David Dayen
@ddayen
Executive editor, @TheProspect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Organized Money podcast, Tips/pitches: ddayen at prospect dot org.
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This is totally crazy.
A GOP candidate in Texas is sending texts that say "Attachment: $5,000 Check… Pres. Trump just authorized it," and a link to the "portal" for the $$ goes to a fundraising page for him to pay off his personal loan to the campaign!
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I can't believe these small city-sized warehouses that hum all day and use massive amounts of energy during an affordability crisis got so unpopular, did we go wrong by saying they needed to be built to take away everyone's jobs or to destroy humanity, let's workshop this again
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Wild story from @jamesjbaratta about how Amazon and Walmart can detect Made in America fraud but choose not too, with their chatbots explicitly saying that this is a "business calculation."
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I've learned that it'll be a caucus over a convention, but still missing a few details.
Kirsten Gillibrand's son, right out of college, getting a $300 million valuation on his "trade stocks as derivatives" company is a particularly ugly payoff for the Senator's stalwart crypto support, writes our friends at @revolvingdoordc.
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