Juliana Kaplan
By Juliana Kaplan
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The Schmooze Miz Cracker Is The Fabulous Jewish Drag Queen We Need
Last Thursday, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” viewers found themselves sitting shiva for the untimely elimination of Miz Cracker. Miz Cracker, otherwise known as Maxwell Heller, emerged as an early fan favorite, turning both looks and jokes at the drop of a hat. And she was unabashedly Jewish throughout her time on the show. Her catchphrase? “Shabbat…
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Fast Forward Soros: Nazi Cooperation Allegations Are A ‘Total Fabrication’
In a rare interview with The Washington Post, billionaire Holocaust survivor George Soros, a favored target of the “alt-right,” opened up about the current political climate and anti-Semitic attacks against him. Most recently, Soros found himself in the crossfires of Roseanne Barr’s Twitter rant. Barr tweeted that Soros is “a nazi who turned in his…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Teacher Joshua Levine Helped 4th Graders Cheat On New York Testing
Brooklyn fourth-grade teacher Joshua Levine was found to have assisted students in cheating on New York state testing, The New York Post reports. Levine is said to have supplied students with answers during testing after admitting he did not teach the material, according to records detailing the Department of Education’s Office of Special Investigations findings…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Still Hasn’t Endorsed His Son’s Run For Congress
Sen. Bernie Sanders has not endorsed his son Levi’s run for Congress in New Hampshire, The Boston Globe reported Thursday. While Bernie Sanders has been actively endorsing other progressive candidates, Levi has not received an explicit endorsement in his run for the Democratic nomination in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District. Levi is Sanders’ only biological…
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Fast Forward Stormy Daniels Says Her Former Lawyer ‘Colluded’ With Trump And Michael Cohen
Stormy Daniels has filed a lawsuit claiming her former attorney “colluded” with Michael Cohen and Donald Trump while representing her, NBC News reports. The lawsuit says that Keith Davidson, Daniels’ former attorney, and Cohen “hatched a plan” to have Daniels go on Fox News in January and falsely claim she did not have an affair…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Communicated During Campaign With Russian Promising Trump-Putin Meeting
Ivanka Trump put President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen in contact with a Russian weightlifter to facilitate a Trump-Putin business meeting during the campaign, BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday. These interactions have been reviewed by both congressional investigators and Robert Mueller’s team, BuzzFeed said. In November 2015, Ivanka allegedly connected Cohen with weightlifter Dmitry Klokov, a former…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner And Kim Kardashian Get Alice Johnson Pardoned
Jared Kushner and Kim Kardashian West’s efforts to have President Trump pardon Alice Marie Johnson were successful today, Axios reported. The unlikely duo first met in May to discuss commuting Johnson’s life sentence. Johnson, a black woman in Mississippi, was sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a first-time…
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Fast Forward Virginia GOP Senate Candidate Called Anti-Semite Paul Nehlen A ‘Personal Hero’
Virginia GOP Senate primary favorite Corey Stewart has not renounced calling Wisconsin congressional candidate Paul Nehlen one of his “personal heroes” in a December 2017 video, despite Nehlen’s subsequent emergence as a racist anti-Semite, The Weekly Standard reported Tuesday. Nehlen has been banned from Twitter for racist and anti-Semitic tweets. His clashes with other white…
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