes are based on diseases, health conditions, and disabilities. There are political tribes. There are tribes based on the country you live in or where you were born. Tribes form around religious beliefs. Tribes can be literal, virtual, or somewhere in between. Each individual can be in many tribes if those tribes aren’t in open conflict. … Enjoy your tribes, but don’t give one too much control.” (05/28/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/05/28/voices/opinion-dont-let-your-tribe-control-you/230950.html
Source: Axios
“In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to [abduct] 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. The new target is triple the number of daily [abductions] that agents were making in the early days of Trump’s term — and suggests the president’s top immigration officials are full-steam ahead in pushing for mass deportations. … Miller, the White House’s deputy chief of staff and leading architect of President Trump’s immigration policy, laid into top immigration officials during the May 21 meeting at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in D.C., according to four people familiar with the meeting.” (05/28/25)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/immigration-ice-deportations-stephen-miller
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Agustina Sosa
“While President Donald Trump continues to expand and contract his tariff policy, taking his allies on a political-economic roller coaster, China seems unfazed by this frenzy that is challenging the world order. In response to the US imposing new tariffs on goods of Chinese origin, China initially responded with a similar strategy. Beijing retaliated with a 34% increase on American products such as fruits, automobile components, and essential materials for technological manufacturing. … However, this time around, the Chinese regime also launched an offensive in the most subtle way imaginable: targeting the market for American and European luxury brands through viral TikTok campaigns. … in just one move on the great chessboard of global trade, China has placed both Trump’s strategy and one of the world’s most lucrative markets in check.” (05/28/25)
https://fee.org/articles/screaming-luxury-chinas-strategy-against-trumps-tariffs/
Source: Washington Post
“Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of ‘in-house’ publications by his agency — the latest in the Trump administration’s attacks on scientific institutions. ‘We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA [published by the American Medical Association] and those other journals, because they’re all corrupt,’ Kennedy said during an appearance on the ‘Ultimate Human’ podcast. He also described the journals as being under the control of pharmaceutical companies. … On his plans for the agency to create its own journals, Kennedy said they are ‘going to become the preeminent journals, because if you get [National Institutes of Health] funding, it is anointing you as a good, legitimate scientist.'” [editor’s note: Yeah, because government approval is the mark of sound science. Some supposed libertarians supported, and even continue to support, this authoritarian joker – TLK] (05/28/25)
https://archive.is/6aKvB
Source: Law & Liberty
by Tyler Turman & Nikolai G Wenzel
“President Trump has caused controversy with his broad use of executive orders. He is certainly not the first president to use them. Of 47 presidential administrations, 46 have used an executive order. … But the scale and scope of Trump’s use of executive orders give us pause to ask about their place in the American constitutional system. Indeed, since taking office for his second term, Trump has already signed more than 140 executive orders, more than any other president in his first 100 days. These orders have addressed immigration, education, climate change, international trade, healthcare, DEI, federal agency restructuring, and even TikTok. Trump’s executive orders are the culmination of a long process of the expansion of executive authority.” (05/28/25)
https://lawliberty.org/the-road-to-one-man-rule/
Source: New York Post
“Good things don’t come in threes. Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially wreaking havoc upon our planet before we can react. ‘Twenty co-orbital asteroids (space rocks in the orbit of two celestial bodies) of Venus are currently known,’ the authors warned in the arockcalyptic study, which was published in the journal ‘Astronomy and Astrophysics. The international research team, led by Valerio Carruba of Sao Paolo University in Brazil, wrote that at least three of the asteroids — 2020 SB, 524522, and 2020 CL1 — that circle the Sun in tandem with our twin planet have unstable orbits that take them dangerously close to Earth, The Daily Mail reported. If this shaky trajectory is shifted only slightly by a small gravitational change or other force, they could be set on a collision course with our planet, per the study.” (05/28/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/science/3-city-killing-asteroids-could-strike-earth-within-weeks-generating-a-million-times-more-energy-than-hiroshima-atomic-bomb/
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“There are two types of evidence in criminal cases — direct evidence and circumstantial evidence. Direct evidence comes in the form of things like confessions, admissions, or eyewitness testimony. Circumstantial evidence comes in the form of indirect evidence. For people who believe only in direct evidence, they will never accept the fact that the U.S. military-intelligence establishment orchestrated and carried out the assassination of President Kennedy. … On the other hand, for people like me who believe in the validity of circumstantial evidence, there is now no reasonable doubt but that the U.S. national-security establishment orchestrated and carried out the assassination of President Kennedy.” [editor’s note: I believe in the validity of circumstantial evidence; I also believe that evidence weighs toward Hornberger’s conclusion. But not even close to “beyond reasonable doubt” – TLK (05/28/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/05/28/the-militarys-and-cias-assassination-of-jfk/
Source: Politico
“Germany will deepen its military cooperation with Ukraine by supporting the purchase of long-range missiles produced in the war-ravaged nation, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said. ‘Our defense ministers will sign a letter of intent today on procuring long-range weapon systems produced in Ukraine — so-called Long Range Fires,’ Merz said Wednesday during a joint press conference with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin. ‘There will be no restrictions on range.’ … The change could pave the way for Berlin to deliver the long-requested Taurus cruise missiles, a step repeatedly blocked by the previous government led by former Chancellor Olaf Scholz over fears it would lead to escalation of the war. The Taurus system, with a range of over 500 kilometers, would enable high-precision strikes deep behind Russian lines.” (05/28/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-ukraine-sign-deal-long-range-weapons-cooperation
Source: Reason
“America’s Misadventures in Wars, Cults, and Panics.” (05/28/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/05/28/lawrence-wright-americas-misadventures-in-wars-cults-and-panics/
