On this day in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to serve on the United States Supreme Court. He was the first black man to serve on the court and would do so from 1967 to 1991.

Protesters are standing outside JPMorgan Chase in New York this weekend, holding giant banners that say “STOP ELON • NO TRILLIONAIRES” and “ELON IS STEALING YOUR PENSION” These people are protesting the greatest success story in modern history. Let’s look at the actual reality: • Elon has already paid more in taxes than almost anyone alive • Tesla and SpaceX employ well over 100,000 people and actively push humanity forward. • Through DOGE, he already helped cut billions in wasteful government spending. That saved taxpayers hundreds of billions.....meaning he actually helped secure grandmas' pensions by slashing bureaucracy, not the other way around. • Friday's historic SpaceX IPO didn't "steal" from anyone. It created massive value, turned everyday workers into millionaires, and rightfully made him the world’s first trillionaire He didn’t steal anything. He built it from the ground up His companies have created massive job growth, accelerated sustainable energy, and are literally building the infrastructure to make humanity multi-planetary Rather than celebrating excellence, demanding the government punish it is pure evil

The lesson I take from the SpaceX IPO is that the only thing stopping us from solving arbitrarily difficult problems is extreme creativity in business models. No amount of tax and spend programs got us reusable rockets and great electric cars. Customer delight is a necessary precondition for success. There seems to be some discussion around whether successful entrepreneurs should give up control of their companies so they can subsidize some philanthropic venture that otherwise has no value prop sufficient to run it as a business where customers voluntarily exchange money for goods and services at a competitive and reasonable price. This misses the point. Transformational products deliver tangible value at 1000x the rate of charities whose value cannot be tested in the market place. Think about the undeniable value of the smart phone, satellite Internet, electric consumer devices, etc etc. I think the transformational moment for SpaceX was when Elon stepped away from the philanthropic Mars greenhouse concept and fixed his resolve on unlocking radically better rockets for humanity. The greenhouse would have been, at best, a neat trick. Falcon and Starship give humanity a durable economic engine to maintain and improve access to space, forever.

Alan Dershowitz is 87 years old, a Harvard Law professor emeritus, and one of the most recognized legal minds in America. He has been a registered Democrat since he was 14 years old — over 70 years. In a recent podcast interview, Dershowitz made his position unmistakable. “I’ve been a Democrat for 70 years. I now am strongly opposed to that party. I want them defeated in every single election,” he said. “I want to see Democrats lose control of the House and lose control of the Senate and lose control of the presidency because I am scared of them. They are against America, they are against Israel, they are against the Jews.”  Dershowitz compared the current climate in American universities to Berlin in 1932 — before Hitler’s rise to power — citing the turn against Jewish students and the demonization of Israel. “I feel I am one of the few people standing up against my old party,” he said.  He has announced he will campaign actively for Republicans in the 2026 midterms — not because he embraces the Republican agenda, but because the alternative terrifies him. “I’m totally frightened if the Democrats were to gain control,” he told Newsmax, warning of what he described as a new McCarthyism targeting political opponents.  Wikipedia now lists his party affiliation as Republican — after over six decades as a Democrat.  When a man who has spent his entire adult life on one side of the political divide looks at where his party has gone and says he is scared of it — that is worth stopping to consider. Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.” Not every road that starts with good intentions stays on a good path. Dershowitz watched a party he loved for 70 years go somewhere he no longer recognizes. What do you think — is the Democratic Party of today the same party it was 20 years ago?

Europe offers much lower salaries, but it taxes your income more. Then you also pay 20% VAT when you buy anything. Come on, why don’t you move to Europe?

Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him theglobeandmail.com/business…

Il y a un truc qui me fascine. C'est qu'Elon soit aussi seul. Des milliers de milliardaires sur cette planète. Des gens qui ont assez d'argent pour ne plus jamais rien craindre de personne. Et un seul ouvre sa gueule. Il existe une expérience fascinante en éthologie : la boîte des rats de Didier Desor. On met six rats dans une cage. Pour manger, il faut plonger dans un tunnel immergé et rapporter les croquettes. Très vite, une structure émerge toute seule : deux exploiteurs qui ne plongent jamais et volent la nourriture des autres, deux exploités qui plongent et se font racketter, un souffre-douleur qui ramasse les miettes. Et un seul autonome. Le rat qui plonge lui-même, rapporte sa propre nourriture, la défend, et ne se soumet à personne. Le plus troublant : peu importe la composition du groupe. Tu remets six exploiteurs ensemble, la même structure se reforme. Tu remets six autonomes ensemble, pareil. Comme s'il existait une loi naturelle qui fixe la proportion de courage disponible dans une population. Une loi de la paire de couilles, distribuée par la nature avec une avarice remarquable. Dans la boîte des rats à milliardaires, Elon est le seul autonome. Les autres ont les mêmes moyens que lui. Souvent les mêmes opinions que lui. C'est ça le plus fascinant : en privé, la grande majorité des milliardaires sont d'accord avec Elon. Sur la liberté d'expression, sur la dérive idéologique des médias, sur le wokisme, sur tout. Ils le disent à voix basse dans les dîners, ils l'écrivent dans des messages privés, ils hochent la tête. Et puis ils retournent financer les ONG qui les protègent, sponsoriser les médias qui les épargnent, signer les tribunes qui les dédouanent. Ils plongent, rapportent les croquettes, et se laissent racketter par la meute. Avec des centaines de milliards sur le compte. L'argent ne donne pas le courage. Il révèle juste combien tu en avais au départ. Un seul rat a refusé le jeu. Il a dit "go fuck yourself" aux exploiteurs devant le monde entier, il a accepté de perdre des milliards, et trois ans plus tard il est le premier trillionnaire de l'histoire. La nature est bien faite : c'est toujours le rat autonome qui finit par posséder la boîte.

Elon is the closest thing we have to a real life superhero.

A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire. Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour. SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years. $SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.

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