CURE News Digest: Saturday, May 16, 2026
CURE News
INCOMPETENCE
Trump is still stuck.
5-15-26 The Contrarian
“Up to His Knees” by RJ Matson (editorial cartoonist)
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/up-to-his-kneesComing home with nothing.
5-15-26 Open Windows - Ann Telnaes
“Trump returns from China trip” by Ann Telnaes (editorial cartoonist & visual storyteller)
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-returns-from-china-tripTrump’s narcissism masks his failures, at least to himself.
5-16-26 Letters from an American
“May 15, 2026” by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-15-2026
Incompetence & narcissism leads to failure.
5-16-26 Lincoln Square Media
“Trump Lost Iran” by Rick Wilson
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-lost-iran
CORRUPTION
A continuous loop of corruption.
5-16-26 The Contrarian
“Trump to Redistricting Robbers: Hold My Beer. Publisher’s Roundup 67” by Norman Eisen
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trump-to-redistricting-robbers-hold
Representative Raskin points out the unconstitutionality.
5-16-26 The New Republic
“Trump’s $10 Billion Shakedown of IRS Takes Unnervingly Corrupt Turn” by Greg Sargent
https://newrepublic.substack.com/p/trumps-10-billion-shakedown-of-irs
RESISTANCE EFFORTS
Voting Rights protests across the country.
5-16-26 We (the people) Dissent
“Don Skip This! 70+ Voting Rights Protests TODAY” by K. Starling
https://thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/dont-skip-this-70-voting-rights-protests
“All Roads Lead to the South” National Movement TODAY:
May 16, 2026, 1 pm, Montgomery, Alabama.
5-15-26 The Contrarian
“Undaunted. The civil rights activists and ‘architects’ championing All Roads Lead to the South” by Jennifer Rubin.
Rubin reports that “‘All Roads Lead to the South,’ focused on Selma and Montgomery (two iconic sites in civil rights history), is a coordinated effort championed by Black Voters Matter and over 200 (!) civil rights and pro-democracy organizations (including #WinWithBlack Women, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the ACLU, Democracy Defenders Action, The Lawyers’ Committee, LULAC, The Brennan Center, SPLC, The Transformative Justice Coalition, and Fair Fight) as well as the broader No Kings Day coalition.” Read the post and join the movement!
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/undaunted-311Pushing back against AI.
5-15-26 The Grassroots Connector
“Data Centers Draw Grassroots Fire” by Bruce Levine
https://grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/data-centers-draw-grassroots-fireQuote for the Day:
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
~Alice Walker, Pulitzer-prize winning author, poet & activist