More Perfect Union

Cea Weaver reports that ICE agents have come knocking on the doors of NYC tenants impersonating city workers.

Zohran: "We will deliver on the promise we made in our campaign to build 200,000 affordable, permanently rent-stabilized homes. And we will go beyond that and preserve and stabilize 200,000 more."

Zohran Mamdani: "We will protect tenants from bad landlords block by block. We will support tenant unions block by block. We will deliver some of the strongest and most expansive tenant protections in the United States of America block by block."

The Governor of Vermont has signed a new law that caps concert ticket markups at 10% for independent venues across the state. Among the advocates for the bill was Noah Kahan, who gave testimony to the state senate. www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-n...

The CEO of Barnes and Noble says he will stock AI written books.

If California's billionaire wealth tax passes, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would owe $8 billion dollars. His response: "I don't mind paying taxes."

Working-class Kentucky residents are being forced to leave their mobile home park within 90 days because a Fortune 50 company wants to build a data center next door. They don't know where they'll go. Video: Lex18News

Zohran and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner Sam Levine just sat down to announce nearly $2 million being returned to over 750 workers at Taco Bell, Dunkin, and Theory. They made the announcement over Taco Bell and Dunkin.

Massive Nebraska wildfires have burned an area the size of Rhode Island. The raging fires have burned over 800,000 acres of grazing land.

BREAKING: Trump says that if ICE at airports isn't enough, "I will bring the National Guard."

ICE is being deployed to airports today as the GOP refuses to fund TSA. Here's border czar Tom Homan: "There's a lot of things that TSA does it doesn't require like specialized training, right? ...  ICE can check identification before people enter the screening area."

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

Pete Hegseth talking about CNN: "The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better." It is the Trump administration that will determine if the mega-merger that allows Ellison to control CNN goes through.

At a Blackrock event, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says that people who don't want drilling and mining and development on protected federal lands " don't understand the financial impact." He says it would be better if people were more  "financially literate."

On CNBC Steve Eisman says investors should ignore the U.S.-Iran war, because in the long-term this attack "is very, very positive."

Throwback to the co-founder of Palantir saying this is all about making money in June 2025: " I'm really excited to invest in Iran if we can get this country to be some sort of republic and not run by crazy people, and that's a lot easier than doing that in Afghanistan..."

" I didn't like the speech because he did not talk about what he was doing to make our lives better... He talked about the healthcare plan. Where is his healthcare plan? People's health insurance premiums are going up. What is he doing for that? What is he doing for our seniors?"

This guy gets it.

At the first "Board of Peace" meeting, Donald Trump says: "I thought they were going to give me a lot of money or something, maybe cash -- I could always use some extra cash."

The real reason CBS didn't let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico is that the Ellisons are still trying to buy Warner Bros. David Ellison runs Paramount, which owns CBS. He's using CBS to show what loyal oligarchs they are as they seek FCC approval for a WBD deal.

FOX: " Rent Now, Pay Later. It's a new option for renters who are struggling to make the monthly payment ... You pay them a fee or a monthly subscription, but if you miss the payments — that's when the interest rates go way up."

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admits that if Trump successfully sues the IRS for $10 billion, that money would come from taxpayers.

Some Californians will now have to pay for first responder emergency services that have historically been free. Starting this year, people in San Jose will have to pay $427 to the fire department for providing paramedic services.

Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program. That's why he wants to just make the bus free.

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told a Senate committee today that his agency is “not formally ... independent.”

An anonymous AI company wants to buy Dr. Tim Grosser's family land in Kentucky to build a data center. They offered him up to $8 million dollars, and he refused. They asked him to name his price, and he still refused.

Jim Cramer: " I think that we don't have enough people that are building data centers." Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett: " The president, and his team, has put together a plan to rapidly accelerate data centers..."

Disney CEO Bob Iger says that OpenAI has made an "agreement to both honor and value and respect our content" and explains the new partnership by saying " we want to participate in what Sam [Altman] is creating and what his team is creating."

Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ...  because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."

Cory Doctorow on the Daily Show says that while guys like Musk and other tech oligarchs are "failures that are running the world" and "terrible people" they're ultimately "filling a void that was created by policy."

Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI." He says the military has launched a new platform that  "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."

Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

Jennifer Welch: “The Republican Party has done such a good job propagandizing that if you need anything from the government, you’re a lazy piece of shit and a moocher, when really the parasites in this country are the billionaires.”

Drew Gooden: "You have  to wonder if we've finally reached a point now where the greed has gone too far ... no amount of gaslighting about how the economy is good will convince people who are dying because they can't afford to go to the doctor."

The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Joe Rogan that Trump "saved the AI industry...  If not for his pro-growth energy policy, we would not be able to build factories for AI."

Caleb Hearon on AI: "They're in the process right now of manufacturing consent for this technology and when ... they offer you hundreds of thousands of dollars to do an ad deal for them, they are doing that because they need your help to manufacture consent for this."

Tucson residents fought back against Amazon’s secretive plans to build a data center in the desert — and won. But now, in a blatant attempt to override the City Council and the will of the people, Amazon and the project’s developer is pushing ahead anyway.

The CEO of Google admits that Google search provides more accurate information that the company’s AI. He acknowledges that Google search is "more grounded in providing accurate information."

Elon Musk:  "You know, I've generally found that when I get involved in politics, it ends up badly." Interviewer: "Do you think that's true for all businessmen?" Musk: "Yeah, probably. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah."

Rick Pitino: "I'm a wealthy man today at 73 because of my players. I entered the Hall of Fame because my players put me there. So I'm excited that they can get some wealth. And I would say probably 50, 60% of my players give most of their money to their families."

Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast. This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.

Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana the size of Manhattan — while Meta runs ads about how small towns love their data centers, we found furious locals who plan to leave town completely.

CNBC says that rich New Yorkers started "looking for therapy" when they heard that Lina Khan will be co-chairing Zohran's transition team.

 Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."

Rogan, talking about Zohran Mamdani: "What else has he done that makes him a swindler?" Musk: " Um, well, I, I guess if you say, uh, what I mean, if you, if say, if you say..."