Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/new" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>new</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parnas</span></a><br>Aaron Parnas 5 minute News 3/28/25</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/g-V1caw1vOA?si=ETVwCdr4oAZG7gzt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/g-V1caw1vOA?si=ETVwCd</span><span class="invisible">r4oAZG7gzt</span></a></p>
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Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parnas</span></a><br>Aaron Parnas 5 minute News<br>3/27/2025</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/sJspOEbeye0?si=qJ_Y5oWUQM9_afKV" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/sJspOEbeye0?si=qJ_Y5o</span><span class="invisible">WUQM9_afKV</span></a></p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/usnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usnews</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parnas</span></a><br>Aaron Parnas 5 minute News 3/26/2025</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/J1F0c3kcLyo?si=sVJqXDcSW_Ui7KLU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/J1F0c3kcLyo?si=sVJqXD</span><span class="invisible">cSW_Ui7KLU</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>While BuzzFeed went down to Florida to look into <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fruman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fruman</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parnas</span></a>, <br>my colleagues and I started talking to people in Ukraine about what they knew. </p><p>The story turned out to be pretty simple...</p><p>With Parnas and Fruman’s help, Ukrainian prosecutors and businessmen had convinced Giuliani that they could furnish him with false but useful political information about Biden. </p><p>In return, they wanted the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who had crossed some of these prosecutors, to be fired. </p><p>We published the story on July 22, 2019 and that was that. </p><p>Then, two months later, while recovering from shoulder surgery, <br>I received a flurry of messages. </p><p>A CIA whistleblower’s report that Trump had pressured Ukraine’s president to open an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden was in the papers, <br>and keen-eyed colleagues had noticed our story mentioned in the footnotes. </p><p>How did this CIA employee know about my story? </p><p>My wildest guess is they found it where everyone else did: <br>on the internet. </p><p>It hurt my ego a little, <br>but few journalists or political operatives actually seemed very interested in my story at the time, <br>despite its appearance in the whistleblower’s report. </p><p>They probably correctly assessed that it had played a minor role in the impeachment.</p><p>I moved back to Australia just before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, <br>and didn’t give much further thought to the story <br>— until it became the target of a whirlwind of online outrage in the aftermath of the dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration <br>and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. </p><p>👉The trigger seems to have been a February 3 post on X by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Benz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benz</span></a>, <br>a former State Department employee. </p><p>(Benz was unmasked by NBC News in 2023 as “Frame Game,” <br>an anonymous online influencer whose previous writings included the statement, <br>“holy shit, Hitler actually had some decent points.”) </p><p>Benz’s false claim that USAID had paid <br>“$20 million to hit piece journalists to dig up dirt on Rudy Giuliani <br>and use that dirt as the basis to impeach the sitting US President in 2019” <br>was quickly reposted by X’s owner, Elon Musk.</p><p>After that came <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shellenberger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shellenberger</span></a>, a former public relations expert whose clients included Venezuela’s late petro-dictator, Hugo Chavez. </p><p>In his own attack on OCCRP’s “treasonous” work, <br>he added more detail from a widely-criticized story on our organization published last year.</p><p>Investigative journalism is difficult work. </p><p>It requires finding patterns in large amounts of noisy information, <br>putting together a complex puzzle, <br>and painstakingly stress-testing it so that it can stand up to any challenge. </p><p>My 2019 story was carefully fact-checked and its accuracy has never been disputed <br>— not even by its current critics.</p><p>Conspiracy-theorism is, by contrast, <br>a grotesque imitation of what real journalists do. </p><p>It’s a pastiche of barely-connected facts, glued together with innuendo and pure fantasy. </p><p>Conspiracy theories can also be used to cover up uncomfortable truths. </p><p>Truths like the fact that humanitarian workers are currently warning that the gutting of billions of dollars from USAID could lead to an explosion in disease and hunger around the world. </p><p>As one Georgia manufacturer of high-nutrition food for starving children put it last week: </p><p>“It is not hype or conjecture or hand wringing or even contested use of stats to say that hundreds of thousands of malnourished children could die without USAID."</p><p>Some people would prefer to change the subject, <br>and distract us with McCarthyist attacks on free speech and the free press. </p><p>But the truth is more powerful in the end.</p><p>-- Aubrey Belford,<br>OCCRP</p><p>(2/2)</p><p><a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/investigative-reporting-is-free-speech-not-treason" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">occrp.org/en/feature/investiga</span><span class="invisible">tive-reporting-is-free-speech-not-treason</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>It’s fairly common for investigative journalists to be accused of being paid shills, or agents of a foreign power. <br>Foreign dictators and kleptocrats do it daily. </p><p>But becoming the target of a “deep state” conspiracy theory <br>endorsed by the world’s richest man and supporters of the president of the United States is something else entirely.</p><p>That’s what happened to me last week. </p><p>It began because of a story, which a colleague and I wrote in collaboration with BuzzFeed News in July 2019. </p><p>It shed light on Rudy Giuliani's attempts to dig up negative information on Donald Trump’s political opponents in Ukraine, <br>where I was based at the time.</p><p>The story made a small splash when it was published, <br>mostly among politicos and Ukraine-watchers, but didn’t get a lot of traction. </p><p>That was fine with me. </p><p>As an Australian journalist working in Eastern Europe, I was just glad that I had published an interesting story that pushed forward what was known about Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine. </p><p>But that September, it was cited in the footnotes of a report by a CIA whistleblower that sparked Trump’s first impeachment. </p><p>This citation is now at the center of absurd claims that we, <br>as professional reporters, <br>were part of a “deep state” plot to bring down the president of the United States.</p><p>The pretext for this is that, <br>like scores of independent media outlets around the world, <br>OCCRP had received grants from USAID, <br>the United States’ foreign development agency, <br>which has recently come under the crosshairs of the new Trump administration. </p><p>(As with all of our donors, USAID is contractually obligated to stay out of editorial work.) </p><p>One particularly excitable writer, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Michael</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shellenberger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shellenberger</span></a>, <br>who identifies himself as a free speech advocate, has gone so far as to label our story <br>“highly illegal and even treasonous.” </p><p>The irony of it all? </p><p>The story started as an investigation into the same target that Giuliani was after: <br>Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian gas company he worked for, Burisma. </p><p>But the thing about objective reporting is that it can lead you to unexpected places.</p><p>Here’s how it began. </p><p>It was the middle of 2019, <br>and I was relatively new to Ukraine, <br>having moved there to live with my now-wife and work as an OCCRP editor helping local journalists with their investigations. </p><p>I asked my Ukrainian colleagues what they thought we should be reporting on. -- They suggested we look into Hunter Biden and Burisma.</p><p>There had already been a fair bit of reporting on the younger Biden's questionable relationship with the company. </p><p>As an investigative reporter, I wondered if we could find something new to say about the situation. </p><p>I came across a series of articles written for The Hill by <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Solomon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solomon</span></a>, a conservative journalist, in which he made the explosive allegation that Joe Biden had pressured Ukraine to fire its former chief prosecutor, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Viktor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Viktor</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shokin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shokin</span></a>, <br>in order to bury a case against Burisma. </p><p>To check this, I called up some anti-corruption experts in Ukraine who had been part of the effort to go after Burisma. </p><p>They were friendly enough, but it was clear they thought I was a bit wet behind the ears.</p><p>They explained that I had the story backwards. </p><p>👉Ukrainians, they said, had been out on the streets protesting against Shokin because he was the one protecting Burisma from investigation, not the other way around. </p><p>In fact, Biden had called for Shokin’s firing even though Burisma was paying his son. </p><p>This didn’t absolve Hunter of wrongdoing — but it showed that, while making a handsome salary, he had failed to deliver the level of insider access Burisma may have hoped for.</p><p>My original story idea was dead, though I did ultimately work on another investigation that cast scrutiny on Hunter Biden’s business partner the following year. </p><p>(Strangely, our detractors seem to overlook that one.) </p><p>Meanwhile, I had a new mystery to unravel: </p><p>how it came to be that a distorted version of the Hunter Biden/Burisma story had gained traction in the United States. </p><p>I don’t usually cover the U.S., <br>and I felt a little out of my depth. </p><p>So my Ukrainian colleagues and I reached out to BuzzFeed News to collaborate.</p><p>We scoured the internet and started making calls on both sides of the Atlantic. </p><p>The upside-down story being told by Solomon (and Giuliani) had clearly come from the former prosecutor Shokin, and his successor, Yuriy Lutsenko.</p><p>We thought the answer might lie with two mysterious Ukraine-linked figures who had grown close to Giuliani, <br>Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. </p><p>Both born in the Soviet Union, the men pursued a colorful life in South Florida. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Fruman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fruman</span></a> was a businessman with ties back in the Ukrainian city of Odesa to a well-known gangster, known as “The Lightbulb.” </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parnas</span></a> was a former stockbroker with a history of unpaid debts.</p><p>(1/2)<br><a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/investigative-reporting-is-free-speech-not-treason" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">occrp.org/en/feature/investiga</span><span class="invisible">tive-reporting-is-free-speech-not-treason</span></a></p>
kurtsh<p>WOW. This was as good as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Maddow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maddow</span></a>'s incredible podcast "Bagman" & that's saying something. </p><p>"From Russia with Lev" is an examination of Lev <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parnas</span></a>' convoluted journey from small-time hustler to the center of Donald <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s inner circle. </p><p>"From Russia with Lev" | Official Trailer<br><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=LIbKyujShRY&si=Vnzjv9Wq5N1NOQvT" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=LIbKyujShR</span><span class="invisible">Y&si=Vnzjv9Wq5N1NOQvT</span></a></p><p>"Lev Parnas tells his story, seeks redemption in new Maddow documentary, 'From Russia with Lev'" - 11th Hour<br><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/lev-parnas-tells-his-story-seeks-redemption-in-new-maddow-documentary-from-russia-with-lev-219856453735" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/lev-</span><span class="invisible">parnas-tells-his-story-seeks-redemption-in-new-maddow-documentary-from-russia-with-lev-219856453735</span></a></p><p>"From Russia with Lev" - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MSNBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSNBC</span></a><br><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/lev" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">msnbc.com/lev</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>Via <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Salon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salon</span></a> @ 10:47am EDT on Aug 05, 2024</p><p>On Monday, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MSNBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSNBC</span></a> Films announced that host <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RachelMaddow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelMaddow</span></a> will debut "<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FromRussiaWithLev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FromRussiaWithLev</span></a>," a documentary she executive produced highlighting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LevParnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LevParnas</span></a>, a former associate of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> attorney <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RudyGiuliani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RudyGiuliani</span></a>. In 2020, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parnas</span></a> was indicted on campaign finance charges and subsequently turned over documents contradicting claims made by Trump and his legal team to investigators in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HouseOfRepresentatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HouseOfRepresentatives</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/08/05/from-with-lev-parnas-rachel-maddow/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">salon.com/2024/08/05/from-with</span><span class="invisible">-lev-parnas-rachel-maddow/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>An Anti-Biden Conspirator Now Acknowledges That <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ron</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johnson</span></a> Was <br>💥“Doing the Bidding”💥of Russia</p><p>In sworn testimony before Congress, Lev <a href="https://c.im/tags/Parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parnas</span></a>, a former Trump henchman, says the senator from Wisconsin was♦️ “our guy in the Senate.”♦️</p><p>On Wednesday, Lev Parnas, the Ukrainian businessman who worked closely with former New York mayor Rudy <a href="https://c.im/tags/Giuliani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Giuliani</span></a> and other Trump associates to smear Biden in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, and who eventually went to <a href="https://c.im/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> for his wrongdoing, said in testimony before the House Oversight Committee, 🔹“The American people have been lied to, by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and various individuals in government and media positions, all of whom worked to create a web of falsehood. 🔹They did this purely to serve their own interests, knowing that it would undermine the strength of our nation.”</p><p>🔥 In damning testimony at the hearing, which House Republicans had organized in a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to develop their Ukraine-related argument for impeaching Biden, Parnas explained,</p><p>👉 The only information ever pushed about the Bidens and Ukraine has come from Russia and Russian agents, which everyone sitting here today knows. <br>FBI informant Alexander <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smirnov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smirnov</span></a> has admitted to getting all his so-called intelligence on the Bidens from Russia. </p><p>According to their own statements, federal prosecutors found him guilty of “actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections.” </p><p>And as recently as November 2023, a number of Ukrainian politicians sympathetic to Russia were implicated as having helped funnel false information about the Bidens to Giuliani while also being connected to a Russian foreign influence network.</p><p>During more than a year of jetting around Europe, as part of what he described as a Giuliani-led effort to dig up dirt on Biden before the 2020 election, Parnas said,</p><p>👉 I found precisely zero proof of the Bidens’ criminality. <br>Instead, what I learned in that timeframe was the true nature of the conspiracy that the Kremlin was forcing through Russian, Ukrainian, American, and other channels to interfere in our elections. </p><p>Ultimately this was meant to benefit Trump’s reelection, which would in turn benefit Vladimir <a href="https://c.im/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a>.</p><p>Which brings us back to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ron</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johnson</span></a>. <br>After the senator dismissed his briefing from the FBI, Johnson moved to release a report that The New York Times described as “little more than a rehashing six weeks before Election Day of unproven allegations that echo an active Russian <a href="https://c.im/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> campaign and have been pushed by Mr. Trump.”</p><p>Where was Johnson getting his material? </p><p>Parnas told the House Committee on Wednesday that Giuliani and his allies convened 🌟“regular strategy meetings at BLT Steak in Washington, D.C.,” <br>and “I was told in that setting that Senator Ron Johnson would be 🔸‘our guy in the Senate,’ 🔸responsible for pushing all the information we were getting. But he would actually end up spreading unverified conspiracy theories instead.”</p><p>👉 “Every person integral to this shadow diplomacy knew that the Biden corruption rumors were baseless,” Parnas testified.</p><p>Then-Congressman <a href="https://c.im/tags/Devin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nunes</span></a>, Senator <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ron</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johnson</span></a>, and many other individuals understood that they were pushing a false narrative. The same goes for <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>John</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Solomon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solomon</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sean</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hannity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hannity</span></a>, and media personnel, particularly at <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fox</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a>, who used that narrative to manipulate the public ahead of the 2020 election. <br>They are still doing this today, as we approach the 2024 election.</p><p>After Parnas testified, US Representative Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) followed up on the allegation regarding Johnson. <br>Referencing the statement that the Wisconsinite would be the group’s “‘guy in the Senate’ to push all the information,” Frost asked, <br>“What did you mean by that?”</p><p>👉 “Senator Ron Johnson was our guy in the Senate,” replied Parnas. <br>“It was told to me that, when we pushed the information, he was going to push it in the halls of Congress.”</p><p>Frost continued, “So when the media was getting skeptical about pushing disinformation<br>—after they’ve proven it wrong time and time again<br>—the plan was to have a US senator, Ron Johnson, to push that information even further?”</p><p>👉 “Correct,” said Parnas, “because we had Congressman Nunes already doing it, so Senator Ron Johnson jumped on board.”</p><p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/an-anti-biden-conspirator-ron-johnson-doing-bidding-russia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thenation.com/article/politics</span><span class="invisible">/an-anti-biden-conspirator-ron-johnson-doing-bidding-russia/</span></a></p>
Laffy<p>👀<br>Via Acyn:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parnas</span></a>: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> was aware of everything that was going on.. Trump approached me, shook my hand, said thank you for all that you're doing.. I was off to Ukraine.<br> <br>Krishnamoorthi: To meet with Shokin<br> <br>Parnas: 👉🏼To find him, to bring him back to meet with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LindseyGraham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LindseyGraham</span></a>.👈🏼</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Russia's Supreme Court Shuts Down PARNAS Opposition Party</p><p>The Supreme Court of Russia has ordered the liquidation of the PARNAS opposition party. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/PARNAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PARNAS</span></a> (abbreviated form of the name of the Party of People's Liberty) was led by former Prime Minister Mikhail <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kasyanov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kasyanov</span></a>, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nemtsov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nemtsov</span></a>, and lawmaker Vladimir <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ryzhkov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ryzhkov</span></a>. </p><p>Nemtsov was gunned down near the Kremlin in February 2015, and Ryzhkov left the party's leadership before that</p><p><a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-shuts-down-parnas-opposition-party/32427534.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rferl.org/a/russia-shuts-down-</span><span class="invisible">parnas-opposition-party/32427534.html</span></a></p>
Wendy Siegelman<p>Exclusive: Texts tie DeSantis closely to Trump insider Lev Parnas in 2018 race</p><p>After Lev Parnas was indicted in 2019 Ron DeSantis returned a $50,000 donation and said he was barely an acquaintance of Parnas - but Parnas provided Reuters 63 text messages with DeSantis while he campaigned for governor in 2018</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LevParnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LevParnas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parnas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeSantis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RonDeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RonDeSantis</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texts-tie-desantis-closely-trump-insider-lev-parnas-2018-race-2023-05-22/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/us/texts-tie</span><span class="invisible">-desantis-closely-trump-insider-lev-parnas-2018-race-2023-05-22/</span></a></p>
Sarah Grisham<p>Texts tie <a href="https://union.place/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeSantis</span></a> closely to <a href="https://union.place/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> insider Lev <a href="https://union.place/tags/Parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parnas</span></a> in 2018 race, says report <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/22/texts-tie-desantis-closely-to-trump-insider-lev-parnas-in-2018-race-says-report.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnbc.com/2023/05/22/texts-tie-</span><span class="invisible">desantis-closely-to-trump-insider-lev-parnas-in-2018-race-says-report.html</span></a></p>
Laffy<p>Via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@LRozen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>LRozen</span></a></span>:</p><p>Lev <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Parnas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parnas</span></a> for TIME: "I was used by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and his personal lawyer Rudy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Giuliani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Giuliani</span></a> in ways that helped pave the way for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> to invade <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>, my native land."</p><p>“Giuliani…recruited me to help him further Trump’s interests overseas…My primary task was to be their go-between with Ukrainian & Russian oligarchs & officials. In retrospect, I concluded that my real job was to help undermine & destabilize the Ukrainian government.” </p><p><a href="https://time.com/6255090/lev-parnas-giuliani-trump-ukraine/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">time.com/6255090/lev-parnas-gi</span><span class="invisible">uliani-trump-ukraine/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a></p>
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