Tensions run high ahead of U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem https://t.co/ecmL8llUA9
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 14, 2018
Israel is preparing a series of festivities Sunday to celebrate the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, a move that has ignited Palestinian protests. https://t.co/wN1DpqAYc1 pic.twitter.com/93wSw7EM7s
— ABC News (@ABC) May 13, 2018
Israelis, Palestinians face off during Jerusalem Day celebrations pic.twitter.com/gq3ZDjQPJ2
— Ruptly (@Ruptly) May 13, 2018
About 38 percent of Jerusalem's residents aren't Israeli at all — they're Palestinian. And they want to establish their own capital in the city. https://t.co/PccGlfrBDH
— NPR (@NPR) May 14, 2018
The US embassy in Jerusalem is set to open tomorrow following widespread condemnation.
Here’s what the controversial move means: pic.twitter.com/D3mSzAoQOm
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) May 13, 2018
At Sunday's embassy reception, Sheldon Adelson told @WSJ in a brief interview that his offer to contribute funds to a new embassy "hasn't been finalized."
“I don’t think it’s going to be necessary,” he said.https://t.co/toheclB5g6
— Felicia Schwartz (@felschwartz) May 13, 2018
Robert Jeffress says “you can’t be saved by being a Jew,“ and “Mormonism is a heresy from the pit of hell.” He’s said the same about Islam. Such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) May 14, 2018
“We’re fed up with cynical politicians who are trying to gain political capital at our expense. Whoever really loves Jerusalem, fights for its education and infrastructure, not (transferring) the US embassy here…”
— Sof Pitishi, organizer of protest against US embassy move pic.twitter.com/AuoYrv1Ezy— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) May 14, 2018
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WORLD
Iran deal lays bare the basic division in Trump’s cabinet: between those, like Jim Mattis, who want to change behavior of hostile regimes, and those, like John Bolton, who want to change the regimes. https://t.co/aKVrIlRDzh
— Mark Landler (@MarkLandler) May 13, 2018
Having left the deal, we are less likely to obtain a replacement. Trump did Iran’s work for it — he split the alliance, divided the international consensus on sanctions and made Iran into the innocent party. https://t.co/cTmIxOpfzq
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) May 13, 2018
Whoa — goalposts moved. Kim gets to keep his nukes? https://t.co/3M1vxDIfYZ
— Blake Hounshell (feat. Migos) (@blakehounshell) May 13, 2018
A drought ranging from “severe” to “exceptional” has descended on the southern Great Plains of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas https://t.co/QSUmHaXq0c
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 14, 2018
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TRUMPWORLD
Pentagon assessment tears apart Kushner-backed health program: report https://t.co/QpJsYp1Ot7 pic.twitter.com/qIv5pYrp87
— The Hill (@thehill) May 14, 2018
Education Dept dismantling Obama-era team that investigates fraud at for-profit schools: report https://t.co/czgj17Rq0I pic.twitter.com/T7kOqq5EYo
— The Hill (@thehill) May 14, 2018
Trump says he'll help Chinese company that violated U.S. sanctions via @POLITICO for iOS https://t.co/l8KUeN5N4x pic.twitter.com/wrCZjgpIfm
— Jon Cooper 🌊 (@joncoopertweets) May 14, 2018
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 13, 2018
(THREAD) BREAKING: Steele's dossier says Putin gave Trump a brokerage fee from the sale of 19% of Rosneft—Russia's oil giant. Today @MichaelAvenatti said a top agent of QIA—which bought the Rosneft stock—was secretly at Trump Tower 48 hours after the sale. https://t.co/bipjJ4SNC7
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) May 14, 2018
Warning ignored. So here it goes.
December 12, 2016 – Trump Tower. Details to follow… pic.twitter.com/aEuuhRHB4a— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 13, 2018
I reached out to some of this White House’s most prolific leakers to ask them why they leak. https://t.co/NZmkftYOLE
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 13, 2018
One account of how Trump started watching so much Fox and Friends: he was getting enraged and causing problems when he also watched some morning MSNBC and CNN, so Spicer and Priebus convinced him to stick to the show where they knew he'd only be praised. https://t.co/TitM5eHkMf pic.twitter.com/DUuhMM83UL
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 14, 2018
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BREXIT BRITAIN
HMG has traditionally favoured widening over deepening. Now that they are leaving they should keep their opinions to themselves.https://t.co/XvnnyGI1DW
— Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke (@kevinhorourke) May 13, 2018
Oslo thaws on UK joining EEA after Brexit – https://t.co/DNOyaksMVS via @FT
— David Gavaghan (@david_gavaghan) May 14, 2018
Finally…
Baroness Tessa Jowell has died aged 70.
This is the moving speech she gave about her fight against cancer months before her death. pic.twitter.com/r3hze8hH4a
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) May 13, 2018
For Tessa Jowell the personal and the political were intertwined – from Sure Start to the Olympics. Befriending people & persuading them to back progressive causes. A politics of smiling not shouting! True Labour but reaching cross party. RIP pic.twitter.com/ZG7gwr93CH
— Harriet Harman (@HarrietHarman) May 13, 2018
