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9 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Congratulations to Pete Buttigieg on pretending to speak an 8th language
*Pete Buttigieg tries to speak and says something horribly offensive by messing up the tones*
Pete Buttigieg will be very comfortable fighting the Silk Road initiative after being far too close to corrupt Afghan mining projects as a consultant
It’s simultaneously egregious that Mayo Pete will get this position that he’s abjectly unqualified for, while also being hilarious that it’s so far from what he actually wants

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10 Dec
This summer, I was tipped off about a Delaware shell company, Delta Crescent Energy, with deep connections to State Department leadership and the Trump administration that had been granted special permission to deal in Syrian oil.
This is part of Trump's policy to take the oil in Syria. American troops guard the wells and Delta Crescent, through its unique position as the only company allowed by the U.S. government to deal in Syrian oil, holds a monopoly.
Al Monitor broke the news in late July that Delta Crescent had reached a deal with Kurdish Syrian leadership to export Syrian petroleum. (It's not like they had much choice.)
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5 Jun
Since campus censor @bariweiss is back on her bullshit, let me tell a story I've never told publicly before, about what real censorship by people with actual power looks like, when people with power (on campus) want to stop you talking, not like her fake outrage nonsense
When I was in college, in Texas, I was very involved with the movement to teach real science and history in schools, specifically climate change, the role of slavery in the Civil War, and evolution. Obviously that upset people and I got death threats through college.
It also, likely, upset rich donors. (And I've never wanted to tell this story, because trashing your alma mater isn't classy, don't get in the dirt with pigs, etc.) We were in Texas and I was messing with oil money, evangelicals and republican politicians
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7 Jan
From a source at Balad air base in Iraq about evacuation: “Every one had their weapons taken away, the base entry gates are wide open but for some unexplained reason the finance manager (who is dating the married security director) has a weapon without training or certification.”
“As it stands, hundreds still await tickets for travel and the company can't even keep that straight as their 30 minute process per ticket is further delayed but these incompetent fools buying tickets for people already gone.”
“It'll be a miracle if no one dies due to the incompetence here.”
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26 Jul 19
On Wednesday, @mcculloughirvin and I published a massive dive into a U.S. military contractor. Y'all were too busy tweeting about optics then, so read it now.
thedailybeast.com/the-shady-conn…
@mcculloughirvin There are six basic allegations. The first is that an American military contractor, SOS International, made a corrupt deal with an Iraqi cartel that we call Afaq. Afaq is tied to Iraq's former Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
@mcculloughirvin The bones of Afaq are controlled by several Iraqi oligarchs. One of the most powerful is Essam Kzar al-Asadi. Essam is a bagman for al-Maliki and has won billions in state construction contracts
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