But just as SpaceX the company represents Musk the engineer, SpaceX the stock represents Musk the financial huckster. It’s so bad that the Financial Times calls the SpaceX IPO the “Enshittification of the Stock Market,” and More Perfect Union published an excellent video called “Did Elon Musk Just Rig the Stock Market?” https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-after-spacex-goes

Unfortunately, we must live in this world [Malone]shaped, and clean up the mess he made. And we must instruct an entire class of business leaders who learned their morality from a man whose vision of America is purely as a land that celebrates capital and the mobster-style leaders who amass it. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-billionaire-explains-why-american

New management at CBS ordered journalist Scott Pelley to do the unthinkable for a reporter: put lies into a story and dress up unverified claims as fact—in Pelley’s words, to please Trump. He said no. Every single time. So they forced him out—after 37 years at the network. https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-said-jump-iowa-his-own-party

They voted 226 to 195 to send Ukraine real aid, and hammer Russia with new sanctions on its oil and banks. This is the first big pro-Ukraine legislation to pass in the House since Trump retook office. Eighteen Republicans joined Democrats to do it. https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-said-jump-iowa-his-own-party

Last week he swept in and fully backed GOP Rep. Randy Feenstra for governor, expecting the party to fall behind him as usual. On Tuesday, Republican primary voters looked at Trump’s pick and chose someone else. https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-said-jump-iowa-his-own-party

The total: more than fifty billion. Billion, with a B. Those are your tax dollars, steered to the very donors who bankrolled his ballroom. Sixteen of those same donors are tangled in federal enforcement actions that the regime has quietly suspended, dropped, or scaled back. https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-said-jump-iowa-his-own-party

Look at what we did this week. Not them—us—the people who refuse to look away. The corrupt regime counted on us to give up. None of us did. We read, shared, called, and stayed in it. https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-said-jump-iowa-his-own-party

When “West Side Story” premiered on Broadway, no one could have predicted its enduring popularity and cultural significance. Or maybe they could, since the production team was the best in the business. https://steady.substack.com/p/west-side-story

Maybe we needed this horrific wakeup call in order to get back on the road we should have been on…We needed to be reminded of what America is all about — what it should be about — in order to revive it — and reclaim it, for and by the people.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-needed-trump

Maybe we needed this horrific wakeup call in order to get back on the road we should have been on. We needed to see how fragile the institutions of self-government are in order to know why we must strengthen them.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-needed-trump