Aisha Tahir
By Aisha Tahir
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Fast Forward Omarosa Claims To Have Secretly Recorded Jared And Ivanka
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has told friends and associates that she has tapes of private phone calls from first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, Politico reported. Her stash of recordings, which she is soon releasing in her new book “Unhinged,” includes a condolence call she received from the couple…
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Fast Forward ‘Superhero’ Lawyer Who Argued Before Supreme Court Killed In Domestic Dispute
A prominent Chicago-area lawyer was killed in his home in a domestic dispute, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday. A suspect was escorted by police out of his Winnetka, Illinois, apartment and is being questioned. Stephen Shapiro was known as a “superhero” among his fellow attorneys. “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the death…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Survivor Laments Holocaust Denier’s Run For Congress In Her District
An Auschwitz survivor can’t believe a Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier, is running to represent her district in Congress, the Chicago Tribune reported. Stasia Dorna was fourteen when she was transported to Auschwitz. She remembers the sour soup, the icy barracks and her friend who was badly beaten for sneaking a bite of potato. Dorna…
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Fast Forward Doctor’s Death Was First Homicide In Decades In Heavily Jewish Cleveland Suburb
The death of Dr. Richard Warn in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood was the heavily-Jewish city’s first homicide in more than two decades, Cleveland.com reported. Warn was found shot multiple times inside his home on Thursday. Two people of interest were found in another house owned by Warn, and died after a shootout with police…
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Fast Forward Microsoft Threatened To Drop Hosting Gab After Anti-Semitic Posts
Jew-hating politician Patrick Little almost got an alt-right social network booted off its Microsoft-hosted platform, reported Talking Points Memo. Microsoft said Gab, the network it hosts on its cloud service Azure, had to remove Little’s anti-Semitic messages or face de-platforming. The posts called for the “ritual death by torture” and “complete eradication” of Jews. Gab…
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Fast Forward New YouTube Trend: Opening Packages With Nazi Paraphernalia
YouTubers are buying mystery packages off the Dark Web, known as haunted “Dybbuk boxes” — many of which contain Nazi paraphernalia, the website Mysterious Universe reported. Would-be viral video makers have followed strange trends before: Tide Pod challenges, condom-snorting challenges, cinnamon or hot pepper-eating challenges, and even self-immolation challenges. buB now the newest trend is…
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Fast Forward Sheriff’s Deputies Fired For Neo-Nazi Beliefs: ‘Hitler Did Nothing Wrong’
Two employees of the sheriff’s office of Spalding County, Georgia have been fired after an anti-fascist group exposed their neo-Nazi and racist beliefs, Newsweek reported. Howard Costner and Jesse Jones were fired after online comments made by the two expressing far-right views came to light. “I view racism as normal,” Costner commented on YouTube. “Just…
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Fast Forward Ady Barkan Is Dedicating His Last Years To ‘Save Our Democracy’
Ady Barkan is a progressive activist who recently released an advertisement endorsing Danny O’Connor, a Democrat running for Congress in Ohio’s 12th District, called “This dying father has a message for Ohio voters”, CNN reported. Barkan’s PAC purchased $100,000 worth of airtime to broadcast it. Barkan was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neurodegenerative…
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