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Andrew Moore retweeted
"What’s shocking isn’t Haley Stevens’ decision to wash her hands of El-Sayed and his rancid campaign, but that so few other Democrats have had the moral courage to emulate her. “Country over Party,” apparently, only goes one way" thefp.com/p/haley-stevens-ab…
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Leftist Abdul supporter attacks @teameffujoe and @basedinmalibu then threatens to kill everyone after a table debate…
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Andrew Moore retweeted
Haley Stevens was going to do a Democratic unity rally with Abdul El-Sayed and James Clyburn where she was going to encourage her supporters, many of whom have serious reservations about El-Sayed, to vote for him. This was very important for El-Sayed, because Stevens is popular among Jewish and black Michigan Democrats and Clyburn is an icon among black voters nationwide. El-Sayed has weakness with both of these groups and needs to shore them up going into election day. Stevens's condition was that he make an unambiguous, unqualified condemnation of the antisemitic rhetoric his friends, supporters and surrogates have been using, including in ads run in Michigan. El-Sayed refused to do this, and instead asked Stevens not to appear at the event. At that point, Stevens realized that he was not interested in unity with her or her supporters and that she could no longer support him for Senate. El-Sayed is an antisemite. He is friends with antisemites Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur. He will not condemn them. He will not condemn the awful things they say. He has had multiple opportunities to condemn their hateful rhetoric, and he always says: "He is not part of a campaign, nobody speaks for me but me, and I'm not here to talk about that." That's not good enough. If that is how a Republican talked about Nick Fuentes or Richard Spencer, it would be the biggest controversy in the race. The fact that so many Democrats are willing to tolerate this from Abdul El-Sayed is an indictment of the entire party. There is no coalition that can include both the Jewish Democratic members of Temple Israel and supporters of the Hezbollah terrorist who tried to murder their preschool children. Abdul El-Sayed made a decision about who he wanted in his tent. Haley Stevens was late to realize it, but it is admirable that she finally decided to be an upstander instead of a bystander. No Nazis in the US Senate.
Genuinely struggling even to construct a theory of mind for this beyond "Abdul told me not to come to his campaign event so fuck him." None of the Hasan Piker stuff is even remotely new!
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Andrew Moore retweeted
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns a Russian victory in Ukraine could shatter global alliances, reshape the world economy, and force nations to question whether they can still rely on America. 🇺🇸 Asked what a Russian victory in Ukraine would mean for the global economy, Dimon responded: “It could be a potential disaster. This is the first war in Europe where a free, democratic nation was invaded by 200,000 or 300,000 Russian soldiers under the threat of nuclear blackmail. We’ve never had nuclear blackmail before. You’re also teaching the whole world that maybe having nuclear weapons is a pretty good thing, because people will be afraid of you, and you can abuse a neighbor if you feel like it. Russia would be on the border of NATO. Obviously, NATO is rearming right now. But the other thing is, it’s affecting all alliances, military alliances and global economic alliances. And the nexus of Iran, North Korea, and China makes it very hard, in my view, for the Chinese-American relationship. China says they’re neutral, but they’re helping. We are clearly not neutral. If Russia wins, you might see a lot of people deciding: Will America stand up for Europe? Can you rely on them? And if you can’t rely on them, what are you going to do? That includes economically. Every nation is going to say, what makes me secure? Energy, food, all the things I need. I’m worried that if Russia wins, you could see the world enter a little bit of chaos as people realign alliances and economic relationships.”
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Four women attacked in two days. The suspect arrested TWICE—and walks free BOTH times. This is why violence against women has surged under Letitia James. She helped write the bail laws that have created a revolving door of criminality. She stands by silently as district attorneys downgrade charges in domestic violence cases. I will be a different kind of Attorney General — one who helps fix the bail laws, one who demands that cases be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and steps in when they are not, one who stops violence before it starts so that innocent people don’t get hurt. Vote for change. Vote for a safer New York. Go vote now.
NYC madman arrested twice for attacking 4 women over 2-day period - walks free both times: 'Most insane story ever' trib.al/mw3UXx6
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Andrew Moore retweeted
ICYMI Mayor Johnson's 2027 budget includes DOUBLING City sales tax on beer, wine, and spirits you buy at grocery & liquor stores! That's right, he wants a 13.5% sales tax on the adult beverages you buy to enjoy at home! Tell City Hall no new "sin" taxes! spiritsunited.org/chicago-ta…
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Typically pathetic @cta doesn't post that the green line isn't running until you've already paid and gotten to the platform. @ctaaction #ctafails
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Chicago Public Schools just announced record graduation rates. And @GovPritzker recently bragged about Illinois' education "results". Neither claim is honest. The graphic below does a better job at telling the truth about how the education system is failing, especially at CPS. 2024 vs. 2018. Massively more spending. Most kids can't read and it's worsening. Doesn't matter. Move the kids along. Graduate them. Rinse, repeat as the district shrinks in enrollment. It's why Illinois urgently needs Universal School Choice, among a host of other public school reforms. #twill #schoolchoice @GlennYoungkin @ilgop @illinoisdems
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.@F1, I have no idea who that woman was, but she was awful and terribly annoying.
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A Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan just argued that Americans should have the right to own muskets. Because that's what the Founders had. And the audience laughed. But here's what makes this interesting. The Supreme Court already rejected that argument in 2008. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court said the Second Amendment isn't limited to weapons that existed in the 18th century. And here's the irony. He made this argument into a wireless microphone. While being recorded on a smartphone. For people to watch on the internet. None of which existed in 1791. Yet nobody thinks the First Amendment only protects speech written with a quill pen. So why would the Second Amendment stop at muskets? Here's my question: If constitutional rights only protected technology available when they were written, would that logic apply to free speech and privacy too? Or should the Second Amendment be treated differently? Tell me why.
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Andrew Moore retweeted
Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in January 1964, and poverty promptly won. The Office of Economic Opportunity launched that same year, spending $800 million in its first year alone. By 1980, the federal government had spent over $3 trillion (in today's dollars) across the constellation of Great Society programs: Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies, community action agencies, the whole apparatus. The poverty rate in 1964 sat at 19 percent. By 1973, it had fallen to 11 percent. Impressive, until you notice it was already falling at precisely that rate throughout the 1950s, before Johnson spent a single dollar. The market was already doing the job. What Johnson created was a dependency infrastructure. The Aid to Families with Dependent Children program paid higher benefits when no father lived in the household, which subsidized his departure. Between 1965 and 1980, out-of-wedlock births among black Americans climbed from 25 percent to 56 percent. Charles Murray documented the numbers exhaustively in "Losing Ground" (1984), and the left never refuted the math; instead, they attacked Murray personally. Bureaucracies administer poverty rather than eliminate it. Every dollar Washington sends to a poor family in Chicago passes through a federal agency, a state agency, a county office, and a caseworker's desk first. The machinery consumes a stunning share before anything reaches you. Capital formation, voluntary exchange, and sound money pulled more people out of destitution in the 19th century than every federal program combined has since Johnson's cameras rolled in the Rose Garden.
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Well, @Microsoft, now that you have decided to auto-sync my movie collection to OneDrive and overfilled my OneDrive, how do I remove those files only from OneDrive with risk that you delete them everywhere?
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🚨DataRepublican @DataRepublican just confirmed the quiet part out loud: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker is explicitly named in the videos as one of only two governors willing to green-light the “illegitimacy memo”—a playbook for declaring a duly elected President illegitimate after the midterms so Democrat governors can claim they are the only legitimate U.S. authority. This isn’t abstract “resistance.” NSL4A (the retired military and national security officials operationalizing the plan) and Pritzker’s own Governors Safeguarding Democracy group have been working the same sequence of redlines, including treating lawful federal pushback against coordinated protests as proof of illegitimacy. Add the funding layer—his sister’s role in the Democracy Funders Network—and the coordination stops looking coincidental. Imported regime-change tactics, billionaire governors, and ex-military networks drafting the conditions under which states nullify federal authority: that is the actual document trail. DataRepublican has the receipts.🔥
Yes, he is. 1. The videos explicitly name the Illinois governor as one of the two that were willing to buy into the illegitimacy memo. 2. He’s co-chair of Governors Safeguarding Democracy which apparently liked the memo and presentation. 3. I believe Democracy Funders Network is involved in a lot of the funding and his sister chairs that.
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*Islamic Jihad, a front for Hezbollah
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Andrew Moore retweeted
City Colleges of Chicago faculty and staff voted 96% to authorize a strike and could walk out Monday. Contracts expired in July. After months of talks, they’re still fighting over wages, healthcare, AI rules, and free developmental classes while students wait to see if classes even happen. Brandon Johnson’s mayor-appointed board has had months and still no deal. Same pattern as the rest of his education fights. Big votes, stalled talks, then classes get disrupted. Community colleges are supposed to stay open and affordable. Instead, students and taxpayers get another round of leverage through shutdown threats right as the week starts. Nothing says “accessible education” like shutting it down for the students who rely on it most. H/T @nbcchicago
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🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!! An Atlanta judge let a man WALK OUT OF JAIL EARLY for BEATING a woman's face so badly, he SHATTERED HER ORBITAL BONE on a public train... ...TWO MONTHS AFTER HIS RELEASE, HE ST*BS A WOMAN TO DE*TH ON WALKING PATH!!! HE GOES ON TO ASSAULT A POSTAL WORKER WITH A ROCK BEFORE HE IS CAUGHT BY POLICE... In January, Jahmare Brown got on top of and beat a female attorney as she stepped off a MARTA train to go to work in Atlanta... he broke her NOSE and then shattered her ORBITAL BONE. She needed 25 STITCHES. ...MARTA Police charged it as a MISDEMEANOR!!! The incident report DIDN'T EVEN MENTION THE BROKEN BONES. Brown was sentenced to 120 days... but he was released early, and only served 60. He was out in MARCH!!!!! Two months later, he beat a postal worker with a ROCK and st*bbed Alyssa Paige to de*th at noon on the Atlanta Beltline. If Brown had served the full 120 days the court gave him, he would have STILL BEEN IN JAIL the day he k*lled her. Alyssa Paige would be alive. STOP. LETTING. VIOLENT. OFFENDERS. OUT. OF. PRISON!!!!!!!!!! WE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Andrew Moore retweeted
Brûler un pays en brandissant le drapeau d'un autre pays devrait être considéré comme une déclaration de guerre
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You can tell that you're going to get hosed at the O'Hare Hub 51 when @LettuceEats doesn't put prices on the menu.
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Ayer Francia vivió uno de sus días más violentos en décadas. Unas 550.000 personas salieron a la calle contra el alto coste de la vida, la policía detuvo a más de 1.200, hubo 150 agentes heridos y el ayuntamiento de Limoges, con más de 140 años de historia, quedó casi destruido por el fuego. La explicación que más se escucha es la de siempre: la culpa es de la «austeridad» y del «neoliberalismo». Luis Garicano publicó esta semana los números que desmontan ese cuento. En Francia viven del Estado 30 millones de adultos, entre pensionistas, empleados públicos y perceptores de ayudas, frente a 21 millones que trabajan en el sector privado. El gasto público es el 57% del PIB y el país no cierra un presupuesto equilibrado desde 1974. ¿Dónde está la austeridad? España va por el mismo camino. Según Garicano, desde 2024 cobran del Estado 18,2 millones de personas, más que los 17,9 millones que trabajan en el sector privado, y la EPA ya cuenta más empleados públicos que autónomos. Gastamos el 45% del PIB y el último superávit fue en 2007. Me explico. Cuando más de la mitad de los votantes vive del Estado, ningún político se atreve a tocar el gasto, porque recortarlo es perder elecciones. Se paga con deuda y con impuestos al que produce, cada vez produce menos gente y la vida se encarece para todos. En las calles de Francia se pide más Estado para curar lo que causó el exceso de Estado. Argentina eligió el camino contrario. Milei recortó el gasto primario un 27% en términos reales en su primer año y cerró 2024 con el primer superávit financiero en más de una década. Llevo toda la vida creando empresas en España y en Estados Unidos, y sé que cada empleo privado paga una parte del sueldo de alguien que cobra del Estado. Cuando los que cobran superan a los que pagan, la cuenta no sale. Ningún Estado puede mantener a más gente de la que lo mantiene a él.
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Meet Turhan Mildon: 29 years old, Turkish billionaire, and quite possibly the most efficient grifter of his generation. Most of us spend our twenties figuring out navigating roommates. He spent his collecting heads of state. Last month he married 42-year-old Alina Habba, Trump's former personal lawyer, in a reported $10 million wedding at the Waldorf Astoria. The guest list included Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and White House Counsel Will Scharf. Normal crowd for a normal wedding between two normal people. How does a guy get there before 30? Easy. Follow the steps: Step 1: Marry into a Turkish family whose company built a mega-mosque for Erdogan. Get introduced by Erdogan to the president of Congo. Step 2: Become an adviser to Congo's president and pick up a Congolese diplomatic passport. As one does. Step 3: Head to Venezuela. Divorce. Get engaged to the daughter of a U.S.-sanctioned admiral close to Maduro. Land a contract running the country's state-owned cement plants. Step 4: Watch the U.S. capture Maduro in January. Learn the Trump administration reportedly weighed sanctioning you (his team calls that a "malicious rumor"). Lose the cement contract in June. Step 5: Meet Trump's former lawyer at the Kennedy Center. Plan a wedding in about 60 days. Invite the top law enforcement officials in America. Strategic? Romantic? Why not both. And the fun part: he's still trying to hang onto that Venezuelan cement deal. Totally unrelated, we're sure. Oh, and he's still only 29. Or 25, according to British corporate records. Either way, he's out-hustling everyone you know. Love is patient. Love is kind. Love apparently also comes with a diplomatic passport and a seat next to the FBI director.
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