Getting By On $100 Million — And The Pando Plan August 18, 2025 But first . . . > Seth Meyers takes A Closer Look at Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center Honors. Ten minutes not to be missed. > And from Harry Litman: Where the Rubber Bullets Hit the Road Trump is not merely testing executive authority — he is establishing a police state. . . . This is the president who once told officers, “Please don’t be too nice. When you put somebody in the car, rough them up a little bit.” Emergency powers are supposed to be temporary and limited, restoring order at the request of overwhelmed officials. Instead, federalization under Trump imposes a chain of command indifferent to constitutional limits and accountable only to him. . . . The D.C. checkpoint and the Los Angeles profiling are not one-offs . . . Federalization, Trump style, delivers an occupying force looking to bust heads . . . encouraged to do “whatever the hell they want.” And now . . . A Gen Xer sold his company for $1.6 billion. He kept less than $100 million and gave the rest away because he doesn’t ‘believe in billionaires’ Crazy, no? One cause he may want to support is the now-proven brainchild of my friend, Eugene Shirley: The Pando Plan. For just $5,000, you can improve a lot of lives. Perhaps at your alma mater; or at a school down the street from you. (Just $1,500 in a middle school.) If you’re looking for a highly-leveraged, non-political (tax-deductible) way to make a better world, check it out.