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Tyler O'Neil

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Feb 16

🐙THE LEFT'S TENTACLES IN USAID

USAID wasn't just spending your tax dollars💰 to promote woke causes overseas, it also ties in to the Left's dark money and influence network that called the shots in the Biden administration.

USAID has funneled money to the Tides Foundation, sent cash to the same groups George Soros' Open Society Foundations was funding, and served as a revolving door—former USAID workers go to work at left-wing foundations and activist groups.

I have the receipts🧾 here.

dailysignal.com/2025/02/16/wok…

WHAT IS USAID?🤔

While the acronym suggests USAID is about aid, it’s really about soft power. John F. Kennedy established USAID as a tool to fight Soviet Communism abroad.

In recent years, the agency has promoted the classic woke causes:

1⃣critical race theory
2⃣climate alarmism
3⃣gender ideology
4⃣a preference for technocratic government

USAID spent:

1⃣$1.5M for DEI in Serbia's workplaces
2⃣$47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia
3⃣$2M for promoting s*x changes in Guatemala
4⃣$250M on a Climate Finance for Development Accelerator to help countries meet their climate goals in the Paris Agreement

These initiatives echo the spending of Hungarian American billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and that is no accident.

THE SOROS CONNECTION💰

The Open Society Foundations has bankrolled many of the leftist groups in the Woketopus, my term for the groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration.

Open Society claims not to receive funding from USAID or direct USAID's funding, but its ties to USAID are undeniable.

1⃣It funds the same projects (2 notable examples below)

2⃣Leaders met with former USAID Administrator Samantha Power

3⃣Soros foundations network listed USAID among its "donor parters" in 2001

4⃣An Open Society nonprofit sued USAID twice, with the cases reaching SCOTUS both times.

5⃣Many former USAID staff went to work at Open Society

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Jan 21

🚨PREVENTING ANOTHER NATIONAL NIGHTMARE

What made Joe Biden's presidency so bad? It wasn't just Biden's age—there was a fundamental mismatch between the issues impacting Americans' lives and the priorities of the federal government.

While Americans struggled with inflation, Biden bragged about "investing" in green technology, even as his administration cracked down on oil and gas. The Biden admin opened the border while Americans struggled with increasing crime and lawlessness. The Biden White House celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday.

Much of these and other policies trace back to a woke influence campaign propped up by the Left's dark money network. My new book, "The Woketopus🐙: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government," has the receipts.

It works like this: the Left's dark money network (think George Soros, Alex Soros, Arabella Advisors, The Tides Foundation) feed the woke nonprofits. Those woke nonprofits then send staff into the unelected bureaucracy. Those bureaucrats then prioritize the woke agendas of those nonprofits, partly because they used to work there and partly because they agree with the ideology.

The Woketopus succeeds at getting woke policies that are out of step with the American people enshrined into federal regulations.

President Trump has replaced Biden, but he also needs to combat this influence campaign. This thread will explain why it's still a problem and what he needs to do about it.

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🐙WHAT IS THE WOKETOPUS?🐙

The Woketopus is a massive influence campaign, composed of woke nonprofits pressuring the federal government to take extreme stances.

It's a compound word with two parts: "woke" and "octopus."

I define "woke" as a comprehensive worldview that combines at least four elements:

1⃣Critical race theory: the idea that America is systemically racist for whites and against blacks and that we need fundamental change to root that out.

2⃣Gender ideology: the idea that a nebulous sense of gender identity overrides biological sex, such that doctors should be allowed to sterilize kids, males should be allowed in women's private spaces, and gender pronouns should be forced on people, regardless of the consequences.

3⃣Climate alarmism: the idea that human beings are destroying the environment by burning fossil fuels. In truth, fossil fuels can now burn very cleanly and it is emphatically not a "consensus" that CO2 emissions will destroy civilization.

4⃣A preference for technocratic government: trust in bureaucratic elites and institutions over the people's elected representatives. After COVID-19, Americans are waking up to the rot in the health and other establishments, but the reckoning is just beginning and woke wants it to stop.

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🐙THE OCTOPUS PART

Now for the octopus part of Woketopus: the sprawling influence network.

Some names should not be a surprise to the politically aware. On the money💰 side:

1⃣Open Society Foundations (founded by George Soros, now run by Alex Soros)

2⃣Arabella Advisors (exposed in an excellent book from @capitalresearch Prez. Scott Walter), a for-profit entity founded by Eric Kessler that sets up multiple nonprofits to funnel money, cloaking which projects donors are funding.

3⃣The Tides Nexus, a network of dark money foundations that bankroll various woke causes.

4⃣Unions. The union dues of members at the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, the SEIU, AFL-CIO, and AFSCME are funneled toward woke causes in the name of charity.

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Dec 10, 2024

🚨DEEP STATE GEARING UP President-elect Donald Trump poses a serious threat to the woke bureaucrats staffing the federal government.

The massive left-wing influence campaign I call The Woketopus🐙 won't go away on Jan. 20. Far from it.

Instead, the left-wing ideologues in the administrative state have a three-part strategy to hamstring Trump, undermine his admin from within, and prepare for the next liberal administration.

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1⃣GOVERNMENT IN EXILE

Some of the bureaucrats, knowing Trump will fire them, have already found their next jobs—in the left-wing nonprofits that form the arms of the Woketopus.

Tracy Stone-Manning, for example, will leave the Bureau of Land Management for The Wilderness Society, a woke environmentalist group.

All the woke nonprofits that staffed and advised the Biden administration will welcome back their old colleagues and their ideological allies. Bureaucrats will flock to the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights Campaign, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, among others.

From there, they will influence the political discourse and bide their time⏱️ for another liberal administration.

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2⃣TRUMP-PROOFING

Various federal agencies are trying to head off Trump's attempts to drain the swamp.

1⃣OPM finalized a rule attempting to block Trump from reinstating his "Schedule F" executive order, which would make it easier to fire certain bureaucrats.

2⃣EPA signed a collective bargaining agreement with its employees' union creating mechanisms for employees to report any coworker who had "improper influence" on a scientific study.

3⃣NIH designated an official to identify supposed political meddling in the agency's work.

Stay tuned—I'm sure there are far more attempts to hamstring Trump.

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Dec 5, 2024

🚨WHEN LABOR BECOMES MANAGEMENT

Employees at America's sixth-largest labor union, the United Auto Workers, are on strike, accusing the UAW of union-busting.

The strike✊ began this week, but apparently it's inconvenient for the legacy media's narrative. Please RT this to get the word out there.

dailysignal.com/2024/12/05/iro…

https://x.com/UAWStaffUnited/status/1865029548221337932

UAW Staff United is still on strike in Manhattan, and the legacy media still seems utterly disinterested in covering this story.

https://x.com/UAWStaffUnited/status/1865029548221337932

The pro-union outlet PayDay Report covered the strike, but very few others have👀

"Given the high-profile media attention on UAW President Shawn Fain and the fact that the strike is occurring in the media hub of New York City, you would think every labor reporter in the country would be covering this. However, outside of Payday Report, no other labor reporter or labor publication has covered the strike."

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Dec 5, 2024

🚨FACT CHECK🧵

Advocates of "gender-affirming care" made at least 6 false and dubious claims in the Supreme Court oral arguments for U.S. v. Skrmetti today.

Transgender medical interventions are so grotesque, advocates use euphemistic terms like "gender-affirming care" to hide their true nature. The arguments today illustrated once again that gender ideology considers natural puberty to be unhealthy for some minors and prefers the artificial facsimile of puberty created by Big Pharma products...💉

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1⃣US SG Elizabeth Prelogar claimed that "puberty blockers" entail "just pressing pause" on natural growth.

In reality, these cancer drugs—not approved by the FDA for gender dysphoria—have serious side effects & hormone doctors disagree with Prelogar. 2/9

https://x.com/Tyler2ONeil/status/1864337895550583227

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2⃣ACLU's Chase Strangio claimed it's “clearly established in the science” that "gender-affirming care" reduces "depression, anxiety, & su*cidality." Yet a pro-trans FDA official admitted a study showed "puberty blockers" increased su*cidal thoughts. 3/9

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Nov 19, 2024

🚨THE LEFT'S ENFORCER:

The Southern Poverty Law Center has taken aim at Not the Bee, the real-news partner of The Babylon Bee. The SPLC is threatening to doxx the people who write for Not the Bee, to reveal their identities to expose them to ridicule and ostracization.

The SPLC is trying to silence Not the Bee because it publishes news that contradicts the SPLC's woke narrative. But I also suspect there's a secondary motive at play.

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dailysignal.com/2024/11/19/can…

First, a word on the SPLC. What is it?

As the name suggests, the group was founded to provide legal representation to poor people in the South. Yet, as I wrote in my book, "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center," Morris Dees used the SPLC to sue Klan groups into bankruptcy, a noble mission but one that SPLC lawyers described as "shooting fish in a barrel" in the 1980s. When he ran out of Klan groups, Dees turned to ever more mainstream conservative and Christian groups.

Today, the SPLC releases a "hate map" that plots mainstream groups like the Center for Immigration Studies, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Moms for Liberty alongside chapters of the Klan. Their crimes? Disagreeing with the SPLC's woke agenda. The SPLC has become the Left's cancel culture enforcer.

This makes the SPLC quite useful to the Left, which is why companies like Eventbrite and NextDoor still use the SPLC despite its many scandals.

2/7

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What Scandals?🤔

It might be more pertinent to ask what kind of scandal hasn't dogged the SPLC.

It's quite a list:

1⃣$3M in a defamation settlement to a Muslim reformer the SPLC branded an "anti-Islamic extremist."

2⃣A racial discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit that led SPLC to fire its cofounder and have its president resign in 2019.

3⃣A former employee saying the "hate" accusations are a "highly profitable scam" to bilk donors.

4⃣The FBI publicly declaring that SPLC isn't a reliable source of information (more on this later).

5⃣A defamation lawsuit against the SPLC making it past a key legal hurdle last year.

6⃣Accusations of "union-busting" from employees amid a restructuring earlier this year.

3/7

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