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May 6, 2026

Global affairs journalist David Rothkopf wrote today in The Daily Beast: “Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences, and results of a war than we have seen from the White House on Iran.”

They've painted themselves into a losing corner and won't admit it so they continue to do everything they can to deflect and deny reality, extending things out further and further. And to think, if only Trump hadn't pulled out of the original Iran deal, we'd never be here. But that would just be too easy and too sane, now, wouldn't it.

NBA Europe draws host of bids, including $1 billion offers

The NBA was said to be seeking a sliding scale of investment, depending on the market, between $500 million and $1 billion for a “license,” or permanent entry into the new European league, and two sources familiar with the bids said several came in meeting or exceeding the $500 million threshold.

I'm a bit nervous about American sports ruining some of the tradition in Europe. I'm not sure how basketball leagues works today, but relegation is incredibly important to soccer. The NBA expanding to Europe probably won't have relegation—If anything, we should bring relegation into our sports. If you want to prevent people from tanking, that's the perfect way.

Peter Magyar’s Tisza wins Hungary election as Viktor Orban concedes

aljazeera.com

Longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban has conceded defeat in the country's parliamentary election.

Not going to pretend like I know anything about Peter Magyar, but having Orban leave—and do so peacefully—is a huge win. I’ve seen people say things like fascism always loses, but I don’t think that’s the right mindset to have. It takes work and courage to defeat it and just because it eventually loses, doesn’t mean there aren’t real life consequences suffered by real people in the meantime who won’t get to see the fascists lose.

🌍 World Monitor - Real-Time Global Intelligence Dashboard

World Monitor & WIRED

“The system ingests 100-plus data streams simultaneously,” Habib notes. The result is a constantly updating map of global tensions: conflict zones with escalation scores, military aircraft broadcasting positions through ADS-B transponders, ship movements tracked through AIS signals, nuclear installations, submarine cables, internet outages and satellite fire detections.

This is incredibly cool.

The visual is stunning, and the whole idea of just having a dashboard of all major events happening across the globe is insane.

From conflicts to extreme weather and other major events; having a complete view pulling from so many sources and doing multiple source checks is awesome. Clicking into one provides points of context, headlines, key developments, facts and figures, and more.

To top it off, it was built by a music‑streaming CEO in India, which is wild to me.

🫠 Ai Weiwei on China, the West and shrinking space for dissent

Reuters

In China, censorship relates to red lines. You cannot cross some red lines. It’s about state policy and discussions (about) state power. It’s also related to what they would call minority or religious issues, which can be very sensitive, so people would not touch those topics. If touched, it could cause you different levels of damage. But in the West, especially now, you also see censorship everywhere— not necessarily just from the state but from companies, from institutions, from schools or museums.

Anything by or about Ai Weiwei (艾未未) is worth a read. He’s dynamic and nuanced, and I don’t always agree with his views, but his passion, compassion, and willingness to speak truth to power are unimpeachable.

A quick reminder, he’s the artist who dropped a 2,000-year-old urn in a series of black and white photos in the '90s.

Historically speaking, iconoclasm is pretty ugly and makes for some craven, manipulative bedfellows, but those urn drop images are still important and potent today.