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Good Samaritan Killed While Trying to Help Distressed Motorist as Twin Sister Looks On
Twin sisters Marcasia and Markwonda Crenshaw were returning home to South Florida Sunday night when they saw a van parked on the inside lane of Interstate 95. Concerned, they pulled over to make sure the driver of the van was OK. It would be a fateful decision. Marcasia, 25, was struck and killed by a…
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Come Drink at Britt McHenry’s Fountain of White Tears Over Colin Kaepernick’s Citizen of the Year Recognition
We told you Monday that many a wypipo was big mad over Colin Kaepernick’s selection as GQ’s Citizen of the Year for 2017, but arguably no one was saltier than ex-ESPN reporter and tow truck victims’ advocate Britt McHenry. Perhaps because she’s got a lot more time on her hands now, McHenry hosed Twitter with…
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Jeff Sessions Has Another Chance to Lie His Ass Off Before Congress
Another day, another opportunity to perjure your damn self. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is speaking before the House Judiciary Committee again Tuesday about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But Sessions—the man Coretta Scott King warned us was too racist to be a federal judge, let alone attorney general—will have a little help…
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Today in White Nonsense: Woman Claims She’s ‘Transracial,’ Identifies as Filipino
Dear white people: Why are you like this? A white transgender woman from New Orleans has come out to a Tampa Bay TV station to claim that she is “transracial.” Ja Du says she now considers herself to be a Filipino. Ahhh, right, because that’s what 2017 needed: more shades of white nonsense. And why…
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Whitefish, Candidates for the Scammer Hall of Fame, Billed Puerto Rico More Than 7 Times What They Actually Paid Their Workers: Report
A new report from the New York Times has uncovered the startling gap between what Whitefish Energy, the small energy company that was charged with rebuilding Puerto Rico’s devastated power grid, charged for its workers and what it actually paid. The Times spoke to six electrical workers from Kissimmee, Fla., who are currently working on…
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Keith Ellison, the Man Who Saw Trump’s Presidency Coming, Has Some Bold Predictions for Democrats in 2018
In 2015, when Donald Trump’s presidency was punchline and not reality, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) warned a panel on ABC’s This Week that Trump could very well be president. “All I want to say is that anybody … who’s terrified of the possibility of President Trump better vote, better get active, better get involved, because…
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Trump <3 Duterte: 2 Dickheads Have the Weekend of Their Dreams
Two of the biggest assholes in the world, President Donald Trump and President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, have expressed mutual admiration for some time. This past weekend, the pair finally got to have the bonding session of their dreams: serenading each other, bitching about Barack Obama and avoiding any talk of the thousands of…
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Colin Kaepernick Is GQ’s Citizen of the Year Without Having to Say a Damn Thing
It’s long been clear that Colin Kaepernick has become a bigger hero off the football field than he ever was on it. In a year that has seen the ripple effects of the quarterback’s 2016 national anthem protests against racial injustice (protests that effectively barred him from playing the sport again but that have become…
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Federal Court Orders Md. to Fix Its Lack of Investment in HBCUs
This week a federal judge ruled in favor of Maryland’s historically black colleges and universities in a decadeslong legal battle over disparities in higher education in the state. As the Washington Post reports, Judge Catherine C. Blake ordered Maryland to address its historic lack of investment in the state’s HBCUs. In her injunction, Blake barred…
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‘These Stories Are True’: Louis C.K. Responds to Reports of Sexual Abuse
Comedian Louis C.K. has released a statement confirming reports that he has sexually abused multiple women he worked with during his career. “I want to address the stories told to the New York Times by five women named Abby, Rebecca, Dana, Julia who felt able to name themselves and one who did not,” C.K. wrote…
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