This quote from Rebekah Mercer in a Nov 2020 article is crazy🤦♀️
“The ever increasing tyranny and hubris of our tech overlords demands that someone lead the fight against data mining, and for the protection of free speech online. That someone is Parler"
In 2018 @JaneMayerNYer reported Rebekah Mercer & friends played a parlor game called the Machine Learning President, with a race to the oval office - players had cash to push their agendas, which could include “algorithmic policing” & “mass deportation”
It’s truly astounding to think of how much disinformation and vitriol has been financed by the Mercers - from Breitbart and the Government Accountability Initiative (GAI - Clinton Cash etc) to Cambridge Analytica and now Parler
Thread from @mjluxmoore showing some of the estimated 65 protests across Russia calling for Navalny’s release - at many the crowds are chanting Putin’s a thief
In April 2020 Derkach filed a FARA for hiring Andy Kuchma (aka Artemenko) & Nabil Bader (through Global Management Association) as consultants. A different Kuchma company - Airtrans - is part of Erik Prince's Frontier Resource Group
Trumper spin that impeachment is bad & everyone should play nice is like what happens after a gun tragedy when gun advocates say "it's too soon" to discuss gun control
Dems need to counter with better shared messaging - to heal those who incited violence need to face justice
One thing GOP/far-right does well is creating simple shared talking points
Dems are pretty bad at this - it may seem better to let individuals speak in their own way, but at a certain point, it's helpful to the public to hear some consistent shared ideas
Exactly this👇 try doing this for Dem messaging on the same issues
Dems don't need to change core principles, but the age of social media & disinformation isn't going away and Dems need to make sure true facts & key messages are clear & consistent
Story on Kushner Companies FL deals notes they opened South FL office last year run by Michael Szafranski & G. Toledo
I googled Szafranski and found he went to federal prison & paid $6mil+ to victims for role in Scott Rothstein's $1.2 billion ponzi scheme therealdeal.com/miami/2021/01/…
After Charles Kushner left prison he hired 2 former inmates, both convicted in fraud schemes, into top jobs
A Kushner spokesman said the company is proud to have hired Lebor and Goettlich, along with other ex-convicts, as part of its second-chance program bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Here's Michael Szafranski's author page noting he spent one year at Federal Prison Camp in Miami and blogs on white collar crime forward.com/author/michael…