Long Before Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse, Its CEO Helped Kill Tougher Oversight of Banks Like His  —  Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.  —  On Friday, regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank, one of the most prominent banks …

Silicon Valley Bank paid out bonuses hours before seizure  —  Silicon Valley Bank on Friday paid out annual bonuses to eligible U.S. employees, just hours before the bank was seized by the U.S. government, Axios has learned from multiple sources. … That date ultimately coincided …

Trump Gets Caught Trying to Play Judges to Manufacture Trial Delays  —  Donald Trump is in so much trouble that his trials are starting to run into one another, and now his lawyers might get in trouble for fooling judges into delaying them all. … Faced with an onslaught of expensive lawsuits ranging …

BBC's flagship soccer show boycotted over Gary Lineker impartiality row  —  The BBC's weekend soccer coverage has been plunged into chaos following its announcement Gary Lineker would “step back” from presenting, after he became embroiled in an impartiality row when he criticized British government policy on Twitter.

Lauren Boebert will be a grandmother at 36.  This is what conservatives want for us  —  This shouldn't need to be said in 2023, but forcing teenagers to become parents isn't good for the teenagers, the baby or society in general  —  Boebert's rural family values

What We Talk About When We Talk About Trans Rights  —  Masha Gessen on the public discourse over trans identity, the real reasons for the culture war over gender, and how well-meaning people can do better.  —  The first time I saw Masha Gessen was more than thirty years ago, on the streets of Moscow.

Stanford President and Law-School Dean Apologize to Judge Duncan  —  I'm pleased to break the news that Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Stanford law school dean Jenny Martinez have issued a joint letter of apology to Judge Kyle Duncan for the violations of university policies on speech that disrupted his talk on Thursday:

House GOP's budget could hurt the party in key Senate races  —  House Republicans' push for major spending cuts could undermine the party's effort to win the Senate.  —  The big picture: Several House Republicans are likely to run for competitive Senate seats in 2024.

Public Approval Of Biden Rockets To Highest This Year As Democrats Prevail  —  Despite what seem like only intensifying predictions from Donald Trump and allies of his about ostensibly looming doom with Biden and the Democrats in charge, many Americans evidently aren't concerned.

Insurers slashed Hurricane Ian payouts far below damage estimates, documents and insiders reveal  —  A Washington Post investigation has found that some policyholders had their claims cut by more than 80 percent  —  FORT MYERS, Fla. — When insurance adjuster Jordan Lee entered …

How Beijing Boxed America Out of the South China Sea  —  China incrementally built up military outposts, with little pushback from the U.S., and has emerged as a power in the strategic waters through which trillions of dollars in trade passes  —  In early February, a Philippine coast guard vessel approached …

Stripping Confederate Ties, the U.S. Navy Renames Two Vessels  —  The vessels will be named for Robert Smalls, a mariner who commandeered a Confederate ship to freedom from slavery, and Marie Tharp, an ocean geologist who studied continental drift.  —  One night in 1862, as the Civil War raged …

As Fox News panicked in 2020, leaders warned of featuring Buttigieg, Coons  —  The top Biden campaign surrogates were singled out in the post-election period, with CEO Suzanne Scott saying 'audiences don't want to see too much' of guests like them  —  It's a rather small cadre of politicians …

The Second-Biggest Bank Failure  —  Bank failures in each year by total assets  —  Bank failures in each year by total assets  —  IndyMac Bank $307 billion  —  Washington Mutual Bank  —  Silicon Valley Bank  —  Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Note …

Can Trump's ‘Straight Man’ Lighten Up?  —  The last time Mike Pence headlined the Gridiron Club dinner, he was a stand-in.  His boss, whose media baiting was already reaching highway-speed just two months into his first term, had no interest in playing nice with his critics, so he palmed off the job to his vice president.

Syria hopes Iran-Saudi agreement will ease regional tension  —  News of the rapprochement between long-time regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran sent shock waves through the Middle East on Saturday and dealt a symbolic blow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made the threat posed …

Woke head of ‘risk assessment’ at Silicon Valley Bank ‘prioritized’ LGBT initiatives - including organizing a month-long Pride campaign - before bank lost BILLIONS and collapsed  — Jay Ersapah was head of risk assessment for Silicon Valley Bank's EMEA region

Republicans Are Scrambling to Invent Facts for Their Alternate Reality  —  Representative Jim Jordan rarely makes a public appearance in which he does not look psychically frustrated on some deep level, but he has been having—for his standards—a rough time of late.