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THREAD: Okay. I'm about to get SUPER space beans tin foil hat on you, so stop reading if you're not into that. Based on what we're learning from public reporting, the pentagon curtailed the response to the trump coup. 1/

 We also know from video and public reporting that there were two groups that stormed the capitol. 1) weird-ass bystanders and 2) possibly armed ex-military members with tactical gear and flex cuffs 2/ https://t.co/QyvNoUiOSH
We also know there was a failed coup attempt in Venezuela orchestrated by Giuliani and former members of Blackwater, an Erik Prince joint. 3/ https://t.co/VzdRifzC95
We also know that Giuliani met with Brian Benczkowski and Bill Barr to lobby for for help to go easy on his Venezuelan pal. Benczkowski is a former Alfa Bank rep. 4/ https://t.co/0UcEgDMvoO
Further, we know that Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy DeVos (who JUST resigned) and the former head of Blackwater. We also know that the day before the insurrection, a memo was sent out to knee-cap the federal police in DC. 5/ https://t.co/QHcnJvsTF6
And we know that in November, Trump removed top leaders at the pentagon and replaced them with a-holes like Kash Patel; former Nunes aide that tried to get dirt on Biden in Ukraine 6/. https://t.co/K3knHFyKlA
And Erik Prince's sister, the education secretary just resigned and made it abundantly clear she's totally against the insurrection, but was somehow fine with everything else trump had done for the past four years 7/ https://t.co/K3knHFyKlA
Finally, we know Flynn has been calling on the 3%-ers to rise up and take action, and that he has friends inside the pentagon, too. (no source other than my own which I can't reveal). 8/ https://t.co/VkTEaFsqvT
So this was a two-pronged attack. Donald installed his douchebag friends at the pentagon in exchange for a Medal of Freedom for Nunes, then hired former Blackwater dickbags to lead the coup while getting his Pentagon buddies to refuse to send backup... 9/
All while leaving Pence in the wind and allowing "group 2" (Blackwater) more time to access members of congress and destroy, steal, or taint the election certificates because his ally in the Pentagon wouldn't respond to calls for backup. 10/
All in exchange for the Blackwater pardons & a Nunes Medal of Freedom. Now trump has been forced to put out his "concession" video, Cruz is backing away, & republicans are "choosing sides" knowing that the coordination between the pentagon and trump is about to come out. 11/
Don't forget that Pence was chosen by Manafort and Hawley was chosen by Pence. And now Pence's COS has been banned from the White House. Also, Barr jumped ship and Biden said the Pentagon and OMB were stonewalling the transition. 12/
Oh, and trump aslo pardoned four Blackwater war criminals that slaughtered 17 Iraqi civilians including two children. He PARDONED them. Quid pro quo. Everything is a deal. 13/
Feeling cute. Might add more later, IDK. END

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THREAD: My thoughts on the decision not to call witnesses. Please correct me if I'm wrong. This take is based on what I think I know, and there's much I don't know, but I do not understand why the dems didn't depose Rep. Beutler. Let's talk about the objections: 1/

First, many are saying it would drag this thing out and prevent Biden's agenda from moving forward. I don't see how that's possible. The senate had the votes to depose Rep. Beutler. We saw that with the 55-45 vote to allow witnesses. GOP can't filibuster that 2/

It would have taken probably a week to depose her and introduce her testimony into the senate record. The senate is scheduled to be in recess this week. The only thing a deposition of Beutler would have done is stopped the senate's vacation. 3/

Since everything would have been done in roughly a week, and the senate was scheduled for a week-long vacation, the deposition of Beutler wouldn't have delayed any of Biden's agenda. 4/

Next, many are saying Mitch threatened to filibuster Biden's agenda. That's also an empty threat. Cabinet confirmations require only a simple majority vote, and the Covid relief package is going through the budget reconciliation process so it's not subject to filibuster 5/
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BREAKING: this is actually a stunning revelation. This is the newly unsealed more detailed inventory.
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THREAD :: CNN :: Brianna and Jeff seem to have gotten their talking points about Marines in the backdrop of Biden’s speech. Here’s a thread about why this is a bad take 1/


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THREAD: TRUMP JUST BECAME MORE OF A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT THAN HE ALREADY WAS: As most of us know by know, the trump org was indicted on ten counts yesterday, and the CFO Allen Weisselberg was indicted in 15 counts 1/

Despite what the trump org lawyers and donald's crotch goblins are saying - that all Weisselberg did wrong was that he failed to report a mercedes benz to the IRS - these are serious crimes and include conspiracy, fraud, and falsifying business records. 2/

As @kurteichenwald explains here: an org indictment could mean trump lenders will likely call in their loans early, especially if the org falsified business records as count 12 shows it did. So what does this have to do with NATIONAL SECURITY? 3/


Remember when Sue Gordon - who resigned with Bolton after the Ukraine shadow government (Rudy) and the scheme to extort Zelensky in exchange for an investigation announcement into Biden was discovered - wrote an op ed "Cut Off his Intelligence"? 4/

Sue Gordon feared what I posited three months before she wrote the op-ed: that donald was broke and would sell our secrets to pay his debts 5/
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BREAKING: THREAD: this is BIG news. A grand jury in DC has issued subpoenas to people with direct ties to donald. Let me break it down for you. For a year, we’ve been waiting to hear whether the DoJ probe into 1/6 would go beyond the “boots on the ground” attack at the Capitol 1/

And though Merrick Garland and Lisa Monaco said on multiple occasions that they will go after everyone at any level and wouldn’t shy away from politically charged probes, none of us had heard a peep about what they were doing (because thems the rules) 2/

Many argued that IF the DoJ was investigating, that we would have heard from witnesses that were called to testify. The counter argument to that was they just hadn’t gotten to the recalcitrant witnesses yet. 3/

We DID hear from one witness a few months back that told the press they were subpoenaed in an investigation into the funding of Sidney Powell’s PACS on the back of the big lie. But that didn’t necessarily tie to donald directly. 4/

And others argued that even though Garland said he’d look at everyone at any level, he didn’t directly say he was investigating BEYOND the day of the Capitol attack. WELL NOW WE HAVE WHAT WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR 5/
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“I have the right, the constitutional right, and a constitutional right can’t be converted to a crime. I do not consent to these hearings. I’m not going to be steamrolled.” Says he’s going to file a criminal case against the judge and DA.

He’s going to file, he says, with everyone from local DA and sheriff and the US Attorney. Judge Lydia Villarreal is being remarkably patient with him.

The point of today’s hearing is to decide whether a restraining order will become a preliminary injunction. He’s been operating without a health certificate since it was pulled in December.

“There’s no evidence of any wrongdoing on my part,” he says. Did I mention the part about the judge being patient? She’s being waaaay patient with him. He tried to disqualify her but doesn’t have an attorney and doesn’t know how to do it lawfully.
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millions of pounds get wasted producing white papers;
that never get anything done. 

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nowhere in the world is there any evidence that supports the theory that harsher sentences reduce crime,
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And now a livetweet thread of a legal conference in the case of C21-31-BJR, Parler LLC v. @awscloud.

Parler suggests "AWS just has to flip a switch and Parler gets turned back on. Parler has been their customer for 2.5 years."

"They've met and conferred over some user content that violates not only Parler's user requirements, but also Amazon's." Yes, they'll do that, whether you want them to or not.

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A necessary clarification needs to be made with regards to securities laws because I’ve been seeing a theory lately not based on law but based on false presumptions. Before I do so, I want to note that I DO NOT think that XRP is a security (before I get “FUD” responses). 1/

Here it goes: There has been a theory that the SEC should only be pursuing the sales of XRP by Ripple, and once it exchanges hands it is no longer a security. Basically the theory is that the XRP the common investor holds (who bought off an exchange) is not a security because 2/

there is no privity with Ripple. Stated differently, the assumption is the SEC should categorize XRP into two pots: 1) XRP sold by Ripple and 2) all other XRP . The theory continues that a difference should be made and the SEC should clarify that it is only alleging the 3/

transactions made by Ripple to be transactions of securities. This theory is a fallacy. I’ve seen this theory argued by comparing XRP to a stock and noting the differences. It is important to note that this type of comparison cannot apply. 4/

The SEC is not alleging that XRP is a stock, but rather an “investment contract”. An Investment Contract is (1) an investment of money (2) in a common enterprise (3) with the expectation of profit (4) derived solely from the efforts of others. 5/
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The superior regional court in Bamberg approved the extradition of Iranian diplomat based in Vienna who has been named Assadi.
6 people were arrested in Belgium, France &Germany,2 of whom were later released. Assadi was arrested at a gas station in Bavaria.
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High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
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Germany is investigating espionage activities in Europe in connection with former Iranian diplomats
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When Asadi was arrested on July 1, 2018, German police discovered numerous documents, including a black ledger in his car, with coded dots that appear as instructions for making bombs, according to a report by the television station. German television station One.
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