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Why was Cambridge Analytica testing Trump slogans in 2014? Because they are actually Steve Bannon "economic nationalism" slogans.

Thread follows. 1/10

crooksandliars.com/2018/03/why-wa…
March 2017, the New York Times magazine reported that Steve Bannon had first wanted Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to run for president in 2016 on their shared "populist" vision, i.e. white nationalism. 2/ 10

nytimes.com/2017/03/26/mag…
But then Bannon saw Trump's appearance at CPAC in 2013. Bannon was so impressed that he lobbied Sessions and his Senate staffer, a guy named Stephen Miller, to support Trump's candidacy. From the NYT magazine article:

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Bannon oversaw the Mercers' investment in Cambridge Analytica *at the same time* all of this was happening.

By then, CA's parent company SCL had been engineering elections and undermining democracies around the world for decades. 4/10

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So Christopher Wylie was testing out slogans in 2014 that Steve Bannon wanted to put in the mouth of a Republican nominee in 2016.

By 2015, Bannon was focused on two candidates: Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. By 2016, it was plain as day on his website. 5/10
This was most visible at Breitbart, which clearly favored Cruz and Trump. Remember, Cruz had the support of the Mercers, the website's biggest investors, while Trump appears to have developed a payola relationship with the site. 6/10

buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/b…
Meanwhile, Bannon was using CA technology to expand Breitbart's footprint on Facebook. Mercer money bought YUGE traffic and targeted users amenable to right wing authoritarian messages -- building "the platform for the alt-right" 7/10

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From the beginning of the 2016 GOP primary race, Breitbart framed the contest as Trump vs Cruz.

The Mercers favored Cruz. Bannon favored Trump, and his CA-tested talking points were coming out of Trump's mouth, not Cruz's. 8/10

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When Wylie left CA, the company had already developed Ted Cruz as a client and Alexander Nix (of "Ukrainian girls" infamy) had started talking to Corey Lewandowski.

Trump had not declared his candidacy yet, but CA board chair Bannon knew he was running. 9/10
As I said in December -- BEFORE he started talking to Robert Mueller -- Steve Bannon was a Trump campaign insider long before he was "campaign CEO." He understands the narrative background of these events better than almost anyone. /End

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This is an extremely dishonest article by Brynn Tannehill.

None of the people or organizations named in it are connected to the events at London Pride; Brynn doesn't even try to draw a straight line between them, and for good reason. Thread 1/7

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The women who took part in this act of civil disobedience were NOT "a tiny group of fading second-wave feminists who never quite got over the fact that women can be both heterosexual and feminist."

They were LESBIANS who "feel erased and betrayed."

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They were LESBIANS who refuse to let heterosexual men put on dresses and colonize their spaces, who recognize homophobic misogyny when they see it.

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A heckler showed up to #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch at Big Spring Park in Huntsville, AL, got confronted, and brandished a firearm. Police apparently took him into custody. Witness tells me teens hit the deck, some cried and hugged after. Developing
Democratic AL senate candidate @wasyluka4senate just now on Facebook:
BTW credit for the long-distance phone photo of the suspect goes to @AlabamaCatwoman
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Absolutely true story about Mo Brooks that totally explains how someone as dumb as a pile of rocks got elected to Congress. Thread 1/9.

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I have talked to Mo Brooks at length and also with his supporters. The anecdote I heard most often from Republican organizers in 2010, the year he got elected on the Tea Party wave, was from his days on the Madison county commission.

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IIRC the county garbage collection fee was due for a $3/month raise.

Mo Brooks found this intolerable, demanded justification, held up passage to demagogue a $36/year fee hike at a time the entire garbage business was transitioning to wheeled bins.
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So, a few interesting details about Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Lyovochkin, who was one of the recipients of the polling data that Paul Manafort gave to Konstantin Kilimnik:

He funneled $50,000 to Trump's inaugural fund through Sam Patten, who worked for Cambridge Analytica. 1/
Per Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, Sam Patten was "responsible for [Cambridge Analytica's] operations in the US that involved covertly testing US voter attitudes on Putin's leadership," as well as other message testing. 2/

Sam Patten also ghostwrote opinion articles for Serhiy Lyovochkin (who was a member of Ukraine's former pro-Kremlin administration). In February 2017, one of those articles made its way into US News & World Report.

The topic? Trump's presidency. 3/
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As @TheEconomist gives Bannon a platform this morning at #OpenFuture for fascist thought, it’s important to have listened to @chrisinsilico tell them why he left Cambridge Analytica. And yes, it has something to do with “race realism.”
Also read Justin’s thread on why he is leaving his seat empty this morning at #OpenFuture
Things Bannon never gets asked about:
—Cambridge Analytica testing Trump’s slogans, Putin, “race realism” before working on campaign
—Gowdy’s assertion than an email from Cambridge Analytica partly justifies Mueller probe
—Incorrect visas for CA embeds during Project Alamo
—Dugin
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1 fois encore, les menaces et intimidations du président #Trump sur Theresa #May à propos du #Brexit rappellent qu'il est dépositaire d'1 projet idéologique cohérent, à la fois nationaliste et mercantiliste, soutenu et déployé par le milliardaire US Robert #Mercer... #thread
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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, answering MPs' questions now. Watch live. There's already a battle royale kicking off here....
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Really interesting question from @JoStevensLabour. "Were you embarrassed to be caught on camera talking about honeytraps & so on?" Nix says yes. But Stevens interrogates his response. Embarrassed to be caught? But not for what you did?
From @DamianCollins: "You told @Channel4News Ukrainian girls work very well. That was present tense." Nix: "That was hypothetical." "Well what about the sex scandal in St Vincent & Grenadines which SCL was involved in?" Nix: "I have no idea what you are talking about"
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Black Cube operatives hired by Trump aides contacted the wives of both @ColinKahl & @brhodes, former Obama aides who worked on the Iran deal. The only way Trump can "win" is by "getting dirt" on his opponents & either smearing or blackmailing them.
#Maddow newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Rhodes: This represents a troubling situation, in which public servants are being targeted for their work in govt. "This eviscerates any norm of how govts should operate or treat their predecessors & their families. It crosses a dangerous line."
#Maddow
In May 2017, "Trump officials" reached out to private Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube, which also ran dirty ops for Cambridge Analytica, whose co-founder is then-WH chief STRATEGIST, Steve Bannon, a "Trump official."
#Maddow
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50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. Psych prof/developer Aleksandr Kogan accessed 270k FB users' data w his app, then collected their friends' data…& sold it all to Trump's data firm which used it to target ads in 2016 election theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
FB 2018: "We learned a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us…by passing data from an app…using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government… military work around the globe." FB knew in 2015
"purpose of Kogan’s work was to develop an algorithm for the 'national profiling capacity of American citizens' as part of SCL’s work on U.S. elections, according to an internal document signed by an SCL employee describing the research"– 3/2017 report theintercept.com/2017/03/30/fac…
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