Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets

One more time, for the folks in the back: You don’t scale up durable assets like this for a ‘once and done’ effort. ICE are Trump’s unaccountable, half trained, personally loyal Gestapo. We need to shut them down, and soon.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

AI ruins so much.

Wait until you learn about “vegetative electron microscopy.”

I’m looking forward to reading this!

NEW: House Judiciary Cmte Dems launch probe into Jared Kushner

Inquiry: "You are now reportedly participating as Special Envoy for Peace.. At the same time, you're soliciting billions of dollars from Gulf monarchies for your private business ventures"

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Trump is weird rich coastal elite who is at least as out of touch with real people as Mitt Romney was but gets covered like a man of the people because he’s racist and stupid.

A photo depicting passage of Democrats’ bill to extend TPs for Haiti.

House Democrats just passed our bill to extend protections for Haiti TPS holders.
 
They are caregivers, health care providers, and small business owners — essential to the fabric of our country.

While GOP chaos ensues, Democrats will keep making progress.

Another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to admit guilt in child sexual abuse case David Daniel has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump's pardons in the Capitol attack didn’t apply to child exploitation.

Venn diagram: Jan 6th insurrectionists and pedophiles and a big overlap in the middle. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

At its core, the political economy of scholarship was never supposed to rely on ~$50k from a smelting fortune. Institutions have hollowed out their support, the feds have done the same, and all that's left is inadequate private funding.

I cross it out in every draft I read and insert “germinal” and then we discuss Why Entrenched Power Structures in Language Matter #laughOfTheMedusa

Ah, so now he’s f*cking an Ottoman too

Viktor Orbán to join Harvard's Institute of Politics

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work by Annie McClanahan

In Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated.

Out now (2 June UK pub).

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Sociology

Congratulations!

A reminder that an order to commit a genocide is an unlawful order and must not be followed.

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

Filling out my Anthropic settlement claim at the last minute because I’m conflicted. Did I give AI permission to steal my work?? No. Is this enough money to make us square?? No. Do I still want the money? I guess. But also fuck you LLMs and your criminal thieving ways.

His subtle way of telling her he wants to go outside and play fetch.

Elderly man with a thin mustache holding a cardboard sign

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE

John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown

(Pic via petermarietoto on X)

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution.

There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump’s Signature to Be Added to U.S. Dollars, a First for a Sitting President

Destined to be the most defaced US currency ever.

Attention universities:

You know who actually supports my work? Daycare workers. That's the industry that needs billions poured into, not tech and slop AI.

Trump just voted by a method he calls ‘mail-in cheating’ The president’s decision to vote by mail comes as he pushes a sweeping bill to reform balloting nationwide, including restrictions on mail-in voting.

President Trump, who is in the midst of pressuring senators to curb the use of mail-in voting, voted by mail ballot in Tuesday’s special election in Palm Beach County, Florida.

SAVE America Act author admits married aide ‘had to go through a bunch of hoops’ to vote because she changed name Roy has repeatedly rejected concerns that millions of Americans would face unnecessary barriers while registering to vote if the draconian bill became law.

You shouldn’t have to “go through a bunch of hoops” to exercise a fundamental right www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I have a talk in Germany a few years ago and the professor who invited me just gave me a wad of euros. Said it was too complicated to do the official paper work. It was so great.

Today at Atlanta airport, ICE "agents" are helping TSA and passengers by standing around and engaging in a fascist coffee klatch.

Please identify these unmasked goons:

I spoke with @rollingstone.com about the Trump administration's new AI framework. At a moment when a majority of Americans are asking for AI guardrails, this proposal moves in the opposite direction. Rather that constrain companies, it releases them from accountability. 🧵 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

My Brief Career as a Spring Break Bomber Florida, Fertilizer, and Fires Everywhere

A not-so-sweet story about how sugar cane is grown and harvested today. Trigger warning: environmental racism, WWIII.