@RonFilipkowski 1).
„The move to send Homan, a career immigration agent who led ICE during the first Trump administration, suggests a shift in strategy.
@RonFilipkowski 2).
@Sec_Noem (@KristiNoem) has focused on raw numbers of deportations, placing Border Patrol at the helm of operations traditionally led by @ICEgov.
@RonFilipkowski @Sec_Noem @KristiNoem @ICEgov 3).
@realTomHoman, meanwhile, has backed a more targeted approach to deportations focusing on detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants with criminal records [1].”
@RonFilipkowski @Sec_Noem @KristiNoem @ICEgov @RealTomHoman 4).
„[...] senior Trump administration official confirmed reports that Gregory Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol official who has been a lightning rod for criticism from Democrats and civil liberties activists, will be leaving Minn. along with some Border Patrol agents [2].”
@RonFilipkowski @Sec_Noem @KristiNoem @ICEgov @RealTomHoman 5).
„Bovinoʼs departure marks a significant public shift in federal law enforcement posture amid mounting outrage over the fatal shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents.
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@RonFilipkowski @Sec_Noem @KristiNoem @ICEgov @RealTomHoman 6).
Criticism has increased around Bovino in the last few days after his public defense of the Pretti shooting and disputed claims about the confrontation that led to his death [3].”
@RonFilipkowski @Sec_Noem @KristiNoem @ICEgov @RealTomHoman 7).
„ @realDonaldTrump and Democratic @GovTimWalz (@Tim_Walz) spoke in a phone call and later offered comments that were a marked change from the critical statements they have exchanged in the past.
@RonFilipkowski @Sec_Noem @KristiNoem @ICEgov @RealTomHoman @realDonaldTrump @GovTimWalz @Tim_Walz 8).
Their conversation happened on the same day a federal judge heard arguments in a lawsuit aimed at halting the federal immigration enforcement surge in the state [4].”
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„When it appeared in 1944, »The Road to Serfdom« received a courteous if mixed reception in Britain (where paper shortages limited the print run). je John M. Keynes (1883–1946), Hayek’s friend and lifelong intellectual opponent [1],
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called it »a grand book«, adding, »Morally and philosophically, I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it«. George Orwell (1903–1950), more equivocal,
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conceded that Friedrich von Hayek (1899–1992) »is probably right« about the »totalitarian-minded« nature of intellectuals but concluded that he “does not see, or will not admit,
@MeidasTouch @RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @JustinWolfers [1] [2] [3] [4] – whom the IMF once named one of the 25 young economists in the world »shaping the way we think about the global economy« –
@MeidasTouch @RonFilipkowski @JustinWolfers 2).
said that @realDonaldTrump's undermining of federal institutions’ independence and propensity to insert himself in private sector decisions is reorienting the economy away from a productive and predictable path.
@MeidasTouch @RonFilipkowski @JustinWolfers @realDonaldTrump 3).
The result, Wolfers warned, could be a generation of missed opportunities and lost growth.”
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„Over @realDonaldTrump's past year, what originally looked like an effort to make the government his personal plaything has drifted distinctly toward doctrinal and operational fascism.
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Trump’s appetite for lebensraum, his claim of unlimited power, his support for the global far right, his politicization of the justice system, his deployment of performative brutality, his ostentatious violation of rights,
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his creation of a national paramilitary police—all of those developments bespeak something more purposeful and sinister than run-of-the-mill greed or gangsterism.
@allenanalysis @krz_luksza 1).
„Elvis Joel Tipan-Echeverria and his daughter, Chloe Renata Tipan Villacis, both Ecuadorian immigrants, were driving home from a grocery store when ICE stopped them, Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez said on Instagram on Jan. 22 [1].
@allenanalysis @krz_luksza 2).
„Video circulating on social media appeared to show agents using chemical irritants and flash-bang devices as crowds gathered at the scene [2].”
@allenanalysis @krz_luksza 3).
„The child’s transfer to Texas took place despite a court order requiring her immediate release, according to the affidavit filed by the family attorney.
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„Hitler understood the value of language [...] »To that end, he paid lip service to the tenets suggested by a name like National Socialist German Workers’ Party...
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@RonFilipkowski 2).
It was hoped that the combination of nationalism and socialism would attract a class of society who was frightened by communism, and felt themselves to be patriotic Germans, who nonetheless had been failed by the traditional bourgeois liberal or conservative parties,
@RonFilipkowski 3).
said Kristin Semmens, an associate professor of history at the University of Victoria [1] [2]. »It was more a cynical trick of language and propaganda than a real commitment to socialist values«.”