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Some old-money Gilded Era rich guy gave Donald Trump fifty million dollars last week.  Timothy Mellon, the 77-year-old heir to the Mellon fortune who once wrote a book so racist it was later scrubbed from the internet, is now essentially self-funding the 2024 Trump campaign; he’s given more than

"I thought blue states had banned the pledge of allegiance," he said. "Because they hate the country."

The continued existence of democracy depends on what might be called – depending on your politics – content moderation or speech suppression. Free speech in the 21st century is a fucking snake eating its own fucking tail, devouring itself until nothing is left. Freedom of speech, as I’ve detailed ad nauseam

I find it equal parts infuriating and humorous when I read a New York Times story in which a reporter asks with great earnestness why some baby boomer at a Midwest diner is voting for Donald Trump and they respond with some practiced word salad that's supposed to

When I stopped and watched Fox for ten minutes last night, the spectacle was some mixture of sad, comical, and deeply confusing.