Thea Gilardi

Last week, the United States refused to participate in the UN’s review of the Global Compact on Migration. The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.

States that have been sued by the DOJ over voter rolls.

The Virginia Supreme Court has narrowly voted to overturn the will of the people, who voted for a new map to counter Trump’s gerrymandering. This is despite Republicans in the South moving to eliminate Black-majority districts without even a vote after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.

Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin tells CNBC that he will be expanding his company in Miami in reaction to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s viral video, which made Griffin the poster boy for his tax-the-rich campaign. "The only decision that we’ve made with no regrets in the last few days is to expand the size of our office footprint in our new Miami headquarters." "In reaction to New York, we filed a permit with the city of Miami. We've added several hundred thousand square feet of new space in our new building." "We will add far more jobs in Miami over the next decade as an immediate and direct consequence of the mayor's poor decision here, with respect to his posting of that video."

Spencer Pratt’s LA mayor ads are incredible.