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Judd Legum
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1. How does 8chan, a racist message board linked to the gun massacres in New Zealand and Pittsburgh, generate enough cash to operate?

Let's follow the money.

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2. 8chan is owned by Jim Watkins, a pig farmer in the Philippines. Watkins avoids a lot of the problems other racist sites run into by providing most of 8chan's services, including domain hosting, through his own company, NT Technology.

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3. But it's still expensive to run a website. You need to pay for servers, bandwidth, and staff. So Watkins needs an outside source of cash.

So he operates a number of other websites through NT Technologies.

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4. The most important of the other sites Watkins runs is books.audio. It sells audio books, including some about sex vacations in the Philippines narrated by Watkins himself

Watkins picture is featured on book.audio as a narrator

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5. Watkins then sells these audio books on 8chan and other websites, including The Goldwater. But Watkins doesn't sell them directly. They are purchased through Amazon. For each sale, Watkins (and therefore 8chan) gets a cut.

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6. Watkins' books are also available through Amazon's Audible subsidiary. If a new Audible customer starts with one of Watkins' books, he gets a $75 bonus.

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7. So that's how @amazon, the most valuable company in the world, helps fund 8chan, a wellspring of racism, violence, and criminal activity online and in the physical world.

I contacted @amazon for comment and never heard back.

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Our SCOOPS come from primary source documents and ordinary people -- not Rudy Giuliani.

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9. Special thanks to the @thedailybeast who co-published this piece and provided essential editing and fact-checking of a complicated story

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1. Spending the weekend cataloging corporate contributions to the politicians behind the abortion bans in six states.

Let's talk about how difficult they make it to access this info
2. Just for example, lets take Phil Bryant, the Governor of Mississippi who just signed a law banning abortion after 6 weeks.

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3. You have to search by "Candidate Committee" not "Candidate" to get Phil Bryant

But wait a second -- it only pulls up two reports. The last one is nearly 2 years old.

Where is the rest of the info?
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Judd Legum
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump campaign accepts cash from notorious white supremacist #followthemoney popular.info/p/trump-campai…
The Trump campaign cannot credibly claim they didn't know who this guy is. He donated several times last year, the campaign was asked about it, ignored the questions and kept all the money.

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It's not a ton of money so it wouldn't be too much to expect the Trump campaign to just REFUND THE NEO-NAZI'S MONEY

Right?

Can't wait to hear what @parscale plans to do
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Judd Legum
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1. THREAD

These are the corporations backing MISSOURI'S war on women
2. Corporate donations to @GovParsonMO, who is about to sign a bill banning abortion after 8 wks

@CommerceBank ($2850)
@Aetna (1K)
@Walmart ($500)
@Pfizer ($2600)
@GM ($2500)
@Boeing ($1000)
@Comcast ($2600)
@Nationwide ($2600)
@Travelers ($1000)
@honeywell ($1000)
@ATT ($2600)
3. @ATT, @pfizer, @Boeing, @Walmart, and @comcast also donated to the politicians behind ALABAMA'S abortion ban

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