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Reporter. Open source investigations of human rights abuses and violence against protesters @ForensicArchi . Over 3,000 bylines @nytimes @theintercept @guardian

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@RobertMackey

Robert Mackey

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When you hear "Police Say" in a news report, be aware the reporter means they have no idea if what comes next is true or not. I worked with survivors of a deadly attack on antifascists in Portland and @ForensicArchi to show how the police misled the public

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Robert Mackey

1 year

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

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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

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This tweet was just edited to remove video @Israel presented as evidence that Gaza hospital was struck in an outgoing barrage fired by militants — likely because NYT reporter @AricToler had already noted the clip was recorded about 8pm local time, 40 minutes after hospital strike

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Israel ישראל 🇮🇱

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Breaking: IDF Spokesperson From the analysis of the operational systems of the IDF, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed through the vicinity of the hospital when it was hit. According to intelligence information, from several sources we have,…

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It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor @CarolineFohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, "What are you doing?" That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

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Alexandra Halaby🇵🇸

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A CNN crew witnessed at least two professors detained by Atlanta police, including @EmoryUniversity economics professor Caroline Fohlin and Noëlle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department. #FreePalestine

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It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor @CarolineFohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, "What are you doing?" That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

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A CNN crew witnessed at least two professors detained by Atlanta police, including @EmoryUniversity economics professor Caroline Fohlin and Noëlle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department. #FreePalestine

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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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The New York Times

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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.

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Here's video of @GovLarryHogan 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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Laura Rozen

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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?

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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.

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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.

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An appalling Republican ad during the Democratic debate attacked @AOC 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

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In Israel, Biden invokes the disastrous US decision to invade Iraq after 9/11. One of loudest cheerleaders for the US attack on Iraq was Netanyahu, who offered a "guarantee" in 2002 an invasion would pacify the region and mocked people who predicted a group like ISIS would emerge

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ABC News Politics

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Pres. Biden cautions Israel to not be "consumed" by rage following Hamas attack. "After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States. While we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes."

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@Mel1612ancholia Talking to the police while an officer is kneeling on the head of a protester is not interfering, it is potentially preventing a murder.

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🧵1. I can report that 3 Doctors Without Borders/MSF staff currently at Shifa Hospital said today they've never seen the woman in this apparently fake video which was viewed +12 million times before being deleted from an Israeli gov't account. This closely echoes a 2011 hoax ...

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אדי כהן Edy Cohen

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עדותה המצמררת של אחות מבית חולים שיפא. "אנשי חמאס השטלתו על בית החולים הם גונבים את הדלק ואת התרופות". את הסרטון הזה צריך להפיץ לכל העולם בכל השפות. @DrEliDavid @elicoh1 @IsraelMFA

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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.

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Thousands of protesters at JFK, chanting "Let them in!" and "No hate no fear refugees are welcome here!" #MuslimBan

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Caroline Fohlin, the Emory professor of economics seen on video being thrown to the ground and handcuffed by an Emory police officer for expressing concern at the violent arrest of a protester on campus, was jailed for 11 hours and charged with... Battery Against Police Officer

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Robert Mackey

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It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor @CarolineFohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, "What are you doing?" That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

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Per @josephmenn Elon Musk ordered Twitter to ban antifascist researcher Chad Loder 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

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Robert Mackey

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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

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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.

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Why It Matters to Say Qassim Suleimani Was Assassinated

Why is the media hounding Democrats who accurately call the killing of a general from a nation the United States has not declared war on an assassination?

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DeKalb, Georgia court records show Fohlin, the Emory professor seen on video being thrown to the ground and handcuffed by an Emory police officer for expressing concern at the violent arrest of a protester, was jailed for 11 hours and charged with "Battery Against Police Officer"

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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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Timothy Burke

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What an unreal image.

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1. This Israeli spokesman's statement —that some of the bodies of those killed on Oct 7 were Hamas fighters initially mistaken for Israelis because they were so badly burned— points to the need for transparent, reliable reporting on how the massacre unfolded, from start to finish

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Mark Regev says the death toll of 1400 was reduced to 1200 because around 200 turned out to be badly burned Hamas fighters. People discussing how so many were burned and with what weapons.

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Editors of @SPIEGEL_English not fucking around

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"Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid," in what WCK calls "a targeted attack by the IDF."

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World Central Kitchen

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World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. Read our full statement on the loss of our team members here:

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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

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Ivanka Trump Opens U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem During Israeli Massacre of Palestinians in Gaza

Ivanka Trump welcomed Israeli dignitaries to the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, while Israel's armed forces killed dozens of Palestinian protesters.

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Rubio seems to think that something that he can’t do is actually impossible - wait till he finds out that @PreetBharara ’s son can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 11 seconds

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Ed O'Keefe

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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.”

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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)

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@LandsbergLaw @CarolineFohlin No and neither do you because that did not happen. Here is a larger copy of the video — there is no evidence of her touching anyone:

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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:

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Aaron Rupar

3 years

Trump's rally in Iowa winds down with a bonkers rant about critical race theory

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Robert Mackey

4 years

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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Netanyahu's ethnic nationalism, and his belief that military attacks on rival populations are not just permissible but good, came through clearly in his 2002 testimony urging the US to invade Iraq. He presents himself as an authority on the region but is consistently this wrong.

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Scott Long

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In the 70s, historian Max Hastings interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu extensively, after the the Netanyahu family recruited him to write an official biography of Bibi's brother Yoni. Here Hastings, in his memoirs, recalls Bibi's racism and enthusiasm for total ethnic cleansing:

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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. @Twitter needs to start removing misinformation from the network.

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General Strike 🍀(Terrence Daniels)

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Aerial view of today's Anti-Trump protest London. Thousands of Protesters March down the Streets Of London against Trump's policies & recent Visit. I'm guessing this wasn't the Parade Trump was hoping for lol

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Larger video:

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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.

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Unmasked in Iowa

Participants in a roundtable with Vice President Mike Pence were asked to remove their masks before he arrived at the event in Iowa on Friday, May 8, 2020 at...

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Gabbard’s staff mistakenly repeats the factual error The Times already corrected last month: Clinton did not say Russia was grooming Gabbard to run as a third party candidate, she said the Republicans were doing that

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David Weigel

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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."

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I wasn't quick enough but @AliAbunimah made this screenshot of the unedited tweet from @Israel — before the debunked video was removed

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As I reported last year, the day Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by an Israeli soldier official Israeli accounts shared this video to falsely claim this militant shot her. Later that day, another video released by the IDF accidentally proved that was untrue:

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Video Shared by Israel Shows Palestinian Gunman Was Not Firing at Journalist Killed During Israeli...

Israel launched a social media campaign to deflect blame for the killing of renowned journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The effort quickly unraveled.

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Israel Foreign Ministry

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This morning, in Jenin, terrorists heard saying: "They've hit one, they've hit a soldier, he's laying on the ground" But no IDF soldier was injured in Jenin Palestinian terrorists, firing indiscriminately, are likely to have hit Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqla

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Robert Mackey

6 years

Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian Christian, not buying Mike Pence argument Jerusalem belongs to Israel because Bible

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7 years

I just recreated what Trump sees on Twitter by making a list of the 40 accounts he follows and I feel dumber already

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5 years

This image of @AOC comforting a detained woman whose daughters were taken from her at the border, which another member of Congress @JoaquinCastrotx had to smuggle a camera in to take, is a glimpse of what the border agency doesn't want to the public to see

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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

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Mehmet Oz Campaign Misled Reporters About His Emotional Encounter With a Black Voter

A Philadelphia woman shared her real grief about gun violence with Oz, but reporters were kept in the dark about the fact that she was a paid campaign aide.

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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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Aaron Rupar

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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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What are the odds the guy standing right behind Trump with a stethoscope perched on his shoulder is really a doctor?

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It was initially hard to find this record because DeKalb spelled Fohlin's name wrong.

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Robert Mackey

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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

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Something he could and should have told the American people on the night of Jan. 6 — when the electoral count resumed and there was still time to impeach Trump and bar him from office for life

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Acyn

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Pence: Let’s be clear on this point. It wasn't that they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes which would have resulted in the issue of being turned over to the house of representatives

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Twitter Allows Russian Officials to Share Antisemitic Cartoon of Zelenskyy

Elon Musk’s Twitter permitted a Russian Embassy account to post a cartoon echoing Nazi propaganda in its depiction of Ukraine's Jewish president, Zelenskyy.

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DeKalb, Georgia court records show Fohlin, the Emory professor seen on video being thrown to the ground and handcuffed by an Emory police officer for expressing concern at the violent arrest of a protester, was jailed for 11 hours and charged with "Battery Against Police Officer"

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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."

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@AliAbunimah @Israel Israel's ambassador to the US @AmbHerzog was also forced to edit his tweet about the hospital bombing to delete the same debunked video evidence. Is such sloppily cobbled together "evidence," apparently scraped from Twitter in a hurry, really all "IDF Intelligence" has to go on?

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A Right-Wing Brawler Asked a Court to Protect Him From an Antifascist's Tweets

Adam Kiefer got a restraining order against an antifascist researcher who revealed that he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6. It might have been a costly mistake.

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@GleamingRazor 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

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Updated: Never missing an opportunity to embarrass himself, @realDonaldTrump 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.

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@SizeMichael @mr_gh0stly 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.

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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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Aaron Rupar

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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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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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Nedad Memić

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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 .

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@nycsouthpaw @justinsink @POTUS Worth noting this is based on a pool report from Rob Crilly, a reporter for the ultra right-wing, partisan British tabloid The Daily Mail, who admits that he didn't actually hear what Biden said, but was given this quote by "lip readers"

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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.

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Zelenskyy Posts Defiant Videos From the Streets of Kyiv as Putin's Forces Close In

By looking directly into his phone, hitting record and speaking the truth, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was able to counter the lies about his country told by Vladimir Putin.

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euronews

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government leaders vow to stay and defend Kyiv as Russia continues to pound Ukraine with airstrikes. #UkraineRussia

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This is the same Ron Dermer who sat behind Netanyahu in 2002 when he offered Congress a "guarantee" that invading Iraq would have "enormous positive reverberations for the region" and removing Saddam would not create a vacuum Islamist militants would fill

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Ron Dermer - רון דרמר

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We must dismantle the terror army of Hamas in Gaza, which will not only be a victory for Israel, but also for the US. The US will show all of its allies that it sticks with them even when it’s tough, and it will project American power across the region. My podcast with…

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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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Jason Leopold

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@documentcloud 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"

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A perfect example of how Fox brainwashes its viewers: by sharing some real information (a man did just paint a mural of Trump's mugshot in Atlanta) but concealing important facts (the completed mural shows Trump saying: "M.A.G.A My Ass Got Arrested")

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Watters: The mugshot is up on the side of buildings in the inner city.

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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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Reecie @BlackWomenViews

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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.

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In a newsletter last week, Chad Loder revealed evidence that Chaya Raichik aka @libsoftiktok took part in the Capitol riot

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Chaya Raichik appears to have trespassed at the Capitol

Newly-released analysis of footage appears to show Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the LibsOfTikTok account, trespassing on restricted grounds of the U.S....

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Protest outside JFK Terminal 4 now stretches along most of road, swells opposite East exit and goes up 4 floors of parking lot. #MuslimBan

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Unsolicited advice to female candidates from male pundits 2016: smile more 2020: smile less

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Media Matters

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Fox's Geraldo Rivera: "The only real mistake Kamala Harris made tonight was the over-smirking, over-smiling"

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Robert Mackey

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If the @IDF really wants to be transparent, as their commander claims, they can just release their video of their deadly attack right now

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“I want to be very clear—the strike was not carried out with the intention of harming WCK aid workers. It was a mistake that followed a misidentification—at night during a war in very complex conditions. It shouldn’t have happened.” Watch the full statement by IDF Chief of the…

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Robert Mackey

2 years

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

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Robert Mackey

6 years

Israel has invented a new crime: Facebooking while Palestinian

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@AliAbunimah @Israel If you click on the edit symbol you can still see the original tweet from @Israel — before it was edited to remove the debunked video of a rocket fired 40 minutes after the hospital was struck. Here's a screenshot — showing a 19:59 timestamp on the livestream of Gaza City:

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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"

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Rittenhouse Trial Judge Blocks Prosecutor From Asking If Far-Right Videographer Is Biased

A far-right political commentator was a witness in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial. Why were questions about his political views shut down by the judge?

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Brendan Gutenschwager

3 years

“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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Robert Mackey

5 years

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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The Washington Post

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8 years

Russian government hackers penetrated DNC database, stole opposition research on Donald Trump

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Robert Mackey

5 years

At his rally in Queens, a powerful moment as @berniesanders 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

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Robert Mackey

2 years

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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Aaron Rupar

2 years

Trump brags that his speech along the National Mall outdrew (or so he says) MLK's "I have a dream" speech

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Robert Mackey

1 year

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."

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2 years

Updated: A judge dismissed Capitol rioter Adam Kiefer's request to bar antifascist researcher @chadloder 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

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Obviously Netanyahu's 2002 prediction that invading Iraq would be a huge success was spectacularly wrong, but what's important is that he makes this same claim now to justify Israel's mass murder in Gaza — that resistance to occupation can be crushed through military force

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Robert Mackey

5 years

"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."

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Robert Mackey

4 years

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.

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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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Robert Mackey

5 years

As @AshaRangappa_ 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

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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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Rudy W. Giuliani

5 years

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.

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Robert Mackey

5 years

@clekstro @theintercept @AOC No, their radical, genocidal ideology was formed during years of bombing, and it was not democratic socialism.

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5 months

This suggests the sponsors of the Hannah Arendt Prize would have refused to give it to Hannah Arendt in 1948 when she denounced what is now Israel's ruling party as "closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties"

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Naomi Klein

5 months

At this rate, Germany is going to run out of Jewish intellectuals to ban. "Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been canceled because of their essay on Gaza."

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Robert Mackey

2 years

Survivors of deadly Portland attack were victimized twice: first by the gunman, then by the police cites @dontgetkettled @Mor_Rioghain13 @JuniperLSimonis @ZakirSpeaks @maxoregonian @_jlevinson @shanedkavanaugh @MrOlmos @Johnnthelefty @chadloder @IwriteOK

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Robert Mackey

9 months

@nycsouthpaw @justinsink @POTUS Including partisan outlets in the pool and relaying what they report as fact is asking for trouble, but stripping out the context here that the reporter admits that he did not hear what Biden said but relied on "lip readers" for the quote seems like grounds to retract this tweet

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Robert Mackey

5 years

Before the Israeli prime minister's office tried to make it disappear down the memory hole, my colleague @TravisMannon grabbed the original video of @netanyahu saying that the goal of the #WarsawSummit was indeed promoting "war with Iran"

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Robert Mackey

1 year

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 @SeditionHunters effort in the US

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Larissa Avelar

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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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Robert Mackey

1 year

@kevankharris 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.

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Robert Mackey

1 year

Quote is from this text exchange, revealed in discovery during lawsuit filed by Twitter to compel Musk to complete purchase he agreed to

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Robert Mackey

3 years

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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Tom Winter

3 years

NBC News Decision Desk director John Lapinski says it may not be possible to call the Georgia presidential race for "weeks".

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Robert Mackey

3 years

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

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Robert Mackey

3 years

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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The Recount

3 years

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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Robert Mackey

8 years

Trump has boasted of having female construction manager on Trump Tower - this is her comment today:

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Robert Mackey

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2. In 2011, the Israeli gov't shared a YouTube video by a man who claimed to be an Israeli gay rights activist who said he was discriminated against by Gaza flotilla organizers. The video was exposed as a hoax and @jonronson set out to find the actor in it

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Robert Mackey

5 years

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:

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8 years

Updated my post on #KhizrKhan to show disgraceful lengths @FoxNews went to to avoid showing their viewers his speech

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Khizr Khan, Father of American Muslim Soldier Killed in Iraq, Shames Donald Trump

The most powerful speech on Hillary Clinton's behalf on Thursday night came from the father of an American Muslim soldier who was killed in the Iraq War.

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Robert Mackey

1 year

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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Robert Mackey

2 years

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

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Robert Mackey

4 years

This makes more sense when you realize that "a lot of people" means "a lot of people on Fox News"

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Aaron Rupar

4 years

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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White House retracts error-riddled video claiming piles of bricks prove Antifa plot cites @BenDoBrown @Shayan86 @MarkTreyger718 @CraigSilverman @annamerlan @reubengotsoul @KRHogan_NTD @JennieRoberson

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Robert Mackey

6 years

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

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Robert Mackey

3 years

This is where the tear gas was fired so Trump could hold up the bible outside that church

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philip lewis

3 years

The DJ just turned on FDT

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