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A Republican Minnesota County Official Resigns After Posting Picture That Compared Mask Mandate to Nazi Germany
I feel like anytime a Republican is faced with a mild inconvenience, their first instinct is to compare it to Nazi Germany. An unhinged president with increasingly authoritarian tendencies is fine, but wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of a deadly virus? Well, that’s where one county official in Minnesota drew the line.…
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Hologram of George Floyd Displayed Over Robert E. Lee Monument in Virginia
On Tuesday night in Richmond, Va., a group of organizers projected a hologram of George Floyd over a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as part of an effort to confront America’s long history of systemic racism. CBS News reports that this was the inaugural event for the George Floyd Hologram Memorial Project, a…
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Am I Getting Old or Are Next-Gen Consoles Just Not Hitting?
Last week, two things happened. On Thursday, Xbox gave its full-throated pitch for the Xbox Series X. On Saturday, I turned 28. As I move ever closer towards my impending doom and recent events make me grapple with my own mortality on a daily basis, I keep coming back to this one thought: Am I…
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Black Lives Matter Organizer in Florida Facing Felony Charges for Snatching Flags at Pro-Trump Event
A Black Lives Matter organizer in Florida is facing felony charges for allegedly stealing flags from a car during a Pro-Trump caravan. According to Insider, Jonathan Gartrelle was attending a protest last Saturday in Miami when a “Cubans for Trump,” caravan passed through. An officer claims to have seen Gartrelle “removing flags fixed to passing…
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Black Firefighters in North Carolina Protest Systemic Racism, Demand Fire Chief Resign
OMNIBUS, an organization of Black firefighters in Winston-Salem, N.C., is fighting to change decades of institutional racism within their fire department. Fox 8 reports that the group, along with representatives from Emancipate NC, Hate Out of Winston and several other organizations, gathered outside of station 1 in Winston-Salem to demand that the fire chief and…
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Berkeley Might Become One of the First Cities to Remove Police From Traffic Stops
Fundamentally, I’m a begrudging optimist. Pessimism just seems counterproductive so, no matter how awful things look, I always hold out hope that perhaps they can be better. As protests for police accountability have consistently occurred for well over a month across the county, I’ve hoped that the result would be some kind of tangible change.…
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Pennsylvania Police Officers Under Investigation After Videos Shows Them Placing Knee on Man's Neck
One would think that literally everything that has occurred over the course of the last few months would result in police officers actively trying to not become the center of yet another viral video. But we’re in dark times, so common sense is out the window, and instead, we have to watch both white folks…
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Illinois Cop Who Blew the Whistle on Eric Lurry's Death in Police Custody Stripped of Police Powers
As protests against police brutality began take hold across the country, calls to abolish the police have grown louder and louder. This is partially attributed to the fact that the police themselves don’t seem interested in meaningful reform or calling out the rot in their own organization. When an officer does speak out against wrongdoing,…
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Employees at a Georgia Jimmy John's Fired After Making a Noose Out of Dough
White people must really like being unemployed. It’s the only way to explain why they keep doing blatantly awful things, which will inevitably lead to them losing their job. Take the four employees at a Georgia Jimmy John’s sandwich shop who thought filming themselves making a noose out of dough was the move. According to…
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Multiple White Men Arrested After Yelling Racial Slurs and Doing Nazi Salute Towards Black Family
White people are simply losing their goddamn minds. If it’s not white women suffering from The Karening, it’s white men finding new and often horrific ways to terrorize Black people. In Oregon, a Black family was trying to enjoy a day at the beach when a group of white men began yelling racial slurs and…
