Passive US equity inflows US are typically in the multi hundreds of billions per year. At least 300 bln. That's a lot of money, but just three IPOs this year (SpaceX, Anthropic, OAI) could hit $150 bln in capital raised. It's not a zero sum game but on the margin, that's a big hole to fill

Adding SpaceX moves the S&P 500 fwd P/E from 22.38 to >23 and the NQ 100 from 24.7 to >26. That's insane

Everyone is assuming insiders will be able to cash out, including VC ghouls like Marc Andreesen. They've got a 6-12 month window to cash in on hundreds of billions in capital gains. But the market is awfully good at finding pain points so gotta wonder what the pre lockup period looks like

If they pull it off they'll have siphoned a significant portion of annual passive inflows from the working class: IRAs, pensions, you name it. A brazen crime. They'll get some of that $$$ no doubt but the market usually doesnt make things that easy

Some very good news out of a Texas federal court: Alex Jones doesn't have standing to appeal a Bankruptcy court order that placed InfoWars' assets in state receivership, meaning they can be licensed or sold to us. More to come, obviously, but we're almost there.

Think how many state secrets you could get out of Kash Patel if you set up a fake audition process a la The Sting and told him he was under consideration to be the next Bond

Amid his disastrous war of choice and self-created economic crisis, Donald Trump flew halfway around the world to flatter a foreign dictator—and came back with nothing to show for it. Nothing about that is "America first."

My contribution to the fertility decline discourse is to note that there has never, in the millions of years that hominids have existed on this planet, been a sustained global population boom like we've seen in the past 300ish years. Why in god's name would you think that growth is sustainable?

polis fails the easy three part question of every teammate 1. can i trust you 2. do you want to be excellent 3. do you care about each other he fails number one *and* number two. get this guy the fuck out of here

Also just a HOOT to think this 90s-ass John Stossel laissez faire conservatism is a worldview people hold when the Big Boss of the Grand Ole Party on a typical day says shit like 'I, your God-President, have instructed McDonald's to make the styrofoam McDLT boxes again or BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN'

Trump's most astute political insight is that no one voting Republican actually gives a shit about the deficit or free markets or government spending except as code for 'make things 30 years ago' and 'Black people have too much money.'

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

President 35% once again demonstrating incredible foresight by advancing the simultaneous new norms that no Republican can ever be convicted of a crime AND the President can kill or gulag whomever they want with total immunity.

The worst thing about Trump is that rich people (foreign tyrants, oil companies, Nazi tech CEOs) can bribe him to get what they want. The best thing about Trump is that rich people (Big Pharma) can bribe him to get what they want.

I’ll do you one better: we’ll tear it down with volunteer labor.

It’s a problem that stuff like this looks too realistic because it’s really a political cartoon, and it’s fine as a political cartoon but bad if understood as representative of physical truth

a lot of people are saying Jared Polis is terrible for commuting the prison sentence of attempted election thief Tina Peters. they are absolutely correct

SCOOP: RFK Jr.'s top spokesman, Rich Danker, quit in protest over Trump admin's vaping policy -- one day after FDA chief Makary resigned for the same reason. NOW VACANT at HHS: Surgeon General. CDC director. FDA commissioner. Asst. Sec for Public Affairs www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

Trump Delays Move to Lower Tariffs on Beef Imports www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

A reverse Wizard of Oz effect www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/w...

Ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary, 59% of Americans say the country’s best years are behind us, while 40% say its best years are ahead. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Of course, the point of these contracts is not to build, but to bill. The Republican Party has failed to construct a fascist country but they will settle for stealing everything that isn't nailed down

Truly the Khan has the Mandate of Heaven

Chud the Builder sounds like a nazi children's rapper who'd appear on the Breitbart version of Yo Gabba Gabba

growing up we had our own weird-to-horrible people with outsized influence, but i just want the kids today to think about having to tell someone that you spent a decade or so of your formative years listening to people named clavicular and chud the builder

In the hours after he allegedly shot a Black man outside a Tennessee courthouse on Wednesday, a racist streamer known as “Chud the Builder” started raking in money from viewers, using an obscure crypto-based platform that allows users to invest in content as they watch.

New: A racist streamer shot a black man. His fans rewarded him with cash. My look for @MS.Now at how Pump.Fun, a memecoin site with livestreaming, and GiveSendGo could enable Chud The Builder — who films himself calling black people slurs — to receive nearly $175,000 www.ms.now/news/chud-th...

“racist streamer chud the builder” is my new “cellar door”

I love how everyone is instantly debunking creepy racist scumbag JD Vance’s lie about the orange felon not saying he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial hardship regarding the war by sharing videos of him saying exactly that.

That's a whole lot of words instead of just saying "I wasn't voting for that black bitch"

Residents of the Chicago apt complex that were victimized by federal immigration agents in Sept. of 2025 have now filed legal claims for their suffering and abuse. I've got more details about that illegal raid that resulted in NO federal criminal charges against anyone. youtu.be/qcBxJzU4Wag?...

Basket weaving is probably looked down on because of who is weaving the baskets:

If you love displaying Confederate flags, want to name military bases after Confederate generals, and oppose teaching kids about slavery, the civil war, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement because it might make white kids uncomfortable, you don't get to call your party "The Party of Lincoln."

A Republican strategist said about the ballroom, "This isn't even a 'Let them eat cake,' situation. It's a 'Watch us eat cake,' situation."

The same device you just typed that response on also gives you access to something called a search engine. I’ll oblige though because I love showing folks how y’all & Bernie are. So again…long b4 Y’ALL made Bernard the “face of Progressive policies” Black Folks were doing the actual work.

And this is why white supremacy actually hurts WHITE PEOPLE more than it hurts everyone else:

Joe Biden gave us Ball Room already and then Trump took Ball Room away

I just naturally mutter 'fuckin Trump' every time I see spinach go up 30 cents or a half pound of deli meat cost $10.

"Women hold up half the sky.” -Mao

i do not want this built and it never will be but on some level they have to know people are gonna draw dicks on it for a hundred years minimum. and that’s best case scenario

i mean the real answer is it would get torn down but let a man make a wry observation before work

Women of means would be admitted through the front door for a safe, legal, physician performed D&E, while the frightened children & lower income women were left to their own devices.

Saw way too many examples of those pre-Roe horrors while working in the ER in the late 1960s & early 1970s. In those days, we didn’t send them out, or call the police. We called an OB/GYN & had them admitted to the hospital for care.

Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities.

The bad news is he's probably going to be our president for another two & a half years. The good news is he's going to be the face & the voice of the Republican Party for at least that long. It's all downhill from here for him.

This part of the state has a long history of labor struggle. I hope they will do it justice.

This is in the Memphis suburbs in Mississippi, and it really should become a centerpiece of Scott Colom’s campaign to stop this shit. No one likes this. It's a truly bipartisan issue among voters.

Tesla used to be bad the way a company still learning how to make a product ships flawed products. Now Tesla is bad the way a company that doesn't give a damn ships flawed products.