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Immigration bill: Trump wins a big one.
Senator Lisa Murkowski was the only Republican to vote against the sweeping package funding immigration enforcement and Border Patrol. She opposed the measure in both the initial budget blueprint votes and the final passage, citing concerns that the legislation weakened the normal budgeting process by sidestepping standard appropriations.
Senator Murkowski is only 69 years old; one can assume she will run for re-election in 2028.
California governorship: Tom Steyer will not advance.
Three IPOs: none of the three will be "fast-tracked" for S&P 500 inclusion; must wait the standard 12-month public trading "seasoning" period
- SpaceX:
- will begin trading June 12 (this Friday)
- $135 / share: to raise $75 billion
- market value at this price point: $1.77 trillion
- OpenAI:
- filed confidentially
- second half 2026 estimate to launch (no pun intended)
- private funding suggests a valuation exceeding $1 trillion
- Anthropic:
- filed confidentially, draft Form S-1 with the SEC
- expected to launch (no pun intended): July (expectation)
- market value, private funding: $965 billion (let's call it one trillion dollars)
- key words: Claude Mythos; Project Glasswing; cybersecurity AI
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Back to the Bakken
WTI: $89.26. US strikes back at Iran after "someone/somehow" shoots down an American Apache helicopter over the weekend. WTI is rising again. The president says "peace is at hand."
Active rigs: 27.
Four new permits, #43013 - #43026, inclusive --
- Operator: Phoenix Operating
- Field: Corinth (Divide County)
- Comments:
- Phoenix Operating has permits for four AJ wells, lot 4, section 19-160-97,
- to be sited 530 FSL and 870 / 960 FWL.
