Exxon-Mobil (current market cap): $488B
Norway GDP (2025 est): $517B
Dispersed by TARP to rescue the financial system (adjusted for inflation): $667B
Saudi Arabia GDP (2025 est): $1268B
Amount OpenAI is on the hook for that’ll ruin companies’ balance sheets if OpenAI can’t make good: $1400B
This mocking use of the Jewish holy book of Exodus is yet another instance of the antisemitism that has become all too common today. In this essay I will
What Democrats need now is to increase, not decrease, the number of votes they get.
They should try to make the tent bigger, not smaller.
They ought to stand for greater material wealth, not lesser material wealth.
They must welcome people, not turn people away.
Politics solved. Credit please.
Heck, Trump even equivocated on the "Chicago will find out while it's called the Department of WAR" propaganda when called out, hemming and hawing about how that's not what he meant, like a bully who acts tough in front of their friends but wilts when it doesn't play outside that circle.
As I wrote in the piece, he should've been tried in absentia. I was not ok with the US president sentencing a US citizen to death without trial, and it set a bad precedent. But the boat strike is next level, going beyond Awlaki in multiple ways. For one, the US knew it was him they were shooting at.
This might be the worst thing Andrew Cuomo has ever done, given the national stakes and his personal rationale.
And for a serial sexual harasser who is personally responsible for avoidable COVID deaths in nursing homes (and then lying about it), that's really saying something.
Cuomo’s seeking a Trump bump
The WNBA has gotten big enough that assholes think they can use it for a viral marketing stunt. Sorry those guys are jerks, you should definitely ban them from arenas (which host other things too), but congrats to the league.
On the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, the Supreme Court created a hurdle to rectify abuses that illegally disappeared people will have trouble clearing in time, but did not rule that the law applies to migrants. Thank you @jaredhardd.bsky.social & @fishlawyer.bsky.social for pointing out that distinction.
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