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Apr 25, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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As Israel's Netanyahu hysterically calls US campuses "horrific..German[y] in the 1930s", remember who took him to power: the divisive US operative Arthur Finkelstein, who also gave us autocrat Viktor Orban, antisemitic conspiracy theories, and indirectly, Donald Trump. 1/ Image
From 1970, Finkelstein changed politics in the US and around the world with virulently negative campaigns that pushed fear & division ("rejectionist voting"), microtargeted messaging, 3rd party spoilers, and a complete disregard for truth and values. 2/
nytimes.com/2017/08/19/us/…
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Finkelstein, who was both Jewish and gay, won races for homophobic candidates with antisemitic messaging. It's beyond twisted. He got Bibi elected in 1996; Bibi referred him to Viktor Orban - and to help Orban win he created the George Soros conspiracy. 2/
buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgra…
It was Finkelstein who pushed Trump to hire Paul Manafort, deep in Ukraine fuckery in 2016 and formerly in business with Finkelstein protege Roger Stone. Trump's campaign used Finkelstein's tactics: polarize the electorate, make people fear each other. As Bibi is doing now. 3/ Image
Manafort had learned in Ukraine how to create violent, astroturfed protests, whose players looked enough like normal folks they stymied law enforcement. In 2006, he shut down the US Marines and NATO. On Jan 6 the Capitol attack used the same gameplan. 4/
taskandpurpose.com/news/manafort-…
For 5 decades Finkelstein's proteges ("Arthur's Boys", including Roger Stone, Terry Dolan, Frank Luntz) have helped make US politics divisive and deeply twisted. Dolan, secretly gay, co-founded the Moral Majority and helped elect anti-gay candidates. 5/
archive.harpers.org/1987/08/pdf/Ha…
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Finkelstein and his gay proteges fanned anti-gay hate. He and his Jewish proteges built anti-Jewish conspiracies. What Netanyahu is doing tonight is straight from Finkelstein's playbook: stoke fear and division, no matter who it hurts. US reporters must call him on it. 6/ Image
This account focuses on Jan 6 - but J6 is Finkelstein's legacy too. Roger Stone's Proud Boys led the attack. ESI, who'd worked with Paul Manafort, ran the rallies. And the QAnon conspiracies that inflamed the rioters were pushed by a staffer of Ron Paul - Terry Dolan's client. 7/ Image
Today saw three red flags: Bibi's speech, and visits to Columbia by Mike Johnson (J6 organizer) and Gavin McInnes (Proud Boys founder). As in 2020, protests can be used to stoke fear and violence. The only way to fight back is with sanity and calm. 8/

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Sep 27
Stephen Miller is posting on a Friday night about mysterious ongoing terrorist acts like he's announcing from the Situation Room. Remind us again who is running our country? Miller's not even Trump's Chief of Staff - he's the DEPUTY Chief of Staff. 1/ Image
When in history has the president's Deputy Chief of Staff made a solo public announcement about urgent responses to ongoing terrorist attacks?

Never. Which means, probably, that this is just bs. But also: why has no one in the actual line of succession reined Miller in? 2/
Miller is so junior in our government he doesn't even show up in the succession list. Everyone outranks him. Can media ask: why is he allowed to make announcements like he's the president? 3/ Image
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Sep 26
A warning shot: House Dems are releasing Epstein documents showing ties to Silicon Valley's tech elite. We already knew Peter Thiel was connected to Epstein by 2016. But believe this is the first hint that Elon Musk was. He was to fly to Epstein's island in December 2014. 1/ Image
The new documents posted show a 2017 lunch with Peter Thiel. But Thiel knew Epstein already by Fall 2016. At that time Thiel had endorsed Trump and was pushing dirty tricks for him. Epstein then introduced Thiel to the Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin. 2/
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Sep 25
Timely news: people are talking today about Ric Grenell's racism. Now we can talk about his ethics too: Grenell's former client, Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, has been arrested. Grenell did Plahotniuc's PR - working for Arthur Finkelstein, mentor to Roger Stone. 1/
Arthur Finkelstein is the man who gave us Orban, Netanyahu, and Trump. A gay, Jewish man, he specialized in homophobic, antisemitic hate political campaigns. For the corrupt but fairly minor Plahotniuc, he hired the younger Ric Grenell to do the work. 2/
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Here's the other reason Grenell is in the news this week - he arranged for his clique of racists gay MAGATs to mock a Black musician as she performed at the Kennedy center. His character is at least consistent. 3/
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Sep 24
This latest Kennedy Center craziness - the interim president gave his buddies free tickets so they could heckle a Black performer - highlights an awkward fact. Ric Grenell and his pals are gay men, a key part of the alt-right since the 1970s, when Roy Cohn helped launch Trump. 1/ Image
The NYT wrote a bit about gay MAGA, but it was pretty thin. Donald Trump was first pushed to run for president in 2011 by Chris Barron of GOProud. In 2016, the key RNC event was the Gays for Trump party thrown by Barron, Jim Hoft, and a Peter Thiel guy. 2/
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In 2020, many of the influencers who called the mob to DC for J6 were gay men.

It must be reported how complicated the MAGA movement is. Yes, it's guys with trucks & Trump flags, and viciously anti-gay activists - but also a bunch of gay men. That coalition can fracture. 3/ Image
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Sep 21
Things are slipping: the canonization of Kirk is failing, Trump is getting more incoherent, the economic forecast is grim, adult Disney fans are reading On Tyranny and canceling their vacations. The only way out is to escalate and the most common escalation is starting a war. 1/
If Stephen Miller is raving about a battle of good vs. evil then things are not going well. The Trump administration has long since crossed the line where they can't back off - it's authoritarianism or jail. So they'll take the next step. They have to. 2/
Here's the NYT article. Eric Schmitt quotes experts saying that the "heavy military presence" and "sizeable naval armada" the US has already deployed suggests Trump and Hegseth are gearing up for a direct conflict with the Venezuelan government - a war. 3/
nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/…
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Sep 20
Here it is: Stephen Miller says the government will now control what is taught in America. That's always been a key goal. No one should be surprised. In 2020, Trump gave the religious right the '1776 Commission' - control over education bartered for support for his coup. 1/
This account has been saying this, urgently, since 2022. Trump's plan to seize power on Jan 6 was entirely serious. And he offered seriously, to let his backers police American thought and education. It was a four-alarm fire - but we failed to act. 2/
The names on the 1776 Commission are key figures in the faux-intellectual wing of the religious right: Hillsdale College, Claremont Institute, Heritage Foundation. The same people who filed election-fraud suits for Trump in 2020. And the same people who wrote Project 2025. 3/
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