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Jul 29, 2018 6 tweets 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: McScam! How an ex-cop rigged McDonald’s Monopoly game and stole millions thebea.st/2OtheEe In 1987, McD’s launched its famous Monopoly game, in which customers collected game pieces that could be redeemed for prizes up to $1M. But in 2001, it was revealed that almost EVERY major prize since 1999 had been stolen by an insider who rigged the game
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Jun 14, 2018 6 tweets 5 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Defense contractors are cashing in on immigrant kids' detention, @woodruffbets and @attackerman report thebea.st/2sVwGjG @woodruffbets @attackerman Separating refugee and immigrant children from their parents isn't just an emotionally wrenching policy. It's an enterprise that's making intelligence and defense contractors millions thebea.st/2sVwGjG
Jun 12, 2018 45 tweets 14 min read
On the 2nd anniversary of the #Pulse nightclub shooting, we remember the stories of the 49 people who lost their lives that night thebea.st/2sPbPP0 Brenda McCool, 49, raised 12 children and beat cancer twice. She was dancing at Pulse with her son, who is gay, when the gunshots began. McCool died, her son survived thebea.st/2sPbPP0
Jun 5, 2018 8 tweets 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Charlottesville hate marcher elected by Republican Party. @KELLYWEILL reports: thebea.st/2Jc7Ypk James Allsup, an affiliate of a “pro-white” group who marched in Charlottesville last year, was elected to a Republican Party post in Washington state last week, part of his campaign to take over the GOP for the alt-right thebea.st/2Jc7Ypk
May 8, 2018 6 tweets 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Defector: WikiLeaks "will lie to your face." From @kpoulsen: thebea.st/2rrtQRV Last February, leaked messages from a private WikiLeaks chat group offered an unfiltered glimpse of Julian Assange, complete with misogyny, anti-Semitism, and a clear, early preference for a GOP election victory thebea.st/2rrtQRV
Mar 22, 2018 8 tweets 4 min read
EXCLUSIVE: "DNC hacker" Guccifer 2.0 was, in fact, an officer of Russia's military intelligence directorate thebea.st/2FXFPAu In 2016, Guccifer 2.0 posed as a "lone hacker," taking credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen DNC emails. A fleeting but critical slip-up reveals that's not the full story. From @attackerman and @kpoulsen: thebea.st/2FXFPAu
Jan 26, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Key republican dials back effort to protect Robert Mueller from Donald Trump. From @woodruffbets: thebea.st/2BvBs8E Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican in his first term, made headlines over the summer when he signed on to legislation with Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) that would have shielded Mueller from being fired thebea.st/2BvBs8E
Jan 22, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s team bypassed the Dept. of Homeland Security analysts to produce a bogus terror report, @attackerman reports thebea.st/2DxdUGr The Trump administration made it crystal clear: “An analysis conducted by DHS” determined that 73% of terrorists were “foreign-born.” But DHS analysts had nothing to do with it thebea.st/2DxdUGr