@AnthonyLoPresti @RonFilipkowski 1).
On Nov. 24, 2015, @realDonaldTrump โ then the @GOP presidential candidate โ mocked Serge Kovaleski, a disabled investigative reporter for The NYT [1] [2], during a campaign rally in Myrtle Beach, Horry County, S.C. [3] [4] [5] [6].
@DarrenLinvill @Shayan86 @antibot4navalny 1).
โThe post, a fake news video making false claims about the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), hit the jackpot when @elonmusk reposted it on X.
@DarrenLinvill @Shayan86 @antibot4navalny @elonmusk 2).
The campaign of propaganda posts is called Operation Overload, also known as Matryoshka.
@DarrenLinvill @Shayan86 @antibot4navalny @elonmusk 3).
It typically pairs real images with AI-generated voice-overs and the logos of real news organizations or institutions to create false or misleading ยปnews clipsยซ that support Russian talking points.โ
@rhonda_harbison @Acyn @SecDef @StephenM @Sec_Noem 1).
โWhen unrest erupted around the country in 2020, President Trumpโs then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper drew a line in the sand: active-duty military troops should rarely be deployed on American streets to quell protests.
@rhonda_harbison @Acyn @SecDef @StephenM @Sec_Noem 2).
โ ยปThe option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situationsยซ
@rhonda_harbison @Acyn @SecDef @StephenM @Sec_Noem 3).
โ Esper said, publicly breaking with @realDonaldTrump, who had floated deploying troops to respond to protests against the killing of George Floyd.
Five years later, Trump second-term Defense Secretary (@SecDef) @PeteHegseth appears to have no such qualms.
@RonFilipkowski 1).
โAfter the fall of the Soviet Union, documents from state and party archives began to reveal a disturbing and previously little understood aspect of Soviet repression operations. The Soviet secret police worked according to quotas.
@RonFilipkowski 2).
Just as Soviet economic planners set targets for industrial growth, so too did state security organs set their own ยปlimitsยซ for arrests and executions [1].โ
@RonFilipkowski 3).
The NKVD Order No. 00447 clearly stated that the quotas were guidelines. Therefore, unauthorized exceeding of the number of arrested persons was forbidden; exceeding the quotas required Lubyankaสผs consent [2].
@RonFilipkowski 1).
โLarge-scale protests are taking place in the L.A. area against @POTUS @realDonaldTrump's immigration policies and raids conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
@RonFilipkowski @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 2).
On Sun. morning, June 8, 2025, around 8 a.m. local time, troops from Californiaโs National Guard began to arrive in L.A. [1]โ.
@RonFilipkowski @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 3).
โBoth ICE and local activists estimated that about 45 people were arrested on Fri. and Sat., and several were reported to have been injured in confrontations with the police.
@DemocraticDaisy @RonFilipkowski 1).
During his first term in the White House โ @realDonaldTrump made sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka in front of his employees that were so lewd and disturbing that he was rebuked by his one-time chief of staff John Kelly...
@DemocraticDaisy @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
โ ยปAides said he talked about Ivanka Trumpโs breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that prompted Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughterยซ
@DemocraticDaisy @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 3).
โ writes @MilesTaylorUSA [1], a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, in his [...] book, according to @Newsweek [2].โ