What Regulators Should Do About The AI Industry's Hidden Financial Loop Antitrust enforcers should be asking how a self-referential financial circuit is manufacturing the demand that justifies investments, Hera Hyeonseo Lee writes.

The financial structure underwriting the global AI race deserves as much scrutiny as the technology itself, Hera Hyeonseo Lee writes.

A well-oiled machine as always.

Who’s Behind Abundance Coachella? | Revolving Door Project Donors to the group behind WelcomeFest include tech baron Reid Hoffman, Walmart heirs, and Michael Bloomberg.

On June 3rd, corporate Democrats and centrist hacks will gather again at D.C.'s Hamilton Hotel for WelcomeFest.

Ahead of last year's session, we took a closer look at WelcomePAC's donors — who include the Walton family and Epstein pal Reid Hoffman.

As someone who grew up reciting 10,000x as many prayers + Bible verses as current MAGA boss + team; but who has also studied concept of "separation of church and state" and worked in a White House led by true-believer Prez, let me say to whoever put this out: Unt-uh

WWJD? Not this
Just ask the Pope

Are you ready for some war crimes? | Press Watch Trump may be giving unlawful orders imminently. You’ve been warned.

Given Trump’s renewed threat this morning, I am pleading once again for news organizations to raise the question: Should members of the military refuse orders to bomb civilian targets? presswatchers.org/2026/04/are-...

'The Whole Country's Going to Get Blown Up': Trump Renews Genocidal Threats to Iran as Ceasefire Collapses ​"Whether he means it or not, his saying it is an indelible moral stain on our country," said one law professor.

'The Whole Country's Going to Get Blown Up': Trump Renews Genocidal Threats to Iran as Ceasefire Collapses



"Whether he means it or not, his saying it is an indelible moral stain on our country," said one law professor.

Trump has no plan to cut the $39 trillion national debt, but he does want to cut childcare. His budget director is scrambling to clarify | Fortune OMB Director Russell Vought appeared before Congress to answer questions about the request for the largest military spending boost since World War II.

There is billions in confirmed fraud within the Department of Defense, yet Trump and Vought are going after health care, childcare, and nutrition assistance.

As Congress puts together the 2027 budget, we must fight back.

this is an utterly bizarre thing for *any* company to put out, much less a defense company

Post-1955 and the re-armament of West Germany, this is completely unmoored from reality. Germany’s current defense posture has nothing to do with the post war settlement but rather post Cold War military spending cuts.

2 ¶¶ of a warrant affidavit describing Joe DiGenova going on Laura Ingraham's show spewing conspiracy theories about Marie Yovanovitch, Joe and Hunter Biden, and the Mueller investigation, and Victoria Toensing pushing Lev Parnas about getting a retainer from Yuriy Lutsenko. The names are redacted but I've put them in in pink.

Here's the key reason why putting Joe DiGenova in charge of the Russian investigation is so suspect. On the same day Mueller finished Joe was spewing FALSE conspiracy theories abt Ru and the Bidens, hoping to get paid by Lutsenko for doing so.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

From Palantir, again just one of two dozen 🤯 but despite the vagueness I bet I can guess what sorts of 'solutions' they mean

"Oh, you know the ones"

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

It’s not a notion. It’s the literal definition of the term.

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

Sam Stein on Twitter: “here we go again. Trump's leverage point once more is the aching terror inside most rational human beings that he may not be bluffing THIS time around.”

The President of the United States started his Sunday by threatening the people of Iran with more war crimes.

Trump is deeply unwell and Congress must reassert its power to end the regime’s illegal war. Demand that your elected officials act with urgency: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

Palantir put plans for techno-fascism in a document. Like a techno-fascist manifesto with themselves at the center. Features fascistic distortions of language and declarations of inherent superiority that should be acknowledged and made permanent, but driven by and with a more central role for tech.

Amazing summary.

Kudos to @emptywheel.bsky.social for pulling these documents and assembling this.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz - A Total Violation of our Ceasefire Agreement! Many of them were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom. That wasn't nice, was it? My Representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan - They will be there tomorrow evening, for Negotiations. Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it. They're helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million Dollars a day! The United States loses nothing. In fact, many Ships are headed, right now, to the U.S., Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, to load up, compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be "the tough guy!" We're offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They'll come down fast, they'll come down easy and, if they don't take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years. IT'S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Breaking 🚨 Trump threatens Genocide again:

“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!“

It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries

He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination
🧵

Ah there it is

I love when there is, every so often, news that is good

US military prepares to board Iran-linked ships in coming days, WSJ reports The U.S. ​military is ‌preparing in coming ​days ​to board Iran‑linked ⁠oil ​tankers ​and seize commercial ships ​in ​international waters, the ‌Wall ⁠Street Journal reported on ​Saturday ​citing ⁠U.S. officials.

US military prepares to board Iran-linked ships in coming days, WSJ reports reut.rs/4cu1ZH1

The litigation continued but became a ghost ship of a case after Mr. Trump replaced it with his own regulation. In 2022, this time following normal procedures, the Supreme Court concluded that the Clean Air Act did not authorize the E.P.A. to issue sweeping regulations across the power sector to address climate change.

Missing from this:

(1) unconstitutional for SCOTUS to rule on the Obama regulation when it was no longer in place

(2) Rs invented a totally lawless “major questions doctrine” to give themselves the power to veto any agency action they don’t like

(3) look what Major Questions they let Trump decide

The Roberts #SCOTUS is nothing more than a closed Super Senate without any accountability. Sure the justices should be impeached but in order to have a functioning judicial branch - next Congress must enact structural reforms stripping them off all powers not listed in Article III.

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

Really important piece in the Guardian, on Harvard’s slow-walking and stone-walling of its historical complicity with the slave trade, featuring testimony from amazing scholars @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social and @carladmartin.bsky.social 🗃️

Iran has rejected the next round of talks with the US, stating the dialogue can continue only if the US drops its “excessive demands”.

a close up of donald trump 's face with a smile Alt: a close up of donald trump 's face with a smile

Good morning!

Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—

💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion

💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million

💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million

💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million

And Jared became a billionaire last year.

Have a great day!

This has become a repeated pattern: major policy moves or market-moving announcements are preceded by suspiciously well-timed trades, unexplained financial gains, and then no accountability.

Oh thank god the fake achievement lasted long enough for this corrupt & incompetent administration to make lots of money by manipulating the stock market, and long enough to brag about it, which for this administration is the same or better than actually accomplishing it.

Trump/Russia rears its ugly head again.