We’re shelving The Winning Loser podcast for a variety of reasons.

The shine is off the Trump Administration, so we have to redirect. Midterms are about your interests. Midterms are not about what you’re being instructed to care about and vote for by the political class.

This is about your truth and reality vs. their non-performing brand of cheese.

Just because you are being polled, does not mean they care what you think.

Chosen background music: Bob Marley instrumentals: Exodus + Sun is Shining; Chemical Brothers, Brothers Gonna Work It Out

NEWS & SOURCES OF NOTE

Eugene Jarecki on Bringing Julian Assange to Cannes With the Explosive WikiLeaks Documentary ‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’

AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state

Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy. - The Verge

FREE SNOWDEN SATURDAY

FBI's use of NSA data violated Americans' right to privacy: FISA Court

MAY 17

Where is the Panchen Lama?

In 1995, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima turned six years old. Barely a month later, he became the world’s youngest political prisoner.

BORDERLANDS

New Militarized Border Zone Spurs National Security Charges Against Hundreds of Immigrants

El Chapo's family members cross US border in apparent deal with Trump administration

Trump has sent thousands of troops to the Mexico border. But is it the best use of the US military?

Bombshell Report Confirms Grassley Oversight of Biden-Harris Admin’s Failure to Protect Migrant Children

Alleged Iranian spies charged with targeting UK-based journalists

GROSS

*There is no defamation of the dead. Period.

INSIDE EPSTEIN’S BEDROOM: Newly-Obtained Images Show Speed-Dial Labels on Alleged Sex Trafficker’s Landline Telephones, Revealing Associates Epstein Called Frequently from Private Island Bedroom…

We will know who these people are. Then the long reach for justice resumes for the victims, the living and the dead.

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