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ending a 14-hour shutdown as a law banning TikTok nationwide took effect – with Trump promising to halt the ban when he takes office by extending a deadline for China-based ByteDance to sell the app [1].”
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„In a message to users hours before the rally, TikTok said:
– »As a result of president @realDonaldTrump's efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.« [2].”
@KenRoth 1).
„[...] Xi Jinping is intensifying a war on corruption that has purged officials in record numbers—with the side effect of leaving many unwilling to act for fear of punishment.
@KenRoth 2).
To help his bureaucrats rediscover their mojo [1] and revive a stagnating economy, Xi is also promoting the message that some mistakes are acceptable.
@KenRoth 3).
His decree to the Communist Party: Enforcing strict discipline shouldn’t fuel a climate of fear that saps the can-do spirit that once helped power China’s economic rise [2].”
1).
„Another issue, and I think it’s very important for the U.S. too, is that people in small cities feel they are always being stigmatized – criticized, for instance, for having their own car, for living in single-family houses.
2).
We saw this in France, with the Yellow Vest protests against @EmmanuelMacron's gas tax. People who had to commute to work resented being told by Paris elites that they are responsible for climate change,
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for carbon emissions – even as these elites thought nothing of flying to Rome for a weekend, heedless of their own emissions. That’s led to this feeling of being abandoned by both the center-right and the center-left.
@KenRoth 1).
For several „hours before the ceasefire is due to go into effect, @netanyahu says the Gaza ceasefire agreement may be temporary and Israel retains the right to resume Gaza fighting.
@KenRoth @netanyahu 2).
– »If we must return to fighting we will do that in new, forceful ways, @netanyahu said in a video statement on Sat.« – his first speech since the ceasefire deal was announced on Wed.
Netanyahu said he has support from both the Biden and Trump administrations.
@KenRoth @netanyahu 3).
– »President @realDonaldTrump and President @JoeBiden have given full backing to Israel’s right to return to combat if Israel concludes that negotiations on Phase B are futile» – he said.”
@KenRoth 1).
„Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Saturday that he would pull out of Benjamin @netanyahu's coalition government in protest against the ceasefire and hostage release deal it has struck with Hamas.
@KenRoth @netanyahu 2).
Earlier this week Bezalel Smotrich threatened to pull out of the government if Israel did not resume the war when the first phase of the deal
@KenRoth @netanyahu 3).
– during which Hamas is set to release 33 hostages in return for the freeing of 1,900 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails – ends in six weeks’ time.”
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„[...] HRF filed a complaint against Major General Ghassan Alian, the head of the Israeli governmentʼs Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).
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He is known for comments he made three days after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of around 1,200 people and the abduction of over 250 others.
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– »Human animals must be treated as such« – Alian said in a video message directed at Gaza locals. – »There will be no electricity and no water [1]. There will only be destruction. You wanted hell; you will get hell [2]«.”
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„Troopers marched a handcuffed Moore away and booked him into Fulton County jail on a misdemeanor charge of willful obstruction of law enforcement officers.
@RonFilipkowski 2).
After Moore took a mug shot imitating one @realDonaldTrump famously took at the same jail, a supporter posted Moore’s $1,000 bail [1].”
@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 3).
„Moore’s banishment from the House Chamber came in March 2024 when he assailed the late Georgia House Speaker David Ralston (R), who was being honored by both chambers that day [2].”