Ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections, the country has faced an unprecedented wave of Kremlin-backed disinformation. The Insider has identified the people behind the fakes — a list that includes Alexander Ionov, a professional informant linked to the FSB who is behind Wyoming Star,

Karim Sadjadpour: “The fundamental problem that has confounded every American president since 1979: The United States needs a deal, but the Islamic Republic needs the United States as an adversary. America seeks resolution. Iran is committed to revolution” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The cruelty is the point.

Energy is close to securing a concession to build and operate a pipeline across the Balkans to allow fossil gas shipped from the US to replace supplies that come from Russia. The company has no record anything close to this scale. What it does have is personal connections to Donald Trump.

Crude corruption, missed by US media. But Tom Burgis is on the case. On a graffitied Sarajevo backstreet, a path leads past an overgrown patch of garden to a white door. Beyond is the registered office of a company that is on the brink of winning contracts worth more than $1bn. AAFS Infrastructure

Matt Wuerker, Politico

Matt Davies, Newsday

Clay Jones, Claytoonz

The president purchased as much as $50,000 of TKO Group Holdings and then proceeded to heavily promote an Ultimate Fighting Championship event for his birthday at the White House, causing the stock value surge. All of this constitutes potentially criminal insider trading.

In January, at the World Economic Forum, Jared Kushner presented a “Master Plan” for the future of Gaza. Kushner’s slideshow featured glossy images of coastal skyscrapers, a new tourism district with 180 towers, an airport, a seaport, and industrial complex zones.

Michael de Adder

The evidence of racial profiling by ICE presented here is conclusive. projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a...

Lloyds of London has been central to maritime insurance for 300 years... Inside the Room Where War Insurance Is Bought and Sold www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/b...

San Francisco Symphony - Elim Chan www.sfsymphony.org/About-SFS/Co...

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social & my colleagues @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

NEW: Alaska lawmakers have allocated more than $148M toward school construction and maintenance following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and @npr.org that documented a severe health and safety crisis inside buildings used for public education.

Peru’s Election Is About More Than Peru – Steve Hendrix with the "Global Minute"

‘Profile in Courage’: Twin Cities set to get national award Sunday for ICE surge response www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The Inside Literary Prize was first awarded in 2024 and was co-created by Freedom Reads, which aims to get more books in prisons. Incarcerated readers in Minnesota help choose national literary prize www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

(cartoon Steve Sack) #politics

"Tax havens became more appealing after President Trump signed an order on his first day back in office withdrawing the United States from a 13-year international effort to end such schemes." Trump Clears Way for Corporate Tax Dodge Hidden in the Fine Print www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/b...

"But we do have reason to be increasingly confident that the American people aren’t being seduced by Trump's vision of the country. One day soon, we will again have leaders who will celebrate our national birthday in a way fitting and proper for this great nation." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The Trump position is that all federal employees owe direct personal fealty to Trump, not to the Constitution and laws. NDAs are a mechanism to bring this authoritarian perspective one step closer to reality.

Tina Peters will walk out of a CO prison Mon, ending roughly 20 mos of incarceration as her legal team renews its effort to overturn the seven criminal convictions that sent her there. She is defiant and shows no contrition for her catalogue of crimes. She secured freedom through acts of extortion.

Bill Kristol: "But we do have reason to be increasingly confident that the American people aren’t being seduced by Trump's vision. One day soon, we will again have leaders who will celebrate our national birthday in a way fitting and proper for this great nation."

IDF officers make clear that Netanyahu has opted to seize and integrate a far larger piece of Lebanon north of the Litani River than the public was told. "We are operating on the ground in Beirut, too." www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...

Trump's embezzlement of $1.8 bn from the Treasury is blocked by court order pending trial of claims against it. ca.news.yahoo.com/judge-tempor...

Michael de Adder

Why Russia is the Real Winner of the Battle for the Strait of Hormuz 1⃣Sabotage of Russian Tankers 2⃣Russia’s Northern Sea Route 3⃣Ukraine's Strategy 4⃣The Hormuz Advantage 5⃣Russian Convoys Video: youtu.be/BWp-cvFGjU4

Russian drone attack on Romania, near border with Ukraine.

The Office of Remigration is at the heart of Trump’s dramatically expanded efforts to urge other governments, many with track records of public corruption, human rights abuses, and human trafficking, into accepting immigrants sent from the US, who are not their own citizens.

In the intellectual battle between Leo and the tech bros, Leo has a clear upper hand. After all, he's got Gandalf on his side. Thiel in particular obsesses over Tolkien's books, but he really doesn't understand them.

Recession warning lights flashing red.

Essential reading. This is the most important piece published on the psychopathology of Vladimir Putin in several years. It reads like a chapter out of Gabriel García Márquez's El otoño del patriarca, and it's filled with a string of brilliant vignettes. Powerful high-quality journalism.

Farmers in northern Vietnam are dismantling a decades-old cemetery to make way for a $1.5bn golf course and luxury residential development by the Trump Organization and its local partners, a project seen as crucial for ties between Hanoi and Washington. ft.trib.al/YCZl74S

Apparently working for the tech bros on AI projects will turn you into a raging Marxist in no time flat. www.wired.com/story/overwo...

"It was clear that he understood the gravity of the fight and who he is fighting for." Sophia Joseph explains why the Cedar Rapids-based progressive group We are CR decided to endorse @zachwahls.bsky.social in the #IASen primary: www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/05/28/t...

Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

U.S. Supreme Court settles long-running Texas-New Mexico water dispute over Rio Grande www.texastribune.org/2026/05/28/t...

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

How one man's Kafkaesque plight explains the growing hunger strikes at immigration lockups and the nightly unrest in Newark. Izzy Aly says he'll die soon unless an ICE camp in rural PA stops neglecting his advanced kidney failure. This will be more blood on the hands of Markwayne Mullin.

Female detainees shared stories of medical negligence, mistreatment & sexual assault at Moshannon Detention Center with Congress members at an unannounced oversight visit. Mine and @joshuapvaughn.bsky.social latest for @pennlive.com @pennstateuniv.bsky.social www.pennlive.com/news/2026/05...

Bob Kagan talks with Tim Miller: The U.S. lost the Iran war back in March...And so now Iran is not making concessions, Trump is negotiating ineptly, and, by the way, conquering Cuba will require a major nation-building effort. www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-kag...

Greatest country in the world if the gutter nationalists would just let it be

“Push-ups, battleships, and high-cost stealth fighters in an age where warfare is dominated by disposable, adaptable drone technology…All non-drone militaries are now obsolete. Yet Trump is intent on pushing gussied up, old-world tech as American military power.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The News You Need on Thursday, May 28, 2026: • Israel demands mass evacuation of Lebanon's second city • Democrats Rethink their Relationship with Israel • Israel's Resettlement Plan for Southern Lebanon • Trump is Finally Cracking Up • 35 Federal Judges Challenge Trump's $1.8 bn grab

Trump badly wants his face on a new banknote.

Iran is using the cellphones of American soldiers to target them in their barracks in the Gulf area, thanks to technology furnished by Russia and China. www.defensenews.com/news/pentago...