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This week's "Who Said It" comes from someone who apparently didn't get the memo that the Supreme Court is supposed to be the final word — and their response to losing a 6-3 decision is going to tell you a lot about where this episode is headed.
Tesla's getting a boost from Wall Street optimism that seems blissfully unaware of what's happening in New Jersey, and SpaceX keeps quietly sliding in ways the hype hasn't caught up with yet. We also have a theory about why Trump suddenly wants Ukraine making its own Patriot missiles — and it has a lot more to do with protecting a defense contractor's bottom line than it does with helping Ukraine win a war.
Ukraine had one of its most productive stretches of the entire conflict — we're talking a number of Russian ships in the Black and Azov seas that's going to make you do a double take, plus a drone strike that reached somewhere so far inside Russia that the distance alone changes the conversation entirely. Russia is now rationing fuel in over half the country and the guy in charge is calling it temporary. Sure.
The birthright citizenship fight got a new chapter this week — a fresh-faced congressman is ready to impress the boss, Brett Kavanaugh inadvertently handed them a roadmap, and the odds of the Supreme Court granting a rehearing haven't been this low since roughly 1965. We run the numbers and let you decide what that means.
Trump is removing Syria from the state sponsor of terrorism list — and once we walk you through the current Syrian president's resume, the move becomes one of the more interesting judgment calls of the administration. We also chart what's happened to America's terrorism list over the last decade and the pattern is something else.
The NATO summit went fine, which by current standards qualifies as a triumph. Grift Force One made its debut on the way out and then quietly didn't make the return trip. Microsoft laid off thousands the same week they got approved for thousands of H-1B visas. And a data center in Wyoming contaminated the local water supply in a way that makes the Terminator 2 anniversary feel a little too on the nose.
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By Alex Midway and Eric HalseyThis week's "Who Said It" comes from someone who apparently didn't get the memo that the Supreme Court is supposed to be the final word — and their response to losing a 6-3 decision is going to tell you a lot about where this episode is headed.
Tesla's getting a boost from Wall Street optimism that seems blissfully unaware of what's happening in New Jersey, and SpaceX keeps quietly sliding in ways the hype hasn't caught up with yet. We also have a theory about why Trump suddenly wants Ukraine making its own Patriot missiles — and it has a lot more to do with protecting a defense contractor's bottom line than it does with helping Ukraine win a war.
Ukraine had one of its most productive stretches of the entire conflict — we're talking a number of Russian ships in the Black and Azov seas that's going to make you do a double take, plus a drone strike that reached somewhere so far inside Russia that the distance alone changes the conversation entirely. Russia is now rationing fuel in over half the country and the guy in charge is calling it temporary. Sure.
The birthright citizenship fight got a new chapter this week — a fresh-faced congressman is ready to impress the boss, Brett Kavanaugh inadvertently handed them a roadmap, and the odds of the Supreme Court granting a rehearing haven't been this low since roughly 1965. We run the numbers and let you decide what that means.
Trump is removing Syria from the state sponsor of terrorism list — and once we walk you through the current Syrian president's resume, the move becomes one of the more interesting judgment calls of the administration. We also chart what's happened to America's terrorism list over the last decade and the pattern is something else.
The NATO summit went fine, which by current standards qualifies as a triumph. Grift Force One made its debut on the way out and then quietly didn't make the return trip. Microsoft laid off thousands the same week they got approved for thousands of H-1B visas. And a data center in Wyoming contaminated the local water supply in a way that makes the Terminator 2 anniversary feel a little too on the nose.
Got feedback? We want to hear it.