Friday, October 19, 2018
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION
- U.S. Charges Russian for Conspiracy to Interfere in Elections
- US intelligence officials express concern about efforts by Russia, China, Iran to influence American voters, policy
- DOJ files charges against Russian national for election interference
- DOJ: Russian Trolls Targeted John McCain During His Dying Days
- First criminal case filed over Russian interference in 2018 midterms
- Justice Dept. charges Russian woman with interference in Midterm elections
- Intelligence officials warn of ‘ongoing campaigns’ to interfere with elections
- Joint Statement from the ODNI, DOJ, FBI and DHS: Combating Foreign Influence in U.S. Elections
- Angry White House Staffer: Here’s a direct link to the complaint* that was unsealed by DOJ today. You should read this — the Russians went after everyone from Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to John McCain and Robert Mueller, seemingly always in line with the Trump agenda.
- Elena Khusyaynova Criminal Complaint PDF
- Russian national charged with attempting to interfere in 2018 midterms – CNNPolitics
- Russian National Charged with Interfering in U.S. Political System | USAO-EDVA | Department of Justice
- The Most Shocking Moments of the New Russia Complaint, from ‘Civil War’ to ‘Fake’ Rubio to ‘Colored LGBT’
- The Russian Trolls Mueller Indicted Pushed Social Posts Bashing Mueller
- Louise Mensch: Constitutional crisis… take to the streets… same day as the Russian troll in the indictment said the same thing. Yo @Support I think that clean-up needs a little refresher. Just in case, for the records: http://archive.is/qCh8B – the date is December 16th, when the indicted troll account tweeted the identical message.
- Spicy Mic: HAPPY FRIDAY AMERICA!!!
HAPPY FRIDAY AMERICA She’s the chief accountant and includes upto May 2018 Russian National Charged with Interfering in U.S. Political System | USAO-EDVA | Department of Justice
2016 interference: Project Lakhta includes multiple components, some involving domestic audiences within the Russian Federation and others targeting foreign audiences in the United States, members of the European Union, and Ukraine, among others.
Project Lakhta operation/activities expenditures for activists advertisements on social media platforms registration of domain names purchase of proxy server “promoting news postings on social networks INFORMATION WARFARE 2018 MIDTERMS
@ericgarland@TrueFactsStated@lauferlaw.
@thedailybeast@NoahShachtman last week you published an article saying NO Russia meddling in the 2018 midterms I now refer you to pages 6-12 of today’s Indictment MILLIONS OF DOLLARS MILLIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA POST Maybe you should retract your article? https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1102591/download …
Sometimes, it’s easier to let the experts explain it, and Spicy Mic is probably the closest thing I have to an expert on criminal law.
Elena Alekseenvna Khusyaynova was charged with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, in connection with the Russian’s continued attacks against the United States. She is the main accountant on Project Lakhta, working for Putin’s Chef with the IRA.
If all of this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. These are the same people that attacked the United States in 2016. They conspired to fill social media with enticing and damaging information to both liberals and conservatives, in an effort to sow chaos. They took advantage of everything from Trump’s actions on Immigration to the Women’s March to piss everyone off and get Americans to distrust and attack each other.
There are four things I find genuinely interesting with this.
First, this isn’t an Indictment from a Grand Jury, but a Criminal Complaint. According to this site, the difference is that a criminal complaint comes from an affidavit from either the prosecuting attorney or investigator, while an indictment is a written report that was presented to a Grand Jury, complete with evidence and sworn testimony. A criminal complaint can be used to get an indictment, but isn’t always necessary.
Second, this was filed on September 28th. Daily Check-In 09/28/2018 shows that we were neck deep in the Kavanaugh Clusterfuck, but that was also the day the House Intel Committee released some transcripts(but with held Dana Rohrabacher’s), and the House Judiciary Committee threatened repeatedly Rod Rosenstein. We were also 2 weeks into Manafort’s cooperation deal, and were learning more about the details of the money laundering that Argalov’s were engaging in.
Third, this didn’t come from Mueller’s team, but Main Justice. Mueller’s team outsourced this to them, since the 2018 election is outside of his purview.
Finally, this complaint came with a joint statement from ODNI, the FBI, DOJ, and DHS. Everyone is on board with this, but no mention of the White House. Why? Let’s look at who was attacked to get a clue.
Each series of attacks targeted whomever Trump’s enemy was at the time. Whomever Trump was attacking, Project Lakhta attacked. Democrats, Republicans, Celebrities, Athletes. The attacks lined up perfectly. Moreover, when those enemies became allies again, the attacks stopped. When Trump was able to work with McConnell and Ryan, the memes attacked other people. Now, there’s a chance that there was no coordination between these trolls and the Trump Administration, but they were following his lead. Similar to inciting a riot, the crowd might not be under direct control of the ringleader, but if the ringleader says how much they hate the police and the mob throws bricks at the police station, they’re following his lead.
By the way, we’re just finding out about this now. This was under seal for 3 weeks, and references activities and evidence from last July. Mueller’s team is far ahead of where we’re at.
Smith & Stone
- Mueller May Have Evidence GOP Operative Who Took His Own Life Had ‘Foreknowledge’ of Hacks
- Mueller Probes WikiLeaks’ Contacts With Conservative Activists
Speaking of being far ahead, we’re hearing more and more over the past couple weeks about Peter Smith, the GOP operative who committed “suicide” by suffocating himself with a bag and leaving a very suspicious note. It looks like Smith had even more extensive connections to Mike Flynn than previously understood.
Remember, Mike Flynn is a Cooperating Witnesses. And there’s a rumor floating around that Mueller’s team may be treating Smith’s death like a homicide, or at least a suicide under duress.
As far as Roger Stone goes, at this point I’m waiting for the hammer to drop on him. He’s admitted to having multiple conversations with WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, who has been proven to be GRU. WikiLeaks was the go-between with Russian Intel to publish the stolen mails, and Roger knows quite a lot of information. The only thing that might keep him out of a world of hurt is if somehow, by some galactic coincidence, he didn’t know that anyone was tied to Russian Intel, or that the emails were stolen. The likelihood of that is slightly less than me sprouting wings out of my ass and flying to the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon.
Manafort
- Manafort in Wheelchair as He Gets Feb. 8 Sentencing Date
- Manafort to be sentenced in Virginia in February
- Paul Manafort — Suffering From “Significant” Health Issues — Will Be Sentenced On Feb. 8
- Paul Manafort to be sentenced Feb. 8 in federal court in Virginia
Good news, Paulie. Judge Ellis dropped the ten charges that were hung and agreed to a February 8 sentencing date.
Bad news, Paulie. You’re still likely to die in jail. Unless he gives Mueller EVERYTHING, which it sounds like he’s trying to, the only time he’ll see fresh air is on his hour of exercise time each day.
KHASHOGGI & SAUDI ARABIA
- Saudi Arabia admits journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed after a fight broke out in consulate
- Saudi Arabia claims Khashoggi was killed in a fight, contrary to other accounts
- Saudi King Salman Checks Crown Prince’s Power As Jamal Khashoggi Crisis Grows | HuffPost
- Saudi Lobbying in the U.S. Has Tripled Since Trump Took Office
- Magnitsky Act Architect Wants Law Used Against Saudi Arabia Over Khashoggi Disappearance | Here & Now
- Jamal Khashoggi death: Donald Trump says Saudi explanation is ‘credible’
- GOP Spreading Misinformation on Khashoggi to Protect Trump
- House Members Call for Sanctions After Jamal Khashoggi Murder
- Evidence suggests crown prince ordered Khashoggi killing, says ex-MI6 chief
- Evan McMullin: Claims that Jamal Khashoggi was merely killed in a “fistfight” with 15 Saudi agents who flew to “meet” him and the notion that such a consequential operation would be executed without orders from the highest levels of the Saudi government are not credible. The Saudis never would have dreamt of committing such a heinous crime against a journalist with an American publication under prior U.S. administrations. Trump’s dehumanizing, violent rhetoric against the press has signaled to despots an open season for such abuses.
- Conservatives mount a whisper campaign smearing Khashoggi in defense of Trump
- Corker rails against Trump administration’s intel ‘clampdown’ on Khashoggi
- Ben Collins: The Federalist Q: “Why Is Khashoggi Being Made The Defining Issue Of U.S. Foreign Policy?” A: Because they’re accused of bonesawing a journalist to death and covering it up with the U.S. government. My Q: Who funds the Federalist? A: *drops smoke bomb, hides under table*
- Christopher Titus: So Khashoggi was lured into the Saudi consulate, while his fiancé waited, he got an injection, which went bad , then, injection taking effect, got up to fight them, got choked out and then repeatedly fell on a bone saw, dismembering himself. Just trying to wrap my mind around it.
- Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro Accuses Kushner of Orchestrating Khashoggi Killing
- Joaquin Castro accuses Kushner of orchestrating killing of Khashoggi
- Mnuchin still plans to attend a Saudi event despite outrage over Khashoggi case
- Rogue Senior White House Advisor: These are the darkest days for me yet, because the events surrounding Khashoggi have shone a light on the true brutality and ineptitude of Trump, his family & those enabling him around the world. We are led by ghouls.
- Schiff: If Khashoggi was fighting in consulate he was fighting ‘for his life’
- Reconsidering the US-Saudi relationship
- Senators Demand President Trump Disclose Saudi Business Ties
- This is what Saudi Arabia’s influence network in Washington looks like
- Trump says he wants to talk to Saudi crown prince before next steps, calls it ‘very important’ that they made arrests
- Trump, Breaking With U.S. Intelligence, Appears to Accept Saudi Explanation of Journalist’s Death
- Turkey denies giving recording of Khashoggi’s death to Pompeo
- Turkish prosecutors question Saudi consulate staff as Khashoggi probes widen
- Why one man’s disappearance captured the outrage and media attention that war has not
- Bernie Sanders Has Heard Enough: ‘We Cannot Have an Ally Who Murders a Dissident in Cold Blood’
- Caroline Orr: Trump is now a witting accomplice in a state sanctioned murder of a political dissident and journalist.
- From March 2018: Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner Was “In His Pocket”
- Greg Olear: “Did Jared Kushner actually solicit a bribe from either Qatar or Saudi Arabia, and then change US foreign policy to reflect the results….? If there is any proof that he did so, that is not merely ’emoluments’. That is treason.” Amen.
- Are Saudi Arabia Blackmailing Trump Over Donald Jr and Jared Kushner? – patribotics
The story keeps changing. At first, Khashoggi was never at the Saudi Consulate in Turkey. Then, he was in there, but left of his own accord. Then, he left straight for Saudi Arabia, in one piece. Then, he was in a fight. Now, he was in a fight and “accidentally” died.
Meanwhile, Trump keeps going with the story of the day, trying to pass off the newest cover story as the truth.
Don’t buy it for a second. They’re complicit.
COHEN, NEW YORK, AND THE OTHER LAWSUITS
- Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen: Vote or face more years of ‘craziness’
- Michael Cohen tells citizens to vote or face more of “this craziness”
- Michael Cohen: Vote, or face more years of ‘craziness’
- Trump’s DC Hotel is ‘Ground Zero for the Swamp,’ Says Government Watchdog
Yeah, that happened.
SCOTUS
#METOO & WOMEN’S RIGHTS
- GOP Rep. Jason Lewis mocks sexual harassment accusers in resurfaced audio: ‘How traumatizing was it?’
- Former USA Gymnastics president had ‘troubling’ contact with FBI during Larry Nassar investigation
- Nearly six-in-ten Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases
- Police officers in the US were charged with more than 400 rapes over a 9-year period
- Trump has disparaged women’s looks — including mine. But we have bigger problems.
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN ASSET
- Trump, Breaking With U.S. Intelligence, Appears to Accept Saudi Explanation of Journalist’s Death
- President Trump greenlights assaults on reporters
- President Trump’s failure to fight climate change is a crime against humanity
- Trump Got Elected Bashing Sharia Law. Now He’s in Bed With Its Lethal Champion.
- Trump Joins Chorus Denying Report That Pompeo Was Given Audio Of Writer’s Death
- ‘It doesn’t matter.’ ‘We’ll see.’ The Trump Doctrine is sounding more fatalistic.
- A timeline of Donald Trump’s relationship with the music industry
TRAITOR TOTS
- Nunes Reelection May be Floundering
- Julian Assange: WikiLeaks founder sues Ecuador government for violating his ‘fundamental freedoms’ | The Independent
- Trump’s GOP allies quietly fuel campaign to smear journalist
- Jared Kushner Reportedly Still Convinced Grisly Bone-Saw Murder Will Blow Over
- John Bolton pushing Trump to withdraw from Russian nuclear arms treaty
- Just when you think Trump and his apologists couldn’t get worse . . .
- McConnell Defends Lawsuit to Undo Pre-Existing Condition Protection
- Record-setting White House staff turnover continues with news of Counsel’s departure
- At charity dinner, Nikki Haley takes jabs at Trump and other political elites
FIGHTING BACK
- Ron Perlman: Hey! You asleep? Wake up. Turn on your tv. See that? Every republican running for office is saying they will protect your health care, especially your pre-existing conditions. See that? The same MUTHAFUCKAS that voted 72 TIMES to KILL IT. Ha! Hahahahaha! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha,
- Oliver Stone: Don’t praise President Bush just because you hate Donald Trump
- Opinion | ‘America First’ doesn’t work without American values
- ‘Baby Trump’ balloon makes California debut
- Donald Trump Greeted With ‘Impeach’ and ‘Liar’ Lettering on Mountains in Montana Rally
IMMIGRATION
- Inside Border Protection’s Processing Detention Center
- Nearly 250 migrant children still separated from parents, ACLU report says
- As Caravan Of Migrants Heads North, Trump Threatens To Close Southern U.S. Border
- Trump threatens drastic action on immigration in bid to energize GOP voters
- Analysis | Trump’s GOTV pitch: Democrats are paying immigrants to come vote for Democrats
- Jeff Sessions Is Quietly Transforming the Nation’s Immigration Courts
- Laura Ingraham Issues Dire Immigration Warning If Democrats Win Elections
COLD WAR 2.0
- Bill Browder: Congratulations to @JessikkaAro who resoundingly defeated pro Russian trolls in a Finnish criminal court. The main defendant sentenced to one year in prison for his harassment after she exposed the St Petersburg troll factory. A strong precedent
- Court in Finland finds pro-Kremlin trolls guilty of harassing journalist
- Putin Hails Sunset of U.S. Global Domination Due To Mounting ‘Mistakes’
- Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
- Mike Pompeo’s Worldview? Do As Trump Does.
- Revealed: Israel’s cyber-spy industry helps world dictators hunt dissidents and gays
- The military draft is making a comeback in Europe
- Europe’s top court orders Poland to halt a law forcing Supreme Court judges into retirement
THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE
Assaulting Journalists
- President Trump greenlights assaults on reporters
- S.E. Cupp: Would be nice to see FoxNews reporters denounce Trump for celebrating an assault on a journalist by a member of Congress…
- Congressman flat-out lies to defend Trump praising assault on reporter
- Trump is Glorifying Violence Against Journalists. This is a National Disgrace.
- We knew Trump wouldn’t condemn a congressman for assaulting a reporter. Now, he celebrates it.
- Trump’s Praise Of Violence Against Reporters Should Concern Every American – Rantt
- As we mourn a colleague, Trump celebrates violence against a journalist
- Eric Trump Complains About Left’s ‘Lack of Civility’ As His Father Praises GOP Congressman for Body-Slamming Journalist
- Kaz Weida: I am an enemy of the people. My family and I get death threats on social media daily. I can be pushed & physically attacked for doing my job. If I am murdered in a foreign country, my own government will run a smear campaign against me. I am a journalist in Trump’s America. I don’t want to minimize the journalists all over the world who endure much more dangerous conditions than those in the United States. But is this who we want to be? How can we say we hold dear the principles in our Constitution and treat the press with such open animosity?
- Guardian reporter: GOP lawmaker who assaulted me isn’t a ‘tough cookie,’ he’s a ‘coward’
- The President of the United States Just Explicitly Endorsed Political Violence
- Joe Walsh to GOP: After Trump’s Gianforte remarks, ‘don’t ever complain again’ about left-wing violence
- I fell for fake news on Facebook. Here’s why millions of you did, too.
- Inside the GOP’s war room: Churning out ammunition to attack the president’s foes
- Laura Ingraham Issues Dire Immigration Warning If Democrats Win Elections
TRADE WAR AND ECONOMY
- Thom Hartmann: Billionaire-Funded Fascism Is Rising in America
- Top 1.0 percent reaches highest wages ever—up 157 percent since 1979
- Here’s why Trump threatened to pull out of a 144-year-old postal treaty
- China’s new booze university wants to change how Americans drink
STUDENT LOANS
GOP: THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD
- Joe Walsh to GOP: After Trump’s Gianforte remarks, ‘don’t ever complain again’ about left-wing violence
- The Proud Boys’ Acceptance at a Fancy Republican Club Looks a Lot Like the Courtship Between Conservatives and Fascists Before WWII
- Meet Edward Blum, the Man Who Wants to Kill Affirmative Action in Higher Education
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- Police Have Made Their First Arrest Of A Member Of The Far-Right Men’s Group That Beat Up Protesters In New York
- Police officers in the US were charged with more than 400 rapes over a 9-year period
- Founder of Proud Boys Says He’s Arranging Surrender of 8 in Brawl
- A Rastafarian musician could smoke medical marijuana in Oregon. But in Mississippi he was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
- Anthony Weiner to be released from prison early
ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE
- A week after Hurricane Michael, rural residents feel stranded
- By 2035, the ‘great fuel switch’ will mark the end of the age of oil and gas, analysts expect
- Fact check: Trump thinks California fires cost taxpayers ‘hundreds of billions.’ Here’s the real number
- Parents of children with AFM warn about rare polio-like condition
- Persistent Alaska warmth this fall has brought back ‘the blob.’ If it lasts, it could mean a wild winter in the Lower 48.
- Poll: 71% of independents more likely to support candidate favoring climate action
- President Trump’s failure to fight climate change is a crime against humanity
- Scientists want stem cell trial paused
- US temporarily stops youth climate lawsuit days before trial
- Leonardo da Vinci’s genius may be rooted in a common eye disorder, new study says
- IBM just proved quantum computers can do things impossible for classical ones
ELECTION 2018
- For U.S. Senate: Beto O’Rourke
- Shannon Watts: The “left-wing” Houston Chronicle endorsed Ronald Reagan 1984; George Bush Sr in 1988 and 1992; Sen Bob Dole in 1996; George Bush Jr in 2000 and 2004; and Mitt Romney in 2012. Oh – and Senator Ted Cruz in 2012. Vote @BetoORourke
- 107,000 purged from Georgia voter rolls for not voting in past elections
- Analysis: Brian Kemp has purged over 300,000 voters from Georgia rolls
- Alaska governor Walker suspends campaign, endorses Democrat Begich
- America’s Elections Could Be Hacked. Go Vote Anyway.
- Black ‘lynching’ ad illustrates race overtones, anger in U.S. campaign ads
- Crowds swarm polls in record numbers for early voting in Georgia
- For a Change, Democrats Seem Set to Equal or Exceed Republicans in Turnout
- GOP Candidate Improperly Purged 340,000 From Georgia Voter Rolls, Investigation Claims
- GOP Women’s Group Backs Dem Candidates in Michigan
- Gov. Bill Walker drops out of campaign for Alaska governor
- Heidi Cruz Torched Over ‘Tone-Deaf’ Lament About Ted Cruz’s 6-Figure Senate Salary
- Houston Chronicle endorses O’Rourke over Cruz
- Missouri GOP acknowledges false absentee ballot info was sent to thousands of voters
- Missouri GOP sent 10,000 voters false absentee voting information
- Neck-and-neck battle for Arizona Senate seat – CNN Video
- Nunes Reelection May be Floundering
- Ohio Senate race: Sen. Brown threatens legal action after accusation of ‘unwanted’ advance against woman in ’80’s
- Our elections are still not secure
- SC has more than double the number of new voters for this midterm election
- PAC Won’t Pull Ad Saying White Dems Will Be ‘Lynching Black Folk Again’
- Poll: 71% of independents more likely to support candidate favoring climate action
- Pro-Hawley ad suggests `lynching’ if Democrats take control on Nov. 6
- Suburban White Men Speak Out: We Don’t All Support Trump
- Ted Cruz’s wife Heidi is upset they can’t afford a second home
Then the good people of Texas should help Heidi’s husband get a new job that pays more than $174,000 a year. Vote Beto O’Rouke, so Heidi’s husband can afford that second home.
THINKING AHEAD
PROJECT VERITAS
- Fake intern had access to voter info, McCaskill campaign says | The Kansas City Star
- Sara Danne Dukic: Project Veritas
They did the same thing to Clinton’s campaign.
They also appear to be in bed with Tucker Carlson/Daily Caller. Remember when an NPR exec got in trouble? That was Project Veritas. Who broke that story? Daily Caller, not long after its launch.
Top story in search results right now? Daily Caller. Thanks to botnets, IMO.
Guess who’s given money to Project Veritas? Why, Donald Trump.
It gets better. He gave Project Veritas that money through his “foundation.” The one currently under investigation for massive fraud. How much you wanna bet Project Veritas is one of the “nonprofits” they’re looking at?
What’s amazing to me is that they spent all this time, money and energy and *barely* squeaked by in 2018 (I’m talking about the whole sh*tshow, not just PV). Imagine if it had been put towards good. They could do good and still be rich, and they chose not to.
We outnumber them. We can do this. VOTE.
h/t
@klickedy for the reminder that Project Veritas is also in the Manafort evidence – multiple times. Take a look for yourself. It starts on pp. 145 (of the overall document – pp. 20 of exhibit E) https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4783761/Manafort-Evidence-20180824.pdf …Among the email subjects: “Project Veritas Contract,” “Project Veritas Communications Strategy.” Let that sink in. They were paying Project Veritas to spy on opponents and god knows what else.
And let’s not forget that Project Veritas is part of this:
IN OTHER NEWS…
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RUMOR MILL
Here it is, spelled out in black and white. A hostile foreign nation working in concert with operatives on the ground here in America, working all angles
HAPPY FRIDAY AMERICA She’s the chief accountant and includes upto May 2018 Russian National Charged with Interfering in U.S. Political System | USAO-EDVA | Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/russian-national-charged-interfering-us-political-system …
“The conspirators’ alleged activities did not exclusively adopt one ideological view; they wrote on topics from varied and sometimes opposing perspectives.” (cont’d)
“Members of the conspiracy were directed, among other things, to create ‘political intensity through supporting radical groups’ and to ‘aggravate the conflict between minorities and the rest of the population.'”
“The financial documents she controlled include detailed expenses for activities in the United States, such as expenditures for activists, advertisements on social media platforms, registration of domain names,” (cont’d)
“the purchase of proxy servers, and ‘promoting news postings on social networks.'”
Here’s maybe the worst part: “Members of the conspiracy took advantage of specific events in the United States to anchor their themes, including the shootings of church members in Charleston, South Carolina, and concert attendees in Las Vegas.”
They have a design department. And SEO. And IT. And analysis. Can you see now why it matters that sites share ad tech with Russian sites? Or with Breitbart? This is how they know what you’re clicking, reading, thinking, doing. And they use it as a weapon.
They were spending money – a lot of money – on Facebook ads as recently as this summer. Facebook, on the contrary, leads us to believe they’ve made great progress and effort in this area. Tell me again why we should trust anything that comes out of their f*cking mouth?
Here. This is f*cking horseshoe right here. LITERALLY playing both sides. This isn’t a THEORY. This is REAL. THEY WERE DOING THIS. And shout out to all the people before me who took copious amounts of abuse for telling the truth.
This here is what is called FRAMING.
Oh look. The old civil war bullshit. Here it is in black and white – this was a PRODUCT created for our CONSUMPTION.
Are you noticing a pattern? As in, all of this f*cking sh*t was coordinated with what was squirting out of DJ “the Mushroom” Tr*mp’s mouth? Take a gander at this smear tactic.
Do you get it yet? They’re using every possible issue to divide us. Why? Because our BEING UNITED IS THEIR SINGLE BIGGEST THREAT. VOTE. VOTE GODDAMMIT.
And read the whole thing yourself. You’ll be stunned. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1102591/download …
One other important point – this was all done using our stolen metadata. If you want to do a deep dive this weekend, here is a ton of info, sources, and explanations. Please read, and once you understand, tell others.
- Lincoln’s Bible: And to close the circle, PRIGOZHIN – Putin’s “cook” who underwrote the Russian propaganda op that used our stolen metadata, has a lovely mobbed-up, Mail. ru history with Alishar USMANOV, an early investor in Facebook – from which all the data was stolen. Getting this yet?
- Countercheckist: FEATHERS 25 target destroyed. RTB for refueling and rearming. 🙂 If you f—k with our elections, this will be the outcome. Enjoy never being able to leave Russia again, b/c you’ll risk being the next Yevgeny Nikulin if you do…
- Lincoln’s Bible: Oh my LAWD! I am in mob heaven. I’ve just seen that Paul Manafort showed up to court in a wheelchair. It is so perfect, I just… I can’t.
- Lincoln’s Bible: There’s Fred Trump’s crime family again – the Genovese. He was their builder: construction & rent racket cornerstone. Then the Russian mafia rolled Genovese – taking their territory & all assets, incl. Trump Org – which they then used for their global money-laundering. The End.
- Countercheckist: Our democracy went off the rails when we stopped trying to change each other’s minds via civil dialogue, and instead resorted to winner takes all tribalism to ram partisan policies down the other side’s throats. This toxic behavior must end.
- Eric Garland: OMG Russia is such a conspiracy theory that they’ve indicted Russians for institutional espionage on the last several elections in multiple countries.
- Louise Mensch: Quite the indictment. Aiming to influence our 2018 election, they internally called it “Information Warfare Against the United States of America.” Get that, patriots? Russia itself called this “Information Warfare” against us. Their language. Their terms.
- Ming: Has Posobiec fled country yet?
- Lousie Mensch: Never be afraid of telling or reporting the truth. @realDonaldTrump is under at least three sealed indictments. I’ve never wavered because my reporting is true.
That’s it for Friday. I’m not sure how to handle these longer Twitter threads. If I’m going to include them going forward, I’ll have to limit them to only 1 or 2 a day, depending on the length. Problem is, some of them are more in-depth than others, and the provide great information. I don’t like including all of the pictures, but copying them over is the only way to keep the info. Plus, things have a tendency to disappear.
I’m going to add Elena to The Indicted as soon as I post this.
Thank you, and have a good one.
“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”
– Katy Tur
What do you think of Bluexit or Calexit? I get so discouraged by how the current system is rigged that it sometimes seems like a fresh start is needed.
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I don’t like them. The exit plans getting pushed in the U.S. were either started by or heavily pushed by Russia. The leaders of Calexit were seen meeting with their “supporters” in Moscow a couple times over the last few years. Even the movements that started off as homegrown were perverted by our enemies.
Even if those movements were pure and pure American movements, I can’t and won’t support them. Leaving the union is a far more drastic step than is needed to fix the problems that we face.
A better solution for California would be to change the law that caps the House to 435 members, and instead move toward a new method of determining representation. Especially a method that either sets X number of reps per 150k to 200k residents per state, or one that sets the lowest state population to 1 House member, and prorating from there. I prefer a hybrid of those, which I called the Wyoming 51 plan. That sets the rep number to 51% of the smallest state population (currently Wyoming), and does the math from there. The smallest state still only has 1 Rep, but every other state would increase in comparison, keeping a stable, consistent number throughout the country.
At least that’s one idea, anyway.
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