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America's 250th birthday is just weeks away and Trump is using the occasion as if the nation is celebrating his birthday. And he's doing it in a truly sickening manner, skirting convention with a commercial moneymaking UFC violent and bloody fight on the South Lawn, no-bid contracts for his golf buddies, and a fleet of propaganda trucks with content created by PragerU and Hillsdale College, rewriting the founding as a Christian nationalist fairy tale. I talked to Jonathan Larson, who broke the story about what's actually inside those things at jonathanlarsen.substack.som. It's not great. Neither is any of the rest of today's news. But we got through it. Mostly.