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Exonerated Five Fighting to Stop Cops From Lying, Using Innocent People’s DNA and Other Things You Probably Thought Were Already Illegal
Innocent until proven guilty is one of the foundational tenets of American jurisprudence. Even when a person is arrested and jailed for a crime, they are afforded the same presumption of innocence as Ivanka Trump, Jesus Christ, the white people in lotion commercials or any other unblemished, blue-eyed blonde American. Of course, if you’re black,…
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The Man Who Dissed Mitch McConnell Says It Had Nothing to Do With Elijah Cummings. The Untold Backstory Is Even Worse
Senate Majority Leader and Zombie Voldemort, Mitch McConnell, went viral this weekend after a close friend of legendary Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings refused to shake the hand of He Who Should Not Be Named. Bobby Rankin, a longtime friend of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), served as a pallbearer at Cummings’ memorial service on…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The White Fragility Workout Plan
I feel sorry for white people. I can’t imagine having all of that responsibility. First of all, protecting white supremacy is a full-time job, in and of itself. Then, they have to find time to create and spread fictional narratives among themselves. How they managed to explain poverty, educational inequality and black unemployment by inventing…
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'Cruella' DeVos Fined $100,000 for Violating Court Order to Stop Collecting Student Loans
A federal court has ordered the Trump administration’s Wicked Witch of the West Wing, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, to pay $100,000 for violating a court order demanding that the department she oversees stop collecting loan payments from students who were bamboozled by a now-defunct educational institution. Northern District of California Judge Sallie Kim held DeVos…
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A Video in Which Matt Gaetz, a White Man, Whines About Being Called a White Man
Merriam Webster defines “identity politics” as: politics in which groups of people having a particular racial, religious, ethnic, social, or cultural identity tend to promote their own specific interests or concerns without regard to the interests or concerns of any larger political group. Although the Democratic Party’s constituency is far more diverse than the GOP,…
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Watch: Oregon Police Arrest Black Woman for Knowing Her Rights
One of my favorite things on the internet is the genre of YouTube videos posted by white people illustrating to police officers their knowledge of their constitutional rights. They carry guns and don’t get shot in the back. They don’t even roll their windows down during traffic stops because it’s their right! This is white…
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Dumber Than a 5th-Grader: Donald Trump Plans to Build a Wall Around Colorado
Budget analysts, pundits, and anyone who made it past third-grade social studies was stunned to hear the shocking news that the Trump administration planned to extend his border wall into Colorado. On Wednesday evening, Trump spoke before a soldout crowd in Pittsburgh. (The low-information, magenta-necked supporters in the audience didn’t actually purchase tickets, but many…
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Watch: School Resource Officer Resigns After Brutal Attack on 11-Year-Old Girl
A New Mexico school resource officer has resigned after his body camera recorded him slamming a sixth-grade girl to the ground, wrestling her down and threatening her with trumped-up felonies, all because she committed the egregious crimes of disrupting class, taking an extra milk and standing up on a school bus. Authorities in Farmington, N.M.,…
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Republicans Bumrush Impeachment Inquiry With MAGA Lives Matter Protest
Republican lawmakers staged an impromptu protest against the Constitution on Wednesday, intentionally obstructing justice and delaying testimony from a key witness in the impeachment inquiry investigation into crimes that Donald Trump and White House staff already publicly admitted to. Yes, this is a thing that happened. On Wednesday, members of the House Intelligence Committee were…
