Aisha Tahir
By Aisha Tahir
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Fast Forward Brandeis Dumps Officials After Report On Abusive Basketball Coach
Four months after Brandeis University fired its men’s basketball coach due to allegations of verbal abuse and racial discrimination, the university has accepted the resignation of one top official and demoted two others who were supposed to supervise him, Deadspin reported. Vice president of student affairs Sheryl Sousa resigned, and athletic director Lynn Dempsey and…
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Breaking News Trump’s ‘Biggest’ Regret? Calling Out Charlottesville White Supremacists.
A new book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward claimed that President Trump deeply regretted criticizing the white supremacists who marched last year in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Post reported Tuesday. Trump’s first public statement after the march and ensuing violence put blame on “both sides,” but after being urged by advisors, he specifically condemned white…
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Fast Forward Nazi Action Figures Sold On Amazon, In Toy Stores
Action figures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders are being sold on Amazon and at vintage shops in Great Britain, The Jewish Chronicle reported. A vintage toy shop in Wales was selling an action figure of Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels but removed it after a customer complained, the Chronicle said. “After someone…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Smiled Next To Anti-LGBTQ Evangelical Leaders
Ivanka Trump enjoyed a White House dinner with about a hundred evangelical Christian leaders, many of whom believe same-sex marriage is sinful, The Daily Beast reported. Jarod & Ivanka @ tonite’s White House dinner. pic.twitter.com/PEhm4vOSsF — Jim Garlow (@JimGarlow) August 28, 2018 Trump tweeted last June that she was “proud to support my LGBTQ friends…
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Fast Forward CLARIFIED: Fraternity At Florida School Probed In Student Injury
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been rewritten to correct serious errors in a previous version. The Florida State University chapter of Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi is reportedly under investigation after a student was injured in an incident at its house. The student suffered a fractured skull last April during a gathering at the fraternity’s…
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Fast Forward Here’s What Other Michael Cohens Think About THAT Michael Cohen
After Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, plead guilty to eight felony charges on Tuesday, other Michael Cohens began to weigh in. These Michael Cohens have been under attack in the past by Twitter users confusing them with Trump’s Cohen. Now, after receiving months of harassment that was not yet for them, they’re trying…
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Fast Forward Adelsons Give $25 Million To Keep Senate In GOP Control
Republican megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave $25 million last month to the Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC aiming to keep the Senate in Republican control, Politico reported. Their $25 million contribution made up almost the entire haul of $26 million that the Senate Leadership Fund brought in last month and more than half…
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Fast Forward Activist Scholar Who Did ‘Intersectionality’ Decades Early Dies At 72
An activist who believed Israel isn’t the one and true homeland of all Jews, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, died of Parkinson’s disease at 72, The NewYork Times reported. “She was living and breathing the dynamic movements of her time,” said her long time partner Leslie Cagan. The civil rights movement started Kaye/Kantrowitzbegan’ social activism. Mobilizing in the…
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