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Black Grandmother Who Could Have Been Freed for $30 Died After Spending the Last 150 Days of Her Life in Jail
Let’s talk about the injustice that is inherent in the cash bond system and how it disproportionately impacts people of color. Let’s discuss the criminal justice system’s inability to properly deal with those suffering from mental illness. Let’s talk about how those two things combined recently contributed to the death of a 61-year-old black grandmother…
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Gets Called Out For Being the Worst White House Press Secretary Ever
On Tuesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders gave the White House’s first press briefing in three weeks. She spent about 15 minutes at the podium, didn’t really give any answers of substance, and as she prepared to leave, was heckled by reporters in the room. “Ten-minute briefing, Sarah?” one reporter asked incredulously. “Do your job, Sarah,” another…
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Judge in Michael Flynn's Hearing Reads Him for Filth But Postpones His Sentencing So He Can Keep Snitching
In a federal district court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, retired three-star general Michael Flynn stood in front of Judge Emmet G. Sullivan and prepared to face the music for his crimes. The New York Times reports that Judge Sullivan said he was not hiding his “disgust” for what Flynn had done, and he called…
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Report: Russians Targeted Black Americans in Social Media Campaigns to Disrupt 2016 Election
When most people hear the word “propaganda,” it probably sounds like a far-off concept or idea or something that only happens in other countries and never here in the United States. The fact is that the U.S. launched full propaganda campaigns as part of the war effort during both WWI and WWII. Propaganda is a…
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Your President Is a Dullard Who Confuses Homophones
As a self-professed word nerd, one of my biggest pet peeves is confused homophones. There’s nothing like seeing a great meme on Facebook or Twitter and being unwilling to share it because the person put “there” when they meant “their” or “your” when they meant “you’re” or “hear” when they meant “here” or some such…
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Contrary to What Donald Trump Says, He Has Not Been Cleared. He’s Been Implicated in a Federal Case
“Totally clears the President. Thank you!” Donald Trump tweeted Friday, shortly after news broke that federal prosecutors had made filings in the cases against his former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen. For whatever reason, the “President” seems to think the filings exonerate him of any wrongdoing, but he is absolutely incorrect. The filing in Cohen’s…
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Kevin Hart Won’t Get Redemption Until He Atones
Kevin Hart fucked up, and he is continuing to fuck up even as I write this. As my colleague Issac Bailey pointed out: He messed up by refusing to do what was easy and right. As others have noted, he should have simply apologized again for the old tweets because a new, larger audience would…
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Cyntoia Brown Will Have to Serve 51 Years Before She’s Eligible For Release, Tennessee Supreme Court Rules [Corrected]
From the beginning, Cyntoia Brown’s life story has been heartbreaking. She was put up for adoption at the age of 2, and her life after that was a traumatic spiral of verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and substance abuse. At the age of 16, she was sold as a sex-slave to a 43-year-old Nashville…
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Kevin Hart Wants You to Stop Being ‘Negative’ About His Homophobic Tweets, But He’s Deleting Some of Them Anyway
After the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that comedian Kevin Hart would be hosting the 91st Oscars ceremony on Feb. 24, it was only a matter of time before Twitter detectives dug through his tweets to find something offensive. What they came up with were a bunch of homophobic jokes Hart has…
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Crazy Teacher Arrested For Forcibly Cutting a Student’s Hair While Singing the National Anthem
This story is qwhite bizarre. A teacher in Visalia, Calif., was arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony child endangerment after she allegedly forcibly cut a student’s hair in front the class while loudly singing the national anthem. According to NBC News, Margaret Gieszinger is a teacher at University Preparatory High School, located on the campus…
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