Veritas Aequitas!

Ted Turner, the billionaire media mogul who revolutionized TV news when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. cnn.it/4wanupq

Kyiv’s subway costs 18 cents to ride, compared to $3 in New York City. So why is one of the world’s most war-torn cities running one of the cheapest metros? CBS News’ Aidan Stretch has more on how the 18 cent fare in Kyiv, Ukraine has become a sign of the city’s survival.

🇺🇸🇨🇦 Canadian shark Kevin O'Leary just got a 40k-acre data center approved in Utah. That's 62 square miles! 2.5x the size of Manhattan! Residents overwhelmingly showed up to oppose it. Officials approved anyway. Remember, elections have consequences.

It's been 11 years since Leo Messi made Jérôme Boateng touch earth 💀

Most are missing what really happened yesterday: Iran EXPANDED its control of Hormuz Threatening UAE pipeline that evaded earlier attacks, cutting oil etc even more Iran gained more power

Javier Milei's popularity in Argentina is falling as government officials face graft allegations and unemployment climbs. ft.trib.al/y64eLzw

Skills on skills on skills 🔥

Donald Trump just blocked over 150 wind energy projects across America, killing 30 gigawatts of new power generation.  That is enough electricity for nearly 10 million homes. He is doing this while his unauthorized war with Iran sends oil markets into chaos and pushes energy costs higher for every working family in America. Wind already provides 10 percent of our electricity.  It powers Republican states like Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and North Dakota. American workers build these projects. American landowners profit from them. American grids depend on them. But Trump told us his goal in January. He said he does not want a single wind project built. Now he is using the Pentagon to make it happen, freezing routine military reviews that companies have relied on for years. We are in an energy crisis. Demand is climbing. Prices are rising. And the President is sabotaging American power production because he thinks turbines are ugly. This is not energy policy. It is a personal grudge dressed up as national security, and families across our nation will pay the price. nytimes.com/2026/05/04/cli…

🚨Ciro Messi with a new celebration — now it’s up to Lionel Messi to replicate it! 😂🐐

13 minutes of Messi finding Mbappe at PSG

Trump blocks visas for Costa Rica's leading newspaper because it broke a sexual abuse scandal involving the country's current president, who is a Trump ally. trib.al/Dx8kpjY

Max Verstappen’s nephews going full Messi mode in Miami. Messi’s influence across sports and different generations is unmatched 🐐🔥

The Lionel Messi seal of approval! 😮‍💨 Kimi secures his third win and Franco locks in his best F1 result! 💪 #F1 #MiamiGP

Lionel Messi jumped into Kimi Antonelli’s car before the Miami Grand Prix… next thing you know, Kimi won. 😅🏆

Donald Trump completely detaches from reality. He hallucinates a bizarre conspiracy theory that Barack Obama literally emptied every single bank in three states of physical cash. The US President is in severe cognitive decline and entirely unfit for office. Delusional.

🚨 Biggest regret of your career? 🗣️ Toni Kroos: “Probably, not playing with Messi.”

Karoline Leavitt lying about the White House ballroom (October 2025): “$300M is the figure and it’s not gonna cost the taxpayers a dime”

Trump admits he bypassed federal bidding laws to hand a Lincoln Memorial project to his personal country club contractors. He treats national monuments like his own private real estate properties. The corruption inside the White House is absolutely staggering.

The MAGA crowd in Washington has decided that since Europeans don’t sufficiently appreciate Trump, the American bases on the continent must go. This is the strategic reasoning of a man who burns down his own kitchen. American bases in Europe were never a favour. They are the logistical spine of every war the United States fights east of Gibraltar. Ramstein moves the cargo, Aviano launches the jets, Rota services the ships. Without them the Pentagon does not project power into the Middle East. It projects PowerPoint. The fantasy assumes the alternative is aircraft carriers gliding majestically into the Persian Gulf. That era is ending. A modern carrier is a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast. China noticed. The other fantasy is that America simply fights from home. Picture the alternative: twenty thousand transatlantic sorties shuttling spare parts, munitions, fuel bladders, mechanics and replacement pilots from Norfolk and Dover to wherever the war happens to be. A C-17 burns through roughly 35,000 dollars of fuel every hour it flies, and the round trip from the American east coast to the Gulf is the better part of a day. Multiply that by every bolt, every missile, every spare engine. The war becomes a sustained airborne traffic jam with the bill arriving by the second. So you need land, specifically land near the war. Modern combat aircraft are not Spitfires you fuel up and send off with a wave. An F-35 demands an entire Walmart of spare parts, a small city of technicians, climate-controlled hangars and a supply chain stretching halfway round the planet. Drones need operators, networks, satellites and a steady diet of components no carrier can store. Modern war arrives by container ship and lives in a warehouse. Close the bases, and Washington loses the warehouses. Lose the warehouses, and the next confrontation with Iran is either fought by phone or fought from Kansas with a flight schedule that bankrupts the Treasury before the first missile lands. MAGA thinks shutting Ramstein punishes Europe. It punishes America. Europe will be inconvenienced. America will be unarmed. And so, after a thousand insults, a thousand sneers, a thousand late-night posts about freeloading allies, Europe is quietly drafting the politest letter in diplomatic history. It thanks America for its service. It wishes the troops a safe journey home. It suggests, with great warmth, that Washington might now turn its attention to its neighbours in Latin America, where a fading superpower can busy itself with whatever a fading superpower busies itself with. Spain had its century. Britain had its empire. The Soviets had their parades. Each ended the same way: as a shadow of itself, with the historians left to argue, volume after volume, about precisely when the rot set in and why nobody noticed in time. America is welcome to join them on the shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If you like what you read, please follow Gandalv on Substack: @gandalv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@gandalv

Nearly 80% of U.S. hoteliers in 11 World Cup host cities say bookings are tracking below original forecasts, with some describing the tournament as a “non-event,” according to an American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) survey of members released Monday. Read more: forbes.com/sites/suzanner… (Photo: Dustin Satloff via Getty Images)