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I’ve called and written, what else can we do as Virginians with Tim Kaine now?
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Judd Legum
4 months ago
1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone. Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.
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Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire
A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary
https://popular.info/p/trumps-argentina-bailout-enriches
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Laurence H. Tribe
8 months ago
“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
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Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/opinion/autocracy-trump-la-protests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Eric Lipton NYT
8 months ago
Was quite a moment, a sense we reached some kind of inflection point in U.S. history. You can now personally pay a U.S. president to gain an audience.
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