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Louis Keene
5 months
Probably the funniest thing I learned writing this is Alan Dershowitz wanted to send the show to Mahmoud Abbas after it aired. But also the woman who plays Shara speaks Hebrew?? Anyway, here it is: The oral history of "Palestinian Chicken."
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My dad bought his laptop from a teen and refuses to remove the stickers
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It happened. I was there. Summer League 2018.
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Kawhi confirmed that he flew with pilot Ara Zobayan in the same helicopter that crashed on Sunday. “Flown with him a lot. Great guy, super nice, he was one of their best pilots. That’s a guy who you ask for. It’s just surreal still for me...he’s a good dude.”
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VIDEO: While encampment leader and pro-Israel protester are having a heated conversation someone runs up and pepper sprays the pro-Palestinian protester.
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Better ingredients. Better pizza.
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You can laugh about their no bananas policy and their third-night Passover seder, but these students at the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment just humiliated a phalanx of advancing LAPD officers by forcing them to retreat.
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Deni Avdija scored a season-high 22 points tonight against the Atlanta Hawks. After the game, fans from Atlanta’s Jewish community joined Deni to sing Hatikvah as he wrapped himself in the Israeli flag. “Been a long time since I was moved like this,” Deni wrote on IG.
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There it is. The first shomer-shabbos player in a NBA G-League game. Non-Jews don’t get how crazy this is. For the culture.
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4 years
One person cleaning up trash at a park for 410 straight days only for a giant wildfire to wipe out the whole thing is the perfect metaphor for individual versus corporate responsibility for climate change.
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Edgar McGregor
4 years
A wildfire is about 36 - 48 hours out from my park where I have been cleaning up trash every day for 410 days. Tomorrow morning, I will walk the entire trail and take pictures of the landscape. There is a fair chance my park will never be the same after Wednesday. Scared.
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VIDEO: LAPD officers forced to retreat out of the UCLA encampment at about 1:53 a.m. (via ABC7)
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LAPD is now retreating from the UCLA encampment, they are being pushed out and forced down the stairs by hundreds of protesters. Stunning scene.
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4 years
holy shit Aaron Gordon
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Temple Beth David has canceled its Beach Shabbat this week under a deluge of antisemitic threats about Bruce Reinhart, the judge who signed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant and sits on the synagogue's board.
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3 years
Dead
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Kawhi added that he wasn’t sure if he was done with helicopters. “You don’t know what’s real yet. I can’t really speak on it. It’s a lot of thoughts in my head.”
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"THAT'S ALL-STAR CENTER JAMAAL MAGLOIRE TO YOU"
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Kawhi's new shoes have the Declaration of Independence on them.
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The reaction to an antisemitic hate group rallying outside Barclays Center from @TheNBPA vice president Jaylen Brown:
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Doc: “If I want us to have practice, I ask Pat [if we should]. If I don’t want us to practice, I ask Lou.”
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8 months
The Jewish history mural outside of Canter’s Deli, an iconic Los Angeles restaurant that’s been open longer than the state of Israel has existed, was defaced with graffiti last night. (Photo courtesy: @ADLCalifornia ) It’s since been painted over.
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Jewish Federation Los Angeles appears to agree that pro-Israel protesters instigated UCLA encampment melee: “The abhorrent actions of a few counter protestors last night do not represent the Jewish community or our values. We believe in peaceful, civic discourse.” (1/2)
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This dude did not survive Normandy and live to 104 just for some motherfucker in a pink condor costume to put a polyester finger in his ear!!
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These guys were having a genuine albeit heated conversation and it was disrupted at least three times by a guy with a pepper spray canister who got the encampment fellow right in the eyes. It sucks to see any attempt at dialogue derailed by agitators. Pretty much the story tho
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2 years
MAGA loyalists find out judge who signed Trump warrant is Jewish. You won’t believe what happened next.
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Lenny Dykstra
2 years
I hope you all weren’t expecting that the synagogue where go-ahead-and-raid-Trump Judge #BruceReinhart is on the board of trustees is one where the congregation keeps kosher, observes the sabbath, etc. You can bet they’re into “social justice” of course!
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Inbox: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft donated $1 million to Yeshiva University to establish a "Blue Square Scholars" program accommodating students who transfer to YU.
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3 years
Congratulations to the Clippers for earning consecutive days off for the first time since the month of May.
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Hey @JoeBiden , wanna Build America Back Better? Bring back MoviePass. MoviePass cost $266 million to run in 2018. Double the investment to $500m/yr — it’s an incredibly popular program. Everyone loves going to the movies. The pandemic took that from us. Help bring it back!
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2 years
It looks like five Orthodox Jewish teens wearing shirts that say "Fight Antisemitism" are sitting courtside at tonight's Nets game. Here they are with Kyrie Irving. (h/t @ambermmace )
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7 months
She's gonna make Kyrie Irving go on Birthright.
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Shams Charania
7 months
Sources: Mark Cuban is selling a majority stake of the Dallas Mavericks to Miriam Adelson and casino tycoon Adelson family for valuation in range of $3.5 billion. In one of most unique setups in NBA history, Cuban keeps shares in team and full control of basketball operations.
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This North Korean teenager has never heard of the Trail Blazers. Never heard of Portland. Doesn't know the NBA. "LaMarcus is trash," he said
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Louis Keene
4 years
Here's what my rabbi sent to our synagogue just now regarding the arrival of coronavirus to our Jewish community.
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3 years
I spy Kawhi
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A restaurant in my neighborhood got a C on its food inspection and immediately changed its logo
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Every once in a while CNN makes incredible television
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2 months
More dialogue from the UCLA encampment
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2 years
Ryan Turell's first career steal. Stealing is explicitly forbidden by the Ten Commandments, but some believe that actually refers to kidnapping, which he did not do here.
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3 years
@freemaneric Sneaky answer
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1 year
Against a swirl of public comments about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence controversy in MLB, the strongest statements of LGBTQ allyship came from a pair of Jewish ballplayers.
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3 years
Ersan Ilyasova basically got paid $174k to get a customized Bulls jersey and Covid-19
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8 months
Cooper Union spokesperson Kim Newman told me, "The library was closed for about 20 minutes while protesters moved through the building. Some students who were previously in the library remained there during that time. At this point all the students have dispersed."
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Jake Novak
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BREAKING NOW: my sources tell me several Jewish students @cooperunion are currently locked in the school library as a pro Hamas rally outside of the cooper Union building learnt the Jews were afraid and sitting in the library, then brought the protest inside and are barricading
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LAPD is now retreating from the UCLA encampment, they are being pushed out and forced down the stairs by hundreds of protesters. Stunning scene.
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3 years
He could have thrown in some hate speech for only $15,000 more!
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Shams Charania
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Clippers’ Paul George has been fined $35,000 for public criticism of the officiating.
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8 months
Another video of the Cooper Union library protest shared with me by a Jewish student.
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3 years
@KingJames it's just a vaccine bro
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2 years
But wait, there’s more!
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Jacob N. Kornbluh
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👀 “Internationalist forces and their allies intent on undermining the foundation of our Republic have crossed the rubicon.”
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Louis Keene
1 year
Today’s @ILBaseball starter, Colton Gordon, says wearing the Jewish star is “a statement beyond words….to represent not only every Jewish person in the world but also my family, and the people who came before us.” And: “As much as it is an honor to be here, we wanna win here.”
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Louis Keene
4 years
Strega Nona was a real one
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Louis Keene
8 months
NEW: Statement from Ventura County Sheriff's Department about death of Paul Kessler, 69. Deputies responded to the scene of a "physical altercation." County Medical Examiner ruled cause of death is blunt force head injury and manner of death homicide. Sheriff investigating.
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Louis Keene
9 months
NEW: Rabbi Shua Brick is believed to be the first openly gay rabbi to serve on the clergy of an Orthodox synagogue in the U.S. I sat with him for a series of conversations for this story, in which Brick comes out to the public for the first time.
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Louis Keene
4 years
The whole Clipper roster, Kawhi and PG included, is up to celebrate Terance Mann's takeover performance. Love to see it.
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NEW: Guy Taiem emigrated from France 15 years ago because of growing problems for Jewish people there. On Thursday, those problems found him in Los Angeles, when Taiem was shot walking home from morning prayer services. His story, and how he’s doing:
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Louis Keene
8 months
I can confirm that a Jewish man died of a head injury sustained during an altercation at a pro-Palestinian protest in Thousand Oaks yesterday. More details to come as I can confirm them.
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1 year
@merkin_muffly @wojespn That's one way of reading it, but I think his attempts to make amends were sincere enough that that doesn't matter as much. Certainly went way beyond what other NBA players in similar situations did...
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Louis Keene
3 years
@JoeyARamirez It's this
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Louis Keene
4 years
Jerome Robinson made a three and is all smiles in Washington!
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4 years
The burden on these athletes to be eloquent social justice spokesmen at all times because our elected officials won’t get their shit together is completely unreasonable and infuriating.
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Taylor Rooks
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Donovan Mitchell - with tears in his eyes - says the way that he feels right now is nothing compared to the the families of those who have lost their loved ones to police brutality.
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Bobbed up w/ @meghanncuniff .
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Here’s @ILBaseball ’s Jacob Steinmetz on tonight’s performance and striking out Manny Machado:
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Jacob Steinmetz strikes out Gary Sanchez with a fastball on the black to end his night. Final line: 1.2 innings, two hits, two walks, and three strikeouts. He faced a lineup with 13 combined All-Star game appearances. One hell of a night for the Orthodox kid from Woodmere.
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Raja Bell and Logan Murdock say at the 20' mark of this live podcast that Paul George, who admitted after Game 5 that he had been in a dark place mentally, should "keep that shit to yourself." Toxic masculinity is toxic *to men also*. Let's do better than fake-tough posturing.
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Mavs vs. Clippers is just about wrapped up and we guarantee this LIVE #RingerNBA Show with Raja Bell and @loganmmurdock will be much more entertaining
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Second day in a row that someone has been shot in Pico Robertson on their way home from shul.
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I reached out to @AmericanAir for comment on this 24 hours ago. The email has been opened 20 times, but no response.
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DansDeals
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On Sunday, May 5th, @AmericanAir Kicked an orthodox Jewish passenger off a flight due to the actions of an unrelated orthodox Jew. This story was so outrageous I had to investigate, and after talking to the two passengers involved, the story seems even worse than I thought!
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KCAL9 chopper above UCLA campus is showing pro-Israel counterprotesters throwing cones, fireworks, liquids and other materials at the encampment. Anchor is calling it "a really, really insane situation" and expresses surprise that no campus security or police are in view.
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Louis Keene
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@AjaforCongress @elonmusk @SenSanders If you think 14% is low wait til you find out what Elon Musk pays
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Jacob Steinmetz is the only rostered Team Israel player not in AA or higher. Peter Kurz, Israel’s general manager, told me they wanted Steinmetz so that the team of American Jews would have representation from Orthodoxy. That, and, you know, the upper-90s fastball.
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@MalKnowBall @shannonsharpeee Are they though? He needs some furniture to absorb that echo
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Landry Shamet has a clearer path to a 10-year career than anyone the Lakers can trade. Prove me wrong
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lmao
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@JMaschino_56 @CespedesBBQ That incredible game could have had an even more sensational play at the plate ending but the dude was literally too fast.
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You thought @ILBaseball was kidding?
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This. Is. August.
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Hashem causing multiple Piston suspensions so that Ryan Turell gets called up:
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New @JFedLA statement confirms death of an "elderly Jewish man who was struck in the head by a megaphone wielded by a pro-Palestinian protestor in Westlake Village."
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@local__celeb @maria_ro_so guys ask to see a pic of the girl ur talking about but guys r reluctant to show one unless the relationship is over
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@BobSaietta It’s galaxies better than what ESPN has, and what replaces TNT is almost certainly gonna be closer to ESPN.
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3 years
I'm old enough to remember when the Miami Heat played the Los Angeles Lakers in empty Disneyworld gymnasiums.
@LeBatardShow
Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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#poll Is this the worst NBA Finals ever?
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Even for a jaded reporter like me, this photo of Ryan Turell wearing a yarmulke at @MotorCityCruise practice — with Pistons banners hanging in the background — is truly remarkable. אם תרצו אין זו אגדה
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@WorldWideWob @sixers Statisticians always give this steal to the person who makes the deflection, this is a travesty
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@jonmorosi Single elimination is what makes this tournament work - incl. because it’s not long enough to build negative rivalries. Any game you tune into is for all the marbles and the next day is the next round! Can’t imagine a better way to suck life out of it than to play 7 game series
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If you’re tempted to say “Jaylen Brown was supporting the solidarity with Kyrie, not the specific group,” consider how much that sounds like “linking to a movie on Twitter is not the same thing as promoting it.”
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Louis Keene
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Obviously, KD doesn't owe the Warriors *anything*. But I'd like to see him tough it out in Game 6.
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The group Jaylen Brown just posted a video of was chanting "We are the real Jews" an hour ago.
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Comment from ADL Los Angeles’ @jeffreyabrams :
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@TheNBACentral @PompeyOnSixers I hate to say it but this guy was born a Laker.
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@jon_bois So glad I muted fortnite but left fortnight in play
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Pat Beverley just said on the Jump he turned down 3 years, $50 million offer from Sacramento because he wanted to keep playing with Lou Williams.
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Clippers have like three former head coaches on the bench and none of them is reminding Doc that he forgot to take out Paul Pierce
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Louis Keene
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Jewish baseball news‼️ Zack Gelof, A's prospect and @ILBaseball alum, has been called up to the Show! 🟢🟡 23-y.o. shortstop has been raking in Triple-A, slashing .304/.401/.930 with 12 homers and 20 steals. Dodgers just drafted his brother, Jake. Next A's game is Friday🤞
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CJ McCollum, @TheNBPA president, said after Kyrie Irving was suspended that it could be a "learning experience" for NBA players to not post things appearing to endorse antisemitism. "You have to be careful about what you post," he said. "You have to know exactly what it is."
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Louis Keene
3 years
My pandemic person, best friend, teammate, obsession. Nora Flynn. Rest In Peace. I love you so much.
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Louis Keene
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JaMychal Green's farewell message to Clipper fans posted on his Instagram. I will miss this king.
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Louis Keene
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"The notion that this was a massacre of Jews is a fabricated narrative." I've seen this conspiracy theory — or that Oct. 7 never happened/was a false flag — plenty on this website, but watching people actually step up to a lectern in a public forum to spout it is shocking.
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Yashar Ali 🐘
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Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction…
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Remember when Dirk declined his $25 million player option in 2017 so the Mavericks could go get top free agents? Dallas is 30th in payroll and $12 million below the cap. Collect ya checks people
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