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Founder of Bellingcat. Working on podcasts, books, and other surprises.

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    14 hours ago

    Now the super interesting part: ZeroHedge posts this Burisma story linking to Interfax-Ukraine at 12:25 p.m. QAnon's Q posts this same Burisma story linking Interfax-Ukraine at... 12:24 p.m. Q and ZeroHedge both love this same obscure wire service?

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    14 hours ago

    New from me + : As Sondland testified, a very popular piece of disinformation about Ukraine quickly spread among conservatives on social media This one is... fascinating.

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    15 hours ago

    Emo Trump recites poem on White House lawn

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    15 hours ago

    I really want to stress that we're offering this piece in a spirit of genuine uncertainty over how to proceed at a profoundly perplexing and challenging moment:

    Let's be clear on what happened today. Sondland implicated multiple cabinet officials in this scandal, which has now become a whole lot bigger.…
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    16 hours ago

    Following an investigation into the Free Burma Rangers work in Syria, Arslon Xudosi,, Jett Goldsmith , and I have published our article exploring if they are involved in more than just aid work in Syria.

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    15 hours ago

    All major Serbian newspapers tomorrow headline with the spy story. Some of them are highly critical of the very fact that this story has received coverage, claiming it's a plot to alieanate Serbia from Russia.

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    17 hours ago

    . debunks the Republican "presumption" arguments.

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    16 hours ago

    . gets Sondland to admit that the president conditioned a meeting with Zelensky on an investigation of the Biden's to benefit himself, and the room erupts in applause.

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    16 hours ago

    . points out that Trump's "I want nothing, no quid pro quo" call was ON THE SAME DAY that the House opened an investigation into said quid pro quo.

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    18 hours ago

    Stas's wife locked down all of her social media a couple days ago, and I thought that we spooked her by accidentally tripping over her Odnoklassniki profile. Turns out, Novaya was ringing them up ahead of us.

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    18 hours ago

    Novaya Gazeta identified two of the Wagner fighters who tortured, beheaded, and set on fire a Syrian man in 2017. We ( & friends) found Stanislav a few days ago and were working on a story, but so it goes, glad the information is out there now.

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    20 hours ago

    I had to do it. The Nunes face and expression demanded it.

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    20 hours ago

    Poem.

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    20 hours ago

    Is this today's version of Nixon's "I am not a crook" video?

    . is now standing on South Lawn reading - from handwritten notes - quotes from Sondland testimony:
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    20 hours ago

    Children, remember this day.

    . is now standing on South Lawn reading - from handwritten notes - quotes from Sondland testimony:
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    20 hours ago

    President Trump - wait for it - hardly knows the guy (Sondland): “I don’t know him very well. I have not spoken to him much. This is not a man I know well. He seems like a nice guy though.”

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    20 hours ago

    Trump says Sondland statement that Trump told him he wanted nothing from Ukraine means this whole thing should be over

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    20 hours ago

    “I want nothing,” and then again because it’s hard to remember, “I want nothing”

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    20 hours ago

    . Mike Pence spox replies to Sondland: ““The Vice President never had a conversation with Gordon Sondland about investigating the Bidens, Burisma, or the conditional release of financial aid to Ukraine based upon potential investigations. ... “

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    20 hours ago

    Pence aide disputes Sondland account of a conversation with Pence about aid being tied to investigations: "This alleged discussion recalled by Ambassador Sondland never happened."

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    20 hours ago

    Trump right now reading very select passages of Sondland's testimony, apparently.

    “I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo,” says reading what said he stated in call.
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    20 hours ago

    Devin Nunes might as well just yield his time to a subreddit.

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  24. 20 hours ago

    Starting to think Devin Nunes is Q.

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    21 hours ago

    Receiving the innovation award with in 2017 meant a lot to me. “” wasn't as big as a buzzword as it is now, and the prize felt like a very serious recognition by traditional journalists of the value of unpaid but passionate open source investigative work.

    ✨Journalists of Europe✨, the 2020 edition of the European Press Prize is OPEN FOR ENTRIES! 🏆🥇💰 Spread the word, and enter - or let us know who should!
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    21 hours ago

    Ah like Proust's madeleine

    Sondland: “What triggered my memory is someone’s reference to A$AP Rocky."
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    21 hours ago

    Completely devastating for Trump.

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    Ambassador Sondland testified: ➡️ There was quid pro quo in Trump's Ukraine…
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  28. 21 hours ago

    Looking forward to seeing Sondland on the next season of Dancing with the Stars.

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  29. 21 hours ago

    It cost Sondland a million dollars to be here today.

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    21 hours ago

    So what Dems just did there was. - Showed Volker text telling Ukrainians to get meeting they wanted, they needed to convince Trump they were lauching investigation. - Had Sondland confirm he may have told Volker that same day. - Had Sondland confirm that was likely from POTUS

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  31. 21 hours ago

    Sondland is like "I can't believe it either!"

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    22 hours ago

    Not sure why the Lib Dems are still standing by this guy. He also tweeted in support of Assad, endorsed Trump for president and... wait for it... was a UKIP candidate in the same seat in 2010

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    22 hours ago

    😬 Lib Dem candidate Waheed Rafiq also tweeted a cartoon of a man going to heaven and another man burning in hell with the caption "Looks like Waheed had the right religion all along” 😬

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    22 hours ago

    More from Lib Dem candidate Waheed Rafiq... he tweeted to Nicole Scherzinger that he wanted to "kiss" "cute black women"...

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    22 hours ago

    And Rafiq posted this anti-Semitic cartoon of a hook-nosed man wearing a Star of David hat The Lib Dems have blasted Corbyn for Labour's handling of anti-Semitism, but they are still supporting their candidate while they "investigate" the posts...

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    22 hours ago

    He told his Facebook friends to boycott WhatsApp because he claimed it was “Zionist backed”, and promoted an anti-Semitic trope about the Rothschilds "Never forget WhatsApp is Zionist backed so all we do and say is monitored"

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    22 hours ago

    Waheed Rafiq, the Lib Dem candidate in Birmingham Hodge Hill, wrote: “shocking to see how the Jewish government call them self Jews when they are wiping out all the people of Gaza”

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    22 hours ago

    NEW: The Liberal Democrats are facing a racism storm ahead of their manifesto launch They are continuing to support a candidate who made a string of shocking anti-Semitic comments He ranted about Jews and pushed Rothschilds conspiracy theories

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    21 hours ago

    Newly released emails suggest in 2017 Nikki Haley, as ambassador to UN, lost her password for classified communication and resorted to using Blackberry 10 smartphone to send “confidential” info. “Can’t find my password for the high side,” she told aides.

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    21 hours ago

    Two things that are both true: 1) Sondland appears to be hiding his own personal complicity in the push to investigate Biden 2) The evidence Sondland chose to present on the existence of a quid-pro-quo is absolutely devastating

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  41. 21 hours ago

    I don't know if this is a bad sign, but the twitter account just renamed itself "FactCheckUSA"

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