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The Schmooze ‘Y’all Country Is Nuts’: This Rapper Has Good Reasons For Never Returning To Israel
Azealia Banks says she’s never coming back to Israel. She also might be one of the country’s great defenders. Banks courts controversy wherever she goes. The dynamo 26 year-old rapper has often received fair censure for her erratic behavior (go ahead and google her tiff with Sarah Palin) since she burst onto the scene six…
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Fast Forward Viral Video Of Grown Man Taunting Hasidic Boy Gets Millions Of Views
A video of a man taunting a small Hasidic boy over his appearance went viral on Sunday, with the original clip viewed over 1 million times and copies of it seen at least a million more. The 13-second video shows a man coming across a three- or four-year-old boy in the street, looking upset and…
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Fast Forward 4.2M Anti-Semitic Tweets Sent In Year
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League estimated that there were 4.2 million anti-Semitic tweets out of the trillions posted on Twitter over a yearlong period. In a report released Monday, the civil rights group’s Center on Extremism said its experts estimated the tweets were sent by 3 million unique users. The study did not control…
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Fast Forward Firefighter Who Tweeted Anti-Semitic Hate Transferred Out Of Orthodox Neighborhood
(JTA) — A newly graduated New York City firefighter who had quit as an EMT after his racist and anti-Semitic tweets came to light was transferred out of a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn after just one day. Joseph Cassano, the son of a former fire commissioner, worked Monday at a Borough Park station, but the…
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Fast Forward Jim Carrey’s Terrifying Portraits Of Michael Cohen
The pen is mightier than the sword but the paintbrush of Jim Carrey ain’t half bad. The comedian, adding to a growing series of political artwork he has been posting on Twitter, has produced two artistic renderings of President Trump’s lawyer, the unctuous Michael Cohen. Auto-moronic ASSphyxiation. ;^P pic.twitter.com/VA6mmkjtk0 — Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) April 19,…
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Culture Mocking Misogyny On Twitter Is Self-Defeating. Here’s Why.
One morning when I was 15 years old, a junior in high school, I decided to straighten my hair. This was a big deal; I was in a sweatshirt phase, having decided that the speediest way to deal with not having what I thought of as traditional good looks was to ignore my looks altogether….
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Opinion Twitter Is Today’s Talmud. Which Is Why Men Suck At Following Women.
Over the past few days, Facebook has seen a righteous backlash for its promiscuous use of data, hoovering up our phone numbers, our predilections and our loved ones’ birthdays like so many profitable nuggets of ore for their data-mining operation. But over the past few years, much of the surging and chaotic energy of social…
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The Schmooze Here’s Definitive Proof That Jews Don’t Control The Weather
Trayon White, a Washington, D.C. council member, made a comment this weekend that suggested that a powerful Jewish family controls the weather. In a video that White posted on social media and later deleted, the lawmaker urged viewers to “pay attention” to “climate manipulation.” He said that the city of Washington DC is accustomed to…
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