🧵: They just keep getting away with it.
In 2016, a brave whistleblower approached the feds with a wild claim. London Bridge Trading (LBT), a Pentagon contractor, was labeling 1000s of military products as "Made in USA," despite sourcing items from Peru, China and Mexico. LBT sells body armor, clothing, boots, backpacks, medical pouches, and other items to DOD, often as a subcontractor through Atlantic Diving Supply (ADS), another contractor repeatedly accused of fraud. POGO did a deep dive on ADS's alleged misdeeds: pogo.org/investigations…

🧵Ukrainian media today accused the US military of accepting a delivery of Russian oil to Naval Base Norfolk. The shipment arrived today, direct from the Russian port of Novorossiysk on board the Avenca. But all is not as it seems, though still concerning. mil.in.ua/en/news/us-nav…
The Avenca today did NOT stop at Norfolk Naval base, but is now docked at a private oil terminal nearby, operated by IMTT. But there is still reason to be concerned. [MarineTraffic]

NEW: Leaked documents reveal billionaire Harlan Crow bought a second citizenship in St. Kitts and Nevis, known for its secrecy, as he was lavishing Clarence Thomas with gifts. From @POGOwatchdog and @theintercept with @kenklippenstein and myself. pogo.org/investigation/… The documents, leaked to the @daphnefdtn and made available by @OCCRP, show GOP donor Harlan and his brother paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure second passports for themselves and their families. theintercept.com/2023/04/25/cla…

Helicopters over the house of the alleged leaker, identified by the NYT this morning. ABC WCVB with the live shot of the arrest

lmao one of these is just a picture of hunter biden's penis tweeted from a Chinese language account (according to internet archive)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064

hahah the james woods tweet is also a (lightly blurred) image of Hunter naked

NEW: Alex Jones made $$$ spreading Sandy Hook lies. Now, he faces his next trial in front of a CT jury. The victims' families allege Jones siphoned tens of millions out of InfoWars and is trying to hide his assets. @gridnews found consistent patterns. grid.news/story/misinfor… Jones (and his companies), who an expert witness testified could be worth up to $270M, have created an alphabet soup of LLCs, that Sandy Hook families allege are designed to obscure his wealth. The LLCs are controlled by him and his immediate family members.

THREAD: Horror stories from Russian "filtration camps" are making their way into local media in Eastern Europe and Russia. Firsthand accounts revealing starvation, beatings, torture, mock executions. I wrote about these camps for @gridnews: grid.news/story/global/2… According to Polish, Ukrainian and US intel reports, and reports from human rights orgs monitoring the situation on the ground, there are 18-20 of these camps in Russian-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine. Polish intel revealed the locations of 5 camps. gov.pl/web/sluzby-spe…

Thread: The Uvalde shooter bought a "hellfire" device that could have converted his AR-15 into a machine gun. Just a few months before the shooting, Republicans decried an attempt to regulate similar devices. grid.news/story/politics… This is an extremely 80s video of what the Hellfire can do. It essentially allows a semi-auto rifle to behave like a full-auto rifle. They are available for less than the cost of a tank of gas. Machine guns have been essentially banned since 1986.

Among those who threatened Ruby Freeman was Trevian Kutti, an alleged Kanye associate and former publicist for R. Kelly, and a friend of Candace Owens. Here she is on a private jet with my pillow guy The chilling moment of Kutti’s visit was captured on video here:

18 of 31 names in public booking website so far:
MORRIS, KIERAN PADRAIG
ROUSSEAU, THOMAS RYAN
SMITH, DEREK JOSEPH
TABLER, DAKOTA RAY
TUCKER, STEVEN DERRICK
WHITTED, ROBERT BENJAMIJN
CORIO, DYLAN CARTER
BUSTER, JOSIAH DANIEL
HANEY, BRANDON MITCHEL
cont....
#PatriotFail #Pride

https://twitter.com/jason_paladino/status/1535773574253903878

JOHNSON, JAMES MICHAEL
JOHNSON, JAMES JULIUS
OLEARY, JUSTIN MICHAEL
RANKIN, FORREST CLARK
SIMPSON, SPENCER THOMAS
WHITFIELD, NATHANIEL TAYLOR
CENTER, DEVIN WAYNE
DURHAM, WINSTON WORTH
GARLAND, GARRET JOSEPH
will update this thread
#PatriotFail

31 members of neofascist group Patriot Front arrested for conspiracy to riot in Couer d'Alene Idaho. They are residents of 11 states: Texas, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, S. Dakota, Illinois, Arkansas, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon, Virginia. Names not yet released. #PatriotFail When asked about federal law enforcement involvement, Chief of police Lee White responds "We've been contact with our federal partners all day, we had a member of a federal agency who was with us at the command post all day."

Quick thread, story coming shortly: Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine have been staging events showing attacks on civilians, and may have even used human corpses to make them look more convincing. ⚠️thread contains graphic imagery.⚠️ About a day ago, the official Donetsk People's Republic Telegram account posted the images below and accused “Ukrainian saboteurs” of “detonating an explosive device on the Donetsk-Gorlovka highway,” killing three.

Trucker convoy update: organizers now saying that they will *not* be entering DC proper, but will stage somewhere in the DC beltway area. People do not seem happy about this in the Telegram group. Some are suggesting blocking roads leading in to DC, "You don't storm a fortress, you starve it out."

Thread: The Pentagon is AGAIN trying to weaken FOIA, something they have tried every year since 2015. Congress has rejected this proposal each time. If the Pentagon gets its way, this new exemption will almost certainly be abused. This continues a trend of the Pentagon towards secrecy, treating the press and FOIA requesters as potential adversaries, and attempting to withhold information based on some ill-defined notion of "operational security." I wrote about this trend here. pogo.org/analysis/2019/…

According to Stop The Steal's "national organizer" Ali "Alexander" Akbar's Instagram story, he has lost access to his @venmo, @CashApp, and @PayPal. He had been fundraising post Capitol storming, citing his need for 24/7 security guards. He is still raising money using Bitcoin, where he's raised tens of thousands of dollars worth since the Capitol was stormed.

Organizer @ali claims he organized the insurrection "with congressman @RepGosar @RepMoBrooks and @RepAndyBiggsAZ. We four schemed up putting maximum pressure on congress while they were voting..."

These 3 congressmen need to be held accountable.

pscp.tv/AliScopes/1LyG… here is Arizona's official GOP account RTing Ali

Looks like a Coast Guard helicopter overhead during Steve Bannon's arrest on a yacht in Westbrook, CT. Data from @ADSBexchange shows the Coast Guard HH-60J aircraft starts circling the area around 6:35AM, just after sunrise. Cirlces for about an hour and then departs.

THREAD: The CDC advised dentists to postpone everything but emergency dental care due to #COVID19. Then the lobbyists showed up.

POGO spoke with dozens of hygienists, dental assistants and dentists who fear for their (and their patients) health.
pogo.org/investigation/… The original CDC guidance was clear: Postpone everything but emergency care. The new guidance is vague and tossed the recommendation.
Left: old guidance
Right: new guidance

NOW: @CBP Predator Drone #CPB104 circling over Minneapolis at 20K feet. Took off from Grand Forks Air Force Base. #Minneapolisprotests #surveillance #planespotting I believe its one of these. cbp.gov/sites/default/…