The U.S. oil blockade has left millions of people in Cuba without cooking gas. In Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of the Cuban revolution, apartment tower residents resort to charcoal and firewood. “I shouldn’t be cooking with charcoal,” said a resident who has asthma. “But if I don’t cook, I die.”

On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying.

China has developed a battery that is based on sea salt. Not lithium. It is now being used in Chinese vehicles. It’s more efficient, can hold 90% of its charge at -40c, provides a range of 500 kms, cheap to manufacture, and better for the environment. The US is being left in the dust.

Trump can’t remember when he was president.

New, from me: He turned the part of Lincoln into the party of Trump, and has broadly succeeded in turning the US federal government into a personalist regime. Here are seven signs that personalism has come to define the second Trump administration. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...

Xitter is full of these lunkheads. 😊

—————————————- Mainstream media in the U.S. tend to ignore the fact that Truth Social is primarily a PR operation and Trump’s main input is to approve posts that others have created. WSJ—5/12/26: “Natalie Harp…brings the president stacks of printed-out draft social-media posts for his approval.”

The directive specifically targets emotional support animals, removing them from the list of recognised disability accommodations. Disabled tenants who rely on untrained companion animals now face the prospect of eviction or additional housing fees previously waived under federal protections.

Tillis: "To call Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. He's gonna be an anchor on our caucus"

“Palantir Gets an Initial $3.9 Million to Spy on Federal Workers *** The contract kicks off a Trump administration plan to track workers at the Social Security Administration and Departments of Agriculture and Veterans Affairs.” 5/18/26 … 1/

CNN field producer Sebastian Shukla describes a horrifying night in #Kyiv, #Ukraine where 600 #drones and 90 #missiles landed on various targets, in what appears to be an act of #retaliation by #Russian forces.

Last week, Meta laid off 8,000 employees and reassigned another 7,000 to train AI models. So when a software engineer posted a farewell parody video to the tune of “American Pie” in an internal message board, staff thought it perfectly captured how the company's culture had fundamentally shifted.

Mayor Mamdani, NYC Department of Finance Commissioner Lee, and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Garcia today announced that the City has successfully recovered more than $9 million from Amazon after the company’s delivery vehicles accrued fines due to idling violations.

What this country needs is more psychiatry for those who need it. What this country gets is unlimited opportunities for suicide by cop.

We can all see it. Who can do anything about it? Only the GOP in Congress. They are squarely to blame. And they're taking all of us down with them.

Number of suspected Ebola cases in DR Congo passes 900 as health workers face attacks and shortages

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

Irish activists who were arrested by Israeli forces while aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla return to Ireland.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is falling like a rock with a record draw down occurring this week.

"He's this hero of the socialist left, but here he comes with sort of pragmatic solutions...stuff that makes people like me go, "Okay. Okay. I see you, Zohran." "He's expanding his coalition...building a big tent." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @adamjentleson.bsky.social on Mamdani's tenure.

The Iranian take on the deal with Trump, posted by an official spokesman. It's a response in kind to Trump.

There’s a huge difference between a public official being religious and a public official using an official military commencement address to tell future officers the “most important” thing is to seek God. The first is protected. The second is a church-state problem.

Such an unserious person for such a serious job. Our service members and the American people deserve so much better.

It's called capitulation. Don's bored with his war & doesn't like the polling. Let someone else clean it up. The cost economically & in terms of human life mean nothing to him. Good chance he's going to move on Cuba in the hope that that will prove popular. Thinking at maybe a 6 year old level.

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

apnews.com/article/fda-... staff blindsided by move allowing more e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches onto US market *I guess the tobacco lobby must be throwing in their bribes so they don't get left out of this capitalism windfall for corporations

Extended warranties are almost never worth the money. Why do people keep buying them? Wirecutter writer Liam McCabe spent months demystifying the industry and the psychology behind it. “People tend to spend money based on feelings, not logic.” nyti.ms/4v6scmY

Left- German journalist who was traveling on the Freedom Flotilla: "We were transferred from one prison to another; they stripped me naked, and I was raped by Zionist soldiers". Right- Israeli rabbi, Ronen Shalov: Every child in Gaza should starve to death. We should kill them all without pity.

Couldn’t go to Jr’s wedding. He has important work to do.

I'm in the mood for funsies.

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

Yay! South Carolina’s Republican-dominated Senate blocked a procedural move that would have fast-tracked a vote on a new congressional map stripping the state of its only majority-Black district after at least six GOP senators crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats against it.

The American-led negotiations in Ukraine prolonged the war by encouraging Putin. The Russians dangled ludicrous business"deals" in front of Witkoff and Kushner who were too gullible to understand that they were being manipulated. Good to hear the US has abandoned this failed policy.

White House propaganda app, which IT experts say has security vulnerabilities, is to be installed on the work phones of every US government employee. www.govexec.com/management/2...