Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ theintercept.com/2021/11/10/pro
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I deleted a tweet mocking Andrew Tate's arrest because these details of the horrific crimes he is accused of make it clear that this is not a funny story, but a deeply disturbing one for his victims diicot.ro/mass-media/382
Kavanaugh boasted in his yearbook that he and his friend took part in drinking 100 kegs of beer in 1982-1983; if those binge drinking sessions we know took place are not noted in his calendars, they are not a full record of his activities.
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Breaking News: Brett Kavanaugh has calendars from 1982 that his team says don’t show a party matching his accuser’s account. He plans to give them to the Senate. nyti.ms/2xzQsn4
Here's video of saying Maryland's National Guard was repeatedly denied authorization to deploy to defend Congress on Wednesday during the 90 minutes after a panicked phone call from senior House and Senate leaders who were hiding from the president's mob
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“I was actually on the phone with Leader Hoyer who was pleading with us to send the guard,” Maryland Gov. Hogan.
But Hogan said Maj. Gen. Timothy Gowen, head of the Maryland National Guard, was *repeatedly rebuffed by the head of the National Guard on the federal level.*
Why? twitter.com/eilperin/statu…
The White House is playing "Live and Let Die" before Trump's arrival at a thinly disguised campaign event in Ohio that the state's governor cannot attend because he just came down with Covid-19, the disease that killed over 1,400 Americans yesterday.
Mission accomplished. While everyone was distracted by his blue-check removals, Musks's Twitter deleted labels that alerted users that they were reading news from state-run propaganda outlets of authoritarian governments. Potemkin news channels now free to inject disinformation.
An appalling Republican ad during the Democratic debate attacked for the genocide in Cambodia a decade before her birth, but it was a Republican president, Richard Nixon, whose secret bombing created the conditions for the Khmer Rouge to seize power static.theintercept.com/amp/debate-ale
Fox News illustrates breaking news that Trump has tested positive for Covid with rare image of him briefly wearing a mask - moving quickly to airbrush from the minds of viewers his reckless refusal to do so routinely and his constant mockery of Biden for being more responsible.
Thousands of protesters at JFK, chanting "Let them in!" and "No hate no fear refugees are welcome here!" #MuslimBan
I cross-checked a Pentagon casualty database with obituaries and not 1 of the 9 American servicemen killed fighting in Iraq since 2011 died at the hands of militias backed by Suleimani. His assassination was about revenge and provocation, not self-defense.
Per Elon Musk ordered Twitter to ban antifascist researcher Chad Loder washingtonpost.com/technology/202 As I reported, Loder's open-source investigations ID'd Capitol rioters but infuriated 2 far-right activists Musk admires, Andy Ngo and Chaya Raichik theintercept.com/2021/11/10/pro
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Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher @chadloder likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ theintercept.com/2021/11/10/pro
Jan 6 select committee releases photo of Pence in Capitol basement, after he refused to get in limousine because he feared Secret Service would evacuate him against his will, watching Trump's tweeted video praising the rioters who had stormed the Capitol
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With Monday's massacre, Israel has now killed more than 90 Palestinians in the past six weeks for approaching the fence it placed around Gaza, surpassing the total number of East Germans shot and killed for trying to scale the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1989
Rubio seems to think that something that he can’t do is actually impossible - wait till he finds out that ’s son can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 11 seconds
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The immigration debate “is like a Rubik’s Cube,” @MarcoRubio said. “I mean, every time you line up the red side of the Rubik’s Cube, the blue side is off-balance, and vice versa.” wapo.st/2BTiFZW?tid=ss
The DUP (whose 10 seats in the UK Parliament, from just 36% of the vote, are shaded red) act as if they have a veto over all proposals to keep the Irish border open, but they do not represent a single constituent who actually lives on the border. (Green areas voted Sinn Fein)
Depressing that there are 240,000 views so far for this falsely captioned clip of video from last year's anti-Trump protest in London described as video from today. It was raining today in London. needs to start removing misinformation from the network. twitter.com/Terrence_STR/s
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The man in a Blacks for Trump shirt, who made a throat-slitting gesture as Trump promised to ban critical race theory, is the group's founder, a former member of a cult who was accused by his brother of taking part in ritual murders, including a beheading: theintercept.com/2017/08/23/man
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Trump's rally in Iowa winds down with a bonkers rant about critical race theory
You might think Donald Trump's relentless showboating during the coronavirus briefings is typical of how politicians act everywhere. But it's not. I looked at a dozen other democracies and almost of of them just let doctors brief the public about the virus
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The Gabbard campaign’s demand for an apology from Hillary Clinton includes the text they want her to deliver, including "I support and admire the work that Congresswoman Gabbard has done and will continue to do."
Mike Pence traveled to Iowa to make a show of meeting food industry leaders, but all 5 of them were wearing masks. So before he came out, they were instructed to remove them, and they all did. interc.pt/2YOBCaS
Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian Christian, not buying Mike Pence argument Jerusalem belongs to Israel because Bible
I just recreated what Trump sees on Twitter by making a list of the 40 accounts he follows and I feel dumber already twitter.com/RobertMackey/l
This image of comforting a detained woman whose daughters were taken from her at the border, which another member of Congress had to smuggle a camera in to take, is a glimpse of what the border agency doesn't want to the public to see interc.pt/301HJFT
What are the odds the guy standing right behind Trump with a stethoscope perched on his shoulder is really a doctor?
Everyone ignored Gore's live fact-check of Bush tax cut in 2000, instead mocking him for sighing; so USG lost $2.8 trillion & roads crumbled
Someone in the White House press corps needs to directly ask Trump why he keeps saying the US mortality rate for Covid-19, which is among the 10 highest in the world, is the lowest, and why he keeps saying the 1918 pandemic was in 1917.
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"Biden & Obama stopped their testing ... I'm sure you don't want to report it" - Trump absurdly tries to blame Obama for problems w/ testing for Covid-19, which didn't exist until nearly 3 years after he left office. He then falsely suggests the 1918 flu pandemic started in 1917.
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UPDATED: A month after the Oz campaign misled reporters about a "community discussion" in NW Philadelphia, which secretly featured a paid campaign aide, a community discussion in another part of the city on Thursday featured 3 of the same participants
Updated: Never missing an opportunity to embarrass himself, tried and failed to snap back at Prime Minister Theresa May but ended up addressing instead another woman with a similar Twitter handle who has just 6 followers. interc.pt/2BzPtUi
Bad news: racist yahoo got 46.7% of the vote for Austrian president (0.5% more than Trump). Good news: no electoral college, so he lost.
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98% of counted ballots: 53.3% A. #VanderBellen, 46.7% N. #Hofer. These are the final results of today's #Austria Presidential #Elections.
Seems overlooked that Mark Meadows's memoir undercuts Trump's claim that he showed the book's ghostwriter and publisher articles, not a war plan. It cites Trump talking about "a four-page report typed up by Mark Milley himself. It contained the general’s own plan to attack Iran."
Yes, the press release refers and links to an earlier statement about April 11 arrests in the same case, which is when Tate was first arrested
This is the explanation for our unfolding national tragedy: the lack of a coordinated federal testing strategy that would allow us to trace infections and live with the virus is explained by the fact that the president thinks every criticism of him is a contrived political attack
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Trump suggests that demands for more testing, just like requests for ventilators, are part of a political conspiracy meant to take him down -- not necessary measures to respond to a virus that has killed more than 40,000 Americans
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The man peering over Zelensky's shoulder in besieged Kyiv is Andriy Yermak. 3 summers ago, he was in DC, resisting pressure from Giuliani to have Zelensky smear Biden in return for military aid blocked by Trump that Ukraine desperately needed. Now this. theintercept.com/2022/02/25/put
is what he wants you to think - but BBC, NPR and CBC were not government-controlled news organizations; RT, TASS, CCTV and Press TV all are.
Protest outside JFK Terminal 4 now stretches along most of road, swells opposite East exit and goes up 4 floors of parking lot. #MuslimBan
To fully understand how 2-bit this presidency is, consider that the White House was fighting with the National Weather Service over Trump using a sharpie to alter a forecast map the same weekend Trump ordered Gordon Sondland to tell Ukraine's president to lie about Biden on CNN
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WHOA!
Hell of an email from NOAA official Craig McLean to NOAA's chief and other top officials:
"What concerns me most is that this Administration is eroding the public trust in NOAA for an apparent
political recovery from an ill timed and imprecise comment from the President"
Warren is correct that Bernie Sanders did argue that he should stay in the race in 2016 because the super delegates could choose him to be the nominee at the convention, even though Hillary Clinton won a majority of pledged delegates and the popular vote
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Elizabeth Warren strikes again with that "Just a player in the game" energy chile. Liz is playing hardball. She along with everybody else is hanging on for delegate leverage in a brokered convention. I don't see her giving up delegates for less than VP.
Unsolicited advice to female candidates from male pundits
2016: smile more
2020: smile less
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Fox's Geraldo Rivera: "The only real mistake Kamala Harris made tonight was the over-smirking, over-smiling" mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-
Israel has invented a new crime: Facebooking while Palestinian interc.pt/2pxOXkt
In a newsletter last week, Chad Loder revealed evidence that Chaya Raichik aka took part in the Capitol riot
1. Brave of Andy Ngo to refuse to reply to my request for comment on his debunked claim that the Dayton mass shooter was "an antifa militant," and then block me after my article proved he made serial reporting errors so his fans won't be exposed to my further debunking of his BS
At his rally in Queens, a powerful moment as asks everyone in the crowd to look around and find someone who is of a different race, gender or background and then asks: “Are you willing to fight as much for that person as for yourself?” #BerniesBack
Three hours after this story was published, revealing the Russian hack on the DNC, Micheal Cohen met Felix Sater in the Trump Tower atrium and called off their trip to Russia
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Russian government hackers penetrated DNC database, stole opposition research on Donald Trump wapo.st/1XUImhl
A defense witness told the jury the men Kyle Rittenhouse killed were "rioters." The trial judge stopped the prosecutor from asking if he might have any political bias. Here he is telling Trump supporters after the 2020 election it was time for "bloodshed" theintercept.com/2021/11/11/rit
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“It’s your time to rise, because we will not go down without a fight” Drew Hernandez speaking at today’s Walk Away event in DC #WalkAway #DC #Trump2020
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I give up. It's pointless to report on anything other than the President of the United States having a personal social media feed that reveals he's a lunatic.
As argues, Trump's scheme to get Ukraine's president to deliver lines about Biden on CNN secretly written for him by Trump aides - creating actual fake news - would also have been illegal, violating a law shielding Americans from propaganda theintercept.com/2019/10/23/tru
Updated: A judge dismissed Capitol rioter Adam Kiefer's request to bar antifascist researcher from tweeting about him. Kiefer was ordered to pay Loder's legal fees for requesting a restraining order just to stop Loder's reporting on him interc.pt/3ohVrSY
No, their radical, genocidal ideology was formed during years of bombing, and it was not democratic socialism.
This email - which was published by Wikileaks after it was stolen by Russian intelligence hackers - shows something different: an opposition researcher alerting the DNC to the work of Ukrainian investigative *journalists*, not officials, looking into Manafort's now-proven crimes.
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BREAKING NEWS: This email exchange between Ali Chalupa (Consultant for the DNC) and Luis Miranda (Comms Director for the DNC) dated 5/3/16, is one of many instances proving collusion between Ukrainian officials and DNC/Clinton campaign.
The most famous passage from Trump's July 4 2019 speech, which he compares to MLK's "I have a dream" speech, is when he said of the war of 1812, "Our Army manned the ampert, it ranned the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do"
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Trump brags that his speech along the National Mall outdrew (or so he says) MLK's "I have a dream" speech
Before the Israeli prime minister's office tried to make it disappear down the memory hole, my colleague grabbed the original video of saying that the goal of the #WarsawSummit was indeed promoting "war with Iran" theintercept.com/2019/02/13/ira
Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev suddenly regrets inviting Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović to watch the match in Sochi with him
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Musk making it easier for state propaganda channels to tweet disinformation tracks with his resistance to blocking Russia Today when Russia invaded Ukraine. "Actually I find their news quite entertaining," Musk texted a friend then. "Lots of bullshit, but some good points too." twitter.com/RobertMackey/s…
Survivors of deadly Portland attack were victimized twice: first by the gunman, then by the police interc.pt/36Act9H cites
Trump has boasted of having female construction manager on Trump Tower - this is her comment today: twitter.com/barbaraaresesq
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Shoutout to the otherwise dysfunctional U.K. which has 5-week election campaigns and hand-marked paper ballots counted by hand the same night they are cast, with the new leader moving into the prime minister's house the next day.
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NBC News Decision Desk director John Lapinski says it may not be possible to call the Georgia presidential race for "weeks".
Brazilians instantly launch an open source effort to identify right-wing rioters who are boasting online that they have invaded the nation's federal capitol complex, echoing crowdsourced effort in the US
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VAMOS EXPOR A IDENTIDADE DOS TERRORISTAS BOLSONARISTAS? VAMOS!
Senta o dedo no "retweet", povo!
LET'S EXPOSE THE IDENDITY OF THE TERRORISTS? YES!
Retweet!
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1 There's no point in arguing with bad-faith actors willing to lie about my work to mislead followers who don't read or watch it, but I will respond here to blatant lies about my video and print piece looking at how Fox News uses viral video of violence at protests to smear BLM
Taliban spokesman uses first press conference in Kabul to complain about Facebook, claiming group's freedom of speech is stifled by tech giant's ban on content promoting them.
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Taliban spokesman through a translator deflects a question on free speech: “I can ask Facebook company, this question should be asked to them.”
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He recently added labels to publicly funded broadcasters with editorial independence - including NPR, PBS, BBC and CBC - implying a false equivalence to state-run Russian, Chinese and Iranian channels. Now stripped all labels from all broadcasters. He previously said he liked RT.
Quote is from this text exchange, revealed in discovery during lawsuit filed by Twitter to compel Musk to complete purchase he agreed to
Updated my post on #KhizrKhan to show disgraceful lengths went to to avoid showing their viewers his speech
Neymar seems to have made a last-minute revision to his entry in Worst Brazilian Superstar World Cup Haircut sweepstakes; sadly still fails to match Ronaldo’s record-setting 2002 effort
As I reported in Oct., "Blacks for Trump, seen at new Trump rally, is led by anti-Semitic ex-member of violent cult: interc.pt/2dUid0h
This makes more sense when you realize that "a lot of people" means "a lot of people on Fox News"
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ABC: You told CNBC a month ago that the coronavirus was "contained." Why should people trust you?
LARRY KUDLOW: "Look, I'm as good as the facts are. At the time I made that statement, the facts were -- contained ... a lot of people agreed with me." (Experts did not agree w/ him)
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Benjamin Netanyahu's office deleted video of him advocating "war with Iran" on Wednesday, but here's another video, from 2002, of him offering Congress his personal "guarantee" that war with Iraq would have "enormous positive reverberations" in Iran. More: theintercept.com/2019/02/13/ira
White House retracts error-riddled video claiming piles of bricks prove Antifa plot interc.pt/2U7PZ6F cites
17 My reporting is about how video of violence on the margins of BLM protests is taken out of context or deceptively edited on Twitter to smear the protest movement. Instead of reading tweets that take it out of context, watch the video or read the article
This is where the tear gas was fired so Trump could hold up the bible outside that church
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Last year, after the FBI debunked Ngo's false claim that a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio was carried out by an antifascist activist, and I explained his serial reporting errors, he blocked me and lied about my reporting, so his Twitter followers wouldn't be exposed to the truth
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1. Brave of Andy Ngo to refuse to reply to my request for comment on his debunked claim that the Dayton mass shooter was "an antifa militant," and then block me after my article proved he made serial reporting errors so his fans won't be exposed to my further debunking of his BS
Except on marriage equality and abortion
Trump's clearly referring to hydroxychloroquine here - as the drug treatment he is now having pharma companies pitch to Boris Johnson's doctors. He's interfering in the medical treatment of a foreign leader because he sees Johnson's illness as an opportunity for self-promotion.
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REPORTER: You mentioned you asked US drug companies to help treat Boris Johnson. What kind of treatment is that?
TRUMP: "It's a very complex treatment of things that they've just recently developed. And that they have a lot of experience with, having to do with something else."
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I guess this is Andy Ngo's response to the question I sent him, about whether he regrets falsely labeling the mass shooting in Dayton in 2019 the work of "an antifa militant," now that the FBI says that's not true, and I've exposed his reporting errors: theintercept.com/2021/12/01/day
Herbert Hoover's great-granddaughter, who served in George H.W. Bush's son's administration, insists Mike Huckabee's daughter won her father's former office on merit
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By my count, there are currently 163 stories on the home page and 116 on but not 1 is about the Israeli massacre in Gaza, which was featured in print by both. There is also no mention among 126 stories on 's US home page, or in 100 stories on
Remarkably clear that despite dining out on your supposed understanding of Ireland, you do not understand Ireland a whit. Not only a false statement but an offensively callous one.
Anti-war chants at protest in Moscow tonight
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Robert Mueller said under oath today that when he met President Trump the day before he was appointed special counsel it "was not as a candidate" to replace James Comey, as Trump has repeatedly claimed. Trump says that's perjury, and he has Pence as a witness. Any comment ?
Keep in mind, just three years ago the Maricopa County Sheriff's office deputies now protecting election officials and reporters in Phoenix worked for Joe Arpaio
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ARIZONA PROTEST: Sheriff’s deputies moved media inside the Maricopa Co. Elections Center for safety as the crowd grew. We have now left the premises for safety.
The craziest part of this is Arizona ballots are still being counted inside, while this happens outside... #azfamily
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Georgia recount is about 86% done, and discovery of 2,524 previously uncounted votes in Floyd County has decreased Biden's winning margin by just 778 votes: from 14,155 to 13,377
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NEW--@GabrielSterling just released the official vote breakdown from the ballots previously uncounted in Floyd County:
Trump--1,643
Biden--865
Jorgensen--16
TOTAL--2,524
@FOX5Atlanta
We've found the only person in America who has "really enjoyed the last couple of months."
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Asked by reporters about his mood going into his second term, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler responds:
"I'm energized. I have really enjoyed the last couple of months in particular."
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Here's the President of the United States dealing with #LondonBridge: by blocking British musician who called him out for retweeting Drudge:
Asked by Hannity, of all people, if he's had a Covid test since testing positive, Trump says "the actual test" is tomorrow, then accidentally reveals he has tested positive: "they found very little infection or virus" before adding "if any" and claiming he didn't even ask result
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Holy shit. Trump, who won't say if he's tested negative for coronavirus (so he either hasn't been tested or is still testing positive), says he plans to do a rally this Saturday night in Florida.
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Trump just managed to con the news media into uninterrupted live coverage of what appears to be a do-over convention he's staged for himself
Since I reported on April 20 that Trump had wrongly referred to the 1918 pandemic as an event that took place in 1917 a staggering 25 times - theintercept.com/2020/04/20/tru - he has kept at it. Last night he repeated the error for the 38th time (via )
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Good example - important to underscore only retaining absurd system set up to benefit slave states leads to undemocratic results like this
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Lots of "Do you see HRC popular vote margin." #TildenTweets. Samuel Tilden won popular vote by 3%! It was still President Hayes.
Like some sort of news remix or strange dream, I turn on Fox to hear them telling a Trump lawyer, "The point is, there's not evidence of voter fraud," while I see in the background of their live shot reporting on people celebrating in New York's Tahrir Square
#ProtectMueller march to Union Square in New York. “Wake up Congress, do your job,” protesters chant.
Trump "grew increasingly angry" on Friday after reading tweets comparing the size of his crowd to Obama's in 2009
Updated: A federal judge dismissed Capitol rioter Adam Kiefer's request to bar antifascist researcher from tweeting about him. Kiefer was ordered to pay Loder's legal fees for requesting a restraining order just to stop Loder's reporting on him interc.pt/3ohVrSY
Since does read tweets, here's my updated review of visual evidence proving the Mall was half empty interc.pt/2kgsGDh
"If you take out Saddam," Netanyahu told Congress in 2002, "I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region. And I think that people sitting right next door in Iran... will say the time of such regimes, of such despots is gone."
If only he knew the guy who provided "the platform for the alt-right" he could ask him about this
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Trump: "It’s not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized, I want to look into it and find out why.” (2/2)
NYPD close JFK Terminal 4, so protestors now have no way to leave JFK. Not smart, unless conflict is the goal.
