Journalists have been respectfully not naming the young aide to Trump who had classified files on her laptop but when she wipes her 2019 trip to St. Petersburg, Russia off her LinkedIn it's time to name Chamberlain Harris. Many of us screenshot it. 1/
The year before Chamberlain Harris made her summer 2019 trip to Russia, she was a leader in her university's Turning Point USA Chapter. Charlie Kirk, the head of TPUSA, handled the funding for the Jan 6 rallies that brought the crowd to DC. 2/ linkedin.com/in/chamberlain…
The Guardian (@hugolowell) writes about the classified documents, calling Harris only a "young aide". She's a young aide who wiped Russian connections off her LinkedIn. That is legitimate news. 3/ theguardian.com/us-news/2023/f…
If anyone needs retroactive confirmation, before the subpoenas arrive, Harris's now-deleted trip to St. Petersburg was publicly posted already on February 13, 2023. 4/
This is the second LinkedIn wipe of the Mar-a-Lago documents scandal, the other being Josh Lorence, husband of Judge Aileen Cannon (wiped betw. Sep. 9-16, 2022). He worked for Florida-based ex-New York mobster John Rosatti. 5/ archive.ph/aD4Zs
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty and Rosatti has plenty of legit employees, but people cannot delete their employment or travel history when in the middle of a scandal about classified documents and expect no one to mention it. 6/ autoevolution.com/news/burgerfi-…
If you delete, it's news. Lorence's employer John Rosatti, now living near Mar-a-Lago, is a member of the Colombo crime family & a Trump donor. Despite all his mob doings, he was convicted only once, on a minor gun charge - by prosecutor @AWeissmann_ 7/ thesmokinggun.com/documents/crim…
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Today Trump froze ALL student visa applications. Let's be clear on what this is - it's an attack on knowledge. About half the graduate students who power U.S. research are foreign. (Compare dark blue & dark red in chart.) No students = no advances in science, medicine, tech. 1/
Politico missed this point today, writing that revoking student visas would hit universities because "many... rely heavily on foreign students for funds". What it hits most is research: those visas go mostly to PhD-student researchers working in labs. 2/ politico.com/news/2025/05/2…
Nearly half of STEM PhD students in the US are foreign. They do not pay tuition - they are paid by their labs for their work. The ROI on research is so big, each yields over $10K/yr net benefit to the US. Foreign talent helps the US lead in innovation. 3/ csis.org/analysis/innov…
CBS' 60 Minutes is airing a puff piece about weapons maker Anduril, a company backed by Peter Thiel, whose CEO is Matt Gaetz's brother-in-law. Let's remember that both the exec producer of 60 Minutes and the CEO of CBS recently quit saying they were losing editorial control. 1/
Palmer Luckey, Anduril CEO, is eagerly promoting it - it's not going to be hard-hitting. Ask why CBS, facing a bs lawsuit by Trump, is airing a promo for a wanna-be defense contractor deeply tied to the people now tearing apart the federal government. 2/ npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-…
Anduril was founded by Luckey and execs from Peter Thiel's Palantir - like all Thiel's companies, it got a name from "Lord of the Rings". Peter now has all your data - he wants to control your military too. He's leading a new funding round for Anduril. 3/ reuters.com/business/aeros…
Everyone's talking about the bribery part of Trump's gift of a $400M superluxury airplane from the Emir of Qatar but no one's covered the security risk part. Trump will be doing private meetings in a vehicle provided by a foreign government. 1/ abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump…
Is it likely Trump's folks can effectively sweep that plane for listening devices? Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff just walked into a meeting with Putin using a Russian intelligence officer as his translator. They're not the sharpest pencils in the box. 2/
OK, some are raising security fears, just not in the published articles. Garrett Graff calls it an "unmeasurable risk" and points out: the president can't even accept a helicopter ride from a foreign government. He travels with his own helicopter. But sure, use a Qatari plane. 3/
Ed Martin just got named Trump's "Pardon Attorney" (plus Associate Deputy AG). He does know the subject - in 2020, Martin brokered a pardon for Michael Flynn in exchange for Flynn's speaking at Stop the Steal rallies. Martin knows how to cut a pardon deal. 1/
This 2023 thread covers the story. Nov. 4, the day after the election, Ali Alexander spun up Stop the Steal with Ed Martin as a top recruit. Nov. 7, Martin reaches out to the White House with a deal: pardon Flynn and he'll help with "base-rallying". 2/
People like to think of Michael Flynn as a villain but in 2020, it was Ed Martin leading. Flynn would do nothing til he got that pardon - a straight quid pro quo. But Ed Martin was all-in from the start, busily working to overthrow the rule of law. 3/
Trump just declared Harvard ineligible for all grants and the NYT botches the story. It's not that "Harvard.. relies on federal money..[for] its projects". It's the federal government that relies on Harvard for its projects. Harvard provides services for you, the taxpayer. 1/
The NYT's phrasing is as dumb as saying gosh, your plumber relies on your money for HIS plumbing projects! What happens is the federal government puts out a call for research in some area, on YOUR behalf. Individuals then submit proposals to do that work. Just like plumbers. 2/
The NYT article is astoundingly backwards. You'd think @alanblinder, an education reporter, would know better, if he'd ever lifted his head beyond admissions grievances and culture wars to consider what universities actually do. Unpaywalled link. 2/ archive.is/Mcwtc#selectio…
Reporters: yes, alt-right gadfly Ivan Raiklin says crazy stuff, but what's most interesting about him is the backstory, how he was groomed to be an influencer. Because Raiklin is of Russian origin: parents are Russian emigres, brother a Russian scholar, wife a Russian teacher. 1/
Ivan Raiklin could have been on a list since his summer in Moscow in 2002. His brother Ben would be known from his PhD ("Stalin’s Documentary Filmmaking Industry, 1926-1946"). And Ben's insecure little brother, an officer in the National Guard, would be such a tempting target. 2/
We have to stop pretending far-right influencers appear spontaneously. They have histories: normal childhoods, then they're recruited into the game. It's rarely natural. Always ask: how did this person become known, who set them onto this new path? That's the bigger story. 3/