Since we’re in an era of Greater Israel, wonder what this guy would think about Mamdani visiting the West Bank and Gaza?

This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d
The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths
(1) Gulf Kings
(2) Financial meltdown
(3) AI tech oligarchs
(4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions
Read our Polycrisis Dispatch:
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

This is glorious

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.

Workers I spoke to are pissed.

Bernie Sanders is WEAK at kung fu

imagine arguing with your devout catholic grandma and shouting "the pope is WEAK on crime"

Victim in ICE Shooting Suffered at Least Six Wounds, His Lawyer Says

ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues.

He had just asked to call his wife.

They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw.

Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Amazing if true. I’d read a piece about this. Cc @motherjones.com

Using your debt, your search history, and your private data to decide how much you’re worth? Hell no.
This is what happens when technology is built to serve profit instead of people.
This is why every worker needs a union.

How to gorpcore

Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz | Better Offline YouTube video by Better Offline

People seem to like listening to the show on YouTube, so here's the Better Offline @ronanfarrow.bsky.social/Andrew Marantz interview with a spinning skull logo
youtu.be/U-Y52_xlkNU?...

ICYMI: “.. Almost half of the US data centers planned for this year are expected to be delayed or canceled. One big reason is the shortage of electrical equipment, such as transformers, switchgear and batteries.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Crypto Is Flailing Donald Trump used the White House to pump crypto to unprecedented highs. It’s still collapsing.

Trump's White House pushed crypto to unprecedented heights. But it's collapsing anyway. My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social

+ A good time to mention! I just submitted my "Crypto-Capitalism: The New Financial Dystopia" manuscript to @haymarketbooks.org
So more to come!
jacobin.com/2026/04/cryp...

Planet of the camps The U.S. is imposing an international network of concentration camps on the world.

I wrote about third-country deportations and how Trump is using bribes, threats, and rewards to create an expanding international network of concentration camps to go along with the domestic one.

The death penalty law reflects the total Kahanization of Israel's right The Passing of the Death Penalty Law Reflects the Normalization of Kahanist Ideology and Betrays the Values on Which the State Was Founded. It Sets Israel on a Suicidal Path

"Kahanists – the ideological disciples of the Brooklyn-born fascist-theocratic Rabbi Meir Kahane – are no longer fringe. Their representatives are [Israeli} government ministers; their most radical proposals set the country's legislative agenda." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Rooftop solar reaches 20% of Puerto Rico’s generation mix Rooftop solar capacity in Puerto Rico reached around 1.5 GW in 2025, passing natural gas and becoming the territory’s second-largest generation source, according to the Energy Information Administrati...

Rooftop solar has come out of nowhere and is now 20% of Puerto Rico's energy generation mix -- more than natural gas.

What affects the land, affects the sea 🌊

We’re sharing two new #BeaconsOfHope stories from 🇦🇺 and 🇨🇦. From reclaiming Aboriginal "sea country" to #FirstNations leading the fight for #WildSalmon, those closest to the struggle hold the solutions: story.futureoffood.org/beacons/land-water-nexus...

Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy.

Are you seeing that message in media?

Trump’s claims to have destroyed ‘100% of Iranian military capacity’ and his requests for Chinese/European/Japanese/Korean naval assistance seem hard to square.
Until you remember he also believes he has reduced drug prices by 800%.

What a paragraph.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Over the weekend, Donald Trump and top US officials spent much of their time begging American allies (and also Trump’s good pal Xi in China) to bail him out of the economic fiasco he created with his illegal war.

The amount of begging was jarring and unbecoming, even for them.”

"No to war... and free Palestine"
Javier Bardem

Netanyahu‘s like, have fun dealing with this mess, Don. I’ll just be over here bombing the hell out of Lebanon.

The lane is open for a 2028 candidate to pledge to accept jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

“Maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world— without having to constantly convince people...who are never going to agree with you—through technological means. And this is where I think technology is this incredible alternative to politics.”

Peter Thiel, 2010

Marco Rubio’s Florida Bestie Is an Accused ‘Foreign Agent’ Set to Go on Trial— With Rubio On the Witness List David Rivera and Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee when they were coming up together in Florida politics. But he’s been a headache for the secretary of state ever since, and now he could be one for ...

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.

My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Apart from the moral repugnance, this is so revealing of how ignorant conservatives are about poverty. Poor people have to think about money ALL THE TIME. They worry constantly about what everything costs, how to substitute one purchase for another, what bill can be put off until payday, etc.