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9 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Excellent news, Biden just fired the Trump appointee who was sabotaging work in the Social Security Administration and delaying checks to SS beneficiaries.

cc @arapaho415
ICYMI
We began trying to raise alarms about this - and point out that there was a path for action - about 3.5 months ago, so this is excellent, and very welcome news!
jfc, he’s trying to be a squatter now. Who does this guy think he is?

“But Saul said in an interview Friday afternoon that he would not leave his post, challenging the legality of the White House move to oust him.”

h/t @Ginger624
rawstory.com/andrew-saul/
Updated thread here.

I am guessing Saul’s access to doors and electronic systems will be cut off at COB today, so he may have a hard time pretending he still works there.

Let him try to sue. 🤷‍♂️

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9 Jul
Notice in these videos, Republicans focus on an ideological commitment to blocking the will of the majority, claiming that’s the basic reasoning behind our republic.

This is how they’re able to avoid talking about *what* specifically they are blocking.

This is similar to the way libertarians take one core part of the constitution - “the right to do what I want” - and then ignore the rest of it, taking a sliver of truth and turning it into an ideology, nearly religious in nature.

It is similar to the way propaganda is created.
Taking HR-1 as an example, we know that the bill itself is highly popular, even among conservatives - based on their own internal polling.

This is why they are very careful to frame their language, sticking to the ideology and avoiding the actual policy.

newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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7 Jul
Erik Prince promised Ukrainian lawmakers a $35M cut of the profits if they would help him privatize their military.

He could be prosecuted for this under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

You will want to read this article.

h/t @leesgirl9
time.com/6076035/erik-p…
😞 😡 😡

“We had to wonder: Is this the best sort of partnership we can get from the Americans? This group of shady characters working for a close ally of Trump?” says Novikov, the former aide to Ukraine’s president. “It felt like the worst America had to offer.”
Another piece of this story that should not be missed: the two Ukrainians who Prince chose to work with, are both Russian assets: Andriy Artemenko and Andriy Derkach.

And both are under criminal investigation for their role in the 2020 election.
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7 Jul
Sounds like there are two new opaque “nonprofit” groups that need to be tracked.

America First Policy Institute, and Constitutional Litigation Partnership.
The second one:
The legal dream team that Trump has assembled here makes it pretty clear this whole effort is just a charade.

There is no real effort to win any cases against “big tech.” It’s just a grift for taking money, and another way to generate propaganda. Abusing the courts.

Lawfare.
Read 5 tweets
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7 Jul
This is what happened to a huge part of our pork processing industry in the US.

Smithfield is owned by a company that is controlled by the Chinese government.

China and Russia use unethical proceeds to opaquely buy out chunks of our industries. And our real estate, etc.
Watch the video in this PBS article to see how it went down (the whole thread is worth reading).

“Who’s behind the Chinese takeover of the world’s biggest pork producer?”

PBS Newshour
You will also see parallels with the way Kushner brokered the sale of our only nuclear reactor manufacturer, Westinghouse.

It wasn’t until after the fact that people were able to dig into the labyrinthine corporate structures involved, and realize who was behind the purchase.
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5 Jul
“Barry County [MI] Sheriff Dar Leaf last year tried to enlist fellow “constitutional sheriffs” to seize Dominion voting machines”

And he “provided updates on the effort to Trump allies including attorney Sidney Powell and a contact for … Michael Flynn.”

bridgemi.com/michigan-gover…
“Carson Tucker [the Ann Arbor attorney who represented Leaf & included him on emails] asked Trump allies for information that might justify voting machine seizures by his client and other sheriffs “expressing an interest” in St. Joseph, Shiawassee, Lake and Jackson counties.”
On Dec. 15, Tucker emailed Carissa Keshel at the Fight Back Foundation, a nonprofit chaired by pro-Trump attorney L. Lin Wood, and asked for information about "counties that have been potentially compromised" in the Nov. 3 election.
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4 Jul
Since the day of the Kaseya attack, I have been warning that this looked like another supply chain attack, similar to SolarWinds.

This is why it is ballooning, from 40 customers to over 1000, and it may still grow further, as it targets service providers.
theverge.com/2021/7/2/22561…
It was wise for Kaseya to shut down its cloud services, and to tell customers to shut down their VSA servers.

This likely reduced infections significantly, but when some of your customers host customers of their own, this has a ripple effect.
I started this thread as soon as we learned about the attack. It includes links to other threads that have more information.

Independent investigators have attributed the attack to the Russian REvil hacking group.
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