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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Speaks for itself.


In new research published in Nature, Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Neural Systems has found the first evidence of the neural substrates that underlie this process. The team located it in the ventral premotor cortex, a section of the frontal lobe. The region appears to act as a sort of mediator between the prefrontal cortex, where higher-level thinking such as planning occurs, and the motor cortex, which enables movement. Read more


Barney Frank, a former US representative and Democrat of Massachusetts, died on Tuesday night, his family has told NBC10 in Boston. He was 86. "He was, above all else, a wonderful brother. I was lucky to be his sister," Doris Breay, Frank's sister, told the outlet on Wednesday morning. Frank, who represented Massachusetts in the US House from 1981 to 2013, entered hospice care at his home in Maine last month, Politico reported. He had been dealing with congestive heart failure.


Thanks to INTERPOL's Identify Me program, on 12 May 2026 the Hessian State Criminal Police Office in Germany arrested a suspect in a long-running cold case following the identification of a teenage murder victim""Diana S'-- whose body was discovered in the River Main on 31 July 2001, nearly 25 years ago.

EUROPOL has program to help victims as well


Out of spite that the ICC is issuing an international arrest warrant for him, Israeli Cabinet Minister Bezalel Smotrich ordered the demolition of the Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin village east of Jerusalem, which the international community has long sought to protect from callous Israeli destruction.

Bedouin Arabs, like the Druze, have been loyal to Israel since 1948


Tuesday, May 19, 2026

We've actually had this item on the "to do" list for a few weeks. If ever there is a day to run it, today's definitely that day.


Yesterday, Donald Trump's lawyers saw the writing on the wall and realized his and his kids' "lawsuit" against the IRS was going to be carefully investigated by the judge in the case, which would put his latest, greatest grift at risk.


President Trump's special envoy has arrived in Greenland amid reports that the United States is pushing for access to the island's minerals and has demanded the right to station American troops there indefinitely.

Greenlandic politicians are bracing for a major announcement to coincide with Trump's 80th birthday on June 14, as the president's attention returns to the autonomous Danish territory.


President Donald Trump on Monday said he was concerned about Ebola after an American tested positive for it.


Brian Morrissey, the Treasury's general counsel, resigned from the position seven months after he was confirmed to it by the Senate and just hours after the Trump administration announced the fund on Monday.


"Israeli naval warships have encircled the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, approximately 250 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza, and are actively intercepting civilian vessels. The military encirclement marks another illegal high-seas aggression four days after 54 civilian boats lifted anchor from Marmaris to establish a humanitarian corridor and break Israel's illegal siege of Gaza."

American Taxpayers Subsidizing High Seas Piracy Against Humanitarians


Monday, May 18, 2026

Don Gurnett, the principal investigator for the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, spent decades turning the electromagnetic noise of the outer planets into something a human ear could parse. The Saturn file -- a translation of radio emissions associated with the planet's auroras -- sounds less like a planet than like a haunted choir. Rising whistles. Descending moans. A texture that anyone who has watched a horror film recognizes instantly, even though no one designed it to sound that way. Read more


President Donald Trump said Monday that he is calling off an attack on Iran planned for Tuesday because regional leaders had urged him to allow negotiations to continue and that a "very acceptable" deal for the U.S. was at hand. Read more


The Trump administration, by way of the U.S. Department of Justice, has made a substantial mistake, a court filing on Friday attests. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet K. Dhillon and several prosecutors in the division filed a motion to withdraw a document filed in error in New Hampshire federal court. The two-page motion to withdraw "respectfully" asks the court in a September 2025 Granite State election fraud case to "withdraw its filing" which is a notice of supplementary authority filed early Friday. "The Notice was filed in error and was not intended for filing in this matter," the motion reads. "The United States respectfully requests that the Court withdraw [the erroneous filing] from the docket."


LGBTQ hatred in Israel is sky-rocketing. Online abuse is increasingly spilling into public spaces and turning into physical attacks, some of them allegedly carried out by organized groups. LGBTQ Israelis have been ambushed in dating app traps and at least one physical assault against an LGBTQ person occurs in Israel every week.

  • "The motive is a pure hate crime against men attracted to men."
  • This disturbing phenomenon was described as "unprecedented" in Israel.
    Handsome Israeli Men Like This Are Being Targeted


    Rabbi Sarah Bassin: "People are people -- equally holy and equally deserving of safety, home, and of food when they are hungry. The Jewish people know all too well the consequences of a selective interpretation of human worth and dignity."

    Over 1,100 Rabbis Worldwide Signed Her Letter to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu


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