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Fast Forward No, Aaron Schlossberg Will Probably Not Be Disbarred For Rant
Despite a massive backlash from his viral racist rant, Aaron Schlossberg likely won’t be disbarred for the outburst. Lawyers facing complaints for incidents like the one involving Schlossberg, who went off on people speaking Spanish in a deli, generally result in reprimands, experts said. “Mr. Schlossberg could be disciplined for this conduct but it will…
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Fast Forward Monica Lewinsky Claps Back At Magazine Over Invitation Clash With Bill Clinton
It’s been 20 years since Monica Lewinsky’s affair with then-president Bill Clinton went public, but she still faces backlash. The anti-bullying activist took to Twitter on Wednesday to express her frustrations over an unnamed publication inviting her to an event regarding social change, only to rescind the offer when Clinton expressed interest. dear world: please…
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The Schmooze ‘Y’all Country Is Nuts’: This Rapper Has Good Reasons For Never Returning To Israel
Azealia Banks says she’s never coming back to Israel. She also might be one of the country’s great defenders. Banks courts controversy wherever she goes. The dynamo 26 year-old rapper has often received fair censure for her erratic behavior (go ahead and google her tiff with Sarah Palin) since she burst onto the scene six…
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Fast Forward Viral Video Of Grown Man Taunting Hasidic Boy Gets Millions Of Views
A video of a man taunting a small Hasidic boy over his appearance went viral on Sunday, with the original clip viewed over 1 million times and copies of it seen at least a million more. The 13-second video shows a man coming across a three- or four-year-old boy in the street, looking upset and…
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Fast Forward 4.2M Anti-Semitic Tweets Sent In Year
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League estimated that there were 4.2 million anti-Semitic tweets out of the trillions posted on Twitter over a yearlong period. In a report released Monday, the civil rights group’s Center on Extremism said its experts estimated the tweets were sent by 3 million unique users. The study did not control…
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Fast Forward Firefighter Who Tweeted Anti-Semitic Hate Transferred Out Of Orthodox Neighborhood
(JTA) — A newly graduated New York City firefighter who had quit as an EMT after his racist and anti-Semitic tweets came to light was transferred out of a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn after just one day. Joseph Cassano, the son of a former fire commissioner, worked Monday at a Borough Park station, but the…
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Fast Forward Jim Carrey’s Terrifying Portraits Of Michael Cohen
The pen is mightier than the sword but the paintbrush of Jim Carrey ain’t half bad. The comedian, adding to a growing series of political artwork he has been posting on Twitter, has produced two artistic renderings of President Trump’s lawyer, the unctuous Michael Cohen. Auto-moronic ASSphyxiation. ;^P pic.twitter.com/VA6mmkjtk0 — Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) April 19,…
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Culture Mocking Misogyny On Twitter Is Self-Defeating. Here’s Why.
One morning when I was 15 years old, a junior in high school, I decided to straighten my hair. This was a big deal; I was in a sweatshirt phase, having decided that the speediest way to deal with not having what I thought of as traditional good looks was to ignore my looks altogether….
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