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Fast Forward WaPo Investigation Finds Worker Protections Wanting In Ivanka’s Factories
“The time to change the narrative around women and work once and for all is long overdue; in fact, it’s become my life’s mission,” Ivanka Trump wrote in her book “Women Who Work.” While Trump works on the “narrative,” the thousands of women in Bangladesh, Indonesia and China who make garments for her eponymous clothing…
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Fast Forward Alt-Right Trolls Lash Out At Laura Loomer After Profile
Far right media activist Laura Loomer this morning, she has been the target of vicious anti-Semitic posts on social media since Forward published a profile of her Friday morning. “Synagogue of Satan. You are fake Jews,” wrote @BrydensFunny. “Go back to Israel you filthy kike,” wrote “Leah Goldstein.” (Twitter handle: @JewessGoyim.) “Goldstein? You sound like…
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Fast Forward Ivanka and Jared Try To Keep Low Profile In Sun Valley
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have made a daring escape. While the first family rides out the media storm following revelations that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian state prosecutor and a former Soviet counterintelligence officer in Trump Tower last summer, Kushner and Trump are attending a lux conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. The…
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Fast Forward Sebastian Gorka Emerges As Trump’s Favorite Cable News Attack Dog
Sebastian Gorka, the controversial White House anti-terrorism aide, has become one of Donald Trump’s favorite onscreen defenders, according to Axios. In recent days, Gorka has taken to Fox, MSNBC and CNN to support the president and fire back against what he likes to call the “fake news industrial complex.” “I’m sad to see CNN fall…
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News Laura Loomer Is The Jewish Voice Of The Far Right. Can She Tame Jew Haters?
Just as Brutus and his collaborators brandished knives and went in for the kill, one audience member decided to intervene. “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right!” Laura Loomer yelled, storming the stage of Shakespeare in the Park’s now-famous performance of “Julius Caesar.” For a brief second, all was quiet. The would-be assassins,…
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News WATCH: In Laura Loomer’s First Stunt, She Made An ISIS Club
Laura Loomer had a theory to test out about her college: The school would let her start a club in support of ISIS, so concerned were they with letting everyone have a “voice.” In spring of 2015 she wore a hidden camera to the Center for Student Involvement and touted her pet project: “Sympathetic Students…
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Fast Forward Jewish ‘Alt-Right’ Woman Takes On Richard Spencer Amid Infighting
On June 26th, Richard Spencer, founder of the white nationalist National Policy Institute, and Laura Loomer, of “Julius Caesar” protest fame, presided over competing far-right rallies in the capital. Spencer has little regard for Loomer and her ilk, whom he likes to call “alt-light.” Loomer, who is Jewish, has called Spencer out for hating Jews….
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Fast Forward On Anniversary of Seth Rich Murder, Family Pleads For End To Conspiracy Theories
In a statement released on the anniversary of his death, Seth Rich’s parents and brother are asking the public “please cease using Seth as a political football in predetermined partisan narratives.” “While we recognize the futility of this request, we make it anyway,” the family wrote. Rich died after being shot in the back outside…
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