I was born on 6 August 1956 in San Francisco, California to Janet and (the late) Richard Hovis.
I grew up in Santa Monica, California where I attended elementary, junior high school, and high school (graduating in 1974), in addition to involvement in sports and recreation (Little League +, the Boy’s Club ++). Further, it was in elementary school – St. Augustine’s By-the -Sea Parish School that I found, and made the choice to truly journey with God.
I attended Arizona State University from 1974 to 1977 – seeking to become an architect, however, I was not accepted, and, as such, I graduated with a Liberal Arts degree.
Upon graduation from Arizona State University, I attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and studied City and Regional Planning at the Master’s level. I successfully completed one (1) year in a two (2) year program – I did not complete the Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning – due to personal reasons.
I returned to Santa Monica where I started (October 1979) my career as graphic designer with Exxon Company, USA. I spent five years with Exxon Company, USA.
While working with Exxon Company, USA I was accepted into architectural school – Sci-Arc in Southern California, however, I did not attend preferring to stay with Exxon..
In 1982 I married Laura Flosi and in April 1983 we had our one and only child – Lauren Alain Hovis – a gift from God.
We moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1984 from Los Angeles, where I went to work as a graphic designer with Kitchell CEM (from 1985 -1987).
From 1987 – 1995 I was an independent contractor, and a registered representative in mortgage finance, financial management, graphic design, and drafting.
Further, I attended the University of Phoenix and successfully obtained a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in 1982.
I was also a member of the Scottsdale Jaycees, where I became very involved in community events and projects.
In 1994, I accepted a cartography position with the Defense Mapping Agency in Reston, Virginia. As such, I relocated from Phoenix to Reston.
In 1998, I was accepted and worked as a Visual Information Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2002, I worked as a Support Officer until my retirement (due to a need for shoulder surgery) in September 2018.
Away from my Federal Government service, I have been involved in various organizations and activities in Northern Virginia.
In November of 2011, I married Rebecca Ouellette in Santa Monica, California. I reside in San Tan Valley, AZ with my two hamster - Jess and Timothy, our fish, our lizard - RJ Lizard., and our cats - Pearl and Grey.
As to hobbies, I enjoy playing sports, attending sporting events, mentoring individuals from financial management to hamsters, building models, photography, travel, multimedia design, managing partner for RJ Hamster, and jazz – smooth jazz to a samba or a bossa nova.
Love and God Bless,
Peter – aka RJ Hamster Jo hi
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Good morning! It’s Wednesday. Here are today’s top stories:
Social media use is fueling an epidemic of anxiety and overmedication among teens. Here’s how one teenager made her way out of the pit of despair.
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that would eliminate two majority-black districts and could benefit Republicans in the midterms.
The Chinese Consulate in New York played a role in raising the Chinese regime’s flag over Philadelphia City Hall, according to government records recently obtained by The Epoch Times.
Iranian negotiators have shown increasing willingness to negotiate over aspects of their nation’s nuclear program, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators on Tuesday.
🍵 Health: A new study suggests that mental health diagnoses may be less reliable than clinicians and patients assume.
Sofia never really felt like she fit in as a preteen, so she turned to a place where she could get lost and go numb.
She sat scrolling on her smartphone, hour after hour, day after day, searching for her identity. It was an easy distraction from the social isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine and the pain of her parents’ divorce.
“I was so enraptured by what was going on in my phone,” Sofia, now 15, told The Epoch Times. Caught up in standards that she didn’t think she could achieve, she hated herself and was genuinely terrified by the thought of talking to peers.
“After quarantine, I would go out, I’d be profusely sweating,” she said. “I would be nervous, my face would be burning when I was talking to people.”
Rather than discuss her feelings, she would let them build up inside until she exploded with emotion.
Sofia considered her options. She watched peers brag about anxiety medications on social media and saw them isolating further into unchecked phone scrolling. Like Sofia, today’s teens are prone to the trap of social media, which encourages anxiety and depression and grooms them to believe that medication is the only way to escape the uncomfortable—and sometimes normal—feelings that accompany adolescence.
Platforms such as TikTok have amplified a broad spectrum of voices around drugs for teen anxiety and depression. Those voices include psychiatrists educating about various medications, influencers creating sponsored content, pharmaceutical companies posting advertisements, and even teens boasting about their own anti-anxiety prescriptions. (More)
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A man holds a baby outside a coffee shop in Washington on March 11, 2026. (Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times)
Birth rates have declined across most developed nations, raising concerns about the future of families, communities, and society itself. Economists point to rising housing and childcare costs. Others cite changing cultural values, declining marriage rates, loss of religious faith, growing uncertainty about the future, or a broader loss of meaning and purpose in modern life. The Epoch Times invites you to share your views on the forces shaping family formation, childbearing, and the future of society.
The results will be featured in an article published this Saturday. (Take the Survey)
Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to The Epoch Times about his proposal for an AI bill of rights at the Florida Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee, Fla., on Jan. 16, 2026. (Natasha Holt for The Epoch Times)
POLITICS
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is advancing a constitutional amendment to deliver sweeping property‑tax relief to Florida homeowners and establish a pathway toward the full elimination of property taxes. Here is what to know about the governor’s plan.
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner will be held again on July 24 in Washington following the cancellation of a previous event at which an armed man allegedly attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump. The president said he will attend the rescheduled event.
President Trump reacted to the news that Canada has entered a technical recession by once again calling for the country to join the United States as its “51st state.”
The president signed an executive order intended to address cybersecurity threats posed by artificial intelligence. Signed in private, the order allows for optional government review of cutting-edge frontier models 30 days before a full public release.
Fannie Mae Chairman William Pulte is going to be acting director of national intelligence. Pulte, 38, also directs the Federal Housing Finance Agency. He will keep those positions while acting as the national intelligence director, President Trump said.
New York Democrats are moving to give state lawmakers the power to redraw the state’s congressional maps, entering the national fight over control of the U.S. House.
The Trump administration has revoked the visa of a Chinese national working for Beijing’s state-run news agency Xinhua in the United States.
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President Donald Trump said that reports indicating an end to diplomatic negotiations between Iran and the United States are “false and erroneous,” adding that talks between the two nations are ongoing. Iranian media later signaled that indirect negotiations with the US remain on track.
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Authorities charged four suspects on June 1 with felony drug distribution violations after finding a hidden tunnel used by drug runners inside a retail store in San Diego County that led into Tijuana, Mexico.
Prominent U.S. investor Andrew Left was convicted of securities fraud. Prosecutors charged in 2024 that the Citron Research founder manipulated stocks and misled investors about his positions in firms such as Meta Platforms, Nvidia, and Tesla. Left denied the accusations and pleaded not guilty. He has been one of the best-known short sellers in financial markets for years.
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, said that it will raise $80 billion through stock sales to fund its artificial intelligence spending.
A satellite image shows military activity underway at the edge of the Xinjiang octagon-shaped installation, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, May 11, 2026. (Vantor/Handout via Reuters)
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The Chinese communist regime seems to be expanding facilities near nuclear silos, forming a vast military network in the desert in northwestern China, according to recently published satellite images.
Mette Frederiksen will serve a third term as Denmark’s prime minister of a coalition government, holding onto power despite her Social Democratic party losing its majority. In her third term in power, the Danish leader plans to resist U.S. pressure over Greenland, tackle domestic inflation, and expand the welfare state.
British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has described footage of an 18-year-old student being handcuffed by police while he lay dying as “disturbing and tragic” after it emerged that his killer had falsely claimed that he had been the victim of a racist attack by the student.
The number of possible cases in the Ebola outbreak in central Africa has dropped significantly from 1,000 to just 116 in recent days, with most suspected cases being ruled out.
The UK is re-examining its attitude toward allowing autonomous drones to use lethal force. The current policy of Britain’s military, according to documents published in 2022, states that there would be “context-appropriate human involvement” in the selection and engagement of targets. However, in the wake of rapid advances in drone warfare, some officials are pushing to make human involvement in such decisions optional.
As Japan moves to strengthen its military capabilities amid growing security concerns in the Indo-Pacific, the United States has signaled strong support for Tokyo’s defense buildup, backing plans that include the temporary deployment of U.S. missile systems on Japanese territory and expanded cooperation on missile development and production.
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Local residents sit next to the debris of buildings destroyed in an explosion in Kaung Tat village, Burma on June 2, 2026. (AFP via Getty Images)
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A mental health diagnosis can influence everything from the way people see themselves to new medications, insurance coverage, and even job opportunities.
However, a new study, published in JAMA Network Open, suggests that psychiatry’s most trusted diagnostic interviews—often considered the gold standard—may be less reliable than many clinicians and patients assume.
Researchers found that when adults completed the same interview twice, typically within one to two weeks, they did not always receive the same diagnosis.
“Many people assume these interviews give a definitive answer—that you either do or do not have a condition,” the study’s senior author Laura Duncan, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, told The Epoch Times via email. “In reality, diagnosis may be more contextual.”
The analysis pooled data from 46 studies, covering more than 8,000 adults in 26 countries and 17 different structured diagnostic tools, including the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM, the Composite International Diagnostic Interview, and the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), used to assess mental and substance use disorders.
Yet, across the studies reviewed, overall agreement between the first and second interview was moderate. On a standard scale where “1” means perfect agreement, the interviews scored 0.69—falling short of the level of consistency many people might expect from a diagnostic tool often considered a gold standard.
“The more accurate takeaway is not that diagnoses are arbitrary,” Duncan said. “It’s that they are not perfectly reliable when measured using structured interviews.”
Diagnoses tied to more observable behaviors tended to be more consistent. For example, substance use disorders performed better than mental disorders as a group, with an agreement score of 0.72 compared with 0.65 for mental disorders. (More)
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U.S.-Iran talks stall… Approaching ‘unheard of’ levels in the oil market… This is a gray swan… Semiconductor euphoria continues… Other sectors worth looking at… Do not touch SpaceX stock until you’ve done this…
About that ‘ceasefire’…
As we’ve been saying, it doesn’t look like one.
This past weekend, there was another round of back-and-forth attacks between the Iranian and U.S. militaries in the Persian Gulf, including right in the Strait of Hormuz.
This morning, the X account Open Source Intel had a good summary…
About the only thing not going on in the Strait of Hormuz is tanker traffic as we once knew it. The U.S. military says it has guided around 70 ships through the strait over the past three weeks. Pre-war, more than 100 ships traveled the route per day.
And a “deal” to end immediate hostilities remains elusive.
In the past few days, President Donald Trump reportedly sent back edits to an Iranian proposal with “significant” changes on a deal. The sticking points included the matter of Iran’s nuclear material and ambitions and reopening the Strait of Hormuz without “tolls.”
Those are big details…
And so, a stalemate in the region continues, with occasional flare-ups among boats, missiles, and drones. And now, the sides might be further apart than ever…
Iranian state media reported today that Iranian officials will stop exchanging messages with the U.S. and are again threatening to keep the Strait of Hormuz blocked. Trump has previously said if Iran doesn’t agree to a deal, the bombs will start falling again.
Today, Trump said he didn’t care if negotiations are over. “I think we’ve been talking too much, if you want to know the truth. I think going silent would be very good, and that could be for a long time,” he said, before later posting on social media that talks were continuing.
Risks for even more serious global energy supply shocks continue…
We’ve repeatedly written in these pages about the global oil supply deficit – which amounts to tens of millions of barrels per day. Roughly 20% of global supply is out of the market due to the Strait of Hormuz blockade. And existing Middle East infrastructure has also been damaged.
It has been three months since the start of the war in Iran, and about 1.5 billion barrels of oil that would have been used are out of the system. The global and U.S. energy markets are now nearing an inflection point…
Late last week, as our friend Rob Spivey from our corporate affiliate Altimetry pointed out to us, ExxonMobil (XOM) senior vice president Neil Chapman warned at an industry conference that “we’re approaching unheard of inventory levels… really, really low levels” of crude oil.
According to the latest weekly report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, commercial crude-oil inventories, excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (“SPR”), fell by 3.3 million barrels to 441.7 million in the week ending May 22. The SPR fell by 9.1 million barrels.
Refiners are running at 95% capacity, but exports and imports were down by 1.2 million barrels per day and 804,000 barrels per day, respectively. The U.S., meanwhile, consumes about 21 million barrels of petroleum and crude oil per day. As the Wall Street Journal reported…
Gasoline inventories saw a 15th straight weekly draw, and were down by 2.6 million barrels at 211.6 million barrels, or 6% below the five-year average. Gasoline demand rose by 489,000 barrels a day to 9.3 million barrels a day leading up to the Memorial Day weekend, which marks the unofficial start of the summer driving season.
Chapman said his timeline for a significant inventory crunch is two or three weeks…
Once you get to that point, then you’ll see the price shoot up… Up to $150, $160. he models would tell you that… I think crude being in this sort of $90 to $110 for the last [six weeks] has really been mitigated by running down inventories.
It can’t last forever. So we’ll see what happens. Predicting this and the exact timing, it’s always a challenge. But that’s the way we see the picture.
It’s a picture worth thinking about. We’re just a few weeks away from what could be a massive oil price spike, which would make this spring seem like the good old days. A 50% pop in oil prices would assuredly take a chunk out of the stock markets as expectations for a higher inflation environment grow.
Then there’s the other part…
As Chapman also noted, if oil prices go as high as they could, “demand destruction brings it back into balance.” Consumers buy less. Producers create more.
That’ll mean lower prices, eventually, but to get there, it means people and businesses spending less on other things, and less U.S. and global economic activity overall, which brings a whole other set of recessionary risks into play for businesses.
It’s a gray swan…
Oil prices were up as much as 6% to 7% today on the latest news, including the reports of stalled negotiations. But as we write, Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate futures are around $95 and $92 per barrel, down from their wartime peaks so far.
The futures market, as a whole, continues to trade as if the worst is in the rearview mirror and that continued oil disruptions aren’t likely. You can get late 2026 Brent crude futures in the mid-$80 range.
“It’s a little hard to explain,” Chevron CEO Mike Wirth said in an interview with Bloomberg on Friday. “There’s this belief that the end is near… That has kept the back end of the curve lower than it otherwise might have been.”
He noted we’re already seeing physical supply shortages in Asian markets (as we’ve noted here). “We haven’t reached a crisis point yet,” Wirth said, but he added that “it will take months” to return to some semblance of normal, with some 1,000 ships still stranded in the Persian Gulf.
The more I (Corey McLaughlin) think about it, this is a “gray (or grey) swan” event.
It’s not a major unpredictable development in the way that author Nassim Taleb described a “black swan,” but global oil inventories drying up is a major event that’s still considered unlikely. At least, enough people with enough money in the market are behaving that way. But perhaps we’re just starting to see a turn…
The great divide…
We’ve been telling you about the “tech and semiconductor versus everything else” divide in the market over the past few months. It has been strong enough to buoy the cap-weighted indexes – and we continue to see indicators of it…
Today, while nearly 300 of the S&P 500 Index components traded lower and nine of 11 sectors were lower, the U.S. benchmark was up 0.3% and closed at a record.
Only energy stocks (up 2%) and tech (up 2.5%) were higher, and nothing seems to be able to knock semiconductor stocks from their march higher.
Semiconductor sentiment and trading activity is extremely frothy… Here’s a note from 7th Key Financial founder Josh Taylor…
Our colleague and Ten Stock Trader editor Greg Diamond agrees…
Greg has been warning of a top in semiconductors and tech stocks.
In his Weekly Market Outlook for subscribers this week, Greg highlighted another huge “divergence” between the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index and financial stocks, among others, while comparing today’s setup with previous major market “tops.”
Existing subscribers and Stansberry Alliance members can get the details from Greg here.
Opportunities are starting to show up elsewhere…
Today, DailyWealth Trader editor Chris Igou also pointed out the large divergence between tech and everything else in his monthly “sector checkup” for subscribers.
As he wrote, only five of the 11 major S&P 500 sectors are up in the past three months. Six fell lower… and “if you haven’t had money in the top-performing sectors, you are trailing the S&P 500 Index,” Chris said.
But he also noted he expects “some of the laggards to bounce back this month,” specifically healthcare and materials stocks, which have shown stronger technical signals lately. Existing subscribers and Alliance members can find the details here.
The great space race might not be what you think…
To close things out today, we have one more big idea we want to talk about. You got a taste of it over the weekend in a pair of Masters Series essays from Stansberry Venture Technology editor Dave Lashmet…
SpaceX has been all over the news as Elon Musk’s rocket/AI/satellite company is close to going public (and, as we discussed last week, its shares are on a fast track to the major indexes and folks’ retirement accounts whether anyone wants them or not).
But while a lot of folks are enamored with the idea of sending rockets to the moon and Mars, there’s much more going on when it comes to the “space race.”
Dave, whose picks are all over our Stansberry Research Hall of Fame, has been focused on finding other, little-known potential winners as investors turn their attention to space.
Dave was the first person we heard talk about a relatively small company called Nvidia (NVDA) several years ago – before the stock went parabolic. Now, Dave says the biggest opportunities lie in the companies supplying the critical new infrastructure for the space race. So, before you think about buying a share in SpaceX, you should check out what Dave has got to say.
On Thursday, he’s revealing a “make or break” twist to the SpaceX IPO… and Dave will unveil a company with technology he says is 10 times better than SpaceX’s, and it’s linked to a Pentagon project that could deliver massive profits, even if Musk’s plans crash and burn.
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New 52-week highs (as of 5/29/26): Altius Minerals (ALS.TO), Arm Holdings (ARM), Broadcom (AVGO), Pacer U.S. Cash Cows 100 Fund (COWZ), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Datadog (DDOG), Leonardo DRS (DRS), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China Fund (EMXC), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), iShares Convertible Bond Fund (ICVT), Illumina (ILMN), Nucor (NUE), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Fund (PEY), ProShares Ultra Technology (ROM), and ProShares Ultra S&P 500 (SSO).
“With about 50% of the $1.8B owned by early investors (excluding those shares owned by Musk) that will become free for trading in only few months, imagine the overhang [a large block of assets expected to be sold soon]…
“My experience is that institutional investors are reluctant buying when there is a large overhang. It will be interesting to follow.” – Subscriber Serge F.
All the best,
Corey McLaughlin Baltimore, Maryland June 1, 2026
Stansberry Research Top 10 Open Recommendations
Top 10 highest-returning open stock positions across all Stansberry Research portfolios. Returns represent the total return from the initial recommendation.InvestmentBuy DateReturnPublicationMSFT Microsoft02/10/121,457.3%Stansberry’s Investment AdvisoryMSFT Microsoft11/11/101,442.3%Retirement MillionaireCIEN Ciena10/20/22870.4%Stansberry Innovations ReportADP Automatic Data Processing10/09/08851.6%Extreme ValueGOOGL Alphabet12/15/16836.9%Retirement MillionaireALS-T Altius Minerals03/26/09768.5%Extreme ValueBRK.B Berkshire Hathaway04/01/09767.2%Retirement MillionaireSII Sprott01/11/18607.0%Extreme ValueWRB W.R. Berkley03/15/12590.0%Stansberry’s Investment AdvisoryLITE Lumentum04/15/21559.3%Stansberry Innovations Report
Please note: Securities appearing in the Top 10 are not necessarily recommended buys at current prices. The list reflects the best-performing positions currently in the model portfolio of any Stansberry Research publication. The buy date reflects when the editor recommended the investment in the listed publication, and the return shows its performance since that date. To learn if a security is still a recommended buy today, you must be a subscriber to that publication and refer to the most recent portfolio.
Top 10 Totals3Extreme ValueFerris3Retirement MillionaireDoc2Stansberry Innovations ReportEngel2Stansberry’s Investment AdvisoryPorter
Top 5 Crypto Capital Open Recommendations
Top 5 highest-returning open positions in the Crypto Capital model portfolioInvestmentBuy DateReturnPublicationBTC/USD Bitcoin11/27/181,858.1%Crypto CapitalWSTETH/USD Wrapped Staked Ethereum12/07/181,685.5%Crypto CapitalONE/USD Harmony12/16/191,004.5%Crypto CapitalPOL/USD Polygon02/26/21641.4%Crypto CapitalQRL/USD Quantum Resistant Ledger01/19/21400.4%Crypto Capital
Please note: Securities appearing in the Top 5 are not necessarily recommended buys at current prices. The list reflects the best-performing positions currently in the Crypto Capital model portfolio. The buy date reflects when the recommendation was made, and the return shows its performance since that date. To learn if it’s still a recommended buy today, you must be a subscriber and refer to the most recent portfolio.
Stansberry Research Hall of Fame
Top 10 all-time, highest-returning closed positions across all Stansberry portfoliosInvestmentDurationGainPublicationNvidia (NVDA)^*5.96 years1,466%Venture Tech.Microsoft (MSFT)^12.74 years1,185%Retirement MillionaireCiena (CIEN)^3.57 years1,183%Innovations ReportEngelInovio Pharma. (INO)^1.01 years1,139%Venture Tech.Rocket Lab (RKLB)^2.35 years1,034%Venture Tech.Seabridge Gold (SA)^4.20 years995%Sjug Conf.Lumentum (LITE)^5.09 years851%Innovations ReportEngelBerkshire Hathaway (BRK-B)^16.13 years800%Retirement MillionaireIntellia Therapeutics (NTLA)1.95 years775%Amer. MoonshotsRite Aid 8.5% bond4.97 years773%True Income
^ These gains occurred with a partial position in the respective stocks. * Editor Dave Lashmet closed the first leg of this Nvidia position in November 2016 for a gain of about 108%. Then, he closed the second leg in July 2020 for a 777% return. And finally, in May 2022, he booked a 1,466% return on the final leg. Subscribers who followed his advice on Nvidia could’ve recorded a total weighted average gain of more than 600%.
Stansberry Research Crypto Hall of Fame
Top 5 highest-returning closed positions in the Crypto Capital model portfolioInvestmentDurationGainAnalystBand Protocol (BAND)0.31 years1,169%Crypto CapitalTerra (LUNA)0.41 years1,166%Crypto CapitalPolymesh (POLYX)3.84 years1,157%Crypto CapitalFrontier (FRONT)0.09 years979%Crypto CapitalBinance Coin (BNB)1.78 years963%Crypto Capital
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As the 37th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre approaches, the Chinese communist regime has stepped up suppression measures against dissidents and activists across the country, according to interviews with individuals who say they have been placed under surveillance, confined to their homes, or warned against speaking publicly about the anniversary.
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A man holds a poster of the famous “Tank Man” facing Chinese military tanks at Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, during a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2020. In 1989, tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of armored vehicles crushed peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. (Anthony/AFP via Getty Images)
As the 37th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre approaches, the Chinese communist regime has stepped up suppression measures against dissidents and activists across the country, according to interviews with individuals who say they have been placed under surveillance, confined to their homes, or warned against speaking publicly about the anniversary.
In the massacre, which occurred on June 4, 1989, Chinese troops violently suppressed a student-led pro-democracy movement, resulting in thousands of deaths and injuries. Today, the regime remains deeply sensitive to any public remembrance of the tragedy.
The restrictions, reported across China, reflect a long-established pattern in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intensifies political security operations each year ahead of June 4.
At the same time, the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights in China released an annual commemorative statement from the Tiananmen Mothers, a group representing relatives of those killed during the massacre.
The group reiterated its long-standing demands that the CCP disclose the full truth about the events, provide compensation to victims’ families, and hold those responsible accountable.
Several dissidents in China told The Epoch Times that state security officers, police, and local neighborhood officials began contacting them in late May, warning them not to travel, attend gatherings, or speak with overseas media in the run-up to the anniversary. They spoke on the condition that only their surnames would be published, out of fear of reprisal.
Several dissidents in China told The Epoch Times that state security officers, police, and local neighborhood officials began contacting them in late May, warning them not to travel, attend gatherings, or speak with overseas media in the run-up to the anniversary. They spoke on the condition that only their surnames would be published, out of fear of reprisal.
A Beijing-based dissident with the surname Liu said that police surveillance had already intensified around his home.
“Police have already been assigned to monitor me,” Liu said. “There’s an unmarked van parked outside, and wherever I go, they follow.”
According to Liu, state security officers instructed him not to participate in gatherings related to June 4 and not to post information on overseas websites. He said this year’s controls appear to rely more heavily on direct surveillance than on the practice known among Chinese activists as “forced travel.”
Under that approach, the regime typically removes dissidents, rights advocates, or former participants in the 1989 movement from their home cities under the guise of tourism, rest trips, or informal meetings, keeping them away until after the anniversary has passed. (More)Sponsored by NativePath
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Tina Peters, the former Colorado election clerk jailed for lying to state authorities, was released from prisonon June 1. Peters served less than two years of her nine-year sentence. President Donald Trump issued her a pardon in December, but a court ruled that because her convictions were state-level, that authority rested with Colorado’s governor. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis did not issue a pardon. On May 15, he commuted her sentence, paving the way for her release.
A panel of judges ruled on June 1 that President Donald Trump’s policy of excluding people with gender dysphoria already serving in the military is unconstitutional.
Florida filed a civil claim against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on June 1, alleging the artificial intelligence company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT has put profits over safety and has put lives at risk, state Attorney General James Uthmeier announced.
California Republican governor Candidate and former Fox News host Steve Hilton recently called on Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to drop out of the race, saying that splitting the Republican vote could lead to two Democrats facing off in November’s election, due to the state’s jungle primary election system.
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Tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, on April 18, 2026. (Asghar Besharati/AP Photo)
WORLD
A cargo ship that was transiting the Persian Gulf was struck by an “unknown projectile” that caused a large explosion, according to an organization run by the UK’s Royal Navy on June 1. The report came hours after the U.S. military said it struck targets inside Iran.
Earlier in the day, Iran said it has halted indirect negotiations with the United States over what it describes as Israel’s escalating military campaign in Lebanon, according to a report by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military on Monday to strike Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs, amid Israel’s expanding campaign against the Iran-backed terrorist group despite a ceasefire that has nominally been in place since April.
Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar said on June 1 that he would amend the constitution to remove the country’s president, whom he has accused of failing in his duties while Viktor Orbán was prime minister.
European manufacturers raised pricesat the fastest pace in nearly four years in May as the war in the Middle East pushed up energy costs, disrupted shipping routes, and squeezed supply chains.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said 57 police officers were injured on the night of May 30 and in the early hours of May 31 after soccer fans celebrating Paris Saint-Germain’s second successive victory in the Champions League final rioted in several French cities.
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Illustration detail of jellyfish (Plate 98) from “Kunstformen der Natur,” 1904, by Ernst Haeckel.
For those drawn to the artistry of the natural world, Ernst Haeckel’s work is particularly compelling. His artworks reveal a natural world of symmetry and strangeness, where each organism is rendered with detail and compositional grace matched by few scientific illustrators. Yet for all his devotion to ordering and naming the natural world, Haeckel’s illustrations are so vivid and so stylized that the organisms themselves seem to slip free of any category that might contain them.
Working from direct observation, often aided by the microscope, he produced nearly 1,000 scientific illustrations over his lifetime, many depicting species he first identified himself.
A German scientist and illustrator,Haeckel devoted his career to capturing the diversity and structure of life with unusual intensity and precision. His drawings and paintings of organic forms are especially distinctive for their heightened symmetry, intricate detail, and careful arrangement, often revealing patterns that feel both scientific and deliberately composed.
Illustration of “Muscinae” (Plate 72) from “Kunstformen der Natur,” 1904, by Ernst Haeckel. (Biodiversity Heritage Library)
His most celebrated achievement is “Kunstformen der Natur,” a collection of illustrations originally published in 1904. Also known as “Art Forms in Nature,” it features a wide range of organisms in lithographic and halftone prints.
Unlike most art collections, these works were not created as stand-alone pieces. They were intended to be reproduced and widely shared for educational purposes. Even so, there’s a clear artistic intent throughout. From delicate flowers to feathery mosses, the subjects are carefully arranged to highlight both their visual beauty and biological harmony. (More)
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