Arnaud Bertrand
@RnaudBertrand 20h
After some 209 years of neutrality which survived both world wars and the cold war, Switzerland chose the war in Ukraine - in which Europe isn't even officially a belligerent - to end it.
Really illustrates just how extraordinary, on a scale of centuries, the current moment is.
ian bremmer
@ianbremmer
Sep 19
cern (the world’s premier nuclear research facility) says nyet to russian scientists
will expel hundreds from its labs, ending nearly 60 yrs of collaboration with moscow
Sep 20, 2024 · 3:49 AM UTC
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1836976044718575694
Geological times
>Ezra A. Cohen
◻️ Between 1961 and 1965, Israeli spy Eli Cohen, using the alias Kamel Amin Thabet, infiltrated Syria's political and military elite. Posing as a businessman returning from Argentina, Cohen gathered intelligence critical to Israel's success in the 1967 Six Day War. In 1965, Syrian officials, aided by Soviet counter-intelligence, detected Cohen's radio transmissions, leading to his capture and execution for espionage.
Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenberg 6h
My colleague has written about Guantanamo's other secret detention site: A repurposed barracks that housed more than three dozen migrants from 2020 to 2023.
Inside the Secretive Facility Housing Migrants at Guantánamo Bay
Reports and interviews shed new light on the holding center, where migrants’ calls with lawyers are monitored and some say they’ve been forced to wear blackout goggles.
nytimes.com
Allison Papson
@AllisonPapson
5h
On Sept. 20 at approximately 12:15 p.m. an individual scaled the north side fence of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and was arrested by U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers. The individual never entered the building and there was no impact to any protectees. The person was transported to George Washington Hospital for medical evaluation. #USSS
Andrew Leyden
@PenguinSix
9h
Secret Service have a security incident at 17th and Pennsylvania next to the White House.
President Biden
@POTUS 9h
When I came to office, there was no plan in place.
No plan to deal with the pandemic.
No plan to get the economy back on its feet.
Nothing.
I refused to accept that.
Sep 20, 2024 · 5:05 PM UTC
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1837176146376458724