Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Behind the scenes, the Epstein crisis was paralyzing the Trump team far more than the public knew. In public statements, Trump aides were full of bravado. In reality, it was consuming them. Excerpt from blockbuster new book by @maggienytbot.mirrors.bot & Jonathan Swan www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...
Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files
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Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran
In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 3mo agoThis, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.
Seattle?
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo agoIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com San Francisco was a model of Democratic governance gone wrong, but under a new mayor with a new approach to drug policy, it seems to have turned a corner, writes German Lopez. “The transformation is in its early stages, but what I saw in San Francisco was promising.”
A lot of good points in this PDF perhaps framed more congenitally than some Yglesias Takes open.substack.com/pub/workingc...
THE WORKING CLASS PROJECT: 2025 REPORT
A Letter From Mitch Landrieu, Democracy Matters and American Bridge 21st Century Co-chair
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"With great power comes great responsibility said some great sucker." President Trump
Flipping firms isn’t what it used to be. On this week’s “Money Talks”, why private equity is suffering from buyout burnout
Buyout burnout: how much trouble is private equity really in?
Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, why corporate raiders have been taking more flak than usual
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It is sickening to see Trump turn the United States of America into Putin’s agent and errand boy in this negotiation.
Trump's "final offer" for peace requires Ukraine to accept Russian occupation
The U.S. proposal is expected to be discussed tomorrow in London. Ukrainian officials aren't thrilled.
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Today on Volts: energy parks! The hot new thing in energy is to cluster diverse resources (generators, storage, industrial loads) behind a single grid interconnection, to act as a single entity. I talk with @energyinnovation.bsky.social's Eric Gimon about the advantages & bureaucratic impediments.
Assembling diverse resources into super-powered "energy parks"
Could supersized microgrids be the key to faster clean energy deployment? Eric Gimon explains the promise of "energy parks."
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