@michaeldweiss 1).
[@PressSec] said the U.S. learned of Iranian plans to execute 800 people Wed., which didn’t happen. She didn’t say how the U.S. had learned about the planned executions.
@michaeldweiss @PressSec 2).
[@karolineleavitt] confirmed @realDonaldTrump had a recent conversation with @IsraeliPM Benjamin @netanyahu but didn’t disclose specifics of their discussion.
@michaeldweiss @PressSec @karolineleavitt @realDonaldTrump @IsraeliPM @netanyahu 3).
She didn’t say when the conversation took place, but the officials said that Israel had raised concerns about a potential strike [1].”
@michaeldweiss @PressSec @karolineleavitt @realDonaldTrump @IsraeliPM @netanyahu 4).
„Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Egypt, all partners of Washington, have also been asking the Trump administration not to attack Iran, said an official from a Gulf Arab nation.
@michaeldweiss @PressSec @karolineleavitt @realDonaldTrump @IsraeliPM @netanyahu 5).
Senior officials from those countries have been calling U.S. officials with that message over the last two days, the official said. They have told the Americans that a U.S. attack could lead to a wider regional conflict [2]”.
@michaeldweiss @PressSec @karolineleavitt @realDonaldTrump @IsraeliPM @netanyahu 6).
„That is partly because the monarchies of the Gulf worry that the ripple effects of escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, or possible state failure in Iran, would harm their own security, undermining their reputation as regional safe havens for business and tourism.
@michaeldweiss @PressSec @karolineleavitt @realDonaldTrump @IsraeliPM @netanyahu 7).
But it is also because some Gulf governments have come to see Israel, Iran’s archenemy, as a belligerent state seeking to dominate the Middle East. They believe that Israel could pose a greater threat to regional stability than an already weakened Iran does [3].”
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Krzysztof Galos (c. 1968 – c. 2023), a man tortured to death by Russians in a prison in Taganrog [1] [2] [3], Rostov Oblast, simply for being Polish [4] [5] [6].
2).
N.B., one of the people imprisoned and tortured in SIZO-2 in Taganrog [1] [2] [3] was, i.a., Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Volodymyrivna Roshchyna (1996–2024) [6] [7] [8].
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„Edward Jacob »Jake« Lang, a far-right influencer and candidate in the 2026 U.S. Senate special election in Fla., was arrested [on Feb. 5, 2026] after recording himself vandalizing an anti-U.S.1 Immigration and Customs Enforcement sculpture at the Minn.
@donie @RonFilipkowski 2).
State Capitol. Lang was arrested on the same day and jailed on suspicion of criminal damage to property, a felony [1]. The ice sculpture had been commissioned and installed by the veterans organization Common Defense, whose communications director, Jacob Thomas, stated:
@donie @RonFilipkowski 3).
– »I gave eight years of my life in service to this country in the military. For an insurrectionist to destroy our display is an attack on the First Amendment veterans like me fought to defend« [2] [3].
@Cogito1918 @Niunieczka1 @ipngovpl 2).
◆︎ „Enttäuschte Erwartungen. Die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung kommunistischer Diktatur in Polen” (2017) [1] von Prof. Joachim von Puttkamer [2] aus @UniJena
@Cogito1918 @Niunieczka1 @ipngovpl @UniJena 3).
◆︎ Offener Brief von Michał Bartoszcze vom 9. Mai 1984 bezüglich des Todes seines Sohnes an den kommunistischer Diktator der VR Polen, Wojciech Jaruzelski, veröffentlicht in „Tygodnik Mazowsze“, Nr. 89 vom 24. Mai 1984
@michaeldweiss 1).
„In 2020, Washington sent two officials, Roger Carstens and Kash Patel, to Lebanon to locate Austin Tice [1] [2], an American journalist who had disappeared in Syria in 2012 and was thought to be in the hands of the Assad regime.”
Feb. 6, 2026
@michaeldweiss 2).
Endnotes:
[1] „In June 2025, Syrian intelligence files uncovered by the BBC and confirmation from former Syrian officials confirmed that Austin Tice had been held by the Assad regime (a).
@michaeldweiss 3).
The BBC found that the @FBI and @CIA had interviewed Major General Bassam al-Hassan, a former Assad regime official who is accused of being responsible for holding Tice captive, multiple times earlier in the year.
2).
factors such as his perceived business acumen, his economic or immigration policies, or perhaps the fact that he was not a career politician increased his appeal. We cannot speak to these possibilities.
3).
This study illustrates that something other than veracity accounted for his success, as supporters did not change their voting intentions even if they altered their beliefs about the truth of his statements.
@samidhas @BenMullin 1).
„The 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 (@washingtonpost) told employees on Wed. that it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are expected to decimate the organization’s sports, local news and international coverage.
[...]
@samidhas @BenMullin @washingtonpost 2).
The cuts are a sign that @JeffBezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet.
@samidhas @BenMullin @washingtonpost @JeffBezos 3).
The paper expanded during the first several years of his ownership, but the company has sputtered more recently.”