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Jacqueline Sweet

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Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism Signal: JSweetLI.61 Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, Drop Site News, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social

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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1h

Naumovski first got involved in American political content around 2016, when North Macedonian teenagers churned out pro-Trump content, and a former Fox News executive hired him to help with social media.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1h

Half a dozen Republican lawmakers share Naumovski's content about American politics that he runs with a Florida company from his home in Macedonia. He explained this year that he's never been to the US on a tourist visa, because he refused to show Covid vaccination./

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1h

Defiant L's and Resist the Mainstream are both run by Rumen Naumovski, who donated $3k to "QAnon candidate" Ron Watkins' 2022 House primary race, before realizing he wasn't allowed to, he said. Naumovski allegedly pays other influencers to promote his content. /

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

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The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18h

Frog on frog

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18h

And it’s since occurred to me it’s basically impossible for an iPhone to show the FaceTime camera icon on top while showing text and not iMessage service on bottom. So I don’t see how these can be even real texts made to impersonate instead of an actual forgery.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18h

Update. This woman has told me on X she is NOT the source for any of these materials Project Veritas has used but rather it was a “third party” who had access to her phone and email and then PV just asked her to confirm it was all real.

Here’s one from “Fabi Willis” to Patricia

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 20h

Missing the point. Point is someone with real ties to this admin and Doj is pushing it and said there’s an investigation

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 21h

Well now we know the source of these texts has a history of forged fake texts

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 22h

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 22h

These texts are purportedly from a wanted Brazilian fugitive who was being prosecuted by the AUSA allegedly sending these messages!

www.thebulwark.com/p/flimsy-mag...

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 22h

And before anyone says yes PV is silly, Mike Davis is a real ally of high up DOJ officials like Aakash Singh the associate deputy AG

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 22h

“In 2021, she accused Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazil’s then-president Jair Bolsonaro, of sending text messages threatening to kill her. But police said the text messages were forgeries. She was indicted instead.”

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 22h

These texts are purportedly from a wanted Brazilian fugitive who was being prosecuted by the AUSA allegedly sending these messages!

www.thebulwark.com/p/flimsy-mag...

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 22h

The phone number displaying often is also maybe odd?

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 22h

Wouldn’t it say “text SMS” or “text RCS” though? What iPhone says text only?

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 22h

Yes the tone and structure is off

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 22h

I am just pointing out a glaring issue in these “texts”

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 22h

If anyone can think of a scenario with blue bubbles and the bottom reading text besides someone switching to an android phone after those messages let me know

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 23h

And ofc how did Project Veritas get these texts? Why does the prosecutor not have his coworker saved as a contact in his phone?

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 23h

Project Veritas has “leaked texts” between two EDVA prosecutors and Mike Davis claims top DOJ officials have opened an investigation. Lawyer for one told PV the texts were fake.

If you look at the texts something is off. The messages show blue bubbles but the bottom says text and not iMessage.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

Half the Answer #38: Caitlin and Trent talk with journalist Jacqueline Sweet about how violence is framed in media as political, the rush to score points for one side or the other, inconsistent standards for freedom of the press, and the scammy nature of our president and his public statements.

Half the Answer #38: Mass Shootings, MedBeds, Media Mistakes and Misconceptions

Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist Jacqueline Sweet about how violence is framed in media as political, the rush to score points for one side or the other, inconsistent standards for free speech a...

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

My grandfather from Naples used to say he’s abruzzese to refer to people who got angry quickly lol😭

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