House Oversight Chair James Comer tells @ThisWeekABC that Jared Kushner has already been investigated.

Stephanopoulos tells him the WaPo story on the $2 Billion in Saudi money just broke today. The information has been reported for months.

The WaPo

washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

Слава Украйнй; Герояам слава 🇺🇦 Happy anniversary to me, achievement unlocked!

Everyone’s smiling.

https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1512849069936283649

It’s a start.

https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1512848485560852482

Edifying

https://twitter.com/themikemps/status/1512685780128477187

Calcinated

Not a word, until today. Should be “calcined” but you can see how the captions editor got there, from the verb “to calcinate”

merriam-webstercollegiate.com/dictionary/cal…

@MerriamWebster

Blinken says we are sending five M-17 helicopter. Prepared to deploy 8,500 warriors, sanctions, export controls. Stepping up assistance with allies to Ukraine. Looking to bolster UKR’s economy, assure global energy supply is not destabilized through surging natgas stockpiles. Re Embassy staff family: based on safety as Russian forces amassing on borders. Updated travel advisory: strongly consider leaving using private options.

Hey, remember how when Bernie Kerik turned over documents to the J6C at the end of 2021, they included a 22-page “blueprint” to pressure statehouse GOPs into going along with the scheme?

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1477088077554368516

I was up for a New Year’s Day “parlor game” of identifying the people associated with the two letter initials on that list.

https://twitter.com/j2dumfounded/status/1477389815700017155

Seeing as there is so much going on with the J6C, it’s time to share a chart showing some of the key conservative legal groups, including the so-called Honest Elections Project, Judicial Watch, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), and True the Vote. PILF’s John Eastman is making news today.

It’s true. HE PLED THE FIFTH 146 TIMES.

That’s what people do when they have nothing to hide, ammirite?

This link is from December 3. He appeared before J6C on December 8.

politico.com/news/2021/12/0…

If you happen to be thinking about Pennsylvania, when should remember that the Turkish cleric Gulin moved there. Erdogan wants him extradited.
Could this tie into the J6 activities?
Let’s start with this 2017 thread full of Flynn’s movements.

https://twitter.com/yottapoint/status/840736823345258496

It suggests that Alptekin’s Inovo hire Flynn to sway Trump admin to extradite the cleric. Doing so would advance the interests of a multibillion energy play.

My hunch was the deal is w/ Turkstream, a pipeline that would bypass Ukraine to deliver Russian gas to Europe.

If you want to know more about Ballard Partners in Africa, this is the best resource I can dig up without completely rabbit holing.

foreignlobby.com/2021/06/08/tue… @gal_suburban @clearing_fog probably some other tweeps but that applet ain’t working well for me.

While the USA press has been discussing the potential for trouble in Ukraine, it seems to have missed much of what’s actually going on this month in Kazakhstan following protests over natural gas price hikes. A lot of people have died & disappeared. This is the best explainer at a macro level I can track down.

https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1481286187050491908

OMG

J6C has issued a subpoena for Rudy and three others. January 6 committee subpoenas Giuliani and 3 others cnn.com/2022/01/18/pol…

Try to Keep Up, Week January 17

J6 outcomes thread

https://twitter.com/RubyWorms/status/1483429954394198021

Tanner Sells sentenced to 90 days home detention, 24 months probation and a $1,500 fine.

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1483529446644723717

January 13 Treason Weasel update

https://twitter.com/j2dumfounded/status/1481437558420611072

Guess we really have to start off with Kenneth Harrellson who is not having his bond hearing due to the fact that he has covid and is in isolation at the DC jail.

To make matters worse, he is named in the Stewart Rhodes conspiracy indictment and faces. Counts 1,2, 3, 4, 5, & 11

“A federal grand jury in the District leveled the new charges focusing on what prosecutors say is a core group of Oath Keepers adherents who allegedly planned for and participated in obstructing Congress on the day lawmakers certified President Biden’s 2020 election victory.”

https://twitter.com/denbrots/status/1481703322528714756

What a thing of beauty the indictment is.

As you’ll see it’s not simply one eyed Stewie, but a number of the Oath Keepers. You’ll know their names from the “stacks”.

It is 48 pages, so I will be busy gloating for a little while. 😘

Here’s a peek.

January 12 Treason Weasel roundup

https://twitter.com/j2dumfounded/status/1481088802538070016

Tanner Bryce Sells sentencing reset for Jan 18 due to bad broadband.

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1481342068689621000

January 11 Treason Weasel roundup

https://twitter.com/j2dumfounded/status/1480578897485828096

Micheal Jospeh Rusyn gets light sentence, probation only.

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1481000212260962307

Just gonna dig into some links and ask/answer a few questions

https://twitter.com/jamesfloveiv/status/1480583634922975234

In Arizona, a forged slate was submitted by Lori Osiecki of the Sovereign Citizens of the Great State of Arizona.

politico.com/f/?id=0000017e…

They made up their own slate of electors and submitted it.

Let’s see if I can keep up.

https://twitter.com/RubyWorms/status/1480526480874553349

Schwemmer gets two years probation and sixty hours of community service.

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1480554572993253376

One year ago today, rightwing attorney Cleta Mitchell resigned from her law firm, Foley & Lardner, after new reports revealed she had been on Trump’s shakedown call to Georgia

So buckle up, buckaroos, it’s time for a long thread on this legal eagle at the GQP nexus. January 5, 2021, Tea Party lawyer Cleta Mitchell announced she was leaving Foley & Lardner after 20 years. News reports revealed her role in Trump’s call to Brad Raffenberg, Georgia’s Secretary of State.
Now Mitchell is suing to block her J6C subpoenas.
thedailybeast.com/cleta-mitchell…

Two days ago, Vision Surreal shared a link to the PowerPoint in the very recalcitrant Mark Meadows’ emails.

You can see it’s an archived link. Delving into the hosting organization last night turned up a few dumpsters worth of unsavory associates.

https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1468666660232048647

The PowerPoint had been hosted on the site of a company that goes by the name of Ingersoll Lockwood, Inc.

Their offices are located in DC in what appears to be a coworking and virtual office space, which makes them look totally legit.

This document on authoritarians and how they are swayed makes for a fascinating read. I’d like to pull out a few tidbits, compare them to the approach Cambridge Analytica used, and make some inferences for the future in this thread.

https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1460432027971321857

“Authoritarianism is substantially heritable and mostly determined by lack of “openness to experience.””

It is driven by aversion to complexity.