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Dec 26 6 tweets 3 min read
🧵Who's funding @elonmusk's Twitter and what do they get in return?

Read free: wapo.st/3hRieWm
1. Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Binance (which was founded in China) get:

"Access to confidential company information... (including?) personal data about Twitter’s users... (given to) governments that have a history of cracking down on dissidents on Twitter and other online platforms."
2. Venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital get:

The ability to influence: "How Musk decides to run the company, who he hires and promotes, and what features and products he emphasizes."
3. Elon's buddies Larry Ellison and Jack Dorsey get:

Who knows? "From political persuasion to regained glory, the wealthy elite in Silicon Valley have myriad reasons to ally themselves with Musk — and may have some asks of him too."

Like naming the next CEO.
4. Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Barclays get:

Interests payments of $1 billion each year.

Plus:

"A huge role if the company goes under."
I've joined Post News as @TheDailyEdge and it works well as an alternative to Thread Reader: post.news/article/2JSzer… #PostNews #Musk #Twitter

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While Republicans are smearing #DragQueens, #teachers and #librarians as "groomers," a GOP candidate in South Dakota THIS NOVEMBER was arrested for grooming and raping a family member over multiple years—and the @sdgop didn't even ask him to drop out of the race.
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And that's not all:

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How did Ron DeSantis manage to cause so many preventable deaths? 🧵
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a) Speak out forcefully against the kinds of behaviors the pussy-grabbing, teen-ogling sex predator Trump and his pedophile associates were normalizing and insist that the @GOP reclaim its role as staunch defender of “Christian” virtue and values?

or:

(2/4)
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Under Biden, America has already gained 545,000 manufacturing jobs.
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