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  • 5 Journalists Were Killed and Sen. Marco Rubio Is More Concerned About Their Colleague Dropping the F-Bomb

    Every time Sen. Marco Rubio opens his mouth or takes his hands from around the president’s pants leg to send out a tweet, he inches closer to front-runner in the race for the most horrible Republican. Less than 24 hours after five of her colleagues were gunned down in a heartless act of senseless violence,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 29, 2018
  • The Real Joanne the Scammer: Former ICE Lawyer Steals Identities of Immigrants He Tried to Deport

    On Thursday, the former chief attorney for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle got four years in federal prison for running bank scams that include stealing the identities of people he was trying to deport. According to the Seattle Times, the sentencing was merely a formality, since defense attorneys for Raphael Sanchez, 44, had…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 28, 2018
  • Could Ex-NAACP Leader Ben Jealous Become the 1st Black Governor of Maryland?

    Former NAACP President Ben Jealous knows that even after emerging victorious in a crowded Maryland Democratic primary on Tuesday to crush Rushern Baker by more than 10 percentage points, he still has a fight on his hands. That’s because the current governor of Maryland, Republican Larry Hogan, is shockingly beloved in an overwhelmingly Democratic state.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 28, 2018
  • Trump Couldn’t Let Beyoncé and Jay-Z Live, Announces Summit With Russian President Vladimir Putin

    Since the release of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s surprise joint album, Everything Is Love, President Donald Trump and his staff have been working furiously to try to upstage the duo. Well, it looks as if the Trump administration may have finally decided that the one move that might take some of the shine from the Carters…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 28, 2018
  • Out-of-Work Vampire Sammy Sosa Tells Sports Illustrated He Can Do Whatever He Wants to His Face Because He’s Rich

    Whenever I think of former major league slugger Sammy Sosa, I am reminded of old-Kanye lyrics that I always adapt to include the now light-skinned ex-baseball player: I got a dark-skinned girl look like Sammy SosaI got a light-skinned girl look like Sammy Sosa Somewhere after Sosa’s retirement from baseball, images of the player in…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 28, 2018
  • Don Trump Jr. Just Used the Word ‘Lit’ and I Feel Triggered 

    I’m just now realizing that it isn’t just the Trump administration’s policies that drive me nuts. It’s not the rambling speeches President ChiChi von FuckFace makes or even the endless rallies that include those rambling speeches … it’s the tweets. And not just the tweets, but the victory-lap tweets. If this were the original Karate…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 27, 2018
  • NFL Cornerback Janoris Jenkins’ Brother a ‘Person of Interest’ After Body Found in Jenkins’ New Jersey Home

    Law enforcement officials are looking to speak with the older brother of New York Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins after a dead body was found inside the football player’s New Jersey home Tuesday. According to TMZ Sports, Jenkins’ brother William is a “person of interest.” Ontario County, N.Y., District Attorney James Ritts told the sports site…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 27, 2018
  • Jeff Sessions Joked About Separating Migrant Children From Their Loved Ones Because He’s Jeff Sessions

    My next-door neighbor ran over a snake once, and that snake stayed in the middle of the street until it finally became a part of the road. For months I walked past this snake wondering if there was someone I could call about coming to pick it up. In the days of passing by said…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 27, 2018
  • Hack ‘Journalist’ Files Assault Charges Against Maxine Waters

    Laura Loomer, a hack journalist who calls herself an “investigative journalist” and lives off of donations from Donald Trump supporters who pad her PayPal, has filed assault charges against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). Video of the incident shows Loomer confronting Waters as she’s walking the halls of Congress. When Loomer reveals that she is a…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 27, 2018
  • How LaVar Ball’s Junior Basketball Association Has Become the Donald Trump of Roundball Leagues 

    In 2011, America was doing just fine. And then this happened … President Barack Obama decided to have some fun with an orange-faced reality star. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, it was this moment that would change the course of American history. On that day, Donald Trump decided that he would punish all…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 26, 2018
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