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Where did get the money? You can’t do this legally without disclosure and you need at least 1,000,000 spent for 3 million mailers
HOT NEWS: The mailer from a fake transgender group was sent out to 3 million potential voters by a GOP women's group to boost turnout for Ken Paxton. The name of the group was disclosed in a court hearing on Thursday. The group has ties to entities supporting Ken Paxton. The fake transgender group was represented in court by a former Paxton assistant AG who also represented Paxton during his impeachment proceedings.
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people acting like yax is brandon weeden or chris weinke but he's putting up numbers in the league not just in college. All the 18-19 year olds drafted received no coaching in their 1 year in college and don't understand the game at all. nba is not a developmental league.
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You’ve said nothing about your pal Cenk trying to screw over AES in Michigan with about a week to go til Election Day. Blame the guy who has an ad supporting AES in the campaign that is antisemitic. Not the primary opponent who endorsed him.
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Why isn't this a bigger story?
"New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.
One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.
The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal." kare11.com/article/news/inve…
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Horseshoe theory is as much of a theory as the theory of gravity at this point
Norman Finkelstein, Cornel West, and Richard Wolff discuss how Tucker Carlson has changed recently, with West saying that we should give Tucker a chance to prove he's really changed for the better. West says that Tucker is going through a "spiritual transformation" and Wolff says that Tucker becoming more religious could make him pro-immigration and against mass deportation.
Cornel West: "Now, he's changed again. People do change, I believe in people changing. And when they change, you give them a chance to be tried and true."
Richard Wolff: "I suspect Mr. Carlson may have an epiphany around his squaring the religion with that deportation."
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Kushner needs to be put behind bars for the rest of his miserable life.
Kushner "told Zelensky that he should pause the strikes because he and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff were dedicating a lot of time, energy, and jet fuel to mediating with Moscow...A 30-day pause on refineries would be a way for Ukraine to show gratitude"
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For the record AIPAC doesn’t donate to Chicago Public School board candidates.. so when Hilario says “AIPAC Billionaires” he’s trying to say Jewish Donors… Hilario has a HISTORY of being antisemitic/ has been accused of harassment by a colleague & grooming a student ( minor)… The fact that the far left is backing this toxic hot mess to lead Chicago public schools is a slap in the face to the Jewish community and to victims of sexual harassment everywhere… teapawt.net/JennyGooz/status/21158…
Let’s get facts straight.
AIPAC isn't spending in the CPS race. "AIPAC billionaire" means one Democratic donor. Out of everything he funds, you picked AIPAC as his label? May as well have said "Jewish."
And a celebrity millionaire complaining about billionaires is comedy. CPS kids need a plan for a $700M deficit. Not more theatre kid video content.
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The Nakba, as it has come to be known, never happened. There were Palestinians who were indeed driven out of their homes — not unlike Indians, Koreans, Germans, French, Jews across the Arab world, and others who were driven out of their homes but in much larger numbers. But the Holocaust-ization of the Israeli war of independence (which left about 13,000 dead out of a population of roughly 1.4 million Palestinian Arabs) is a historical fever dream mostly concocted by the KGB in the service of the Soviet Union’s war against the “Zionist entity.”
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1/ The rot inside the American psychological Association (@APA) has reached Congress.
Today, a federal advisory committee has recommended suspending recognition of the @APA’s accreditation body for ONE YEAR. Now a devastating 24-page congressional report exposes how deeply antisemitism has infected APA leadership.
Full congressional report linked in the replies.
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Sir David Bell, someone who has exhaustively researched and written a report into antisemitism in schools, is having to defend his work because OWEN JONES saw the need to "debunk" something he knows nothing about. Experts and idiots given equal billing.
Sir David Bell defends report on antisemitism in education after Owen Jones claimed it was ‘riddled with errors’
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They are counting on silence.
They are counting on apathy.
They are counting on you.
Don’t give them the satisfaction.
#BlueWavein5Days
Share. Vote. Roar.
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It's not everyday I get trolled by someone with an OAM. This seems to be a real account by a real person, who was indeed awarded an OAM back in 2003. Timothy Looker has been profiled by the ABC as recently as last year for what looks to be a long and admirable history of volunteer work with legal aid and NGOs like the YMCA. He looks more like a kindly grandfather than someone who would target and abuse a woman who survived 2+ years wrongfully imprisoned in a foreign hellhole. A cursory glance at his X feed shows an obsession with "Zionists" and other unhinged conspiracy theories that proliferate in parts of the internet not typically frequented by 70+ year olds. This doesn't make me angry, it makes me profoundly sad. This is an otherwise upstanding member of our community with decades of community service who has seemingly been sucked into a funnel of hate and extremism on this platform and elsewhere. A sobering reminder that toxic online echo chambers affect all of us, not just the young and impressionable. It has never been more urgent to bring big tech and big social media to heel than now.
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The shit normies say on israel and jewish posts on Facebook with their full name and kids in profile pic suggest we have reached a stage of antisemitic hysteria that is entirely medieval in its social function. Bleak times
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We seem to be on a suicide mission.
I’m sure it’s all about the midterms and stopping the votes.
Scoop from @nancyayoussef
This means the Joint Staff that serves the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Dan Caine is without its chief planner on the eve of possible resumption of strikes against Iran. It is the 2nd General serving in the Pentagon’s top planning role (J-5) that has been fired/forced out by Hegseth.
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Crazy how the “working class” DSA only seems to do well with wealthy yt Nepo Babies, who are children of Republicans
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While celebrating his 36th wedding anniversary with his wife, on the Italian luxury cruise ship Achille Lauro, the vessel was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF).
Because he was Jewish and American, Leon Klinghoffer—who was 69 years old and used a wheelchair after suffering a debilitating stroke—was singled out, shot in the head, and thrown overboard along with his wheelchair.
Remember his name.
Never forget the evils perpetrated by the Palestinians.
Read more about Leon Klinghoffer and the hijacking of the Achille Lauro in the post below.
ALT The shooting of Leon Klinghoffer aboard the Achille Lauro cruise ship which was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
Four armed hijackers executed a 69-year-old disabled American in a wheelchair and threw him overboard into the Mediterranean—only for US Navy fighter jets to ambush their getaway airliner in pitch-black airspace, forcing it down onto a NATO runway for an armed standoff between American commandos and Italian carabinieri.
The reason might surprise you.
On October 7, 1985, the Italian luxury cruise liner MS Achille Lauro was cruising off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, carrying hundreds of international holidaymakers.
While the majority of passengers had disembarked for a shore excursion to Cairo, four heavily armed militants from the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), led by 23-year-old Youssef Majed al-Molqi, seized the vessel.
Their original plan had been to stay undercover until the ship docked in Ashdod, Israel, to launch a suicide raid on military installations. But when a cabin steward caught them cleaning assault rifles in their state room, they panicked, commandeered the bridge, and held over 400 remaining passengers and crew hostage.
They redirected the cruise liner toward Tartus, Syria, demanding the immediate release of 50 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
When the Syrian government refused to allow the ship to enter port, the hijackers decided to execute a hostage to prove their resolve:
They singled out Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish-American retired appliance manufacturer from New York who had suffered two severe strokes and was confined to a wheelchair.
Forced onto the open deck, Klinghoffer was shot once in the forehead and once in the chest.
The hijackers then forced two ship crew members at gunpoint to dump Klinghoffer's body and his wheelchair into the open sea.
Fearing international retaliation, PLF leader Muhammad Zaidan (known as Abu Abbas) established radio contact with the ship, ordering the hijackers to steer back toward Port Said, Egypt.
In Cairo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arranged a controversial diplomatic compromise:
In exchange for releasing the cruise ship and the remaining hostages unharmed, the hijackers were granted safe passage out of Egypt aboard a commercial EgyptAir Boeing 737 bound for Tunis, alongside Abu Abbas.
President Mubarak publicly claimed the hijackers had already left the country, but US intelligence knew the plane had not yet taken off from Al Maza military airbase.
When President Ronald Reagan learned of Klinghoffer's murder, he issued an immediate directive: intercept the airliner.
On the night of October 10, four F-14 Tomcat fighter jets from the USS Saratoga (Carrier Air Wing 17), supported by an E-2C Hawkeye radar plane, roared off the catapults into the dark Mediterranean sky:
Without using radio transmissions or radar illumination, the F-14s crept up on the EgyptAir flight in complete blackout mode at 34,000 feet south of Crete.
Switching on running lights and drawing within inches of the airliner’s wingtips, the American fighter pilots rocked their wings and radioed the Egyptian pilot directly on emergency frequencies: "Divert your heading to Sigonella, or face interception."
Flanked on both wings by armed Tomcats, the airliner had no choice but to follow the escorts down to Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily.
The crisis, however, didn't end on the tarmac. It triggered a near-shooting standoff between two NATO allies:
As soon as the airliner touched down at midnight, US Navy SEAL Team Six operators surrounded the plane in tactical gear.
Within minutes, fifty Italian Carabinieri and military police surrounded the Navy SEALs with submachine guns, drawing down on the Americans.
Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi insisted that because the aircraft had landed on sovereign Italian soil and the hijacking occurred on an Italian-flagged ship, Italy retained absolute legal jurisdiction.
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