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  • AOC Is Going to Need Security to Keep Her From Kicking QAnon Crazy Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Ass

    Entitled by her whiteness and her QAnon membership, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to believe that she can aggressively rundown on her colleagues and scream at them whenever she so chooses. According to the Washington Post, Greene, emboldened by the spirit of the insurrectionists, chased down Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and in her wacky…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 13, 2021
  • Appeals Court Finds in This Case, the N-Word Isn't a Fighting Word. Clearly, the Court Is Buggin'

    A retired U.S. Air Force officer, who is white, recently had his conviction overturned by a federal appeals court that found that the his use of the word “nigger” was protected by the First Amendment. According to the Associated Press, Jules Bartow was arrested and didn’t have his ass kicked after he used the hardest…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 12, 2021
  • Republicans Woke Up and Chose Violence, Jazzy Jeff’d Liz Cheney From Her Leadership Position

    Republicans Woke Up and Chose Violence, Jazzy Jeff’d Liz Cheney From Her Leadership Position

    Let’s play a game for a second. You and your friends walk into a room and Rihanna is standing in front of a table talking about the ham sandwich that she prepared. She keeps pointing to it. She insists that it’s the best sandwich ever made. She is gloating about it. Every one of your…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 12, 2021
  • New York Attorney General Tish James Is Gunning for the NRA and She Just Got Her 1st Kill

    A federal judge dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case Tuesday, noting that it wasn’t filed in good faith as the gun rights group and the backbone of America’s violent history only filed the suit because they were afraid of Tish James. Born Letitia James, the New York attorney general did not come here to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 12, 2021
  • Rep. Jim Clyburn Is Out of His Goddamn Mind If He Really Thinks Qualified Immunity Doesn’t Have to Be Part of Policing Reform Bill

    Rep. Jim Clyburn is a political juggernaut. He is a kingmaker. He is a South Carolina god. But Jim Clyburn is out of his goddamn mind if he truly believes that qualified immunity—the legal doctrine that protects officers from being sued—doesn’t need to be part of policing reform legislation, . “I will never sacrifice good…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 10, 2021
  • How the Coronavirus Has Impacted Vice President Kamala Harris’ Family in India

    How the Coronavirus Has Impacted Vice President Kamala Harris’ Family in India

    On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver remarks at the State Department in which she will declare the United States’ solidarity with the people of India and the struggle they face battling COVID-19. But the speech won’t be the empty words of a politician with no skin in the game, as members of Harris’…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 7, 2021
  • Wildly Popular Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Won’t Seek Reelection and Something Doesn’t Seem Right [Updated]

    Thursday was ending the way that Thursdays usually do, with Thursday being all annoyed that no matter what it does, it will never be Friday. Then, literally out of nowhere, news that the rockstar mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, won’t be seeking reelection shocked the airwaves. At one point, Bottoms was supposedly on the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 7, 2021
  • Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Continues Republican Push to Make Voting Hard AF for Black People

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Continues Republican Push to Make Voting Hard AF for Black People

    Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, aka Big Baby Brian Kemp, continued the Republican streak of enslaving the fuck out of the Black vote by signing a controversial bill into law that would limit access to mail-in voting in the state, continuing to move on former President Trump’s continuous lie of election fraud in the 2020…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 6, 2021
  • They Getting Real Reckless: White Colorado State Rep Calls Colleague ‘Buckwheat’

    They Getting Real Reckless: White Colorado State Rep Calls Colleague ‘Buckwheat’

    Maybe they’ve been watching reruns of old Rocky films or still reeling from the high of rushing into the Capitol on Jan. 6, but some Republicans are getting real reckless with their words, and one of the worst examples might be a Colorado state representative who referred to a colleague as “Buckwheat.” While other news…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 6, 2021
  • In an Attempt to Prove Why Critical Race Theory Shouldn’t Be Taught in Schools, Tennessee Lawmaker Falsely Claims Three-Fifths Compromise Was to End Slavery

    In an Attempt to Prove Why Critical Race Theory Shouldn’t Be Taught in Schools, Tennessee Lawmaker Falsely Claims Three-Fifths Compromise Was to End Slavery

    These new discussions about whether or how systemic racism and slavery should be taught in school are proving one thing unequivocally: Republicans don’t know shit about systemic racism or slavery. During a debate Tuesday in the GOP-controlled Tennessee House of Representatives over Bill HB0580, which would prohibit critical race theory from being taught in schools,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 5, 2021
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