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Fast Forward Teen Reporter Scoops De Blasio’s Presidential Candidacy Announcement
(JTA) — A St. Louis teen who writes a daily politics newsletter scooped New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s presidential candidacy announcement. De Blasio officially made the announcement early Thursday morning in a 3-minute video posted on YouTube, and followed it up with an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” But Gabe Fleisher, had already…
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Fast Forward Can Adam Schiff Really Overturn Citizens United With A Constitutional Amendment?
Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has introduced a constitutional amendment to effectively undo the Supreme Court verdict in the Citizens United case, CNN reported. In the 2010 Citizens United ruling, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to get rid of limits on election spending on communications, such as ads and flyers, by corporations, unions and other groups….
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Fast Forward Will You Listen To Al Franken’s New Political Podcast?
It’s been a year and change since Al Franken resigned his position as U.S. Senator from Minnesota, after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct and sexually inappropriate behavior. Now he appears to be attempting a comeback, starting with a political podcast. But if a disgraced politician makes a low-budget podcast out of a studio…
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Fast Forward Kalman Yeger, Who Tweeted ‘Palestine Does Not Exist,’ Loses Seat On Immigration Committee
New York City Councilman Kalman Yeger has been removed from his post in the council’s immigration committee following a tweet in which he wrote, “Palestine does not exist,” The New York Times reported. Yeger, who represents a heavily Orthodox part of Brooklyn, made the remark on Twitter last week, in response to a tweet from…
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Fast Forward Effort To Recall Colorado’s Jewish Governor Led By Woman Who Praised Hitler
An effort to recall Colorado governor Jared Polis is being led by a woman with a history of anti-Semitic Facebook posts and who once praised Hitler for being good to the German people, the Greeley Tribune reported. Jared Polis was elected governor of Colorado during last year’s midterm elections, when Democrats swept into power at…
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Fast Forward Former AIPAC Officials Launch Bipartisan Political Action Committee
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two former top AIPAC staffers are helming a new political action committee that will steer donations to candidates in both parties who adopt a centrist pro-Israel position, at a time when that gold standard for pro-Israel giving is being challenged by the right and the left. Pro-Israel America launched Tuesday endorsing 27…
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Fast Forward Fringe Websites Push Conspiracy That Jussie Smollett Was Aided By Kamala Harris
A conspiracy theory that presidential hopeful Senator Kamala Harris aided actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged attempts to fake a hate crime have spread across Twitter and Facebook, Storyful reported, based on an analysis of traffic on the sites. Smollett was arrested last week on suspicion of filing a false police report that he had been assaulted…
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