This is who Trump just tapped to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Must read: @issielapowsky.bsky.social's fantastic profile for @inc.com of Markwayne Mullin, the most influential business owner in Trump's Washington.
www.inc.com/issie-lapows...
Virtual reality bites
Raising Cane's is now bigger than KFC, with one of the smallest menus you'll find at a chain restaurant. If you love good business journalism and good chicken fingers, check out @notrobwalker.bsky.social's great feature on Cane's and founder Todd Graves.
www.inc.com/rob-walker/h...
Big day! New Taylor Swift album announcement AND the 2025 Inc. 5000 list drop?! ❤️🔥🚀😄
www.inc.com/inc5000
Here are the best places to work in the Washington, D.C. metro area. (Hint: It's not the federal government.)
www.inc.com/victoria-sal...
“For the federal government to take over the California National Guard, without the request of the governor, to put down protests is truly chilling.” www.latimes.com/california/s...
Lol! He's the strangest thing of all.
Netflix found a way to drop the Stranger Things final season across all the major holidays. www.fastcompany.com/91344584/net...
Disturbing ICE raid at a beloved local restaurant in San Diego. “Some witnesses in news reports say agents at first handcuffed the entire restaurant crew as they asked for identification.”
www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
Replacing Elon Musk as CEO of Tesla makes sense for the brand. "...given how singularly the Musk personal brand is intertwined with Tesla’s, the most obvious solution would be to get some daylight between the two," writes @notrobwalker.bsky.social.
www.fastcompany.com/91313599/can...
AP for the win
The country's biggest retailers are scared to challenge Trump's tariffs in court.
But this Pensacola-based entrepreneur, who runs a 10-person stationary business, isn't. I spoke with @emilyley.bsky.social about her lawsuit for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91312081/mee...
James Surowiecki, who broke the scoop on Trump's wild tariff math, has a new piece for @inc.com about how bad the math truly is: www.inc.com/james-surowi...
Good luck, Olive! 🐶🧸
Just dropped: @fastcompany.com's Most Innovative Companies of 2025
www.fastcompany.com/most-innovat...
Mamdani was my representative, and I asked him for help. His office went to bat for me and made sure I got control of my account.
Scammers had created an account using my information to collect on unemployment during the pandemic, which I reported, but then when I was actually between jobs, I was blocked from creating an account and NY state would not help me.
I don't know if Mamdani has a chance, but I like this ad. x.com/ZohranKMamda... He's also the only public official who's ever personally helped me when I reached out for assistance.
“There’s something really beautiful watching a Sims player meet another Sims player,” says Lyndsay Pearson, vice president of franchise creative for the game. “They eventually admit that they’ve killed somebody.” fortune.com/2025/01/31/t...
“I don’t identify with the term ‘dictator,’” WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg told David H. Freedman in a fascinating interview for @inc.com. “A nicer way of saying it would be ‘enlightened leader.’”
www.inc.com/dfreedman/ma...
"The murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has unleashed long-simmering anger that has the potential to make health insurance the most toxic category since Big Tobacco," writes @notrobwalker.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91246195/uni...
This. "Joe Biden, and by extension Kamala Harris, got blamed for inflation but received no credit at all for the tight labor market that has driven up wages." www.inc.com/james-surowi...
I deleted that other app, but still trying to figure out whether to use this app or Threads.
Does anyone else remember when David Bowie created the metaverse? Before Horizon Worlds, Decentraland, or even Second Life, there was Bowie World, a weird and amazing place. And it still exists.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90890301/david-bowie-world-metaverse-oral-history
