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  • Melania Trump Hates Seeing Immigrant Children Taken From Their Parents, but Not Enough to Tell Her Husband to End It

    Melania Trump has a voice; she just chooses not to use it. In fact, when Ofdonald does speak, it’s usually to spout the lifted words from black America’s first-lady-until-further-notice, the great and incomparable Michelle Obama, or it’s to shout “Be best”—because that makes a lot of sense. So in a rare moment of unfiltered utterance…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 18, 2018
  • 10 Things I Already Know About You if You’re Listening to Nas’ New Album Nasir

    Sometime in the ungodly hours after midnight—the hours when men get drunk and send “Hey Bighead, you up?” texts—one of the cinderblock pillars in the upper portion of hip-hop’s foundation released an album. Queens, N.Y., rapper Nas released the “Make America Great Again”-hat-wearing-Kanye West-produced album Nasir, and the internet was ablaze; the Queensbridge listening party…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 15, 2018
  • A Week After Being Arrested in a Trailer Park, Kellen Winslow Jr. Is Arrested Again on Charges of Kidnapping and Rape

    What happened to Kellen Winslow Jr.? Last week, the former NFL tight end was arrested in San Diego on suspicion of burglary after he was reportedly seen snooping around a trailer park. On Thursday the 34-year-old was arrested, again in San Diego, and charged with nine serious counts, including kidnapping with intent to rape and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 15, 2018
  • New York Attorney General Sues Trump Foundation, Claiming It Was Little More Than a Checkbook for the President: Report

    On Thursday the New York attorney general sued quite a few people and institutions with the name “Trump,” including the president, sons Eric and Donald Jr., daughter Ivanka and the Donald J. Trump Foundation, claiming that charitable donations made to the nonprofit were used to settle debts owed by the family and, get this, to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 14, 2018
  • Trump Saluted a North Korean General, but Let’s Keep Talking About Kneeling NFL Players

    During his visit with brutal North Korean dictator—and wearer of one of the tightest Asian-man high-top fades, Kim Jong Un—President NuNu von SherbetSkin saluted a uniformed North Korean military officer because he doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing. According to the Daily Beast, after Donald Trump shook Kim Jong Un’s hand, the president then…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 14, 2018
  • Wait, Rudy Giuliani Was Once Married to His Cousin? That Explains Everything

    Giuliani’s first marriage was annulled because he was, in fact, married to his cousin.

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 14, 2018
  • After Meeting With One of the World’s Worst Dictators, Trump Declares the Press America’s Biggest Enemy

    So now that the president of the United States is all “Go, best friend, that’s my best friend” with the tyrannical leader of North Korea, he somehow believes that the press is America’s biggest enemy. In an angry tweet Wednesday, Donald Trump declared that CNN and NBC were the purveyors of “fake news,” all claims…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 13, 2018
  • ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith Confirms Long-Held Speculation That He Likes Big Butts and He Cannot Lie

    Despite Stephen A. Smith’s penchant for browbeating sportspeople of color, he is, in fact, still a black man, and he confirmed this during a spot on Snoop Dogg’s Double G News Network, in which he declared that he is an ass man. According to USA Today, Smith let Snoop Dogg know that in a fight…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 13, 2018
  • Trump’s Personal Fixer Michael Cohen’s Lawyers Have Bailed, and He’s Expected to Sing Like 1986 El DeBarge

    Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime fixer who is currently being pressed out by federal prosecutors in New York City, is drinking lemon tea with honey to prep his throat for his rendition of Mahalia Jackson’s “Amazing Grace,” and that’s because Cohen is getting ready to sing. I don’t want to brag, but I predicted this.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 13, 2018
  • Trump Continues His Petty Presidency, Vows to Make Canada Pay for Trudeau’s Comments

    Welp, the G-7 summit happened, and as expected, the president of the United States showed his entire untanned ass on a global stage. And even though the party has ended, that hasn’t stopped Donald Trump from holding a grudge. Apparently Trump believes that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shaded him during a speech he made…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 12, 2018
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