This week, my amendment to ban billionaire-funded super PACs received unanimous support from my Democratic colleagues.
The momentum is growing. It’s time to repeal Citizens United, ban super PACs and move to the public funding of elections NOW.
Thank you President 🇸🇮.
Palestine is the moral compass of our time.
From Spain to Slovenia there is hope for Europe. A Europe that puts people above banks and markets, rights above profits, and respects int'l law regardless of political calculus.
Na pročelju predsedniške palače so izobesili palestinsko zastavo, potem ko jo je nova vlada takoj po izvolitvi umaknila z vladne palače, kjer je visela od maja 2024, ko je Slovenija priznala Palestino.
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Genocid nad Palestinci ni ustavljen in ljudje v Gazi in na Zahodnem bregu ne živijo v miru in dostojanstvu. Danes izobešena zastava Palestine na pročelju Predsedniške palače, ki bo tu ostala en teden, potem pa bo, kot opomin vsem, ki obiščejo moj urad, stala v notranjih prostorih, pa pomeni še mnogo več. Je simbol grobih kršitev mednarodnega humanitarnega prava in človekovih pravic ne samo v Palestini, pač pa tudi drugod po svetu. Je preprost klic k spoštovanju temeljnega civilizacijskega načela: človekovega dostojanstva - za vse.
Wilbon is known for two things:
- always hating on Luka
- being absolutely clueless on basketball
Why in the world is the NBA giving this clown an award vote?
A 30% retail allocation isn’t a gift. It’s a confession.
Nobody carves out a third of the largest IPO in history because they like you. They do it because at $1.75T, the institutions who price these things for a living wanted less than the float required — and someone has to absorb the rest.
“Broadening ownership” is the polite name for distributing the bag.
You’re not getting in early. You’re the demand the cap table needs to get out.
Revisit in six months. $TSLA
Here's my assessment of what's going on inside Goldman and Morgan Stanley right about now around the $SPCX IPO.
1) The math isn't mathing for institutional investors to participate at $135/sh in the size they need them to. Research is being heavily pressured by banking to get more aggressive on their estimates/teach-in materials to try to make valuation make sense. It's not working. The biggest brass across the firms are now getting involved - Jamie Dimon & David Solomon are taking meetings - it's all hands on deck.
2) Accordingly, the bookrunners are increasing the % of the deal allocated to retail to 30%. Remember, it's the banks buying the shares from the company and if their largest institutional relationships aren't biting in the size they need them to - they have to find demand somewhere else they're going to be on the hook for the delta between $135/sh and wherever the stock trades multiplied by the number of shares left in inventory. Find the demand - whoever and whatever it takes.
3) Banks are also pressuring the index providers to create forced buying as well across a ton of indices and their associated products. This has worked in some places and hasn't in others (credit to S&P for their backbone here). This will create a large amount of demand but I don't know the math here relative to the float coming public - if anyone has seen smart math here please share.
All and all, this is going to be a fascinating IPO to watch but I have next to zero interest in participating - I suspect I'm in the majority here.
MORGAN STANLEY TO ALLOW HOUSE PETS TO BUY SPACE X IPO SAYS OPEN ACCOUNT IN PETS NAME FUND ACCOUNT AND BUY SHARES 50 DOLLAR MINIMUM EXCEPT FOR RETRIEVERS RETRIEVERS MUST HAVE MINIMUM 1K DOLLARS
🚨🇬🇷 Greeks Under Pressure Just Like Albanians: Israeli Fund Privatizing 200 Hectares of Land on Kalamata's Western Beach
⚡️An Israeli investment fund is privatizing 200 hectares of land on Kalamata's western beach. The Greek government calls the CUTTING OFF PUBLIC ACCESS FOR THE CITY'S RESIDENTS as "STRATEGIC INVESTMENT"
JUST IN: ALBANIANS CALL FOR PM EDI RAMA TO RESIGN AFTER STRIKING DEAL WITH JARED KUSHNER FOR PROTECTED COASTLINE
“Albania is not for sale. Albania belongs to the Albanian people, and we decide what we want to do here.
It's not that some corrupted politicians can decide what they can do with our property.
He's trying to trade our country as a personal property of him and his family and his collaborators.
We want him to resign.”
BREAKING: Former Trump official Sarah Matthews reveals that CNN's Kaitlan Collins is the "one reporter" who "scares" Trump and that's why he attacks her.
This makes so much sense...
"I will say that during my time working as Deputy Press Secretary in the first Trump administration, Kaitlan Collins was the one reporter that scared Kayleigh McEnany and President Trump the most," Matthews said on CNN.
"There would be times where Kayleigh McEnany wouldn't even call on Kaitlan Collins at press conferences, at press briefings, because she didn't want to answer the questions. Because Kaitlan Collin is a very, very good reporter," she continued.
"She's the best at what she does and I think that's why you see Trump go after her more ferociously than any other reporter in that room," said Matthews.
And it's true. Trump regularly snaps at Collins for daring to ask the hard-hitting questions that the American people are most interested in. She doesn't shy away from the Epstein scandal, or the ongoing war, or any of the other countless scandals that bubble up daily. Rather than answer her directly, Trump will often insult her, her news outlet, or demand that she smile more. Yesterday, he melted down on her and said that she has "hatred in her eyes."
"And it is disgusting to watch him tell a woman that she needs to smile while doing her job," said Matthews. "I've seen Kaitlan smile plenty of times, but when she's asking someone a hard-hitting question, I don't think that that means that she has to smile while doing it."
"And he brings it up time and time again and it's these misogynistic attacks, not just against Kaitlan," Matthews went on. "You know, he told her today to be quiet while she tried to ask a follow-up question. We've seen him say, quiet piggy, to a female reporter. Another great female reporter, I will add, someone I worked with during my time in the first Trump administration."
By now, Trump's misogyny is well-documented. He's an adjudicated rapist who despises women and sees them as objects who are less than men. The mere idea of a woman challenging his authority enrages him.
"And so I wish that we, this wasn't normalized and that we weren't desensitized to this type of behavior from the President, but it really is appalling and I just want to give, you know, kudos to Kaitlan Collins," said Matthews.
"And he's, I mean, he called another reporter, said to her, are you stupid or something?" said political strategist Ana Navarro. "I mean, just, it's time after time after time. And I'll tell you, one of the things that really bothers me is that there is not more solidarity and outrage from the press in that room."
"I agree," said Matthews
"Because I would like to think that if I was in that room and my colleague was being treated that way, I would say, screw you, I'm leaving, you go ahead and you cover yourself," said Navarro. Leave yourself here with OAN and with Fox News and let that be what your national coverage is."
"And that's why I feel that it is so ridiculous and hypocritical for people to go sit at a White House Correspondents Dinner where Donald Trump is speaking and we are supposed to be celebrating the free press, when practically on a weekly basis, we have to hear his rants against women who are doing their jobs as journalists," Navarro added.
We couldn't agree more.
Please ❤️ and if you're a big fan of Kaitlan Collins!