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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 8m

The bit about how once Party of Regions OR THEIR ALLIES got into power, they would then block other candidates and engage in rules games feels VERY relevant as Manafort’s party now refuses to resume Congress to block Rep Grijalva from taking her elected office…

www.propublica.org/article/lets...

Let’s Recall What Exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani Were Doing in Ukraine

President Trump’s former campaign chairman and former lawyer worked with, between them, a deposed authoritarian president, a bevy of oligarchs, Russia-oriented politicians and alleged Russian spies.

www.propublica.org

jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 11m

So the fact that Santos promptly started robbing his OWN party is the one bit of schadenfreude in this, bc all of it then showed how corrupt our intel was, & how paralyzed with fear and/or corrupt (“controlled opposition”) our Democratic leadership was, & no one dared admit it bc “can’t happen here”

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 16m

All of Giuliani’s AND HIS TEAM—Felix Sater, Lev Parnas, married lawyers Victoria Toensing & Joseph diGenova, plus old allies like Manafort & Rohrabacher protege Erik Prince—links to Moscow & pro-Russia assets in Kyiv, disregarded & never followed up on after by ABC/NYT etc EVEN AFTER Derkach fled

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 27m

And since Paul Manafort—Trump’s longtime PR guy, Roger Stone’s partner, old GOP strategist—worked openly for Yanukovych and Medvedchuk since 2005, & Party of Regions was openly pro-Russia, Rudy was obviously lying when he said he had NO idea Derkach was a Russian asset (too) but ABC didn’t go there

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/treasury-department-ukrainian-linked-rudy-giuliani-russian-agent/story?id=72942083

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 51m

…but has had OPEN ties to Russian, Ukrainian, and Qazaq crooks who managed to evade the law for just as long—

www.newsweek.com/corruption-c...

Case Begins Against Couple Tied to Trump Organization

A Kazakh couple linked to Rudy Giuliani and Felix Sater are entangled in corruption lawsuits around the globe.

www.newsweek.com

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 55m

Remember the FBI guy who was SUPPOSED to be on the Russian interference beat but was getting paid off by Deripaska, McGonigal, was introduced to the future side piece who later turned him in bc her family were close to “America’s Mayor” —who has had rumored ties to the Russian mob here for decades…

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 1h

…but didn’t because our intelligence services were obviously rotten BEFORE Moscow Mike Flynn (not Johnson) and this stuff indicates internal protection by Derkach’s buddy Giuliani, going way back

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 1h

And then it came out that Santos was at J6 though he didn’t take part in the events—but his lawyer & a staffer DID—and the way that attack mirrored the 2014 assault on the Crimean parliament and forced gunpoint secession vote, down to them calling themselves “tourists,” ought to have set off alarms

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 1h

A civilian with an amateur background in history shouldn’t be the one to spot—and then find supporting evidence in under an hour—that a guy who now had access to security briefings as well as a vote in making foreign policy, was CLEARLY compromised and the asset of a hostile foreign power!

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 1h

When the Netherlands intelligence agency released their statement about stopping Cherkasov—who fooled all his teachers at Johns Hopkins University, including sundry “Russia experts,” with lies that made Brazilians go WTAF—there was a dig about stopping spies BEFORE they get into sensitive areas… 😫

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 1h

I mean, the second I heard “claims to be of Ukrainian Jewish descent, but may be a con artist on the lam from Brazil” I shouted “ANOTHER VIKTOR MUELLER FERREIRA” even before I hit the Wayback Machine and found proof that he only started that pretense recently

www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jun...

Russian spy caught trying to infiltrate war crimes court, says Netherlands

Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov spent years building up fake ID and wanted to take up internship at ICC, says Dutch intelligence

www.theguardian.com

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 1h

Only a tiny local paper had published suspicions he was not what he claimed, before he was elected, and none of our strategists NOR OUR “INTELLIGENCE” AGENCIES* thought having a lying crook with sketchy ties—let alone obvious FSB plant—in Congress was a problem!

*SHIELD = HYDRA, clearly

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 1h

He was obviously being rebranded as the Anti-Zelenskyy so he could vote against aid to you with a (faked) moral high ground (and against the EU/NATO, too) but none of the people whose job it is to do opposition research, in EITHER party, did any before the election, nor did the NYT—

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 1h

And remember, Santos didn’t claim any of the dramatic lies, the grandson of Ukrainian Jews, or his mother dying because of 9/11, until sometime in the summer of 2022—his campaign website bio before that was upbeat “American Dream” stuff—but no one talks about OBVIOUS KREMLIN RECRUIT IN CONGRESS WTAF

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 8h

Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 7h

It feels like there is a special kind of strategic obstructionism in playing the part of being Principled and Effective, but also never managing to accomplish any of the things you claim to want in all those years.

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 8h

You might want to look into Bernie campaign guy Tad Devine, and brace yourself. Also lol, lmao

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 8h

Funny he never heard of Benedict Arnold, isn’t it?

jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 8h

Then again, all of this sounds awfully familiar as a description of “Lawful” election hacking and subsequent democracy-sabotage…

jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 8h

The fact that Tad Devine was there, after working with Paul Freaking Manafort— the Roger Stone partner, Reagan strategist, dictator lobbyist, AND old Trump pal—to help fellow reactionaries Yanukovych and Medvedchuk in Ukraine, and did that after having been part of Democrats’ campaigns—blows my mind

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 8h

Argh forgot the link

time.com/6076035/erik...

time.com

jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 8h

The author of this article is a “Russian liberal” and a disingenuous chump, but there’s a lot of important data in this piece, and a lot of stuff that looks VERY different post-2022

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 8h

The Romanian merc who idolizes Prince in that chat, Potra, is part of the pro-Russia, pro-Iron Guard fascists in Romania whose thwarted election hacking attempt was backed by Vance, Musk, and RFK Jr, though they dropped Georgescu like a hot potato when the law caught up with him

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 8h

Add this in—oh and Prince and Giuliani were working with since-fled Ukrainian traitors* trying to bribe Zelenskyy with mercenaries to October Surprise us after the extortion failed, aka preplacing for an ACTUAL US-backed coup

*One, Artemenko, works FOR Prince now

newrepublic.com/article/1820...

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and j...

newrepublic.com

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