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Pepe the Frog, the animated character whose image was co-opted by anti-Semites and white nationalists associated with the alt-right movement, has been killed off by the man who first created him.
Illustrator Matt Furie killed Pepe the Frog, but it was the fascists who took his life: https://t.co/EOcWTZKtaj
— Melville House (@melvillehouse) May 9, 2017
FBI Director James Comey reportedly misstated the involvement of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her former husband Anthony Weiner in the email scandal Comey’s office investigated during testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Two incidents of arson – one outside, one inside – a Las Vegas Chabad building has prompted an investigation by the Nevada city’s fire department.
In her acceptance speech at an awards event hosted by an LGBT advocacy group this past weekend, Jewish actress Debra Messing called upon Ivanka Trump to stand up to her father regarding a host of policy issues, quipping, “Ivanka, girlfriend, what are you doing?…Lets talk for a second, one Jewish mother to another.”
Plans are afoot to build the first major baseball complex in Israel. Here’s where things are at.
