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It wasn’t quite Joe Namath, but James Dolan did make somewhat of a prediction hours before the monumental Game 4 of the NBA Finals. 

Even CNN Admits Democrats Are Cooked On Immigration

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity,

CNN's latest "Run the Numbers" segment lays bare a brutal reality for Democrats: their radical immigration stance has left them bleeding support across every demographic, while President Trump racks up historic approval on the issue.

The numbers don't lie, and even the network long accused of carrying water for open-border advocates is now spotlighting just how badly the party has botched border security.

One anchor stated plainly what millions of Americans have known for years: "Democrats have a PROBLEM."

?? JUST IN - CNN just completely BOMBED Democrats on their disastrous border policies.

"Democrats have a PROBLEM." ??

"Donald Trump has been THE MOST consequential president on immigration policy in the 21st century."

"Republicans are MORE trusted on immigration by +8,... pic.twitter.com/GO4gJr6uJf

— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) June 9, 2026

The discussion quickly turned to the dramatic reversal in public trust. CNN highlighted that Republicans now hold an edge where Democrats once led comfortably.

"Republicans are MORE trusted on immigration by +8, and Republicans with a +16 LEAD among independents."

This marks a complete flip from June 2018, when Democrats held a +7 point advantage on the issue. The shift among independents is especially devastating for a party that has long relied on that group to paper over its extremes.

The correspondent didn't stop at party trust. The segment emphasized that President Trump stands apart historically: "Donald Trump has been THE MOST consequential president on immigration policy in the 21st century."

That assessment lands with extra force because it comes amid Trump's second term, where his America First approach has produced tangible results on enforcement, deterrence, and restoring order after years of record illegal crossings, fentanyl deaths, and strained communities.

CNN's analysis didn't end with trust metrics. Another graphic drove the point deeper into Democratic territory. A majority of voters across the board want the party to abandon its far-left positions.

The data showed 59% of all voters believe Democrats should move to the center on immigration. Only 18% want the party to move further left. Breaking it down by group revealed the breadth of the rejection: White voters without college degrees at 67%, White voters with college degrees at 59%, Latino voters at 54%, and Black voters at 51%.

Every major racial group in America also agrees that Trump and Republicans have a much better immigration policy than radical Democrats who want open borders. This isn't a niche complaint from one corner of the electorate. It is a broad consensus that the party's embrace of lax enforcement and sanctuary policies has backfired spectacularly.

The segment also zeroed in on presidential approval ratings specifically tied to immigration. The results were unambiguous.

"TAKE A LOOK! Guess who has the HIGHEST approval on immigration? It's Donald John Trump who has the highest approval on immigration - 42%!"

The graphic compared 21st century presidents at the equivalent point in their second terms. George W. Bush sat at 30%. Barack Obama registered 36%. Trump leads them all at 42%.

"Donald Trump has the highest approval of ANY president on immigration at this point in a second term," CNN noted.

?? BREAKING - President Trump has the HIGHEST APPROVAL rating on immigration among Presidents in the 21st century.

"TAKE A LOOK! Guess who has the HIGHEST approval on immigration?"

"It's Donald John Trump who has the highest approval on immigration - 42%!"

"Donald Trump has... pic.twitter.com/n6sDbVe7DY

— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) June 9, 2026

These figures reflect more than abstract popularity. They measure results. Trump's policies - enhanced vetting, cooperation with local law enforcement, physical barriers where needed, and ending catch-and-release - have restored a measure of control that previous administrations surrendered. The public notices when chaos at the border subsides and when the rule of law reasserts itself.

What makes CNN's presentation particularly stinging for Democrats is how it undercuts years of media and activist framing. For too long, any serious discussion of border security was dismissed as xenophobic or extreme. Now the numbers reveal that position as the true outlier.

Voters are not demanding open borders or the decriminalization of illegal entry. They are demanding basic sovereignty and safety. When majorities of Black and Latino Americans join White voters in telling Democrats to moderate, the party's coalition shows visible cracks.

The radical wing that pushed "abolish ICE" rhetoric and resisted even modest enforcement measures has dragged the entire party into a ditch. CNN's own data confirms it. The 18% who want Democrats to move further left represent a loud but tiny faction that has outsized influence in primaries and party infrastructure. The other 82% are sending a clear message: enough.

This isn't about partisan score-settling. It is about measurable failure. Communities across the country absorbed the costs of unchecked illegal immigration for years - overwhelmed hospitals, schools stretched thin, wage pressure on working-class Americans, and tragic losses to fentanyl and crime. Trump's return to the White House has begun reversing that damage. The polling captures the relief and approval that follows.

With midterm elections approaching, these trends carry heavy implications. Immigration remains a top-tier issue for voters, and the party that owns the stronger record on it holds a structural advantage. Republicans' +16 lead among independents is not a minor detail. It is a warning sign for any Democrat hoping to flip seats in competitive districts.

The data also exposes the limits of identity politics on this issue. The assumption that minority voters would automatically back lax policies has collapsed under scrutiny. Real-world consequences - cartel violence spilling over, strained public resources, and threats to social cohesion - cut across racial lines. Voters prioritize safety and fairness over ideological slogans.

CNN's willingness to air these numbers suggests the political reality has become too obvious to ignore, even inside institutions that once minimized the border crisis. When a network that spent years downplaying record encounters now runs segments titled around "Democrats' PROBLEM ON IMMIGRATION," the shift in the Overton window is undeniable.

President Trump's approach has always centered on putting American citizens first. Secure borders, legal immigration that serves the national interest, and accountability for those who break the rules are not radical ideas. They are the baseline for any functional nation. The polling CNN presented proves that a growing share of the country agrees - including many who once leaned the other way.

Democrats face a choice. They can continue following the activist base into further isolation, or they can confront the data their own preferred media outlets are now forced to acknowledge. So far, the party's direction suggests denial remains the dominant strategy. That path leads to more losses.

Tyler Durden Wed, 06/10/2026 - 17:00

Watch Knicks vs. Spurs Game 4 of the NBA Finals tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET from NYC for free — and don't miss the half-time act.

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The second season of the Italian family drama doesn't have the time jumps of the first season, but there's still a lot going on.

The Post previews Group L at the World Cup. Here's what to know about England, Croatia, Ghana and Panama.

Anne Hathaway, Kate Middleton and Eva Longoria are just a few of the brand's many famous fans.

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Oracle Tumbles After Mixed Results, Capex Comes In Hot; Warns Another $40BN Debt/Equity Capital Raise Coming

With tech stocks cracking for a 3rd straight day, and with the broader market closing at the lows in a surprising sign of weakness, many were looking to ORCL to kickstart the AI euphoria which has been oddly missing in recent days (and which send NVDA stock briefly just below the key level of $200). Well, for those hoping that ORCL would be the much needed spark, they may be disappointed after ORCL stock pumped in kneejerk reaction (despite Q4 earnings that were mixed at best).... then dumped after the company announced it would be joining the circus of companies selling debt/equity to fund its runaway capex.

Here is what ORCL reported for the just concluded fiscal Q4:

• Adjusted EPS $2.11 vs. $1.70 y/y, beating estimates of $1.97
• Adjusted revenue $19.18 billion, +21% y/y, beating estimates of $19.09 billion

The revenue breakdown was mixed at best, with ugly Software and SaaS prints offset by ok Infrastructure revenue"

• Cloud Infrastructure revenue (IaaS) $5.79 billion, +93% y/y, beating est $5.72 billion 
  • Cloud Infrastructure revenue (IaaS) in constant currency +92%, estimate +91.7%
• Cloud revenue (IaaS plus SaaS) $9.91 billion, +48% y/y, missing est $10 billion
  • Cloud revenue (IaaS plus SaaS) in constant currency +46%, estimate +47.4%
• Cloud Application revenue (SaaS) $4.13 billion, +12% y/y, missing est $4.17 billion
  • Cloud Application revenue (SaaS) in constant currency +10%, estimate +10.8%
• Software revenue $6.82 billion, -2.1% y/y, beating est of $6.88 billion
  • Software Support revenue $4.94 billion, -0.4% y/y, estimate $4.98 billion
• Software License revenue $1.88 billion, -6.3% y/y, missing est $1.93 billion
• Hardware revenue $924 million, +8.7% y/y, beating est $836.2 million
• Service revenue $1.52 billion, +13% y/y, estimate $1.41 billion

Going down the line: 

• Adjusted operating income $8.59 billion, +22% y/y, beating est $8.27 billion
• Adjusted operating margin 45% vs. 44% y/y, beating est 43.5%

As for ORCL's pride and joy, namely remaining performance obligations, or RPO backlog, it rose to $638 billion vs. $138 billion y/y. Good luck collecting on that.

Looking at fiscal Q1 ahead, the company was quite cheerful of course:

• Total Revenues are expected to grow from 27% to 29% (in both constant currency and USD)
• Total Cloud revenue is expected to grow between 57% and 63% in constant currency and is expected to grow between 58% and 64% in USD.
• Non-GAAP earnings per share is expected to grow between 16% and 19% and be between $1.71 and $1.75 in constant currency and grow between 17% and 20% and be between $1.72 and $1.76 in USD.

Looking at the full year fiscal 2027, the company reaffirmed its prior revenue guidance of $90 billion total revenue and raises its non-GAAP EPS guidance to $8.05, which is growth of 18%.

As a reminder, AVGO imploded when it failed to raise its full-year guidance last week. Well, ORCL also failed to do so, likely disappointing the market. And indeed, according to a kneejerk take by Vital Knowledge, “The fact the F27 sales guide isn’t being raised is a disappointment.” It also writes that “this is an OK release with continued robust growth in backlog (RPOs), and the cash performance wasn’t as bad as feared,” but that the company “is still facing a period of heavy cash outflows as it builds the infrastructure needed to fulfill its backlog, and this will require more debt and equity.”

And to that point, here is the kicker that sent the stock sliding after hours. But before we get there, one more point - ORCL said that free cash flow was negative $23.7 billion for fiscal year 2026 as "Oracle continued to execute on investments to support the growth of its Cloud Infrastructure business."

As Bloomberg notes, Oracle's quarterly CapEx was higher than estimates, raising investor concerns about the profitability of the company’s AI infrastructure business. Capital expenditures, largely a measure of data center spending, were $15.9 billion in the period ended May 31, bringing the annual total to $55.7 billion, higher than Oracle’s projection for $50 billion in spending.

The company didn’t offer an outlook on its spending in the new fiscal year. Wall Street expects $61.7 billion in capital spending in the year ending in May 2027.

Which of course means that the company's free cash flow meltdown is only accelerating, and the only way ORCL can fund its staggering buildout - since it doesn't have nearly enough revenue and profit - is with even more equity and/or debt. $40 billion to be precise:

"In fiscal year 2027, Oracle expects to raise approximately $40 billion through a combination of debt and equity financing including its previously announced $20 billion at-the-market equity issuance. Oracle does not expect to issue additional debt in calendar year 2026"

The coming dilution follows the $43 billion in debt and $5 billion in equity raised in 2026 as part of the company's pivot away from database software to a provider of computing power for artificial intelligence work, which means it is embarking on a massive build-out of data centers for OpenAI and other customers. Alas, said pivot costs lots of money, in fact more than the company said just three months ago, and the stock  is not happy, sliding more than 5% in afterhours trading after closing at $201.26. The company’s stock had climbed 35% over the past three months, likely driven by better investor sentiment toward computing providers and OpenAI, Oracle’s most important customer, wrote Derrick Wood, an analyst at TD Cowen.

Tyler Durden Wed, 06/10/2026 - 16:55

Visits to Cracker Barrel stores had taken a hit right after the company drew criticism from conservatives, including President Trump, for its decision to change its decades-old logo of "Uncle Herschel."

The Knicks are generating nickels.

Anthony's family and his supporters have repeatedly claimed he was the victim of racism in the prosecution.

The Post got it right, and the NBA got it wrong. 

“We’re not even putting up the screens,” Dolan said.

The first half was highly physical.

The demands from DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office, which were first reported by the Wall Street Journal, order the banks to cough up lists of customers they cut off and explain why their accounts were closed.

“One day after I started taking Ozempic, I started feeling like a superhero at work," one GLP-1 user with ADHD said. "My productivity is through the roof."

Solar Tops Coal In US Power Mix For The First Month Ever

Solar power held a record-high 12.8% share of US electricity supply in May, overtaking coal-generated power for the first full month on record, energy think tank Ember said in a report on Wednesday. As OilPrice notes, while the share of solar-generated power jumped to a record high for a full month, the share of coal in the U.S. electricity mix slumped to 12.2% last month, the fourth-lowest monthly share of coal ever.

Solar generated an all-time high total of 45.5 terawatt-hours (TWh) in May, up by 17% from a year earlier and surpassing the previous record set in July last year, according to Ember’s data. In May, solar also became the third-largest source of electricity in the U.S., behind natural gas and nuclear power generation.

At the same time, coal generation hit an all-time monthly low of 39.3 TWh in April 2026. Coal power output rebounded to 43.4 TWh in May, but still remained 11% below May 2025 levels.

“Overtaking coal for the first month on record shows just how far solar has come, from a niche contributor to the third-largest and fastest-growing source of power in the US electricity system,” said Nicolas Fulghum, Senior Data Analyst at Ember.

“From Texas to California, markets across the US are betting on solar to meet rising power needs,” Fulghum added.

Despite the Trump Administration’s assault on renewable energy and support for the coal industry, solar and wind power generation in the United States is booming, including in many red states that President Trump won such as Texas, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Arizona, and Mississippi.

In a separate report also out on Wednesday, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie said that despite changing tax policy and regulatory actions targeting clean energy, solar and energy storage represented 91% of all new capacity installed in the U.S. in the first quarter as utilities, homeowners, and businesses seek energy security amid global gas and gas turbine supply disruptions.

States won by President Trump accounted for 74% of all solar capacity installed in the first quarter, according to SEIA and WoodMac’s U.S. Solar Market Insight 2026 Q2 Report.

Tyler Durden Wed, 06/10/2026 - 16:40

"A Lot Of BS, Honestly": Apollo Head Says Everyone Is Measuring AI Wrong

The tokenomics debate got its sharpest contrarian voice this morning, and it came from inside the building.

John Zito Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg

John Zito, co-president of Apollo Asset Management, sat for a fireside chat at the Morgan Stanley US Financials Conference on Wednesday, where he suggested to Bloomberg that measured per unit of intelligence delivered rather than per token, prices are collapsing - even as low-value usage drives the actual bills up.

"I think tokenmaxxing and token talk is - it's a lot of BS, honestly. Like, if you look at per unit of knowledge and cost per unit of knowledge, prices are collapsing. Prices are collapsing per unit of IQ, if you did it that way."

In other words: a token is not a unit of intelligence. Price the capability instead of the throughput - the way a 2026 laptop costs what a 2010 laptop did but is 50x more capable - and the cost of "IQ" is in freefall even while the bills explode.

He also suggested that we're screwed if AI isn't just hype:

"If AI is real, it's so hyper-deflationary to so many things over the long term that it's really hard to take risk."

So a few things are going on here - the spending problem is real. The metric everyone is using to describe it is wrong. And the resolution of that tension is where the entire AI trade goes next.

As Goldman's Rich Privorotsky noted five days earlier - consensus was already migrating to exactly this frame; that the relevant economic metric is not token volume but useful task completion per watt and per dollar; that customers facing usage-based pricing "will optimize for cost per completed task," routing simple work to local models, harder tasks to the cloud, and frontier models only when required; and, that we "maybe have allocated too much spend to the Data-Centric model." When Apollo and Goldman independently land on the same framework inside a week, we're looking at a new institutional consensus forming in real time.

The French toast economy

Zito's diagnosis of why enterprise AI bills exploded will sound familiar to ZeroHedge premium subscribers: too many companies pointing frontier models at tasks that don't remotely justify the compute.

"Our IQs are so low that we're actually using [AI tools] to check out the recipe for, you know, French toast. That's where you're seeing the prices go up."

Swap "French toast" for "checking the weather" and that is, almost verbatim, the tokenmaxxing reductio we documented at Amazon - employees routing busywork through agents to climb the KiroRank leaderboard, frontier reasoning models deployed against questions a search bar answered in 2009. Zito even joked that his own IQ is "not high enough" to need what Anthropic's next flagship model - and something that only "a handful" of users genuinely need, and can monetize, the bleeding edge.

So - the mismatch between task and tool doesn't persist forever - it gets arbitraged into what he called a new economy for the sector: "The AMD chip, the Nvidia chip, all these different chips will be used and optimized for a certain use-case to solve the spend problem." Citadel and Jane Street pay anything for the frontier because their ROI is, in his word, massive. Everyone else's French toast queries get routed to something cheap.

And of course we watched this unfold over the last month. Bloomberg notes Uber set usage limits on tools like Claude Code after incinerating its AI budget, and Walmart capped an in-house AI agent - the one that helps employees with spreadsheets and presentations - after demand ran too hot. The caps are landing on exactly the low-IQ-task tier Zito is describing, while the frontier spend stays untouched.

How we got here

For readers just joining: this is the latest beat in a story that has moved very fast.

Last month we noted that the AI narrative had hit a serious snag, after Uber's COO Andrew Macdonald admitted the company couldn't draw a line between exploding token consumption and useful product output. This, after 5,000 engineers burned the entire 2026 AI budget by April. Data spanning 2,444 companies suggested only 18 cents of every AI dollar reaches users as stable product, with 44 cents going to fixing bugs the AI itself introduced.

h/t @Aiswarya_Sankar

Then came the $500 million mystery bill - an unnamed enterprise client, per Axios, torching half a billion dollars on Claude in a single month with no usage caps - landing the same week Amazon nuked its internal leaderboard and an SVP begged staff not to use AI for the sake of using AI.

Then, in Part II of our reporting: 'From Singularity To Tokenomics,' we noted that the subsidy formally ended: GitHub flipped Copilot to usage-based billing on June 1 - the same morning Anthropic confidentially filed its draft S-1 - and developers hit their monthly quotas before lunch. OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft all executed the same flat-rate-to-meter pivot within sixty days of each other. Sam Altman conceded that cost went from a non-issue in January to, in his words, a huge issue and a meme.

By Monday, Goldman's one-delta desk was flagging that the Silicon Data Token Spending Index had started to soften - Q1 may have been peak token-maxxing-as-KPI - and Citrini Research had coined the inevitable sequel: in a matter of weeks, the narrative went from tokenmaxxing to tokenpanic. 

We're happy everyone is now looking at this chart... You're welcome?

The Silicon Data LLM Token Expenditure Index rolls over What enterprise customers are actually saying

Fresh comments from UBS paint an interesting picture. After polling actual IT execs at enterprise AI customers, the bank reports that token costs have become a real issue for roughly 60% of the enterprises they spoke to - "this is not a made-up media story," in the bank's own words. One customer described the GitHub Copilot pricing change in a single word: "chaos." Another got their first AI bill and heard leadership say, flatly, "we don't have the money for this." A third admitted: "we overbuilt in certain areas and are starting to feel the wrath."

Source: UBS Evidence Lab

But bears should pay attention to this part: not a single check was slamming on the AI brakes. UBS found the dominant behavior is guardrails, not retreat: caps, alerts, model-downshifting, pooled tokens - normal enterprise cost-containment. Several customers explicitly refused to throttle usage ("we don't want to throttle them... our aim is to just get our employees to start using AI") and are instead cannibalizing other IT spend - cutting external IT services, consolidating cloud, and notably, metering headcount growth - to make room for the AI line item. Even Uber, the poster child for budget incineration, has set per-engineer token caps around $1,500 a month - which, as UBS dryly notes, is still extremely high - and its CEO describes the company as full steam ahead.

So according to UBS, costs have been spiking because adoption is ramping, not because per-unit prices are inflating - the per-unit cost of intelligence is falling. Which is exactly Zito's "cost per unit of IQ" point.

Both things are true

So is tokenmaxxing "a lot of BS"? Zito is right about the denominator. Cost per unit of intelligence is collapsing, relentlessly. Open-source and Chinese models deliver near-frontier capability at 10-25x lower cost; Cursor's new model matches frontier coding performance at a tenth the price per task. Measured per unit of IQ, this is the most deflationary technology in living memory.

Zito's denominator: inference costs collapse for a fixed level of intelligence

The CFOs are right about the numerator. Gartner has found that even a 90% collapse in inference costs won't make enterprise AI cheaper, because agents devour tokens faster than prices drop and providers don't fully pass the savings through. It is also the lived experience of every company in the UBS checks. A collapsing unit cost times an exploding unit count is still a bigger bill.

Token expenditure is a meaningless productivity metric and a decisive revenue metric. Nobody underwriting a near-trillion-dollar AI IPO can dismiss it as a measure of revenue durability. That is why the rollover in the Silicon Data index is worth watching: the chart measures nothing about value created, and everything about the thing the valuations are built on.

The same logic applies to the narrative itself. Zito calls the token talk noise; that noise doubled the market value of the semiconductor industry in two months on the way up and is unwinding it now. A fundamental investor can dismiss what a narrative measures. A trader cannot dismiss what it moves.

What the 'noise' moved: semiconductor market value doubled in two months on the tokenmaxxing narrative

The unresolved question for traders: The infrastructure complex is priced for token demand going up and to the right at the frontier - Goldman's 24x by 2030. But if Zito's use-case economy arrives, a large share of that volume migrates to commodity inference: cheap chips, open models, local hardware. Volume can keep growing while the dollars - and the margins - pool somewhere other than where today's valuations assume. The UBS checks already show the mechanism in motion: enterprises aren't cutting AI, they're cutting around AI, and routing down-market wherever good enough will do.

Meanwhile, the token expenditure index printed its sixth straight down day - the longest streak since January - with Citadel's read attributing the drop to adoption becoming "less about what frontier models can do and more about the price," a shift toward cheaper models. Note what that means for the chart: six red days on an expenditure index isn't necessarily usage falling - it may be the deflation itself arriving in the spend line, the same work bought cheaper. The numerator and the denominator, colliding in one print. And savor the garnish: Citadel is one of the two firms Zito named as gladly paying anything for the frontier - and it's their desk narrating everyone else trading down.

Token prices down 6 days in a row: longest streak since January.

"Adoption is becoming less about what frontier models can do and more about the price... the recent drop in the token index may reflect some of this shift toward cheaper models"- Citadel

- zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 10, 2026

Volume and value have decoupled. The desks have noticed. The repricing is the part that comes next.

Tyler Durden Wed, 06/10/2026 - 16:33