A Breakdown of Five Days of Secret Supreme Court Memos

Shadow Docket.
How SCOTUS abandoned its role as "exemplar of public reason" (Rawls).
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
NYT analysis fails to connect this to the corruption scandals of Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, & Neil Gorsuch.
With decisions bought, reasons are harder to provide.

At Least 88 Profitable U.S. Corporations Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2025 At least 88 of the largest corporations in America paid $0 in federal income tax for 2025. Corporate tax avoidance has increased at least in part due to President Trump's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” ...

88 US corporations
collectively made $105,000,000,000 in profits in 2025,
paid $0 in taxes on this income,
and received $4.7 billion in tax rebates.
See the list here:
itep.org/88-profitabl...

TB, power, and the political economy of neglect The cure exists. The evidence exists. What is missing is the political commitment to treat TB as the development crisis it is.

How do we allow tuberculosis to kill 3370 human beings every day while accepting the risk of new drug-resistant strains developing?
@danbanik @GlobalDevPod
globaldevpod.substack.com/p/tb-power-a...

While a similar Bill is stalled in Minnesota -

www.house.mn.gov/sessiondaily... -

in Hawaii Senate Bill 2471 has advanced out of Committee.

legiscan.com/HI/bill/SB24...

Both bills would withdraw from corporations and trusts the right to make political donations.

10th-grader Ben Kurian interviewed me, among others, for a short film on the right to health ... which went on to win C-SPAN's 2026 national StudentCam documentary competition.
www.benkurian.com/a-right-to-h...
His lovely dad assisted by driving him around the country for the interviews.

How the U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran Have Damaged Schools and Hospitals The Times has verified strikes on at least 39 schools and hospitals, a fraction of the devastation so far.

The US-Israeli bombing of Iran: a heavy emphasis on schools and hospitals (documented by the New York Times).

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Intimidation: "submit! We are not constrained by international law or morality."

The Trump Administration’s New Biofuels Targets Threaten Carbon-Rich Rainforests - Inside Climate News The U.S. doesn’t have enough bio-based diesel to meet the administration’s new mandate, so blenders will have to import yet more foreign crop-based oils.

The awful effects of Trump's new biofuel mandates.

insideclimatenews.org/news/3103202...

Thomas Pogge Interview | “For USA, The Entire Globe Is A Chessboard” | Outlook India The coordinated attack on Iran by the US and Israeli military forces on February 28, 2026, has major ramifications for the future shape of global politics. Amidst calls for restraint and enforcement o...

Good-bye to India: interview on geopolitics....
www.outlookindia.com/internationa...

Princess Diana tried to end their use:
Landmines
Now being dropped in Iran.
Our tax dollars at work.

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

How did the 175+ primary school girls in Minab get blown up in a double tap strike?

Palantir

Alex Karp

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened

Supported by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), condoned by the West: murdering ten-thousands of civilians at El Fasher.

“The silence sent a signal to the killers. For the RSF and UAE, it offered consent for what would follow.”

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

And it's very obvious now from trading data that this actually happened: some people got advance notice of Trump's statement and cashed in to the tune of at least hundreds of millions of dollars.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...

Trump statement causes huge market move at 7:04am EST.
Those with advance knowledge profit handsomely.

Unlimited petrol? Chinese firm claims it can produce fuel from air and water The start-up plans to build ‘large-scale’ facilities to convert carbon dioxide into synthetic fuel, though some question its commercial feasibility.

Chinese firm Carbonology claims that - from air, water, and renewable energy - it can synthesize fuel for sale at competitive prices.
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

The Peace & Justice Project on Gaza:
www.facebook.com/reel/1546616...

Opinion | Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/o...

'Of Course': IDF Drops Case Against Soldiers Accused of Raping Palestinian Prisoner | Common Dreams “Israel’s military attorney general just gave his soldiers license to rape—so long as the victim is Palestinian," said one Israeli rights group.

Israeli prosecution drops charges of rape against five soldiers who were filmed doing it.
www.commondreams.org/news/idf-dro...

US Appeals Court Upholds Verdict Against Contractor Liable for Abu Ghraib Torture | Common Dreams A federal appellate court upheld a historic verdict against CACI Premier Technology, a military contractor found liable for its role in the torture of three prisoners at Abu Ghraib during the Georg...

Finally some justice for the people whom US contractors tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.
www.commondreams.org/news/abu-ghr...

Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS

Australia subsidizes fossil fuel use by >$30,000 per minute.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For the whole world, this subsidy flow is $1.33 million per minute (IMF study).
What good this financial flow could do!!

Following the money for you. Track Pro-Israel, Crypto, and AI lobby spending in the Integrity Index.

Monitoring political donations affecting the coming midterm elections in the US.
politicalintegrity.us/p/following-...

Reprisal bombing in Lebanon
dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-he...
and chemical warfare in Tehran
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-dark-and...

Iran's Kurds would do well to read up on the fate of Syria's Kurds as summarized in BBC reporting six weeks ago.
What happens when their usefulness to the US expires?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Friday night, @tpogge.bsky.social, @jonasjaegermeyr.bsky.social, and moderator Max Gruenig joined us for Global Shocks and the Future of Food System Resilience, a conversation that connected analytical, scientific, and policy perspectives on shared global challenges!

PC: Matthew Gilbertson

The pattern continues with a double tap strike on Niloofar Square (1 March), detailed below, followed by a similar double tap strike on Ferdowsi Square (2 March), about 7 km away - both in heavily populated areas of Tehran. These attacks often kill reporters.

1/3 of Iran's dead are underage girls killed at their schools.
8 medical facilities were also hit.
10 innocent mistakes?
Or an effort to show that Israel isn't alone in practicing Gaza-style warfare?
If the latter, expect dead reporters.

ContestPad My Competition Site

These are the 21 finalist videos produced by school students across the US.
Serious issues, well presented in ca. 6 minutes.
I enjoyed my brief appearance in one of them.
studentcam.us.launchpad6.com/fanfavorite

Team Trump Opposed War With Iran. Then They Started One Donald Trump, JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, Stephen Miller, and so many in MAGA claimed they would stop regime-change wars, not start them. We have the receipts.

They were against regime change war.
But how else do you stop people talking about Epstein?
zeteo.com/p/team-trump...

New York Times reporting.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

How Jad Jadallah bled to death at age 14.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Global Shocks and the Future of Food System Resilience A conversation connecting analytical, scientific, and policy perspectives on shared global challenges

How do global disruptions reveal vulnerability in food systems?

Global Shocks & the Future of Food System Resilience will evaluate the repercussions impacting market instability & supply-chain stress with @tpogge.bsky.social, @jonasjaegermeyr.bsky.social & Max Gruenig.

www.1014.nyc/events/food-...