BREAKING: Leaked Audio of @Twitter All-Hands Reveals Employees Press Leadership Over What “Free Speech Means”

— A Plan for “Mass Exodus” Due to @ElonMusk “Questionable Ethics”, and Questioning if President Trump Will Return to The Platform#TwitterAllHands pic.twitter.com/7ZhI5MXZ57

— ⓘ ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) April 26, 2022

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has claimed there is a “real” danger of his country’s invasion of Ukraine escalating into World War Three.

Speaking to reporters on state television on Monday, he said Nato was “in essence” engaged in a proxy war with Russia by supplying Kyiv with weaponry.

The West’s supply of weaponry to the Ukrainian army has significantly boosted its military efforts during the war and sparked fury in Moscow. Earlier this month, 

Russian officials told the White House that there would be “unpredictable consequences” if the US continued to send arms to Kyiv.

Mr Lavrov was asked about the importance of avoiding a global conflict and whether the current situation was comparable to the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, when the US and the Soviet Union stood on the brink of nuclear war.

“This is our key position on which we base everything. The risks now are considerable,” Mr Lavrov said.

“I would not want to elevate those risks artificially. Many would like that. The danger is serious, real. And we must not underestimate it.”

Wonder what else was on his mind?

Here is the list in full.

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is commuting the sentences of the following 75 individuals:

Sergio Acosta – Montgomery, Alabama
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine (Eastern District of Kentucky). 
Sentence: 97 months of imprisonment, five-year term of supervised release (February 23, 2018).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to expire on April 26, 2023, with the remainder to be served in home confinement, leaving intact and in effect the five-year term of supervised release.

Kathy Marie Albrecht – Jamestown, North Dakota
Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute a controlled substance (District of North Dakota).
Sentence: 150 months of imprisonment, three-year term of supervised release (November 6, 2014).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to expire on April 26, 2023, with the remainder to be served in home confinement, leaving intact and in effect the three-year term of supervised release.

Maria Isabel Arreola – San Bernardino, California
Offense:
1. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine (Eastern District of Texas).
2. Conspiracy to distribute cocaine hydrochloride (Middle District of North Carolina).
Sentence:
1. 121 months of imprisonment, three-year term of supervised release (March 24, 2016).
2. 130 months of imprisonment, three-year term of supervised release (November 17, 2016).
Prison sentences and terms of supervised release in each case to run concurrently.
Commutation Grant: Sentences commuted to expire on April 26, 2023, with the remainder to be served in home confinement, leaving intact and in effect the three-year terms of supervised release.

Roberto Barrio – South Gate, California
Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute cocaine base and cocaine powder; interstate travel in aid of racketeering enterprise (four counts); use of a telephone to facilitate the distribution of cocaine base and cocaine powder (two counts) (Western District of Oklahoma).
Sentence: Life imprisonment, three-year term of supervised release (October 23, 2000).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to expire on August 24, 2022, leaving intact and in effect the three-year term of supervised release.

Kelvin Beaufort – Charlotte, North Carolina
Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute cocaine and cocaine base (Western District of North Carolina).
Sentence: 324 months of imprisonment, 20-year term of supervised release (December 10, 2007); amended to 262 months of imprisonment, 20-year term of supervised release (January 20, 2016).
Commutation Grant: Sentence commuted to expire on April 26, 2023, with the remainder to be served in home confinement, leaving intact and in effect the 20-year term of supervised release.

Brandon Todd Berry – Sikeston, Missouri
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a substance containing methamphetamine (Eastern District of Missouri).
Sentence: 240 months of imprisonment, 10-year term of supervised release (October 19, 2010).
Commutation Grant: Sentence to expire on August 24, 2022, leaving intact and in effect the 10-year term of supervised release.

When Democrats get COVID, they all have to recite the approved script. pic.twitter.com/96spFYIqh1

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 27, 2022

Gadde holds one of the most controversial positions at Twitter: Her teams decide how to moderate content. That’s made her a target of right-wing criticism, particularly when Twitter blocked the distribution of a New York Post article about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in 2020. She faced a renewed wave of criticism after multiple reports confirmed she was behind the decision to ban Trump from Twitter.

.@PressSec on @elonmusk purchasing @twitter: "The president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms, the power they have over our everyday lives, has long argued that tech platforms must be held accountable for the harms they cause." pic.twitter.com/uWRizqqET4

— CSPAN (@cspan) April 25, 2022

When you click on the link it takes you to their fully informed politics page. 

Absolutely incredible: pic.twitter.com/2OHpxVk6mi

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 26, 2022