Share this page!

ClearingTheFog Profile picture
Twitter logo
11 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Charles Koch gave the Atlantic Council $4.5 million in funding.

Last week, they wrote that the US should ignore Russia’s human rights abuses and instead focus on shared “interests.”

One author came from from Koch’s Cato Institute.

politico.com/news/2021/03/1…
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.

politico.com/news/2021/03/1…
ICYMI

Charles Koch, his companies, and family members, also heavily funded all of the Senators who wanted to declare Biden’s election illegitimate.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with ClearingTheFog

ClearingTheFog Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @clearing_fog

ClearingTheFog Profile picture
10 Mar
⚖️
@SenWhitehouse is holding a very important hearing at 3pm EST today.

As Chair of the Subcommittee on the Courts, he will tell us how wealthy interests are influencing our courts through anonymous funding vehicles.

Yesterday, the WSJ Ed. Board wrote a hit piece on him.

/1
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.

wsj.com/articles/sheld…
Read 8 tweets
ClearingTheFog Profile picture
5 Mar
Is this CBS White House correspondent @weijia?

This is the kind of question that would come from OANN.

She’s framing it in Trump/GOP talking points.

Good on @PressSec for exposing the false framing.
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.
Read 4 tweets
ClearingTheFog Profile picture
4 Mar
David Brooks hasn’t been honest with his readers.

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.

h/t @TeresaCCarter2
buzzfeednews.com/craigsilverman…
May 2020

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.

washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
David Brooks is doubling down on the dishonesty.

He appeared on PBS Newshour and, rather than own up to his conflicts, he decided to lie about the reporting.

Thread, with video of the interview.
Read 4 tweets
ClearingTheFog Profile picture
3 Mar
ICYMI

Charles Flynn’s promotion to 4 Star General was sent to the Senate by the White House on Nov 30.

Look at the statute cited.

To me, it appears that Trump reclassified his existing job, so that it would require/trigger his promotion.
Why is this important?

Because it appears that Charles Flynn played a role in preventing the National Guard from responding on Jan 6th.
And consider the timing of his promotion within the context of the rest of the timeline.
Read 6 tweets
ClearingTheFog Profile picture
1 Mar
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): ImageImageImage
Image
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.
Read 5 tweets
ClearingTheFog Profile picture
28 Feb
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.”
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @clearing_fog has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @clearing_fog!

Read all threads by @clearing_fog