Compared to Iran’s stoking of the oil crisis, China maintains a far more formidable ability to bring the US economy to a halt.
May 8, 2026
By: Richard Weitz
Monday, May 11, 2026
Trump Mobile collected $59 million in deposits — and delivered nothing
Politics
Published: May. 11, 2026, 12:30 p.m.
Trump Mobile launched on June 16, 2025, and has since received $59 million in deposits for its gold T1 model. To date, not a single phone has been shipped.
Photo Illustration by Algi Febri Sugita/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Trump Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images
Stephen Miller’s Humiliation Revealed After He Embarrassed Trump
ICED OUT
Several former and current officials have said that the president is punishing his top immigration goon.
Iran hangs grad student accused of spying for the CIA and Israel's intel agency
World
May 11, 2026 / CBS/AFP
Iranian authorities on Monday hanged a post-graduate student from an elite Tehran university on charges of espionage, the latest in a spate of executions against the backdrop of the war against the United States and Israel.
Erfan Shakourzadeh, 29, was hanged after being convicted for allegedly collaborating with the CIA and Israel's Mossad intelligence service, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website said.
Iran’s two-tier internet access fuels anger and exposes cracks in the regime
6 min read
By Tim Lister, Aida Karimi
21 hr ago
The internet blackout in Iran is more than two months old, the longest on record. For millions who rely on being online to make a living, the void has been devastating.
But some have privileged access through what’s called “Internet Pro” – and that’s causing widespread public criticism. The program, launched earlier this year, appears to be another weapon enabling hardliners and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to exert control in Iran.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
One evacuated passenger tests positive for hantavirus, another develops symptoms on flight
Today, 7:33 am
A Spanish passenger is sprayed with disinfectant by Spanish government officials before boarding a plane after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, Spain,, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo)
Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship began flying home aboard military and government planes yesterday after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands, with one American testing positive and a French traveler developing symptoms for the pathogen aboard their separate aircraft.
Transcript: Trump Cornered as Damning Leaks Expose Fresh War Blunders
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
THE NEW REPUBLIC
As fresh revelations shed glaring light on Trump’s Iran miscalculations, a writer who tracks Trump’s policy failures argues that Trump badly sabotaged himself and the GOP for the upcoming midterms.
A Dem Survival Plan for the Southern Apocalypse
There are no easy paths forward after SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act
May 10, 2026
(Photo illustration by The Bulwark / Photos: Shutterstock)
A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure
Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.
05/09/2026
The neighbors of a data center in Georgia are steaming after they discovered the facility had sucked up nearly 30 million gallons of water — without initially paying for it.
Former Polish Justice Minister Ziobro flees to US
Zbigniew Ziobro is wanted in Poland over the alleged misuse of public funds and the deployment of Pegasus spyware against political opponents.
May 10, 2026 2:54 pm CET
By Bartosz Brzeziński and Jordyn Dahl
Fugitive former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro is now in the United States courtesy of a visa from President Donald Trump after fleeing Hungary.
Trump calls Iranian response to US peace proposal ‘totally unacceptable’
Sun May 10, 2026
Here's the latest
• Talks at an impasse: US President Donald Trump called Iran’s response to a US proposal “totally unacceptable,” as the two sides struggle to reach a long-term peace deal during their tenuous ceasefire. Trump also accused Tehran of “playing games” on Sunday.
Here's the latest
• Talks at an impasse: US President Donald Trump called Iran’s response to a US proposal “totally unacceptable,” as the two sides struggle to reach a long-term peace deal during their tenuous ceasefire. Trump also accused Tehran of “playing games” on Sunday.
How Dumb is That? Democrats Risk Losing the Midterms Because they Thought Rules Would Restrain a Bunch of Phenomenal Assholes
By Yiannis Damellos
May 9th, 2026
Democrats Bet the Rules Would Restrain Republicans but When Legitimacy Meets Power Politics, Guardrails Don’t Compromise
In 2016, it was Trump who shocked the Americans when he said that he knew the system was rigged because he used it extensively. Voters thought he was going to change it so they elected him President, but instead, since that day, Trump and his right-wing colleagues used that same system to their advantage to strangle Democracy. Yet, the Democrats did not learn anything from that warning. They kept on making the same mistakes. As with redistricting, the Democrats’ mistake wasn’t that it exists, or even that politicians draw maps for advantage. That's how the system works. It was that Democrats treated the rules of political competition as something you can “lead by example” against an opponent who leads by corruption, exploitation, and greed. During the last decade, the Democrats gambled that showing restraint would persuade their opponents to reciprocate. Like, little Goebbels, Stephen Miller was going to play fairly! To the contrary, Republicans learned they could use the same system—courts, deadlines, mapmaking authority, and uneven state processes—to keep winning, and then kept escalating to rig the next cycle.
Iran responds to US peace proposal as tensions escalate in the region’s waterways
Here's the latest
• Where negotiations stand: Tehran has responded to Washington’s latest proposal for ending the war, in which the US laid out a “very clear red line” for peace terms, according to Ambassador Mike Waltz. Mediators have been trying to build momentum toward an elusive long-term peace deal.
Greek minister says mystery drone from a 'foreign state'
A Greek military source said the flying robot, found this week off the island of Lefkada, may have been Ukrainian. Kyiv has admitted using drones to target Russian oil tankers in the Mediterranean.
Deutsche Welle Nik Martin AFP, AP, Reuters
May 10, 2026
Saturday, May 9, 2026
ICE Beat Teen at Gunpoint Before Realizing They Had Wrong Person
Breaking News from Washington and beyond
May 8, 2026/1:42 p.m. ET
ICE then dropped the teenager off at a
completely random location
Federal immigration agents held a teenage boy at gunpoint on Wednesday and bloodied him up, before they realized they had the wrong person.
Jeury Concepcion, 19, told NBC New York he’d been a victim of a violent, wrongful immigration arrest in the Bronx’s Norwood neighborhood earlier this week. In a video of the incident, a masked federal agent can be seen running up behind Concepcion with his gun drawn. Concepcion stopped and appeared calm, as more masked agents pulled up in an unmarked car.
UK is sending a warship to the Middle East to join the French Carrier Strike Group ahead of potential Hormuz mission
May 9th, 2026
Sources: AFP, USNI News
The UK plans to send the destroyer HMS Dragon to the Middle East ahead of any international mission to help protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the British defense ministry said. Meanwhile, France announced that its Carrier Strike Group transited the Suez Canal on Wednesday en route to the Red Sea.
Trump says he ‘might’ move US troops to Poland from Germany
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned that Warsaw should not “poach” troops from allies.
May 9, 2026
By Leonie Cater
U.S. President Donald Trump said he “might” move U.S. troops from Germany to Poland, as the Pentagon prepares to pull around 5,000 American soldiers out of Germany over the next year.
British election results show what happens when mainstream parties treat nationalism and racism like background noise
May 9th, 2026
Source: The Associated Press
British voters delivered a warning shot on Saturday—one that goes far beyond the defeat of Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in local elections.
Across England, Labour hemorrhaged council seats, lost long-held local power, and was thrown out of government in Wales after 27 years. At the same time, Reform UK, led by veteran nationalist politician Nigel Farage, surged—winning hundreds of seats in places long considered Labour strongholds and making meaningful inroads across the UK’s nations.
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