🤍💙🤍 Anglo-Saxon Cat; liberal utilitarian; anti-conservatist; anti-trumpist. Continued here: https://t.co/UfyWai58Bs
Feb 19 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
@NazaninNour @Shayan86 1).
„Comprehensive and fully reliable demographic data on Iran’s ethnic composition is not available. Many academic and policy sources had relied on figures from the now-discontinued @CIA World Factbook [1], even though it had ceased reporting ethnic data on Iran a decade ago.
@NazaninNour @Shayan86 @CIA 2).
While these estimates provided a generally consistent picture of the relative size of Iran’s largest ethnic communities, they did not account for several smaller indigenous groups, including the Gilakis, Mazandaranis, Talysh, and Tats.
Feb 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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„It is an Israeli strategy. Influential Israeli government ministers have long argued that the West Bank must be folded into Israel’s political and administrative orbit.
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A 2017 manifesto penned by Bezalel Smotrich called the »Decisive Plan« laid out the road map:
Feb 19 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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„In den Kriegen des 21. Jahrhunderts boomt das Söldnertum – ob im Sudan, im Kongo, im Jemen oder in der Ukraine. Bald nach dem russischen Überfall am 24. Feb. 2022 wurde auch auf ukrainischer Seite eine Brigade aus internationalen Freiwilligen gebildet.
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Die ukrainische Regierung hat außerdem professionelle Kämpfer im Ausland – unter anderem in Kolumbien – angeheuert.
All diese Männer haben aus freien Stücken gehandelt und gewusst, worauf sie sich einlassen.
Feb 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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„The Russian [dictator V. V. Pootin] was ready to receive Epstein, according to an October 2014 message from a correspondent on a database of more than 3.5 million files belonging to the late convicted sex offender that have roiled global politics and business.
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On May 8, 2013, Epstein asked Thorbjørn Jagland to secure him an audience with the Russian leader.
– »I know you are going to meet putin on the 20th, He is desperate to engage western investment in his country« – the financier wrote.
Feb 19 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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„Serhij K. gehört zum Umfeld von Roman Tscherwinsky, einem Spezialisten für verdeckte Operationen und Sabotage , der früher beim ukrainischen Inlandsgeheimdienst SBU (@ServiceSsu) beschäftigt war. Er gilt als Drahtzieher der Anschläge.
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Der heute 51-Jährige gehörte nach der Maidan-Revolution 2014 zu einer Elitetruppe, die von der @CIA mitaufgebaut wurde.
Das sogenannte 5. Direktorat des SBU machte sich mit spektakulären Aktionen gegen prorussische Separatisten einen Namen.
Feb 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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„SPIEGEL: Mr Kagan [1] [2] [3] [4], »so kommt der Faschismus nach Amerika«, schrieben Sie vor fast zehn Jahren: »nicht mit Springerstiefeln und militärischem Gruß, sondern mit einem Fernsehdeppen, einem Pseudomilliardär, einem Egomanen aus dem Lehrbuch«.
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Brauchte es die ICE-Miliz (@ICEgov), die in Minneapolis US-Bürger tötet, um Ihre Landsleute davon zu überzeugen, wie gefährlich @@realDonaldTrump wirklich ist?”
@CiemnejW @drPNapierala 1).
– „»Washington est devenu la cour de Néron, un empereur incendiaire, des courtisans soumis et un bouffon sous kétamine chargé de lʼépuration de la fonction publique. Cʼest un drame pour le monde libre, mais cʼest dʼabord un drame pour les États-Unis.«
@CiemnejW @drPNapierala 2).
Le sénateur @ClaudeMalhuret [1] (Les Indépendants – République et territoires), dans un discours prononcé le 4 mars 2025, ne se réfère pas ici au personnage historique. Il évoque la légende noire de lʼempereur fou véhiculée par la littérature et le cinéma [1].
Feb 16 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@KenRoth 1).
„ @LuukvMiddelaar [1] [2], a Dutch historian and former E.U. official, called the @marcorubio speech »well-crafted, and therefore all the more dangerous for the Europeans, offering a new pact on the basis of a shared civilization,
@KenRoth @LuukvMiddelaar @marcorubio 2).
but omitting the @VP @JDVance part of a year ago, which comes with U.S. alignment with MAGA allies in Europe«.
Feb 15 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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„The files tend to mash these different categories together. That is partly because when Epstein makes allegations it is hard to know if he is lying.
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It is also because @TheJusticeDept's haphazard redactions have shielded criminal abusers, revealed those who briefly came into Epstein’s orbit and too often exposed the identity of victims.
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Feb 12 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@krz_luksza @Marekwalkuski
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The Orange Malicious Old Fart, „ @POTUS @realDonaldTrump on Monday [Feb. 9, 2026] threatened to block the opening of a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River,
@krz_luksza @Marekwalkuski @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 2).
demanding that Canada turn over at least half of the ownership of the bridge and agree to other unspecified demands in his latest salvo over cross-border trade issues.”
1).
„Air” of the second movement Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 [1] [2] by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) [3] [4].
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Arranged and performed (2014) by „The Modern Brass Quintet” [5] [6] [7] from LA, with Robert Hovencamp [8] [9], organist of St. Edmundʼs Episcopal Church in San Marino, LA County, Calif. [10].
Feb 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@BBCBreaking @Shayan86 1).
„Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in B.C. said Jesse Van Rootselaar, a biological male who began to identify as female six years ago, had first killed her mother, 39, and 11-year-old step-brother at the family home.
@BBCBreaking @Shayan86 2).
Van Rootselaar then went to the school and shot a 39-year-old woman teacher as well as three 12-year-old female students and two male students, one aged 12 and one aged 13.”
Feb 11 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
@jkbjournalist @Shayan86 1).
„Julie K. Brown has been credited with re-opening the Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse case with a series of reports published in Nov. 2018 [1] [2] [3] [4].
@jkbjournalist @Shayan86 2).
She began investigating Epstein in early 2017 and persisted in uncovering facts about the large number of accusers and the pressure campaign to silence them [5] [6].
Feb 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@rzep8 @coolfonpl @PolskaPolicja 1).
„»Les qualités de tribun de Léon Degrelle (1906–1994) et son dynamisme juvénile, combinés à la dénonciation dʼune classe dirigeante impopulaire, parviennent à fédérer un grand nombre de mécontents dans cette atmosphère troublée de la Belgique des années 1930«.
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@rzep8 @coolfonpl @PolskaPolicja 2).
Le 25 juill. 1943, [Degrelle] provoque un grave incident, lors de la messe dominicale en lʼéglise Saint-Charles de Bouillon, lorsque la communion lui est refusée alors quʼil porte lʼuniforme allemand.
Feb 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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„On Feb. 1, 2026, Nancy Guthrie, an 84‑year‑old mother of three, including @NBCNews journalist and Today co-anchor @SavannahGuthrie [1],
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was reported missing from her home in Catalina Foothills, Ariz., U.S. Evidence recovered at the residence indicated that she had been taken against her will, and the Pima County sheriff stated that he believed she had been abducted [2].”
Feb 9 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
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Krzysztof Galos (c. 1968 – c. 2023), a man tortured to death by Russians in a prison in Taganrog [1] [2] [3], Rostov Oblast, simply for being Polish [4] [5] [6].
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N.B., one of the people imprisoned and tortured in SIZO-2 in Taganrog [1] [2] [3] was, i.a., Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Volodymyrivna Roshchyna (1996–2024) [6] [7] [8].
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„Edward Jacob »Jake« Lang, a far-right influencer and candidate in the 2026 U.S. Senate special election in Fla., was arrested [on Feb. 5, 2026] after recording himself vandalizing an anti-U.S.1 Immigration and Customs Enforcement sculpture at the Minn.
@donie @RonFilipkowski 2).
State Capitol. Lang was arrested on the same day and jailed on suspicion of criminal damage to property, a felony [1]. The ice sculpture had been commissioned and installed by the veterans organization Common Defense, whose communications director, Jacob Thomas, stated:
Feb 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@Cogito1918 @Niunieczka1 1).
Piotr Bartoszcze (1950–1984)
◆︎ @ipngovpl ipn.gov.pl/pl/dla-mediow/…
@Cogito1918 @Niunieczka1 @ipngovpl 2).
◆︎ „Enttäuschte Erwartungen. Die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung kommunistischer Diktatur in Polen” (2017) [1] von Prof. Joachim von Puttkamer [2] aus @UniJena
@michaeldweiss 1).
„In 2020, Washington sent two officials, Roger Carstens and Kash Patel, to Lebanon to locate Austin Tice [1] [2], an American journalist who had disappeared in Syria in 2012 and was thought to be in the hands of the Assad regime.”
Feb. 6, 2026
@michaeldweiss 2).
Endnotes:
[1] „In June 2025, Syrian intelligence files uncovered by the BBC and confirmation from former Syrian officials confirmed that Austin Tice had been held by the Assad regime (a).
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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.
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@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.
