🚨🔥 WHO'S BEHIND THE ANTI-ICE RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES? PT. 2 🔥🚨
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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One of the most important things to understand about George Soros is that he is not an outsider. He is a deep insider for the State Department and has even financed @IRIglobal .
@IRIglobal Al-Haq has special consultative status with UN ECOSOC and has membership in multiple NGO networks. Open Society Foundations openly pushed against Israel's designation of Al-Haq as a terrorist group.
She appears to work for the Palestinian Youth Movement. @SenTomCotton has written about it , they are aliased through a 501(c)(3) called Honor the Earth (EIN 454714238). They get Arabella Advisors and Open Society grants, but the biggest one and specifically earmarked for Palestine Youth Movement is Wespac Foundation.
@RepLuna @SenTomCotton Wespac Foundation (EIN 133109400) in turn has earmarked grants for Palestinian Youth Movement from Solidaire Network. They fund a lot of race-based funds, including BLM and Muslim ones. I see Pierre Omidyar's Democracy Fund in there, as well as other billionaire philanthropists.
@RepLuna @SenTomCotton People's Conference for Palestine appears to have a lot of Neville Singham groups involved.
🧵 THREAD: Timothy Mynett: Ilhan Omar's husband and the progressive money man you've probably never heard of
Ilhan Omar's wealth headlines ($30M net worth 👀) are dominating today's feeds. But behind that story is someone far less visible: her husband, Tim Mynett.
Not the ex with the bizarre "married her brother" rumor. This one is far more interesting, and far more connected.
For nearly two decades, Mynett has been the quiet operator raising millions, plugging into D.C.’s progressive networks, and eventually pivoting into global business ventures.
📚 From poli-sci undergrad in New York...
⚖️ To moving foundation money at Alliance for Justice...
💼 To consulting alongside Obama’s inner circle at New Partners...
He's climbed rung by rung through the fundraising machine that fuels progressive politics.
This thread unpacks:
➡️ His rise through nonprofits & campaigns
➡️ His deep ties across the progressive donor universe
➡️ The surprising pivots... from digital firms to wine, cannabis, and impact investing with ex-ambassadors
👇 Let's dig in.
Mynett first appeared in the news in 2019, when divorce papers claimed he was having an affair with Ilhan Omar, even as Omar's campaign was paying him money. Both Omar and Mynett denied it at the time.
Just months later, Mynett married Omar -- even as Omar had already paid his firm $600,000.
🧵 THREAD: Donna Brazile: More than a campaign operative.
Today, President Trump posted a TruthSocial post asking why Donna Brazile is still around on ABC. The answer is simple: she is a part of the Deep State, serving on the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
Her timeline spans multiple Presidents, runs from the King Holiday campaign of the early 80s to the State Department’s Fulbright Board.
She's one of the clearest case studies of how U.S. partisan politics, media narratives, and public diplomacy interlock to form a machinery of influence.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread.
Brazile is a board member of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), which is the Democratic wing of National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was formed in the Reagan years to replace a discredited and weakened CIA.
Brazile started politics in her teens, volunteering for the 1976 and 1980 campaigns of Jimmy Carter. She graduated Louisiana State University in 1981. Right after, she became a lobbyist for the National Student Education Fund.
For those wondering, Miller is likely referring to Acacia Center for Justice, a spinoff of the Vera Institute of Justice.
Before Biden took office, Blue Meridian Partners, the Ford Foundation, George Soros, and Tom Arnold had already seeded Vera... not to provide legal aid directly, but to build the infrastructure needed to scale it instantly as soon as it was hooked up to federal government dollars.
Within days of the inauguration, the American Immigration Council delivered a policy paper urging the new administration to pour resources into Vera. Soon after, Vera created Acacia to be ready to use the billion-dollar federal contract.
Ok, seems like people are challenging Miller's narrative. So I'll provide receipts.
When President Biden took office in January 2021, immigrant rights advocates immediately urged his administration to expand legal representation for immigrants facing removal. A January 2021 policy brief from the American Immigration Council and AILA called on Biden to establish a nationwide, federally-funded counsel system, starting with vulnerable groups like detained adults, unaccompanied children, and others with special needs.
@StephenM The brief itself urged money be immediately poured into NGOs like Vera Institute of Justice.
🧵THREAD: CNN & The State Department & : A Hidden Partnership 🌐📺
Everyone knows CNN as "the world's newsroom." What's less discussed is how closely its reporting coordinates with U.S. and U.N. foreign policy machinery.
Richard Haass, former member of the National Security Council, said CNN was useful because “CNN gave [us] tremendous access to markets that normally [we] couldn’t get to … We felt we could manage public opinion in this country and … manage the alliance, or the coalition dimensions of the war, as well as get to the Iraqi people and the Arab world.”
In other words, Washington deliberately used CNN to send messages to domestic audiences, allies in Europe, and Arab publics. The interdependence goes sleep.
As always, patience as I pull the thread together.
CNN was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner and Kofi Annan. As the world's first 24/7 global broadcasting channel, it had an immense impact on the State Department. As State Department press secretary put it, "Time for reaction is compressed. Analysis and intelligence-gathering is out."
In other words, old diplomatic process (intelligence, cables, staff work) is bypassed. Instead, the person speaking on CNN, becomes central. CNN became where U.S. foreign policy gets constituted in real-time.
CNN rewired the intelligence game, leaving the State Department little choice but to become interdependent on them.
CNN correspondents often checked in with State Department officials before airing sensitive reports, while State Department analysts, in turn, increasingly relied on CNN’s real-time coverage as a source of information.