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Thanks @carolecadwalla for the shout out in this article along with so many other great open-source researchers and journalists!

Citizen journalists who shine a light on the darkest secrets theguardian.com/technology/201…
I've had the honor to collaborate with some terrific people over the last few years - the SCL/Cambridge Analytica chart mentioned in the article above was created with the amazing @annmarlowe medium.com/@wsiegelman/sc…
As noted in my story on the new SCL/Cambridge Analytica company Emerdata, the info that one of the directors was Johnson Chun Shun Ko - Erik Prince's business partner - was from a tip provided by @brexit_sham (recognized in article above)
medium.com/@wsiegelman/ca…
The first story I published on Trump-Russia was an article co-written with @J_amesp (recognized in article above) on how Trump met Nigel Farage thru Mississippi Gov Phil Bryant, and his ties to Gov Haley Barbour and Alfa Bank
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Both Paul Manafort & Rick Gates gave data to Konstantin Kilimnik in the spring 2016 - some data was developed by a private polling firm working for the campaign - Manafort asked Gates to tell Kilimnik to pass the data to Oleg Deripaska, HT @painter_nancy nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/…
Manafort and Gates passed polling data to Kilimnik to be sent to Putin ally Oleg Deripaska

Kilimnik also worked with Sam Patten who consulted for Cambridge Analytica

One of the services provided by Cambridge Analytica was polling
While the identity of the polling company is not known, here's how Cambridge Analytica described their work for the Trump campaign:

"The research team had a huge responsibility in organizing campaigns and polling voters in 17 states across the country."
ca-political.com/casestudies
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Manafort may have shared US campaign polling data w/Kilimnik

Manafort filing is not properly redacted & one section mentions:

"the Government’s allegation that Mr. Manafort lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign."
Kilimnik not only worked with Manafort, he also formed a company in 2015 with Sam Patten, who was a contractor for Cambridge Analytica

There's no evidence Kilimnik worked with Cambridge Analytica, but why would Kilimnik review US election polling data?...
Another redacted section of the filing notes "Manafort “conceded” that he discussed or may have discussed a Ukraine peace plan with Mr. Kilimnik on more than one occasion"
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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US Supreme Court rejects Exxon in climate change document fight - Ruling clears the way for Massachusetts attorney general to obtain records from Exxon Mobil Corp to probe whether it concealed its knowledge of the role fossil fuels play in climate change news.trust.org/item/201901071…
What Exxon knew about the Earth's melting Arctic - Oct 2015 story by @katiedjennings @susrust @sarajerving @amylieberman that helped lead to investigations/lawsuits by MA and NY attorney generals
graphics.latimes.com/exxon-arctic/
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New Q. Border security = nat'l security, @POTUS' #1 priority.
We already knew this was plan fm Q.

2 Apr:
Border.
Wall.
Military start.

22 Oct:
POTUS decl nat'l emergency re: caravan. He can use mil/budget to secure border.



foxnews.com/politics/trump…
2. Here's the clip of @KellyannePolls discussing how border security is national security & POTUS' top priority.

"Do they (Dems) want to keep the government open or do they want to keep borders open?"

We know the answer.

3. Daily Caller filing suit to unseal FBI raid docs on CF whistleblower. CF in news because Huber sked to testify on Thurs re: CF. Name leaked intentionally by DS? Prompted FBI raid. Lawsuit = countermove to reveal docs that otherwise would remain sealed?
scribd.com/document/39538…
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1) THREAD: After a few days off and 7 days of digging/writing prior to that, I will be diving back in soon. I have had a lot on my mind, trying to discern the best way to prioritize those that need exposing. It’s a work in progress.
2) In one corner, I have a giant white board filled to the max for a huge project I’ve been working on for months now. It desperately needs exposing because it’s still ongoing and needs to be stopped. However, it is incredibly complex, so it requires an enormous amount of time.
3) I have a huge jump on that project, and as it stands, it’s currently at 110 pages. I’m nowhere near finished. This may turn out to be a book. It is an enormous operation, and a series of articles may not do it justice. I’m pondering.
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So for the past week one of our southern resident orca whales has been carrying around her dead calf. This is heartbreaking for a number of reasons including that our southern resident orcas are endangered. time.com/5353745/orca-d…
Given the mother’s response, there’s been ongoing coverage with lots of headlines including words like grief and mourning, and many of the whale researchers have been using these words too.
Let me be clear: I am not here to say that they’re wrong, or that non-human animals can’t feel sad. There’s nothing about orca societies or brains that would preclude high emotional intelligence and in fact, just like it has for humans, it may contribute to their success.
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For those that might be interested, I wanted to give a short personal story about Microsoft and open source (and yes, GitHub is in there, too).

I joined Microsoft in 2012 to work on a little project that would make writing JavaScript a bit easier.
At the time, @typescriptlang had maybe 3 internal customers and wasn't yet public. The Microsoft of then looked a bit different, especially re: open source. There were only a handful of teams running on-going open source efforts, the asp.net team being one.
was presented with the plan for TypeScript: let's take it open source, where the developers are, and grow a community with it. It was a small project, but it had some potential.

Satya, to his credit (I was told, I wasn't there), was well-aware and supportive.
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Many people seem to be unhappy about Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. The most common sentiment I see is a preference for GitHub to remain "neutral". But the status quo was not one of the available options. 1/
GitHub did not find a business model which could be sufficiently profitable to meet the expectations of their investors. IMHO, there was never a chance of that happening. 2/
A long-term independent GitHub became unlikely in July 2012 when they got a 100M investment. And three years later, after they got another 250M, their only possible destiny was acquisition. 3/
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I just retweeted this thread from .@tracybeanz. threadreaderapp.com/user/tracybeanz You need to read it, if you haven’t already. It has prompted me to comment.
There is something that’s bothered me about Q for a while, and I haven’t talked about it. Now, I’m going to. If it brings down the storm on me, so be it.
Basically, what Q is purported to be is either a single person or a group of persons who are so completely in the loop that he/they know everything about what’s going on in the world. That raises some troubling questions for which answers are difficult to come by.
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