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Sam Gustin retweeted
Trump has spent much of his second term using the U.S. presidency as a giant ATM for himself, his family, and his cronies. Now he’s devised a way for the cryptocurrency and private equity industries to do the same. trib.al/2OzHkIq
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Sam Gustin retweeted
10 Mar 2025
If Trump and the GOP’s legislative holy grail—$4 trillion in new tax cuts mostly for rich people and corporations—is fairly accounted for, it would explode the US budget deficit. bit.ly/4hajYm9
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Sam Gustin retweeted
10 Mar 2025
The Trump administration is looking for ways to obscure the true cost of its economic plans at a time when the US economy is already flashing warning signs of a recession. bit.ly/4hajYm9
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Sam Gustin retweeted
10 Mar 2025
Trump and his GOP allies are plotting a massive budgetary gimmick designed to conceal the fact that their budget numbers don’t add up—and they know it. bit.ly/4hajYm9
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Sam Gustin retweeted
20 Feb 2025
Trump’s disdain for disabled people is well-known, from mocking reporter Serge Kovaleski and insulting wounded veterans to reportedly telling a relative with a disabled son that “maybe those kinds of people should just die,” writes @samgustin. bit.ly/4bbYrbt

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Sam Gustin retweeted
18 Feb 2025
Sterilization and murder aren’t the only ways to advance eugenic goals, writes @samgustin. You can enforce eugenic ideologies that result in lots of people suffering and even dying just by doing something like eliminating Medicaid. bit.ly/4bbYrbt

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Sam Gustin retweeted
18 Feb 2025
Most of us know someone with a disability—a friend, a family member, a co-worker. That’s why disability advocates expect an outpouring of protest as the scope of Trump’s anti-disability agenda becomes clear, writes @samgustin. bit.ly/4bbYrbt

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Sam Gustin retweeted
18 Feb 2025
Trump’s disdain for disabled people is well-known, from mocking reporter Serge Kovaleski and insulting wounded veterans to reportedly telling a relative with a disabled son that “maybe those kinds of people should just die,” writes @samgustin. bit.ly/4bbYrbt

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Sam Gustin retweeted
12 Jan 2025
Donald Trump and his Bitcoin-loving acolytes want to turn the government into their personal ATM, writes @samgustin. bit.ly/4jbszav
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Sam Gustin retweeted
12 Jan 2025
Trump appears to have a brazen scheme to artificially pump up the price of crypto at taxpayers’ expense, enriching crypto holders like...the Trumps, writes @samgustin. bit.ly/4jbszav
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Sam Gustin retweeted
10 Jan 2025
Donald Trump and his Bitcoin-loving acolytes want to turn the government into their personal ATM, writes @samgustin. bit.ly/4jbszav
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Sam Gustin retweeted
Donald Trump ainda não foi empossado como presidente, mas um aspecto de seu segundo mandato já está entrando em foco: autonegociação, clientelismo e corrupção em uma escala que superará a de sua primeira passagem pelo Salão Oval. De cortes de impostos a tarifas e moedas digitais, Trump está construindo um governo projetado para redistribuir a riqueza dos trabalhadores para os ricos de maneiras não vistas desde a Era Dourada. O resultado, dizem os especialistas, será preços mais altos, proteções reduzidas ao consumidor e maior desigualdade econômica nos Estados Unidos. @samgustin, @thenation
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Sam Gustin retweeted
10 Jan 2025
Trump appears to have a brazen scheme to artificially pump up the price of crypto at taxpayers’ expense, enriching crypto holders like...the Trumps, writes @samgustin. bit.ly/4jbszav
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10 Jan 2025
Greenland, Panama, Mexico, the universe, the equator. Don't get distracted. Stay focused on what matters: Trump and his cronies want to loot the US government.
10 Jan 2025
Trump appears to have a brazen scheme to artificially pump up the price of crypto at taxpayers’ expense, enriching crypto holders like...the Trumps, writes @samgustin. bit.ly/4jbszav
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Sam Gustin retweeted
27 Nov 2024
This is a test for MAGA types and the populist right to see whether they allow themselves to be lied to flagrantly by elites trying to manipulate them. The CFPB put out a legitimately good rule that went after banks over debanking users based on political views. Yes, a populist left wing CFPB head stood up for the rights of conservatives. Now VCs and Musk who don’t like the CFPB for other reasons are straight up lying to whip people into a frenzy and defang the CFPB. The message: they think you are stupid and can’t read and are going to make your life worse in order to enrich themselves.
I have no clue what @pmarca is referring to bc literally just a few months ago at a FedSoc event, CFPB director Chopra warned the audience of Wall Street debanking conservatives without explanation.
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Sam Gustin retweeted
1 Nov 2024
Cannonball’s Mercy Mercy Mercy, (written by Joe Zawinul) was a Civil Rights anthem-there’s a near direct line from its soulful plea there to Eddie Harris & Les McCann’s incendiary & provocative Compared To What?
Replying to @vurnt22
Cannonball Adderley's Mercy, Mercy, Mercy and Walk Tall are some of my favorite examples of R&B/Jazz fusion.
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