Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast.

Today we trace how one man went from receiving a $278 million government grant

to becoming the world's first trillionaire who spent 0.025 of his wealth to get Trump elected,

then used his position to help slash programs

that help people while Stoking race riots overseas. For those looking for a quick overview,

the sources providing our top takes in about 55 minutes today include MS Now, More Perfect

Union, The Last Word, Takes by Jamel Bowie, I Doubt It, and Gary's Economics.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in five sections.

Section A, the Trillionaire and What He Reveals.

Section B, the Human Cost of Concentrated Power.

Section C, the SpaceX IPO Heist.

Section D, Belfast, How Musk Fuels Racial Violence Abroad, and Section

E, the Reckoning, billionaire rhetoric and the case for taxing wealth.

And now, on to the show.

The numbers, which I like to dwell on, are almost impossible to comprehend.

The top 1% of households in Teton County now earn 221 times more than everyone else who lives there.

Not twice as much, not 10 times as much, 221 times as much. The median home price, which means half of all homes

sell for more and half sell for less, has surpassed $3 million. What does that look like on the ground

in the actual lived human reality of that valley? It looks like this. The people who make that place

work, the dishwashers, the landscapers, the lift

operators, the hotel housekeepers, many of them cannot afford to live anywhere near the town

where they spend their days. Some of them are sleeping in their cars. In Jackson Home,

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