Paweł Kuczyński: Promises

The Monday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious, Jeffrey Epstein encouraged Peter Thiel's political journey, earthquake swarm near Area 51 sparks conspiracy theories, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/05/news...

April was a #cryptid banger. What will May be like? moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/p...

I'm not kidding -- 2026 is th year of the Pop cryptid. Here's a new book: bookshop.org/p/books/moth...

Bigfoot inspired hair and Redon inspired jewelry for a recording with visionary poet @rachelnevada.bsky.social about 👁️ her secret upcoming project 👁️ Follow her for updates 🎈

The Murky World of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena in Congress

Sharon A. Hill: Speculation as spectator sport / Speculation over unexplained or mysterious events overshadows important facts and reasonable conclusions.

AEON: Reality emerges / Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of? aeon.co/essays/why-r...

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues (Official Video)

"Religion was not something tacked onto the human condition, an optional extra imposed on people by unscrupulous priests. The desire for the transcendent may be THE defining human characteristic." ~ Karen Armstrong

Existential Comics: Career counselor: "what are your weaknesses?" Dude: "well, I have no talent, nothing interesting to say, and zero personality." Counselor: "and your strengths?" Dude: "I think I'm way funnier than I am." Counselor: "have you considered starting a podcast?"

"But what I did find funny is Richard Dawkins, of all people, becoming a true believer in a ‘higher intelligence’ that may just be wishful thinking and an illusion." Great reporting as always from the Daily Grail www.dailygrail.com/2026/05/the-...

The Wayward Sons Book Group considers the specific CIA personnel responsible for Operation PBSUCCESS, the related revolution in Guatemala, & their key involvement with NICAP. Follow us @expandingfrontiersresearch.org for further details & information. TIMESTAMP: youtu.be/pjVAKHUWtY4?...

The Complete 2000 AD By Alan Moore: Future Shocks & Other Stories

Donut airship with dangling cockpit is one wild but purposeful ride

E.O. Wilson's "consilience": Math determines physics, which determine chemistry, which determines biology, which determines neurological activity, which determines psychology, which determines religion, art, politics, and all the glories and blunders of human history.

Rarely discussed aspects of NICAP history with receipts for those of you interested in intelligence community exploitation of the UFO topic.

How Does Imagination Really Work in the Brain? New Theory Upends What We Knew

"Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England."

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." ~ Stephen King

"One can't judge till one is forty; before that we are too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition too ignorant." ~ Henry James

"Subjectivity is the only thing that we know is objectively real." ~ Alan Moore LOL.

"World War III is a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation." ~ Marshall McLuhan (1970)

Existential Comics: Why is it that "brutally honest" people are only ever "brutally honest" about other people? There is only one truth that is brutal to face, and that is looking inside ourselves and asking why we do the things we do.

Schubert. String Quintet in C Major. Vegh Quartet / Casals, cello (1961)

― Frank O'Hara, Selected Poems

BILLY COX: About those dead and missing / More conspiracy grist -- and why not?

"A.I. is less regulated in America than sandwiches. You can’t open a sandwich shop without having your kitchen inspected. But you can release an A.I. girlfriend for 11-year-olds and that’s fine." ~ Max Tegmark

A brand-new installment of Ali Fitzgerald's weekly comic about woodland creatures trying to make art in a bleak forest.

Meaning. Purpose. Where do they come from? Religions? Philosophers? You? Try again. Here's the latest from my substack.... open.substack.com/pub/jeremyva...

"If you sit down at a poker game and don't see a sucker, get up. You're the sucker." ~ Amarillo Slim Preston