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fellow. contributing editor. I report on money in politics. RT=RT.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 29

    John Bolton-led Gatestone Institute coproduced twelve anti-Muslim videos with this alt-right website.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Missing: Goldberg taking responsibility for a serious lapse of judgement.

    Full memo from Atlantic editor Jeff Goldberg to staff on Kevin Williamson
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    2 hours ago

    Kevin Williamson has been fired from The Atlantic. From Jeffrey Goldberg's letter to staff: "The language he used in this podcast—and in my conversations with him in recent days—made it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered views."

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    8 hours ago

    SCOOP: In the final weeks of the 2016 elections, Google and Facebook worked with a dark money group to target anti-Muslim ads like this at swing voters. Docs obtained by show Robert Mercer was the group's largest donor, giving $2 million

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    3 hours ago

    The Rock Dwayne Johnson posts about how he's looking forward to drinking Tequila with Saudi Arabia's royal family, following his dinner party with crown prince MBS, James Cameron, Morgan Freeman, and host Rupert Murdoch.

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    8 hours ago

    - Funders that targeted anti-Muslim voters in 2016 using Facebook & Google revealed. by

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    Apr 4

    Scoop: Here are details from Trump’s dinner with Safra Catz and Peter Thiel last night. The big govt contract that Oracle and Amazon are competing for was discussed.

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  8. Apr 4

    Also said, "When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered." But good try by StratCom to coopt MLK 50 yrs after his murder.

    "If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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  9. Apr 4

    26.7% of the U.S. population...

    JUST IN: Facebook says it now believes the Facebook information of up to 87,000,000 people, mostly in US, "may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica" -
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    Apr 4

    Does this suggest WikiLeaks, which touts its “analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official material,” is not in favor of ’s work to analyze and publish large datasets of official material?

    ProPublica (funded by Sandler and other Democratic aligned foundations) assembles thousands of records of Trump administration appointees.
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    Apr 4

    It’s not a Trade War. It’s Trade War Posturing. You’ll know if it’s a Trade War.

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    Apr 4

    A challenge to my fellow American progressives: our Israeli colleagues are taking a very brave stand to prevent violence. They need to hear our support.

    Breaking: B'Tselem is calling on Israel soldiers to disobey "illegal orders" to shoot unarmed demonstrators in Gaza. The NGO will be publishing ads in newspapers urging soldiers to refuse
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    Apr 3

    So maybe spending years pushing a hysterical, anti-factual narrative against the wasn't the best way for you to go?

    I am increasingly critical of emerging Trump strategy on Iran. Quoted: “We've gone from strategy of decertify, fix the deal & pressure Iran in the region to what increasingly appears to be one of decertify, nix the deal & withdraw from the region.” :
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    Apr 3

    You can't make this stuff up. Right-wing nut attacks for speaking against the Israeli military's killing of Palestinian protesters when Pollak himself has CALLED FOR the Israeli Military to use Palestinian protesters for "target practice"

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  15. Apr 2

    Fair and balanced take... if starving civilians in Yemen, comparing Hitler favorably to the Iranians and beheading foreign domestic workers falls under blanket disclaimer of “far from perfect.”

    h/t to for this amazing intvw. all should watch . he is far from perfect + there is a long road ahead, but in a region long dominated by hateful despots, MbS envisions a very diff future for Muslims, Jews, Christians & all in MidEast
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    Apr 2

    I look forward to and issuing a correction noting that, actually, an Arab leader named Yassir Arafat recognized a Jewish state of Israel as part of a two-state formulation.

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    Apr 2

    "Just think of $700 billion because that is all going into our military this year"- Trump addressing [checks notes] children at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll

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    Apr 1

    Funny thing is, NO ONE had a desire to die in a SE Asian rice paddy.

    “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy… I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.” — John Bolton, 1995
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    Apr 1

    A 4-star general explains why John Bolton ‘scares the hell out of many of us’ via

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  20. Apr 1

    Exclusive: Interrogation Video Surfaces of Palestinian Teen Activist Ahed Tamimi

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  21. Apr 1

    Tell us more about “cynical exploitation.”

    Replying to @Tplazadegiles
    Without hesitation. I absolutely condemn Hamas’s cynical exploitation and endangerment of Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in order to promote their heinous goal of eradicating the Jewish state.
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