My favorite moment from a neighborhood whatsapp group here in West LA: a very liberal woman who a couple years ago organized a school walkout to protest guns is now begging people to help fund armed security for the neighborhood to protect against rioters. Can't make it up.
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Advice to parents: Just chase school board members into bathroom stalls while filming them with your phones and the DOJ won't bat an eye
Good reminder that the failure to stop rioting & looting last summer was not due to a lack of police capability but rather a political decision by Democratic mayors and governors to allow violence
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This is like if the Hamburglar lived at the White House and all the hamburgers got stolen and the Secret Service was like we just don't have any leads, not sure what happened to all those hamburgers
There should be a special medal awarded to black cops for standing expressionless while hyperactive woke white people scream in their faces about "the system." God bless these guys.
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Colin Powell public presidential endorsements:
2008: Obama
2012: Obama
2016: Clinton
2020: Biden
But please, journos, carry on with your breaking news coverage of this former Republican official who is courageously breaking ranks with his Party.
Incredible statement from a leader of the NYPD to the rank and file officers: "I know we are losing the city. We have no leadership, no direction, and no plan. I know you are being held back and used as pawns."
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So far the Superbowl is a giant advertisement for moving to Florida
Friend who lives in Manhattan sends pic of this subway ad courtesy of the NYC Dept of Health. Heroin addiction -- it's empowering!
In this outdoor setting where he was only physically close to his wife, masks were completely unnecessary. But masks have become a form of political signaling for the left, an expression of virtuous obedience to the lockdown and hostility to Trump. So the Bidens wore them.
Boy just wait until AOC and the Squad hear about this -- I bet they're going to demand a boycott of Palestine!
Ha ha ha just kidding, they're not going to say a word. twitter.com/BenWeinthal/st
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The Iranian foreign minister and Obama's CIA director sound *exactly* the same. Wow.
Alternative headline: The real minimum wage is $0.00
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Marriott hotels test replacing desk clerks with automated kiosks trib.al/KBL2vAa
Announcing you are excluding all but one race and sex from consideration for a job opening is completely illegal and unconstitutional in every other context.
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The person I nominate to replace Justice Breyer will be someone with extraordinary qualifications. Character, experience, and integrity.
And they will be the first Black woman nominated to the United States Supreme Court.
Breaking: In the wake of yesterday's report, National School Board Association announces "we regret and apologize for the letter" to Biden admin characterizing concerned parents as potentially domestic terrorists
Something that's genuinely interesting from a human psychology perspective is people who advocate boycotts of Israel getting the vapors when Israel responds by boycotting them. Is it that they feel acting like a bully is an entitlement?
"You heard of this thing, the 8 minute abs?"
"Yeah sure, the exercise video"
"Well this is gonna blow that right out of the water, listen to this: Seven. Minute. Abs."
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Far-Left Rep. Rashida Tlaib calls for a $20 minimum wage
The Congressional Budget Office recently said a $15 minimum wage would destroy 1.3 million jobs.
A $20 minimum wage would destroy even more jobs.
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I'm so sorry you have to show up for work after almost a year of not working but receiving full pay and benefits. We live in a cruel world indeed.
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The 5,000 educators slated to return to Chicago public school buildings tomorrow aren’t the bullies. They’re the underdogs.
In 1984, Malcolm Kerr, his father, was abducted & murdered in Beirut by Iranian-backed terrorists. Today Steve Kerr is attacking Trump for eliminating the very Iranian figure who was in charge of funding and training the kind of terrorists who killed his own father. Strange days.
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One thing I've learned in my lifetime is to not believe our government when it comes to matters of war. Johnson and Nixon lied about Viet Nam. Bush and Cheney lied about WMD's in Iraq. Now Pence is lying about Iran/Soleimani's supposed involvement in 9/11. twitter.com/TheWeek/status…
"Systemic racism" is such a perfect Marxist formulation. It delegitimizes an entire society without blaming anyone in particular, so it generates little opposition. It signifies everything and nothing simultaneously. It can't be proven or disproven. It's genius propaganda.
It's two weeks before the midterms and Biden is doing interviews w/ transgender activists about the need to surgically sterilize kids. I think the progressives running the WH are actively trying to piss off 80 percent of the country. Never seen anything like it.
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Joe Biden says “it’s wrong” for states to ban sex reassignment surgery and puberty blockers for kids.
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I just don't understand why Cubans keep strapping themselves to homemade boats and try to float to Key West. Don't they know about Cuba's amazing health care system and literacy programs?
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Cuba has more than twice the number of doctors per capita as the United States twitter.com/HotlineJosh/st
DeSantis is politicizing higher education, commented the Associate Professor of Gender Studies in between classes where she advocates racial quotas, abolishing police, banning private property, prohibiting free speech, and the gender fluidity of toddlers
John Kerry was ratting out Israeli covert operations in Syria directly to the Iranian foreign minister. Let that sink in. Wow. nytimes.com/2021/04/25/wor
This is a perfect example of the liberal mindset, stronger now more than ever, in which conservative political success, even when playing perfectly by the rules, is illegitimate. Only the left is allowed to succeed.
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Can we at least recognize that “Court Packing” at all levels of the judiciary has been the Republican playbook for decades? Asking for Merrick Garland.
Cancel money. We will all live blissfully in nature, roaming the fields and meadows, eating berries and smelling flowers and twirling in the sun. It will be a simple, beautiful life.
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Cancel rent and mortgage payments.
Rashida Tlaib keeps saying her grandmother lives in oppression and misery in Beit-Ur al-Fauqa, but in fact this Palestinian village is one of the wealthiest in the West Bank and apparently Tlaib's relatives drive BMW and Mercedes cars israelhayom.com/opinions/tlaib
We went from "flattening the curve" to "indefinite house arrest" with no real debate or discussion. These measures should be voted on by elected representatives of the people. We're supposed to be living in a republic.
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NEWS: Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged during a Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday. latimes.com/california/sto
Beirut explosion is in area known to be used by Hezbollah for its long-range precision-guided missile project, which Israel publicly calls a red line. I have no specific knowledge, but would be surprised if explosives that detonated were not associated w/ that project. 1/
Don't intervene. Let it ride. It'll look like Stalingrad in another couple of months, which is sad. But people need to learn.
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This is what’s been done to the Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle by those in the “autonomous zone.” #antifa #BlackLivesMatter #CapitalHillAutonomousZone
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Kramer : It's just a write off for them.
Jerry : How is it a write off?
Kramer : They just write it off.
Jerry : Write it off what?
Kramer : Jerry all these big companies they write off everything.
Jerry : You don't even know what a write off is.
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CANCEL
STUDENT
DEBT
#CancelStudentDebt
Didn't think they could "Republicans pounce!" Jews being beaten in the streets, but they did it
Spoke to a well-placed friend in the IDF just now. The bombed AP office building contained multiple Hamas operations & offices including weapons manufacturing and military intelligence. The building also housed an Islamic Jihad office. And AP's local reporters knew about it.
When I was about that age there was a small neighborhood being built in a farm field near my house and I used to do the exact same thing. Glad nobody chased me down and murdered me.
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People with advanced degrees in International Relations will mock this as crude, foolish, unsophisticated. But this is actually the smartest way to handle thug regimes.
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...Some friendly health advice to Iran: If one American is killed, I will hold Iran responsible. Think it over.
Sloppy, rushed prosecutions will end in acquittals. Headlines will blare that white cops beat the rap. Then more protests and riots. It's so obvious and predictable you have to wonder if it's not intentional.
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Replying to @ReporterFaith and @11AliveNews
Attorney for second officer, Brosnan -- state's "cooperating witness" releases statement on DA's announcement: "This was not a rush to judgment. This was a rush to misjudgment. [...]
Shame on the DA for this abuse of his charging power...." @11AliveNews
The results of this Gallup poll are 1) completely unsurprising, and 2) contradict 99.99 percent of media coverage of this issue. news.gallup.com/poll/316571/bl
My god. The perfect story. I didn't think it was possible.
AG Garland has to testify before Senate Judiciary Cmte next week. This is going to make it all the more excruciating -- NSBA just hung him out to dry.
I love how the biggest leftist protests are always in cities where the left has been in charge of everything for decades
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Breaking: Protesters are now disrupting the subway in NYC for Jordan Neely
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Here's a Washington Post reporter blaming Iran's terrorism on the "failure" of the US president to be blackmailed by Iran's previous act of terrorism. Unbelievable.
At Yale there is now a 1:1 ratio of undergraduate students to administrators. Mind-boggling.
Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva announces donation of 6 million Hydroxychloroquine tablets to US hospitals to fight Chinese virus tevausa.com/news-and-media
A half-century of blaming America first
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Former Sec. of State @JohnKerry - who negotiated the Iran nuclear deal - on confirmed attacks on Iraqi military bases following the killing of General Soleimani: "I think it's a tragedy for the world that instead of diplomacy, this administration has rushed to confrontation."
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Jews really bother this guy
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Earlier today the NYPD shut down a Yeshiva conducting classes with as many as 70 children. I can’t stress how dangerous this is for our young people. We’re issuing a Cease and Desist Order and will make sure we keep our communities and our kids safe.
Also, 1/3 of California experiences blackouts
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CA ensures that 1/3 of electricity is from renewable sources. Here’s how we can make it a model nationwide: bit.ly/kamalaenviro
"It's good that the FBI treated the President's national security adviser like a member of Al Qaeda" is a take I did not see coming twitter.com/benjaminwittes
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Just wait until America's drivers learn about Henry Ford....and what Porsche, Volkswagen, BMW, and Mercedes were up to during WW2 (h/t )
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Tesla owners are grappling with the fact that their cars may carry new connotations after Elon Musk tweeted about taking “the red pill,” a reference to “The Matrix” that has been co-opted by the right and discussed in misogynistic and racist forums
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The woke kids using the Queen's death to dunk on the British Empire probably don't know that Britain banned slavery in all regions of its empire long before the US Civil War, via laws passed in 1807 & 1833. It was empire that enabled this sweeping reform.
I'm seeing Journos RT this as a dunk on the NY Post & Giuliani but it's really a dunk on themselves. The MSM desire to help Biden is so intense they will pass up a chance to break a major story. Rudy is right.
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Rudy Giuliani, a source for the Post's story (as noted by the Post itself), told The New York Times he chose The Post because “either nobody else would take it, or if they took it, they would spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out.”
Great news everyone -- murder is now legal in France so long as you smoke weed beforehand
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“A French prosecutor has dropped charges against the killer of Jewish kindergarten teacher Sarah Halimi after experts ruled he had suffered a massive psychotic episode by smoking cannabis.”
Complete and utter madness. Outrageous. thejc.com/news/world/fre
I love how the people always sermonizing about "threats to our democracy" regularly hint that if they don't get their way via the democratic process, they will support political violence
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal: There will be "a huge backlash...in the streets" if the White House agrees to spending cuts.
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Twitter execs always claim their company isn't putting its thumb on the scales, but when you open a new account (as I just did for a new project) here are the first three accounts they recommend you follow. They really think we're stupid.
He didn't say anything "anti-trans." He said that biological males shouldn't be allowed to compete in women's sports. There wasn't one word attacking trans people. Good try though.
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The anti-trans stuff is the first bit here that seems new - while PACs hit that during the campaign, Trump didn't talk about it. He'd unwind trans rights with exec orders but didn't emphasize it at rallies.
Antifa spent the last few years building a sophisticated and violent domestic militia, exactly the kind of threat the FBI is supposed to detect and stop. The FBI spent the last few years trying to frame and jail an innocent three-star General. What a disgrace.
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NYPD Deputy Comm. for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller says members of anarchist groups from outside the city have coordinated bicycle scouts, medical teams, encrypted communications, gasoline and weapon resupply stations nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyp
I'd also bet 90 percent of US adults are unaware that 100M people were killed by Communist regimes in the 20th century. The capture of schools, elementary through universities, by the hard left is probably the most serious problem the US faces.
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Nearly two-thirds of US adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust – study theguardian.com/world/2020/sep
Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize for this. I'm not kidding. Soleimani has spent the past decade spreading war and death throughout the region. Killing him is a huge blow for peace.
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It is now confirmed: the US has killed Qassem Soleimani.
Uh oh, we have a Logan Act violation!
The left's unhinged reaction to the Roe news and Musk buying twitter are really the same story: leftists do not fundamentally believe in the democratic norm of sharing power. The left wins and the right loses. Anything else is illegitimate.
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A visibly shaken and angry Senator Elizabeth Warren just spoke in-front of #SCOTUS. @TheNationalNews
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He's now arguably the leading feminist governor in America. I don't see anyone else standing up for women's rights like this.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signs a bill that will ban transgender students from participating in girls’ youth sports.
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Lol at the Antifa clowns fanning out their *umbrellas* in unison to block the onrushing cops like they're Spartans holding off Xerxes at Thermopylae
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HAPPENING NOW: @SeattlePD rushes through barricade of Antifa Militants and BLM protesters outside of Seattle Police Officers Guild. Multiple protesters get arrested. #seattleriots #seattleprotests
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Woman who supports Israel's destruction at the hands of terrorists is super-duper bummed she won't get to visit Israel to "learn from Israelis" and I totally believe all of this, yup I do
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At some point Dems are going to realize that they are almost certainly stuck with Kamala, who is so untalented and unlikable a politician she had to drop out of the Dem primary before *Iowa,* as their nominee in 2024. All because of the identity politics they insist on.
Obama foreign policy team deserves some credit for Israel-UAE peace: their love affair with Iran and the Palestinians & their animosity toward Israel and Gulf states helped bring the latter together
This is a perfectly legit hit on Biden and the DNC from Trump campaign. After four years of Dem posturing about anti-semitism, the DNC convention featured six supporters of Farrakhan donaldjtrump.com/media/joe-bide
What accounts for today's historic peace deal? A lot of hard work, for sure. The enormous growth in Israeli economic, military, & demographic power over the last 20 years, definitely. But the key new ingredient is the Trump admin being guided by the right ideas. Short thread. 1/
Especially the Jews, she added
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Ilhan Omar: ‘I probably love this country more than anyone that is naturally born’ washex.am/2XPO99A
This is a disgraceful slander of a man who throughout his career has been a consistent and courageous advocate for Jews and Israel. Delete and apologize, Halie. This is beneath contempt. twitter.com/HalieSoifer/st
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If you oppose Biden's legislative agenda you're a racist but if you take a synagogue hostage on shabbat while screaming anti-Semitic jihadist slogans Biden isn't sure what to call you
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Biden: "I don't think there is sufficient information to know why he targeted that synagogue why he insisted on the release of someone who's been in prison for over 10 years... why he was using anti-Semitic & anti-Israeli comments."
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Pretty amazing admission here -- Omar opposes economic warfare against Iran but supports it against Israel.
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This makes no sense. Sanctions are economic warfare.
They have already caused medical shortages and countless deaths in Iran.
You cannot claim to want deescalation and then announce new sanctions with no clear goal. This is not a measured response! twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/s…
Dems should be worried about voters seeing them as the party of weakness and chaos. Dem mayors and governors wouldn't stand up to rioters last summer. This summer Biden won't stand up to terrorists in pickup trucks. Similar weakness both domestic and foreign.
In the past year Kamala has called Biden a racist and a sexual assaulter. It's a testament to how commonplace and almost perfunctory those accusations have become on the left that they didn't disqualify her
Alvarez, wow. An example of how the people who love America and the American idea the deepest are often those with first-hand experience of life in other countries
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"There is no other place to go." — Maximo Alvarez
The Biden foreign policy moves we're seeing -- refusing to stop buying Russian oil, sudden outreach to Venezuela and KSA, the insane cave-in to Iran/Russia in the Vienna talks -- make sense once you realize Biden admin foreign policy has two inviolable rules:
There is huge historic symbolism in Israel-Sudan peace. Khartoum was where the Arab League met after the Six Day War & declared the famous "Three No's" -- no peace with Israel, no recognition, no negotiations. 53 years later and we have Three Yesses.
Another perfect illustration of how Wokeism is simply Marxism with class swapped out for race. As always, the rules the revolutionaries demand you obey don't apply to them, whether they're the Politburo in Moscow or the leaders of BLM in Topanga Canyon.
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In a fantastic interview with @marclamonthill #patricecullors explains how her home ownership and income don’t betray her marxist principles. It’s all for her family.
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"Adulteress" is such a gendered, offensive term, especially when applied to someone as progressive and enlightened as Hamas supporter Ilhan Omar. "Adulterx," please.
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Ilhan Omar called adulteress as alleged lover divorces wife: report trib.al/pyTMjmU
This is a complete and total lie, lazy as can be, as even a cursory look at the issue will reveal. These were illegally built structures. The case went all the way to the Israeli supreme court, which approved the demolition.
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Imagine having your home destroyed just because of who you are, and that being the point. twitter.com/AP/status/1153…
The President's message to the American people is that he's a powerless victim and can't do anything to help them. Incredible they're going with this.
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BIDEN: "We've never seen anything like Putin's tax on both food and gas."
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Wow, only one tuxedo for the entire award season. Some people make sacrifices; others decide to completely upend their lives for the cause. Bravo, Mr. Phoenix.
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This man is a winner… wearing custom Stella because he chooses to make choices for the future of the planet. He has also chosen to wear this same Tux for the entire award season to reduce waste. I am proud to join forces with you... x Stella
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Jewish Voice for Peace openly supports terrorist attacks on Israel. It's why we call them Jewish Voice for Hamas. The members are both wacko and dumb. Tlaib fits in perfectly.
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Inbox: Rashida Tlaib will be spending tonight at a Shabbat gathering w/ Jewish Voices for Peace. It's a notable choice of Jewish ally for this moment: an org that supports BDS, is fairly marginal in the Jewish institutional world, + is widely seen as anti-Israel in that world.
The obtained an internal email circulated to House Dems to garner signatories for yesterday's anti-Israel letter. She touted the support of 10 extremist groups -- all BDS supporters, including openly pro-Hamas groups
The teachers unions are absolutely terrified of competition because they know the product they offer is terrible and given the choice parents will go elsewhere. It's as simple as that.
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I’m incredibly disappointed to see Kathryn Garcia go this route with charters. She’s embraced the unacceptable policy of lifting the charter cap in NYC. Now.. Two minutes be4 early voting starts. Wondering why? . politico.com/states/new-yor
What an amazing and admirable person
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Amy Barrett introduces family 9/6/2017 hearing.
- 7 children
- "Vivian 13, our miracle, was born in Haiti, 14 months old weighed 11 pounds"
- "John Peter born in Haiti joined family 2010 after devastating earthquake
- "Benjamin 5 has special needs"
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FOIA'd emails show Biden admin worked with National Association of School Boards on the infamous letter calling concerned parents "domestic terrorists."
Half of New York State's electricity is generated by natural gas power plants. So you've banned natural gas stoves and mandated electric stoves that are powered by...natural gas. Genius.
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In NYC we passed landmark legislation in 2021 banning gas hookups in new construction. Means all heating, hot water, and yes STOVES, will be electric in new buildings going forward.
NYC is going to win the race to carbon neutrality. We are leaving red states in the dust.
Pathetic that she wore a head scarf to show respect to this con man and terrorist. When Oriana Fallaci interviewed Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 she famously removed hers in the middle of the interview after he dismissed her questions about women's rights. Raddatz is no Fallaci.
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.@MarthaRaddatz: "What kind of consequences are you talking about with the United States?"
Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif: "I like to keep Pres. Trump guessing because he likes everybody in the world to keep on guessing" about what's happening in the U.S. abcn.ws/2HRYnS8
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Assuming no US casualties, this probably ends here. Politics of it are good for Trump. Burnishes his image of toughness & enforcing red lines, also keeps promise of staying out of wars. Both hawks and Tucker faction come away feeling like they got something.
So embarrassing twitter.com/tole_cover/sta
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Happy Thanksgiving from the Mossad
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"Remember that name – Fakhrizadeh."
–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 30, 2018
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This is why Jews should own guns and know how to use them
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Synagogue Congregation Beth El on Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles vandalized... Tell me this ugly hatred is still about #blm or #georgefloyd?!
When Romney ran for president against Obama he was a homophobic misogynist plutocrat bully religious fanatic right-wing extremist. But now he's a guardian of "democracy and truth." The only thing that's changed is he no longer threatens Dem political power.
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Mitt Romney, who has endured years of Trump’s schoolyard taunts, and who withstood harassment at the airport yesterday by Trump’s mask-less supporters, receives sustained applause in the Senate chamber as he delivers an affirmation of democracy and truth.
The Biden admin is defending anti-Asian racial discrimination in university admissions in a case before the Supreme Court, in case you wanted to compare substance vs PR
Alas, we may never know his motive
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This week's front page: Our exclusive investigation into Texas synagogue gunman
The below is a perfectly concise statement of the current progressive mentality, via the author of the 1619 Project: Obey us or we'll call you racist. twitter.com/nhannahjones/s
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These guys went from "Death to America!" rallies to "We do not seek escalation or war" inside of 24 hours.
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Iran took & concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched.
We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression.