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Russia Made a Trump Coin Because They Love Him
This Russia-Donald Trump thing just keeps getting weirder. According to the Huffington Post, a Russian company has made a commemorative coin for the president-elect’s inauguration featuring his face and the words “In Trump We Trust.” “There are more hopes associated with Trump with regards to the lifting of sanctions; maybe the environment [between the U.S.…
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Watch: Chargers New Coach Flubs Team Name and Cusses During 1st Press Conference
Anthony Lynn is new to all of this. He isn’t used to being in the spotlight or being the voice of a team, but he’s signed up for the job, and let’s hope his first day out of the gate isn’t a symbol of what is to come. Lynn, a former offensive coordinator and interim…
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Maine Governor: John Lewis Owes the GOP a Thank-You for Ending Slavery
Maine Gov. Paul LePage has lost his mind. I can’t confirm that Maine Gov. Paul LePage ever had a mind, but I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt here. I can say that his comments Tuesday that Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) owes President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP a “thank-you” to be clear signs…
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Whiteness Wants Clarence Thomas to Have Prominent Place in National African-American Museum
I don’t think Sen. John Cornyn III (R-Texas) understands how this works. I could be wrong, but I don’t think you need a white sponsor to be inducted into the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In fact, I don’t think you get inducted, since it isn’t the Hall of Fame. I surely…
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Rep. Maxine Waters Just Did It for the Culture
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is not here for Donald Trump, his racist comments, his sexist comments, all his comments or his inauguration. She doesn’t want any part of this president, and she couldn’t hide her disgust during a recent appearance on MSNBC Live With Tamron Hall. Waters, the representative for California’s 43rd Congressional District, didn’t…
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38 Democrats and Counting Won’t Be Attending Trump’s Inauguration
If anything good has come from the public tiff between President-elect Donald Trump and civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it’s that the takedown of Trump has been swift and intense. As it stands, 38 Democratic members of Congress have announced that they won’t be…
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Trump’s Pick Is a Habitual Plagiarizer
Monica Crowley, the author and television personality touted for a senior communications position in Trump’s administration, is bowing out of the running for that role amid reports that she is a habitual plagiarizer. According to CNN, Crowley’s 2012 book, What the Bleep Just Happened, is full of unattributed-writer fouls. At last count, there were more…
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Kamiyah Mobley, Kidnapped in 1998, Found Alive and Well 18 Years Later
In 1998 a woman posing as a hospital worker walked into the University Medical Center, now known as U.F. Health Jacksonville (Fla.), and told a new 16-year-old mother that her daughter, Kamiyah Mobley, who was just hours old, had a fever and needed to be treated. The woman left the mom’s recovery room and walked…
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How a Nosy Woman Got a Doctoral Candidate Beaten and Arrested
Lawrence Crosby, a black man and an engineering doctoral candidate at Northwestern University, was fixing his car in a suburb outside Chicago on Oct. 10, 2015, when a woman passing by called police. “Hi, somebody’s trying to break into, somebody’s trying to break into a car,” the woman told the dispatcher, according to Fox 32.…
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Feds Confirm: Chicago Police Department Is as Corrupt as You Thought It Was
The Chicago Police Department has always had a violent history plagued by corruption. On Friday a yearlong investigation by the U.S. Justice Department confirms that the CPD has continued to build on its bankrupt legacy. According to DOJ findings, the Chicago police “have violated the constitutional rights of residents for years, permitting racial bias against…
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