π¨π₯ WHO'S BEHIND THE ANTI-ICE RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES? PT. 2 π₯π¨
Yesterday's thread implicated Neville Singham as the backer behind PSL, the communist party which printed up the protest signs.
However, there are more NGOs involved. We will pivot our attention to Community Self-Defense Corporation and other local NGOs.
Patience as I assemble this thread in real time.
Thanks to @bullfrog35 and @jammles9 for assistance.
Two related groups, Union del Barrio and Community Self-Defense Coalition, organized protests. Centre CSO, an ally, had the ability to organize people quickly.
Neither organization is a registered nonprofit. Both Union del Barrio and CSDC are informal organizations and hence do not have an EIN associated.
Ron Gochez served as spokesman for both during a press conference.
This same Ron Gochez was the former chairman of MECHA. He also called for a Mexican revolution in the United States.
MECHA has significant violent pro-Hamas elements. @bullfrog35 has extensively documented their extremism.
Although CSDC / Union del Barrio are grassroots, they are well-organized. Gochez bragged about being able to cover large areas quickly and simultaneously.
Translation: nothing about what you're seeing is spotaneous. They knew how to make sure the protests are coordinated and spread.
@bullfrog35 An allied group is Centre CSO, with Gabriel Quiroz Jr. as their spokesperson. He bragged about a "rapid response network."
@bullfrog35 Gabriel Quiroz Jr. also talks about organizing Raza to fight for George Floyd. So it would seem that the same people rioting today also rioted for BLM in 2020.
@bullfrog35 Union del Barrio claims to be entirely backed by membership dues and online sales and "fundraising efforts."
@bullfrog35 Their online store appears to sell only this...
@bullfrog35 More organizations are involved. Stop LAPD Spying Coalition did plan a rally. Stop LAPD Spying is not an independent nonprofit; it operates under Los Angeles Community Action Network (aka CANGRESS) and has the EIN 020661629.
@bullfrog35 CANGRESS mostly has private grants from DAFs.
@bullfrog35 Centre CSO does not have an EIN. The two members mentioned by Influence Watch are both Communists.
@bullfrog35 Another organizing group, Association of Raza Educators, was co-founded by Union del Barrio and, frustratingly, also is an informal organization with no formal nonprofit structure.
@bullfrog35 The protests had significant pro-Palestine elements. One of the chants was "From Palestine to Mexico, all walls have to go."
@bullfrog35 As explained last night, the presence of pro-Palestinian elements appears to be largely influenced by the PSL communist group.
@bullfrog35 US Campaign for Palestinian rights organized protests for today, and it seems likely that these protests had significant overlap with the anti-ICE protests:
@bullfrog35 USCPR EIN is 42-1636592 and while largely privately funded, has received government grants in the past. They seem to be primarily DAF-financed.
@bullfrog35 Yet another group, Black Alliance for Peace of South California, was involved in today's protests. They are a Black radical group deeply aligned with Palestine.
@bullfrog35 BAP operates under Community Movement Builders, with an EIN of 474653915. They receive an unspecified government grant and DAF donations.
@bullfrog35 Because so many of those organizations do not have any EINs and if they do have EINs they are financed by DAFs, it's tough to trace the financers. CSDC has a GoFundMe that raised only $2000.
@bullfrog35 Centre CSO raised $8000.
@bullfrog35 Overall, it seems most of the local extremist groups are genuinely grassroots-financed. UnidosUS (La Raza) receives a lion's share of private and government money. But they have been strangely silent in the protests for the most part.
@bullfrog35 After running a search - CHIRLA along with PSL / Neville are likely the "deep pockets" behind this organization. Both were covered in my initial thread from yesterday.
@bullfrog35 Ron Gochez organized anti-Zionist protests last year.
@bullfrog35 A 2010 Fox News article quotes Ron Gochez as calling for a revolution against white people. I found the video. Stand by...
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The Ceuta invasion is being coordinated by Facebook groups. @finkd
The flagship group description: "Ceuta by every route #hraga_ceuta β Migration is an idea, and the idea does not die."
There are countless posts soliciting people to go with others. This is in clear violation of the Facebook ToS that prohibits content "offers to provide or facilitate human smuggling" or content that asks for "asks for human smuggling services."
@finkd They call it a "liberation" of Ceuta, a handover back to its owners. @mattvanswol is right on the money. It's an invasion.
@finkd @mattvanswol Posters are exchanging phone numbers, maps, requesting "spots" to be guided, discussing how to purchase equipment such as fence grips.
I haven't yet found any discussions on what they plan to do after landing in Ceuta.
π¨ποΈ THREAD: The Biden ghostwriter tapes are out.
Tonight the Oversight Project ( @ItsYourGov ) released roughly 70 hours of audio from Joe Biden's 2016β2017 interviews with his "Promise Me, Dad" ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, the same recordings Special Counsel Robert Hur cited in 2024. They came out only after a two-year court fight with DOJ that Biden's own lawyers tried, and failed, to block.
I've started going through them. Across five of these interviews, with no cleared person in the room, Biden pauses to flag his own notes as classified or too sensitive to hand over. On one tape he says it out loud:
"Some of this may be classified, so be careful." (April 24, 2017. Audio below.)
Oversight's Jeff Clark: "The tapes make clear that Biden disclosed massive amounts of classified information to his ghost writer."
No thesis yet, analysis is ongoing. But here are the biggest quotes so far, in Biden's own words, each with a timestamp you can check against the audio.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. π
@ItsYourGov Feb 16, 2017 [0:04:19].
"early on, um, in '09, I just found all the classified stuff downstairs."
Biden reads his diary aloud to Zwonitzer, narrating a classified National Security Council meeting (Austin, Dunford, Blinken, Obama, Carter, Brennan), then:
@ItsYourGov April 24, 2017 [0:45:31]. On the handwritten records he kept from office:
"I had all those at the house in a safe. I don't know what⦠they made me do with them."
π§΅π₯ THE MOVE: The Framework Candace Owens Uses to Train Her Audience to Ignore Evidence π§΅
Tyler Robinson left a handwritten confession note under his keyboard for his roommate. He sent a text first: "Drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard."
The response from Candace's audience: "Where's the metadata on those texts?β
The metadata exists. Search Warrant No. 3217131, Page 7: a warrant was obtained for Lance Twiggs' cellphone. The Statewide Information Analysis Center (SIAC) provided Apple ID information for both accounts on the device. FBI investigators reviewed the data. The warrant covers iMessages, FaceTime and call history, photographs, videos, location history, websites visited, email, and browsing history.
But that answer won't matter to anyone who asked. And the reason it won't matter is the whole point of this thread.
Here's how THE MOVE works:
- Candace finds something about the case that hasn't been publicly reported.
- She treats the absence of public reporting as the absence of investigation.
- She fills the gap with a theory.
- When the evidence eventually surfaces, she doesn't engage with it... she finds a new procedural question about the evidence itself.
- And that question does the same job the old one did: allows her audience to keep scrolling.
Below are six videos. One pattern. Once you see THE MOVE, you'll catch it every time she opens her mouth on this case.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. π
Candace: "Does he even exist? I think it's a fair question. Is he just an AI app?"
THE MOVE: Surveillance photos aren't perfectly clear, ergo they're not Tyler Robinson.
REALITY: He walked up to the TPUSA table and talked to staff. Four visits on camera. DNA at 30 quintillion to 1. DNA on the rifle towel. Turned himself in by name with his parents. One blurry stairwell frame let her skip past all of it.
π§΅π₯ THREAD: Candace Owens on Erika Kirk, in Her Own Words
Candace, yesterday, pre-spun a @ncri_io report she hadn't read, calling it "Zionist." The report is Candace's own show. It doesn't accuse her of anything. Her own footage does that.
Before the investigation, Candace spent 40 episodes defending Erika Kirk. She called her "genuinely such a nice person." She swore that nobody "outside of my husband and Erica Kirk" had the power to shut her up. She told her audience she would stop if Erika asked.
Erika asked her to stop. Candace didn't stop. She couldn't; the investigation had become her primary subscription product. So she revoked Erika's authority the only way she could: by making Erika untrustworthy.
No new evidence appeared between the praise and the accusations; just a new business need.
And this business need may very well end up in tragedy.
Here is Candace and her audience - in their own words.
(Special credit to @SKDoubleDub33 for the music.)
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. π
Candace built four mutually exclusive theories about who killed Charlie Kirk. Each version contradicts the last. None had a single named source.
The closest thing Owens comes to offering actual receipts is declaring a .30-06 could not have possibly killed Kirk and left no exit wound. One that is easily debunked by searching for counter-examples.
Last night, Darializa Avila Chevalier β endorsed by NYC-DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) β beat a five-term incumbent to win New York's 13th congressional district.
@AsraNomani has been reporting on their ties to Cuba and the China/Singham network. But whatβs not known is DSAβs deep ties to the German government.
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) is the political foundation of Die Linke β the German parliamentary party formed from the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism, itself the legal successor to East Germany's ruling Marxist party, the SED.
Under German law, every party in the Bundestag gets a taxpayer-funded foundation. Die Linke's share is approximately EUR70MM annually.
Most German party foundations sponsor conferences, publish research, and fund exchange programs. What RLS-NYC did was put its own staff inside DSA's organizational leadership β concurrently β for over a decade.
In 2012, RLS opened a New York office. EIN 45-3658022. Their own annual report states: "With the help of funds from the BMZ and the Foreign Office, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung maintains a network of international relationships. This includes financing its foreign offices."
Over the last 13 years, Berlin has sent millions to this office.
Despite these ties, no FARA registration for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung was identified in the Department of Justice database.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread.π
Neal Meyer is listed on the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's payroll as "Project Manager."
Meyer previously served as NYC-DSA's chapter treasurer from 2016 to 2018.
On January 15, Meyer published "Big Stakes in the Big Apple" on , a strategic analysis of DSA's electoral prospects after Mamdani's mayoral victory.
One week later, NYC-DSA voted endorse Darializa Avila Chevalier for NY-13. rosalux.nyc
π¨π§΅ BREAKING - The "conservative" protest against AI data centers has an anti-ICE NGO organizer, a DSA member, Facebook money.
Other than that, totally grassroots.
Axios ran an "exclusive" Wednesday about a "conservative group" called Humans First planning a nationwide day of protest against AI data centers on July 18. Amy Kremer is chairing it and invoking the Tea Party.
Axios didn't mention that Humans First was incubated by the Center for AI Safety, an organization funded with millions from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Or that its original staff included a Sunrise Movement organizer who sat in at Pelosi's office with AOC and a DSA member who organized for Kamala Harris.
NBC News described CAIS as having founded Humans First "to be a sort of Trojan horse to make AI safety issues more palatable to a conservative political audience."
@ParkerThayer exposed the Action Network backend.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. π
Credit to @ParkerThayer for finding this Action Network backend and inspiring me to dig a bit deeper.