Lorit Dror

Occasionally attempting to be funny at open mics, but never on this hell site. RTs, Follows & Likes ≠ Endorsements

[Lorit Dror @LoritDror]

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[Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports]

The East Wing of the White House is gone.

In 3 days, the admin tore down the entire annex for President Trump's pet project: a 90k sf ballroom that will be almost double the size of the 55k sf main White House building

w/ @ddiamond and @oliviacgeorge

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[Mike Baker @ByMikeBaker]

NEW: After the floods that killed 135+ people in Texas, we heard concerns about the performance of a radio system used by first responders. It was brand new and had cost Kerr County some $7 million.

So what went wrong?

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[Gabe Fleisher @WakeUp2Politics]

Ingrassia is the 49th Trump nominee to withdraw this year.

No president in recent history had had to take back that many nominations in a single year.

[Jordan Hansen @jordyhansen]

Water at Montana State Prison has consistently tested positive for a bacteria often found in fecal matter for decades, including 19 times in the past two years. #mtnews

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[Dánica Coto @danicacoto]

AP investigation finds that anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century https://t.co/52OWTOVasL

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

EXPLAINER: Why Marco Rubio's arguments for deporting noncitizens for speech are wrong https://t.co/5cjoTCm5BS via @TheFIREorg

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

Solidarity with Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City University.

Students are demanding his sacking simply because he is an Israeli Jew who has done (mandatory) military service.

The antisemitic harassment he is being subjected to is horrifying. I hesitate to amplify it, but British academics need to understand what is happening.

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[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

👀 An SOS flare from the panel's dissenting judge, Susan Graber, pleading with her colleagues to reverse the decision and for the public to "retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer. https://t.co/PlQT9e8vGc

[POLITICO @politico]

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
https://t.co/BHSud48VAh

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

EXCL w/@ManuMidolo

Nigel Farage’s partner ran a eurosceptic group, which, auditors at EY said, spent up to €200K in public funds in breach of rules

“Serious irregularities” were passed to OLAF, the EU anti-fraud office, which launched an investigation.

It also concerned sister entity of which Farage was member.

Now, it can be revealed, OLAF secretly passed the case to law enforcement in 2019. A Brussels court has confirmed it will deliver a judgement within weeks

[Mike Baker @ByMikeBaker]

The U.S. military mobilization in the Caribbean:
• 8 Navy warships
• 10 stealth fighters
• About 10,000 troops
• New ammunition storage sites in Puerto Rico

[Michael Tackett @tackettdc]

Indiana University fires student newspaper adviser who refused to block news stories https://t.co/ImrMi2BFOg

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

When the Colombian president recently suggested the administration had struck Colombians rather than Venezuelans, the White House denied it:

"The United States looks forward to President Petro publicly retracting his baseless and reprehensible statement ..."

[Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian]

The fourth body returned by Hamas to Israel last night belongs to a West Bank Palestinian man who had reportedly been used by the Israeli military as a human shield in the Gaza Strip.

Officially, Israel has said that the body returned to Israel did not belong to any hostage.

A source cited by Al Jazeera claimed that Hamas had returned the body of an ostensible Israeli soldier who was captured in northern Gaza's Jabalia in May 2024.

At the time, the military swiftly denied Hamas's claim that it had captured a soldier in Jabalia, saying: "The IDF clarifies that there is no incident of a soldier's kidnapping."

The terror group had aired a video showing a bloodied person being dragged along the ground in a tunnel, and published images of military gear and submachine guns, which are not commonly used by the Israeli military. Hamas later also published a picture of the man's face, without naming him.

Palestinian media at the time identified the man as Khalil Dawas, a Palestinian from the West Bank's Aqabat Jabr camp, near Jericho. The reports said Dawas had been detained by Israel in the past.

The Kan public broadcaster reports, without citing any sources, that the man whose body was returned "operated alongside security forces in searches of underground tunnels" and was "killed by Hamas terrorists a year and a half ago."

Amid the war, there has been a commonplace -- but officially prohibited -- practice of soldiers sending detained Palestinians to search buildings and tunnels before troops did, endangering their lives.

The IDF says it strictly prohibits using civilians as shields, and has opened investigations into several such cases.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

None of this is remotely surprising. If you're at all familiar with young MAGA culture, this kind of conduct is common. It's a matter of in-group signaling. You show your commitment to the cause in part through your disregard of basic decency and morality.

[Will Weissert @apwillweissert]

Trump threatens to yank World Cup games from Boston though it's up to FIFA to choose sites

https://t.co/iK0gfjSzUQ

[LenaSun @bylenasun]

BREAKING: HHS official says in a court filing:
"As a result of data discrepancies and processing errors, RIF notices were issued on October 10, 2025, to approximately 1,760 employees instead of to the 982 employees who were intended to receive RIF notices.” 1/3

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Huge crowds gathered in Gaza to welcome back hundreds of detainees freed from Israeli jails under the ceasefire agreement.

They had been held without charge or trial as “unlawful combatants” - a move widely criticised by human rights groups.

Warning, there are distressing images in this report.

[Sebastian Murdock @SebastianMurdoc]

Six former students of a now-closed “troubled teen” facility in the Arizona desert told @HuffPost they were abused. The facility’s founder, Jeannie Courtney, told HuffPost she believes her accusers are making it all up. From @taiylersimone and I. Link in below tweets.