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The argument that Trump ‘abused his power’ by trying to use Ukraine aid as leverage, but that Biden has not just done this with Israel, is laughable on its face. My latest in @TimesofIsrael >>

A tale of two perfect phone calls

From the blog of James Spiro at The Times of Israel

blogs.timesofisrael.com

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Who thought it would be a good idea to invite @DonaldJTrumpJr on #TheView ? He is tearing them apart and it is glorious.

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@DiscussingFilm Hollywood literally using alternative endings to keep their IPs alive.

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It is important to remember that Meghan Markle is, first and foremost, an actress. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

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@elonmusk Twitter hasn't been this much fun since the Trump years.

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I recently finished ‘Revenge’ by Tom Bower. Seeing Meghan there with the princes after slandering British media and the Royal Family for her American fan base is an insult to our country. Fame doesn’t buy class. #GoHomeMeghanMarkle

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@elonmusk @Israel @taylorswift13 Yes! @Israel is cool, actually! You should visit us :)

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@SenSanders @IlhanMN It wasn’t her race and religion - it was what she was saying about other races and religions…

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@NoContextBrits A wank to remember

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@TwitterSupport Is TikTok being omitted from this list anything to do with Musk’s potential business dealings in China? Seems strange to omit one of the world’s most popular social media platforms

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It was a pleasure to meet @MiamiMayor @FrancisSuarez and hear more about the city’s tech initiatives. You’re welcome back to Tel Aviv any time!

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Miami Mayor: “Crypto was our slingshot against the Silicon Valley Goliath.” | #Ctech via @Calcalistech @JamesSpiro @FrancisSuarez @MiamiMayor #Crypto #MiamiTech

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@DiscussingFilm Netflix is becoming more like Interdimensional Cable as the years go on.

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@FilmUpdates I’ll be honest I was skeptical of his casting but now I know the role is in good hands. 🙏🏻

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@MerriamWebster Should have called it ‘Merriam-Webster Read™️’

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@simonateba @JoeBiden It was always illegal but the Biden team used it as a midterm message. Now they’ll use this as a campaign message in 2024. Contemptible.

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I’m genuinely interested to see how history, in a few decades, will treat Trump and reflect on the media coverage of him with hindsight.

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They lie about every single thing. Every. Single. Thing.

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@BethRigby The US president is missing dinner with NATO leaders because he is too tired from 4 days of work.

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@POTUS You seem to have it “Handled”! 😁

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It is so clear that @Oprah ’s reputation around the world completely shattered since her #HarryandMeghan interview. She was too agreeable and all their lies have since been revealed. Was it worth it to please her new Montecito neighbours?

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@JamesClayton5 Bad day to be a tech journalist called James on this platform 😬

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Larry David wears a MAGA hat in California.

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I have written the following letter to @British_Airways --- Hi there, I am writing to you in regards to the @Telegraph story from yesterday revealing that British Airways has paused plans to stream a Jewish sitcom [Hapless] on its flights, claiming alleged concerns it could…

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@AllosaurusJP "When a man dresses like that, people assume he's..." "British?" "Well, yeah."

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@Channel4News Why delete your first post?

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@JustStop_Oil @George_Osborne You’re terrible and no one likes you.

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@ClownWorld_ I don’t get it? This is just two photos of David Beckham

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@HillaryClinton You cheated and still lost!

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You know who else was arrested? Mandela and Jesus. #TrumpArraignment #TrumpIndicment

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@ClownWorld_ All they do is eat.

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@greg_price11 Don’t forget 2016 when celebrities encouraged an insurrection:

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FLASHBACK TO 2016: Celebrities, on video, asking the electoral college to overturn the election of Donald Trump by voting for someone else other than the State Electors. #TrumpIndictment

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@axios Why? Did some global, economy-shattering event happen in March 2020?

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@BethRigby “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too… but they are still lying.”

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@sama Thanks for saying this. Antisemitism is on both the right and the left. The difference was that the right was always expected to condemn the extreme of its side, and the left never had to do that. Now it is institutionalised and we are seeing it all play out. It is horrid.

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@libsoftiktok It really amazing how this has tried to be memory-holed by the media.

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@billmaher Unpopular opinion, but if shows/employers can navigate a strike to successfully put as many people back to work as possible, then it should. This decision will help put food on the table for those who aren’t writers but still impacted by their decision to strike.

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@MerriamWebster That’s a fare concern.

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@simonateba @jrpsaki @MSNBC It’s so wild how in America a president’s press secretary can become a news anchor and openly advocate for their former boss and no one bats an eye.

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@OliLondonTV Coming out at your grandfather’s funeral is such main character energy 🤦🏻‍♂️

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@SoVeryBritish Singing in the drizzle.

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Israel was facing its Brexit. It got its 9/11. The worst thing Hamas could have done was attack Israel the way it did. Not because it will weaken the country, but because it will strengthen it. My latest for @TimesofIsrael >

Israel was facing its Brexit. It got its 9/11

From the blog of James Spiro at The Times of Israel

blogs.timesofisrael.com

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Boris and Truss have both shown that their governments can be run by Twitter tantrums and a hostile media. Constant policy U-Turns as they crave popularity and affirmation. Pathetic.

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@netflix Bojack Horseman touched on real emotions I often forgot I was watching a horse and other creatures.

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@JoeBiden Where’s Hunter and your new grand child?

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@DiscussingFilm Also - I’ll settle for sequels every 5 years if it means they’re, you know, actually good.

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Throwback to 2014 when The Atlantic explained how AP and Hamas colluded in their coverage of Israel from Gaza.

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@elonmusk Will you bring back other accounts, like the one tracking the Maxwell trial or Pelosi's stock movements? Those seemed pretty important for public interest!

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@DiscussingFilm Ryan Gosling understood the assignment for marketing this movie, that’s for sure.

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The rules are simple: - Anything good under Trump: because of Obama. - Anything bad under Trump: because of Trump. - Anything good under Biden: because of Biden. - Anything bad under Biden: because of Trump.

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@nypost 🤦🏻‍♂️

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@POTUS Will it take you to finally visit the southern border?

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@POTUS More people died of Covid under your administration than the last guy. More vaccinated people are dying than the unvaccinated. What makes next year any different and what tangible things will you do?

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@RobertMSterling This was a very articulate post that has perfectly captured what so many of my friends and family have been discussing here in Israel as we see how the world has reacted on social media. Cheers

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@DiscussingFilm I've never loved these characters much but this animation style reminds me of Into The Spiderverse and that movie was fantastic.

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@HillaryClinton @LinaHidalgoTX @DavidPepper Read the room, Hillary.

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@DiscussingFilm You left out the most iconic image!

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@POTUS This is such a dishonest graph and your team of interns know it.

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@SkyNews ‘Anti-Israel protestors’? Really? The pilot warned them not to leave and they’re demanding to check passports. You are unreal.

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FACTS: Just booked tickets with my wife to see @BenShapiro talk in Tel Aviv next month. FEELINGS: Excited.

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No book in recent years has boiled my blood more than this one. Impeccable reporting from @MZHemingway exploring the delicate American democratic system.

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Looking forward to my next read, by @MZHemingway . #Rigged

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Finally saw #WhatIsAWoman by @MattWalshBlog on @realDailyWire . It is a strong and lonely voice in a sea of American Madness. Everyone should watch it and examine what is happening in the western world today.

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@CultureCrave Harrison Ford has never been part of a large film franchise? Owned by Disney? Huh.

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@LondonLive @SadiqKhan Of course it will be disproportionate. Israelis have no intention of raping, kidnapping, and decapitating children. The IDF has warned Gazans about an attack - but Hamas has told them to ignore that. So yes, it will not be the same.

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The rules are simple: - Anything good under Trump: because of Obama. - Anything bad under Trump: because of Trump. - Anything good under Biden: because of Biden. - Anything bad under Biden: because of Trump.

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@EylonALevy Impressive from @KayBurley . First she breaks lockdown rules, then calls a male politician fat, and now accuses Israel of valuing the life of a Palestinian at one third that of an Israeli.

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@JoeBiden Didn’t Hunter lie to obtain a gun illegally? What happened there?

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@Reuters I was across the road when this happened. What a gross mischaracterisation of what happened there - which was a terrorist attack in which 2 innocent Israelis were killed. Shame on you for this framing.

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@POTUS Your son refuses to acknowledge his own child. You refuse to acknowledge your granddaughter. Please don’t lecture us on what it means to be fathers.

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@JesseKellyDC Students are going to pay thousands of dollars to listen to someone who couldn’t get an audience for free

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Two things can be true: - It is important for the princes to publicly reconcile for the good of the country with their wives alongside them. - It is painful to see after one of those wives slandered the RF and acted solely for personal financial gain from it.

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Haters gonna hate, but Mike is spot on here. I was in Israel for 2020. It was about the expansion of peace, not the reduction of war. That’s all changed today.

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During the 2020 debates, Hamas didn’t even come up. Islamic terrorism wasn’t even worth discussing. Trump had ended it.

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Everyone balking about ‘proportionality’ over the last month has been silent over the fact that the hostage release is favoured to the Palestinians by 3:1. Suddenly it doesn’t seem to matter so much.

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@VivekGRamaswamy “Abolish the FBI, The Department of Education, and Bedtime!”

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@RNCResearch It seems that “not a joke” is his tell. 👀

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Absolutely disgusting and unforgivable. How shameful for the UK and insulting for the veterans. I do not see my hometown in what I see in London today.

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In London, veterans holding the British flag are cautioned by Police. We are lost.

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@SkyNews The multiverse trend has come to British politics

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Israel showed the world what Hamas did using X, and people still didn’t believe it. Jews wouldn’t have stood a chance with pre-Musk Twitter.

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X under Elon is the only reason people finally learned what Hamas was. SJWs within Twitter would have banned those videos to cover up for Hamas BLM. Which is why it’s both insulting and counter productive for people to attack Elon re: Starlink.

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@POTUS The more you say things like this, the more it sounds like you don't ever want these problems to go away so they can remain an excuse. It is... not comforting.

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@hollywoodhandle Good joke for Deadpool 3

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@Phil_Lewis_ @yashar This is why we must continue to support local news.

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@DiscussingFilm WB should do this for Batgirl, too. 🙏🏻

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“The Queen was the very best of British, but so was The Queue.”

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*NEW COLUMN* It felt like Britain was turning (literally!) to s**t – then our greatest Queen died and we remembered what made Britain great.

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@metpoliceuk The one arrest at the Israel rally was from an antisemite driving through the vigil. Imagine that.

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@TheEllenShow Imagine spending a quarantine in an entire private gym (which are closed for most of us) and watching yourself on television. All the while, thinking you're relating to us normal folk.

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@AP I’ve started to notice whenever it’s a Republican in a scandal, the party is always in the headline. When it’s a Democrat, it’s usually omitted entirely.

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@kyletalk @THE_DKCash @thejstoobs Or at least ‘Now You See Me, Too’

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@10DowningStreet @SuellaBraverman @ukhomeoffice She had resigned because of a security issue. If she had said it was because of Truss it would have been fine - but now this is totally irresponsible and dishonest.

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@jaketapper Uh huh.

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@DiscussingFilm Just finished my 4th watch ahead of this. Can’t wait!

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@visegrad24 The media has reliably informed me that this is just an anti-Israel protest.

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@JesseKellyDC This made me choke.

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@kirawontmiss Perhaps it didn’t implode the moment it went offline. One possibility is that they were lost for hours before the moment of implosion. Terrible.

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@AP Openly celebrating abortion and the murder of children before they're born is so offensive and repulsive.

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@ABC I’m happy I finally signed up to be a @CommunityNotes contributor from Israel to clarify this misleading post!

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@UN_HRC @UN Any word on the victims of Israel? The young girls raped? The Holocaust survivors kidnapped? The young men murdered? You are not serious people.

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@TheCriticalDri2 That’s enough. Go away now.

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@bariweiss “For the past few days, conservative media—and social media—has thought this was the biggest story in the world. The legacy press—and those Americans who rely on it—barely seems to know it exists.” 💯 Half my friends have no idea this is happening.

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@Channel4News The strangest thing about this is that she finishes the interview, speaks off the record (it’s not) and then slips back into the interview!

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I've been enjoying my first listen to the @lexfridman Podcast, starting with @benshapiro . The difference in their voices, both in tone and speed, makes for some interesting listening! Really cool show - Lex is as great a listener as Ben is speaker.

#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War

Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. Ben Shapiro is a conservative political commentator, host of The Ben Shapiro Show, co-founder of The Daily Wire, and author of The Author...

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@JoeConchaTV Rip Tulsi on your impending suicide.

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