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Saturday, January 4, 2025

LinkedIn banned ‘proud Jew’ Manhattan CPA for pro-Israel posts




 Job networking site LinkedIn employed Nazi tactics when it banned an unabashedly pro-Israel Manhattan accountant who regularly spoke out on the platform against antisemitism, he claimed in a lawsuit.

Marc J. Strohl, who had about 14,000 LinkedIn followers between his personal account and his business profile for ProTax Consulting Services, is a self-described “proud Jew” who lost relatives in the Holocaust as well as the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead, according to court papers.

Strohl, 59, claimed he regularly reported or commented on antisemitic LinkedIn posts, including messages “that appeared to praise” the terror group and the massacre, as well as “posts on LinkedIn that praised Adolf Hitler and Nazis,” he said in the legal filing.

He alerted the platform to multiple offensive remarks, according to screenshots provided to The Post, including, “Death to Israel,” and a post that described Jews as “cruel and emotionless animals that need to be extinct.”

“Most of the reports I filed against people [whose comments] … were abusive to the point of hate speech,” Strohl said. “They didn’t take any action, to the best of my knowledge.”

His account was mysteriously suspended twice in 2024 until he was banned without explanation in October, Strohl alleged in his Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit against LinkedIn.

“The Nazis engaged in similar such behavior in Germany in the 1930s of excluding Jews from public places and from businesses,” he contended in the claim.

Strohl claimed he was “aware of a lot of Jews and Zionists” who have been banned from LinkedIn.

The problem “is absolutely huge,” he told The Post.

He claimed the company outsources its content moderation responsibilities “to countries known to harbor a lot of antisemitic sentiment including but not limited to Pakistan and South Africa.”

The certified public accountant was “held to completely different and harsher standards than Muslim, Arab . . . and ‘pro-Palestine’ accounts,” he alleged in the complaint, which seeks unspecified damages.

Alleged pro-Hamas sentiment from LinkedIn users was so pronounced in the weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, one pro-Israel supporter created a website listing the terrorist-loving commenters.

“LinkedIn, through its algorithms and ‘Trust & Safety Team’ has refused to take down posts supporting Hamas, criticizing Israel, praising Hitler and Nazis . . . and has responded to complaints made that those posts are not in violation of LinkedIn’s terms and conditions,” Strohl said in the lawsuit.

Being banned from the only notable job networking site around has hurt his reputation and business, said Strohl.

In the past he got significant referrals from LinkedIn — and his removal from the platform has been noticeable.

“It’s a selective double standard that permits antisemitic and anti-Israel propaganda to flourish while chilling speech and silencing Jewish and Israeli voices just as they did in Germany in the 1930s,” said Strohl’s lawyer, Ava Zelenetsky.

Strohl wants his account reinstated. 

The end of the ‘Obama era’ has officially arrived

 

You can smell it in the air. A deep sense of betrayal among Democratic voters. 

An underlying realization that the Democratic party’s politburo — Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, and their courtiers of elected official and consultant sycophants — sold voters a bill of goods: the gaslighting of the public on President Biden’s decrepitude; the false idol of the Kamala Harris “campaign of joy” as a smart last-minute stand-in; and the repeated cowering to the far left whose wokeness and moral condescension turns off most voters.   

In a just world, one might expect a formal no-confidence vote on this leadership failure. 

After all, this is the kind of recall we see with Western European heads of state, in House speakership races, and soon, in Canada. That recall may not happen, but the undeniable trouncing may signal the end of what we can call the Obama Era.    

Simply put, the Obama Era is characterized by a set of ideas and tactics directly linked to the Democrats’ loss. The first is the “Demography is Destiny” delusion — a kind of manifest destiny of the left, adopted in the second Obama term, that promises an ever-diversifying electorate would inexorably vote Democratic and must therefore be patronized with cartoonish appeals to identity and big government wardship. 

This proved to be not only deeply un-American but politically foolish.   

Upon taking office, Biden mandated race preferences and DEI rules across 90 different federal agencies — what leading race theorist Coleman Hughes refers to as the neo-racism of the left

Open borders were supposed to buy Hispanic votes. Green New Deal wars on oil and gas industries that most of the big players on the global stage would reject were supposed to buy young voters.

Validating the rhetoric of pro-Hamas activists was supposed to buy votes in Dearborn and the anti-Israel and often antisemitic left. 

Democrats ignored all the polls warning against these identity politics which never had broad voter support — including among black and brown Americans. But it was too late to turn back.

This post-modern religion had spawned the second pillar of the Obama Era: a new industry of NGOs, consultants, activist groups, foundations and donors, public unions, and the increasingly politicized state and city bureaucracies in Democratic-run cities underwritten with gobs of COVID-relief and federal taxpayer dollars.

They were what writer Michael Lind refers to as the Shadow Government — for whom the liturgy of identity politics became the central organizing principle to expand organizational bloat, fundraise, and earn social credit scores within the party.  

This spawning bureaucracy had a profound and often underestimated reach by foisting critical race and gender ideologies in federal and state agencies (e.g. prioritizing COVID checks on the basis of race), in public schools across the country and, ultimately, into a multi-billion dollar DEI industrial complex in corporate America.  

However, now much of this second pillar of the Obama Era is now likely to fall to constitutional challenges unlikely to withstand equal protection challenges, widespread public disaffection with the underlying ideology, and the Trump administration’s DOGE scalpel. 

The third pillar of the Obama Era is the massive cancel culture and accompanying online authoritarianism. 

Former New York Times reporter David Samuels chronicles how the Obama White House conceived and perfected the strategy of using affiliate left-wing public intellectuals to sell often false or misleading narratives to mainstream news and political elites on, say, the deeply defective Iranian nuclear deal, and then to quell dissent with cancel tactics.

Samuels describes an Orwellian machinery spinning an “invented reality that could be successfully messaged and managed from the [Obama] White House.”  

This success of this machinery ultimately led today to 70% of voters distrusting the mainstream news media after profound breaches of professional responsibility on Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, and much else.  

“As the machine ramped up, censoring dissenting opinions on everything from COVID, to DEI programs, to police conduct, to the prevalence and the effects of hormone therapies and surgeries on youth, large numbers of people began feeling pressured by an external force that they couldn’t always name; even greater numbers of people fell silent,” writes Samuels. 

The mainstream media has been its own worst enemy as this third pillar of the Obama Era also appears to self-destruct. 

Finally, Israel’s stunning success in decapitating Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s arc of terror has laid ridicule to Obama’s second-term central policy goal of Iranian appeasement bought with pallets of cash from the US and an exhortation that secular Arab states must “share the neighborhood” with this imperial, neo-Nazi regime.  

That, together with Obama’s red-line bluff on Syria’s chemical gas use, his backing down to Putin on the annexation of Crimea, Biden’s buffoonish Afghanistan withdrawal, and demonstrably counterproductive if not cynical efforts to undermine Israel’s successful campaign against the terrorists, has all left the Democrats looking weak and incompetent not just to voters but the world’s worst actors

Barack Obama was an immensely talented and often inspiring historic figure with his campaign of hope and change.  But the political and cultural offspring of his White House that even he himself was often unable to contain, has helped lead the party to a truly dark and defeated corner. 

Julian Epstein is the former Democratic chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee. 

Uber, Lyft spent millions pushing for NYC congestion pricing —and stand to make killing


Uber and Lyft poured millions of dollars into efforts to legalize congestion tolling — and they stand to be among the biggest winners.

Uber spent $2 million alone from 2015 to 2019 to promote congestion pricing, roughly $1 million of which went to some of the city’s top lobbyists, the company confirmed to The Post in 2019.

Since then, both and Uber and Lyft have continued to hire top lobbyists to help persuade key state and city officials to approve the controversial levy, including Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, records show.

It’s unclear how much the companies spent lobbying for congestion pricing because the lobbyists hired worked on multiple issues, and officials records don’t break it down.

The ride-share companies declined to provide The Post a breakdown — or even an estimate — of its lobbying expenses.

Lyft — which also own the CitiBike program — has also directly contributed to pols who have been pushing the polarizing scheme.

Lyft poured over $125,000 into state campaigns since 2020 – including $18,500 the past four years to Hochul, who pushed it forward after a brief pause near the election, records show.

It also donated $10,000 in 2020 to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who backed congestion pricing when he was in office but now wants to hit the brakes on it.

It’s been money well spent.

The growing industry — which got a huge boost last year when the city lifted a cap on how many for-hire vehicles can be on the road — stands to make a killing because the new surcharge is both cheaper than the $9 fee private vehicles will pay to enter parts of Manhattan, and the $2.90 straphangers pay to take subways and buses, critics say.

The ride-hailing services will be slapped with an additional $1.50 surcharge for Manhattan trips below 60th Street. But the additional costs will be passed on to customers — just like a similar $2.75 “congestion fee” on all trips below 96th Street authorized in 2019.

“This is corporate greed at its worst,” said Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens), who opposes congestion tolling. “These companies will stop at nothing to rewrite the rules in their favor while leaving chaos in their wake.”

The new tolls fit “right into” Uber and Lyft’s “business model to charge a premium for access to the scarcest street — those in core Manhattan” – and its customers will benefit from faster service with less cars on the street, said Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

“The sudden sticker shock here won’t be felt by Uber and Lyft or their passengers, but by the regular driver,” she said.

Susan Lee, one of the plaintiffs in a slew of lawsuits seeking to stop the congestion tolling, blamed the for-hire industry for “pushing” congestion tolling and flooding city streets with its roughly 100,000 vehicles — causing much of NYC’s gridlock.

“If the motivation is to incentivize people to take mass transit, then the new fee for for-hire vehicles should be equivalent to” the $2.90 cost for a bus or subway ride,” Lee said.

Josh Gold, a Uber spokesman, said the company was “early supporters of congestion pricing — and still is — but “government can’t continue to raise prices and fees on New Yorkers and expect no consequences.

Lyft spokesman CJ Macklin said “we are supportive of congestion pricing and the positive impacts it could have on our city, but it must be done in an equitable way.”

“Our industry has already been paying a congestion fee since 2019 that has generated more than $1 billion in revenue to the MTA,” he said. “We don’t think riders should be double taxed, and we lobbied hard for them to be exempt from this new additional $1.50 congestion fee.”

Biden to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros and 17 others

 

Social media erupted in anger Saturday morning with news that President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and left-wing billionaire George Soros.

The award, the nation’s highest civilian honor, is given to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors, the White House said in a statement.

Tesla founder Elon Musk led the furious outcry, labeling the decision to award Soros the honor as "a travesty."

Musk shared a video clip of himself on Joe Rogan's podcast where he said he believed that Soros "fundamentally hates humanity."

"He's doing things that erode the fabric of civilization. You know, getting DAs elected who refuse to prosecute crime," he wrote. 

Online commentator Blake Habyan wrote, "What a joke — these people have done the exact opposite of what the award is intended for," while Natalie F Danelishen wrote that the news could be a Babylon Bee story given how unbelievable it is. 

"Seriously, two of the worst people on earth," she wrote.

Friday, January 3, 2025

Zera Shimshon Parshas VaYigash

 


Sholom Rubashkin's Zos Chanukah Miracle

 





4 Jew haters chase and threaten a visibly Jewish boy in Brooklyn

 

TERRIFYING!  

A group of 4 Jew haters were apprehended in Brooklyn today for chasing and threatening a visibly Jewish boy.
Jewish neighborhoods need extra patrolling and perpetrators need consequences!

IED intended for IDF detonates Palestinian ambulance instead

 An explosive device, intended to ambush and kill IDF soldiers, detonated prematurely when a Palestinian ambulance drove over it.


‘Turkey is becoming the new Iran in Syria’


 By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter told Israel National News that Israel should not place too much trust in the new regime in Syria, where “Turkey is becoming the new Iran.”

Although the Syrian rebels that overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad have made several statements about not wanting conflict with Israel, Dichter said their background with terrorist organizations should be regarded with caution.

Dichter said, “The new regime in Syria has left many uncertain about its origins.”

He explained, “Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the current leader, has ties to Al-Qaeda. His spiritual mentor, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was once a key figure alongside Osama Bin Laden. Given this background, it’s hard to believe that this regime will eventually guide Syria in the way we expect.”

Dichter also cautioned against the growing influence of Turkey in Syria.

“Turkey is increasingly resembling Iran in Syria. While Iran backed Bashar al-Assad, Turkey supports Abu Mohammad al-Julani,” he said.

“As we know, Turkey is no longer the reliable ally it once was. The key difference is that Iran was never part of NATO, whereas Turkey is a member,” Dichter added.

Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, Turkey has become increasingly hostile toward Israel. Erdogan has hosted Hamas leaders and threatened to invade Israel to forcibly stop the war in Gaza.

He has repeatedly urged Israel to avoid military actions in Lebanon and Syria. However, Turkey itself seems poised to launch a military operation in Syria aimed at Kurdish groups.

Furthermore, ErdoÄŸan backs the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorist group, which is led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, who now uses his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa.

ErdoÄŸan accuses Israel and the IDF of intentionally killing Palestinian civilians in their fight against terrorism.

However, experts argue that Turkey’s military actions in Iraqi Kurdistan, which have directly targeted civilians, violate international humanitarian law and raise serious concerns about genuine human rights abuses.

The moment those glasses came off

 

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Europe Chizuk Trip with R’ Eli Stefansky

 

3 senior DOJ officials leaked confidential info to harm Trump before the election.


 DOJ IG report reveals 3 senior officials leaked confidential info to harm Trump before the election. 

Officials left DOJ before the probe and refused to cooperate. 

Potential Hatch Act violations flagged.

Woke FBI Covering up New Orleans Attack because of “Islamophobia"


 The most curious aspect of the attack in New Orleans in the early morning of New Year’s Day is the naked and open contradiction between the city’s mayor and the FBI about what exactly happened. And that contradiction may mean that we will never know what really happened.

The basic facts of the incident are fairly straightforward, but they’re the only straightforward aspect of this. 

At around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday as New Year’s revelers packed the streets at Canal and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, a large truck plowed into them at high speed. By all accounts, the driver did this deliberately, killing at least ten people and injuring dozens more in the process.

And the man wasn’t finished. After crashing his truck, he jumped out and started firing at the cops who were beginning to assemble at the scene, wounding two of them. The police returned fire, and the attacker was killed. It appears that he had plans for even more mayhem, when the police searched his truck, they found improvised explosive devices.

This is where the story takes a strange turn. 

At a hastily convened press conference early on Wednesday morning, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said that the incident was a “terrorist attack,” although she offered no information or speculation about what kind of terrorist attack it might have been. Once Cantrell was finished, however, FBI Special Agent Aletha (that’s how Fox has her name; NPR and CNN have “Alethea”) Duncan contradicted her, asserting that it was “not a terrorist attack.”

Now, this is just weird. What else does the FBI propose to call an attack in which a driver deliberately plows a truck into a crowd, then gets out and fires on the cops, and had explosives ready so as to kill or injure even more people? If that isn’t a terror attack, what exactly is a terror attack? Does the woke, clueless, compromised, and corrupt FBI only consider an incident to be a terror attack when it can plausibly claim that the perpetrator was a “white supremacist” Trump supporter?

Is it possible that the FBI doesn’t want to call what happened in New Orleans a terror attack because doing so might lead some people into “Islamophobia”? Absolutely. There is no information available as yet about the New Orleans attacker, but vehicular attacks are a favored tactic of Islamic jihadis. And the FBI of Christopher Wray and Robert Mueller has been busy downplaying and denying the reality of Islamic jihad for years.

There are numerous examples. Although the recent vehicular attack at the Christmas Market in Magdeburg, Germany is mired in controversy over whether or not the attacker had genuinely left Islam as he claimed to have done, there is a long history of jihadis using this tactic and precious few examples of non-Muslims resorting to it.

 Recently, in Oct. 2024 in Israel, another truck driver injured 35 people in a vehicular jihad attack at a bus stop near Tel Aviv. Just weeks before that, a Syrian Muslim migrant with a Palestinian flag wounded 31 people in arson and ramming attacks in Essen, Germany. Also in September in Darmstadt, Germany, an Afghan Muslim migrant ran through several red lights at high speed and tried to run over pedestrians, explaining that he did it “on behalf of Allah.”

Vehicular jihad has taken place in the U.S. as well: at Ohio State University in Nov. 2016, a Somali Muslim migrant mowed down students with his car, then jumped out and started stabbing anyone he could reach. Eight people were injured. As far back as 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) was calling upon Muslims in Western countries to carry out vehicular jihad attacks.

Whoever carried out the New Orleans attack, there is another curious aspect of it: on X, a photo showed that the truck had a flagpole attached to its back bumper, and the driver was apparently flying some kind of flag. What kind, however, is unknown as of this writing on Wednesday morning, for it seemed as if one of the first things that the police did was cover the flag with a coat. Or did they? Another X user posted a different photo of the truck that was apparently taken just moments after the attack, and although the photo itself is not all that clear, asserted that “it was always just a black coat on a pole.”

Would some nut fly a black coat from a flagpole? Sure. Would the cops cover up a flag that an attacker was flying because seeing it might make people think negatively about a group that enjoys protected status from the left and its establishment media lapdogs? That possibility cannot be counted out, either.

So what happened in New Orleans?

We can only hope that the FBI and New Orleans authorities will follow up with a thorough investigation, without regard for woke niceties. But given the deep corruption of both, that seems unlikely in the extreme.

Corrupt Lying FBI Knew that the New Orleans Attack Was a "terrorist attack" When they announced that it wasn't


 An image taken by a tourist from the 10th floor of a nearby hotel shows FBI agents in New Orleans documenting an ISIS flag displayed on the truck of Shamsud-Din Jabbar during his deadly attack on New Year’s Eve. 

This photo was taken before FBI Special Agent in Charge Aletha Duncan publicly stated, “this is not a terrorist event,” despite evidence suggesting otherwise.

 



Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Is the Jewish State the "Ultimate Evil" or a Golden Opportunity? Actions Of R' Yoel Teitelbaum ..Satmar Rebbe



















German woman who lives in home looted from Jews must give it up, judge rules.

 

The Stolpersteine (Stumbling Block) outside Anna Donat's home shows when she was deported.

A German court has ruled that an 85-year-old woman and her son who live in a property sold under duress by its Jewish owners in 1939 must give up their home.

The ruling earlier this month capped a decade of legal wrangling over the home, located in Wandlitz, outside Berlin. For many paying attention to the twists and turns, the fight over the lakeside property came to symbolize the pain and turmoil of nearly a century of history — as well as the ways in which German families tell themselves complicated stories about their role during the Holocaust. It has also surfaced lingering resentments, some of them clearly antisemitic, about Germany’s efforts to repay Jews for its crimes against them.

The Wandlitz estate is likely one of the last property restitution cases to be adjudicated in Germany, as virtually all looted or “aryanized” property has already gone through the restitution process or been lost to history, with no one left to claim it. The deadline to file property claims passed decades ago.

The case centers on an estate, located in a bucolic area about 20 miles from central Berlin, that functioned in the 1930s as a summer retreat for an orphanage operated by two Jewish women, Alice Donat and Helene Lindenbaum. To comply with Nazi laws meant to expropriate Jewish wealth, they sold the land, complete with a structure in poor condition, to Felix Moegelin in 1939 for 21,100 Reichsmarks, a relative pittance.

Moegelin had to sign the statement “I am Aryan,” while the two women had to sign that they were Jewish according to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935.

The original house was torn down and eventually replaced, and Moegelin and his family settled in on Wegener Street. Donat and Lindenbaum were deported from Berlin by the Nazis in 1943 and murdered.

Today, Moegelin’s granddaughter, Gabriele Lieske, 85, still lives in the house with her son, Thomas Lieske, 61. They dug in their heels after a lower court ruled last year that they must give up the property or pay for it. Located in the suburbs of Berlin, where real estate is hot, the property is worth about $1.6 million today.

Now, the property will be seized by the state and transferred to the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the legal successor to unclaimed Jewish property in the former East Germany. No living heirs to the murdered owners were ever identified.

This will never get old ... MSNBC Election Night Coverage ...From Ecstatic Hope to Depression in less Than an Hour

 

This is Why No One Trusts the Media Anymore .... Wake Up America!

 

Scott Jennings absolutely destroys CNN anchor who asks if we should be concerned about Elon Musk's foreign business dealings.

 

Carter Was a Very Evil Man Who Destroyed the US and the World and We are Still Suffering!

 

Brave Jewish Lady Asks Mayor of Toronto "Why are you here?"

 

Israel kills Hamas commander who led Oct. 7 attack on kibbutz Nir Oz....Mossad going after each one of the Terrorists that were involved

 

An elite Hamas commander who led one of the most horrific attacks on Israeli kibbutzim Oct. 7, 2023, was killed in a targeted strike in southern Gaza, the Israel Defense Force announced Tuesday. 

Abd al-Hadi Sabah, the head of the terror group’s Nukhba platoon in Hamas’s West Khan Younis Battalion, was wiped out during an intelligence-based attack in a Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis, according to military officials. 

Officials said measures were taken to minimize civilian harm during the operation, led by the IDF and the Israel Security Agency. 

“The IDF and ISA will continue to operate against all of the terrorists who took part in the murderous October 7 massacre,” The IDF posted on X on Tuesday, along with a photo of Sabah in Israel during the terrorist attack.

Sabah was responsible for leading the invasion of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a community located fewer than 2 miles from the Gaza border fence and where dozens of civilians were murdered and scores more taken hostage, according to the IDF. 

Hamas methodically burned all 250 cars at the kibbutz during the attack so that residents who weren’t immediately murdered or abducted couldn’t escape. Homes within the community, once considered a joyous paradise for nearly seven decades, were also destroyed. 

Thirty-eight residents were killed and 75 kidnapped during the murderous rampage – leaving the kibbutz one of the communities most devastated by the terror attack.

Survivors were evacuated after the devastation and are now living in temporary housing about an hour away in Kiryat Gat.

The terrorist leader also led numerous attacks against Israeli troops in Gaza since the Jewish state was ambushed last year, the IDF stated.

Along with Sabah, the IDF also announced it killed Anas Muhammad Masri, commander of the northern sector of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket unit, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Masri had been actively commanding rocket fire from northern Gaza into Israel, according to the IDF, which described him as a “significant figure responsible for executing numerous terrorist operations, managing and directing actions by the organization that targeted Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.”

Hamas murdered more than 1,200 people – mostly civilians, including women and children – and kidnapped another 251 in the 2023 terrorist attack.

Ami Chooses the one with the LONGER PEYUS to be their WH Correspondent

 Ami staff took a ruler and measured the peyus of Turx and Zionce, and bingo, Zionce has 2 inches longer peyus, so he won the contest! 

Am I the only crazy one here? 

Why in Heaven's name do they keep their long peyis out in Golus mingling with Goyim and Shiksis? Then they will wail and yell when they are being mocked and ridiculed! 

Put your peyis behind your ears like Rav Ahron Kotler, R" Moshe Feinstein and R Yaakov Kaminezky z"l, you have on who to rely on!

Yes, Chassidishe Rebbes and Chassidim have their peyos out, but then again they don't work in the White House! 

Ami Magazine has named a new Senior White House Correspondent. In an X post, the popular magazine announced that the torch was being passed from Jake Turx to Shloime Zionce, the Chassidic Youtube world traveler and influencer who has focused on foreign affairs.

In the post, Ami wrote: “Passing of the torch. Everyone’s beloved Ami writer, popular YouTuber and social influencer Shloime Zionce is now our senior White House Correspondent.”

Zionce posted: “Humbled. Thank you @Ami_Magazine for giving me a shot in 2017, and for your continued belief in me up until this momentous day. Very grateful as always, and wishing much luck and success to @JakeTurx on the next step of his journey. I’m excited for what’s to come IYH.”

The announcement led to widespread speculation about the fate of the popular and beloved Jake Turx, who has held the position for years. Turx implied that he is getting promoted to Chief WH Correspondent.

Turx posted: “Thrilled to finally get upgraded to chief White House correspondent and I look forward to teaching Shloime everything I know.”

However Turx is known for his wit and sarcasm, and it is not clear if he was being serious.