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Yes, Florida Gov. Rick Scott Is Breaking Ranks With the NRA and Trump. No, We Shouldn’t Celebrate Just Yet
The student-led push to finally bring a semblance of gun control appears to be working in Florida. Gov. Rick Scott and other state lawmakers on Friday offered a series of proposals that would mark “the most significant move toward gun control in Florida in decades.” The proposed gun laws defy the National Rifle Association and…
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Philando Castile’s Mom Is Sick of Wayne LaPierre and the NRA’s Hypocrisy
Following Wayne LaPierre’s rigorous commitment to arming educators in the wake of yet another school shooting, Philando Castile’s mother has called the National Rifle Association CEO a hypocrite for not standing up for her son, who both owned a gun and was a public school employee. Castile’s mother, Valerie, told the New York Daily News…
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Dumpster Diving for Dro: Las Vegas Airport Offers New Way to Dispose of Leftover Weed and … Hold on, I’ll BRB
They’re calling them amnesty boxes, but these new green receptacles are essentially a treasure trove of discarded weed. Well, they would be if you could get your hands in them. As Fox News reports, visitors leaving from Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport now have the option of disposing of their legally acquired marijuana and prescription…
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Oprah Delivers the Most Elegant, Unbothered Clapback to Trump’s Twitter Nonsense
Leave it to Oprah Winfrey to hit snooze on the bullshit. In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres on Thursday, the Queen Mother of Living Your Best Life revealed how she responded to Donald Trump’s attack on her following a piece she did for 60 Minutes. The 60 Minutes segment, which aired Sunday, featured Oprah with…
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Tisha Campbell-Martin Files for Divorce
Tisha Campbell-Martin announced in a statement through her rep Thursday that she and her husband, Duane Martin, have decided to part ways. As People magazine reports, the pair have been together nearly 30 years and married for more than 20. Campbell-Martin, best known for playing Gina on the iconic TV show Martin, also tweeted out…
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Soccer Player Who Heard Racist Chants Tells Fans to Watch Black Panther
One Belgian soccer player has some homework for the fans he says hurled racist taunts at him on the pitch. Go watch Black Panther. During a UEFA Europa League match Thursday between Borussia Dortmund and Atalanta, Dortmund forward Michy Batshuayi says he heard Atalanta fans make monkey noises at him. “2018 and still [racist] monkey…
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On Prince and Painting Outside of Black and White: Janelle Monáe’s Inspiring Thought Process on Dirty Computer
The first matter of business, if you haven’t already, is to treat yourself to Janelle Monáe’s latest video offerings, which the singer released today. The visuals for “Make Me Feel” and “Django Jane,” the two lead songs off Monáe’s upcoming album, Dirty Computer, are rich and stimulating—an entire 2018 mood board is captured in those…
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Chris Tucker Presses Gas on Rush Hour 4
For the past seven years, neither Chris Tucker nor Jackie Chan has been in any rush to dust off the Rush Hour franchise. In a radio interview from October 2017, Chan said that he and Tucker turned down script after script before finally finding one they liked. As Complex reports, Chan told The Cruz Show…
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Serena Williams Reveals What She Learned After Her Near-Death Experience Giving Birth
Living tennis legend Serena Williams, in an op-ed essay penned for CNN, opened up about her life-threatening experience giving birth and called for readers to address racial inequities in maternal care. In the op-ed, published Tuesday, Williams writes that she almost died giving birth to her daughter, Olympia Ohanian. Olympia was born on Sept. 1,…
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South Carolina Lawmakers Want to Ban Baggy Pants Because What Other Political Issue Could Possibly Be More Pressing?
While the rest of the country clamors for gun control, South Carolina lawmakers have chosen to home in on the real issues, like banning baggy pants. According to WLTX 19, House Bill 4957 would make it illegal “for a person to expose their skin or underwear by wearing their pants ‘three inches below the crest…
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