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Headlines, audio streams, criticism and a daily piece of cosmic-architecture · Friday, May 1, 2026

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CNN Lite lite.cnn.com

  1. Appeals court blocks FDA rule that allows women to obtain abortion drugs by mail U.S. · May 1, 2026
  2. Spirit is running out of money and time. Trump sounded tepid about a deal to save it Business · May 1, 2026
  3. Alabama and Tennessee join rush of southern states moving to redraw maps after Supreme Court ruling Politics · May 1, 2026

NPR Text text.npr.org

  1. Nationwide May Day protests pick up mantle of ‘No Kings’ National · May 1, 2026
  2. How well can EVs handle the heat — and the cold? AAA put them to the test Climate / Auto · May 1, 2026
  3. These programs help poor students with college. Trump wants to pull the funding Education · May 1, 2026

CBC Lite cbc.ca/lite/news

  1. Elections Alberta alerted to improper use of voters’ information in late March, journalist says Edmonton · May 1, 2026
  2. Qatar-donated 747 ready for Trump’s use as fill-in Air Force One this summer: USAF World · May 1, 2026
  3. U.S. withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, Pentagon announces World · May 1, 2026

Democracy Now! democracynow.org · CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

  1. Trump vs. Dreamers: Justice Dept. Moves to Make It Easier to Deport 500K+ DACA Recipients Most popular · April 28, 2026
  2. “Political Disaster for Donald Trump”: Jeremy Scahill on Stalled U.S.-Iran Talks Most popular · April 29, 2026
  3. Rep. Ro Khanna on White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting, Political Violence, Epstein Files & More Most popular · April 27, 2026

Al Jazeera English aljazeera.com

  1. Trump says no ‘early’ end to war, dissatisfied with latest Iranian proposal Top story · May 1, 2026
  2. Has the US-Iran ceasefire reset the clock on War Powers Act deadline? Explainer · May 1, 2026
  3. US said to be withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany over Iran war spat World · May 1, 2026

DW News — Glacial & Climate dw.com/en/environment

  1. Mount Kenya’s glaciers and farmers’ struggle for water Africa · April 28, 2026 · 6:09 video
  2. First dots on the road map to exiting fossil fuels Global issues · April 30, 2026
  3. Extreme weather and green energy on the rise in Europe Europe · April 29, 2026

Glenn Greenwald greenwald.substack.com

  1. Bari Weiss’ Latest CBS Moves Show the Ellisons’ Drive to Create Israeli State TV Substack post + 27:41 video · April 30, 2026
  2. Is Anyone Responsible for the WHCD Shooting Other Than the Shooter Himself? Substack post · April 27, 2026
  3. Mike Johnson’s Crusade to Renew Warrantless NSA Spying on Americans Culminates This Week Substack post · April 25, 2026

Blue Ridge Public Radio — Live bpr.org

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Margaret Sullivan & Jay Rosen on the press & democracy

Latest five posts: four from Sullivan’s weekly American Crisis Substack, one from Rosen’s post-retirement output at PressThink.

  1. SullivanA radical reimagining of the White House correspondents’ dinner American Crisis · April 28, 2026
  2. RosenSubscribers buy a product. Members join the cause. PressThink · April 22, 2026
  3. SullivanWhy the journalistic ‘center’ cannot hold American Crisis · April 21, 2026
  4. SullivanReasons for encouragement, even amid the madness American Crisis · April 14, 2026
  5. SullivanHow the media should cover this deranged president American Crisis · April 7, 2026

Pessimism & Cosmic Horror Ligotti, Thacker, Schopenhauer, Cioran, Zapffe

A curated reading list rather than a live feed. The figures here either no longer publish (Schopenhauer d. 1860; Cioran d. 1995; Zapffe d. 1990), publish rarely (Ligotti, Thacker), or are best approached through their primary texts plus durable scholarly portals. Each link below is a stable resource that has held its URL for years.

Soderbergh & Cronenberg recent work & writing

Anchor pages for each director’s most recent work, plus Soderbergh’s own annual writing. Letterboxd film pages aggregate reviews, interviews, and external links and don’t go dead.

Mark Rothko — random free-use image via Wikimedia Commons

A different Rothko-related image on every page load — paintings, exhibition installations, photographs of the artist, and the Rothko Chapel. Pulled from Category:Mark Rothko and Category:Rothko Chapel on Wikimedia Commons. By Commons policy every file is released under a free license (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, or in the public domain); the image’s exact license is shown beneath it.

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How “top three” was chosen. Public visit counts and per-page engagement-time numbers are not exposed by any of these outlets. As a proxy this page uses each source’s own ranking signal: top-of-page editorial placement (CNN Lite, NPR Text, Al Jazeera, DW Environment), the “Editors’ Picks” column (CBC Lite), the “Most popular” widget (Democracy Now!), and most-recent publication date (Greenwald, Sullivan, Rosen). Those slots are where each newsroom positions its highest-traffic, longest-dwell items.

On reuse. Democracy Now! content is licensed Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) for non-commercial republication with attribution. Sullivan’s Substack and Rosen’s PressThink are the authors’ primary outlets. Al Jazeera, CNN, NPR, CBC and DW content is generally copyrighted; only their headlines and outbound links are aggregated here under standard fair-use practice. BPR streams are public broadcasts.

The pessimism block is a curated bibliography rather than a news feed; the four pessimists named here either no longer publish (Schopenhauer, Cioran, Zapffe) or publish rarely (Ligotti). Schopenhauer was substituted for Schoenberg, the latter being a 12-tone composer whose work doesn’t fit the pessimist-cosmic-horror lineage. Tell the publisher if you actually meant Schoenberg.

The Rothko image rotation uses the Wikimedia Commons API entirely client-side, fetching from the Mark Rothko and Rothko Chapel categories. Every image on Commons is, by policy, released under a free license; the exact license, photographer, and source page are shown alongside each image. Note that while images of Rothko paintings (installations, scans tagged free-use by their host institutions) are aggregated here, Rothko’s own copyright term in the U.S. runs through 2040 — so for any commercial reuse beyond this page, verify the per-image license text shown.

Headlines and timestamps captured May 1, 2026. Refresh upstream sources for the latest.