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By Elisabeth Rosenthal When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son to a pediatrician last summer for a checkup, the doctor noticed a little splinter in the child’s palm. “He must have gotten it between the front door and the car,” Lai later recalled, and the child wasn’t complaining.

Oligarchic, monopolistic billionaires--Musk, Trump, Peter Thiel, Kochs, Uihleins, De Vos dingbats--who exercise raw power in our society, have corrupted business, politics, culture, religion, the judiciary. We stop now or they end our democracy. There's no-one they can't "convince" with "charitable gifts," campaign contributions, hell, even 500K unreported vacations for Supreme Court Judges.

The 2024 Substance-Free Sucking Up To Trump Award is hereby bestowed on The Daily Beast. Apparently, someone over there thought it just fascinating that Elon Musk’s mother said her son and Barron Trump discussed interplanetary colonization at Thanksgiving dinner at Mar-a-Lago. From The Daily Beast: The billionaire’s mother, Maye Musk, said on a Thursday Fox Business appearance that he and the youngest Trump bonded at the Mar-a-Lago Thanksgiving dinner table as they discussed a topic near and dear to Musk’s heart—interplanetary colonization. “At the Thanksgiving dinner, Barron and Elon were talking planets,” she said.

It’s beginning to feel like some allegations of criminal behavior are a requirement to be chosen for a top position in the President-Elect 34 Felony Convictions administration. CNBC has the latest on the guy Trump wants in charge of carrying out and enforcing his tariffs: CNBC has the latest on the guy Trump wants in charge of carrying out and enforcing his tariffs: The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald with violating laws related to regulatory disclosures by so-called blank-check companies before they raise money from the public. Cantor’s chairman and CEO, Howard Lutnick, was recently nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Commerce Department.

I've been quiet about Luigi Mangione and his alleged shooting of United Healthcare Group executive Brian Thompson, mostly because I wanted to absorb and think about the rage this event has raised in the American public. I had my own experiences with United Healthcare a couple of years ago when both of my parents had nasty falls that landed them in the hospital and then in a rehabilitation center.

In today's episode of 'We're all gonna die,' we have RFK Jr.'s lawyer, Aaron Siri, who has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. MAHA, amirite? Siri is assisting Donald's health secretary pick to select top jobs despite his long history of attacking vaccines, including the hepatitis B vaccine. The New York Times reports: Mr.