great investigation into Opus Dei's network of front operations on colleges campuses. www.ft.com/content/6175...

Coast Guard announces Special Missions Command.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

so many cool things happening in financial markets it’s hard to keep up!

“Forcing”

thank god we’re allowed to do financial innovation again

I need a drink 🙄 "'A new asset class will be buying futures of compute,' Fink said during a panel discussion Tuesday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills"

If you vote in NYC, you've probably wondered: "Who are these people running to be judges? Why doesn't it feel like I have much choice about voting for them? How were they selected? Why do many judges seem to be... bad?" May I present to you @hellgatenyc.com's latest big project: Courts of Contempt.

Breaking news: The sweeping move from Wall Street’s top watchdog has the potential to shift the balance of power from shareholders to chief executives. ft.trib.al/3ECqhXA

It’s bad there isn’t more concern about the Caribbean Sea murder campaign.

uhhh : "California braces for uncertainty as last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in Long Beach" www.latimes.com/environment/...

Today, Joanna Wuest explains how conservative campaigns are transforming the economic value of diversity through shareholder activism, consumer boycotts, and litigation.

There are so many liberatory promises and admirable acts and impulses in the history of this country and this rw elite movement is all abt desecrating the dead who fought for that vision, erasing their historical memory, legacy and hard won victories

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

BREAKING: 870 Registered Nurses in Madison, Wisconsin are unionizing with @seiu.org @seiuwis.bsky.social

The School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study is pleased to announce its 2026–27 Members. This exceptional cohort of 21 scholars was chosen from a pool of more than 600 fellowship applications. www.ias.edu/sss/2026-202...

Spain challenges France and Germany Crisp analysis of Europe‘s political economy of energy sovereignty! agendapublica.es/noticia/2097...

If you're in a 401(k) plan's target date fund, it's probably structured as a Collective Investment Trust (CIT). And it the vehicle that firms like BlackRock want to stuff private credit and other illiquid assets into. 🎁 🔗

One of the last of MA ‘Atari dems’ elected by very organized un(der)employed defense scientists and technicians after mid 60s+ defense cuts

Trump’s Killing Spree Isn’t Stopping the Flow of Drugs Into the U.S. The Trump administration falsely claims that boat strikes target fentanyl and have halted 97 percent of cocaine shipments to the U.S. theintercept.com/2026/05/04/t...

(Bloomberg) - China has ordered its companies to ignore US sanctions, an unprecedented act of defiance that threatens to trap a vast banking sector in the crossfire as tension rises between the world’s largest economies. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

trump era industries- defense, ai, PE

Major financial institutions believe that the crazy levels of debt assumed by the tech bros in their race to develop AI constitutes a huge risk to the market. Crédit Mobilier was child's play compared to this. www.ft.com/content/08ab...

"A court in eastern China's Hangzhou city, an AI hub, has ruled in favor of a senior tech worker whose company replaced him with artificial intelligence (AI)." #ai #labor www.npr.org/2026/05/01/n...

Again, ”ai” (whatever people mean by this) as a tool, an excuse, a set of narratives, to justify codifying class war gains already made and justify taking even more. employers are not bracing for an underclass they are naturalizing the one that already exists and clearing the way for its expansion

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

this is desecration of the graves of those who fought to end slavery, found the second republic, enshrine and realize some of the rights promised to all. No us natl politician currently in office who has not understood this on these terms should hold it again

Kind of a buried lede here too - arrest may have been because she had proof that on a previous occasion the cops had accessed and downloaded explicit cctv of her on the toilet

Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social on the SCOTUS decision gutting the VRA: “Devastating but unsurprising”

All history is the history of share class struggle

Ai is the medium through which people experience or apprehend their own exploitation, and the class war being waged upon them by the wealthy. It is again, not abt the tech in itself but rather that it makes displaced social relations visible/tangible.

Ai is the medium through which people experience or apprehend their own exploitation, and the class war being waged upon them by the wealthy. It is again, not abt the tech in itself but rather that it makes displaced social relations visible/tangible.

69% of users lose money while 1% capture 75% of the profits.

perturbed by how much ai is positioned as exceptional by many sides of debate. its not really all that different from other historical ex/outside history. But in being designated as exceptional - an attempt at creating states of exception? for what? clearing the way for what desired world hist turn?

"Concretely, about 90% of oil rents were effectively socialized in the 1970s. Today, roughly two-thirds end up in the hands of shareholders." @gabrielzucman.bsky.social gzucman.substack.com/p/where-are-...

perturbed by how much ai is positioned as exceptional by many sides of debate. its not really all that different from other historical ex/outside history. But in being designated as exceptional - an attempt at creating states of exception? for what? clearing the way for what desired world hist turn?

From the FT obituary of Robert Skidelsky

everything in american politics boils down to this

Whooboy… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A decade ago, high-frequency trading was considered a stagnant industry with its glory days behind it. Even pioneers were folding, fading or being acquired. Now they make more money than god. Here’s my attempt at explaining what changed. www.ft.com/content/83b2...

gotta love private markets www.ft.com/content/c2df...

No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

250 workers jobless with no severance and little notice; support Hampshire staff and faculty! www.helphampshireworkers.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Central banks meet to gauge threat of Lehman-style bust. Tests incomplete - shadow banks, including hedge funds & private equity are unregulated. UK Govt deregulating retail banks. Major banks will be bailed out by the public purse. No incentive to behave responsibly.

Sánchez: “Shame on those who remain silent in the face of injustice. Shame on those who exploit workers, who criminalise those who are different, who turn rights into commodities, who defend elite privilege, who support war and violence in Gaza, the West Bank, Ukraine, Lebanon, and the Middle East.”

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

It's time to read the Church Committee Report! Published by a major press for the first time for it's 50th anniversary, we abridged it to its most jaw-dropping findings chronicling the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s. Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...