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  • Disney and Comcast Set to Go Into Bidding War Over 21st Century Fox

    When a federal judge ruled Tuesday that AT&T could purchase Time Warner for the whopping sum of $85 billion, many predicted that the case would pave the way for other such mergers, including a potential bidding war over the assets of 21st Century Fox. On Wednesday, those predictions came true as Comcast threw its hat…

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  • #Flint: Mayor Karen Weaver Says State Oversight of Water System Is ‘Unwarranted and Unnecessary’

    As of Tuesday, it has been 1,510 days since the people of Flint, Mich., have had a clean and stable water system. Although experts in the state had flagged the city’s water system as still being “poor,” Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder still pulled the plug on free water distribution in the city, leaving the residents…

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  • Federal Judge Rules AT&T Can Purchase Time Warner for $85 Billion

    When Makan Delrahim—head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division—filed a federal lawsuit in November to prevent AT&T’s $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, questions arose as to whether the former White House counsel was unduly influenced by Donald Trump’s seemingly personal vendetta against CNN, a company owned by Time Warner. The DOJ insisted…

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  • The Problematic Playlist: Songs With Questionable Lyrics That We Can’t Let Go Of

    Have you ever been singing along to a song and then suddenly realize it has lyrics that would get you dragged if you said them aloud on Twitter? I’m talking about songs that could be classified as rape-culture anthems, or that advocate violence against women or sex with underage girls, or all of the above.…

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  • From IDGAF to ‘Y’all Hiring?’ CrossFit Exec Fired for Homophobic Tweets [Updated]

    Updated: Thursday, June 7, 2018, 8:30 p.m. EDT: In addition to Russell Berger’s firing, the CrossFit location that he praised for canceling an event coinciding with Indy Pride has been shut down. The Indianapolis Star reports that the downtown Indianapolis CrossFit Infiltrate, located on West Ninth Street, has a sign posted on its door that…

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  • White Teacher Makes Instagram Post Mocking Black Elementary Student’s Hair

    A Canadian school board has launched an investigation after a white substitute teacher made an offensive post on Instagram mocking the hair of a black student. The Peel District School Board was notified of the racist post after a concerned community member posted about it on Twitter. “Hi @PeelSchools,” Twitter user @giaper wrote. “[P]lease be…

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  • White Family Beats Down 2 Police Officers. Miraculously, No One Gets Shot

    This is one of those stories where, if I were writing it about a black family, it would have an entirely different headline and an entirely different outcome, because that’s how these things work in our society right now. A husband, wife, their son and an unidentified juvenile relative were all arrested in Middle River,…

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  • Beyoncé and Jay-Z Kick Off OTR II Tour in Cardiff, Wales

    Beyoncé and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, kicked off their highly anticipated OTR II Tour at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on Wednesday. Everyone was ready. Twitter users posted videos showing the couple coming onstage via an elevator. The stage setup and video imagery make it immediately apparent that this tour is all about the couple’s…

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  • Black Firefighter Being Burned for Kneeling During the National Anthem

    Add this to the list of things you cannot do while being black: exercise your First Amendment rights. Oh, wait. The NFL already made that a thing, right? A black firefighter in Chicago is being burned at the stake by his peers and local journalists alike after he made the decision to kneel on the…

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  • #ObstructionGate: Former FBI Official’s Memo Hints That Comey Firing Was Related to Russia Investigation

    Like his predecessor James Comey, former acting Federal Bureau of Investigation director Andrew G. McCabe wrote confidential memos detailing conversations he thought might be important later. One of those memos detailed a meeting that McCabe had with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in which Comey’s firing was discussed. That memo has now been turned over…

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