Investors were told "the company's earnings (would) balloon up to $835 million in 2024. It currently has taken in only $836,000 through the 2Q of 2024. "The company also...lost over $343 million so far in 2024."
MeidasTouch has obtained the initial documents provided to potential investors in Trump Media in 2022. It shows that investors were fed absurd and wildly inflated projections on growth & earnings that were largely smoke and mirrors. Read the full story...
They were fed completely bogus projections.
What we have lost--the book review section of a random San Francisco Chronicle, May 10, 1964. It contains thoughtful, lengthy reviews by Harry Ashmore, Richard Rovere (on the GOP), Susan Sontag (on Lukacs), among others, and a great essay on E. P. Thompson's THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS.
A hugely important issue for the future of historical research.
There's an article in the Washington Post today on the enormous backlogs at the National Archives, as well as the recent switch to digital-only records acquisition www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The National Archives and Records Administration has been starved for resources for many years.
One weird thing the media doesn’t cover is that the next president will veto or sign an extension or reform of the TCJA and with that decision redistribute, or not, hundreds of billions of dollars of income for years to come
That billionaires have lined up in lockstep behind Trump is not a question. But why, exactly? bad-faith-times.ghost.io/billionaires...
Some old-money Gilded Era rich guy gave Donald Trump fifty million dollars last week. Timothy Mellon, the 77-year-old heir to the Mellon fortune who once wrote a book so racist it was later scrubbed...
Fascinating interview with Seamus Heaney in the Guardian, 2 November 1974 (zoom into photo for full text but also availaable through link; #skystorians#historywww.theguardian.com/theguardian/...
As we approach Banned Books week, here's my annual reminder: If you're going to partake, buy and read banned books from *living* authors. The Bradbury and Vonnegut estates don't need your money, but Maia Kobabe probably does.
I mean, can't you like sell them to an AI database now?
This is also one reason why I started reading so much PG Wodehouse, esp. the Jeeves novels. They are written with such zip and pep. It is also why I believe this is the best piece of writing advice you can give to students and junior colleagues. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kr9qg...