From FB:

I got 16 but I’m notoriously lousy with numbers. 

Blavatnik is the closest buddy and partner of Vekselberg. And Vekselberg is Putin’s most faithful, obedient puppy. 

And, of course, Blavatnik is paying for Trump’s legal team in the Russia probe. 

Yes, it’s very hard to look at all of this and say nothing. But here’s the thing. If they wanted to hide this, it would have been so easy. But they clearly want to make it as obvious as possible.

Oligarchic regimes with no freedom of speech are very profitable for Zuckerberg. Once Putin destroyed the Russian blogosphere, all of the talented authors who used to post content on their blogs (and make money from that) were forced to go to Facebook and work for Zuckerberg for free. So why would Zuckerberg not be in favor of such a setup?

What’s curious is that even in view of the recent revelations as to FB’s complicity in subverting the recent elections, there are no calls to resist Facebook, or at least give a little bit less of free labor to a billionaire who did so much to saddle us with Trump. 

Zuckerberg is playing dumb on TV, pretending he didn’t know whose interests he was promoting during the last election. As if his tech support services didn’t ban every anti-Putin dissident in Russia under the flimsiest of excuses. As if whenever a Russian troll insulted and threatened a Ukrainian FB user, Facebook’s tech support didn’t immediately ban the Ukrainian.

Here, for instance, is an old post of mine about Zuckerberg siding with the Russian trolls. This is just one tiny example. I read Ukrainian and Russian Facebook, and this is a daily occurrence. 

If Democrats really care about Dreamers, they need to close with Trump on it fast. This is the only thing that will make his base turn away from him, and he’s going to realize it pretty soon. 

The only anti-Trump argument that will work in the next election will have the word “immigration” in it. Whoever finds a way to talk to people freaked out by fluidity in a way that reaches them without shaming and condemning will win.