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Well, well, well
Rep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia's CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece
He's a member of the following:
- Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee
- Taiwan Caucus
- High Tech Caucus
Apparently, federal agents informed some lawmakers last year that Jensen Huang might be the target of a foreign intelligence operation
He avoided a ~26% dip
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What is COPA?
NYC's new law gives city-chosen groups first dibs on certain run-down apartment buildings. Owners have to wait about three months before they can sell to anyone else.
Who gets first dibs?
Housing groups in East New York, East Harlem and the Bronx, along with Fifth Avenue Committee, MHANY and Banana Kelly.
Who foots the bill?
You do of course! That's up to $380,000 per apartment, plus tax breaks and waived fees.
If these groups want the buildings, let them bid like everyone else.
The free market built America and New York over 250 years. COPA pushes out the private sector and puts government in its place.
That's communism. Full stop.
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Israel's Ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, sat with 21 New York Times editors.
He brought numbers: how many aid trucks entered Gaza every day, and how IDF soldiers risked their own lives to spare civilians.
They brought feelings. "Ambassador, everybody can't be wrong."
His answer: not everybody thinks it's genocide. And if it feels like everybody does, maybe that's because of you.
Remember the NYT photo of the emaciated Gaza toddler? The boy had a genetic disease and cerebral palsy, and his perfectly healthy brother was cropped out of the frame.
That's not journalism. It's a blood libel.
And blood libels cost Jewish lives.
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Republicans Glad To Now Have Excuse For Not Getting Anything Done buff.ly/c1ES7Gd
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Context: This new *Congressman-elect* (D-NJ) was a close associate, translator and defense witness for an infamous terrorist convicted of a sprawling jihadist conspiracy in the early 90s. He later went overseas and worked for an org that turned out to be an Al Qaeda front.
Insane exchange. Newly elected Democrat Adam Hamawy refuses to call Iran an adversary.
BROWN: Do you see Iran as the adversary?
HAMAWY: "We pushed them into a fight"
BROWN: But are they the adversary?
HAMAWY: "We should be making friends"
BROWN: They've been saying "death to America" for decades
HAMAWY: "We've been saying 'death to Iran'"
BROWN: They've killed a lot of Americans
HAMAWY: "And we've killed a lot of them"
BROWN: So you don't see Iran as an adversary?
HAMAWY: "I see that we are pushing Iran into a fight"
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Thomas Massie Makes Final Push For Job As MS NOW Anchor buff.ly/Oq74DaJ
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Sen. Fetterman's new challenger is a DSA member who sits on the advisory board of the allegedly Hamas-tied USCPR.
He worked in Lebanon, ran a business in Egypt and Jordan, called Hezbollah a "legitimate party" and said of Oct 7 that "the natives have broken free – good for them"
My name is Ahmed Moor and I’m running for US Senate here in PA (election 2028). I’m running to end the war in Iran and to promote the dignity agenda: free healthcare, free childcare, and affordable housing.
I’m calling for accountability for genocide, for ICE and for corruption. And finally, for the protection of our civil liberties in America. Join the fight at moorforsenate.com
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I feel like Mitch McConnell being allowed to vote in the mental/physical state that he’s in should be a bigger story.
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Since yesterday, I have been following statements from Gaza’s Government Media Office, municipalities, Hamas officials, and their supporters, calling on the international community, Arab countries, and the Palestinian Authority to take responsibility for the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza, after heavy rainfall flooded the tents of tens of thousands of displaced people.
I do not deny Israel’s responsibility for destroying Gaza and displacing its people, nor do I overlook the international community’s failure to protect them. But what makes me angry is this relentless insistence on holding everyone accountable except Hamas itself!
Hamas made the decision to launch the October 7 attack without any clear plan to protect the people of Gaza from its catastrophic consequences. Israel’s brutality does not absolve Hamas of responsibility for that decision.
But there is another issue that deserves just as much scrutiny: the money.
During the first year of the war, Khaled Mashal appeared smiling as he recounted a message from Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas’s leader at the time), describing the donations Hamas was receiving as unprecedented. He reportedly referred to them as a “financial flood,” a description echoed by other officials.
And we are talking about a movement with international funding networks and financial backing from Iran, as well as reported sources of support connected to Qatar, Turkey, and Islamist organizations operating in Europe and the United States. The sums involved are potentially enormous, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more.
I am from Gaza, and I challenge anyone to show me a clear, publicly documented aid program through which Hamas has distributed tents or food parcels to displaced families since the war began. I would also like to hear directly from families inside Gaza who have received such assistance from Hamas.
Where has all this money gone?
And how is it acceptable for Hamas leaders and activists to suddenly present themselves as humanitarian advocates whenever disaster strikes, expressing outrage over flooded tents and demanding that the entire world take responsibility?
You are not outsiders watching this tragedy unfold. You governed Gaza, made decisions on behalf of its people, and received enormous sums of money in their name. You cannot continue demanding more money and holding the entire world accountable while refusing to answer for your own decisions or disclose what happened to the funds you collected in the name of the Palestinian people!
And I have not even begun to address the charities allegedly linked to Hamas, some of which present themselves as independent humanitarian organizations while raising millions of dollars from donors abroad.
Whenever disaster strikes, some of these organizations send photographers into the streets, produce English-language content showing the suffering, and publish it alongside donation links.
One fundraising campaign I have been following on Chuffed has, according to the figures displayed on the platform, raised more than $15 million, including approximately $400,000 since yesterday alone!
And yet, families whose suffering is featured in these fundraising appeals are still sleeping on the ground inside flooded tents, with little or no information about how the money raised in their name is being spent.
I am not calling on the world to stop helping Gaza. Quite the opposite. But the people of Gaza, and the donors who are trying to help them, have every right to know where this money is going, who controls it, how it is being distributed, and why so many families remain without the most basic necessities despite the enormous sums being raised.
Yesterday, children in Gaza were shivering from the cold inside flooded tents, while their parents struggled to salvage what little they had left.
They know very well who destroyed their homes and displaced them. But they also have every right to question those who made the decisions that helped bring them to this point, and those who continue to raise millions of dollars in their name.
It is no longer acceptable for Hamas to evade responsibility for the catastrophe it helped bring upon Gaza. Nor should any organization raising money in the name of Gaza’s suffering be allowed to operate without transparency, accountability, and clear evidence of how those funds are being used.
You cannot collect millions in the name of people who have lost everything, leave them without answers about where that money has gone, and then demand that the rest of the world take responsibility.
This level of disregard for accountability and for the dignity of the people whose suffering is used to raise money is morally indefensible.
#Gaza
#Hamas
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Please, leave this little girl alone. Stop casting her in propaganda videos over and over. She deserves a normal life;
this is child exploitation for propaganda purposes.
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I am a professor at the @UofCalifornia. I am appalled by the conduct of one of its Regents, Scott Galloway, appointed in August by Governor Newsom.
@profgalloway is one of only 26 voting Regents entrusted with governing a university system serving hundreds of thousands of students & employing tens of thousands of faculty & staff.
Twice, first on a live Pivot episode featuring Hillary Clinton & on Prof G with Fareed Zakaria, Galloway called Elon Musk a “traitor to the West.”
He invoked Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for espionage, and declared that Musk should be held to the same standards.
He didn’t explicitly demand Musk’s execution. But invoking the deaths of two convicted spies while calling an American citizen a traitor makes the implication hard to miss.
Musk has not been convicted of treason. Indeed, “treason against the West” isn’t even an actual crime.
Now imagine UCLA alumnus @BenShapiro, appointed a UC Regent, saying the same about George Soros.
Would the Governor defend his right to serve? Would Regent leadership shrug and call it provocative commentary? Or would there be demands for resignation?
But there’s something worse here than another of Scott’s trademark podcast rants.
He sits on the Regents’ Academic & Student Affairs Committee.
The committee’s charter says it oversees student conduct, faculty conduct, academic personnel, & campus climate, among other responsibilities.
This is not some honorary title.
The Board sets university policy, controls institutional budgets, & appoints senior university leadership.
You can unsubscribe from a podcast.
A student who finds Scott’s comments morally repugnant can’t unsub from the Regents.
UC bylaws require Regents to serve the public trust with a “high degree of ethics and candor,” including as private citizens.
Professors owe students intellectual integrity. Regents bear an even greater duty: they govern institutions that teach it.
Yet a Regent serving on the committee responsible for student & faculty conduct invokes executions while labeling a fellow citizen a traitor.
What does that say to our students?
That intellectual restraint is expected of the governed but optional for those who govern?
That standards of conduct depend on whether the target of your rhetoric is politically fashionable to despise, as long as the audience applauds?
This isn’t about defending @ElonMusk. He needs no defense from me.
Nor is it about silencing Scott. As if that were possible. He’s free to express his opinions, however reckless they may be.
But freedom of speech is not freedom from accountability, and holding a university office of public trust is not an entitlement.
There is an enormous moral chasm between exercising your right to speak recklessly and demonstrating the judgment required of one of the 26 people who govern our great public university.
The UC Board of Regents isnt a podcast sponsors can boycott. It’s a public trust.
One final irony. At @NYUStern, Galloway teaches Brand Strategy, including a session on crisis management.
His own prescription for leadership in a crisis is unequivocal: acknowledge the problem, have leadership take responsibility, and “overcorrect.”
He’s praised the departure of corporate leaders as evidence of effective crisis management.
Now Galloway himself sits on the UC Board of Regents.
Will he hold himself to the standards he teaches, or does accountability apply only to other people’s institutions?
Professor lecture thyself!
I believe Scott Galloway should seriously consider whether his continued service on the Board of Regents is consistent with the ethical standards and responsibilities of that office, or whether he should resign.
I welcome the opportunity to discuss these issues with Galloway directly, including what standards we should expect of those entrusted with governing the world’s best university.
Scott, you have an open invitation to join me on @Into_Impossible for an honest conversation.
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I get it if you don’t want to listen to republicans about @AbdulElSayed & what far left dems like him stand for. But please, for the love of God, listen to @VanJones68. And then buckle up, bc this is what you voted for.
Top Democrat strategist Van Jones,
One of Obama’s former aides during his presidency
Released this message to #Michigan on #AbdulElSayed
#Midterms
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Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education.
The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her.
MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school."
HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities."
MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one."
HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad."
MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better."
HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia."
MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—"
HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period."
MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue."
HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time."
MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW."
ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW."
MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one."
CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test.
And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500.
Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power.
A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws.
If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."
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Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley and his staff discovered a whopping $4.56 million "error" in the county budget and covered it up until the day after the Governor election. fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-c…
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. @RepRobertGarcia, I now have your full fundraising text. What the hell are you raising money for?
Your fundraising message tells people their donations will pay for the “resources and manpower” needed to investigate Trump.
Congressional investigations are already funded by taxpayers. Committee staff, subpoenas, hearings, investigative resources. All paid for.
So what exactly are your donors buying?
Political advertising? Campaign staff? Or are you suggesting that congressional investigations depend on people sending you money?
You’re promising to expose corruption while soliciting donations on the back of your congressional authority.
Tell the public where the money goes, Congressman. And quit confusing your campaign treasury with the United States Treasury.
.@RepRobertGarcia, what the hell is this?
A fundraising text using your name and photograph declares the Trump family guilty of bribery, extortion, and corruption, promises to make them pay, and then asks for money.
You’re boasting about becoming House Oversight Chairman while treating congressional investigations like verdicts you’ve already reached.
And now somebody is raising money off those threats?
Who authorized this message? Where does the money go?
Congressional oversight is supposed to follow the evidence, not announce guilt in advance and pass around a collection plate.
You want to investigate corruption? Start by explaining this fundraising appeal.
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Republicans Unsure Why Voters Are Mad At Them As They Literally Haven't Done Anything These Past Two Years buff.ly/6pFvj2e
