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Also note: It's INSANE that Trump says, "I'll appoint the guy who just pissed away 60% of the value in a company" to cut govt waste and no one is mentioning that.

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And the thing abt Benjy Sarlin making excuse on top of excuse abt why he's not apply THE MOST BASIC reporting standards to Trump is that he was one of the people whining the loudest that VP was dodging norms.

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Rep. Byron Donalds didn't properly disclose up to $1.6 million in stock trades, violating federal law businessinsider.com/byron-donalds-…

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Conservative YouTube stars like Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson teamed up to make a "supergroup." Now they're accused of unwittingly taking part in a Russian influence operation. Here's my look at the brief rise and hard fall of Tenet Media. washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

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This is what Discount Goebbels said the same day Trump said he's going to put the richest billionaire white nationalist who keeps ruining his companies in a key govt post.

This is what Discount Goebbels said the same day Trump said he's going to put the richest billionaire white nationalist who keeps ruining his companies in a key govt post.
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This is where they get Pool to commit that he didn't know about the Russian funding. It might help to charge Chen and Donovan. But it would also serve to lock Pool in to that story. DOJ likely can't charge Chen and Donovan unless they DO lock in the "talent."

This is where they get Pool to commit that he didn't know about the Russian funding. 

It might help to charge Chen and Donovan.  But it would also serve to lock Pool in to that story.

DOJ likely can't charge Chen and Donovan unless they DO lock in the "talent."
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Discount Goebbels wants to remind you that if they called Trump, Iran would be listening in on Trump's standard iPhone after having consulted whatever they were able to steal from Mar-a-Lago. This propagandist has the deepest contempt for Trump's rubes.

Discount Goebbels wants to remind you that if they called Trump, Iran would be listening in on Trump's standard iPhone after having consulted whatever they were able to steal from Mar-a-Lago.

This propagandist has the deepest contempt for Trump's rubes.
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A reminder that: 1) The hard drive that purports to be a copy of the laptop (and is the source of what you all call the laptop) is 62% larger than the laptop 2) FBI never indexed laptop 3) Or checked for tampering 4) Judge didn't even check expert declaration b4 letting it in

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This is how dumbass MAGAts always respond, beleiving the shite Garrett has told them invalidates the court filings from prosecutors. YOU DUMBASSES, the 62% number is from the prosecutors.

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Former CISA Director Chris Krebs warns Russia's disinformation campaign is just the "tip of the iceberg." msnbc.com/morning-joe/wa…

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One thing I suspect is missing from the discussion about Tenet is scale. Right wing propagandists in Tim Pool's circle are getting that kind of $$ from Substack and Rumble. I suspect $400K a month actually seems NORMAL to them, bc that's what's being laundered by algo to others.

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emptywheel (chex mix) The NPR article makes it sound like Justin Caporale was a campaign staffer on Jan 6. But he was doing work for for Tim Unes' company, ESI, which also put on fake protests in Ukraine for Paul Manafort. Then he became CEO of ESI. How could NPR omit that? govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GP…

<a href="/emptywheel/">emptywheel (chex mix)</a> The NPR article makes it sound like Justin Caporale was a campaign staffer on Jan 6. But he was doing work for for Tim Unes' company, ESI, which also put on fake protests in Ukraine for Paul Manafort. Then he became CEO of ESI. How could NPR omit that?
govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GP…