Trump says Netanyahu will do 'whatever I want him to do' following 'dramatic' call about Iran strikes

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Petite bourgeoisie as tools of the big bourgeoisie.

They left out admin keys for govcloud accounts for 6 months in a public github repo in a file called importantAWStokens. Any script kiddie could have compromised critical government systems with that. Who knows how many state actors did so. gizmodo.com/the-worst-le...

These tensions are getting serious Israel's U.S. Ambassador Leiter Calls J Street a 'Cancer Within Jewish Community' - U.S. News www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

The focus of evil in the modern world, as Reagan said of the USSR!

Lunacy

With Trump bragging about Chinese promises to buy American, a reminder from 2022 (via the FT's @alanbeattie.bsky.social) : "China bought none of the extra $200 billion of US exports in Trump's trade deal" www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Tomorrow: Donna Murch delivers the fifteenth annual Robert Fitch Memorial Lecture at La Guardia College, Long Island City, Rm E 500, 2:15 PM. I'll be introducing.

Bill Banning Egalitarian Prayer at Western Wall Advances to Knesset Committee - Israel Political News www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

If you don’t follow the @nypost.com you’re missing an entire universe.

Absolutely criminal. A hugely successful program killed out of cruelty and racism.

Got an email from The New Press asking me if I object to their submitting After the New Economy to AI firms. Wonder what Andre Schiffrin would have thought. @thenewpress.bsky.social

Is this something Trump "compelled" them and other similar orgs to do or is it something they always wanted to do and they feel like Trump gave them permission?

“Unrequited praise” www.ft.com/content/7ae6... What did Donald Trump achieve in talks with Xi Jinping?

A real Post story

fresh audio product: • Two views of the US–Israeli war on Iran: Laleh Khalili and Mouin Rabbani @lalehkhalili.bsky.social www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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So will the NYT hire fancy lawyers to investigate Israeli war crimes? Will the NYT repent? Or is this just bluffing that will go nowhere?

The phrase eBay used to reject GameStop's takeover offer should enter the general discourse: "neither credible nor attractive."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social transcribed my interview with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com about Elon Musk. jacobin.com/2026/05/musk...

Annual Bob Fitch Memorial Lecture, delivered by Donna Murch (introduced by me), La Guardia College, Long Island City, May 18, 2:15. Come!

Pareto on the US: "one witnesses the rise of no end of strange and wholly unscientific religions…that are utterly at war with any sort of scientific thinking, and a mass of hypocritical laws for the enforcement of morality that are replicas of laws of the European Middle Ages."

Ridiculous. I live in his district. It’s quite nice really.

Capitalism is a wondrous thing www.ft.com/content/c0a4...

Sorry this is dumb LCD pandering

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell ProPublica’s board that you stand with its workers. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Barbarism spreads Israel Said It’s Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon. This Is What the Devastation Looks Like. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We're Americans! We can't do something so sensible and democratic. Gotta preserve the oligarchy.

FT’s Lex on retail investors: “weasel under the cocktail cabinet: mildly unpleasant and probably shouldn't be there”

fresh audio product: excerpts from Imperialism and the Homeland, sponsored by the NYC DSA’s Academy for Socialist Education on the domestic & foreign aspects of Trumpism, featuring Nikhil Pal Singh & Greg Grandin, moderated by Gaya Sriskanthan www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

"They're literally running out of money at the end of the month," Kraft Heinz Co. Chief Executive Officer Steve Cahillane said in an interview this week. "We're seeing negative cash flows in the lower-income brackets where they're dipping into savings."

Happy 170th, Sigmund Freud

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies—less well-known than AIPAC but an integral part of the Israeli war campaign: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

Great show by @doughenwood.bsky.social this week. 1) Segment on Yuppies & their descendants, providing much better grid for understanding Dem Party politics over last half century than the PMC 2) Excellent segment on Iran by an Iranian historian www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

There was always a chance the US would lose its competition with China, but it wasn’t inevitable that it would elect a president who spends the entire match deliberately kicking the ball into his own goal www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

Happy Marx’s birthday!

Bonkers

What a world. Short Squeez: "GameStop is preparing a bid for eBay as Ryan Cohen pushes to turn the retailer into a $100B juggernaut. Pickleball Inc. raised a record $225M from Apollo and Dundon."

Referring to Palestinians who were shot attempting to cross into Israel, he said, "There are a lot of 'limping monuments' in Palestinian villages, of those who tried to, so there is a price being paid." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Just listened to @doughenwood.bsky.social's interview with the author of this new book on yuppies. Not a topic I would have expected to be especially interested in, but now I really want to get the book.

Transgender for everybody sounds like a positive program.

fresh audio product (announcement delayed, but podcast has been circulating since Thursday): • Dylan Gottlieb on yuppies • Ervand Abrahamian on Iran www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

PCE inflation, 3 months annualized: Jan 25 (Trump’s inauguration): 3.0% March 26 (latest): 5.6% But “we brought prices down.”

Nothing but the highest standards for the Trump regime.

Remember what a big deal Reps made over Burisma? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Markets are worried because Milei's approval is tanking as inflation remains high (33% for the year ending in March). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Republican debt is different though.

we're so cooked insideevs.com/news/794295/...