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Scott Stedman (indefinite hiatus)
@ScottMStedman
Former investigative journalist on indefinite hiatus | Mastodon: https://t.co/MZtQ32zZxt
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Dec 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hostile takeover + selective leaking + emotionally charged rhetoric with little substance. It’s the same, boring playbook. #twitterfiles Musk and the people with whom he’s surrounded himself are copy-pasting the faux rage machine (see: WikiLeaks, the laptop, masks, etc etc etc etc)

This isn’t an adult discussion about the limitations of online speech. It’s just clickbait for the dying platform.
Nov 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Is "mixing of politics and business" code for "Trump has begun colluding with a foreign nation again" ? I know people are tired of "collusion" talk, but it doesn't mean that this isn't a huge five-alarm fire still.

Trump received millions (I've heard 8 figures) from Saudi to host the LIV Golf nonsense and now a big real estate deal. He's running for President tomorrow.
Nov 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
AP reporting that Sergei Lavrov was taken to the hospital shortly after landing at the G20 Here’s video of him at the airport. Doesn’t look to be in distress at all:
Nov 14, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Reports of a potential mass shooting on the campus of the University of Virginia. This is the at-large suspect.
Nov 13, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Democrats lead in 214 House races. They have to take the lead and win 4 of these for the majority.

CA13, AZ6 look plausible. Maybe CA41? Maybe OR5? CA22 isn't out of the question either. I think the Democrats best chance is to sweep CA13, CA41, and CA22 and pick up maybe the AZ6 seat or a Boebert recount?
Nov 9, 2022 • 12 tweets • 1 min read
Checking in with the NYT needle predictions at 8:20 PM ET:

Budd +2.6
Vance +6.2
Walker +1.3
Hassan +4
Oz +0.2 the needles broke
Oct 13, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
EMS just called this active shooter situation in Raleigh a Mass Casualty Incident: twitter.com/i/web/status/1… The exact locations of the shootings remains unclear. Some reports suggest it happened on a walking trail.
Oct 12, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING (confirming @dellcam)

Senior Meta executives Nick Clegg and Nichola Mendelsohn are accused in a civil lawsuit of taking bribes from OnlyFans to blacklist competitors of the multi-billion dollar company. I can reveal that an improperly redacted subpoena in the civil proceedings reveals that adult performers say that Clegg has a secret trust account in the Philippines in the name of his son. He allegedly received at least tens of thousands of dollars. bbc.com/news/uk-604972…
Oct 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: Graham Bonham Carter arrested for helping Oleg Deripaska violate sanctions justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/u… "neither powerful connections nor sophisticated deceptions succeeded in hiding Bonham-Carter’s efforts to illegally service a sanctioned oligarch"
Oct 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Singularly depressing feeling when one of your favorite artists/bands turns out to be a fully shitty person (leaving this ambiguous on purpose but those who know know)
Oct 3, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING; Japan says to shelter immediately, unclear trajectory of North Korean missile launch People in Hokkaido urged to go to their basement
Sep 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Any think tank intellectual-types who predicate a hypothesis on some version of “Putin would never dare do x,y,x…” are dangerously wrong. The guy bombed multiple whole apartment complexes in his own country to become president.

We are doubting his evil at our own risk. This isn’t to say that we should be scared by this evil. We just have to be doing more to punish those who are propping up this madman. And we have to be preparing. He will consider tactical nukes. He will consider bombing internet cables.
Sep 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Putin is an hour and 36 minutes late to a supposed big press conference 2 hours and counting
Sep 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Trump is Truth Socialing about one of my stories (expanded upon in Business Insider this week)

There are multiple lies here. First, no evidence Charles McGonigal took Russian money during his FBI tenure. He also never worked for Mueller. The concern, which Trump has 180 degrees backwards, is that Deripaska was using McGonigal to advance HIS (read: Putin’s) agenda.

Deripaska used 2 layers of cutouts to have McGonigal lend assistance.
Sep 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEWS: The little-known aviation company awarded the migrant "relocation" contract by the DeSantis administration purchased 6 helicopters from the Russian government in 2018 for $42 million. Other significant business with Kremlin-adjacent companies. forensicnews.net/aviation-compa… The Russian government bodies involved in the transaction, the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant, and its parent company Russian Helicopters were sanctioned this year for proving support to the Russian military in Ukraine. forensicnews.net/aviation-compa…
Sep 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/… but but but but but Comey and Clapper and McCabe and Brennan were supposed to go to prison :/
Sep 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Newly unredacted. DOJ is calling Christina Bobb "INDIVIDUAL 2"

Notably, not calling her "counsel" as they do for Corcoran... Newly unredacted: The documents Trump turned over to the FBI for the subpoena included HCS (Human Intelligence Control Systems) and FISA materials.
Sep 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
SCOOP: I'm told that at least one witness in the Jan. 6 federal probe into Trump's fundraising around 1/6 was asked by the FBI about BILL WHITE, a Trump donor who raised funds for the "Stop the Steal" effort after Biden won. White was working with Giuliani and Kerik + others. White began fundraising for the stop the steal movement days after the election. He continued, through 1/6, to communicate + work with Giuliani, Kerik, Powell, Trump Jr, and others. washingtonexaminer.com/washington-sec…
Sep 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
4 new sealed documents just filed in Trump v. Sealed Search Warrant This is the Reinhart case, not the Cannon case.
Sep 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
If only there were photographs showing Trump wearing golf shoes literally all of the ti- Clicks are fun. 4 seconds of googling to disprove nonsense is more fun.
Sep 8, 2022 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
the state of the safety of journalists around the world is very grim from well-organized, state-ordered hits involving teams of government agents, to a politician stabbing to death a local reporter covering covering his corruption… man, we’re on a dark path