2).
In the hopeful early years of his supremacy, Yoweri Museveni once called the dictators in the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) – now the African Union – a »trade union of criminals«, before he inevitably joined their ranks.
Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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„Such was the success of Operation Mincemeat in fooling the German High Command that it spawned books, films and even a West End musical, telling the tale of how the Nazis were hoodwinked by a body found at sea.
2).
But despite the identity of the tramp being revealed in 1996, mystery has continued to surround the man who was dismissed by a wartime senior intelligence officer as a »ne’er-do-well« who only achieved anything in death.
In fact, he was much more than that.
Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@KMooreGilbert @RG_Horvath 1).
„In the (admittedly) simplified version of the hard left’s worldview, the Iranian regime represents an anti-imperialist force that should be defended against America and Israel, two countries they view as agents of oppression.
[...]
@KMooreGilbert @RG_Horvath 2).
What could be fueling this perception on the left is the fact that the right is indeed viewing the protest through its own interests.
[...]
This has all led to an orgy of whataboutism, as the left and the right mock each other for caring only about their favored victims.”
Jan 18 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
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„Dressed in white headscarves and bearing crosses, the sisters of St Elisabeth Convent were a picture of innocence as they sold trinkets to Swedish churchgoers last Christmas.
2).
There was certainly nothing odd about the nuns for parishioners in Täby, an affluent suburb near Stockholm. After all, the rector himself had given the nuns permission to set up their table in the church hallway.
Jan 17 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
@michaeldweiss 1).
„Aldrich H. Ames (1941–2026) [1] [2] [3], the @CIA mole whose betrayal led to the execution of at least eight Russian double agents who spied for the U.S., a devastating setback for American intelligence, was discovered from bookkeeping entries.
@michaeldweiss @CIA 2).
He was identified by a counterintelligence analyst, Sandra Grimes (1945–2025) [4] [5] [6] [7], who was once in charge of C.I.A. secretaries and clerks.”
@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.
Jan 16 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@DominikSerwacki @krz_luksza 1).
„W czwartek, 15 stycznia, premier @donaldtusk podał nieco więcej szczegółów na temat tej sytuacji i uspokoił nastroje. [...] W żadnym momencie nie były zagrożone sieci przesyłowe, które są swego rodzaju kręgosłupem polskiego systemu energetycznego.
@DominikSerwacki @krz_luksza @donaldtusk 2).
Uderzono natomiast w kilka ferm wiatrowych i dwie elektrociepłownie.
– »Gdyby atak okazał się w pełni skuteczny, gdyby się powiódł, około 500 tysięcy ludzi byłoby pozbawione prądu« – mówił premier @donaldtusk . Na szczęście zadziałały systemy zabezpieczające.
Jan 16 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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„Robina Aminian’s parents arrived in the iranian capital early in the morning on friday. They found their daughter among hundreds of bodies. She had a bullet wound in the back of her head. Many of the other victims were also young women with injuries in the neck and face.
2).
The bodies were supposed to stay where they were. The mother ignored the order and stealthily took her daughter’s body away. They drove for six hours with her lifeless form in the back of the car, crying the whole way.
[...]
Jan 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@samueloakford @Shayan86 1).
„The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency estimates that more than 2,500 [2,677] people have been killed since protests began on Dec. 28, including 147 [163] members of the security forces [1],
@samueloakford @Shayan86 2).
making this wave of violence far deadlier than any previous Iranian state response to public protest [2].”
Jan 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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„Predator is one of the most invasive spywares on the market. If successfully deployed and installed on a smartphone, it can hack the most up-to-date versions of Apple and Google's mobile operating systems, according to leaked materials.
2) It extracts all the contents from hacked devices, including messages from encrypted messaging applications, listens to calls, and remotely activates the microphone and camera, as well as gaining access to additional services used by the target from their phone.”
Dec. 4, 2025
Jan 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1).
W sobotę 10 stycznia 2026, 9-letnie siostry bliźniaczki bawiły się na częściowo zamarzniętym sztucznym zbiorniku w Kanale Bydgoskim. Kiedy w pewnym momencie załamał się pod nimi lód, na ratunek dziewczynkom ruszył z pomocą były ukraiński policjant Oleksandr Bołotow.
2).
Drugim mężczynzą, który pomógł Ukraińcowi wyciągnąć dzieci z wody, był Polak Grzegorz.
„Obaj mężczyźni zostali zaproszeni do bydgoskiego ratusza na osobiste podziękowania za uratowanie życia dziewczynek.”
Jan 16 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1).
– „I would say, obviously, just the very idea that they’ve chosen to make the basic training for @ICEgov recruits forty-seven days because @realDonaldTrump is the forty-seventh @POTUS [1] [2] tells you how seriously they take it.
2).
That’s not how you decide how much training somebody needs. You decide how much training somebody needs based on the type of job they’re going to be engaging in and the type of knowledge and information and practice they need to conduct that job safely.
Jan 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
On Thurs., Nov. 12, 2015, @realDonaldTrump, speaking at a Central Community College in Fort Dodge, Iowa, compared Ben Carsonʼs [1] aggressive behavior in his youth to pedophilia [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].
@RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson
@UAW @RonFilipkowski 1).
„The response comes after a video published by TMZ showed @realDonaldTrump mouthing »f--k you« and raising his middle finger at a worker shouting at him from below.
@UAW @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
Trump was touring the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn ahead of an address at the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday.
Jan 14 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1)
„The reporter, Hannah Natanson, was at her home in Virginia at the time of the search. Federal agents searched her home and her devices, seizing her phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch. One of the laptops was her personal computer, the other a Washington Post-issued laptop.
@RonFilipkowski 2).
In April, @AGPamBondi (@PamBondi) rescinded a Biden-era policy that prevented officials from searching reporters’ phone records when trying to identify government personnel who have provided sensitive information to news organizations [1].”
Jan 14 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
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„[...] there is a logic to @JDVance's combative stance. @VP clearly understood what @ICEgov means to @realDonaldTrump's base.
2).
For MAGA America, ICE is an instrument for cleansing violence. Visit ICE social-media accounts and you’ll see, again and again, videos of armed force against unarmed individuals, against a soundtrack of pumping music.
[...]
Jan 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
@Shayan86 @GhonchehAzad
1).
„An Iranian man will be executed on Wednesday after joining anti-regime protests, a human rights group has said.
Erfan Soltani, 26, was detained last Thursday and sentenced to death.
2).
His family has been told that he will be executed although they have been given no information about where it will take place and under what charges.
Jan 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1).
„Russia has been accused of strapping a landmine to an African mercenary’s chest and ordering him to run through no man’s land as a human bomb to target Ukrainian fortifications.
2).
Widely shared video purporting to show preparation for the attack shows the black mercenary being marched through a trench at gunpoint and being ordered to storm Ukrainian positions.
Jan 13 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1).
„ @SecRubio [...] before joining the @realDonaldTrump Administration, he spent his career advocating for America as the leader of the world’s democracies; the son of Cuban immigrants, he was a champion of aid to impoverished countries.
2).
Some observers believe that Rubio is working to provide consistency and balance in a tumultuous Administration.
– »He’s doing his best to moderate Trump’s worst impulses« – a European foreign minister told me. – »He understands the stakes.
Jan 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1).
„When a respected public servant is being accused of wasting taxpayer dollars and lying to Congress by a president whose extravagant White House renovation has already doubled in cost in just three months,
2).
and whose inexhaustible capacity for lies has essentially broken every fact-checking medium, one almost wonders if the criminal allegation was chosen for its absurdity, to demonstrate that @realDonaldTrump can make the law mean whatever he wants it to.”
Jan. 12, 2026
Jan 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1).
„Richard Grenell is a prolific poster on X. In 2016, when the social media platform was known as Twitter, he described @realDonaldTrump as »dangerous« and »reckless«.
2).
After Trump won the presidential election, Grenell deleted his tweets and became one of the president’s most trusted confidantes and defenders. That loyalty was rewarded when Grenell was nominated ambassador to Germany in Sept. 2017.”
