This week, we watched Donald Trump make history: He is now the first convicted felon elected president.
Some of the most powerful people from all areas of our society — including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos; Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk; Google CEO Sundar Pichai; and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — made their way to Washington to bend the knee to our new leader. Many press outlets have capitulated as well, and are now cowering behind paywalls or watering down their coverage of the new administration.
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