Wall Street Successions, Elon’s Ugly Truth, ABC News Blues

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon dispatch of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Bill Cohan takes a close look at Ari Emanuel’s gambit to take Endeavor private, Ted Pick’s ascension at Morgan Stanley, and Jamie Dimon’s plan to sell 1 million shares of JPMorgan Chase.

Plus, below the fold: Tara Palmeri chronicles Kevin McCarthy’s post-speakership whiplash. Baratunde Thurston and Israeli activist and comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi discuss how the war has spilled onto social media. Dylan Byers presents a medley of pressing media news. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Jon Kelly consider the machinations behind Ari’s take-private, before turning to Elon’s latest misadventures with X.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

News and notes from around Wall Street: Ari’s take-private idea, Jamie Dimon’s stock sale, and James Gorman’s newly-appointed successor.

TARA PALMERI

McCarthy, who has long demonstrated an extraordinary comfort with the longest of long games, and an unparalleled ability to withstand humiliation, must now confront his next act. Or will he hold on for another day?

BARATUNDE THURSTON

A conversation with Noam Shuster-Eliassi, the Israeli comedian and peace activist, on living through the hell of physical war and the turbulence of social media distortion—and the complexity of grieving for both the Israelis and Palestinians.

DYLAN BYERS

News and notes from around the media industry.