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  • Julian Assange Arrested in London: Here Are 5 Facts About Wikileaks' White Walker

    Julian Assange Arrested in London: Here Are 5 Facts About Wikileaks' White Walker

    Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday. Assange had been living in the embassy for the past seven years to avoid being extradited to Sweden, where he was once facing a sexual assault case that has since been dropped. Before we go any further, how does one live…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 11, 2019
  • A Gif Response to Van Jones’ Claim That Kim Kardashian Unleashed the ‘Most Effective’ Intervention He’s Ever Seen in American Politics

    A Gif Response to Van Jones’ Claim That Kim Kardashian Unleashed the ‘Most Effective’ Intervention He’s Ever Seen in American Politics

    Last month, Van Jones spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Let that sink in. CPAC is basically Freaknik for conservatives and those who think like them, and Van Jones, under no duress, spoke on his own free will. Van Jones has gone full Kanye. He rolls with the Kardashians and I don’t know if…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 10, 2019
  • Wait, What? Attorney General Claims Spying Occurred on Trump's Campaign Then Provides No Evidence

    Wait, What? Attorney General Claims Spying Occurred on Trump's Campaign Then Provides No Evidence

    Attorney General William Barr, who is not John Goodman’s twin brother, slipped up and let his true inner Trump supporter show. During Barr’s Senate Appropriations Committee, which was supposed to be about his 2020 budget—but no one cares about that when you have the man who decided that there wasn’t even a case to prosecute…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    April 10, 2019
  • Trump Calls Mueller Probe an 'Attempted Coup' In Another Unhinged Rant That's Become a Staple of His Presidency

    After taking a shower in pig vomit and playing a full game of golf in the Oval Office in which Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) held the president’s golf tee in his mouth while wearing only an adult diaper, the president claimed on Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was nothing more than an “attempted…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    April 10, 2019
  • Trump Keeps Lying on Obama's Good Name, Claims the Former President Separated Migrant Families at the Border

    According to President Trump, former President Barack Obama is a Kenyan operative who used a fake birth certificate to run for office. Once elected, he took babies from migrant families attempting to cross the border into the United States and Trump is the one who stopped it. The latter is a claim that Trump has…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    April 10, 2019
  • Texas Tech Medical School Will No Longer Consider Race in Admissions, Caving to Pressure From the Trump Administration

    Texas Tech Medical School Will No Longer Consider Race in Admissions, Caving to Pressure From the Trump Administration

    The most sinister PTA mom, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, is going to war with affirmative action, and at least one school has caved to the pressure. According to NBC News, race will longer be considered in deciding admission at Texas Tech University medical school, which is bowing to the Trump administration’s push to end affirmative…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    April 10, 2019
  • Candace Owens Is Racist White America’s Black Friend and She Just Told Congress That White Nationalism Isn’t a Thing

    Unfortunately for the world, Candace Owens is a thing. I want her not to be a thing, or, even better, a thing of the past like Furbys and AOL Instant Messenger. Yet, here we are talking about Candace Owens because she is trotted out by the far-right whenever there is a discussion on white nationalism…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 9, 2019
  • Attorney General William 'Big Fred Flintstone' Barr to Release Redacted Mueller Report Within a Week

    Attorney General William “Big Fred Flintstone” Barr sat in the lukewarm seat on Tuesday and told lawmakers that he will be releasing a redacted AF version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s mixtape, “Why couldn’t I just say whether or not the president obstructed justice?” within a week. Big Fred of the the Mighty Mighty Flintstones…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 9, 2019
  • D.C. Fights Back Against Colonizers Who Want to Ban Go-Go Music From an Iconic City Corner

    D.C. Fights Back Against Colonizers Who Want to Ban Go-Go Music From an Iconic City Corner

    Back in 1498, a few years after Christopher Columbus pillaged the Caribbean and before he set sail to Trinidad, Columbus landed in the District of Columbia. He asked where he could get a good half-smoke, and the people told him to go to Ben’s Chili Bowl on U Street. There Columbus and his crew dined…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    April 9, 2019
  • Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls Trump Adviser Stephen Miller a 'White Nationalist'; Her Critics Accuse Her of Anti-Semitism

    Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) isn’t here to be liked, she’s here to call it as she sees it, and as such, she’s quickly moving up the “Auntie Maxine reclaiming my time” list of righteous women who don’t have the energy to placate the public. On Monday, Omar called Stephen Miller, the assumed puppet master behind…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 9, 2019
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