www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

A Cultural Shift Toward Living Together by Design In an era of growing social isolation, rising housing costs, and uneven access to care, multigenerational living—bringing together people of different

Intergenerational housing isn’t a niche idea anymore—it’s emerging as a powerful response to soaring housing costs, social isolation, and gaps in care.

Thanks to Krista Sykes @gsd.harvard.edu for a great article about our recent Living Together by Design event:

www.gsd.harvard.edu/2026/04/inte...

Opinion | It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling

In lieu of lecture blogging on simulation and prediction, check out this fortuitously timed op-ed in the NY Times by @leifw.bsky.social and me on the absurdity of Silicon Sampling. (Related lecture blog tomorrow!)

A screencap of the original call for papers for the special issue of Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution"

Together with @s-msorentino.bsky.social, I have edited a special (double) issue of Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution." All of the articles are finally complete and it will be published June 1 as volume 27.4. Can't wait to see it in print!

Emergency Prices: How Private Equity Captured the Ambulance Market Emergency service costs have been going up for years, frustrating city officials. One reason seems to be private equity, which bought up ambulance makers and raised prices.

There's an ambulance market (I could stop there), private equity has rolled it up, and it's now delaying deliveries, tripling the cost for cities & creating shortages across the country.
This is what happens as we shout about what podcasts politicians should go on

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.

"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”

“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."

azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

Inside Alligator Alcatraz, Wasserman Schultz finds men crammed in cages, smell of urine, inadequate food ‘Everything about this screams inhumane and unnecessary, and the cruelty is the point,’ U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said about the Alligator Alcatraz detention center in the Everglades.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made an unannounced visit to the Everglades concentration camp where she describes the inhumane conditions she witnessed.

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

The government has boxed itself in over fuel saving strategies – but there is a way out Promoting fuel saving measures as vital to energy security would help frame the oil shock as a technical problem to be solved, not a political issue to be fought.

Every effective tool for reducing fuel demand right now (free PT, cycling, EVs, lower speed limits) is a policy the NZ coalition government has spent two years dismantling.

My new piece in The Conversation on why they've gone quiet and how they get out of it.
theconversation.com/the-governme...

We didn't deserve this day.

Who should own the value of land? Housing, power and the deep politics of land value capture - UK Collaborative Centre For Housing Evidence

Who should own the value of land?

New report by Ed Shepherd and myself on the political economy of land value capture. A major research undertaking (incl 50 interviews) examining the power relations that structure how land values are (unjustly) distributed in England.

@housingevidence.bsky.social

Try to play "spot the neoliberalism" here and you see something interesting:
1. with the brief but notable exception of 2000-05, housing's share of wealth was on a secular decline from the Volcker Shock through the Great Recession
2. Retirement funds become more important instead

Here’s US history

My new masterpiece: vibe-coded chart showing the collapse of the New Deal financial order and rise of Wall Street, by flow of deposits from small to big banks.
From 1990 to 2024 NYC banks more than double their deposit share. Small banks and thrifts go from more than half of deposits to <20%.

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Tim Mitchells Carbon Democracy comes to mind

The energy and environmental impact of AI and how it undermines democracy - Greenpeace International The AI boom is not progress if it deepens extraction, environmental harm and attacks on democracy. From Ireland to New Jersey, people are resisting a model of AI development that concentrates profit a...

Pretty persistently frustrating that enviro opposition to data centres get clumsily dismissed as "NIMBY" when, as you can see here, it's well-evidenced and packed to the brim with real-world examples of material harm.

And GP goes further than most in pointing out the end-goals of the system:

More than 125 people die by gun violence every single day in the US.

This crisis is deadly—but solvable if our leaders invest in the community violence intervention programs proven to save lives.

We can't forget that 26,000 people died of COVID19 in Georgia in 2000-2021, and high evictions were one cause. It was a difficult time; I'm so grateful to have had community. I still wish we could have done more. This paper was a chance to reflect back on the nature of the problem we faced.

In ATL, we started as a small team in spring of 2020, and linked up with other efforts in the fall and through 2021. There were *so* many people who worked on this project in one way or another - tenants, organizers, non-profits, students, academics, federal and local government.

Really happy to see JUA uplift work on tenant empowerment and community data. In this research, my coauthors and I reflected on a tough project in a tough time - stopping evictions in Atlanta and Richmond during the COVID19 pandemic.

Four-byline alert: 🚨

“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

www.ft.com/content/744e...

The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock Is Now Heading West US government officials and Wall Street analysts are starting to consider the prospect that oil prices might surge to an unprecedented $200 a barrel.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Pro-AI group to spend $100mn on US midterm elections as backlash grows @financialtimes.com

www.ft.com/content/6a3f...

Don’t let this fly under the radar: the Trump administration wants to kick ~6 million more people off of food assistance programs, including nearly 2 million children.

That would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war.

Priorities.

Call for papers in the Journal of Urban Affairs! "Stopping a Tsunami: learning from and beyond emergency tenant protections during the Covid-19 pandemic." think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... Abstracts due to editor @lkb-pdx.bsky.social March 12!

Financialization, indigenous resistance and the case of deep seabed mining in American Samoa In this research, we draw on indigenous Pacific Studies and financialization theory to analyse a case of proposed deep-seabed mining (DSM) in American…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures Despite the significant environmental and social concerns associated with deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority (ISA)—the organization tasked with governing the international seabed—i...

The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....