Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller Wins Again: Refugee Cap Passes In Meeting Barring Top Officials
Top officials weren’t invited to the meeting where White House adviser Stephen Miller advocated for cutting the number of refugees allowed in the U.S. to the lowest level in 40 years, NBC News reported. The meeting last Friday didn’t include U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Mark…
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Fast Forward Yale Probes Jewish Law Prof Who Told Students Kavanaugh Has A ‘Type’
Yale Law School is investigating a prominent professor who allegedly told female students preparing for a clerkship interview with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh that he prefers women with a “certain look,” the Guardian reported Thursday. An email that was sent to law school alumni this summer and acquired by the legal blog Above…
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Fast Forward Republican Uses Lame RBG Groping Joke To Mock Kavanaugh Accuser
A South Carolina congressman made light of the sexual assault accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with a joke about Ruth Bader Ginsburg being groped, The Post and Courier reported Thursday. As he opened his election debate at the Kiwanis Club of Rock Hill, Republican Rep. Ralph Norman quipped that he almost had to…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soccer Star Refuses To Play — Until Yom Kippur Ends
Although he fasted for 24 hours in observance of Yom Kippur, a member of the Queens Park Rangers hopped off the bench and into the soccer game as soon as the holy day ended, the Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and one of the holiest days in Judaism, ended after…
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Fast Forward Law Professor Warned Students That Kavanaugh Liked Clerks With A ‘Certain Look’
A former Yale Law School student said that a few years ago she was warned by a professor during her clerkship interview process that Judge Brett Kavanaugh liked his female clerks to have a “certain look,” HuffPost reported. The outlet reported that Jed Rubenfeld and his wife, Amy Chua — author of the 2011 book…
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Fast Forward DeSantis Under Fire After Pro-Israel Donor Calls Obama ‘N-Word’
A Republican activist who donated $20,000 to Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis tweeted that President Obama was a “MUSLIM N——,” Politico reported Thursday. Steven Alembik, who also lined up a speech for DeSantis at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, told Politico that he wrote the tweet in anger. He denied being a racist and said he…
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Fast Forward After Harassment Probe, Mark Cuban Donates $10 Million To Women’s Groups
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban will donate $10 million to organizations that promote women in leadership and combat domestic violence, following an investigation into workplace misconduct within the team, Sports Illustrated reported. Cuban, who is Jewish, came to the agreement with the NBA, which could have fined him only up to $2.5 million. The report…
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Fast Forward Twitter Joins Other Tech Titans In Banning Alex Jones
After a brief suspension from Twitter, notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been permanently banned from the social media platform, Gizmodo reported. Twitter banned both Jones’ account and that of his website Infowars, citing abusive behavior. His Twitter page had nearly 900,000 followers, and Infowars had 430,000. Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from…
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