@RonFilipkowski 1).
On Thurs., Nov. 12, 2015, @realDonaldTrump, speaking at a Central Community College in Fort Dodge, Iowa, compared Ben Carsonʼs [1] aggressive behavior in his youth to pedophilia [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].
@UAW @RonFilipkowski 1).
„The response comes after a video published by TMZ showed @realDonaldTrump mouthing »f--k you« and raising his middle finger at a worker shouting at him from below.
@UAW @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
Trump was touring the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn ahead of an address at the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday.
@UAW @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 3).
The worker, identified as TJ Sabula, could be heard in the video calling Trump a »pedophile protector«, apparently referencing Trump’s handling of the federal government’s files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein [1].”
@RonFilipkowski 1)
„The reporter, Hannah Natanson, was at her home in Virginia at the time of the search. Federal agents searched her home and her devices, seizing her phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch. One of the laptops was her personal computer, the other a Washington Post-issued laptop.
@RonFilipkowski 2).
In April, @AGPamBondi (@PamBondi) rescinded a Biden-era policy that prevented officials from searching reporters’ phone records when trying to identify government personnel who have provided sensitive information to news organizations [1].”
@RonFilipkowski @AGPamBondi @PamBondi 3).
„It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of classified disclosures, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.
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For MAGA America, ICE is an instrument for cleansing violence. Visit ICE social-media accounts and you’ll see, again and again, videos of armed force against unarmed individuals, against a soundtrack of pumping music.
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Rarely do these videos present a situation that couldn’t be managed with a couple of plainclothes officers bearing holstered sidearms. The point is to prove that the fearsome power of the American state is being wielded by righteous MAGA hands against despised MAGA targets.
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„An Iranian man will be executed on Wednesday after joining anti-regime protests, a human rights group has said.
Erfan Soltani, 26, was detained last Thursday and sentenced to death.
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His family has been told that he will be executed although they have been given no information about where it will take place and under what charges.
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– »We have never witnessed a case move so quickly« – Awyar Shekhi from Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights (@Hengaw_English) told the BBC [1].
– »The government is using every tactic they know to suppress people and spread fear« – the group said.
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„Russia has been accused of strapping a landmine to an African mercenary’s chest and ordering him to run through no man’s land as a human bomb to target Ukrainian fortifications.
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Widely shared video purporting to show preparation for the attack shows the black mercenary being marched through a trench at gunpoint and being ordered to storm Ukrainian positions.
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A Russian uses racist insults, telling the recruit he is being used as a »can opener« to blow himself up to »open« an enemy bunker.
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„ @SecRubio [...] before joining the @realDonaldTrump Administration, he spent his career advocating for America as the leader of the world’s democracies; the son of Cuban immigrants, he was a champion of aid to impoverished countries.
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Some observers believe that Rubio is working to provide consistency and balance in a tumultuous Administration.
– »He’s doing his best to moderate Trump’s worst impulses« – a European foreign minister told me. – »He understands the stakes.
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He’s whispering in Trump’s ear. But he has only so much influence«.