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🤍💙🤍 Anglo-Saxon Cat; liberal utilitarian; anti-conservatist; anti-muskist; anti-trumpist. My blog: https://t.co/qr3npLHQCn
May 30 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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„ @POTUS @realDonaldTrump's envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said Russiaʼs concern over the eastward enlargement of @NATO was fair and the U.S. did not want to see Ukraine in the U.S.-led military alliance. 2).
Asked by U.S. network @ABC [1], opens new tab News about a @Reuters report that Russia wanted a written pledge over @NATO not enlarging eastwards to include Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, Kellogg said:
– »Itʼs a fair concern«.”

May 30, 2025
May 30 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„In 2017 [during @realDonaldTrump's first presidency], legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote that Leonard Leo was »responsible, to a considerable extent, for one third of the justices on the Supreme Court« [1]. @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
The WaPo would later write that »few people outside government have more influence over judicial appointments now than Leo« [2].”
May 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„The U.S. has paused most [1] of its tariffs on China – which at one point totaled as high as 145% – as Beijing and Washington continue trade negotiations. @RonFilipkowski 2).
Chinese-made goods now face a 30% tax upon entering the U.S.; China, in turn, now only imposes a 10% tariff on U.S. goods (@realDonaldTrump has also paused most of his so-called reciprocal tariffs against the rest of the world).
May 30 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @SecKennedy says his »Make America Healthy Again« Commission report harnesses »gold-standard« science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions. @RonFilipkowski @SecKennedy 2).
Seven of the cited sources don't appear to exist at all [1]”.

„Dr. Katherine Keyes, a researcher cited in the report as a first author of a paper on rates of depression
May 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
The Cult of @realDonaldTrump [1]

On Friday, June 14, 2024, @RepGregSteube introduced a bill [2] „that would rename the waterways immediately surrounding the U.S., @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @RepGregSteube 2).
also known as the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), to the »Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the U.S.« [3].”
May 30 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„Floyd Brown, a far-right political activist with a history of anti-gay rhetoric and promoting conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama, @RonFilipkowski 2).
said he was fired from a senior leadership role he briefly held at the Kennedy Center – just hours after @CNN reached out with questions about his past statements.
May 29 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„What is the »TACO trade« on Wall Street?

There’s a new trade on Wall Street: the »TACO trade«, standing for »Trump Always Chickens Out«. @RonFilipkowski 2).
The term was coined by Robert Armstrong, a writer for the @FT [1], and is intended to capture how markets have fallen on Trump’s vow to impose steep tariffs on imports to the U.S. and then jump back up when @realDonaldTrump announces pauses on those tariffs [2].”
May 29 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@rhonda_harbison @RonFilipkowski @afentriss 1).
„Russian oligarchs use the offshore system to shield their luxury assets. The Trump Administration is ending an effort to find and seize them. @rhonda_harbison @RonFilipkowski @afentriss 2).
Among all the radical policy shifts carried out during @POTUS @realDonaldTrump's first 100 days, perhaps the most astonishing was his reorientation of America’s posture toward Russia.
May 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@holly__heart @jimstewartson @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @DOGE 1).
Head of the German Labour Front [1] [2] [3] Robert Ley (1890–1945) had a habit of flying into a blind rage, regardless of the subject of conversation, losing all contact with reality. @holly__heart @jimstewartson @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @DOGE 2).
I.a. then, when he tried to prove HitlerĘĽs omniscience, or when he announced the imminent conquest of the Moon and all planets [4].

„In April 1945, Ley became enamored with the idea of creating a »death ray« after receiving a letter from an unnamed inventor:
May 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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„ @realDonaldTrump initially said it was Qatar that reached out and offered him the luxury jet free of charge. 2).
In fact, it was the Trump administration that first approached Qatar this winter about acquiring the plane through a sale after the pres. made clear to aides that he was upset about delays of two Boeing jets purchased during his first term for $3.9 billion, officials said.
May 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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„Takeaways from @AP report on Ukrainian POWs dying in Russian prisons

More than 200 Ukrainian POWs have died [1] in Russian prisons since Moscow’s full-scale invasion three years ago 2).
Abuse inside Russian prisons likely contributed to many of these deaths, adding to evidence that Russia is systematically brutalizing captured soldiers, according to officials from human rights groups,
May 28 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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„[...] Pootin’s behavior is now a liability for @realDonaldTrump, who painted himself into a corner with laughable claims that he could end the war before he even took office, or on day one. 2).
The Russian [dictator] played along with Trump, as he has for years, because it is in Russia’s interest to have an anti-American, anti-democratic force of chaos in the Oval Office, but none of that meant that Putin was going to stop the war.”

May 27, 2025
May 28 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„[...] the truth is that by standard economic measures, the US economy was in excellent shape when Biden turned over the White House keys to @realDonaldTrump, even though most Americans, upset about inflation, told pollsters the economy was in poor shape. @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
When Biden left office, the unemployment rate was a low 4.1%, and during Biden’s four years in office, the average jobless rate was lower than for any president since the 1960s.
May 28 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @Sec_Noem (@KristiNoem), a @realDonaldTrump loyalist who formerly was governor of South Dakota, described her meeting with @netanyahu in Jerusalem as »very candid«. @RonFilipkowski @Sec_Noem @KristiNoem @realDonaldTrump @netanyahu 2).
Asked to elaborate, she declined to »share what the president’s personal message was to the prime minister, but the prime minister’s (@IsraeliPM) team had a conversation afterwards with us that they don’t remember a bilateral meeting that was quite that candid and direct«.”
May 27 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
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„ @POTUS @realDonaldTrump is eyeing sanctions against Moscow this week as he grows frustrated by [...] Vladimir Pootin’s continued attacks on Ukraine and the slow pace of peace talks, according to people familiar with Trump’s thinking. 2).
The restrictions likely wouldn’t include new banking sanctions, one of the people said, but other options are under discussion to pressure the Russian leader into concessions at the negotiating table,
May 27 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@DailyMirror 1).
„Two people are dead and nine others are wounded after a mass shooting in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park late Monday night. @DailyMirror 2).
The victims killed include an adult man and an adult woman, Commissioner Kevin Bethel said. Three teenagers, between 15 and 17 years old, are among the wounded. The gunfire erupted around 10:27 p.m. on Lemon Hill Drive at Poplar Drive.”

May 27, 2025
May 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1).
Pan Nowogrodzki, po władzę aby się wspiąć na plecach
Metodą @pisorgpl i Sutenerska Wolska (@Suwerenna_POL) wszak działa.
(p)rezydent belwederski @AndrzejDuda onegdaj nawet 24. świadczenia zachwalał [1].
Kaczysław Jarczyński wie kogo ma polecać. 2).
Azaliż nie pracował niestrudzenie w hotelu [2]
W pocie czoła, ku chwale Ojczyzny, Pan Bokser?
ZaprawdÄ™, kolejny rezydent patryotycznie do Belwederu,
Chce się wślizgnąć, jak nie drzwiami to oknem.

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May 26 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@PiotrZytnicki @EliaszGrubinski @PolskaPolicja 1).
„Policjanci z komendy wojewódzkiej w Poznaniu zatrzymali Tomasza K. w środę, 9 października 2024, dzień przed kolejnym zgromadzeniem, które chciał zorganizować. W czwartek przed południem przywieźli go do prokuratury. @PiotrZytnicki @EliaszGrubinski @PolskaPolicja 2).
Neonazista paradował po ulicach Poznania i urzędzie miasta w czarnych spodniach, glanach i koszulce z krzyżem celtyckim – symbolem dominacji białej rasy. Tym razem wyglądał inaczej - założył adidasy i niebieski dres.
May 26 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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„ @realDonaldTrump's threat to withdraw US support and walk away from Russia-Ukraine peace talks has raised alarm in Kyiv, setting the stage for what Ukrainian officials and soldiers expect to turn into a bloody Russian summer offensive that could reshape the war’s trajectory 2).
While Ukraine’s leaders continue their push for a 30-day ceasefire, many people are under no illusion about Russia’s years-long war winding down any time soon, Ukrainian officials and soldiers have told the Financial Times.
May 26 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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„Jessica Reidl of the Manhattan Institute – [...] the staunchly conservative and generally pro-Trump think tank – recently told [1] NYTʼ David French: 2).
– »So right now I would say @DOGE has saved $2 billion, which, to put it in context, is one-thirty-fifth of 1 percent of the federal budget, otherwise known as budget dust«.
May 25 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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„In Japan, Yakuza members are not allowed to show their tattoos.

For hundreds of years, tattoos in Japan have famously been associated with gangsters, the Yakuza. Despite the prevalence of tattoos in modern culture the stigma appears to still exist. 2).
Tattoos have long been banned in public or seen in hot springs, and bathhouses, but in the bigger cities, exceptions are being made [1].” „People with visible tattoos get a wide berth on beaches [2].”