Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Three women with links to the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group have been arrested on returning home to Australia following years in detention in Syria. All are Australian citizens. Police said they arrested two of them – Kawsar Abbas, 53, and Zeinab Ahmed, 31 – on arrival in Melbourne. Janai Safar, 32, was arrested after landing in Sydney. A fourth woman in the party, which includes nine children, was not arrested. The group are the subject of heated political debate in Australia, with the government saying it would give them no help to return. The children – thought to be aged from about six to their mid-teens – are to get psychological support and be assessed for possible radicalisation. Australia is one of a number of countries grappling with how to deal with the return of citizens – and their children – from Syria after the so-called Islamic State caliphate was destroyed in 2019.” (05/07/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj2emlv2kjo
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Trump approval is worst ever in new poll.” (05/06/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/06/nx-s1-5813495/trump-approval-is-worst-ever-in-new-poll
Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Brian Yablonski
“Theodore Roosevelt coined the term ‘crowded hour’ about his moments of battle in the Spanish-American War. When I think of Ted Turner’s life, the bigger term ‘crowded life’ comes to mind. His impact on how we communicate and take our news today all starts with his founding of CNN. And who hasn’t pulled up an old film on Turner Classic Movies as late-night comfort food? Speaking of comfort food, he almost single handedly reintroduced the bison at scale to the West and bison meat to the world through his Ted’s Montana Grill restaurants. But these episodes in a crowded life are not Ted’s most consequential impact. His true lasting impact will have been on the larger natural world.” (05/06/26)
https://www.perc.org/2026/05/06/reflecting-on-ted-turners-crowded-life/
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Elias Tsapelas
“As Missouri’s legislative session winds down, lawmakers took a major step toward eliminating the state’s individual income tax. Both chambers of the general assembly approved HJRs 173 and 174, a proposed constitutional amendment. Voters will now decide whether to authorize the legislature to begin the process of phasing out the income tax. Here’s a short summary of what voter approval of the amendment would set in motion …” (05/06/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/economy/a-big-step-toward-ending-the-income-tax/
Source: KOMO News
“A Texas father shot and killed a man who allegedly attempted to carjack his sedan with his family still inside. On Sunday afternoon, the father and his relatives were sitting in a parking lot in Garland, Texas, near a gas station off Highway 66, when a man approached the driver’s side door and attempted to get in, according to surveillance video obtained by Fox 4. The unidentified father got out of the sedan and attempted to keep the man from entering it, while the rest of his family fled the vehicle. The father and the man struggled as the alleged carjacker managed to get inside the driver’s seat. Eventually, the father went around to the passenger’s side front door, where he allegedly fired more than ten rounds at the alleged carjacker.” (05/06/26)
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/texas-father-shoots-kills-man-attempting-to-carjack-sedan-with-family-inside-police-surveillance-video
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Secret History of Gold.” (05/06/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2758-the-secret-history-of-gold/
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“In exercising their liberty, some people will do things that offend you. Many people want you to believe if they’ve been offended, they’ve been violated somehow. They haven’t. Being offended isn’t the same as having your life, liberty, or property violated, even though weak people who want to control others often use this ploy. Don’t play along.” (05/06/26)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2026/05/06/voices/opinion-liberty-not-subject-to-majority-rule/233357.html
Source: TomDispatch
by Eduardo Galeano
“In 1919 Rosa Luxemburg, the revolutionary, was murdered in Berlin. Her killers bludgeoned her with rifle blows and tossed her into the waters of a canal. Along the way, she lost a shoe. Some hand picked it up, that shoe dropped in the mud. Rosa longed for a world where justice would not be sacrificed in the name of freedom, nor freedom sacrificed in the name of justice. Every day, some hand picks up that banner. Dropped in the mud, like the shoe. The peons on the farms of Argentina’s Patagonia went out on strike against stunted wages and overgrown workdays, and the army took charge of restoring order. Executions are grueling. On this night in 1922, soldiers exhausted from so much killing went to the bordello at the port of San Julián for their well-deserved reward. But the five women who worked there closed the door in their faces and chased them away, screaming, ‘You murderers! Murderers, get out of here!'” (05/07/26)
https://tomdispatch.com/a-world-of-violence-2/
Source: Understanding AI
by Timothy B Lee
“Recently, there has been a lot of excitement about AI agents like Claude Code and OpenClaw. Much of the hype is justified. Claude Code really is revolutionizing computer programming, and agents like OpenClaw very well might transform other parts of the economy and our daily lives. Industry leaders expect even bigger changes in the near future. In an interview last month, Sam Altman said that OpenAI is aiming to build an ‘automated AI researcher’ by March 2028. Some people expect this (or similar breakthroughs by rivals) to set off a recursive self-improvement loop that radically accelerates scientific and technological progress. That might happen eventually, but I think it will take a while.” (05/06/26)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/i-dont-think-we-are-close-to-ai-scientists
Source: SFGate
“Seven children and two women abducted by gunmen at an orphanage last month in the north-central region of Nigeria have been rescued by troops, the country’s army said on Wednesday. Authorities in Kogi state said gunmen attacked an Islamic orphanage that was operating illegally and abducted 23 pupils in an ‘isolated area’ of Lokoja, capital of Kogi State, on April 26. Fifteen of those abducted were immediately rescued. The troops intercepted and recovered the victims within a forest area in the state, army spokesman Hassan Abdullahi said in a statement. ‘The rescued victims comprised five boys, two girls, and two adult females, believed to be the wives of the proprietor of the orphanage,’ Abdullahi said. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Armed groups attack schools and abduct students because they are seen as strategic in drawing attention and exacting huge ransoms, according to analysts.” (05/07/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/nigerian-army-says-it-rescued-some-children-22246499.php
