Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward Joe Lieberman, 76, Tells AOC, 29: You Aren’t The Future Of Democratic Party
Joe Lieberman, former Democratic Senator from Connecticut, made it clear he is not a fan of New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “With all respect, I certainly hope she’s not the future and I don’t believe she is,” Lieberman said Thursday on Fox Business Network. Lieberman, 76, explained that Ocasio-Cortez, 29, is too “different” and “controversial”…
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Fast Forward Florida Governor Firing Sheriff Scott Israel Over Parkland Shooting Response
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to suspend and then replace Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel over the public safety department’s response to the school shooting in Parkland last year, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. DeSantis will share the news Friday afternoon, sources told the Sun Sentinel. He’s likely to name former Coral Springs…
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Fast Forward Would You Give RBG One Day Of Your Life? Nervous Fans Ask On Twitter.
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg missed oral arguments on Monday to recuperate from surgery, the White House began reaching out to political allies and conservative activist groups to consider possible replacements, should death or retirement keep her off the bench, Politico reported. This was the first time Ginsburg, 85, missed oral arguments in her 25…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Apologizes To Women Harassed By 2016 Campaign Employees
Senator Bernie Sanders put out a public apology to female staffers who said they were harassed or discriminated against while working on his 2016 presidential campaign. “To the women on my 2016 campaign who were harassed or mistreated, thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for speaking out. I apologize,” he tweeted Thursday. “We…
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Fast Forward ‘Schindler’s List’ Escape Room Opens In Greek City With Storied Jewish History
There’s a “Schindler’s List”-themed escape room in Greece — and it’s in a city that lost 96% of its Jewish population in the Holocaust. In escape rooms, participants are locked in a room and tasked with finding clues to break out. Freelance writer Margarita Gokun Silver wrote about her experience at one such room, in…
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Fast Forward Ben Shapiro Condemns Steve King For Asking Why ‘White Supremacist’ Is Offensive
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro called for Congress to condemn Representative Steve King after the Iowa congressman questioned why phrases like “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” were offensive. “Congress ought to vote to censure him, and then he ought to be primaried ASAP,” Shapiro tweeted on Thursday. Shapiro, editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, then asked his…
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Fast Forward Steve King Wonders How ‘White Supremacist’ Became An Offensive Term
Representative Steve King told The New York Times in an interview published Thursday that he is not a racist — but he wondered when terms like “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” became something unsavory and wrong. “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” King said. “Why did I sit…
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Fast Forward Jewish Democrats Flee Mar-a-Lago Amid Trump Tsuris
When President Trump arrived in Palm Beach, Florida in the 1980s, he wasn’t accepted into any of the city’s prestigious private clubs — he was “arrogant and pushy and he didn’t care that locals thought he was loud and vulgar,” The Washington Post recounted. So Trump opened Mar-a-Lago, the estate he scored for $10 million,…
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