https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/extremists-and-qanon-supporters-are-organizing-message-boards-take-over-republican

Bannon’s interview with Schultz caught further attention, with social media posts appearing on far-right platforms 4chan, Patriots.win, and Gab. These posts especially focused on the claim by Bannon and Schultz that 200,000 local committee slots nationwide — roughly half of the total seats — currently stand empty and could be filled easily, potentially even by running unopposed. Some of the posts touted this as “The Best Kept Secret to taking over the Republican (GOP) Party.”

These social media platforms have long served as havens for white nationalists, as well as spreading conspiracy theories about such topics as the Black Lives Matter movement and the 2020 election, as well as dangerous rhetoric related to the coronavirus pandemic and the January 6 insurrection.

In addition, one of the Telegram accounts promoting the plan is a follower of the the QAnon conspiracy theory; QAnon supporters have widely supported the January 6 insurrection and called for a military coup in the United States. A number of QAnon supporters ran for Congress and state legislatures in 2020, the most successful of whom was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). This month, the House of Representatives voted to strip Greene of her committee assignments, due to her history of espousing conspiracy theories and supporting violent threats against members of Congress when she was an online commentator.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/new-chamber-ceo-praises-pro-business-democrats-amid-gop-rifts-1.1562046

(Bloomberg) – Suzanne Clark, the incoming chief executive officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, praised Democrats who joined the lobbying group’s “fight” for pro-business policies last year and called for bipartisanship on the nation’s economic response to the Covid-19 pandemic and other issues.

“We did support more Democrats last year than we have before because they supported our priorities,” said Clark during a Bloomberg TV interview Wednesday.

Clark will take over next month as the first female chief of the biggest U.S. lobbying group, replacing longtime CEO Tom Donohue, who the chamber announced Tuesday is stepping down.

Although the chamber has criticized policy proposals by progressive Democrats, Republicans in the Trump era had moved away from the group’s positions on trade, immigration and governance while still receiving the bulk of the its political donations.

She told Bloomberg that the group, which was founded in 1912, “will work with anyone who wants to work with us.” President Joe Biden’s administration should find bipartisan paths forward on stimulus and infrastructure, she said while warning against tax increases.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/alexei-yulia-navalny-russia-germany-b1800629.html

Alexei Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya has flown back to Germany for a “private visit”, reports in Der Spiegel suggest, hours after Russian authorities issued an arrest warrant for one of her husband’s top aides.

A passenger flying on the same plane allegedly told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency that the opposition leader’s wife hung around in Frankfurt Airport’s transit area before making her way through border control on Wednesday evening.

Neither Mrs Navalnaya nor her team have confirmed the trip, with newspaper Der Spiegel claiming her lawyer said she did not know if her client had “actually flown” to Germany at all

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