@RonFilipkowski 1).
„Trump adm. officials have discussed allowing some Afghan refugees to remain in the U.S., days after a group of potentially vulnerable migrants from the war-torn country received emails from Customs and Border Protection revoking their humanitarian parole status... @RonFilipkowski 2).
The policy discussions come as prominent Christian leaders and nonprofit organizations have pressed the @WhiteHouse to protect what they say is a group of hundreds of at-risk Christian Afghan refugees,

@RonFilipkowski 1).
„Fact check: It wasn’t ‘in jest.’ Here are 53 times @realDonaldTrump said he’d end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office

On the campaign trail in 2023 and 2024, @realDonaldTrump said on dozens of occasions, in an entirely serious tone, manner and context, @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
that he would end the war in Ukraine either within 24 hours of his return to the White House or even sooner than that.

@mvandemar @RonFilipkowski 1).
„Pope Francisʼ Relationship With @realDonaldTrump Through the Years [1]”

„Shortly after Pope Francisʼ death was announced on Monday, @POTUS @realDonaldTrump ordered American flags dropped to half-staff, offering nothing but praise for the world's Roman Catholic leader [2]. @mvandemar @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump @POTUS 2).
The compliments stood in sharp contrast to some of the criticism exchanged between the two leaders over a decade-long bickering mostly related to the popeʼs plea for compassion for migrants, a group Trump has repeatedly sought to deport [2] [3].”

@MikeSington 1).
„A depraved Republican lawmaker stripped his daughter naked and molested her in a LV hotel room after getting her blind drunk to celebrate her 21st birthday. @MikeSington 2).
John Jessup, 50, pleaded guilty in Nov. to abusing his daughter Rachel on Jan. 26, 2024, when they took a vacation together to Sin City for her coming of age.

@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @SecDef @PeteHegseth had an unsecured internet connection installed in his Pentagon office, the Associated Press reported [1] Thurs. @RonFilipkowski @SecDef @PeteHegseth 2).
– marking the latest security concern levied against him since it was first reported he used Signal to share sensitive information about strikes against the Houthis in Yemen last month in a chat that inadvertently included a journalist.”

April 24, 2025

@RonFilipkowski 1).
◆︎ „ @TheJusticeDept has restored two previously canceled grants supporting victims of violent crimes, including domestic violence”

April 25, 2025

@MotherJones motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

@Reuters reuters.com/world/us/us-ju… @RonFilipkowski @TheJusticeDept @MotherJones @Reuters 2).
◆︎ „The @realDonaldTrump administration said on Friday it is restoring the previously terminated legal statuses of hundreds of foreign students in the U.S. while it develops a policy that will provide a framework for potentially ending them in the future.”

April 25, 2025

1).
„Ukrainian and European officials pushed back this week against some U.S. proposals on how to end Russiaʼs war in Ukraine, making counterproposals on issues from territory to sanctions [...].

https://twitter.com/meduzaproject/status/1915746865456545961

2).
On territory, the @SteveWitkoff proposals called for legal U.S. recognition of Russia's control over Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow seized and annexed in 2014,

1).
„Russia’s Investigative Committee, it’s top policing body, has launched a criminal investigation into the death of Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, who was killed when a vehicle rigged with an improvised explosive device detonated [1] [2].

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1915779098229489919

2).
Surveillance footage published from the scene suggested Moskalik was walking past the car at the time of the explosion [3].”

April 25, 2025

1).
„I don’t think they’ll ever [Ukraine] be able to join @NATO. I think thatʼs been – from day one, I think thatʼs been, thatʼs I think what caused the war to start was when they started talking about joining @NATO.

https://twitter.com/meduzaproject/status/1915724746651554131

2).
If that werenʼt brought up, there would have been a much better chance that it wouldn’t have started.

[...]

Well, Crimea went to the Russians. It was handed to them by Barack Hussein Obama, and not by me. With that being said, will they be able to get it back?

@RonFilipkowski 1).
„China, one of the biggest U.S. trading partners, axed 12,000 metric tons of U.S. pork orders, the data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (@USDA) [1] shows. @RonFilipkowski @USDA 2).
The move represents the biggest cancellation of pork orders since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains and stalled economies around the world, Bloomberg News reported [2].

April 24, 2025

@RonFilipkowski 1).
„Prosecutors in George Santos (@RepSantosNY03) Case Seek 7-Year Sentence

The disgraced former congressman is set to be sentenced on April 25. His lawyers asked for a penalty of two years, the minimum allowed. @RonFilipkowski @RepSantosNY03 2).
Federal prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of more than seven years for George Santos, the former Republican congressman from New York whose career unraveled after much of his résumé was revealed to be the product of a stunning series of lies.

@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @PeteHegseth, who had served as major in the Army National Guard, came into the job with the least experience of any previous defense chief and a deep distrust of the department he now leads. @RonFilipkowski @PeteHegseth 2).
Defense officials had hoped that he would lean on career officials even as he pursued a mandate from @realDonaldTrump to shake up the building.

@andreagail_k @Acyn 1).
„In 1997, @AlanDersh wrote an opinion column headlined »Statutory rape is an outdated concept [1] [2]«. @andreagail_k @Acyn @AlanDersh 2).
[...] 22 years later, he’s defending the column on Twitter, at an awkward time: Dershowitz was a member of the team that got convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (1953–2019) [3] a plea deal that sent him to prison for 18 months,

@Pustelnik5 1).
„Wiem, że kiedy umrę pójdę do nieba bo w piekle już byłem” („I know that when I die, I will go to heaven because Iʼve already been to hell” [1]) @Pustelnik5 2).
Słowa motta używanego przez: jednostki wojskowe U.S. Army . podczas Bitwy o Guadalcanal (7 sierpień 1942 – 9 luty 1943) i w wojnie w Wietnamie (1 listopada 1955 – 30 kwietnia 1975);m.in

@Acyn @Shayan86 1).
„Pootin isn’t negotiating peace – he’s laughing at America

Our aid to Ukraine is not charity, nor are we funding a proxy war – America is standing up for freedom and the principle that sovereign nations should not have to live in fear of their violent neighbors. @Acyn @Shayan86 2).
Together with the U.K., France and Russia, the U.S. stripped Kyiv of its nuclear deterrence in the 1990s, offering security assurances in return. If America’s word means nothing, who will trust us again – and what will stop the next aggressor from trying the same?”

@MiddleEastBuka @Shayan86 @GeoConfirmed 1).
In connection with the Pahalgam attack [1] [2] on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 „police in Indian-administered Kashmir claim to have identified three suspects, two of whom are Pakistani [3]” „and a third is a local Kashmiri man [4]”.

April 24, 2025 @MiddleEastBuka @Shayan86 @GeoConfirmed 2).
Endnotes:

[1] „At least 26 tourists were killed [and 17 were injured] in India-administered Kashmir, marking a significant escalation in violence that has dented the Indian government's narrative of stability in the region.”

@DeutscheWelle dw.com/en/kashmir-att…

@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @realDonaldTrump receives his best marks on border security”; 55% of his voters overwhelmingly approves this. „That’s the only issue where his ratings are in positive territory. @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
On immigration, a record high of 47% approve of @realDonaldTrump (48% disapprove), while a new low of 38% approve on the economy (56% disapprove).

@RonFilipkowski 1).
„Senior administration officials are scrambling to stem economic damage from China’s restrictions on rare earth exports, @RonFilipkowski 2).
as @POTUS @realDonaldTrump's trade war risks cutting key industries and defense contractors off from supplies of metals crucial to production, according to three people familiar with internal deliberations.”

April 24, 2025

@RonFilipkowski 1).
„Rachel @maddow notes that @elonmusk's poor performance in the political spotlight has not only damaged his personal brand, but also his companies, and @Tesla in particular. @RonFilipkowski @maddow @elonmusk @Tesla 2).
And meanwhile, his political activity with @DOGE has turned out to not even be worth it, producing a string out embarrassing mistakes and outraged backlash. Now the Washington Post reports [1] that Musk is eyeing the exit [2].”

April 22, 2025

@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @SecDef @PeteHegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio that can be used to prepare for television appearances, multiple sources told @CBSNews. @RonFilipkowski @SecDef @PeteHegseth @CBSNews 2).
An in-house construction crew renovated the adjacent green room earlier this year. The room previously had minimal furnishings – a table with chairs, a TV, photos of former defense secretaries and a mirror on the back of the door, one source said.

@RonFilipkowski 1).
„In a statement on Tuesday, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group’s “air defence shot down a hostile American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Hajjah Governorate”. @RonFilipkowski 2).
Saree claimed that this is the seventh US drone that the group has downed so far this month, and the 22nd since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began 18 months ago [1].”