CURE News Digest: Friday, May 1, 2026
CURE News
Today is May Day
Today people are urged to not go to work or school or to shop. It is intended to demonstrate to Washington and the oligarchs who support the regime that the greatest power is in the hands of the people. However, CURE and Indivisible agree that you should not participate in any way if participation would threaten your job or personal well-being or your education.
5-1-26 The Contrarian
“Undaunted in Solidarity” by Jennifer Rubin
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/undaunted-in-solidarity
5-1-26 Robert Reich substack
“For May Day: The System We Need” by Robert Reich
Reich reports that laws should be changed “to produce a new version of stakeholder capitalism that shares the wealth more widely”, and Reich proposes some ways to make that happen.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-this-kind-of-capitalism
Midterm Elections
A new video ad is available from the Lincoln Project. Please share/distribute widely!
“Trump vs. Pope” (1 minute, 46 second video)
https://action.lincolnproject.us/trump_vs_pope_ad?utm_campaign=043026_ad_drop&utm_medium=email&utm_source=lincolnprojectWe need to get young voters involved!
4-30-26 Lincoln Square Media | The Revolution
58-minute video featuring Michael Fanone, Maya May & Santiago Mayer, founder of Voters of Tomorrow
“What Gen Z Voters Want”
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/what-gen-z-voters-want-the-revolutionU.S. Supreme Court
4-30-26 e pluribus cartoonum
“The New Jim Crow” by RJ Matson (editorial cartoonist)
https://rjmatson.substack.com/p/the-new-jim-crow
4-30-26 Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
“What the Court Did in Callais –And Why It Matters” by Joyce Vance
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/what-the-court-did-in-callaisand
4-28-26 The Brennan Center for Justice | Policy Solutions
“Six Solutions to Fix the Supreme Court” by Miriam Rosenbaum & Emily Whitehead
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/six-solutions-fix-supreme-courtDigital Age & AI
4-30-26 Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara
“What is a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in the Digital Age?” by Barb McQuade
Topic: Geofence warrants, the Fourth Amendment & the Supreme Court.
https://staytuned.substack.com/p/what-is-a-reasonable-expectation-privacy-digital-age-scotusImmigration
5-1-26 The Conversation
“When immigration detention becomes a system of concentration: Lessons from research on 150 historical cases” by Alex Braithwaite & Rachel D. Van Nostrand
https://theconversation.com/when-immigration-detention-becomes-a-system-of-concentration-lessons-from-research-on-150-historical-cases-277728“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”