@RonFilipkowski 1).
„[...] @RepDonBacon, who represents the Omaha-based 2nd District, had told the NYT [1] last week he was a no on the rescissions package, saying he wouldn’t follow His »party off the cliff«. [2]”.
June 12, 2025
@RonFilipkowski @RepDonBacon 2).
Endnotes:
[1] „The Nebraska Republican’s dissent on some issues makes him one of a disappearing breed in the @GOP – and suggests he may head for the exit.
@RonFilipkowski @RepDonBacon @GOP 3).
Representative @DonJBacon, Republican of Nebraska, has publicly accused @POTUS @realDonaldTrump of treating Russia with »velvet gloves«, criticized him for gutting AmeriCorps and questioned his power to impose tariffs without congressional approval.
@RonFilipkowski @RepDonBacon @GOP @DonJBacon @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 4).
He has described @SecDef @PeteHegseth's use of Signal to share sensitive military operations as »unacceptable«. And he was the sole House Republican to vote »no« on a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the «Gulf of America«. He said he thought it was stupid.”
1).
„After Iran’s newly established Islamic leadership was dragged into war by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1980, it fought, in the words of a top commander, with “empty hands”.
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For the republic’s young, ideologically driven leaders, determined to export their vision of Islamic radicalism, it was a brutal reckoning: Iran’s conventional army was in disarray and faced an adversary backed by regional and western powers.
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Years later, those same leaders admitted the isolated regime was reduced to pleading with the few states that it had relations with for the most basic supplies, such as razor wire.
@threadreaderapp @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @CBSNews @Reuters 1).
„Vance Boelter, the man accused of shooting two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and their spouses, was captured late Sunday after a sprawling, two-day manhunt that was the largest in the state’s history, officials said.”
June 16, 2025 [1]
@threadreaderapp @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @CBSNews @Reuters 2).
„Investigators had pursued the suspect, identified as Vance Boelter, 57, throughout the weekend, as Minnesotans reeled from the killings of Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman.
@threadreaderapp @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @CBSNews @Reuters 3).
In a separate attack, the gunman also wounded State Senator John A. Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, at their home in the Minneapolis suburbs”.
@talhagin 1).
„Missile barrages fired from Iran overnight caused damage to a major oil refinery in Haifa and to the campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
@talhagin 2).
There were no reports of casualties in either strike, which came as Tehran fired separate volleys of dozens of ballistic missiles late Saturday and early Sunday in response to military action Israel has launched against Iran’s nuclear program.
@talhagin 3).
At least 42 people elsewhere in Rehovot were wounded when a missile hit a residential area, destroying at least one apartment building, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service.
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„For the second straight day, law enforcement officials are searching for 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter in the shootings of two Minn. lawmakers and their spouses [1].”
@RonFilipkowski 2).
„The suspect in the deadly shooting of a Minnesota state lawmaker and wounding of another had links to evangelical ministries and said he was a security expert with experience in the Gaza Strip and Africa, according to his online postings and public records.
@RonFilipkowski 3).
[...] Boelter voted for @realDonaldTrump, was a Christian and did not like abortion... [2].”
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„South Carolinians from all over the state were on the state house grounds for the »No Kings« protest after @POTUS @realDonaldTrump's efforts to use ICE to crack down on immigration enforcement.
@RonFilipkowski @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 2).
Thousands of people with picket signs filled the statehouse grounds for the »No Kings« sprouting up across the country in the wake of the Trump administration’s 250th anniversary parade for the U.S. Army, which also happened to take place on Trump’s 79th birthday.
@RonFilipkowski @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 3).
The rally featured SC Democratic House Rep. Jermaine Johnson (@Dr_JLJohnson) and former Republican and former U.S. Congressman Joe @WalshFreedom.
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @CLewandowski_, a former @realDonaldTrump campaign chief, has been working as a close advisor to @KristiNoem, the Wall Street Journal reported in April [1].
@RonFilipkowski @CLewandowski_ @realDonaldTrump @KristiNoem 2).
Designated a »special government employee«, he’s taken on a top role by her side and is often the only person to accompany her to meetings, sources told the Journal.
@RonFilipkowski @CLewandowski_ @realDonaldTrump @KristiNoem 3).
And that might not be the only work he’s doing for @Sec_Noem. In Feb., a source told The Swamp [2] that @CLewandowski_ was spotted in Noem’s Washington apartment building taking boxes down to the trash room.”