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Florida Court to Determine Whether Teacher Can Hang ‘Black Lives Matter’ Flag in Class
The levels to this story are just—wow. A Florida high school teacher has sued the school district after being told to take down a Black Lives Matter flag. In case you were wondering what the name of the school she teaches at, it’s Robert E. Lee High School. Fucking Florida, y’all. According to NPR, Amy Donofrio,…
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Time to Hit the Lab in This Week’s Good-Ass Games at Good-Ass Prices
Happy Friday, folks! I don’t know about y’all, but I love a good fighting game. While I barely have the time these days to stay in the lab like I used to, I still try to pick up my fight stick from time to time. This week has quite a few fighting games on sale…
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T-Pain Handles Racist Call of Duty Players in the Best Way Possible: Absolutely Destroying Them
T-Pain’s internet presence is truly one of the most delightful things we’ve got going for us. If you weren’t aware, the R&B singer is an avid gamer who streams on Twitch from time to time. When he recently encountered a group of racists in the lobby for a match in Call of Duty: Black Ops…
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Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat Pulls the Plug on NFT Auction That Would Have Allowed the Winner to Destroy Original Drawing
This whole Non-Fungible Token (NFT) craze has me convinced that rich people just don’t know what to do with their money. The more I research it, the more the concept seems like one that managed to teleport from the year 2000 just as the dot-com bubble was bursting. Considering that the whole idea is the…
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Multiple Homes With Black Lives Matter Signs Have Had Their Tires Slashed in Sacramento Neighborhood
You know, maybe it’s because I grew up in the Wild West era of Xbox Live voice chat, but I generally find the current crop of right-wing trolls and provocateurs more bemusing than offensive. I just can’t take a group of people calling folks snowflakes seriously when they get so in their feelings they do…
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Department of Homeland Security to Launch Internal Review of Domestic Extremism
I guess all it took was lawmakers, current and former service members, as well as members of law enforcement to attempt an insurrection for white people to realize that crazy, racist assholes exist in all fields of work. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday that it would begin an internal review to assess…
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Texas Court Set to Hear the Appeal of Amber Guyger, the Cop Who Killed Botham Jean in His Own Home
A Texas appeals court will begin to hear arguments on Tuesday in the case of Amber Guyger, the Texas cop who shot and killed Botham Jean in his own home in 2018. According to the Associated Press, a jury found Guyger guilty of murder in 2019 and sentenced her to 10 years in prison. Guyger…
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Biden to Expand Free Lunch Program to Provide Meals for 34 Million Students Throughout the Summer
While expanded vaccine eligibility hopefully means that the worst of the pandemic will soon be behind us, we’re still firmly in a recovery phase, and we have a long way to go before getting to whatever the new normal will be. In an effort to potentially reimagine what that new normal could look like, the…
