@Cathy2NotToday @RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @SenDuckworth — a retired U.S. Army Lt. Col., who lost both her legs when her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in Iraq — dismissed @VP @JDVance's criticism as »petty insults«.
@Cathy2NotToday @RonFilipkowski @SenDuckworth @VP @JDVance 2).
– »Forrest Gump ran toward danger in Vietnam. Your boss ran to his podiatrist crying bone spurs«
@Cathy2NotToday @RonFilipkowski @SenDuckworth @VP @JDVance 3).
– @TammyDuckworth wrote in a post [1] on the social platform X, referring to @POTUS @realDonaldTrump's medical draft deferments that excused him from serving in the Vietnam War [2].”
@RonFilipkowski 1).
Führer of the US in Orange Makeup, „ @POTUS @realDonaldTrump has claimed he won the state and that election interference happened, but state and local leaders deny that.
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@RonFilipkowski @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 2).
District 5 Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. said the sealed criminal warrant comes after failed attempts by @TheJusticeDept to subpoena the ballots through civil lawsuits.
@RonFilipkowski @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @TheJusticeDept 3).
– »This is nothing but sowing the seeds of distrust. This is a full-frontal attack on democracy. This is a code red in America, in Fulton County« – Arrington said.
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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.”
@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].”
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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.