Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley’s Roots under 2022 state law | Tennessee | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/tennessee-book-ban-alex-haley-roots
Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley’s Roots under 2022 state law | Tennessee | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/tennessee-book-ban-alex-haley-roots
Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds | US military | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/pentagon-civilian-death-program
"The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog."
The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/15/the-neo-nazi-enforcer-who-helped-build-peter-thiels-online-influence-empire/
#RightWing #JeffreyEpstein #PeterThiel #AlanDershowitz #4chan
After Provoking Their Rupture, Chile Suggests Restoration of Diplomatic Relations With Venezuela – Orinoco Tribune
https://orinocotribune.com/after-provoking-their-rupture-chile-suggests-restoration-of-diplomatic-relations-with-venezuela/
Another indication that Venezuela has become a puppet of the US: it is being welcomed back into the fold by the right.

Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—Chilean Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna told EFE that restoring consular services with Venezuela is a current "priority." The move is allegedly intended to assist hundreds of thousands of citizens affected by the diplomatic rupture between the two countries, which was provoked by Chilean interference in Venezuelan internal affairs. During an official visit to...
Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father | Brazil | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/flavio-bolsonaro-banker-film-jair-bolsonaro
Community drives racist Jake Lang out of Hamtramck and Dearborn
Hamtramck, MI – On May 10, hundreds assembled on the corner of Joseph Campau and Caniff Streets following a call put out by the Detroit Resisting Oppression by President Trump Coalition (DROPT Coalition) to push Jake Lang and other racists out of Hamtramck. Lang and his crew had publicly announced what they claimed would be the “largest book burning in American history,” including the burning of a Quran outside of Al-Islah Islamic Center.
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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/community-drives-racist-jake-lang-out-of-hamtramck-and-dearborn
#SongLyrics LYRICS:
"Justice to the left of you!
Justice to the right!
Speak when you are spoken to
But don't pretend you're right #RightWing
This life's not for living
It's for fighting and for wars" - Trevor Rabin, South African

The Right Is Obsessed With Lord of the Rings, and they don’t understand It. And any of these dopes, #Musk, #Thiel, #Vance, would clearly have tried to take the Ring for themselves.
#Palantir takes its name from Tolkien’s “seeing stones”: powerful tools for seeing across distance, but also objects that deceive nearly everyone who uses them.
That irony matters. #Tolkien distrusted the fusion of technology and power, especially government power. So what does it mean when a secretive tech firm built on government contracts wraps itself in his mythology?
