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Trump’s $20 billion-plus payday: The ultimate political bribe Reports indicate that Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump are scheming to solidify their transactional alliance by merging X with Truth Social. Foremost, this deal would make Trump richer than even his wildest boasts. Musk, with a net worth exceeding $260 billion, recently made a staggering $25… Read more.
Bezos: democracy is no match for billions Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. More to the point, he has more money than he could spend in ten lifetimes. Yet, only a mix of greed and fear explains his decision to spike the Post’s endorsement of Kamala. His editor-at-large Robert Kagan resigned, showing the… Read more.
Post falls from Nixon to Delvey The Washington Post is famous for publishing stories that forced crooked President Richard Nixon to resign. But today, it published a story on ex-con Anna Delvey that crystallizes the decline of journalism. It ran under the headline: Anna Delvey’s ankle bracelet means New York Fashion Week came to her: The fabulist… Read more.
But here’s to NASA for making clear that those “astronaut wings,” which both men made such a show of enlisting real astronauts to pin to their lapels, are no more legitimate than a graduate degree from Trump University. Here is how the BBC brought these wannabe astronauts down to earth (and I said it before… Read more.
The New York Post is renowned for its pun-riddled headlines. Above is yesterday’s, which became an instant classic. I could do no better today than to simply quote it. In an explosive tell-all blog post published Thursday, Jeff Bezos accused the publisher of the National Enquirer of trying to extort him. … Bezos, the billionaire… Read more.
