🇪🇺 25 Largest Companies in the EU; Venezuelan Oil Numbers Might Be Fake; POLL: 97% Want to Overturn Citizens United
PLUS, billionaire spending in presidential election years is up 16,000% since 2008.
🇪🇺 25 Largest Companies in the EU By Market Cap
I did not know ASML was now #1 in Europe.
🛢️🤥 Venezuelan Oil Numbers Might Be Fake
😼 Cats Are #1 Killer of Birds
Estimates are all over the place here. We need more data on bird mortality.
📺 Daily US Box Office (2004-2025)
Kinda sad to see. I miss the days of checking box office mojo to see which movies were making the most money.
💰 Billionaire Spending in Presidential Election Years Is Up 16,000% Since 2008
Some history on Citizens United from wikipedia:
📊 I ran a poll on IG asking people if they thought the US should overturn Citizens United. A whopping 97% of respondents said yes.
I knew Citizens United was unpopular, but I didn’t know it was THAT unpopular. Holy crap.
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📈 Polymarket User Accused of Insider Trading on Maduro Attack
A new Polymarket account reportedly turned ~$30k into ~$400k betting on Maduro’s exit in under 24 hours.
The timing raised eyebrows across X, with many questioning whether this was luck, or insider information.
Once again, prediction markets moved ahead of the news cycle.
📍 MAPPED: How Maduro’s Capture Unfolded
Shouts out to the New York Times for making sweet maps.
📈 Top 10 Economies 1980, 2000, and 2025
Pretty big come ups for India
🪖 Who Spends the Most on Military?
Another banger from @visualcap
🇨🇦 Canadian Stock Market Ripped Harder Than Anyone in 2025
Not a great year for the USA relative to these other guys. 🥺
🇺🇸 The Most Disproportionately Popular Jobs in Each US State
This is great.
📜 Approximate Map of Colonial Control in North America in 1750
History rules.
🇻🇪 Venezuela Is Bigger Than You Think
⚽️ Football > Baseball
⛹️♂️ 2015 Steph vs. 2025 Steph
To be fair, 2015 was the year Steph was the unanimous MVP.
💰 Over $9 Trilly Added to the US Stock Market in 2025
🎶 Banger of the Day
William Onyeabor is an OG funk musician from Nigeria. He has multiple bangers and they all sound timelessly futuristic - like if they came out today, I would be like, “damn, this sound is the future”.
William Onyeabor - Why Go to War
SIDE NOTE: On Instagram, we pair each post with a song that bangs. A lot of people don’t know that we have a comprehensive Spotify playlist with every song we ever played. Click here to check it out. 🎶
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