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December 5, 2023

House Republicans are investigating mysterious payments made to Hunter Biden in the 1970s by a benefactor code-named...

House Republicans are investigating mysterious payments made to Hunter Biden in the 1970s by a benefactor code-named “the tooth fairy.”


https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1731844459216650282
December 4, 2023

These people are vile. You want to do this outside an Israeli consulate or something? I get it, protest the government.

These people are vile.

You want to do this outside an Israeli consulate or something? I get it, protest the government. That’s fine.

Going after Jewish shop owners?


https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1731449029614055799
https://twitter.com/thatJVG/status/1731440158363222485


December 1, 2023

Israel Knew Hamas's Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago

Source: NYT

A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.

Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.

The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.

The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical assault designed to overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities and storm key military bases, including a division headquarters.

Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. The document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out the security cameras and automated machine guns along the border, and gunmen to pour into Israel en masse in paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot — all of which happened on Oct. 7.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html



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https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1730390041589919756
November 30, 2023

Buttigieg: Boebert has written letters of support for projects in her district to be funded with President Biden's...

Buttigieg: Boebert has written letters of support for projects in her district to be funded with President Biden's infrastructure package that she didn't just vote no on, but referred to as garbage…


https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1730339292893876461
He's so good!

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