𝕭𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖓 𝕮𝖆𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖕𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖔𝖇𝖊 2 Profile picture
🤍💙🤍 Anglo-Saxon Cat; liberal utilitarian; anti-conservatist; anti-trumpist. Continued here: https://t.co/UfyWai58Bs
Feb 5 8 tweets 2 min read
@RonFilipkowski @rothschildmd @michaeldweiss @Shayan86

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„There are many possible explanations for why Americans voted for @realDonaldTrump in the primary and the general election: 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.
Feb 4 4 tweets 1 min read
@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.
Feb 3 4 tweets 1 min read
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„Lord Mandelson is to step down from the House of Lords after it emerged he leaked confidential government emails to Jeffrey Epstein. 2).
[...] [Peter Mandelson] who was serving as business secretary in Gordon Brown’s cabinet, shared market-sensitive information with Epstein that the paedophile could have used to make money.”

Feb. 3, 2026
Feb 3 6 tweets 2 min read
@chessclubgringo @atrupar The real quote by Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) [1] [2] of 1973 is:

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„The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; @chessclubgringo @atrupar 2).
how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.
Feb 2 4 tweets 1 min read
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„Last year @TulsiGabbard also fired the acting counsel in the intelligence community’s inspector general’s office, and appointed a senior adviser within the office who reported directly to Gabbard. Democrats said the moves violated the law. 2).
In Oct., the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed a new intelligence-community inspector general, Christopher Fox, on a 51-47 vote. No Democrats voted for Fox, who served as an aide to Gabbard in her role as spy chief before taking the oversight job.”

Feb. 2, 2026
Feb 2 5 tweets 1 min read
@michaeldweiss @RonFilipkowski

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„Under the Biden administration, Tahnoon’s efforts to get AI hardware had been largely stymied over fears that the sensitive technology could be diverted to China. @michaeldweiss @RonFilipkowski 2).
Of particular concern was one of Tahnoon’s own companies, the AI firm G42, which had stoked alarm among intelligence officials and lawmakers over its close ties to the sanctioned tech giant Huawei and other Chinese firms.
Feb 2 4 tweets 3 min read
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„Credo in F Major: II. Crucifixus” (c. 1717–1719) [1] [2] by Antonio Lotti (1667–1740) [3] [4], performed in 1999 by the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und Ensemble [5] [6] [7] under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock [8] [9]. 2).
Endnotes:

[1] ancientgroove.co.uk/lotti/lotticre…

[2] ancientgroove.co.uk/pdfs2/Lotti_Cr…

[3] it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_L…

[4] de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_L…

[5] de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar…

[6] balthasar-neumann.com

[7] thomas-hengelbrock.com/en/balthasar-n…

[8] de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_He…
Feb 2 8 tweets 1 min read
@michaeldweiss 1).
„It was the GRU that choreographed the seizure and annexation of Crimea, as Vladimir Pootin admitted in a documentary that aired on Russian state television in March 2015. @michaeldweiss 2).
Since then, Ukraine has functioned as a laboratory for Russian military doctrine and GRU subversion efforts. According to @MarkGaleotti, a Russia security specialist at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London,
Feb 1 5 tweets 1 min read
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„After months of rumors about why @realDonaldTrump so stridently demanded that everyone move on from the Epstein files (and speculation that anything else he did was an effort to distract from them), 2).
people immediately latched onto a six-page @FBI memo included in the dump that, at least on the surface, seemed to lend credence to their darkest guesses.
Feb 1 7 tweets 1 min read
@rothschildmd 1).
„Cybersecurity specialists, elections experts and many former top security officials who worked for Trump during his first term have maintained for years that there was no evidence of widespread tampering or fraud in the 2020 contest.

[...] @rothschildmd 2).
@realDonaldTrump has been fixated on the 2020 election since losing, regularly raising it both publicly and with friends and aides. His second administration’s intent—and dedication of resources—to investigating the race has only recently begun to come into public view.
Feb 1 4 tweets 1 min read
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„The Kraken [1]: What is it and why has @realDonaldTrump's ex-lawyer released it?

It's also become an internet meme representing a sprawling, unsubstantiated set of claims that purport to outline the case for widespread fraud in the US presidential election. 2).
Pro-Trump groups including QAnon conspiracy theorists have amplified the idea under the hashtag # Release The Kraken, and it's being widely shared by those supporting the legal campaign to challenge the election results.”
Jan 31 4 tweets 1 min read
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„When the mullahs recently cut off Iran’s internet to carry out their massacre of protesters, several accounts supporting the SNP suddenly fell silent. One study found that a quarter of social media profiles discussing Scottish independence are probably fake. 2).
So perhaps there is no great groundswell of radical nationalist opinion: just a mirage, created by enterprising Nigerians and Iranian bots. Confusing a social media freak show for reality could be a mistake that a great many politicians are midway through making.”
Jan 30 5 tweets 3 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
On Thurs., Jan. 29, 2026, @realDonaldTrump, along with two sons @DonaldJTrumpJr and @EricTrump, has filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (@IRSNews) and @USTreasury Department for at least $10 billion. @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @EricTrump @IRSnews @USTreasury 2).
The lawsuit alleges a failure to protect confidential tax information about Trump and the Trump Organization, which was leaked to the @nytimes and @propublica in 2019 and 2020 by former IRS employee Charles E. Littlejohn.
Jan 29 4 tweets 1 min read
@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«
Jan 29 5 tweets 1 min read
@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.

[...] @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.
Jan 27 8 tweets 2 min read
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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], 2).
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,
Jan 27 5 tweets 2 min read
@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.
Jan 26 10 tweets 2 min read
@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.
Jan 25 8 tweets 2 min read
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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. 2).
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,
Jan 25 4 tweets 2 min read
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„»On Auschwitz« (45): The story of Witold Pilecki (1901–1948) [1] [2], co-founder of resistance in Auschwitz [3] [4]” 2).
[1] aquabiografie.water.blog/2023/05/26/rit…

[2] Witold Pilecki, a man who challenged two totalitarianisms: Nazi and communist

@InstPileckiego instytutpileckiego.pl/pl/instytut/pa…
Jan 25 6 tweets 2 min read
@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].”