Iran has told mediators it will continue to limit the number of ships allowed to cross the Strait of Hormuz and charge tolls for the remaining period of the cease-fire, officials familiar with the matter said.-WSJ

Is mandating an increase in the amount of corn and soy we burn in vehicles good for food security? No. Is it good for nature? No. But is it at least good for the climate? Also no. Read the latest from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social 👇🏻

just spitballing here but one thing that might turn down the temperature is top CEOs not doing and saying insane and extremely harmful things all the time, such as enthusiastically embracing fascist movements

After intense lobbying, Trump signed executive orders to fast-track data center construction and weaken state-level AI regulations. AI firms are also pumping huge sums into our elections. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/number-go-up/

it really is remarkable *how mild* the op-ed that she wrote was. It really shouldn’t matter what she said, but I think they chose to make an example of her precisely *because* she didn’t do anything remotely wrong. They wanted to show they could do this to anyone.

A jury has found that Live Nation has been operating as an illegal monopoly. Live Nation used its dominance to harm customers, artists, and venues alike. Other monopolies take away our freedoms in similar ways. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

AP goes for the jugular! “Trump draws Marie Antoinette comparisons as he leans into the gilded trappings of the presidency” apnews.com/article/trum...

ICYMI: "[T]he number of people in immigration detention has soared and conditions have worsened during the Trump administration, with the death rate during part of this fiscal year reaching a 22-year high based on information starting in 2004." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“A political committee President Donald Trump uses to pay legal bills is in debt — and owes $1.6 million to a roster of law firms, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission. Trump’s Save America PAC is nearly $500,000 in the red, according to FEC data published Wednesday.”

NEW: Maine’s legislature passed the nation’s first state-level hyperscale data center moratorium, freezing construction approvals for data centers requiring more than 20 megawatts of power for the next year and a half.

As the United States was preparing a daring mission to rescue an airman whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran, there was money to be made.

A man charged with burglarizing grave sites and accumulating more than 100 bodies from Pennsylvania cemeteries has waived his right to an evidentiary hearing on Friday.

I recently interviewed the great @sulliview.bsky.social for @longlead.com's Depth Perception newsletter. We talked about the NYT public editor role (which she held for 3.5 years), among other things. Check it out! depthperception.longlead.com/p/margaret-s...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the flow of drugs into the U.S. by sea has been nearly eradicated under his administration. But experts say Trump is misrepresenting government data.

In a major state antitrust investigation, California's Attorney General has unsealed hundreds of records revealing that Amazon illegally pressures its marketplace sellers to engage in price-fixing. While Trump's DOJ lets corporate lawbreakers off the hook, states are still holding them accountable.

BREAKING: “I made a mistake, and I am sincerely sorry,” Philz Coffee CEO said after having ordered Pride flags removed. I say again, the power is with the people! www.advocate.com/news/philz-c...

Yes, *that* Ruben Gallego.

Ronny Jackson's birthday party is at Mar-a-Lago and Trump just announced he won't be there 😆

Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can reveal. euobserver.com/211609/how-b...

Meta is expected to slash 10% of its global workforce - 8000 employees - in the first round of layoffs on May 20, Reuters reports. And more to come, How’s that AI working out for you?

With news of the new "Grazing Action Plan" created by the USDA to help the cattle industry, we wanted to remind everyone that wolves are not the problem. Wolves have killed 0.002% of cattle, yet hundreds of wolves were killed by government programs. Read more on our blog: https://bit.ly/4sBHT3F

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

And we have receipts. Jim Dolan's security team at Madison Square Garden surveilled this woman over the course of *years* and in the smallest detail ... because she was trans.

Jenner’s passport was changed to ‘Male’ under Trump’s new policy.

At the start of this week, there were three men in Congress whose reputations had imploded after being accused of misconduct against women: Reps. Cory Mills, Tony Gonzales, and Eric Swalwell. Gonzales and Swalwell resigned, but Mills is hanging on despite facing a staggering number of scandals.

Here’s the ad promoting the new Peter Thiel backed startup, Objection, where AI will allegedly determine the veracity of journalists’ claims. It looks like they took the ad down, but I screen grabbed it when I could still access it from a QT by right wing Christian investor Nate Fischer. 1/

Jaw-dropping account of the 27-year-old tyro who is spearheading the State Department assault on America’s European allies. It’s telling that he and other MAGA warriors denounce restrictions on free speech everywhere but in Hungary or Russia or Belarus. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani says that New York City is offering an illustration of “the change that democratic socialism can deliver.” As other cities follow NYC’s example by taxing the rich and funding social programs, Mamdani argues that it will become clear that socialism “can flourish anywhere.”

"If it works, it ain't stupid."

This is just backing up a truck to empty the Treasury

The president, a New York native, claimed he had “never heard” of the stores found throughout the city.

I feel like clawing back the money the Trump family stole from taxpayers should be a live topic in this summer’s campaigning.

Whew, you could write a whole grad student dissertation on this excerpt. One issue is the use of "elite." I'm sure Mamdani's parents are doing fine, but "Manhattan elite" is a realm of billionaires, not a filmmaker and a college professor. Their wealth and power is a rounding error to Jamie Dimon.

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

First, he tweeted "RIP CFPB," the agency responsible for policing consumer financial products. Then he announced X Money, which is part of his plan to turn X into "the biggest financial institution in the world.”

Kevin Warsh is refusing to disclose more than $100 million of his assets. Totally unprecedented. Warsh needs to release this information now. What is he hiding?

The Trump threat: Indict my political critics or I'll fire you. It is the full corruption of the Justice Department and Republican members of Congress are complicit. www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/p...

ooooh, you love to see this.

And there it is.... Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

The nepo babies that run the New York Times are suspicious that some other children of the elite have not used their connections to line their own pockets and they think we should all be suspicious too.

NEW: In court filing, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro asks a court to order the handover of taxpayer-funded reimbursement money to a pair of Jan 6 riot defendants The defendants had been ordered to pay damages to a fund to help victims & repair Capitol Instead, we'll pay for it

I went after Gregory Bovino relatively lightly and then didn’t respond to his comment for an hour (I was in transit) and he panicked.

It is my understanding that to be featured in Witherspoon’s popular book club, authors must give her production company an option for film/TV development. It’s understandable they’re pissed about tying themselves to a company now promoting a technology that’s stolen from most — if not all — of them.

"How can Democrats claim to be the party of change, going into the November midterms and then 2028, if they’re led by someone who always resists it?" My case for the Dems chucking out Chuck Schumer, especially after his recent arms-to-Israel vote:

Pretty extraordinary that the U.S. is experiencing its worst March drought on record, worse even than the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. Drought is the most dangerous threat of climate change.

spoiler: none of these opportunistic extraction class weirdos support universal basic income, equitable tax reform, or any other functional counterbalance to the rise of automation because they are liars who only tell people what they want to hear hope this clarifies things

Fascinating interview!

REPORTS: Iran will charge a fee for the passage of merchant ships through the Strait of Hormuz, said Iranian MP Nabavian.