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| This week, the Trump administration cut all funding for NPR and PBS and totally didn't pressure CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert's show. But who needs any other artists besides the Cartoonist-In-Chief? President Trump's very public denial that he sent an alleged letter to Jeffrey Epstein is just the latest in a long series of failures to steer the conversation away from the Epstein files. Is QAnon more powerful than its longtime hero? Maybe they’ll get distracted by AI images of literally every celebrity. “Grok, is this true?” It turns out it’s just checking whatever Elon Musk thinks, which has some interesting implications for both its MechaHitler phase and its new job at the Pentagon. | Oh well, here’s some fun stuff… | |  | Subscribe to Premium to read the rest. | Become a paying subscriber of Premium to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. | | A subscription gets you: | • Paywalled weekend issue | • Monthly Garbage Intelligence report | • Discord access | • Discounts on merch and events |
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