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Fast Forward Trump Snipes At Jon Ossoff On Twitter As Georgia Votes
As voters in the Atlanta suburbs cast votes in a closely watched special election pitting Democrat Jon Ossoff against Republican Karen Handel, President Trump is endorsing her and blasting him in a series of tweets. Big day tomorrow in Georgia and South Carolina. ObamaCare is dead. Dems want to raise taxes big! They can only…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Jr. Takes To Twitter Over Israel Terror Attack
Donald Trump Jr. led a Twitter campaign to push the BBC to change a headline on a story about a weekend terror attack in Israel, blasting the venerable news organization for what he and other Israel advocates said was bias. So nice of @BBC to take down their ridiculous tweet from this morn. If they…
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Fast Forward ‘Antifa’s Most Prominent Jew’ Booted From Twitter
The activist and author called “antifa’s most prominent Jew” has been booted off Twitter. “So Twitter gave in to the Nazis apparently and suspended my account,” Daniel Sieradski wrote in a public note describing the June 8 suspension of his account. “I had the temerity to fight hate on their platform when they won’t.” Twitter…
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The Schmooze Courtney Love Calls Activist Linda Sarsour An ‘Anti-Semitic Terrorist” On Twitter
Sponsored by The Coalition To Make Feminist Anxiety Nightmares Real (probably), rock icon Courtney Love and activist Linda Sarsour engaged in a furious Twitter battle yesterday. “I won’t follow anything thats being led by an anti-Semetic terrorist that’s using feminism as a tool to promote her radicalism,” Love tweeted. unfollowed. I won’t follow anything thats…
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Fast Forward Julia Ioffe At Center Of Firestorm Over ‘N-Word’ Tweet
Jewish journalist Julia Ioffe found herself at the center of a Twitter firestorm over a six-year-old post in which she repeated a racial slur for black people. Ioffe, a staff writer at the Atlantic who is known for her liberal politics, initially thought her account had been hacked before realizing the 2011 tweet was actually…
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Fast Forward Lloyd Blankfein Takes To Twitter — For First Time — To Protest Paris Pullout
President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord has driven even reluctant Twitterer Lloyd Blankfein to the platform for the first time since he joined — or his assistant joined him — in 2011. Today’s decision is a setback for the environment and for the U.S.’s leadership position in the world. #ParisAgreement…
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Fast Forward Chuck Woolery, Ex-Love Connection Host, Keeps Ranting About Jews
Chuck Woolery, the ex-Love Connection host who raised concerns after tweeting about the supposedly Jewish roots of Communism, has continued on with his borderline anti-Semitic social media rant. He decided to double down with the “Jews and Communism” line with an attack on Bernie Sanders: But don’t worry, he really loves Israel… And it’s the…
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Opinion 5 Trump Tweets That Make More Sense With #Covfefe
Covfefe: innocuous typo by an overworked president after a long day potentially dooming the planet to cataclysmic climate change? A code word to let the Russians know that “despite the constant negative press,” they’re still his boo? Or is it one of those Yiddish words your grandmother always threw out at the end of sentences…
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