Tina Nguyen
@tina_nguyen
Senior Reporter @Verge, covering Big Tech vs. Big Government death matches. Author, THE MAGA DIARIES. Past @pucknews @Politico @VanityFair. Pronouns 🙃/🫠
It took me three years to pull this together, but I've finally done it: this is my grand unified theory of why the MAGA beat (and everything in politics and possibly the world) has turned into a batshit hot mess. I present to you: The Infinite Fringe. theverge.com/cs/features/64…
Wolf just doxxed Superman
Good to hang out with my journalistic colleague Clark Kent who writes for the “Daily Planet.”
How much of a role did Steve Bannon's War Room (and friends) end up killing the AI moratorium? Quite a bit, it appears. My latest: theverge.com/politics/70442…
NEW: I went to the Bitcoin Conference and you would NOT believe how much $$$ people threw at the GOP! Steak 'n Shake paid for Bone Thugs! TRON paid for a champagne glory hole! And Coinbase paid for Donald Trump's military parade! theverge.com/cryptocurrency…
Speaker Johnson responds to Musk’s claims he’s changed - via @BrownJaala “I'm the same guy that's always been a deficit hawk, and now I'm the Speaker of the House, and I'm working on a multi-step plan to reverse the fiscal insanity that has haunted our country”
I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.
How crypto bros did The Big Short on President’s Trump’s meme coin $TRUMP to attend his private dinner last week. By the time their surf and turf was served they were bragging about how they had already dumped the coin. @tina_nguyen has the scoop.
Missed JD Vance’s speech this morning but got to see a much more deranged talk Sup, Eric Adams
Sen. Jim Justice is introducing Don Jr for a panel and there is NO BABYDOG
Spotted: PragerU CEO Marissa Streit bringing the culture war to blockchain
NEWS from the Bitcoin Conference: @Coinbase CPO Faryar Shizad announced that they will be a “major sponsor” of America250,the committee organizing Donald Trump’s 250th anniversary celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This isn’t Coinbase's first donation…
NEWS: Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) is doing a panel with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) at the Bitcoin Conference, and all but confirms her gubernatorial run: "Senator Blackburn is going to be the next governor of Tennessee."
