@MaxFlugrath Exact playbook used by authoritarian states like Russia, Hungary, etc. This was the 1st step Putin took in the late 2000s/early 2010s to shut down int'l foundation funding for free press & human rights ngos. Then he strangled their daily internal actions until they closed or fled
“Imagine they go to complain. They say, ‘Can you please revise your policy? I lost $4bn of my $5bn’. Putin says, ‘Do you want to keep the $1bn?’”
On oligarch sanctions, which push Russia's elite pressure Putin – a possibility they may well not have.
https://t.co/mIK0prXYYw
@AlconEnt@TheExpanseWR Please Please please find a way to keep #TheExpanse going beyond S06E06! You’ve done such an amazing job & so many fans want to see the end!
“2021 will be remembered as Facebook’s year of stepping on a recursive circle of rakes it laid out for itself.”
Keep it coming, Silicon Valley leakers… we need you! https://t.co/KzSrC8NumY
An *enormous thread* on alleged @Google@Facebook collusion based on the just-released *unredacted* complaint from the Texas AG. First filed December.
Anything PURPLE is newly unredacted.
Yellow/Orange is just normal highlights.
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The more time I spend in DC at the start of this Administration, the more I see what the career civil servants were forced to endure these last 4 years.
The quiet heroism to keep doing their jobs for the public under any circumstance is what sets them apart.