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#Flint: Will and Jaden Smith Will Donate Water Monthly Until Lead Levels in Schools Are Down
Monday marks day 1,411 since the people of Flint, Mich., had (relatively) clean, safe water running through the pipes in their homes. We are nearly at the four-year mark, and although there has been some change, it has been slow, and the end is still not here. The city doesn’t get as many headlines in…
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Armed Teachers in Classrooms One Step Closer to Being the Law in Florida
As teachers, parents, students and Parkland residents voiced their opposition, Florida lawmakers advanced legislation Tuesday that would create a statewide program to put armed teachers in classrooms. The Miami Herald reports that the state House Appropriations Committee voted to approve a measure that would see teachers trained to carry guns in the classroom under the…
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Donald Trump Bullies Jeff Sessions, and Robert Mueller Wants to Know Why: Report
Donald Trump picked Jeff Sessions to be the attorney general of the United States, but he quickly turned on him when Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation. Since that time, Trump has openly antagonized, insulted and bullied Sessions, both in conversation and on social media. Sources have told the Washington Post that special counsel…
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Shut Your Piehole, Tomi Lahren
Dear Tomi Lahren: This is just a quick note to let you know how much you get on my nerves. I don’t even follow you on Twitter, but people are always retweeting your inanity onto my timeline, and then I am forced to have a thought about it. Like today. Someone shared a tweet from…
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Georgia Lawmakers Prove They Work for the NRA and Not the People in Their State
Delta Airlines is one of the biggest employers in the state of Georgia. It has a hub at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. You’d think that state legislators would want to protect and nurture that relationship, but you’d be wrong. Delta was one of many companies to end their business relationship with the National Rifle Association…
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Ben Carson Wants to Cut HUD Funding, but Not His Office-Redecoration Budget
While Ben Carson was busy refusing to answer Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green’s question about proposed Department of Housing and Urban Development budget cuts, Carson’s office was being redecorated with a brand-new $31,000 dining room set. The New York Times reports that just one month after a whistleblower complained about Carson’s wife, Candy, insisting that…
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Erykah Badu’s Daughter Puma Matches Her Mother in Looks and Voice: Video
When your mother is Erykah Badu, you can’t help growing up with talents in your own right (or Wright, as it were). We’ve already seen plenty of videos with the now 13-year-old Puma flexing her tremendous vocal skills. It is evident that she has been getting vocal lessons since the womb. Puma repaid her mother…
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Pegging: Kink-Shaming Keeps Us From Fully Enjoying Butt Play
As a cishet woman, I will admit that while I am not into anal sex, I do love a little butt play during sex—and I know I’m not alone in this. There are plenty of men who are into butt play, too, whether it’s a finger or two at a time or a strap-on dildo,…
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California May Make Ethnic-Studies Course a High School Graduation Requirement
Many moons ago, when I was a student at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, the Black Student Union organized a protest and sit-in in the principal’s office because they weren’t going to allow us to put on a talent show for the whole school, and they took away a black-history class that was taught…
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#NetNeutrality: Doomsday Is Here—It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It
We knew it was coming, and the day is finally here. The Federal Communications Commission published its ironically named new rules, the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, in the Federal Register on Thursday. It’s the end of the Internet as we know it. OK, maybe not right this minute. The effective date for most of the…
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