Bellwether Report – May 2026

Originally published May 29, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By STAFF

This report covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from May 1-29, 2026.

This report contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Report.

TOP MAY 2026 NEWS TAGS

1. 2026 Elections
2. Iran War
3. Gerrymandering Wars
4. Beijing Summit
5. Cuba Watch
6. Teen Takeover
7. Trump Deportations
8. Ukraine War
9. White House Shooting
10. AI Planning and Design

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

1. RUBIO CLAIMS “OPERATION EPIC FURY” IS OVER – Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the end of “Operation Epic Fury,” claiming the offensive part of the war with Iran is over.

Rubio claimed in a White House press briefing, “The operation, Epic Fury, is concluded. We achieved the objections of that operation. This is the first step toward reopening the strait. We are doing it not only because we were asked, but because we are the only ones that can.”

For an update on the ongoing Iran War, read our Situation Report on pg. xx.

2. MAGA WINS BIGLY IN MAY PRIMARIES – Five of the seven republican Indiana state senators that voted against a GOP redistricting measure have lost decisively to Trump-endorsed candidates in the GOP Primary. The redistricting measure would have eliminated Democrat seats in the U.S. House. Four other Trump-endorsed candidates won their primaries decisively as well.

In Texas, Senator John Cornyn was ousted in the GOP primary by Trump-endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Across the country, MAGA candidates consistently beat “moderate” and “anti-Trump candidates,” meaning the party’s leadership is becoming increasingly MAGA at the expense of the progressive GOP. Read more about Election 2026 in our Deep Dive on pg. 2.

3. CALIFORNIA OUTLAWS UNDERCOVER JOURNALISM – California has passed its “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” which effectively creates extra civil liability for journalists exposing fraudsters through undercover journalism. The bill claims it would “prohibit a person from posting on the internet the personal information or image of a designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, or other individuals residing at the same home address.”
4. SCOTUS JUDGE SWATTED – Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barret was swatted, according to a report by the Fairfax County Police in Virgina. Police say they responded to a call around 9pm on Wednesday May 27. Fortunately for Barrett, the protocol in this situation for local police is to contact the security assigned to protect Barrett. They quickly affirmed the call was a hoax.
5. ABORTION PILL MAILER BAN LIFTED BY SCOTUS – After a lower court issued an injunction temporarily blocking the abortion pill from being delivered through the mail, SCOTUS has lifted the injunction. The abortion pill will continue to be available online until the matter is fully adjudicated in the courts. The ruling could make abortion an issue in the 2026 midterms. This is an issue that favors the Democrats.
6. CRITICAL FAILS IN AI INDUSTRY EXPOSED – Two major AI security flaws have been revealed; corporations aren’t building safeguards into their AIs and there is a security vulnerability in the code itself.

• A survey of 1,200 top-level executives has revealed that over 1/3 of organizations deploying AI have no deactivation plan should they go rogue.
• A security code vulnerability has been revealed in the open-source framework Starlette that allows hackers to take over servers and capture sensitive data from the servers.

7. TRUMP GETS HIS GUY IN THE FED – President Trump’s man, Kevin Warsh, is in as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell is out. The transition happened officially on Friday, May 15, 2026. Warsh was easily confirmed by the Senate, first as a Fed Governor, and then as the new Federal Reserve chair.
8. TRUMP, XI MEET IN BEIJING – The Trump-Xi summit saw Chairman Xi claim the U.S. and China should be working together; while making it clear recognizing Taiwan was off the table. President Trump hinted at major business deals, and the progressive press largely covered the event as a victory for China over Trump. Read our News Blurb digest on the Beijing Summit.
9. WHITE HOUSE SHOOTER DEAD, WAS REPEAT OFFENDER – The White House came under gunfire with the President working inside at the time of the shooting. The attacker was killed by secret service. One bystander was injured. The attacker was 21-year-old Nasire Best. He has a history of mental illness. He also has a history of violating White House property.
10. BRITISH COPS LET STABBED MAN BLEED TO DEATH FOR FEAR HE MIGHT BE RACIST – The British police arrived on a bloody scene in Hampshire, England. An Englishman, Henry Nowak, aged 18, had been stabbed by a Sikh man. The man accused Henry of being racist, so the police arrested the young man, not the Sikh who stabbed him.

The young man bled out while trying to convince the police he wasn’t a racist. The Sikh has already been found guilty of the murder. The police apologized for letting the young man bleed to death because they were afraid he might be racist.

11. ANOTHER DEMOCRAT ARRESTED FOR BEING A CCP SPY – The former Mayor of Arcadia, California has pled guilty to being a Chinese Communist Spy, Eileen Wang pled guilty to charges she cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party through a website called “US News Center.”
12. AFTER COURT KILLS VA REDISTRICTING MAP, PROGRESSIVES LOOK TO KILL COURT – Progressives in Virginia are already strategizing how to overcome their state’s Supreme Court ruling that struck down their new redistricting map. The map would have given the progressives 4 more U.S. House seats. Now, they are looking to force retirement by lowering the retirement age of the court so they can replace the new retirees with progressive lawyers.
13. 13. TRUMP CREATES J6 REPARATIONS FUND – President Trump has settled his lawsuit with the Department of Justice over the prosecution of himself and others through what he alleges is lawfare. The settlement requires the DOJ to create a $1.9 billion fund that will be used to compensate those prosecuted by the Biden administration for “political reasons.”
14. U.S. SENATOR EXPOSES U.S. MUNITIONS RUNNING LOW – Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) stands accused of exposing top secret information on CBS News’ Face the Nation. He was reacting after having attended a Pentagon classified briefing on the Iran War’s impact on stockpiled weapons. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is seeking legal counsel on whether charges can be brought against Kelly or not.
15. AMERICANS REJECT DATA CENTERS – Plans by corporate and state America to rapidly build AI data centers could meet stiff resistance if a recent Gallop poll is correct. The poll shows 70% of Americans oppose Data centers, ESPECIALLY in their local regions.
16. TULSI STEPS DOWN AFTER HUSBAND’S CANCER DIAGNOSIS – At the end of June of this year, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, will no longer be serving in that office. Gabbard has announced her intention to resign to take care of her husband, Abraham, who has been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer.
17. NYC MOB ATTACKS JEWISH SYNAGOGUE, MINIMUM ARRESTS FOLLOW – A mob of far-left progressive anti-Israel terrorists assaulted Jews as they were coming out of their NYC synagogue. When cops arrived, the mobs attacked the cops. The response from Mamdani’s office has been tepid, with only three arrests announced as a follow-up.
18. MOSQUE ATTACK LEAVES 3 DEAD – Three men were killed by two teen shooters in an apparent anti-Islamist attack on a mosque in San Diego. One gunman later killed the other gunman before killing himself. A suicide note confirms the anti-Islamist motivation behind the attacks, according to the police.

The suspects have ties to actual Nazi and Neo-Nazi communities. They also support triggering a complete race war. No political party can claim them, as they expressed hatred of the whole political system. They were also extremely antisemitic, with supporting the eradication of the state of Israel.

19. SPIRIT AIRLINES LOSES ITS SPIRIT – Spirit Airlines had a 34-year run that came to an end this month after the company declared bankruptcy. They shut down all operations and are now in the process of selling off their assets, including their planes.
20. TRUMP WANTS BLANKET NDA FOR FEDERAL WORKERS – President Trump is seeking to protect his administration from criminal leaks to the press that have occurred since he first became President. The Office of Personal Management (OPM) is proposing a rule from the Trump administration that would create a blanket NDA for all 2 million Federal workers.

HEADLINES MISSED

1. U.S. AI FIRMS TO GO THROUGH GOVERNMENT SAFETY SCREEN – America’s major AI companies, including Google and Microsoft, have agreed to submit all new AI models to the Federal government’s Commerce Department for a national security safety review. This review will be conducted by the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards.
2. CHINA GATEKEEPING U.S. MILITARY FROM CHINA DEFENSE INDUSTRY THREATS – The U.S. is allegedly paying a CCP-connected firm to help identify potential stealth risks from embedding Chinese technology into the U.S. military.
3. PARENTS LOSE CHILD TO CALIFORNIA’S TRANS POLICE – California has officially used the doctrine that a child can choose their sex to take that child away from their parents. California now wants to put the girl up for adoption after the mother lost custody of her daughter in a court ruling. It is presumed the adopting adults most agree to transition the girl to a boy if she chooses to. The girl was 15 at the time she was placed into state custody.

The girl is the daughter of a Ukrainian immigrant, Alexandra Lyaschenko, who herself is hiding in Florida to prevent the state of California from taking her son into custody as well. The state of California also wants to put her son in the foster care system because his mother refuses to allow him to transition to a girl.

4. CCP TERRORIZES DISSENTERS ON AMERICAN SOIL – A former CCP agent told CBN News he was part of an operation to identify and silence former Chinese citizens in America who spoke out against the party. He told CBN they use threats, entrapment, and even kidnapping.
5. ISRAEL WANTS U.S. DOLLARS OUT OF MILITARY – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to phase out U.S. financial support of its military down to zero. He stated, “I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Because we receive – we receive $3.8 billion a year. And I – I think that it’s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.”
6. ANTHROPIC IS PUTTING OUR BANK ACCOUNTS AT RISK – Top U.S. officials, including Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury, met to discuss the growing threat Anthropic now poses on the U.S. banking industry. The threat comes from the announcement that Anthropic’s next model can beat humans in exploiting software security vulnerabilities.
7. TRUMP HOUSE MAN MURDERED BY SUSPECTED PROGRESSIVE – The man who gained internet fame thanks to his “Trump House” has died after his neighbor punched him in the jaw. The Trump House owner was Terry Sherron, who was 69, and was also a veteran. He was murdered by 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler.

The motivation for the attack was not given, but Sherron had been complaining his flags were being stolen and vandalized. The police have not commented on the case beyond identifying the suspect and describing the event from the point of the punch being thrown and Sherron falling and hitting his head on the ground.

8. CCP AND CANADA’S COPS HAVE SECRET SECURITY AGREEMENT – Canadians are asking questions after learning in a foreign interference trial that the Canadian Royal Mounted Police have a secret security agreement with the Chinese Communist Party. The suspicion is that Canada’s cops are enforcing CCP laws against CCP dissidents living in Canada.
9. AMERICAN FERTILITY HITS ALL-TIME LOW, FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW – The U.S. Fertility Rate for 2025 fell from the previous low in 2024 of 53.8 births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 44 to 53.1 births. The U.S. birthrate fell below replacement levels shortly after the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing pre-born human termination, or abortion, as it is commonly called.
10. CANADA REJECTS PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTIONS OVER FIRST NATIONS CLAIMS – A bid by the conservatives to get the Canadian parliament to pass a resolution recognizing private property rights in the wake of “First Nations” claims was rejected by the majority liberal party.

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

8. LABOUR ALMOST DIES, REFORM ALMOST SURGES, RESTORE IS BORN – The local election in Britin have seen Labour, the current party in power, lose 1,496 local seats, while the conservatives lost 564 seats. The big winners were Reform UK, which gained 1,451 seats, and Restore UK, which won the only 10 seats they were running for by margins more than double the second-place finisher.
9. TRUMP OVERSEES HISTORIC VIOLENT CRIME RATE DROP – Violent crime rates in the U.S. fell by 18% between 2024 and 2025. This is a year-on-year rate decline not seen in nearly 90 years, not since 1937.
10. AFTER FIRST SEAT WIN, DOES AUSTRALIA FINALLY HAVE AN AUSTRALIAN PARTY? – The rise of Australia’s One Nation party has culminated in the party’s first lower House seat win in the national parliament. The party emerged in response to the disenfranchisement with the major political parties, left and right, by “average” Australians. One Nation now leads in the Australin national polls as well.
11. NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS RESCUED FROM JIHADISTS – The Nigerian government rescued 92 Nigerian Christians, including seven children, from jihadists who appeared to be attempting to enslave them.

Nigeria’s military spokesperson Sani Uba said, “Converging on the terrorists in a well-coordinated pursuit toward the Mangari-Dora general area, Operation HADIN KAI troops engaged the insurgents and forced them to abandon their captives and flee in confusion.”

5. INDIANA SCOTUS PRESERVES ABORTION BAN – The Indiana Supreme Court rejected a Planned Parenthood petition that would have applied a Court of Appeals ruling blocking an abortion ban from taking place. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said the court “ruled in favor of office and delivered a decisive WIN for the people of Indiana and the unborn!”
6. SICKLE CELL CURE MIGHT SOON BE ON THE WAY – If not an outright cure, a new discovery could turn Sickle Cell Anemia from a deadly and painful chronic disease to a curable, or at least manageable, disease. The discovery comes from Swee Lay Thein and Stuart Orkin.
7. OPERATION FIREWALL SNATCHES HUNDREDS OF CALIFORNIA’S CHILD PREDATORS – The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force conducted raids in five California counties that led to 40 children being rescued from a child trafficking operation. 341 suspected child predators were also arrested.
8. BRAIN SPRAY COULD REVERSE BRAIN AGING – Texas A&M Scientists have developed a nasal spray that reduces inflammation in the brain. The spray is being heralded as a potential effective treatment for dementia and Alzheimer’s patients. Research leader Dr. Ashok Shetty said, “Brain age-related diseases like dementia are a major health concern worldwide. What we’re showing is brain aging can be reversed, to help people stay mentally sharp, socially engaged and free from age-related decline.”
9. STATES MOVE TO PREVENT MORE WORSHIP SERVICE TAKEOVERS – A handful of states have passed or are attempting to pass legislation to protect worship services from political protestors. The move comes after local authorities failed to move decisively when anti-ICE protestors raided a Minneapolis church in the middle of their service to protest the pastor’s connection to ICE.

10. PERSECUTED SOUTH AFRICAN WHITES NOW ELIGIBLE FOR U.S. ASYLUM – President Donald Trump has issued an order increasing U.S. admission ceilings by 10,000 in 2026 to clear the way for