Everything you wanted to know about Jared Kushner...and more

It can be a bit hard to keep up with Jared Kushner. There's the underwater property on Fifth Avenue, the strange relationship with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, the backing for a blockade of Qatar, where the U.S. has a major military base. I've been covering a lot of it piece by piece, but if you've gotten lost, I have a new TYT video that runs through the entire thing. That thing is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw0q2ppoDEM&list=PLqSpk99bLYIS4QZWO6Jzd1-xcNMIMDDSu&index=1&t=0s (And subscribe to TYT Investigates on YouTube if you liked it.) Kushner, who has been tasked with negotiating peace between Israel and the Palestinians, is not doing well at that. Israeli forces shot 773 demonstrators Friday, killing 17 of them. Mehdi Hassan at The Intercept wonders why liberal interventionists aren't calling for a "no-fly zone" to stop the slaughter. It's a good question. Jobs-for-all: the 2016 campaign introduced the country to the concept of free public college, and made Medicare-for-all a serious part of the health care reform conversation. The 2020 campaign could do the same thing for the idea of a federal job guarantee. Kate Aronoff has a great piece on this new, old idea. From Rachel Cohen, Trump and the GOP Congress are expanding a controversial Obama-era public housing program. And a little scoop today: Mick Mulvaney, the acting head of the CFPB, is planning to push for legislative changes that would hem in the agency he heads, according to an internal draft document we obtained.This email grows by word of mouth. If you enjoy getting it, please forward this note to friends and tell them to sign up to start getting their own copy here. I'm the Washington bureau chief at The Intercept, and I send this several times a week. If you want to contribute directly to help keep the thing running, you can do so here, though be warned a donation comes with no tote bags or extra premium content or anything. Or you can support it by buying a copy of Out of the Ooze: The Story of Dr. Tom Price or Wall Street's White House, the first two books put out by Strong Arm Press, a small progressive publishing house I cofounded. Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Grim News, please click here.