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Ryan Grim Profile picture
@ryangrim
Aug 21 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Navarro's family didn't "flee communism" they fled because her father was fighting alongside the narco-trafficking, US-backed death squads rebelling against the legitimate government in Nicaragua. We financed the Contras illegally by selling weapons to Iran.

Not her fault, she was 8 at the time, but spare us the revision
The government responded unfairly to our unending massacres of peasants throughout the countryside if anybody was found with anything red in their house. So unjust.
In fact, her father didn't even flee, he stayed behind to keep fighting. From the New Yorker: Image

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Aug 7
Fun 🧵on the power of reporting:

Back in the summer of 2018, Minnesota AG Lori Swanson was surging toward the nomination for governor, polling well ahead of Tim Walz and another candidate.

@rmc031 was spending the summer there and picked up on a scandal the MN press had failed to uncover
The short version is Swanson for years had been deploying her govt staff for campaign and personal stuff. It was a really hard story to nail down and to write in a way that got across what a true scandal it was. She pulled it off, the MN press picked up on it, Swanson flailed and flamed out
Walz surged into the lead, won the nomination, became governor, and the rest you saw today theintercept.com/2018/08/06/lor…
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Jul 14
It's reported that Trump's attempted assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks made a $15 donation to "Progressive Turnout Project PAC" on January 20, 2021.

I've reported on this PAC and its Mothership before: It's one of those scammy firms that blasts peoples inboxes relentlessly 🧵
Here's an example of one I found in my inbox:
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Progressive Turnout Project uses "Mothership Strategies" as its email consultant, which we investigated many years ago at HuffPost for hoovering up emails, blasting people with emails that looked like bills and other crap, and keeping much of the money huffpost.com/entry/end-citi…
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Jun 30
Biden’s campaign manager and his deputy campaign manager both sent long emails to close groups of supporters trying to help people cope with the exposure of the lie the campaign has been telling everybody.

The short version: hey, everybody knew he was old. Shut up and vote.
I would post them here but what’s the point
Alright, gotta get the kids to bed first though
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Jun 1
1/ There is a lot of manufactured confusion around these ceasefire proposals, but what happened is fairly simple:

On 5/29, Israel’s war cabinet approved an offer for a ceasefire that was transmitted to Hamas. Netanyahu only agreed to it under extreme pressure, and over the opposition of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, who are not in the war cabinet.

On 5/30, Hamas rejected it, saying no to talks unless Israel stopped its assault. Here’s their statement:Image
On 5/31, Biden grabbed the Israeli proposal, which Netanyahu had been happy to see rejected by Hamas, and made it fully public, cleverly but accurately calling it the Israeli proposal. Which it is. But Netanyahu hates it.

So now Netanyahu is walking back from it while Hamas is responding “positively.”
Now the mediators, U.S., Qatar, and Egypt, are putting pressure on both Israel and Hamas to accept the deal
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May 17
🚨Update: Israel offered to evacuate Dr. Hamawy and others from the hospital but refused to allow new medical aid workers to replace them. Five volunteers accepted the offer but Dr. Hamawy refused, insisting on staying with his patients.

He sends this comment through a colleague:

“There is a palpable gloom and foreboding that had set in at the hospital. The children and staff are asking for everyone by name. All the Americans and Brits left. That can’t be a good sign.”
The medical missions rotate in and out every two weeks. The missions have insisted they not be evacuated until the new rotation is able to come in. Israel is refusing. More than a dozen international medical workers remain at the hospital.
Here's our original article with @Hind_Gaza theintercept.com/2024/05/13/raf…
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May 13
Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped at the European Hospital in Gaza, facing extreme dehydration, at least one is on an IV drip. This is a developing situation…

Story with @Hind_Gaza theintercept.com/2024/05/13/raf…
The State Department tells me it is “working around the clock” and coordinating with Israel and Egypt to evacuate the doctors.

Yet a UN vehicle heading to the European Hospital was fired on by the IDF today, killing its driver
The mission had been in a safe house but was urged to leave, concerned the IDF would strike it. A member of the mission took this video, of part of the dystopian route from the safe house to the hospital
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