ʀ𝚊𝚟𝚒, 𝙶𝚎𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜... "𝘔𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘏𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘉𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴" -- The monsoon season of 1971 brought not only sweltering heat and humidity but also unimaginable mayhem and agony to thousands of people in this part of the world.Thousands of distressed and displaced people were pouring into West Bengal from East Pakistan, fleeing the atrocities committed during Tikka Khan's brutal campaign. The Jessore Road was inundated with helpless people of all ages, a sea of humanity in despair. Amidst this chaos, a man with ancestral roots in eastern Bengal was moved to action. Pandit Ravi Shankar, the renowned sitar virtuoso, conceived a humanitarian initiative to help the destitute. A thread 🧵

Having worked on the Hill I get the ubiquity of Politico Pro and its cost. But I think it takes an enormous suspension of disbelief to call it a conspiracy theory to look askance at the millions of dollars the Biden admin paid the paper that ran this hatchet job on his opponent.

The 51 national security agents who started this politically driven conspiracy theory just lost their security clearances.