FYI: Omar posted a photo of himself with Milo on Facebook on Sept. 9th. Many of his FB followers are calling it "photoshopped" which of course I did for the social tile. But the original is in the story above that tile and the tile is at bottom, marked.
@Lawrence the Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky has written two major stories about my deep dive journalism. He's a world-famous Russian historian. He co-authored a book with Alexander Litvinenko, who Putin poisoned with polonium tea. Solid citation here. english.gordonua.com/amp/news/exclu…
Felshtinsky just released this story, which includes his affirmation of our work on Alexander Torshin and Maria Butina.
Social Media Analysis of the race for #Miami's easternmost #FL27 Congressional district which has five Democrats vying to be the nominee (and presumptive front-runner) to replace Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
I used @crowdtangle to analyze all 5 candidates last 3 months.
Twitter:
@david4florida - highest engagement rate, most retweets @matthaggman - most popular single post, lowest engagement rate, most posts. @VOTEHEPBURN - doing better than: @rosengonzalez - least posts, fewest interactions @DonnaShalala - nearly fewest posts, underperforming
The most popular post in the entire last 3 months is from @matthaggman who has the most overall engagements by posting more and more material. He's also leading in most posts, almost double Richardson, but has 1/4th of R's engagement rate. Effective tho.
The Vityaz are a prestigious former brigade of the Russian Ministry of Interior, which have been reorganized into three parts, two of them private.
- A battalion of regulars in RosGvard, Putin's praetorian guard.
- A spetznaz training center
- A private security company
Alexander Torshin frequently shares photos of himself with Vityaz, calling them "his people" and he frequently appears with their Commander, Col. Sergey Lysyuk, who is a Hero of the Russian Federation and Butina spent a considerable amount of time with them too.
Commendators say @realDonaldTrump a mob boss for saying that, "it's called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal."
So I thought I'd make a thread of the Teflon Don John Gotti's actual quotations about rats so we can make a fair comparison based on his peer.
John Gotti came to the railing that separates the well of the courtroom from the spectators' section and told reporters, referring to Mr. Cardinali, ''Not one thing he said was the truth - except his rat name.''
The New York Times
Dec. 2, 1986
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During the same discussion, Gotti is heard telling alleged Gambino consigliere Salvatore Gravano: "You know these are rats, Sam. And I gotta say, they all want their money up front." (He's calling his own lawyers rats this time!)