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Texas Tech University Police Officer Shot and Killed; Suspect Now in Custody
A Texas Tech University police officer was shot and killed Monday night at campus police headquarters, causing the Lubbock, Texas, campus to be placed on lockdown for more than an hour. NBC News reports that the incident started after officers responded to a call for a student “welfare check.” When the officers got to the…
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Racist Lime-a-Rita Drinker Gets Tossed Off L Subway Train by Other Passengers for Repeatedly Shouting the N-Word
In today’s “That’s What Your Ass Gets” news, a white man claiming to be a lawyer who graduated from the New York University School of Law found himself ejected by his fellow passengers after he went on a racist tirade on a New York City subway train over the weekend, and the incident was caught…
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Joe Arpaio’s Infamous and Inhumane Tent City Jail Officially Shut Down
In 1993, now-former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio opened his infamous Tent City outdoor jail, supposedly as an answer to the problem of overcrowding in Phoenix’s jails. Tent City was a source of controversy for the entirety of its existence, and this weekend, it finally closed for good, just 10 months shy of its…
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Who Gon’ Check Me, Boo? Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins Says He Will Continue to Protest Even if Team Owner Forbids It
The vice president of the United States wasted taxpayer dollars Sunday so he could stage his own mini protest against NFL players who exercised their constitutional right to peaceful protest by kneeling during the national anthem, and according to the current president, the vice president acted at his request. NFL owners and coaches are doing…
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Sesame Street Wants to Help Children Cope With Traumatic Experiences
Sesame Street understands that the children of today live through at least one traumatic experience before the age of 18, and coping with those experiences can have a serious impact on the rest of their lives. With this in mind, Sesame Workshop announced on Friday its first-ever comprehensive initiative to help children cope with these…
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No Justice, No Peace, Just Crooked Police
On Thursday they told us once again that what we saw with our very own eyes is not what happened. They switched the narrative, painted another black man as an aggressor who caused his own death, and even with video evidence that directly contradicts their narrative, no cops are being charged. A(nother) black man is…
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Opioid Crisis Intervention Court Is a New Kind of Drug-Court Program Looking to Stop People From Dying
Drug court is a common diversion program across the nation that attempts to help nonviolent drug addicts charged with crimes by placing them in a supervised treatment plan in lieu of the traditional justice system. In exchange for successfully completing the program, participants can often get a reduced sentence or have charges dismissed entirely. The…
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Trump Administration Removes Mandate to Cover Birth Control From Obamacare
Birth control will now be harder for some women to get, depending on who their employer is. The Trump administration decided Friday that, effective immediately, any employer can claim a religious or moral objection to providing birth control coverage under its insurance plan. The Obamacare mandate that requires birth control to be provided at no…
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Your President Doesn’t Understand the 1st Amendment or What the Senate Intelligence Committee Does
Early Thursday morning, your president got on Twitter and demonstrated to the American people that he doesn’t understand how the First Amendment works, and he has no clue what the function of the Senate Intelligence Committee is. Donald Trump wrote, “Why isn’t the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country…
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Las Vegas Shooter Previously Booked Rooms Overlooking 2 Other Large Music Festivals: Report
More info is coming to light about the movements Stephen Paddock made in the days and months leading up to his mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night. Reports now say he also booked rooms overlooking Chicago’s Lollapalooza and another Las Vegas event, the Life Is Beautiful festival. The…
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