THREAD:
I know we're all focused on Justice Kennedy's son working at Deutsche Bank at the time the bank lent Trump over $1 billion as other banks would not lend due to all of Trump's bankruptcies. Also of note, is this $300 million loan
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theguardian.com/world/2017/mar… mentioned in my book, Week 36, Trump got $300 million in loans from Deutsche's private banking group after Deutsche's real estate group had said no. That is highly atypical. NYT reporting today says Kennedy worked in the real estate group, so he was likely not involved
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I’m struggling for that silver lining today, and truly there is none. Trump is meeting with Putin who helped him “win” the 2016 election just before our next election. He has changed the world order by cozying up to authoritarians, alienating our allies, which strengthens Russia. He has turned America against itself, and we have lost our global and moral leadership. Hatred and bias has been legitimized. People of color, with disabilities, the poor, women, LGBTQ have been victimized in our country. Each week. And now we stand to lose rights fought

THREAD: this is an important story on Kushner and kleptocracy that needs some breaking down. Bloomberg reports two South Korean firms have purchased $100 million in debt in a Kushner Cos. apartment deal in New Jersey. dealstreetasia.com/stories/s-kore… This is a deal that Kushner Cos and their partner had trouble financing. Then in early 2018, shortly after the CEO of Citigroup met with Kushner at the White House, Citigroup made a $200 million loan in March. The South Korean firms are buying part of that.

If you take a step back, recent news items form a frightening mosaic: Trump and his regime do not value the lives of people who are brown or black. This manifests in many ways but most startling may be the open effort to dehumanize,
1/4 something Hitler did with the Jew (calling them "untermensch"). Roseanne uses "ape," Trump uses "animals," then Trump tries to obscure his comment adding violent to "violent animals" - which either way is dehumanizing.
And so when brown and black lives don't count,
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AZ ICE has lost 1,475 immigrant children.
These are the important stories that need national coverage - not Rudy f*kcing Giuliani! azc.cc/2IDtWkL Here's some of the allegations against Border Patrol in a recent report by the @ACLU
npr.org/sections/thetw…

Week 79 is the longest list, with 176 not normal items.
This week included ZTE, Qatar, Amazon, “animals,” housing immigrant children at military bases, financial disclosure and more.
See what you missed in the chaos! theweeklylist.org/weekly-list/we… To put 176 not normal items into perspective. This is the chaos in which we live, forget, normalize and lose ourselves and democracy.

BREAKING: Giuliani says Trump was behind the DOJ trying to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger. This is huge news! Interfering with our markets!
“The president denied the merger. They didn’t get the result they wanted.” huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-gi… Hey, and a bunch of you can tweets your apologies to me on this - saying this could never happen. I know finance - the DOJ’s position on why they were blocking the merger made no sense!

Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you so you'll remember.
Week 60 (1/3): facebook.com/amy.siskind/po… Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you so you'll remember.
Week 60 (2/3): facebook.com/amy.siskind/po…

Exciting news:
Year 1 of The Weekly List is coming out as a book via @BloomsburyPub! Many expressed concern the lists would get hacked and disappear, now they will be preserved as a historical doc. And you can open on Week 1 and see what is happening! nydailynews.com/newswires/ente… Something that really drew me to this project was the idea of opening a book on to Week 1, and being able to live back through the eroding norms we experienced in real time & remembering. It’s the ability to understand what we have lost which will allow us to trace our way back.

Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you so you'll remember.
Week 52 (1/3): facebook.com/amy.siskind/po… Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you so you'll remember.
Week 52 (2/3): facebook.com/amy.siskind/po…

We suspected something was up but now we know. There’s no way Russia gets that granular w/out help from Trump camp. cnn.com/2017/10/03/pol… Michigan saw the closest presidential contest in the country -- Trump beat Hillary by about 10,700 votes out of nearly 4.8 million ballots