Honestly, this is good because it removes any plausible deniability about the type of people Trump put in charge of his domestic paramilitary operations

The SEC today began the process of rescinding the climate risk disclosure rule promulgated in 2024 with broad support from investors. A core mission of the SEC is investor protection, but the Atkins-led version prioritizes loyalty to the Trump/ fossil fuel industry's climate denial script.

Dell?!

The nine most terrifying words in the English language: I'm from private equity, and I'm here to help.

The implicit “problem” these white papers are dealing with is the TAs’ success at winning a favorable employment contract. The “solution” these white papers propose is to divest from reliance on grad students as teachers. Instead, we’ll use AI, undergrads, and anyone else we can exploit.

meanwhile

Private equity is becoming a dominant force behind the AI data center boom. PESP found that private equity-backed companies now control nearly half of the top 25 U.S. data center companies, representing roughly 5.4 GW of active capacity. pestakeholder.org/news/private...

public equity stakes.. but not like this! part #495804385 France just announced that they're doing it too tho- they have a Government Shareholding Agency to manage it.. a public asset manager, if you will www.reuters.com/technology/f...

there are endless reports about the rapidly growing interrelationships between banks and private credit funds/ NBFIs OFR estimated btw. $410-$540 bn of bank exposure to private credit yet this reporting makes it seem like banks & unregulated finance are separate www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/b...

ironic that the person who kills shareholder primacy may be Elon Musk

"The signal to Trump’s base is clear: Break the law to expand Trump’s power, and you may not only receive immunity from prosecution but also be financially rewarded for it. Trump hasn’t just removed the stick — he’s providing a carrot."

The Ebola outbreak and scrambled response were "deeply foreseeable when you gut public health surveillance and you gut public health capacity." This is one of the things you get when you destroy the government. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

At 11 a.m. ET, Trump is expected to announce rollbacks to EPA rules governing refrigerants. The chemicals used in AC and cooling systems that are hundreds to thousands of times more potent than CO2 as greenhouse gases.

Shorter OpenAI: "Don't blow all your investment capital on SpaceX! Wait for meeeeee!"

Now seems like a good time to start building a movement against bailouts for billionaires!

Hope you didn't want to find anything on the CFPB's website before February 2025, because the Trump administration just deleted everything prior to that date.

the final deadline to vote for me for the MA public pension board is coming up Friday! any MA state employee who is in the pension system can get their election code & pin by emailing [email protected] & vote online also ⬇️☺️

the myth of white victimization is really all they have

shoutout to jared polis

Grateful to get to lead this work & partner with healthcare workers who are on the frontlines of Silicon Valley’s AI push. Listening to nurses describe their experiences of new tech--& raise questions about what happens when they say "no" to AI--has been beyond meaningful.

A thing I just had occasion to email someone: These days, state of incorporation is branding. Delaware brands as "I am respectable and will respect the law." Texas brands as "I only answer to Republican law." Nevada brands as "LOL what is law?"

Laid off faculty and staff at the recently closed Hampshire College were not offered severance or employee benefits. Grassroots organizations and the community are rallying to support them with emergency relief fundraisers.

poetic in its farce

"investment"

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”

I have been told that certain celebrity girlboss influencers have issued a social media fatwa on this column. Therefore, I’m sharing it again because I’m just that kind of contrary.

yay!! my faculty union is the best; so happy for Penn State faculty huge win for public sector union power!

If you're not already pissed about data centers, check out these latest figures on how Big Tech is forcing struggling ratepayers in PJM to cover its costs: in the last two PJM capacity auctions, it increased customers’ bills by $13.8B. More increases are coming unless policy changes.

as both a U of Chicago alum *and* author, I fully support the University of Chicago Press worker unionization & as someone who did a sit-in in the admin building for labor rights many moons ago, *not super surprised* they didn't voluntarily recognize the union more: cwalocals.org/ucp-workers-...

neoliberalism is d-

So excited to see the Journal of Stratification Economics launch with an inaugural conference this month!

Hey r/wallstreetbets wrote a comment letter on the SEC's proposal to eliminate mandatory quarterly reporting: www.sec.gov/comments/S7-... I don't know who is authorized to speak for r/wallstreetbets but I am amused

“More frequent pricing is not more accurate pricing.”

The Palantir ICM + BI2 + Mobile Fortify pipeline is a staggering thing. Similar tools between Palantir and the FBI are also in the works. This level of surveillance transcends the current immigration focus.

"According to local news outlet El Paso Matters, the three-gigawatt data center complex “would consume more electricity than all of El Paso Electric’s 460,000 customers combined." data centers will become defined as national security infrastructure borderlands the first to pay the price as always

great job alert ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Those of us who called this administration racist from day one were called alarmist and worse. Now they are just dumping sewage in Black neighborhoods, as was common during Jim Crow and those same folks are quite. Also, shout out to all the academics with “sincere concerns” about DEI.

stil my beating heart @lenorepalladino.bsky.social

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

We can get deeper affordability and decarb at the same time. Not by letting the market rip, but by ramping up public power and smart regulation. Kristina Karlsson explains in @cplusc.bsky.social’s terrific new lit review. stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/trade-...

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

I'm writing something about public pension funds & data centers & risk -- this total mess strengthens my goal to get elected to the MA PRIM Board! have a friend who works for MA state government? Pls send them to my website so that they can vote before May 22nd!! lenorepalladino.me

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.