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Aug 7, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1. There is a Congressional election on September 10 in North Carolina and the Republican candidate, Dan Bishop, is an investor in Gab, a fringe social media network that caters to white supremacists and anti-Semites

It gets worse.

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2. About a year after Bishop invested in Gab, one of Gab's users walked into a synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 people

Bishop said he had no idea that Gab allowed racism and anti-Semitism on its platform

This denial was not credible. I'll explain

popular.info/p/white-suprem…
3. In his 2017 Facebook post announcing his investment, Bishop said he learned about Gab through an article in the Washington Post.

The title of that article? "Silicon Valley escalates its war on white supremacy despite free speech concerns"

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4. In the article, Gab is presented as an alternative social network that is permissive of racism. So the idea Bishop didn't know what Gab was about is ridiculous.

Now, after another mass murder, the GOP is spending millions to send Bishop to Congress.

popular.info/p/white-suprem…
5. After a white supremacist murdered a protester in Charlottesville, Bishop attacked Black Lives Matter, calling the group a "violent" and "racist" movement

For more on the nexus of white supremacy and those political power, sign up for my newsletter at popular.info
6. Bishop's response to the white supremacist mass murder over the weekend is also disturbing. He did not post anything acknowledging the tragedy.

Instead, he repeatedly responded to Democrats' reactions to the massacre by calling them "clowns"

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7. Whether Bishop realizes it or not, he's responding to a white supremacist mass murder w/a white supremacist meme

White supremacists refer to "liberal, non-racist society" as "clown world"

The mascot for this meme is Honkler - Pepe dressed as a clown popular.info/p/white-suprem…

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May 14
1. In 2018, many CEOs boycotted Saudi Arabia's investment conference in protest of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Since then, US intel concluded the murder was ordered by Saudi Crown Prince MBS

Yesterday, many of those SAME CEOs traveled to Saudi Arabia to lunch with Trump and MBS

Let's name names

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2. In 2018, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said: "I'm very troubled by the reports... about Jamal Khashoggi...unless a substantially different set of facts emerges, I won't be attending"

Since then, the facts have gotten worse

Yesterday, Khosrowshahi broke bread w/MBS

popular.info/p/the-murder-b…
3. Khosrowshahi did not mention Jamal Khashoggi.

Instead, appearing at a Saudi-US invesment forum that followed the lunch, he said: "The [Saudi] Kingdom represents one of our top growing markets.”
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May 13
1. Qatar is bribing Trump with a $400 million luxury plane that he can use as Air Force One and take with him after he leaves office

Qatar is not acting out of altruism

It wants policy concessions to bolster its economy and national security

Trump is exploiting those needs to line his pockets

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2. Qatar is the 2nd-largest purchaser of US military equipment

Trump toured the Qatari plane in February

In March, the admin approved the sale of $2 billion in military equipment, including 8 Predator drones

popular.info/p/why-qatar-is…
3. Qatar is also home to Al-Udeid Air Base, "the largest U.S. military facility in the Middle East" with about 13,000 American troops. The presence of the base serves as a security umbrella for the country and enhances its diplomatic stature in the region.
Read 7 tweets
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May 12
1. We've been told there's a federal budget crisis that necessitates gutting the social safety net and slashing funding for medical research and national parks

Meanwhile, Trump's budget includes a record $1 TRILLION in military spending

Who benefits?

Military contractors like @elonmusk

Let's dig in
2. Trump is proposing a $1.01 trillion military budget — $119 billion more than this year — alongside a $259 billion cut to non-military spending.

Starve the poor, feed the Pentagon.

popular.info/p/inside-trump…
3. With his $1 trillion Pentagon budget request, Trump is proposing that the US spend as much on its military next year as it did annually from 1942–45.

Effectively, Trump is asking Congress for a World War III-sized military budget even though troop deployments are at a historic low.Image
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May 5
1. Trump says imposing tariffs on nearly every nation on earth is essential to force companies to make investments in the US instead of abroad

But since January, the Trump Organization has announced new multi-billion $ development deals in the UAE, Qatar, India, and Vietnam

And NONE in the US
2. In Qatar, the Trump Organization is partnering directly with the government. This violates Trump's own, extremely weak, ethics agreement he released before returning to the White House.

popular.info/p/trump-promis…
3. Eric Trump has been a tour of the Middle East striking deals with the sovereign wealth funds of foreign governments.

Conspicuously, the trip comes just before President Trump is scheduled to visit the region

Trump is openly leveraging his position as president to enhance his personal finances
Read 4 tweets
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May 1
1. Next school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.

The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum.Image
2. The new curriculum requires students to "analyze contemporary turning points of 21st-century American society. One task: "Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information."

popular.info/p/new-oklahoma…
3. In March, Walters said the purpose of this section was to teach "students to think for themselves" and "not be spoon-fed left-wing propaganda."

In fact, the new curriculum is simply an amalgamation of unsupported and debunked claims

The new curriculum will cost Oklahoma taxpayers at least $33M
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Apr 29
1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation

Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"

Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

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2. A gas station attendant asked Jackson to talk to an immigrant family fearing deportation. He agreed and met w/them for an hour

Two days later, two plain-clothes officers came to his home and accused him of obstructing an immigration investigation

popular.info/p/fortune-500-…
3. Jackson told his story to journalist Radley Balko.

At Jackson's request, Balko did not identify Jackson's employer in the piece.

The story was published on April 23.

Later that day, Jackson was fired.
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