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Sheekey Daily Read
by Brian
A daily dispatch from Bloomberg's Kevin Sheekey with the latest stories that shine a light on – and offer solutions to – pressing issues of the day.
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Sheekey Daily Read — Friday, June 12, 2026
Today's headlines: Welcome to the Sheekey Daily Read for Friday, June 12th. I'm going to say a sentence I've never said before: Elon Musk i... | With a T. SpaceX opened at $150 this morning per the New York Times and Axios — 11% above the $135 IPO price — and that ... | SpaceX market cap landed at $1.97 trillion. Instantly top ten largest U.S. companies. And here's the kicker — Musk once ...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Monday, April 27, 2026
Today's headlines: on Todays episode., and this is the Sheekey Daily Read. I'm going to be honest — today's stories all circle the same dra... | (Sighs) Yeah. The Washington Post is reporting Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California, sprinted 60 feet past a ... | The detail that stopped me: minutes before, he texted his family calling himself a "friendly federal assassin" and said ...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Monday, April 27, 2026
Today's headlines: Monday, April 27th, and this is the Sheekey Daily Read. I'm going to be honest — today's stories all circle the same dra... | (Sighs) Yeah. The Washington Post is reporting Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California, sprinted 60 feet past a ... | The detail that stopped me: minutes before, he texted his family calling himself a "friendly federal assassin" and said ...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Monday, April 27, 2026
Today's headlines: Monday, April 27th, and this is the Sheekey Daily Read. I'm going to be honest — today's stories all circle the same dra... | (Sighs) Yeah. The Washington Post is reporting Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California, sprinted 60 feet past a ... | The detail that stopped me: minutes before, he texted his family calling himself a "friendly federal assassin" and said ...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Monday, April 27, 2026
Today's headlines: Welcome to the Sheekey Daily Read for Monday, April 27th. I'm here with my co-host, and today's thread is pretty stark —... | And we should start there, because the details out of the Washington Post on the Correspondents' dinner shooter are genu... | "Friendly federal assassin." That phrasing alone tells you we're in some new chapter of online-radicalized vocabulary.
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Sheekey Daily Read — Monday, April 27, 2026
Today's headlines: Welcome to the Sheekey Daily Read for Monday, April 27th. I'm your host, and today's edition is — there's no soft way to... | (Sighs) Yeah, the through-line today is basically: who's actually in control of anything? Because the answer keeps comin... | Let's start with the story everyone's talking about. The New York Times reporting that President Trump and First Lady Me...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Monday, April 27, 2026
Today's headlines: Welcome to the Sheekey Daily Read for Monday, April 27th, 2026. I'm here with my co-host, and today we've got a thread r... | That's the throughline, yeah. From a guy sprinting past the Secret Service to a Pennsylvania town watching its borough c... | Let's start where the weekend ended. Axios is reporting that Cole Tomas Allen, 31 years old, was charged Monday with att...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Monday, April 27, 2026
Today's headlines: Welcome to the Sheekey Daily Read for Monday, April 27th, 2026. I'm here with my partner in news crimes, and today's epi... | Saturday night. The White House Correspondents' Dinner. A man with a shotgun, a semi-automatic, and three knives sprinti... | Sixty feet past security. That's the detail from Axios that I keep coming back to. Sixty feet is nothing. That's the len...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Saturday, April 25, 2026
Today's headlines: Welcome to the Sheekey Daily Read for Saturday, April 26th. I'm your host, and let me tell you — if you went to bed earl... | Genuinely. We had a presidential evacuation, collapsed peace talks with Iran, a memecoin nosedive, and somehow a Polymar... | And there's a thread running through all of it that I want listeners to keep in mind: this is a day about deals not clos...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Sunday, April 05, 2026
Today's headlines: We're watching the potential collapse of post-World War Two international law happen in real time. Trump just posted on ... | The timing is almost surreal, right? The first American pope is literally delivering an Easter message about laying down... | Exactly. This is institutional breakdown. Every previous administration, even when they pushed legal boundaries — think ...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Sunday, April 05, 2026
Today's headlines: We are watching the most dangerous game of chicken in modern presidential history. Trump has given Iran until Tuesday at... | Wait, but here's what's fascinating — he's simultaneously saying they're in "deep negotiations" with Iran through Kushne... | Exactly, and that successful airman rescue just emboldened him further. Think about the optics from Tehran's perspective...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Sunday, April 05, 2026
Today's headlines: We're twenty-four hours away from Trump's self-imposed deadline to bomb Iranian power plants, and oil markets are absolu... | Right, and that's the real economic story buried underneath all the war rhetoric. When Trump says he's going to bomb bri... | Exactly. And look at how shipping patterns are already adapting — we saw that Iraqi tanker take the northern route throu...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Sunday, April 05, 2026
Today's headlines: Trump just set an 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline to "blow up everything" in Iran if they don't reopen the Strait of Hormuz — an... | Wait, hold on — civilian infrastructure? That's not just escalation, that's potentially a war crime. But here's what str... | Exactly, and the timing is everything. This threat comes right after a successful CIA rescue operation that should have ...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Sunday, April 05, 2026
Today's headlines: Trump is now threatening to bomb Iranian power plants by Tuesday if Tehran doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and this... | Wait, hold on — the timing here is everything. We extracted that downed airman using what sounds like an elaborate CIA d... | Exactly, and that CIA operation tells us something crucial about our intelligence capabilities inside Iran. They used wh...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Sunday, April 05, 2026
Today's headlines: We need to start with what just happened this morning — Trump threatening to bomb Iranian power plants and bridges if th... | Wait, hold on — the cognitive dissonance here is staggering. He's simultaneously threatening civilian infrastructure, wh... | This is classic Trump brinksmanship, but applied to a situation where miscalculation means regional war. Look, threateni...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Thursday, April 02, 2026
Today's headlines: We need to talk about what's really happening here — Trump is firing his top military commander in the middle of an acti... | Wait, hold on — Army Chief of Staff Randy George was removed without explanation while American forces are literally und... | Exactly. And here's what nobody is connecting — oil just hit $109 because Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, which carrie...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Thursday, April 02, 2026
Today's headlines: We're watching America stumble into a trap of its own making. Trump just bombed Iranian infrastructure, killed eight peo... | How is Iran winning when we just destroyed a major bridge outside Tehran? | Because they've shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Oil hit $109 a barrel yesterday. Iran represents one percent of global o...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Thursday, April 02, 2026
Today's headlines: Oil's at $110 this morning and Trump just promised to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age within three weeks. Markets are tr... | Only 25 ships made it through Hormuz yesterday versus the normal 150. That's not a supply disruption, that's economic st... | Here's what nobody's talking about — this isn't just about oil anymore. Diesel hit $200. You know what runs on diesel? T...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Thursday, April 02, 2026
Today's headlines: Oil hit $110 this morning after Trump threatened to bomb Iran "back to the stone ages" in prime time last night. But her... | That's the tell right there. Markets looked at Trump's ultimatum and thought "recession" not "inflation." When crude spi... | Exactly. And the timeline matters here — two to three weeks of bombing Iran's power grid and potentially oil fields. Tha...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Today's headlines: B-52s are flying free-range missions over Iran right now. For the first time in this entire conflict, American strategic... | That's the story nobody's talking about. We're a month into what was supposed to be decisive air power, and Iran's missi... | Exactly. And Trump is now floating the idea of just... walking away. He's telling European allies they can reopen Hormuz...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Today's headlines: NATO is fracturing. Not bending, not straining — fracturing. When Germany and France are privately discussing reduced in... | And it's all happening because Trump decided Iran was worth breaking seventy-five years of the most successful military ... | Here's what nobody's talking about — this isn't just about Iran. This is about trust. When you have allies who've stood ...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Monday, March 30, 2026
Today's headlines: Oil at $108 and climbing. Iran just hit a Kuwaiti tanker sitting in Dubai's port. Not some remote shipping lane — Dubai.... | This isn't random escalation. Iran's sending a message that nowhere is safe. They're willing to drag third countries int... | And here's what nobody's talking about — Kuwait's oil, Dubai's port, but Iran pulled the trigger. That's three Gulf stat...
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Sheekey Daily Read — Monday, March 30, 2026
Today's headlines: Oil just punched through $100 for the first time since 2022, and we need to talk about what this actually means for your... | Here's what nobody's saying about this — we're not just looking at supply disruption anymore. When Trump threatens Irani... | And the timing couldn't be worse. Powell's sitting there at Harvard telling students the Fed hasn't decided whether to "...
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A daily dispatch from Bloomberg's Kevin Sheekey with the latest stories that shine a light on – and offer solutions to – pressing issues of the day.
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