The other author, Matthew Burrows, is a CIA veteran who has appeared on Russian state media, and has connections to people and groups close to Putin and the Kremlin.
“The Koch industry operates as a Trojan horse operation trying to destroy good institutions and they have pretty much the same views as the Russians,” said the person who signed the statement.
For background on this issue, if you have not already watched the presentation that Whitehouse gave during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing, now would be a good time to catch up.
This is a must-watch primer on Dark Money in our judicial system.
Yesterday, the WSJ editorial board wrote a nasty column, trying to pre-frame this discussion in terms that are friendly to the interests that Whitehouse is calling out.
They use emotional language and try to claim that he is “threatening” the courts.
Just to be clear, these aren’t ordinary, harmless talking points that @weijia is repeating.
This is part of the GOP’s strategy to sabotage the recovery, harming Americans in the process (almost certainly causing deaths), and then blaming immigrants for people’s suffering.
In other words, @weijia is taking a harmful GOP messaging strategy that is designed to lead to the demonization of immigrants, and packaging it up as if “A lot of Americans are saying” it.
This isn’t something you do on accident. Look at her reaction when Psaki challenged her.
NYT columnist David Brooks is drawing a second salary for his work on an Aspen Institute project funded by Facebook and other large donors — a fact he has not disclosed in his columns.
The Aspen Institute think tank accepted more than $8 million in federal small-businesses funds despite having a $115 million endowment and a board of trustees populated by billionaires.
Why does this Ian Miles Cheong article that Jack Posobiec is tweeting (and Federalist Benny is retweeting) have a screenshot that was captured in GMT +8?
That’s Irkutsk time, in Russia. Or China Central Time.
Original tweet, on the left, is Pacific time (GMT -8):
Correction: Benny Johnson is Chief Creative Officer at Turning Point USA, not the Federalist.
Should have double checked that versus relying on my memory; I sometimes get individual groups in the archipelago of right wing organizations confused.
If there is one takeaway from Trump’s CPAC speech, it’s that he owns the GOP.
There is no one else who can do what he does to incite their base, and they know it.
He attacked “RINOs” by name - and he pledged to primary them.
With each new candidate the GOP radicalizes further.
He also strongly reaffirmed the party’s commitment to harsh counter-majoritarian tactics, attacking Dems’ voting integrity bill, HR1, and openly & explicitly embraced voter suppression tactics:
Limit Election Day to “1 day”
Voter ID
Custody chains for ballots
Citizenship tests
Aside from those points, his speech was largely a litany of historical revisionism, claiming credit for the economy and Covid vaccines, claiming “the greatest” accomplishments, and continuing to try to tie Dems to the hyped specter of “communism.”