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 First rule of being "Smart on Crime": don't steal the content of your book from Wikipedia 
 RT @balajis: To be a Democrat one must believe Kamala is smart and Elon is dumb. 
 RT @VividProwess: Douglas Murray:

“I don’t recognize our country anymore. I don’t understand why we have given in to Islamists and terrori… 
 Trumpmentum! 
 RT @IAPolls2022: 🇺🇲 NATIONAL POLL: @NBCNews
 
2-WAY
🟥 Trump: 48% [+4]
🟦 Harris: 48% [-1]

FULL FIELD 
🟥 Trump: 47% [+6]
🟦 Harris: 46% [-1]… 
 Tomorrow's NYT headline: How Fatphobia and Anti-Asian Animus Contributed to Mechazilla Catching The Super Heavy Booster 
 RT @JoshKraushaar: New Trump-Harris numbers in NBC poll -- 

Trump 48
Harris 48

down from Harris' 5-pt lead last month.

More to come... 
 RT @MattWalshBlog: On the Left, to be a “real man” means simply playing second fiddle to women. Any man who submits and assumes a subservie… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨NYT Report: Documents reveal that Sinwar tried to convince Hezbollah and Iran to join the 10/7 attacks. 

According t… 
 RT @redsteeze: Probably the best monologue he's ever delivered. My God. 
 RT @bendreyfuss: I am not a fancy intellectual but when I watched 9/11 happen my first thought was “bad. This is bad.” And my second though… 
 RT @ryanmauro: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

My study of the anti-Israel protests- believed to be the biggest of its kind - is now published!

Among its… 
 RT @TeamMcCormickPA: 🚨🚨

Chuck Todd predicts @DaveMcCormickPA is going to beat Bob Casey: "There’s something missing for Casey this time."… 
 RT @thomaschattwill: Empathy for Hamas does make some strange bedfellows 
 You are an inveterate liar 
 RT @kerpen: @Tim_Walz • "I carried weapons of war in war."
• "I am a retired command sergeant major."
• "I was the football coach at Mankat… 
 RT @DouglasKMurray: On the ignoramus Ta-Nehisi Coates, among other issues. https://t.co/rIItmRja4s 
 RT @coldxman: Imagine writing an entire book about the TSA––a book that ultimately condemns it––without mentioning 9/11, or in fact, the en… 
 RT @EricLDaugh: BREAKING: Nevada flips for Trump in RealClearPolitics

New electoral map:
🔴 Trump: 302 🏆
🔵 Harris: 236 https://t.co/gbGvAZT… 
 RT @NateSilver538: Polls over the rest of the campaign will probably be statistically indistinguishable from a random number generator that… 
 Your literal White House nickname was Hamas, my dude 
 It is hardly controversial for the morally evil Left. That's my point. 
 RT @qumranqu: British author @DouglasKMurray playing the piano at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Israel. https://t.co/cCoWhMeDEj https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1844401865900929041/pu/vid/avc1/848x480/86b9qCwSEbfgxdC-.mp4?tag=12 
 RT @dansenor: 🙏🙌 
 CBS News insiders are very upset that Tony Dokoupil asks those who clearly want to destroy Israel whether they want to destroy Israel. That's the question that must never be asked, because it wrecks their entire victim/victimizer false worldview. 
 RT @foster_type: My nose is on my face, oh wait, now mommy has it grasped between her fingers. Oh wait, now it's back on my face again! 
 This is some excellent sitcom writing 
 RT @CaptainSamBrown: What has shaped me?

From growing up in a small town, where my father built our home by hand, to West Point and Afghan… 
 RT @yudapearl: October 10 marks the birthday of my late son, Danny, who would have been 61 today. I wish to thank all readers who wrote to… 
 RT @CurtisHouck: Brutal line of questioning from Fox's @MarthMacCallum to FEMA Administrator Criswell about #Helene.

These questions aren'… 
 The Theranos of political campaigns 
 RT @BillAckman: I am not a particularly religious person, but I have always believed it makes sense to hedge. 
 RT @K_AminThaabet: 🚨🚨🚨Breaking - Israel’s specific plans have evidently not been leaked to Barak Ravid, seeing as we’re not reading about t… 
 RT @wesyang: A total bloodbath in these documents. 

Nobody even tried to hide their malfeasance — such was their arrogance. Were they just… 
 RT @guypbenson: oof II 
 RT @CurtisHouck: .@PhilipWegmann: “You’re pretty consistent. You don't often speculate about hypotheticals, but today on more than one occa… 
 What she's going to do is pretend that she has literally nothing to do with the administration in which she is the VICE PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW 
 This is your campaign? That while people are battening down the hatches, you are yelling at gas stations that are running out of gas? You pathetic hack. 
 RT @wil_da_beast630: Maybe not where I would have gone with a Harris/Trump comparison. 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨US State Department Spokesman: "I saw the reports that Hezbollah is interested in a ceasefire separate from Gaza, and… 
 RT @PpollingNumbers: #New General election poll - Pennsylvania 

🔴 Trump 49% (+2)
🔵 Harris 47%

Last poll - 🔴 Trump +1

Insider advantage #… 
 RT @TrumpWarRoom: .@benshapiro: "I know a lot of the foreign leaders over there who pretend publicly that they don't want you to win and th… 
 RT @TrumpWarRoom: .@benshapiro: We recently learned that Doug Emhoff was accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend.

Pres. Trump: I was watch… 
 RT @LevineJonathan: The DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of the Thomson Reuters Foundation spent eight years pumping out Qatar state propaganda for A… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨According to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel has set conditions for a cease-fire in Lebanon, including… 
 RT @libsoftiktok: The media's champion male role model Doug Emhoff was reportedly "inappropriate" and "misogynistic" at work according to a… 
 RT @TheBabylonBee: Howard Stern Under Fire For Exploiting Mentally Challenged Guest For Cheap Laughs https://t.co/9FRlWgIRLH https://t.co/c… 
 It has been one year since October 7, 2023. Since then, we have seen heroism and valor, and weakness and cowardice. And we have learned lessons. Here are the biggest lessons we should have learned. https://t.co/6J3NzHasdf https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1843392123925606400/vid/avc1/1280x720/XKWd-NBA2zEEA24-.mp4?tag=16 
 RT @EliLake: The new Nazis chose October 7 for their Bund rally. 
 CBS News just apologized for doing a journalism 
 RT @DrEliDavid: 🚨 Breaking: Naim Qassem, Deputy head of Hezbollah since 1991, not only refused to become the new head, but also resigned fr… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: Vote Trump/Vance 
 RT @ArminRosen: The music/artistic community's response to Nova was one of the more radicalizing things for me this past year. This was the… 
 RT @asymmetricinfo: If you think the fetus is a person with rights, it is weird to argue that you should be able to kill it because biology… 
 RT @matthewkassel: News: Former Rep. Peter Deutsch, a Democrat from Florida, is officially endorsing Trump on an RNC-Trump campaign press c… 
 RT @neontaster: Doesn't feel very marginalized to me. 
 RT @politicalelle: 60% of those who invaded Israel and committed atrocities on October 7 were Palestinian civilians. 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨Macron told Netanyahu the following unimaginable sentence: "Supplying weapons will not bring security to Israel." (Am… 
 RT @EsotericCD: None of these are "the media" at all, of course, not in the sense of being journalists. All three also have already emphati… 
 Shana tova u'metukah -- a sweet and good New Year! 
 RT @K_AminThaabet: Israel destroyed Iraqi nuclear facilities in 1981 over U.S. objections. In retrospect, the U.S was grateful.

Israel des… 
 Nickelodeon has announcing the production of a live action "Rugrats," and also the actor who will be playing Tommy Pickles https://t.co/OGFx3FukQw https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GY6WnahXMAA3rnw.png https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GY6W4_8WwAAfIod.png 
 JD Vance absolutely crushed Tim Walz last night. He was articulate, coherent, calm and collected. The best debate performance of the modern era. And right about now, Kamala Harris is wishing she’d chosen Josh Shapiro.

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 RT @wil_da_beast630: Statistically, yes. 
 RT @soveryisraeli: The Israel ability to maintain a sense of humor throughout literally any situation is incredible 🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/UADX08… 
 So by that token Israel should probably fire precisely 181 missiles at Iran and target military bases...say, their nuclear facilities 
 RT @VerminusM: The Palestinians accidentally killed a Palestinian boy while celebrating the Iranian attack that accidentally killed a Pales… 
 It is also possible that he thought he was being asked about the port strike again 
 RT @yashar: NEWS 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to… 
 An amazing way to get real time information on the current situation in Israel 
 RT @AmitSegal: I'm happy to announce that I’ve opened a Telegram channel with updates in English about everything happening in Israel. The… 
 RT @AviMayer: 🔴 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has reportedly threatened to respond to any Israeli attack with "more than a thous… 
 RT @neontaster: If someone shoots you and you’re wearing a bulletproof vest, should they receive a lesser sentence because you had the fore… 
 RT @PierrePoilievre: Horrified by Tehran’s latest assault against innocent Israeli civilians with missile barrages and terrorist attacks.… 
 RT @realDailyWire: .@DouglasKMurray LIVE now with @benshapiro 
 RT @SuellaBraverman: Last year Israel was attacked in the south by Hamas terrorists.

Then Israel was attacked in the north by Hezbollah te… 
 RT @dansenor: This does not sound like the language of “de-escalation” is winning the day in the intra-agency deliberations. 
 RT @iowahawkblog: These dumb motherfuckers are celebrating launching 200 missiles at Israel to kill one Palestinian kid in Gaza. 

It's lik… 
 RT @EylonALevy: Chancellor of Austria 🇦🇹❤️🇮🇱 
 RT @LucasFoxNews: Reporter Q yesterday: Mr. President, will you deploy more U.S. troops to the Middle East? 

Biden: No

Pentagon today: A… 
 RT @EinatWilf: Today seems like a good day to discuss UNRWA in Lebanon:
Lebanon is one of the five areas of operations for UNRWA (other fou… 
 RT @CaptainSamBrown: And as the @reviewjournal put it: 

Jacky Rosen “lacks the attributes of an effective and capable elected official and… 
 RT @marklevinshow: BREAKING!!

Soros and the FCC Democrats just slammed through the radio conglomeration steal of 220 stations using large… 
 RT @GregAbbott_TX: October 7, 2023 was a day of unimaginable horrors for Israel.

In observance of the one-year anniversary, I ask my fello… 
 RT @NoahPollak: When I was in southern Lebanon, all I saw UNIFIL do was drive around to the Christian villages to buy red wine. UNIFIL is w… 
 RT @EWErickson: When I was in fifth grade, Nasrallah and Hezbollah tried to blow up my school with me and my friends in it.  He was an evil… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: 🚨JUST IN - CHANNEL 14: Israel and the USA are preparing for a possible Iranian attack on Israel. This comes after an o… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: "I don't know if there will be a ground invasion, but when you see the orderly system of leaks that are used in the US… 
 RT @JewishWarrior13: The Biden/Harris admin leaking the IDF plans for the ground operation in Lebanon today was disgusting. This is backsta… 
 RT @rich_goldberg: Houthis attack the US Navy. US has a carrier strike group next door and does nothing to impose costs. Houthis attack Isr… 
 RT @EVKontorovich: Maher is the subject of a French arrest warrant, so if true ,this means Israel will have brought to justice those wanted… 
 RT @dixonswolfe: I encourage everyone to come out to the @EricHovde and @benshapiro event tomorrow! It will be an awesome opportunity to me… 
 See the link in Matt's post below 
 RT @jessesingal: It's wild watching people just discover politics and/or decades-old conflicts and then opine on them confidently. From the… 
 RT @EsotericCD: The planet's most roaring job market is "high-ranking Hezbollah official," lots of career mobility, new positions opening u…