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DataRepublican (small r)

Feb 10 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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https://twitter.com/LHSummers/status/1888923226585113038

🧵DEEP DIVE INTO THE AUTHORS.
Lawrence Summers met with Jeffrey Epstein more than a dozen times after Epstein’s conviction—then took a $110,000 donation from him for his wife’s nonprofit, which made poetry videos. This was in 2016, so the records are not in my datset.

https://twitter.com/LHSummers/status/1888923226585113038

Robert Rubin cofounded the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.

The Brookings Institution is a direct recipient of nearly a million dollars in federal awards as well as a recipient of many university grants.

Brookings Institution is led by Democratic powerhouses - Cecilia Rouse, former Biden & Obama economic adviser. Strobe Talbott, ex-Deputy Secretary of State under Clinton. John R. Allen, Obama’s Special Envoy vs. ISIL.

Rubin is also on the board of Local Initiatives Support Corporation which has over 140 million dollars worth of active awards to build low-income housing. They say they created more than 489,000 homes with 30 billion dollars since 1979.

More morally ambiguous is that Rubin tried to forestall a downgrade of Enron by calling a Treasury Department official directly.

(Going to pick up on this a bit later, @watilo and I have to fix a bug)

Mr. Lew played a key role in designing AmeriCorps. Today, the program manages over $1 billion in active spending awards, yet AmeriCorps has failed an audit eight years in a row now.

AmeriCorps has faced numerous allegations of partisan bias, the most infamous being its funding of ACORN, a now-defunct organization accused of voter fraud.

@watilo As Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen had significant discretion over USAID funds, including announcing 3.4B in assistance for Ukraine efforts.

@watilo She sits on several nonprofits, but none had clear association to taxpayer funds.

The purpose of this thread is to contextualize any motives into opposing external audits of federal payments.

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Does anyone know how the SPLC is funded? They report receiving over $100MM in contributions each year, but CauseIQ shows they receive few large grants from other nonprofits; they report only 26MM and that's over multiple years. That's unusual. (And, no, they don't report receiving government money.)

https://x.com/twinforces/status/1974145055515713934

Best theory so far:

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I think I'm onto something. They get paid as vendors by a ridiculous number of nonprofits:

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🧵 THREAD: Richard Grenell: praising "diplomacy" with Maduro, Chevron, and the pro-Venezuelan MAGA faction 🇻🇪

Just last week, Grenell declared:

"I've sat across from Nicolás Maduro... I believe we can still have a deal. I believe in diplomacy. I believe in avoiding war."

Maduro is a Communist tyrant who has upended hundreds of thousands of lives, Venezuela is the self-declared capital of Antifa, and serves as the Western hemisphere proxy for Chinese and Iranian interests.

Why is President Trump's special envoy talking like this on stage in Asunción? 🕳️🐇

The answer goes a lot deeper and darker than you'd think.

This might be my most controversial thread yet... but it involves a whole lot of MAGA players who are invested in maintaining the status quo with Venezuela, mostly through Chevron oil licenses.

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@MrAndyNgo Here's the account. Have fun.

https://x.com/AlHSantana/status/1946182463371567364

@MrAndyNgo This might be the first case of "Democracy Theory" radicalizing a killer (as opposed to the usual trans/antifa motives). He followed all the democracy folks. Posted a lot about saving democracy.

@MrAndyNgo Some more posts:

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. @SomeBitchIIKnow and I have been working all night.

We believe we've cracked it.

Venezuela.
"Harm reduction" policies.
Soros DA attorneys.
Alliance for Global Justice.
Action Network.
Mutual aid collectives.
Legal defense funds.
Mass migration.

Antifa -- your days of operating in the shadow are up.

@SomeBitchIIKnow I'm going to bed now, but we're gonna put it together for the public ASAP.

@SomeBitchIIKnow Need to get a good night's sleep, still haven't slept well since that awful day. Not easy to explain it all in one go! But I hope you're starting to see bits and pieces from my comments today.

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