Philip Bump: In each of these counties, if every single resident saved a year’s salary and pooled it, they wouldn’t be able to match what billionaire Timothy Mellon contributed to a pro-Trump PAC. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In each of these counties, if every single resident saved a year’s salary and pooled it, they wouldn’t be able to match what billionaire Timothy Mellon contributed to a pro-Trump PAC. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Includes an interactive letting you figure how much of your own salary you need to save up to reach Mellon (or Bloomberg) levels.

tbf, Esmeralda County, Nevada, has more jackrabbits than humans. Coincidentally, Esmeralda was featured in the NY Times for Trump-related reasons. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/u...

(Full disclosure: I'm a Nevadan who lives 250 miles from the county)

We must get Big Money out of politics for ever! The goals of the very rich are destructive to everyone else and all life on earth! #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence for the good of humanity!

And yet the NYT just yesterday was reporting on Trump’s fundraising prowess being stronger than Biden’s. It’s like an incel banging a sex worker once then claiming he’s more virile than Wilt Chamberlain

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