NYTIMES (Matthew T. Huber) - Forget Climate Change. Democrats Need to Talk About Other Issues.
Climate change is mainly a priority for voters already firmly in Democrats’ camp.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - "Party hat" object on Mars, NASA missions, budget cuts & more space news | Backscroll
A NewsNation compilation examining space exploration plans alongside scrutiny of funding and findings.
NPR (Alana Wise) - CDC says threat of widespread outbreak of hantavirus remains low
As hantavirus has dominated headlines, sparking fears of another debilitating pandemic, the CDC stressed that the risk of sweeping contagion was small.
BITCHUTE - HARNWELL: President Trump defends Christianity, “Pope” Leo defends the INVASION
VIDEO SYNTHESIS / The MSM is going big on the fact that Marco Rubio went to Rome — as a supplicant — to suck up to #NotMyPope. This isn’t a good look. The consensus is that Little Marco wants the Catholic Church on side for an eventual 2028 bid. As far as I’m concerned, anyone who acts as if President Trump has anything to apologise for has already ruled himself out of contention. If the “pope” doesn’t like POTUS’s tweets, that’s his problem — if he wants to repair the relationship, let him come to DC and bend the knee. SOURCE: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-08/trump-spope-leo-feud-pits-vance-rubio-against-american-catholic-voters…
NYTIMES (Euan Ward and Abdi Latif Dahir) - Deadly Israeli Strikes Erode Cease-Fire in Lebanon
Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has shown little sign of abating, with Hezbollah also continuing to attack Israeli troops, and both sides accusing the other of violating a U.S.-brokered truce.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Harrison Berger) - Ceasefire Day 32: U.S. Awaits Iran’s Response to Peace Proposal
State of the Union: Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon killed at least 31 people on Friday. The post Ceasefire Day 32: U.S. Awaits Iran’s Response to Peace Proposal appeared first on The American Conservative .
A ceasefire to the Iran War entered its 32nd day Saturday as the U.S. awaits an Iranian response to the latest American proposal, amid heightened tensions following U.S. and Iranian strikes in the Strait of Hormuz and adjacent waters in recent days. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was reported by Iranian media to have told his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on Saturday that recent U.S. strikes had deepened Iran’s doubts about the U.S.’s “motivation and seriousness” toward diplomacy. U.S. Central Command said Friday that the U.S. Navy “disabled” two Iranian-flagged oil tankers—the M/T Sea Star III and M/T Sevda—that had attempted to reach an Iranian port in the Gulf of Oman in violation of the U.S. blockade.…Open
WASHINGTONPOST (Michelle Boorstein) - Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala talks Pope Leo, migrants and bluegrass music
The Salvadoran-born bishop is leaving Washington to lead the Catholic Church in West Virginia, where Catholics and Latinos are a tiny slice of the population.
SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground
A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has sought to infiltrate film and TV for decades, with UK intel operatives taking the lead.
This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. On May 3, The Guardian revealed that NATO has held a series of secret meetings with film directors, screenwriters and TV producers in cities from Paris to Los Angeles. The disclosure suggests NATO is seeking to employ the entertainment industry in its propaganda operations as a European war looms. To date, NATO’s “conversations” with scriptwriters have reportedly “inspired, at least in part” three separate unstated projects, which are already in development. At a forthcoming London summit, NATO operatives are set to meet with screenwriters tied to the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB). In email…Open
REDSTATE (Ward Clark) - Big New Border Bust: 89 Firearms, Including 17 Stolen, Stopped at US-Canada Line
NEWSCATS - Ehrlich Thought People Were Bugs
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