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.
@IRIglobal Shawan Jabarin is the general director of Al-Haq and a former senior member of PFLP. Jabarin denies being a member of PFLP, but there are contemporary Arabic sources which label him as such.
@IRIglobal Another contemporary Arabic source (auto-translated into English):
@IRIglobal Palestinian Center for Human Rights itself has had events with PFLP.
@IRIglobal Raji Sourani, who is a director for Palestinian Center for Human Rights, is also a former member of PFLP.
@IRIglobal In 2014, Sourani spoke at a PFLP ceremony, stating, "I was in the ranks of the Popular Front ... we are all proud and honored that we were once in this organization and fought in its ranks."
@IRIglobal That is far from the only PCHR - PFLP employee crossover. Bassam Al-Aqraa was another.
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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.
@JDVance Schwartz graduated in 2014 from Dartmouth, becoming a State Department correspondent with the WSJ. In 2016, she earned Arthur F. Burns fellowship to work journalism in Germany -- a fellowship which is financed in part by the German government itself.