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#WhiteNationalist scumbag #DarrenBeattie : 'Competent white men must be in charge if you want things things to work'
THIS is the new head of the U.S. #InstituteOfPeace
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OH FFS, C'MON ALREADY. How in God's name isn't someone drilling into this to get this freak & his senile boss outta there?
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:shbmtwpzg4kbwb7onmg27khc/post/3ltpkom5s322r
#Russia #Trump #DarrenBeattie -
The actions come as #Trump & his top aides seek to bend #academic institutions to their #ideological beliefs. The #State Dept’s public *diplomacy* office is run by #DarrenBeattie, a political appointee who was fired from a job during the first Trump admin after he gave a talk at a #WhiteNationalist conference. He has made social media posts on white grievances, including one saying “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.”…
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#politics #alt #russia #darrenbeattie #russianasset #diplomacy #nationalist #putin
Heather Cox Richardson 6/3/25
Under-Secretary of Diplomacy Dismantles Office That Counters Disinformation . Champion for Russian Way of Life -
Let’s not lose our capacity to be shocked. This is shocking.
[The Telegraph]: Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin. By Benedict Smith, June 3, 2025Darren Beattie, who alarmed the State Department with his pro-Moscow views, is married to a woman whose uncle has ties to Vladimir Putin
“Russia, Russia, Russia!” because it’s true.
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Everything Is the ‘#TwitterFiles’ Now
The #State Dept is using #ElonMusk’s playbook.
by Charlie Warzel
“Let’s be clear about what’s really happening here. A high-ranking member of the #Trump administration is turning federal-government #data—in this case, State Department communications—into a political weapon against perceived ideological enemies.”
#DarrenBeattie #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/state-department-beattie-twitter-files/682667/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXH42uhDx8m-O99wIxCNkhQ -
…#State Dept staffers say they fear a selective disclosure of documents…could be distorted to fit any…narrative #DarrenBeattie, #Rubio, or others create.
Weaponizing any speech…by deeming it #disinformation is not only ironic, says Jankowicz—it will also have “chilling effects” on anyone who conducts disinformation #research, & it will result in “less #oversight & #transparency over #tech #platforms, …adversarial activities, [&]…people who are legitimately trying to disenfranchise US voters.”
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This is what #DarrenBeattie — & #MikeBenz —have long called for. Many of the names & keywords he included in his request reflect #ConspiracyTheories & #grievances promoted by Revolver News—which Beattie founded after being fired from his job as a speechwriter during the first #Trump admin when CNN reported that he had spoken at a conference with #WhiteNationalists.
#disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html -
This is what #DarrenBeattie — & #MikeBenz —have long called for. Many of the names & keywords he included in his request reflect #ConspiracyTheories & #grievances promoted by Revolver News—which Beattie founded after being fired from his job as a speechwriter during the first #Trump admin when CNN reported that he had spoken at a conference with #WhiteNationalists.
#disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html -
This is what #DarrenBeattie — & #MikeBenz —have long called for. Many of the names & keywords he included in his request reflect #ConspiracyTheories & #grievances promoted by Revolver News—which Beattie founded after being fired from his job as a speechwriter during the first #Trump admin when CNN reported that he had spoken at a conference with #WhiteNationalists.
#disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html -
This is what #DarrenBeattie — & #MikeBenz —have long called for. Many of the names & keywords he included in his request reflect #ConspiracyTheories & #grievances promoted by Revolver News—which Beattie founded after being fired from his job as a speechwriter during the first #Trump admin when CNN reported that he had spoken at a conference with #WhiteNationalists.
#disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html -
This is what #DarrenBeattie — & #MikeBenz —have long called for. Many of the names & keywords he included in his request reflect #ConspiracyTheories & #grievances promoted by Revolver News—which Beattie founded after being fired from his job as a speechwriter during the first #Trump admin when CNN reported that he had spoken at a conference with #WhiteNationalists.
#disinformation #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/politics/darren-beattie-mencken-club/index.html -
An hour after staff were informed, Secy of #State #MarcoRubio published a blog announcing the news on the #Federalist, one of the outlets that sued #GEC over allegations of *censorship*. He then discussed in an interview w/ #RightWing Internet personality #MikeBenz plans for #DarrenBeattie to lead a “transparency effort.”
“What we have to do now—& Darren will be big involved in that…is…document what happened…because…people who were harmed deserve to know…,& be able to prove…they were harmed.”
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An hour after staff were informed, Secy of #State #MarcoRubio published a blog announcing the news on the #Federalist, one of the outlets that sued #GEC over allegations of *censorship*. He then discussed in an interview w/ #RightWing Internet personality #MikeBenz plans for #DarrenBeattie to lead a “transparency effort.”
“What we have to do now—& Darren will be big involved in that…is…document what happened…because…people who were harmed deserve to know…,& be able to prove…they were harmed.”
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An hour after staff were informed, Secy of #State #MarcoRubio published a blog announcing the news on the #Federalist, one of the outlets that sued #GEC over allegations of *censorship*. He then discussed in an interview w/ #RightWing Internet personality #MikeBenz plans for #DarrenBeattie to lead a “transparency effort.”
“What we have to do now—& Darren will be big involved in that…is…document what happened…because…people who were harmed deserve to know…,& be able to prove…they were harmed.”
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An hour after staff were informed, Secy of #State #MarcoRubio published a blog announcing the news on the #Federalist, one of the outlets that sued #GEC over allegations of *censorship*. He then discussed in an interview w/ #RightWing Internet personality #MikeBenz plans for #DarrenBeattie to lead a “transparency effort.”
“What we have to do now—& Darren will be big involved in that…is…document what happened…because…people who were harmed deserve to know…,& be able to prove…they were harmed.”
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An hour after staff were informed, Secy of #State #MarcoRubio published a blog announcing the news on the #Federalist, one of the outlets that sued #GEC over allegations of *censorship*. He then discussed in an interview w/ #RightWing Internet personality #MikeBenz plans for #DarrenBeattie to lead a “transparency effort.”
“What we have to do now—& Darren will be big involved in that…is…document what happened…because…people who were harmed deserve to know…,& be able to prove…they were harmed.”
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🚨🚨 Several people familiar with the matter say that by early April, #DarrenBeattie had received many of the documents he’d requested, retrieved through eRecords, as well as a list of grantees. One source says the more sensitive list of subgrantees was not shared.
…5 weeks after Beattie made his requests for #information, the #State Dept shut down R/FIMI.
#ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #Trump #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy
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#DarrenBeattie also requested a search for communications that mentioned #Trump & more than a dozen other prominent right-leaning figures. In addition to Jones, Greenwald, & “RFK Jr.,” the list includes “#DonJr,” #ElonMusk, #JoeRogan, #CharlieKirk, #MarineLePen, “#Bolsonaro” (which could cover either Jair Bolsonaro, the fmr Brazilian president, or his son Eduardo, who is seeking political asylum in the US), & Beattie himself.
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#DarrenBeattie delivered the request, which he framed as a “transparency” initiative, to the #State Dept ofcls in a conference room at its Washington, DC, HQ on a Tues afternoon in early March, in the form of an 11-pg packet titled, “SO [Senior Official] Beattie Inquiry for GEC/R/FIMI Records.” The documents were printed out, rather than emailed.
Labeled “sensitive but unclassified,” the document lays out Beattie’s requests in 12 separate, but sometimes repetitive, bullet points.
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Several #State Dept staffers call the records requests “unusual” & “improper” in their scope.…
While they acknowledge that previous political appointees have, on occasion, made information requests through the records management system, #DarrenBeattie’s request was something wholly different.
Never had “an incoming political appointee” sought to “search through 7 years’ worth of all staff emails to see whether anything negative had been said about his friends,” says one staffer.
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#DarrenBeattie specifically asked for “all documents, emails, correspondence, or other records of communications amongst/between employees, contractors, subcontractors or consultants at the GEC or R/FIMI” since 2017 with all the named individuals, as well as communications that merely referenced them. He sought communications that referenced any of the listed organizations.
#ConspiracyTheories #law #Trump #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #democracy
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Most people on the list appear to have focused at some point on tracking or challenging #disinformation broadly, or on countering specific false claims, including those related to the #2020election. A few of the individuals appear primarily to be critics of #Trump, #DarrenBeattie or others in the #RightWing #media ecosystem. Many have been the subject of Trump’s public #grievances for years.
#ConspiracyTheories #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #democracy
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Most people on the list appear to have focused at some point on tracking or challenging #disinformation broadly, or on countering specific false claims, including those related to the #2020election. A few of the individuals appear primarily to be critics of #Trump, #DarrenBeattie or others in the #RightWing #media ecosystem. Many have been the subject of Trump’s public #grievances for years.
#ConspiracyTheories #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #democracy
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Most people on the list appear to have focused at some point on tracking or challenging #disinformation broadly, or on countering specific false claims, including those related to the #2020election. A few of the individuals appear primarily to be critics of #Trump, #DarrenBeattie or others in the #RightWing #media ecosystem. Many have been the subject of Trump’s public #grievances for years.
#ConspiracyTheories #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #democracy
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Most people on the list appear to have focused at some point on tracking or challenging #disinformation broadly, or on countering specific false claims, including those related to the #2020election. A few of the individuals appear primarily to be critics of #Trump, #DarrenBeattie or others in the #RightWing #media ecosystem. Many have been the subject of Trump’s public #grievances for years.
#ConspiracyTheories #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #democracy
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Most people on the list appear to have focused at some point on tracking or challenging #disinformation broadly, or on countering specific false claims, including those related to the #2020election. A few of the individuals appear primarily to be critics of #Trump, #DarrenBeattie or others in the #RightWing #media ecosystem. Many have been the subject of Trump’s public #grievances for years.
#ConspiracyTheories #law #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics #FirstAmendment #democracy
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#DarrenBeattie has also personally promoted these views. Before joining the #State Dept, he started Revolver News, a website that espouses #FarRight talking points that often gain traction in certain *conservative* circles. Among the ideas promoted in Revolver News is that GEC was part of a “censorship industrial complex” aimed at suppressing American #conservative voices, even though GEC’s mission was foreign #disinformation.
#ConspiracyTheories #law #Trump #privacy #InfoSec #RevengePolitics
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…included among the nearly 60 individuals & orgs caught up in #DarrenBeattie’s information dragnet are #BillGates; the #opensource #journalism outlet #Bellingcat; fmr #FBI special agent #ClintWatts; #NancyFaeser, #Germany’s interior minister; #DanielFried, a career #State ofcl & fmr US ambassador to Poland; #RenéeDiResta, an expert in online #disinformation who led research at #StanfordInternetObservatory; & #NinaJankowicz, a researcher who briefly led the #DHS Disinformation Governance Board.
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A previously unreported document distributed by snr US #State Dept ofcl #DarrenBeattie reveals a sweeping effort to uncover all communications between the staff of a small govt office focused on #online #disinformation & a lengthy list of #public & #private figures—many of whom are longtime targets of the #FarRight.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #privacy #InfoSec #democracy #RevengePolitics #Trump
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This is very bad. [MSNBC]: Marco Rubio’s new undersecretary is extreme even by MAGA standards
The Rubio-led State Department was supposed to represent a “moderate” side of MAGA. Darren Beattie's appointment makes a mockery of that notion. By Jared Holt, senior researcher on hate and extremist movements in the U.S.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/darren-beattie-state-department-1235255529/
#RollingStone 3 February 2025
'Competent white men must be in charge''said
#DarrenBeattie, a #Whitesupremacist who was sacked during the first #Drumpf admin , but he is now a high profile State Department appointee . scumbag! -
#DarrenBeattie spread #ConspiracyTheories about the #Jan6 #insurrection & posted on social media that "competent white men must be in charge" yet MarcoRubio tapped him to be acting undersecretary of state for public #diplomacy. The position requires #Senate #confirmation [like that means anything].
#WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #ForeignPolicy #USpol #geopolitics #law #TrumpCoup #Trump
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/jan-6-conspiracy-theory-promoter-named-top-state-department-job-rcna190497 -
#Trump is elevating a known #racist to one of the highest positions in the #State Department.
#DarrenBeattie, a *conservative* *journalist* [he’s neither] who was fired from the Trump admin in 2018 after revelations about his attendance at a conference w/ #WhiteNationalists, will serve as the acting undersecretary of state for public #diplomacy [it’d be funny if it weren’t so serious] under Secretary of State #MarcoRubio, ABC News reported.
#USpol #geopolitics #law
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-taps-controversial-conservative-journalist-top-job/story?id=118369945 -
See 👆
I cannot think of a more obvious way to say:"My ideology is to coddle the feelings of white men by demoralizing women and minorities"
What a loser #DarrenBeattie is.
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CNN's Van Jones Lights Up 'Despicable' Darren Beattie
#StopTrumpNow #DarrenBeattie #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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Wow! What would #DarrenBeattie say if he understood there's an entire ecosystem designed to keep him demoralized?
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actual tweet from the #Trump administration's latest #DEI hire (he's joining the State Department to handle America's public relations)
link: https://x.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1842239185203151053
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The wording of the texts matches the subtitles of the article, “The Battle of the Century: Here’s What Happens if #ElonMusk Buys #Twitter,” …published 3 days earlier on a #RightWing website….
…The site is run by the #FarRight blogger #DarrenBeattie, a fmr #Trump White House speechwriter who was fired in 2018 for having spoken on a panel alongside #WhiteNationalists. After the #Jan6, 2021, attack… #Beattie promoted the baseless claim that the FBI had planted agents in the crowd who incited it….
