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"Heart of Texas" cameo in today's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing! *drink* c-span.org/video/?449088-…
Per chart just shown in Senate Intelligence hearing, late 2015 protests in Belarus generated as much IRA Twitter activity as Crimea/Donbass:
.@rosenbergerlm rightly notes that IRA accounts specifically used @tumblr to target African-Americans -- some of our stories that helped break that open:

1. thinkprogress.org/black-matters-…
2. thinkprogress.org/the-mysterious…
Beside Russia, Oxford's Philip Howard says his team has monitored four other countries pushing similar social media interference campaigns:

1. Turkey
2. China
3. Hungary(!!)
4. Iran
Among the top Facebook themes from Russia's IRA campaign: Texas. intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…
Interesting breakdown of likes/comments/reactions/shares among top IRA Facebook accounts:
And here's our November story breaking ReportSecret.com, highlighted in today's Senate Intelligence hearing: thinkprogress.org/russia-linked-… (The site is no longer up, but its related Facebook pages are.)
Does anyone have any idea what this "Slutsky" reference is to, next to Belarus in late 2015?
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Here's what we know about the American arrested in Moscow on espionage charges:

1. His name is Paul Whelan.
2. The arrest came a week after Putin said Moscow wouldn't retaliate for Maria Butina.
3. That's about it.

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Worth noting that this month Putin was asked directly about potentially following the China-Canada-Huawei precedent (and said he ruled it out): thinkprogress.org/moscow-announc…
State Dept. finally issues statement about arrest of alleged American spy in Moscow, requests consular access: newsweek.com/american-paul-…
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‘Is @DrJillStein a fellow traveler or a useful idiot?’ nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna9…
Glad this piece (from Sept. 2016) on all of @DrJillStein’s Kremlin-friendly decisions has held up well: intersectionproject.eu/article/russia…
‘Stein and her presidential campaign have largely refused to cooperate with the Senate’s own investigation into Russia’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election.’ thinkprogress.org/russia-jill-st…
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That time George Washington “engaged in the popular, if technically illegal, custom of intoxicating local voters” to win his first election (to the House of Burgesses):
“Only a little more than a third of Washington’s slaves enjoyed the luxury of living with their spouses and children.”
“It is hate to imagine anything that more starkly contradicted Washington’s stated policy of preserving slave families than raffling them off in this public manner.”
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Per statement this morning, McConnell is moving ahead towards a vote on one of Trump's most controversial judicial nominees to date, Thomas Farr. This is going to force a showdown with Sen. Flake, who has vowed not to vote for nominees until a Mueller bill is brought to the floor
The Senate is now voting on cloture for Thomas Farr, you can watch here: c-span.org/video/?454699-… On his nomination: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… On the controversy: washingtonpost.com/politics/gillu…
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