Ken Silverstein
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STFU.
After Friday’s new anti-Semitism task force announcement, I have lost confidence in the determination and ability of the Harvard Corporation and Harvard leadership to maintain Harvard as a place where Jews and Israelis can flourish.
The previously touted advisory committee has
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SCOOP: FBI investigating Trump crony, far right donor & Blackwater founder Erik Prince over possible illegal arms sales, money laundering & contacts with foreign intelligence agencies. (Posted late yesterday so ICYMI)
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Did you give Joe's # to the family of the 6-year-old boy your motorcade killed in Cameroon before fleeing the scene?
During the
@BarackObama
admin, I was stunned to learn something
@JoeBiden
never advertised: when he meets someone who’s suffered great personal loss, he gives them his personal cell #. “If you feel low & have no place to turn, call me,” he says. Grieving strangers cld call
@VP
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If you vote for Ossoff and Warnock, you'll get two more votes for conviction immediately. Now we're taking vacation, back in touch soon about that 2,000 - $600.
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As they say, when you've lost Tom Friedman. He may be the biggest hack in all US journalism, tho admittedly there are many contenders, but Israeli war crimes even giving him pause. Nothing gives Blinken pause, he's an utterly amoral sociopath.
Tom Friedman to Blinken: Given the “incredible asymmetry in casualties,” do Jewish lives matter more than Muslim and Palestinian-Christian lives?
BLINKEN: “No” … the suffering is “gut-wrenching”
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Richard Hanania is being attacked as a racist for what he wrote almost 15 years ago, when in his 20s. It's completely unfair, we all make mistakes when we're younger. Let's look at something he wrote 2 months ago & I'm sure he's completely chang...
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STFU about setting examples.
WSJ, 2023: Ex- president Lawrence Summers repeatedly met & solicited donations from sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Summers wrote Epstein a 2014 email asking for money for his wife. "My life will be better if i raise $1m for Lisa," wrote Summers.
I think it is a profound failure that Harvard Yard continues to be occupied in clear violation of university policies and rules.
This is the predictable culmination of the Harvard Corporation’s failure to effectively address issues of prejudice and breakdowns of order on our
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By the way, about how Israel created Hamas, and more.
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Seems like a good time to repost this two year old tweet.
By the way, about how Israel created Hamas, and more.
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The precise moment when it dawns on Matt Taibbi, as he grovels before his billionaire patron, that he's been in bed with "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Karma's truly a bitch.
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@igorbobic
One of the great political slogans of all time. "If we win Georgia $2K checks will go out immediately, minus $600 Trump gave you and by the way, a lot of you won't see a penny."
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You asked & you shall receive. Coming later today, more names from Erik Prince’s secret group chat, including the man who gave Donald Trump Stormy Daniels’s phone number, a top US presidential candidate & a board member at the firm that trained Saudis who killed Jamal Khashoggi.
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Among 400+ contacts of Erik Prince, there was bound to be someone within 6 degrees of a top Nazi. In fact, there was someone much closer: a prominent figure in Germany's ultra right whose wife is a blood relative of the 3rd Reich's last de facto leader.
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Oh well, looks like the last 96 hours or so of campaign coverage based on unnamed sources may have been totally misleading according to new unnamed sources. Looking forward to the next set of unnamed sources completely clarifying the situation.
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New poster boy for dull, insipid, privileged, predictable New York Times reporter just dropped. The Times clearly grew this one in the underground breeding lab they run beneath the newsroom.
Putting aside whether this decision is right, I just want to note that an educated student who says she is against genocide and violence has a literal hammer and sickle in her bio.
This seems incompatible, no? The Soviet Union is responsible for the genocide of millions…
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Exclusive & fresh off the presses: The inside story of Erik Prince's private group chat, with a cast of characters that includes members of congress, Hill staffers, Tucker Carlson, a German fascist with Nazi ties & Israeli intelligence operatives. It's not a pretty picture.
Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates including a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.
From
@KenSilverstein1
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New piece in
@DailyMail
on possibility recently busted brothels in DC & Boston - clients included so far unnamed elected officials, military officers and contractors with security clearances - was a honeypot operation run by a foreign intelligence service.
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This sucks. She gave the greatest presidential campaign speech in history.
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In China the CEOs of these companies would be lined up & executed at dawn so let's not pretend President Xi is not a global role model in some cases.
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This aged well
@MotherJones
! "Republicans Pushing a New Clinton Sex Scandal," from 2015. "Epstein has consistently denied criminal wrongdoing & downplayed his conviction, telling the New York Post that he is “not a sexual predator.” Hey, why would he lie?
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I seriously think they might want to get a second opinion.
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When the CIA director is the most principled, moral person in the entire administration, it’s a clear sign the administration in question is absolute shit.
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@mtracey
Translation: I have no idea what I'm talking about but hopefully this swamp gas emission will obscure that fact and impress the rubes who follow me.
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He's ready for the glue factory.
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@osullyville
What's really cool is that Fidelity or Goldman Sachs or whatever vulture is managing your 401K is making money even as your life savings dwindle. Social Security provided a safe, steady return but nothing beats the feeling of funding Lloyd Blankfein's 16th retirement property?
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Anyone with an IQ higher than a fire hydrant knows Israel tramples on international law & willfully targets civilians so, to translate, humanitarian pauses mean Palestinian families grab a fast meal between murderous bombing raids by Israeli pilots in US F-16s. You're a disgrace.
Civilians in Gaza desperately need food, water, electricity, and medicine. Israel has an obligation to follow international law and protect civilian lives. I’m calling for humanitarian pauses to accelerate aid for Palestinians and unconditional hostage releases.
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You can dress this up however you want, but the rule was deposits up to $250k were protected and they changed the rule. It’s a bailout. In addition to the fact that ultimately consumers will absolutely pay the “fees on banks.”
So who is paying for the “bailout” of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank?
A: fees on banks. A special fund was set up after the 2008 financial crisis. It currently has $100 billion
So no taxpayer money.
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My God, you're literally the Manchurian Candidate, dreamed up in a neoliberal lab.
The doubters will say what they always say: It’s not your time. The odds are long. It can’t be done. But our story has never been written by the doubters or the naysayers. Robert Kennedy said it best. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
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@alanagoodman
Who among us hasn’t been certain if a laptop with pictures on it of us smoking crack with prostitutes was ours or not?
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Matt Taibbi outraged about censorship of joke tweet by Mike Huckabee about voter fraud & had time to chat for almost 2 hours on Jordan Peterson's podcast but seems as quiet as Bari Weiss about suppression of Palestinian voices (or anything about Palestine) based on his Twitter.
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There's a lesson here about the importance of political civility we should all heed. When a quite racist (!) author writes a "good piece" calling for more racism & other things you personally find abhorrent, don't be mean! Pat them on the back & encourage them to write more.
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Scoop: Trump insider & Blackwater founder Erik Prince being investigated by FBI for illegal weapons sales, money laundering & contacts with foreign military and intelligence agencies.
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When it's so obvious even
@NateSilver538
sees it. Rare in life.
If you wrote out a list of the most important factors in the 2016 election, I'm not sure that Russian social media memes would be among the top 100. The scale was quite small and there's not much evidence that they were effective.
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Biden plan no longer reduces prescription drug costs, funds paid family & medical leave or free community college, expands Medicare coverage 4 vision/dental, raise corporate taxes or top income tax or impose a billionaires' tax. Here are its 2 generals gamely heading to surrender
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"The world looks to America as a symbol of democracy." Just now, some moron pundit on CNN. These people are delusional.
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My contribution to mocking Kissinger’s 2nd century of bland evil amorality: pix I bought from Jornal do Brasil & published 1st in US, sweetened by his feeble threats to sue. Shamed about eating own snot, not by Operation Condor, Indonesia, Allende? American Exceptionalism, baby.
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Hardscrabble Hillbilly millionaire venture capitalist & Trump’s VP nominee JD Vance is the scourge of Wall Street, according to a story today in the New York Times. That will be a surprise to the billionaire oligarchs who bought him a senate seat.
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Just want to make sure this is posted at least once every day as long as she holds office.
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Yesterday’s story in the New Republic here. . Today’s story will be posted...
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If Israel announced it was building concentration camps for Gazans & preparing a Final Solution for the Palestinian problem what percentage of US media & government would not find a way to justify that? 10%? 20%? Truly don't think more than that. This truly a revolting spectacle.
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Biden plan now down to $2.3T (over 10 yrs) but nothing important being cut, just money for child poverty, free community college & universal pre-K. All hail King Manchin and Queen Sinema.
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This easily tops Berlin's 1938 Live Aid Kristallnacht show headlined by "Der Führer & the 4-H Barbershop Quartet" (featuring Hitler, Heydrich, Himmler & Huber) as the most nausea-inducing musical performance of all time.
JUST IN: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken performing 'Rocking to the Free World' at a venue in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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1/ of 2: NYT strikes again. "Violence" killed people, not Israel. Most death & destruction "occurred" in Gaza. Passive voice. Now let's move to active. Gaza "controlled" by militant group Hamas. Read: They deserved it...
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People forget now but in the early-1980s people were commonly mugged and hit by a Soviet ICBM on the same day. “Crime is a national-defense problem,” Joe Biden said in the Senate, in 1982. “You’re in as much jeopardy in the streets as you are from a Soviet missile.”
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Finally, I've been waiting anxiously to get his take! No one has a finger on the pulse of campus politics like 60-yr-old Fareed, who when attending Yale in the 80s condemned peaceful anti-apartheid protestors & urged the college to maintain its South Africa investment portfolio.
Why has the Gaza war spun colleges into chaos?
Because campuses have weakened as actual communities, where people mingle, interact and get to know and trust each other.
My latest column:
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The really pathetic part of this story is that at this point if they approve a $600 stimulus check people will feel grateful and if $1200 (fat chance) they will be ecstatic, when congress and the White House should have been torched months ago.
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Business Insider broke the most “sacred code” of journalism - writing critically about Bill Ackman, his wife or anyone else he’s fond of. I’ve encountered many similar rich, entitled, arrogant, clueless shitheads over the years but this asshole takes the cake.
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One of the great self-owns in journalism history.
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You’ve got to be joking.
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Barbara Ehrenreich was a journalism giant & wonderful person. Wrote her in May during a bad time, she wrote write back & invited me to lunch. She had problems of her own but spent hours w/me & was brimming with amazing ideas. What an honor to know her. RIP, legend.
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Stop doing whatever you're doing and read this amazing story by
@TinaDesireeBerg
about
#TheResistance
heroine
@MollyMcKew
.
#PayToPlay
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US media swooning over Biden calling Putin a "killer" & smugly contrasting it w/Trump's 2017 remark on topic. Any idiot who can read a book knows Trump's comments far more truthful: “There are a lot of killers, we’ve got a lot of killers. You think our country’s so innocent?”
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Journalist-turned-crank Lara Logan has a global hit list. An Israeli diplomat & intelligence operator want to nuke Gaza. A former Hill staffer urges Iran's clerical leaders be taken "out like flys 😎.” Yes, the global far right is having a normal one.
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Counterpoint: College students aren’t always right but anyone with a brain understands they represent the best of us because they’re idealistic, socially, conscious & god willing will never become lamentable, soulless, striving careerist bores like you two. Hope that helps.
This is probably right. Most people don't form political opinions through deep examination of the issues or reasoning from first principles. It's more like picking some particular fashion label or way of dressing. Especially for younger people, who face more peer pressure.
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You want to know how fucked up mainstream journalism is, right? Let me tell you about when I was working
@latimes
in 2004, during early days of Iraq War, the biggest catastrophe in modern U.S. and -- far more tragically -- Iraqi history. Part 1 of a few...
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My debut in the Daily Mail, please read and share. Governor Kristi Noem wants to legally impose her version of "traditional family values" on the country but perfectly fine for her not to practice what she preaches. Interesting.
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Many strange moments in this story but one near the top of list was an Israeli diplomat saying Palestinian culture “worships death and bloodshed” in the very same breather that he suggested dropping nuclear weapons on Gaza.
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Make that 52.
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Yet another possibility would be that Trump was never an enemy of the “Deep State.”
It's been obvious from the start that a big reason why Dems & their GOP allies (Liz Cheney & friends) impeached Trump and threatened to do more was as a way to keep him in line for the last week, including not pardoning those they want eternally punished (Assange, Snowden, etc.):
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One of the 20 original subscribers to
@NatCounterPunch
, who sent a personal note along with his $100 check. RIP Stan Lee, you will be missed.
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@SilvermanJacob
@jonathanchait
And in general pretty much a weathervane of conventional wisdom in its blandest, most distilled form on any and all topics, it is also worth noting.
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You could have served in Vietnam but you dodged the draft while bunkered down at Harvard. You also ginned up the Iraq War while storming the front at The Weekly Standard. Fuck off.
If President Trump had braved the inclement weather, he could have visited the grave of MOH recipient Lt. (j.g.) Weedon Osborne, who showed "extraordinary heroism...in the hottest of the fighting when the Marines made their famous advance...at the southern edge of Belleau Wood."
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1/4 Given atrocious media coverage of Palestine, seems like a good time to share story of why I quit job at Los Angeles Times in 2006 over editorial censorship. The main issue: stating the truth, that Israel was created on Arab land. Here's what happened, as I wrote in Harper's:
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“He was an agitator, an outside agitator, bent on stirring people up, making everyone dissatisfied.” Strom Thurmond, April 4, 1968, upon hearing of MLK's death.
King didn't "persevere". He got more and more radical until finally they shot him, much to the delight of some of the same segregationists in the Senate you later palled around with...
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Three tweets and his jack in the box billionaire pops up. I’m not sure which of them is more pathetic.
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If I ever read another story describing the US as "the richest country in the world" I'm going to throw up. This is a deeply sick, disintegrating society.
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Bari Weiss worked her way up by the bootstraps. Prep school & Columbia education. Wall Street Journal fellow, Tablet magazine editor, book review editor at WSJ, op-ed editor at NYT. Now, at 36, the struggle really begins. Journalism tragedy of decade.
What the Times did to
@bariweiss
is unconscionable. It’s not civil, It’s not in the reader’s interest, and the well-documented culture of extreme harassment will, I hope, now come to light. This is the biggest media story in years.
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Right now at Barcelona, 1622 14th St NW in DC, 2 senior aides to
#Guaido
, US puppet leader in Venezuela, spending huge sums on luxury dinner with 2 Latin diplomats. When will humanitarian aid arrive? When will
@washingtonpost
cover?
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I knew this was guy was a total loser but this is a level of loserdom I didn't know existed. What kind of an asshole sees a pig roast & thinks, "Ooh, that's so unhygienic" and not, "Fuck that looks good." Stick to the Applebees & TGIFs in Malaysia you misogynistic dirtbag.
Looking for a vacation with a twist of the third world without ever leaving America? Head to NYC! Long gone are the days of the Big Apple's glamorous shopping and dining; now you can experience crime as an art form and street-side pig roasting for that authentic unhygienic touch.
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This guy was always an overrated joke but he's now so bloated with tech & Democratic Party money he's no longer capable of even doing a Google search.
Serious question. Is there anyone talking about calling out the national guard besides the protesters at Columbia? I absolutely agree that wld be an absurd overreaction. but I haven't been able to find any evidence of that other than in the protesters statements.
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For the last few years I've observed my father's declining health with alarm but I'd always deemed him to be indestructible. It turns out he's not. RIP, dad. 💔
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Now that the Clinton campaign doesn't exist, who do NYT journalists clear their stories with?
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Biden isn't sleepwalking into WWIII, he's the conductor on a runaway train heading for it at full speed. I don't know if because he's senile, feckless, amoral, a moron or all of the above but he's as unfit for high office as Trump. November 5 should be a day of national mourning.
Biden officials have reassured Israeli officials that the US will support Israel if it starts a war with Lebanon.
So there you have it:
You can't claim you tried to prevent Israel from starting the war if you offer it support if it does so.
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This sets new world records in two categories, "Story Most Obviously Planted by a Political Campaign" & "News Outlet Most Willing to Be Used as Tool by Political Campaign."
🚨🚨 Harris won't say it this bluntly in public, but her advisers do so privately: She wants to break with Biden. First up: rising prices. This is part of a highly choreographed effort to redefine herself.
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"Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger said yesterday Brazil may enter NAFTA in 2 or 3 years." When I published in CounterPunch he said he'd sue. As I noted then he was OK having his pic taken with murderers like Pinochet but upset when outed as a snot eater. A fucking monster
A classic, discovered by
@KenSilverstein1
when he was a correspondent in Brazil. It had a caption something like, “Henry Kissinger at a conference in Rio yesterday."
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Who's Who in Erik Prince's formerly secret group chat, including Keith Schiller, Trump's former bodyguard who gave him Stormy Daniels' phone number. Plus: Why did Prince invite RFK Jr. to Off Leash?
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This is priceless. Glenn Greenwald, the Ernst Röhm of the MAGA movement, gets owned over shilling for professor on specious grounds that she's a victim of --naturally -- cancel culture & free speech zealotry. No, Glenn, she's just a nasty racist.
I had to clip this because it is one of funniest takedowns I've seen lately from Finkelstein and its hilarious hearing Glenn be all "alright, we got cut this now" at the end.
Finkelstein on Amy Wax: "I'd spit in her face."
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The Moral Power of her "anti-politics" speech is somewhat diminished knowing she recorded it at her 29-acre, $12 million Martha's Vineyard vacation home.
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@amil
Between the age of 3 & 9 my son gobbled Ikura sushi like M&Ms. Had to stop taking him out for sushi as tab hit the equivalent in dollar terms of 4 years of college.
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The hits just keep on coming from the NYT op-ed page.
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Don't read this unless your only other option this evening is bathing in hydrochloric acid & watching your flesh dissolve - & it's a David Frum article in the Atlantic so even the acid bath might be preferable - but allow me to translate: the news from Mexico is...fucking great!
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Oh wow, you mean Greenwald's hero really isn't an anti-interventionist? Fucking clown. Both of them.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley has issued a statement:
"Any funding for Ukraine should be redirected to Israel immediately"
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So Noonan, who wrote her story before she got to Columbia as you know, tried to dupe them so they’d talk to her & she could mock them but they didn’t play along. Only someone who thinks journalists are godlike creatures all mortals must talk to could’ve written your idiotic post.
When protests are not about actually explaining your cause or trying to engage journalists who are there to listen.
@Peggynoonannyc
describes her visit to Columbia before the raid.
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Haaretz today: "IDF dropped restraint in Gaza & data shows unprecedented killing." The lies from Biden, USG apparatchiks & Israel's apologists about IDF efforts to minimize civilian casualties are as morally repugnant as claims in 1943 that there was no proof of Nazi atrocities.
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This is one of the reasons I (seriously) hate people trashing Gen Z, and Millennials. They are every bit as industrious as their elders.
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Israel "Mows the Lawn" in Gaza, Again. "When the death toll was mentioned, one expert on panel smiled enigmatically & intoned: ‘It’s unfortunate, but every once in a while u have 2 mow the lawn.'” Cc & please retweet:
@MikePrysner
@AbbyMartin
@SamiAlArian
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PSA: No one should fall for this obvious scam. Bezos is going to keep your Bitcoin.
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Is there ever a bad day to post a picture of Henry Kissinger picking his disgusting nose and eating his own revolting snot? The answer, clearly, is no. Therefore, for no reason but the sheer pleasure of doing so -- he threatened to sue when I first published -- here you go...
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1/ You're not Batman and have no superpowers. 2/ No one fears you, you're a joke universally known as Fartlow. 3/ There's no mask, you're a transparent apologist for genocide. 4/ You're clearly in the throes of a mental health crisis & belong in a home for the criminally insane.
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Here's column last week about murderous Kennedy family & RFK Jr's efforts to whitewash cousin's murder of teen girl.
http://t.co/YlDO0rkM6E
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Not the 1st to say so but I've always wondered how Germans allowed & approved the Holocaust. Since seeing the pathetic justifications of Israeli war crimes in Palestine over the last month-& any time I'm on Twitter more than 10 minutes since-I'll never wonder again. Disgusting.
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Great story from
@msainat1
on DNC screwing democracy, again, in plain sight.
#CrookedHillary
#CrookedTomPerez
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...at . Stay tuned.
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