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The trees leaf in May. So too do New Leaf Journal articles. I review the month that was at NLJ and related projects in May 2026.



Announcing Fin Voice 2, a major upgrade to Fin Voice with over 20 new features, and our first product built on Apex Flash.



John Bolton To Plead Guilty In Documents Case, Pay $2M Fine: Report John Bolton , former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to one count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents , according to  CNN , citing three sources familiar with the matter. Under the agreement, Bolton will pay a fine of more than $2 ....

Flesh-Eating Screwworm Detected In Texas, Threatening Already-Strained U.S. Cattle Herd Concerns over the New World screwworm (NWS) have been building for the last 12 months as the deadly cattle parasite spread through Mexico and the Trump administration attempted to prevent its spread into the U.S. Those concerns have now turned into red alerts after the USDA confirmed a single case in Texas, marking the first U.S. detection in years.....



I have been reading lots of books about the World War II battles in the Pacific theater lately. and I wanted to write a post about one of the heroes I found who was the most compelling to me. You may have seen him in the old 1976 Midway movie or the new 2019 Midway … Continue reading Lt. Cmdr. John C. Waldron and the heroic charge of VT-8 at the Battle of Midway →

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Blackstone's Private Credit Fund Joins Peers In Gating Investors After Surge In Redemptions The private credit gates are shutting all over again. After virtually every marquee private credit fund limited withdrawals after being flooded with redemptions requests in Q1, we are seeing more of the same as the second quarter rolls out. And two days after Cliffwater LLC capped redemptions at 5% after investors requested 17% to be returned,....

Jamie Dimon To Hold "Live Interactive Discussion" With Super-Rich Clients As SpaceX IPO Roadshow Commences SpaceX is reportedly targeting a valuation of about $1.8 trillion as it prepares to go public next Friday, trading on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol SPCX. Last month, Goldman Sachs was selected as the lead bank for the SpaceX listing, alongside Morgan Stanley. JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Citigroup are also among t....

UK Police Officers Admit DEI Training Pressured Them To Ignore Dying White Teen Henry Nowak Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity , Officers from the force that failed Henry Nowak have now admitted they felt "controlled and pressured to feel certain ways" after mandatory DEI sessions that hammered home 'white privileged' and unconscious bias. The trainer outsourced to deliver the course was described as "deeply hateful of ....

Ford May Sales Plunge -13.6%, But UBS Says 2026 Remains On Track Ford reported U.S. sales of 190,828 units in May, down 13.6% year over year, bringing year-to-date sales to 826,810 units, down 11%. The declines were broad-based, reflecting ongoing weakness in EV demand and continued portfolio shifts away from certain lower-margin vehicles. EV sales fell nearly 44% during the month, while hybrid sales declined 16%. Among key nameplate....

Right now the only way a script can judge whether or not a server is having issues is to check the text within the "health" key. This is great for understanding if a server is currently dealing with an issue at the exact moment of the check, but it doesn't help for servers that are having repeated instances of packet loss. This results in any "rank AirVPN servers" script that sorts based on bandwidth and health to always choose the latest ....

Right now the only way a script can judge whether or not a server is having issues is to check the text within the "health" key. This is great for understanding if a server is currently dealing with an issue at the exact moment of the check, but it doesn't help for servers that are having repeated instances of packet loss. This results in any "rank AirVPN servers" script that sorts based on bandwidth and health to always choose the latest ....

Trump Downplays Iran's Attacks Targeting US Bases In Kuwait & Bahrain: 'They Were Slightly Provoked' Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Trump on Wednesday  downplayed Iranian attacks  that targeted US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, saying they may have been "slightly provoked" since the US launched strikes against Iran beforehand. "There's a reason for everything, and we hit them pretty hard last night," the presi....

Michael Bolin, Tech Lead for the Codex open-source repo, is sharing how they built the permissions system with AI-assisted engineering.

Jobless Claims Jump As US Tech Firms Announce Most Job Cuts In 2 Years The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time jumped to its highest in three months last week at 225k (215k exp), but this remains well within the range of the last five years... Source: Bloomberg The biggest increase in initial claims came from California while Texas saw the biggest decline... Continuing Jobless Clai....

Hezbollah Chief Rejects US-Mediated Israel Truce; Trump To Maintain Ceasefire With Iran Unless American Troops Killed Summary Hezbollah chief rejects outcome of Lebanon-Israel talks , insisting that a truce must encompass whole country. WSJ reports that the White House intends to maintain a ceasefire with Iran unless American troops are killed ; oil drops also after Trump states on TS  Trump lashes out after House War Powers votes....

Futures Slide After Broadcom Forecast Miss Chills Tech Euphoria US equity futures are weaker, dragged lower by Tech after a disappointing outlook from Broadcom triggered doubts that the blistering rally in technology shares had gone too far, a move exacerbated by euphoric positioning. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures dropped 0.4%, while Nasdaq futures slumped 1.2%. Broadcom, which added around $150 billion in market value just this week, s....


Proton Drive’s cryptography update brings up to 4x faster file encryption and decryption while keeping end-to-end encryption at its core.

Proton Drive is faster than ever, with smoother syncing, faster uploads and downloads, and the same end-to-end encryption.

Proton Drive is faster than ever, with smoother syncing, faster uploads and downloads, and the same end-to-end encryption.

Five Below Plunges After Earnings Beat, Warns Consumer Boost From Tax Refunds Is Ending Five Below's core customer base is tweens, teens, and value-conscious households. That makes management's warning on Wednesday's earnings call particularly notable: the retailer is directly exposed to trends in low-end discretionary spending. " We're looking at the world that our customers are living in: with rising fuel costs, with very sticky inf....

While trying to recover the use of my brain. lately. I have been investing time and effort in reading authors whose surnames begin with “G” — Gobineau. Goethe. Guicciardini. I wish I could do this in French. German. and Italian. respectively. but even after whipping myself. I find that my linguistic abilities fall short. At (…)

Constellation's Three Mile Island Nuclear Restart Gets Boost With FERC Waiver By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive Constellation Energy’s plans to restart the Crane nuclear power plant - formerly, and better known as Three Mile Island Unit 1 - were boosted Monday when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a waiver for the company from PJM Interconnection rules.  FERC approved Constellation’s waiver request over the objection....

The scale of modern-day evil is extraordinary but many people are insensitive to this evil because. being spiritually based. it is not obvious to the materialistically minded. The majority simply look away as long as they personally are not suffering. But that is becoming less easy to do as one of the manifestations of modern evil is the destruction of Western countries which has now reached the point at which no one other than a self-decei....

You will have noticed these last few weeks a switch to bi-weekly posts. longer and [I hope] more informative than the old way of having three to four short. standard column-length posts.

You will have noticed these last few weeks a switch to bi-weekly posts. longer and [I hope] more informative than the old way of having three to four short. standard…

A creative exploration of GSAP MotionPath, where stacked thumbnails unfold into a flowing image strip through curved trajectories.

Since 2022 Just A Handful Of Countries Have Driven All Sovereign Gold Demand The 2008 financial crisis marked a structural shift in central bank behaviour Back in January, UBS showed that most of last year’s increase in gold prices was driven by US policy shocks boosting private demand . The bulk of the gold price increase last year can be attributed to US policy shifts: UBS Running in parallel, however, has been a more gradual ....

Humanoid Robots Remain Years Away From Replacing Human Workers Authored by Stephen Katte via Cointelegraph , AI robotics company Figure posted several videos on X throughout May showcasing its robots performing basic tasks, including cleaning a room and sorting packages. Modern artificial intelligence-powered robots are impressive in their capabilities, but are still years away from replacing humans as they can't yet adapt ....


UBS Warns El Nino May Intensify Food Inflation Across Asia By now, readers have a clear understanding that the Gulf-driven energy shock is on course to collide with a potential super El Niño weather event , creating what could be a dangerous second-order shock to food supply chains around the world. The concern is that extreme heat and disrupted rainfall patterns could hit top agricultural growing belts, dent harvest output, and amp....

The Twitter user known as DataRepublican. whom we've met in these pages before. has done another masterful job of analyzing the groups and individuals behind the out-of-control anti-ICE riots in New Jersey.  She condensed her findings into a lengthy post on X.  Here's how they begin.Which NGOs Are Organizing the Newark Protests. and HowHow a six-word Signal message shut down a thousand-person protest.On the night of June 1. 2026. journalist....

BBC Sinks To A New Low... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity , The BBC has once again demonstrated its role as a partisan propaganda machine rather than a neutral public broadcaster. On its flagship evening news show Newsnight, presenter Matt Chorley repeatedly claimed Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called for a "white cold rage" in response to the murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak. Yet Farage said no such th....

Germany, France, UK See Opportunity To Revive Putin Talks Without Washington Europe's most influential powers of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom are trying to again jump-start Ukraine war peace talks, collectively operating as the E3 group. They seek to implement a new framework aimed at engaging Russian President Vladimir Putin in direct negotiations to end the war. Reuters on Wednesday reports that "A window for dialogue....

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