@andreagail_k @GeraldoRivera 1).
Orange Duce @realDonaldTrump employed illegal immigrants at his golf club
„Supervisors at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., provided fake green cards and Social Security numbers to undocumented employees, according to a report in the WaPo [1] [2].
@andreagail_k @GeraldoRivera @realDonaldTrump 2).
Sandra Diaz and Victoria Morales recently took their stories public in the NYT [3] [4].”
@RonFilipkowski @Ch_JesusChrist 1).
„On the Christian Education of Dr. Vance Luther Boelter [1]
When a bullet is a »prayer»
[...] I think of that Christian metaphor particularly resonant within the Pentecostal tradition from which Christ for the Nations descends, that of »spiritual war«.
@RonFilipkowski @Ch_JesusChrist 2).
That emphasis on Satan as an actual entity who needs to be contested not just spiritually but in the material world is central to Christian nationalism’s flattening of metaphor.
@RonFilipkowski @Ch_JesusChrist 3).
Ephesians 6:12, a verse beloved in the traditions of James G. Lindsay (1906–1973) [2] and Vance L. Boelter [3] [4], tempts the believer to project »spiritual war« outward,
@epaldelta @RonFilipkowski 1).
On Wed. evening, Oct. 23, 2024, „at an event in Duluth, Ga.” [1], „former @FoxNews host @TuckerCarlson stirred up a crowd of Donald Trump supporters [...]
@epaldelta @RonFilipkowski @FoxNews @TuckerCarlson 2).
with a bizarre extended metaphor that cast former [at that time] President @realDonaldTrump as an angry father about to come home and give a »vigorous spanking« to his disobedient daughter [2] [3] [4].”
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”.
2).
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.
3).
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].”