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oh, but you guys couldn’t wear a fucking mask in the grocery store for 15 minutes
WATCH: RNC delegates sport bandages on right ear after Trump assassination attempt
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With a *$600* relief check, you could pay the median monthly rent for January in approximately zero states.
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A supermarket where you don't even have to acknowledge that poor people exist. No cashiers. No people with SNAP benefits. No seniors. No folks without new smartphones. No unbanked or people without debit or credit cards. No undocumented families paying cash. No coupon budgeters.
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Shoplifting a single $1.99 pack of Huggies wipes is what child poverty looks like. If you want to make that the face of your "crime epidemic," that says so much more about the moral degeneracy of the state than of the public.
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This was a 400m meter race for blind athletes with 20/630 vision or worse, and she came in third.
How did we turn into a society so full of cowards that we just sit back and act like this is normal?
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that’ll be news to these Americans
BREAKING: President Biden warns, "If you harm an American, we will respond" after U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.
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they claimed *this* was a surgical strike to kill one person
Israel is not engaged in the "deliberate mass killing of civilians". I will repeat that as many times as needed despite the obtuse trolling to the contrary. Criticise & condemn the war all you like, but there is no evidence Israel's war is aimed at murdering civilians.
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what it was actually like 20 years ago:
Pride has been going on for like 20 years. It was fine. No one really objected or cared. Sure! Rainbows and shots and shit.
Then you guys went full "but why can't we do this shit with 8 year olds?"
And now everyone is like "wait what?" And here is where our media is:
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this is what they mean by evacuate
BREAKING: Netanyahu orders population of Gaza’s crowded Rafah evacuated ahead of an expected ground invasion
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The IDF raided the home of a family that requested accommodation to evacuate their child with cerebral palsy—grenading the kitchen, schrapnel piercing the kid’s eye and brain; they executed the parents; then berated the 2 other kids about tunnels, before sending them out on foot.
"It was lunchtime. We were sitting down. They raided our house. They shot our mum and dad. Then they started shooting at us"
Part of a detailed Sky News report on how Israeli soldiers murdered a mother and father in front of their 3 children (1/2)
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“I would beg [Bernie] to drop out so I don’t have to keep flying in from LA to do SNL... he’s idestructible, nothing stops this man. If he wins, do you have any idea what that’s going to do to my life? I mean do you have any idea? It’ll be great for the country, terrible for me.”
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Feel like this should be getting a lot more traction on here, as it has elsewhere. This is not an out of context clip from a GOP account, this is his Biden botching every aspect of an idiom into a threat against a journalist his camp invited to an influencer event, because Gaza.
Joe Biden gets mad at TikTok star during White House influencer party, threatens to throw his phone before aides intervene
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The scale of these global protests for a ceasefire is so criminally under covered by national media. Just look at this in Austin, what the Statesman ballparked as 10,000 people.
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you don't get to do this
If Republican leaders don't enjoy being called weird, creepy, and controlling, they could try not being weird, creepy, and controlling.
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My mom went to CVS wearing a mask, so they asked her if she wanted some free masks. They gave her two boxes of N95s –– there are 440 (!) 3M Auras in each box. lol
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A bunch of 20-year-olds who had never been in combat nor were even trained to use this specific equipment were directed by commanders to indiscriminately shell everything moving in and around Kibbutz Holit, and admit they fired on houses, but this is somehow a girlpower take??
I’m often asked if women fight in the
@IDF
. Here’s an amazing story of an all female Israeli tank crew that did on 10/7, and saved a kibbutz in the process.
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No problem, as long as they replace him by early august, a. thing. you. decided. not. to. mention. so. people. would. assume. it's. already. too. late. now.
You. Can’t. Replace. Your. Nominee. Once. Ballot. Deadlines. Have. Passed.
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And yet, this did not stop her from voting to give Israel $17b+ in unconditional military aid, and to defund UNRWA.
Elizabeth Warren says she believes Israel’s war in Gaza will legally be considered a genocide
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posted on the same day you bypassed congress to expedite Israel 14000 tank rounds so it can finish the job ethnic cleansing Gaza of Palestinians
Eight years ago, candidate for president Donald Trump proposed his Muslim travel ban. Like millions of Americans, I was appalled.
Shamefully, he’s now calling to “restore and expand” his ban.
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doing a recall on eclipse glasses half an hour before the eclipse
URGENT RECALL: Health officials in Illinois are warning people to check their eclipse glasses after a recall.
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NEW: John Fetterman breaks with the left — fiercely supporting Israel and endorsing talks for tougher immigration laws.
“I’m not a progressive,” Fetterman tells
@NBCNews
, brushing back critics.
He’s hitting Dems for a double standard on Santos/Menendez.
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We are funding a foreign military that runs rape camps.
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So many fucking Democrats did four years of cosplay pretending they were like some underground resistance fighting naziism, and now they're all willing accessories to a cadre of fascists ethnic cleansing 2.2 million people.
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cant believe this has to be said
LOOKS LIKE A TESLA CYBERTRUCK WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT TODAY
THE CYBERTRUCK LOOKS COMPLETELY UNAFFECTED LMAO I AM DEFINITELY GETTING ONE
$TSLA
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Before the pandemic: let’s talk about a 4-day workweek!
After 2.5 years of pandemic: what if half of the professional class got an effective 3-day workweek and half the working class went in for 6-days every week, critically short-staffed.
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Thank you Harvard legacy history professor with a history professor father, who got a post doc fellowship at the same ivy league department where there’s a chair named after his donor-alum grandparents, for weighing in on how the “nepo baby” discourse is bizarre.
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Clinton ran on tuition free public college, a Medicare buy in at 55, and a $12 minimum wage, all things that are way too spicy and progressive for Harris now.
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All that fake moral panic about the meaning of “from the river,” and Israeli government ministers are just like ‘we’re doing a Gaza Nakba’ — yet crickets in the US about what’s obviously happening.
"We are now actually rolling out the Gaza Nakba," says Avi Dichter, Israel's Minister for Agriculture and former head of Shin Bet.
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government bailouts for venture capitalists while the same government cuts food stamps, does the largest disenrollment from medicaid ever, and sits on its hands during a national housing crisis
BREAKING: U.S. Treasury announces it will back Silicon Valley Bank deposits beyond the federally insured ceiling of $250,000.
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Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says
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Making a law that's basically you have 9 months to sell the biggest youth social media platform in the country to an investor group led by Trump's treasury secretary or we're going to fine the App stores half a trillion dollars is a ban. Hope that helps.
Calm down and get your facts straight. Biden isn’t “banning” TikTok. He just wants an American to own it instead of the Chinese Government. It’s not going away. TikTok is fully protected by OUR first Amendment.
Now go follow me on TikTok for chrissake.
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beware of white house aligned social media influencers masquerading as truth to power journalists
Beware of nihilism masquerading as leftism. There's a lot of that going around right now.
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People love making this trolley problem about largely powerless individual voters, but what if you put the onus on people in power.
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Republicans want to ban TikTok because they think young people are now too queer friendly, left leaning and secular. Democrats want to ban it because it allows young people to bypass corporate liberal gatekeeping on issues. Both view that as an existential threat to their power.
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I think it was watching a Palestinian girl have her leg amputated by her surgeon uncle on a dining room table with a kitchen knife and no morphine, and knowing this is happening because of American munitions — not people trying to get laid or networking for status.
I think most people have pretty reasonable and rational objectives but they often involve improving their social status or sense of identity relative to some community, and political positions are often downstream of that.
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We knew the thing imploded days ago, and wasted tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars, swept tens of thousands of miles of ocean, and coordinated a massive international search mission to avoid outing our underwater acoustic detection capabilities.
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I have seen so many pictures of dismembered babies over the past 10 months that categorically disprove his “decency.”
"Biden is a decent man who has done nothing wrong. He has not got caught in a scandal—he's just aging. And that reality, I think, makes him increasingly likely to lose re-election to a Republican candidate..." says
@chrislhayes
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This is the abusive hassle type shit working poor folks have to deal with as a feature of every day life. She lapsed in reporting a change of income for a month of food stamps at 20. She had a couple hundred in back owed taxes at 22. Her old car's insurance lapsed. She's 39 now.
Democratic nominee for Buffalo mayor
@Indiawaltonbflo
was accused of welfare fraud, failed to pay her taxes in 2004 and was caught driving with a suspended license, records show.
In an interview, she said she is not running from her experiences.
@WKBW
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The Biden admin offered no less than three different statements on the Columbia student protests in less than 24 hours, but can't even bring itself to acknowledge this war crime they paid for.
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how dare you "poach" these people we just mass laid off and then boasted how we could run this broken jalopy of a network better with such things as "staff"
Twitter is accusing Meta of several things, including poaching/stealing employees to copy their platform
Here is the full letter:
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It's not that Markey is some democratic socialist, and no need to revise him as such. It's that he made a bet that the young left would redefine and save him, leaned into it, and so far that bet seems to be paying off. That is validation and power on its own.
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realest member of congress
JUST IN: Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "shouldn't come to Congress, he should be sent to the Hague"
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This BBC interview with a rally goer is absolutely extraordinary. 1/2
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😢😢😥
YOU SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED RIGHT NOW — THAT IS THE PROPER REACTION TO A BANK RUN & CONTAGION
@POTUS
&
@SecYellen
MUST GET ON TV TOMORROW AND GUARANTEE ALL DEPOSITS UP TO $10M OR THIS WILL SPIRAL INTO CHAOS
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Legalize Marijuana
DNC Platform
vote: 106n, 50y, 3a
% support: 31/67 (-36) 👈
Polling – Pew 11/19
Public: 67/32 (+35)
Dems: 78/20 (+58) ←
Medicare for All
DNC Platform
vote: 36y, 125n, 3a
% support: 22/76 (-54) 👈
Polling – KFF 5/20
Public: 57/40 (+17)
Dems: 78/19 (+59) ←
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Nice of him to imply that you can’t raise a family or in any way thrive on a minimum wage his own admin set as aspirational and can’t even pass.
President Biden: “I’m going to create good-paying union jobs. Not $12 an hour, not $15 an hour, but $45 an hour and up with good benefits, so you can raise a family on and build the middle class out.”
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it better the fuck not, stop indulging these garbage people harassing, doxing and trying to get your flight attendants and gate agents fired for wearing a Palestinian flag pin
@Kme5631Kim
I understand that you are frustrated, and rest assured that this will be taken care of, okay?
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the only campus cancel culture that’s ever been real
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tfw you’re “for the spirit of” everything, BUT ...
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Israel’s military operation has to date rescued ZERO hostages by force, and killed at least six by friendly fire.
🔴IDF: hostage Yossi Sharabi likely died in a building collapse in area of
#Gaza
targeted by IDF strikes
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Nobody cares that Bloomberg is basically the same age as Sanders and hasn't released 10-years of tax returns or any more health information than a single one-page doctor's note, because nobody "concerned" about Bernie actually cares about those things, it's all 100% bad faith.
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truly a garbage system to pay for higher education that people need to ask for suicide advice on reddit to ponder if they can relieve their co-signer’s debt burden
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I wanted him to NOT bypass congress multiple times to expedite munitions to what was already then clearly an ethnic cleansing campaign, to not gift Israel emergency access to US military stockpiles, to not reposition naval assets or send over generals, to not veto UN resolutions.
A serious question: what do people want Biden to do about Palestine? I'm of the view that the admin hasn't been nearly aggressive enough about calling for a ceasefire or pressuring Netanyahu, but also that there are enormous constraints here that aren't being acknowledged.
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half of these people were killed while Biden was a do nothing VP on this issue, all of them killed in "blue" municipalities, and Biden is running on 'fund more police' in direct contravention of the summer protest movement
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Fareed: why are the college kids protesting? because of loneliness
Fareed in college: hell no we shouldn't divest Yale from apartheid South Africa
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Israel runs rape prisons and bombs refugee children in tent camps, it snipes Americans peacefully protesting against its Jim Crow treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, it assassinates journalists and believes starvation is a legitimate tactic. There's your violence problem.
Gov. Josh Shapiro says Harris made an “effective” case on the Gaza war and Israel-Palestinian peace.
“For the Palestinians, they need to make clear that violence has no part in their relationship with Israel, that Israel has a right to exist.“
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so many 9/11 first responders who worked on the rock pile got cancer, just imagine what forcing 2 million people––half of them children––to wallow in this kind of debris and aerosolized building materials for weeks is going to inflict longterm
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they triple tapped the aid convoy, which had coordinated its location with the IDF
BREAKING: Netanyahu confirms IDF killed World Central Kitchen aid workers, says it was 'unintentional'
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same author, same fatal tunnel vision
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Biden: Bernie Bros
Bloomberg: Bernie Bros
Buttigieg: Bernie Bros
Klobuchar: Bernie Bros
Warren: Bernie Bros
Bernie: Medicare for All, Climate Change, Immigration Reform
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Meanwhile, on PBS there was a long sit down interview with a freed Israeli hostage yesterday, and she repeatedly begged for a ceasefire, said ceasefire is the only way to get the hostages out alive, that every day in captivity she was petrified at being bombed by the IDF.
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There’s a kind of incredible projection in how elites chastise young people as ‘brainwashed’ by tiktok while they elaborately orient the presidency around a feedback loop of his favorite cable news show, two admins in a row.
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he was so frustrated by that conversation, that a week later he bypassed congress yet again to expedite arms to Bibi’s assault on Gaza
Biden hasn't spoken to Netanyahu in the 20 days since a tense Dec. 23 call, which a frustrated Biden ended with the words: "This conversation is over.”
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every food bank in the country is swamped with miles-long lines of cars, the House is somehow still on recess, and Dem leadership is bantering about freezers full of gelato
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this is absolutely insane, he’s just completely killed twitter for pretty basic daily users and virtually all content creators, lol
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susan supporting the columbia students is very on brand why she’s great
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“In my first three hours working at al-Aqsa hospital, I treated a one year old boy with a bloody diaper, and his right arm and right leg had been blown off. There was no leg below the diaper. He was bleeding into his chest. I treated him on the ground…”
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Biden defunding UNRWA as a telegraphed counter-message to the ICJ proceedings about an ongoing genocide is one of the most obscene acts a president has taken in my lifetime. He is an absolutely reprehensible historical figure.
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y'all are really going to pretend you care about this sport just to keep pushing this issue, even though it clearly wasn't the big difference making factor here and you've never watched a single one of these para races in your life
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NEW: Harris will NOT seek to ban fracking if she's elected president, an official with her campaign told me.
When she was running for prez in a crowded 2019 primary, she did support a fracking ban.
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why did dems even bother to retake the house in the midterms?
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please just read this sentence several times
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–invites Sanders over for private, confidential meeting
–says publicly that what's said "stays private"
–gossips about what was said in private
–takes no issue for 13 months
–allies leak disputed gossip as an 11th hour hit before Iowa
–"no interest in discussing this any further"
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“But, I tell you why Bernie Sanders is attractive to me now, because he’s the only Democrat who like Trump has an army, that when it gets to this other level, he’s got a bunch of badass motherf***ers who will get in the streets.”
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This is a weird form of American exceptionalism where people believe Biden has the power to somehow “simply stop” the atrocities in Gaza. Even with an arms embargo and cutting diplomatic relations (both of which will never happen), Netanyahu would still go on killing.
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Can someone explain it to me like I'm 5 why to Dems "middle class" stretches all the way to $400k when it comes to taxes, but only up to $125k when it comes to student loan forgiveness, and anything over gets framed as the ultra wealthy?
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you were embarrassingly wrong
liberals were right about almost all the high-profile leftists of 2016-2020
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Can’t make this up. Biden has been consulting with John Fetterman (!) on how to reach young voters disillusioned with Biden’s policy towards Gaza.
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are you fucking kidding me with this disgusting smear
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“The strikes analyzed by The Times did not appear to be targeting underground infrastructure. Two of the most severe strikes hit upper floors of the maternity ward.”
Israel said Palestinian militants had misfired projectiles, but an analysis of photos and videos of Friday’s strikes shows that some of the munitions were likely fired by Israeli forces.
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Let's talk about the kinds of protests that never bothered Kathy Hochul enough to consider a mask ban.
Gov. Kathy Hochul says she is exploring at least a partial ban on masks in the New York City subway system after images and videos of masked anti-Israel protesters on a train ricocheted around social media earlier this week.
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The propaganda used to sell the war in Afghanistan was truly insane. This completely fake comic book villain lair was promoted as real and ubiquitous in the highest tier of national press.
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Biden: ‘Trump is a rerun of Hitler on immigration … and that’s why I’m eager to work together to crack down on immigrants.’
President Biden invites former President Trump to work together on a border bill while challenging congressional Republicans to “show a little spine.”
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“Why has the PR been so awful?… typically the Israelis are good at PR—what’s happened here, how have they and we been so ineffective at communicating the realities and our POV?… some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok.”
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That decision by Bernie, AOC, and most of the squad to back Biden at his fleeting news cycle comeback window looking predictably like a dumb misread. Now they’re irrelevant passengers, and they took a stance diametrically at odds with their base for zero reward.
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Last year, they executed a journalist by sniping her in the head, despite her clear abundantly press markings.
RFK Jr. says Israel is unique in the Middle East because “they only attack military targets”
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The protestors were four Muslim women.
When Harris counters interruptions—from other politicians, protestors, whomever—with "I'm speaking," I bet a lot of women think of when they got interrupted at work, in class, etc, and appreciate that she shuts it down.
One way her presidency could have a lasting cultural impact.
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