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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Sep 10

Maga vs AI: Trump’s Big Tech courtship risks a backlash on.ft.com/4niyITy

Maga vs AI: Donald Trump’s Big Tech courtship risks a backlash

Silicon Valley’s sway in the White House is alarming populists in the president’s base

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Sep 2

That too. But England are undercooked because they have not even had a chance to train together, let alone get used to the format again.

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Aug 31

In a uniquely bad-tempered US Open, Tommy Paul has stood out for his grace and sportsmanship. I’m a fan.

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Aug 13

For the record I wore shorts in the office on several occasions last summer

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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · Aug 7

TONIGHT: @joemillerjr.ft.com talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

Elon Musk spent millions on Republican candidates despite feud with Donald Trump

Donations during public spat cast doubt on billionaire’s proposal to start a rival party

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Jul 10

Sad to witness the decline of FT's Bracken House HQ, where the cricket is not being broadcast on one of the main screens.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jun 13

US tycoon pours $100mn into Trump crypto project after SEC reprieve

https://www.ft.com/content/548161ee-0cfb-4f0c-90ea-b3ff3567f09d

US tycoon pours $100mn into Trump crypto project after SEC reprieve

Chicago trader Don Wilson backs Trump family’s bitcoin venture after administration drops lawsuit

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Jun 13

NEW: Financier Don Wilson invested $100mn in the Trump family’s flagship bitcoin project just nine weeks after a probe into his crypto business was dropped by the administration.

With @antoinegara.bsky.social and Harriet Agnew.

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US tycoon pours $100mn into Trump crypto project after SEC reprieve

[FREE TO READ] Chicago trader Don Wilson backs Trump family’s bitcoin venture after administration drops lawsuit

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Jun 9

With thanks to @davidjbier.bsky.social and @andrewjweinstein.com

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Jun 9

The deployment of the National Guard was “clearly done as an authoritarian show of strength”, says @ryanenos.bsky.social

“There is no policy reason [why the admin] should be targeting places in LA as opposed to places in red states.”

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Donald Trump tests limits of presidential authority by sending troops into Los Angeles

[FREE TO READ] Critics warn administration is increasingly ruling in defiance of US Constitution and political norms

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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · Jun 6

Are Donald Trump and Elon Musk now enemies?
@edwardluce.bsky.social on yesterday's contretemps, with a reply from the FT's broligarch correspondent, @joemillerjr.ft.com
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Are Donald Trump and Elon Musk now enemies?

The real cause of their falling out has little to do with the US fiscal deficit

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · May 31

I swear I’m not making this up, @robarmstrong.bsky.social, but my Lyft driver in DC just now brought up the TACO trade, unprompted.

Now THAT’S cut through.

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Antoine Gara @antoinegara.bsky.social · May 27

TMTG confirms our reporting less than a day after calling the FT "dumb."

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · May 24

Some quotes are too good to cut
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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · May 15

I started reading this thinking it was about users who *asked* about race and South Africa getting bogus responses. But no, Grok is - ASTONISHINGLY - providing responses on the topic to users who have asked entirely unrelated questions. WILD.

By @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social and Cristina Criddle

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot shared ‘white genocide’ tropes on X

Grok answered users’ queries on completely unrelated matters with responses about South African race relations

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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · May 14

by @joemillerjr.ft.com and me: what has Doge actually done?

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · May 14

What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved? @joemillerjr.ft.com and @chriscook.news dissect the record here. Dominik Lett, an analyst at the free-market Cato Institute, argues: “Doge should not be seen as a very successful deficit reduction effort.” www.ft.com/content/0854...

What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved?

Six months after the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was unveiled, it has yet to find a fraction of the hoped for savings

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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · May 10

on.ft.com/3GMTDhw India and Pakistan: a conflict in the hands of two religious strongmen. Modi and Munir are the topic of today’s @FT Big Read

India and Pakistan: a conflict in the hands of two religious strongmen

[FREE TO READ] Indian leader Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir both believe they are fighting a just war against a sworn enemy

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · May 6

One of the best arguments for free trade is that tariffs are actually very hard (and expensive) to enforce.

Case in point: Chinese manufacturers are already fraudulently undervaluing cargo sent to US; CBP is struggling to keep up.

More in today's @financialtimes.com

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Chinese exporters undervalue cargo to skirt Trump tariffs

[FREE TO READ] Suppliers to small US businesses claim to reduce costs of duties in fraud that is difficult to police

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · May 6

Struggle with this every day. (!)

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Apr 29

I’m not expert enough to know alas

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Jacob Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social · Apr 29

SCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives.

New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections.

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Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements

The Antisemitism Awareness Act's added language says it would not infringe on religious liberty to protect the claim that Jews killed Jesus.

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Apr 29

Isn't this something? Mid 17th Century Hebrew/Chinese prayer book, which belonged to the Jews of Kaifeng.

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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · Apr 29

JD Vance will visit a Nucor Steel plant in South Carolina in an attempt at "highlighting America's manufacturing renaissance during the first one hundred days of the Trump Administration."

Here is that renaissance, in chart form.

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