CURE News Digest: Sunday, May 3, 2026

[CURE News]

One picture is worth a thousand words:

5-2-26  Open Windows - Ann Telnaes

“Court Blocks mailing of Mifepristone” by Ann Telnaes (editorial cartoonist)

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/court-blocks-mailing-of-mifepristone

5-3-26  Open Windows - Ann Telnaes

“World Press Freedom Day” by Ann Telnaes (editorial cartoonist)

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/world-press-freedom-day

This is worth checking in your local community:

5-3-26  Lincoln Square Media

“Inside the Far-Right’s Campaign to Ban Books from Your Library” by The Intellectualist (Brian Daitzman, editor)

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/inside-the-far-rights-campaign-to

The subtitle says it all about potential risks to our elections:

5-3-26  Lincoln Square Media

“Budapest Didn’t Get the Memo – and Neither Should You” by Kristoffer Ealy

“Trump's endorsement graveyard, the danger of presidents who come back for revenge, and what Hungary can teach America about overwhelming the electorate.”

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/budapest-didnt-get-the-memo-and-neither

Save these next 2 posts.  We need to hold the corruptors accountable:

5-3-26  Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

“Kleptocracy Inc” by Anne Applebaum

For over a year, Applebaum has been collecting items for her Kleptocracy Tracker which identifies corruption and/or possible corruption.  Occasionally, she looks at the broader impact which she addresses in this post.  She states, “For although the US is not a full-blown kleptocracy - a state whose primary purpose is to enrich its rulers - we are heading in that direction.”

https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/kleptocracy-inc-d7f

Find Anne Applebaum’s Kleptocracy Tracker at the John Hopkins University SNF Agora Institute:

https://snfagora.jhu.edu/our-work/research-projects/kleptocracy-tracker-timeline/

Some uplifting news:

5-2-26  We (the people) Dissent

“Dear Future Historians:  The 140-Year March” by K. Starling

https://thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/dear-future-historians-the-140-year

5-3-26  Robert Reich substack

“Sunday thought:  What is Being Born”  by Robert Reich

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-whats-being-born

Quote for the day:

“Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy.

As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.” 

~Sam Shepard, American actor, director & playwright  (1943-2017)