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I Want to Build a Wall Around Anyone Who Thinks Taco Bell Is the Best Mexican Restaurant in the Country
As a native Los Angeleno, I recognize that I have grown up with a certain amount of taco privilege. I basically live in northern Mexico, and good, authentic tacos and Mexican food can be found relatively easily with minimal effort. It is one of the perks of living here, and I don’t take it for…
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Trump Doesn't Really Understand What Success Means
As people in the Carolinas prepare themselves for the onslaught of Hurricane Florence, Donald Trump proved that he doesn’t know what the word “success” means when he praised his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year—where an estimated 3,000 people died as a result of the storm. The Washington Post reports that…
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When You Hate a Black Man's Silent Protest So Much, You Ban Nike In Your City
In the wake of Nike revealing Colin Kaepernick as the face of the 30th anniversary of the “Just Do It” campaign, haters have been out in full force to express their displeasure at Nike having the unmitigated gall to celebrate a man who was brave enough to assert his First Amendment rights in the face…
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Barry Jenkins on Racism: ‘If It Can Happen to Me, It Can Happen to Anyone’
Having money or status does not preclude anyone from experiencing racism, and director Barry Jenkins knows that first hand. At the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, he relayed an experience he had while promoting his film Moonlight—and said it’s important for everyone to speak out when it happens to them. Jenkins’s latest film, If…
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Omarosa’s Latest Mixtape Drop Is a Doozy
Omarosa Manigault Newman released two more secret recordings Monday, and Donald Trump is heard on tape discussing among other things Hillary Clinton, the Steele dossier and the deadly Niger ambush in which four U.S. service members were killed in October 2017. The first recording—which was initially released on The View and then later aired on…
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When in Doubt, Blame the Dead
Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger should be facing a murder charge. There are too many holes in this carefully-crafted narrative that is being doled out to us a teaspoonful at a time. Too many things don’t add up. The more they dribble out to us, the more questions we have. Earlier Monday, a law enforcement…
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A 15-Hour Shift, Parking on the Wrong Floor and an Unlocked Door: New 'Reasons' Given Why Amber Guyger Shot Botham Jean [Updated]
More details are being added to the confusing narrative of just what happened when Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger reportedly shot and killed Botham Jean in his own apartment Thursday night. A law enforcement official—speaking on condition of anonymity—told the Dallas Morning News that Guyger had just ended a 15-hour shift and was still in…
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#Flint: As Lead Service Lines Slowly Get Replaced, Petty Fights Between the City and the State of Michigan Continue
This is a reminder that 1,598 days after it began, the water crisis in Flint is still not completely over. They keep saying the water is better and that things are improving—but at the end of the day, is anything really being accomplished? The picture in the header is from two-and-a-half years ago, back when…
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Sarah Sanders’s Misguided Call to Action Has the Opposite Effect
I would like to first give a shoutout to Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s unwavering support of Donald Trump. If there was anyone who epitomizes what Tammy Wynette meant when she sang “Stand By Your Man,” Sanders is it. Nothing this president has done is indefensible in her book. She is more “ride or die” than anyone…
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#StephonClark: Family Files $35 Million Wrongful Death Claim With City of Sacramento
It has been nearly six months since two Sacramento police officers shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark as he stood in the backyard of his grandmother’s home. The SPD’s internal investigation of the shooting is still ongoing, as is the investigation being led by the California State Attorney General. Both officers involved in Clark’s death have…
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