there's a great @PBS documentary on Dorothea Lange known for her photography of the Great Depression. She was hired by the government to photograph Japanese Internment camps that imprisoned 110K+ people - she was fired & her photographs were impounded
The photographers, filmmakers, reporters covering the news, and what the government is doing now are so essential #heroes
I did this quick thread because history has so many terrible sad stories and so many beautiful joyous ones, and I need to continually remind myself to keep current events in perspective
💥Trump aide Rick Gates requested three proposals from Israeli intelligence firm Psy-Group to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation & to gather intelligence, "Project Rome" used code names:
Gates heard about Psy-Group’s work at a March 2016 mtg w/George Birnbaum a Republican consultant with close ties to Israeli govt officials - Birnbaum was a protégé of Republican operative Arthur Finkelstein - In 1996 they worked on Netanyahu’s campaign nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
While the article says Zamel denies presenting the proposals or that they were pursued, there's still the matter of $2 million George Nader - who Erik Prince introduced to Don Jr. in 2016 - reportedly paid Psy-Group after the election nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign? incredibly detailed story on the Alfa Bank, Trump org, Spectrum Healthcare server story, with new details on how story was reported by @FranklinFoer and @EricLichtblau by Dexter Filkins newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
GOP operative Peter Smith raised $100,000 from at least four donors in an effort to obtain Clinton emails, according to documents that lay out his secretive quest. wsj.com/articles/gop-o…
Peter Smith used a Gmail account with the name Robert Tyler that he and several others had access to. Smith donated $50k himself with the $100k from other donors which they described being for a Washington fund for Russian students wsj.com/articles/gop-o…
The email about raising funds came days after WikiLeaks & DCLeaks began releasing emails damaging to Clinton and the US govt warned about Russian interference wsj.com/articles/gop-o…
As Trump pushes authoritarian fascist nationalist right wing policies in the US, they go unchecked and grow stronger in other countries - like this arrest of a Mayor who helped immigrants in Italy /1
Off mic @ChuckGrassley and @SenFeinstein disagreed about the ending of the hearing, Feinstein said there should be a vote (on the amendment to have @FBI investigate allegations against Kavanaugh), Grassley said it's a 'gentlemans and ladies' agreement. Feinstein: "What?"
Flake indicated he would make the request with the Dems for the @FBI investigation, so now it remains to be seen if that happens
Talk about burying the lede - Garrett Ventry a spokesman on Kavanaugh nomination for committee chaired by Grassley resigns after accusations of harassment - he's listed on zoom info as working for CRC Public Relations, the firm that helped Ed Whelan nbcnews.com/politics/supre…