Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold looks like she’s about to cry on MSNBC: “It will be up to the American voters to save our democracy.”

Sometimes we forget how lucky we are to live in the US

The question Jesse is asking Ken White aka Popehat, who is an attorney, and to all of us, is if we want to live in a world of extrajudicial killings.

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.

Very excited to read this novel about mercenaries destroying the Chinese fishing fleets It does raise the question: when will we finally have enough and deal with these problems? The Cantonese are sterilizing entire swathes of the oceans, crawling over them like locusts and vacuuming up everything that lives, wiping out ecosystems with their massive fleets so that they can feed pigs "raised" in dystopian skyscrapers back home Right now, "international law" prevents dealing with this tragedy of the commons even as it destroys national (responsible) fishing fleets, puts such wonders of nature as the Galapagos at risk, and causes immense harm Mercenaries are one way of fixing this, privateers are another Either way, it looks like if we are to fix this, it will be because we're headed back to the 16th/17th century style of doing things, where states didn't necessarily want to fight openly but did want to harm each other, and so let private parties do it while claiming ignorance Such could at least save the oceans

I get the impression that a lot of people, including many with advanced degrees, don’t know that if Elon Musk tried to sell all of his stock at once the value of the stock would go down. It’s like the people who think if we find a gold asteroid it’d be worth the current price of gold when brought to market.

Elon Musk is a trillionaire but it’s def the people on SNAP ruining your life

Elon Musk dismantled USAID programs that provided lifesaving assistance to millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. The human cost was enormous, while DOGE’s net fiscal impact was inconsequential. Now, as Musk approaches trillionaire status, he should commit/tithe at least $100 billion to a fund dedicated to combating extreme poverty, hunger, preventable disease, and humanitarian crises worldwide. Money alone cannot undo the damage already done. But if this moment marks an unprecedented personal financial milestone, it should also be an opportunity for an unprecedented act of restitution. Musk has the resources to save and improve countless lives. He should use them.

A welder took a $28 an hour job in 2015 at a company he had never heard of. On Friday, Juan Hernandez became a millionaire. He spent ten years building the structures that lifted rockets onto the launch pad. SpaceX paid him partly in stock, the way it paid its cooks, machinists, technicians and cafeteria staff, equity instead of bigger salaries. His $10,000 grant grew into $880,000 at the IPO price. The first day pop carried it past a million. He is 42, an immigrant from Mexico, married, three kids. He says he is keeping the job. He is not the outlier. He is the pattern. 4,400 current and former SpaceX employees became millionaires on Friday. One in five people who ever badged into the company. About 400 of them are walking away with $100 million or more. One employee took every cash bonus in stock instead of money. He is sitting on 50,000 shares, worth more than $8 million at Friday's prices. And then there is the other side of the cafeteria. Some employees sold their shares years ago, certain the company would never go public because Musk said he hated public markets. A few traded their stock for restaurant gift cards. The New York Times says they are consumed by regret. Same grant, same building, same years. One group held the claim. The other ate it. None of the winners can touch the money yet. The first selling window opens after the August earnings report, and the rest unlocks in waves through December. Underneath all of it sits the only lesson the market ever teaches. The welder and the gift card came from the same place. The difference was never the work. It was the ownership. Salary pays for the month. Equity pays for the era. A cook in Brownsville just answered the question every buyer of SPCX is asking at $170: what is a claim on this company actually worth? The piece prices that exact question at $2.2 trillion.

I don’t mean to be callous. But if the IPO fizzled yesterday, would your situation be any different today? Are you worse off because he’s a trillionaire? Were you better off on Thursday when he wasn’t?

I am 52 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I have no savings, no retirement, and will never own a home before I die. And there is now a trillionaire.

I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible. Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness. I just don’t get it.

Reminder: Zohran and his family keep an extra luxury home in Uganda in a neighborhood surrounded by armed security because everyone else is so poor.

Don’t want it. Either stop this creepy spyware or all Apple devices will be banned from the premises of my companies.

This is not sustainable. Plutarch warned us 2,000 years ago that the imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. We have got to democratize our economy so that it works for all.

Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. Let’s make sure he’s also the last.