I regularly post articles on Facebook confronting white supremacy, Trump, Putin's aggression. Today Facebook offered to pay me to stop posting to my account
Here's the button inviting me to participate in the study. I was selected to be in a "small group of people." How were we selected?
Meet Paul Weyrich, one of the architects that turned the Republican Party into a Christian nationalist battering ram attempting to overthrow our democracy
Weyrich is a co-founder of several far-right groups, including The Heritage Foundation that leads Project 2025, a plan to mass-purge the government, destroy all checks and balances, turn the FBI/DOJ into Trump's personal security forces, and much, much more
Anne Nelson (@anelsona), the author of The Shadow Network, provided this must-read explainer on Project 2025 and how it plans to turn America into a Christian nationalist dictatorship under Trump, the strongman the religious right has long wanted washingtonspectator.org/project-2025-t…
Digging into Speaker Johnson--a staunch evangelical, and the other MAGA Christian nationalists blocking aid to Ukraine in the House, I discovered that Ukraine plays a role in their demented "end times" world view 🧵
Mike Johnson is a staunch evangelical. He was featured in a German documentary on taking his daughter to a purity ball where she signed a pledge to never have sex before marriage. Purity balls are seen as dehumanizing to young girls and women abcnews.go.com/US/speaker-mik…
Mike Johnson explained that his worldview is the bible. Evangelicals take the bible as fact, including creationism (the Earth was created by God in 6 days) and the end times prophecies
What's life like in Orban's Hungary, the most corrupt country in the EU? Miserable, especially if you're a child (high malnutrition rates), a young adult, a woman, LGBTQ+ person and ally, a refugee, and anyone with an open mind🧵
According to a recent study, Hungary is the most corrupt country in the EU, a trend that accelerated under Orban politico.eu/article/hungar…
Transparency International: "The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is the most widely used global corruption ranking in the world. It measures how corrupt each country’s public sector is perceived to be, according to experts." Let's look at Hungary's CPI. transparency.org/en/news/how-cp…
Remember this shocking story from the 2016 election? The Trump campaign gutted Ukraine aid in the official RNC platform. Today this is mainstream for the GOP, with McConnell folding on Ukraine aid. This is catastrophic for the US and the world🧵 npr.org/2017/12/04/568…
The recent transformation of the GOP into the Party of Putin began gradually, with only a few in Congress, like former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who the Kremlin considered an asset, according to the FBI nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/…
In 2018, current House Speaker Mike Johnson took tens of thousands of dollars in dark money campaign donations linked to a Russian oligarch close to Putin who was part of the larger Kremlin operation exposed in the Mueller Report newsweek.com/house-speaker-…
We need to talk about the Reagan Revolution. In many ways, we're still living in it, with wealth inequality worse than in the Gilded Age and elite criminal impunity🧵
According to French economist Gabriel Zucman, who studied under Thomas Piketty, author of the bestselling book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the 1% in America hold more wealth than the Carnegies and Fricks of the Gilded Age finance.yahoo.com/news/super-ric…
The Reagan Revolution (greed is good, deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts of social services/war on the poor) began with the Powell Memo in 1971, a blueprint for the rise of today's far-right corporate capture of our courts and government billmoyers.com/content/the-po…
Let's look at a Russian-linked financial backer of George Santos. Did they get their money’s worth with George Santos in Congress? The answer is yes. 🧵
It starts with Viktor Vekselberg, a notorious sanctioned "Putin's wallet", otherwise known as the Russian oligarchs tasked by the Kremlin to spread Russian influence (corruption) by making major investments and donations in democratic countries cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/n…
Vekselberg had the assignment of building a Russian Silicon Valley. He made deals with Silicon Valley companies like Cisco and leading tech institutions like MIT, setting off a warning from the FBI in Boston, a major tech innovation hub especially for defense