Wall street folks are celebrating @elonmusk for creating 4,400 millionaires. Fine. Did any of them celebrate @JoeBiden IRA, ARP, CHIPS for creating millions of good paying jobs? Our barometer should be opportunity & stability for the majority, not simply wealth for the few.

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

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas. Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional

Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago.   That moment changed our city forever.

Mr. Bezos: Let's have that debate. Under my 5% billionaires wealth tax, we'd: -Give $12K to a working family of 4 -Expand Medicare for dental, vision, hearing -Guarantee universal childcare -Raise starting teacher pay to $60K And you'd still be worth $269 billion after taxes.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told CNBC on Wednesday that the bottom half of U.S. earners should pay no federal income tax, arguing that eliminating those taxes could ease financial strain and encourage entrepreneurship. cbsn.ws/4uno3uG

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

Francia exporta libertad, igualdad y fraternidad desde hace 237 años. Quienes invocan el "wokismo" como destrucción de la humanidad simplemente reflejan su falta de respeto de la identidad ajena, y su necedad de valores, mientras piden respeto a sus ideas niegan las de los demás.

Today on the show: -It becomes increasingly likely that the Charlie audio “I appoint Erika” was A.I. We explain why this may become the single most consequential lie. -Erika becomes a doctor. -Nick Shirley is rightly called into question. youtube.com/live/KpxIBWkNsSs

Policing a marginalized community is not going to solve Meta's safety issues, writes activist Lennon Torres. mashable.com/article/no-cont…

Can you imagine three assassination attempts on your life?” When Citadel’s Ken Griffin — a billionaire who’s had his differences with Trump — stops mid-interview and says this, the room goes silent. He wasn’t talking markets. He was talking humanity. In his CNBC interview with Sara Eisen at the Milken Institute Global Conference this week, Griffin said: “I’ve had my differences with President Trump… but the idea that he has survived three assassination attempts is just… incomprehensible. Could you imagine the state of mind… having survived not one, not two, but now three separate…” The man survived three bullets aimed at his head. The man still walks onto every stage. The man carries a weight most of us can’t fathom. It’s easy to get lost in the noise — the rallies, the soundbites, politics as usual. It’s harder to face the raw reality: A human being marked for death… still standing. Still fighting. Still showing up. You don’t have to agree with every word Trump says to respect the sheer grit. Griffin’s question should hit every American, left or right: “Can you imagine what he’s going through?” In this heat, how much can one man — and one nation — endure? Respect. 🇺🇸

The damage from a reactionary Supreme Court: Citizens United allows billionaires to buy elections. Ending Roe v. Wade takes away a woman's right to control her body. Louisiana v. Callais strips voting rights away from Black Americans. Our rights are under attack. FIGHT BACK.

Remember how they lost their sh*t when @elonmusk did this?

Spencer Pratt: “I didn't run to be a politician… I'm the citizen. I'm the angry taxpayer. You can be a Democrat… or can be a Republican and love me… The only people who don't love me are communists and socialists and I don't want them to love me.”

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for cashing out early. The tablet is nearly 4,000 years old. It was found at a site called Kanesh, in central Turkey. Archaeologists have dug up 23,500 of these clay records there, most of them business documents: receipts, loan contracts, shipping orders, lawsuits. The houses they were stored in eventually burned. The fire baked the clay solid and preserved every record. The merchants came from Assur, in modern-day Iraq. They loaded donkeys with tin and cloth and walked them 1,000 kilometers across mountain passes to Kanesh, roughly the distance from New York to Atlanta. Each donkey carried about 180 pounds and the trip took two to three months. They came home with silver and gold. The company ran for twelve years under a merchant named Amur Ishtar. A third of the profits went back to the investors. Pull your share out early and the firm gave you four kilos of silver per kilo of gold, half the normal rate. Locked-up money was meant to stay locked up. That one company was just a tiny piece. The tablets show a complete economy with partners suing each other in commercial court, husbands writing home about prices, and wives writing back complaining the husband had been gone too long. A woman named Ahatum quietly lent silver to four different men over nine years. People bought up other people's loan documents and used them as collateral for new loans, the same thing Wall Street does today with mortgage-backed securities. One merchant got caught smuggling tin in his underwear to dodge a 10% import tax. In 2019, four economists from Harvard, Sciences Po, Chicago, and Virginia ran the tablet numbers through a gravity model, the math economists use today to predict how much two countries will trade based on size and distance. The Bronze Age numbers matched modern trade numbers almost exactly. Trade fell off with distance at nearly the same rate it does between countries today. The paper ran in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. There was no economic theory yet. The idea didn't even have a name. The word "capitalism" wouldn't be coined for another 3,800 years, and Adam Smith was 3,700 years away from writing a sentence about markets. Just a guy named Pushu-ken writing a clay tablet to his business partner about a shipment of cloth, and a woman in Assur recording who owed her how much silver. Capitalism was already there, doing its full job, almost four thousand years before anyone wrote down a theory of how it worked.