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Fast Forward Donald Trump Retweets Jewish Hedge Fund Wunderkind Jacob Wohl
After a week that’s seen him in trouble for his social media activities, President Trump re-tweeted praise on Monday from Jacob Wohl, a youthful Jewish hedge funder and seeming mini-me. When Obama was President, the #MSM LOVED talking about stock market rallies! Now they barely mention new all-time-highs — Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) July 3, 2017…
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Fast Forward New German Law Curbs Hate Speech, Holocaust Denial On Social Networks
BERLIN (JTA) — The German parliament passed a new law Friday designed to curb hate speech and libel on social networks. The law requires Internet platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to remove material with obviously illegal content and fake defamatory “news” within 24 hours of its having been reported. Previously, illegal material was reported but did not have to be…
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Fast Forward Tapper Mocks Melania Trump’s Anti-Bullying Effort After Donald’s Twitter Salvo
After President Trump mocked MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski in graphic terms, Jake Tapper had a (not-so-)serious question: what’s the deal with Melania Trump’s anti-bullying initiative? This reminds me: how is @FLOTUS’s campaign against cyber-bullying going? https://t.co/X4xmyreGLH — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 29, 2017 After last November’s election, the first lady said that she wanted to…
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The Schmooze Seth Rogen’s Mom’s Twitter Is The Best Thing You’ll Read This Week
Like all mothers, we need Sandy Rogen, but we don’t deserve her and we certainly don’t do enough to thank her for what she does for us. The Vancouver-based retired social worker is a mother of two who has been described by her son as a “radical Jewish socialist”. She is also a phenomenal tweeter….
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Fast Forward Jason Greenblatt Live Tweets Israel Trip – And Doesn’t Win Fans
President Trump isn’t the only person within his administration sending out an unfiltered stream of messages on Twitter. Middle East adviser Jason Greenblatt seems to be following his lead, live-tweeting updates from a trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories this week. Today I paid a shiva call to family of Hadas Malka. She was…
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Fast Forward Trump Snipes At Jon Ossoff On Twitter As Georgia Votes
As voters in the Atlanta suburbs cast votes in a closely watched special election pitting Democrat Jon Ossoff against Republican Karen Handel, President Trump is endorsing her and blasting him in a series of tweets. Big day tomorrow in Georgia and South Carolina. ObamaCare is dead. Dems want to raise taxes big! They can only…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Jr. Takes To Twitter Over Israel Terror Attack
Donald Trump Jr. led a Twitter campaign to push the BBC to change a headline on a story about a weekend terror attack in Israel, blasting the venerable news organization for what he and other Israel advocates said was bias. So nice of @BBC to take down their ridiculous tweet from this morn. If they…
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Fast Forward ‘Antifa’s Most Prominent Jew’ Booted From Twitter
The activist and author called “antifa’s most prominent Jew” has been booted off Twitter. “So Twitter gave in to the Nazis apparently and suspended my account,” Daniel Sieradski wrote in a public note describing the June 8 suspension of his account. “I had the temerity to fight hate on their platform when they won’t.” Twitter…
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Fast Forward Civilian effort to equip Israeli soldiers for war with Hezbollah ratchets up alongside hostilities
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