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  • Colin Kaepernick Has Been Denied a Job for 889 Days; Posts Video Showing He's Still Ready If an NFL Team Calls

    On Wednesday, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (you know, the guy that’s better than half of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL and way better than the benchwarmers) cleared any doubt that he’s not ready should an NFL team call. Kaepernick, who has not played an NFL game since 2016, posted a video…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 7, 2019
  • Trump Claimed He’d Show His Taxes. Now He’s Suing California Over New Law That Would Force Him to Show His Returns

    President Donald Trump once claimed that if he wasn’t being audited he’d have no problem showing his tax returns. While tax-return flashing isn’t a requirement to be president, it’s been the unspoken norm that all presidents since Richard Nixon have adhered to. As it stands, Trump is the only modern president not to release his…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 7, 2019
  • Trump Bashes Beto's 'Phony' Hispanic Nickname Before Visit to El Paso

    Before heading off to El Paso, Texas, where a white boy trumped up by divisive language from the highest office in the land took the lives of 22 people and injured dozens more, President Racist Thanos found time to send out one more hateful tweet. “Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O’Rourke, who is…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 7, 2019
  • A Family Struggling With Son’s Cancer Diagnosis Was Yard-Shamed. Then, a Group of Strangers Pitched in to Help

    A Family Struggling With Son’s Cancer Diagnosis Was Yard-Shamed. Then, a Group of Strangers Pitched in to Help

    Randa Ragland’s 3-year-old son, Jaxen, is fighting for his life. “He’s autistic and he’s non-verbal,” Ragland told CBS 42. “But, a few days before his third birthday is when he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma stage four cancer.” Since his diagnosis, life has been a blur for the Ragland family. Jaxen has been hospitalized over 20…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 6, 2019
  • Yes, the Image of a Handcuffed Black Man Being Led Down the Street by Mounted Police Is Real—and a Texas Police Chief Is Sorry It Happened

    Many didn’t believe that the photos of two police officers on horseback walking a handcuffed black man down the street on a leash was real. It looked like an image from the 1960s Jim Crow South. It looked an image ripped from a book about racism. Sadly, the image was not only an actual photo…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 6, 2019
  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out Mitch McConnell After 'Team Mitch' Thugs Groped and Choked an AOC Cutout

    A group of vagrants wearing gang logos and insignias spelling out “Team Mitch” posed for a photo showing them assaulting a cardboard cutout of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In the photo, which was spread widely on social media, the future Supreme Court judges can be seen “groping and choking” the freshman representative from New York. All…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 6, 2019
  • Pro Basketball Player Suspended After Drug Test Revealed He Was Pregnant

    Pro Basketball Player Suspended After Drug Test Revealed He Was Pregnant

    Former Ohio University standout Donell “D.J.” Cooper was trying to catch on with a team overseas when a drug test revealed that he was pregnant. Apparently, Cooper used his girlfriend’s urine to try to skirt a drug test and learned in bizarre fashion that the couple was expecting. Cooper was given a two-year suspension after…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 5, 2019
  • Ohio Lawmaker Blames Mass Shootings on Weed, Trans People, Fatherlessness, and That’s Not All

    Ohio Lawmaker Blames Mass Shootings on Weed, Trans People, Fatherlessness, and That’s Not All

    In the stretchiest stretching of all logic that can be remotely elongated, this might be the biggest stretch of all time by a Republican attempting to blame a mass shooting on anything but bigotry, white supremacy, mental illness or “video games.” After shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas left 29 people dead and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 5, 2019
  • NY Mayor Bill de Blasio Reportedly Used NYPD Security Detail to Move Daughter Out of Apartment

    NY Mayor Bill de Blasio Reportedly Used NYPD Security Detail to Move Daughter Out of Apartment

    New York Mayor and Democratic presidential long shot Bill de Blasio reportedly used members of his NYPD security detail to move his daughter out of her Sunset Park Brooklyn apartment. According to a source that spoke with the New York Daily News, de Blasio’s daughter Chiara was moved from her apartment on 4th Ave. and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 5, 2019
  • White Supremacist President Blames Media, Internet, and Video Games for Mass Shootings, Says Nothing About Guns

    If you expected the tragic mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, by two white domestic terrorists (at least one of whom is alleged to be a white supremacist, but neither will be named here, because fuck them), that left some 29 people dead to sway the president to lay off his racist…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 5, 2019
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