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Listen to this article TikTok has gone from being mostly known as the go-to spot for wacky dancing cat videos to a serious partisan and geopolitical lightning rod that’s forcing Congress to act.
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Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2024
Nine months into the Israel-Hamas war and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Netanyahu’s speech has become a lightning rod of controversy, triggering an eruption of protests in Washington.
—Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 24 July 2024
Those two very different events show just how divided Memphis was in the 1960s and how the blues, developed and notated down on Beale Street, would continue to be a lightning rod, as would the festival itself.
—Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 9 July 2024
But Republicans blasted the agreement as a sweetheart deal and Hunter Biden became a lightning rod for criticism of his father.
—Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
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Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2024
Nine months into the Israel-Hamas war and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Netanyahu’s speech has become a lightning rod of controversy, triggering an eruption of protests in Washington.
—Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 24 July 2024
Those two very different events show just how divided Memphis was in the 1960s and how the blues, developed and notated down on Beale Street, would continue to be a lightning rod, as would the festival itself.
—Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 9 July 2024
But Republicans blasted the agreement as a sweetheart deal and Hunter Biden became a lightning rod for criticism of his father.
—Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
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“Lightning rod.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lightning%20rod. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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