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  1. A Pedigreed Rail #Magnate Is Pouring #Millions Into Electing #Trump

    #TimothyMellon, reclusive #heir to a storied fortune, is spending tens of millions to elect Trump. Precisely what he wants in return is one of many curiosities surrounding him.

    #Mellon, a #wealthy #banking heir & #RailroadMagnate, has reached the stratosphere of #American #political #influence doling out millions

    #WeirdAF
    nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/poli

  2. DOGE open interest up 19% amid price 'breaking out' to monthly high - Doge interest among future traders is ramping up amid the price ‘breakin... - cointelegraph.com/news/doge-pr #cryptoboss #magnate #cheds

  3. #ClarenceThomas sent teenage grandnephew to #HiddenLakeAcademy private boarding school in foothills of northern GA. Thomas had legal custody of Martin when he was 6 yrs old / had told an interviewer he was “raising him as a son.” Tuition at the boarding school $150,000 in 2009 #bankstatement buried in unrelated court filings shows source of Martin’s tuition = the company of #billionaire #RealEstate #magnate #HarlanCrow. #SCOTUS #FinancialDisclosure #EthicsReforms propublica.org/article/clarenc

  4. t.co/J02Ns1mdeT On now on #BBCRadio4 and later at #BBCSounds: Melvyn Bragg+guests discuss #OrsonWelles' 1941 #CitizenKane, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, #films made. Welles plays the lead role of Charles Foster Kane, a #newspaper #magnate+directed, produced+ co-wrote this #story of #loneliness at the heart of a #megalomaniac. It was partly inspired by the life of William Randolph Hearst, who then used his newspapers to try to suppress its release.