🤍💙🤍 Anglo-Saxon Cat; liberal utilitarian; anti-conservatist; anti-trumpist. Continued here: https://t.co/UfyWai58Bs
Oct 10 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„The Trump administration is threatening to lay off thousands of federal workers if the government shutdown continues.
@RonFilipkowski 2).
Amid the lapse in congressional appropriations that began Oct. 1, @POTUS @realDonaldTrump has signaled plans to cut »Democrat Agencies« and »Democrat programs«, without specifying which agencies and programs he had in mind [1].”
Oct 10 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @SecWar Pete Hegseth on Friday announced a finalized agreement that will allow the Qatari Emiri Air Force to build a facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho [1].”
@RonFilipkowski @SecWar 2).
„Hegseth said the @realDonaldTrump administration has signed the letter greenlighting the building of a Qatar Emiri air force contingent at the Mountain Home Air Force Base located in southwestern Idaho.
Oct 10 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„The U.S. has struck at least four vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, killing 21 people. The government has said the strikes in international waters were targeting »narco-traffickers«.
@RonFilipkowski 2).
But it has not provided evidence or details about who or what is aboard, and the strikes have attracted condemnation in countries in the region amid concerns they breach international law.
Oct 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„[...] the 77-year-old James O'Gara said he buys hundreds of blank postcards from Amazon and mails them out to officials expressing his opinions. In this case, he wrote, »YOU LACK VALUES«, signed his name, but added no return address.
@RonFilipkowski 2).
After speaking on his front step with the officers for about five minutes, he came back inside and told his wife what happened: Two officers came to ask him whether he had sent a postcard to Ingoglia.
Oct 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1).
„Large plumes of smoke rose above Gaza amid reports of explosions in the hours after Israeli officials had said the ceasefire would take hold [1]”.
2).
„Hamas has until 12:00 local time (10:00 BST) on Mon. to release all Israeli hostages, while Israel will release hundreds of Palestinian detainees - hereʼs how the next 72 hours are meant to play out.
Oct 9 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
@ChicagoMPO @rothschildmd 1).
Supreme Leader in a Orange Makeup „@POTUS @realDonaldTrump called for Illinois Gov. @JBPritzker and @ChicagosMayor Brandon Johnson to be jailed Wed.,
@ChicagoMPO @rothschildmd @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @JBPritzker @ChicagosMayor 2).
a dramatic rhetorical escalation as he tries to flood the city with federal agents and National Guard troops against the wishes of the local elected officials.
Sep 24 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„In July 2022, the Navy demoted Ronny Jackson from RADM (lower half) to CAPT for actions »not in keeping with the standards the Navy requires of its leaders« [1] [2],
@RonFilipkowski 2).
citing »substantiated allegations« in a 2018 investigation by the Defense Departmentʼs inspector general into reports that the physician had drunk alcohol while on duty, acted inappropriately, and routinely yelled at subordinates [3] [4].
Sep 24 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
On Thurs., July 24, 2025, during an executive session of the Okla. State Board of Education, a video of nude women was allegedly shown on a television screen in the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters [1].
@RonFilipkowski 2).
„Walters previously told schools to teach the Bible and Ten Commandments, demanded students watch him pray for @realDonaldTrump, and named transphobe Chaya Raichik to a state education committee.
Sep 21 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„In a series of social media posts by @realDonaldTrump on Sept. 20, 2025 where he called for prosecution against his political enemies, he said was appointing Halligan for U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia [1] [2].
@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
Her predecessor, Erik Siebert, resigned from the position after the Trump administration pressured him to bring criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James [3] [4] [5].
Sep 21 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@WCVB @lookner 1).
„Suspect in custody after New Hampshire country club shooting leaves 1 dead and several wounded
A gunman opened fire in a N.H. country club on Sat., killing one person and wounding several others, authorities said.
@WCVB @lookner 2).
Investigators were still working to determine a motive, New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley said.
Tom Bartelson of Pepperell, Mass., who was at the country club, described a chaotic scene that unfolded near his nephewʼs wedding.
Sep 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @realDonaldTrump, speaking at a press conference alongside Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer at the end of a state visit to the UK, said »good news« was in the pipeline related to the war.
@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @Keir_Starmer 2).
While he didn’t specify, it was bound to revive expectations that the US would crack down on buyers of Russian energy, which is key to financing Pootin’s war machine.
– »If the oil price comes down, very simply, Russia will settle«
Sep 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@kirkminshow @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @stoolpresidente 1).
„In a 2015 blog post, [Dave Portnoy] said:
»I am voting for Donald Trump. I donʼt care if he's a joke. I don't care if heʼs racist. I donʼt care if heʼs sexist. I donʼt care about any of it. I hope he stays in the race and I hope he wins. Why?
@kirkminshow @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @stoolpresidente 2).
Because I love the fact that he is making other politicians squirm. I love the fact he says shit nobody else will say, regardless of how ridiculous it is« [1].
He endorsed Trump for the 2016 Presidential election [2] [3].
Sep 19 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @FoxNews Channel host Brian Kilmeade apologized on Sunday for advocating for the execution of mentally ill homeless people in a discussion on the network last week, saying his remark was »extremely callous«.”
@haaretzcom (@Haaretz) archive.ph/Zvgkv
@RonFilipkowski @haaretzcom @Haaretz 2).
◆︎ „For years, Russian authorities have expanded their crackdowns: curbing freedom of speech, sweeping away activists, pressuring rights lawyers and jailing Pootin’s opponents.
Sep 19 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@rothschildmd 1).
„Researchers at the @UofCalifornia, L.A. examined data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to find that the rate of alcohol-related death increased between 1999 and 2024, with an especially sharp uptick during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
@rothschildmd @UofCalifornia 2).
And while such deaths have declined since that peak, they remain markedly high.
Sep 18 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1).
„David Hogg [1], a Parkland shooting [2] survivor and gun-control activist, has been the subject of conspiracies for nearly a decade and has seen an uptick in threatening messages over the past week.
2).
Soon after law enforcement officials released a CCTV image of the suspected shooter last week, @elonmusk's chatbot, Grok, responded to several posts falsely suggesting that the shooter resembled Hogg.
Sep 17 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
@GhonchehAzad @Shayan86 1).
„Activists, including the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights, had said Babak Shahbazi was detained over writing a letter to @ZelenskyyUa offering to fight in the Ukrainian military.
@GhonchehAzad @Shayan86 @ZelenskyyUa 2).
Iran has supplied Russia with drones that Moscow has used to attack Ukraine, something that has drawn anger from some in Iran particularly as Tehran cracks down on dissent at home [1] [2].”
Sep 17 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@Phil_Lewis_ @Shayan86 1).
„The report, now archived [1], titled »What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism«, vanished from @TheJusticeDept website between 12 and 13 Sept., according to Daniel Malmar,
@Phil_Lewis_ @Shayan86 @TheJusticeDept 2).
a PhD student studying online extremism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (@UNC), who had been monitoring the page.
Sep 17 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
@Shayan86 1).
„Robinson was wearing a suicide-prevention smock during the hearing. Court officials said that was standard issue for high-profile prisoners at the Utah County Security Center.
@Shayan86 2).
The suspect, Tyler Robinson, remained silent as the charges against him were read. He nodded when the judge spoke to him, and said his name when asked, but otherwise did not react to what the judge was saying. The judge has now ended the hearing [1].”
Sep 15 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@thatsKAIZEN @Shayan86 1).
„ @StephenKing apologized Friday for claiming that the conservative activist Charlie Kirk »advocated stoning gays«.
@thatsKAIZEN @Shayan86 @StephenKing 2).
The initial claim by King was in reference to comments that Kirk had made on his podcast in 2024, in which Kirk criticized children’s YouTube star Ms. Rachel for citing God’s wish for Christians to »love thy neighbor« in Leviticus, saying that should include gay people.
Sep 4 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@grahamformaine 1).
„Susan @SenatorCollins did not vote for @POTUS @realDonaldTrump's signature piece of legislation, his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, a massive package of tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans financed by slashing an estimated $1 trillion from Medicaid.
@grahamformaine @SenatorCollins @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 2).
– »I did the right thing for the people of Maine, and I am proud of my no vote« – Collins told a local outlet after the bill passed in July.