Okay, I just saw an ad (or "sponsored by") at the beginning of episode 2.

FWIW, Ken Burn's "The American Revolution" is streaming for free on PBS. With no ads.

The US government is totally audience-captured by a tiny faction of internet fascists, and spends huge amounts of time trying to impress them, dedicating official communications channels to barely-concealed in-group references, and making horrific, murderous policy decisions to thrill this group