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Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Other 2008 Boston Celtics Champs Really Hate Ray Allen
Kevin Garnett’s Area 21 on TNT might be the best talk show that doesn’t include DJ Akademiks and Joe Budden. On Monday the Big Ticket hosted members of the 2008 title-winning Boston Celtics, including Glen “Big Baby” Davis, Kendrick Perkins, Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo. Ray Allen wasn’t invited, and that’s because, like a bitter…
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Aaron Hernandez’s 2015 Murder Conviction Is Thrown Out
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had his 2015 murder conviction posthumously overturned by a judge Tuesday. Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh vacated Hernandez’s first-degree murder conviction for the 2013 shooting of Odin L. Lloyd because he died before he was able to appeal the conviction. “Abatement remains the law in this…
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Shaq ‘All Lives Matter’ O’Neal Will Run for Sheriff in 2020
Black people who desperately long to be police officers confuse me. They always have. Clearly, the good-ole-boy structure of the police force isn’t designed for black people. And yes, I get the idea of black people who want to be different and turn the force around so that they alone can change the perception of…
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Journalists Kicked Out of Kushner Family’s Pay-for-Play Visa Event in China
A Beijing-based correspondent for the Washington Post claimed that she and a colleague were kicked out of a “Kushner event featuring Jared’s sister.” She also says the other journalist had part of her video and audio recordings deleted. Emily Rauhala attended the event in China in which Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House…
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Eric Trump Claimed Russians Fund Trump’s Golf Courses: Report
One of President Vladimir TrumPutin’s sons was out here spilling all the tea in 2014, telling a prominent golf writer that Russians funded one of Papa’s golf courses, because of course they did. James Dodson, who co-authored the Arnold Palmer biography A Golfer’s Life, told Boston radio station WBUR that during a trip to one…
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Obama Basically Warned Trump That Michael Flynn Was His Administration’s Phaedra Parks
Just as NeNe Leakes warned us all about Phaedra Parks, it turns out that former president Barack Obama—aka “We wish you could’ve gone month to month until we found a better replacement”—warned President TrumPutin that Michael Flynn was shady. In November, then-President Obama warned President-elect TrumPutin against hiring retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as his…
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Wait, Did President Trump Just Threaten Sally Yates?
President Twitter Fingas is at it again. On Monday, hours before former U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates is set to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about Russia, the president is out here tweeting like he’s a member of Real Housewives. Donald Trump tweeted (and apparently subsequently deleted): “Ask Sally Yates, under oath,…
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Unique Views, Episode 41: Say It Ain’t So, Jesse Williams
Unique Views didn’t have a guest this week, so we decided that we would force our most committed listeners (read: our moms) to listen to everything we hate. Sure, we are rebranding the podcast and have seen ourselves in comic book form (and let me just say that I have the broadest shoulders and the…
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#StayWoke: The White House Just Fired the 1st Black Female Chief Usher
Angella Reid, the first woman and only the second African American to be the chief usher at the White House, has been fired. White House residence staff learned of the firing Friday morning, the Washington Post reports. “We are very grateful for her service and wish her the very best,” a White House official told…
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Ivanka Trump Dancing With Her Sons Might be the Worst Thing on the Internet
Look, the video is cute. We get it. No matter how deplorable Ivanka Trump, aka Lil’ Trumpet, is, she’s still a mom, and a mom dancing with her sons after “work” is cute. But make no mistake: This is 100 percent staged cuteness. Like the thirst traps that video models set on Instagram, this is…
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