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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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Michigan Parents Pull Child From School After Teacher, Other Students Make Racist Remarks
A family in Utica, Mich., pulled their child from her school after, they say, a substitute teacher and other students directed racist remarks at her. Juan Sifuentes, who is Mexican, and Kim Sifuentes, who is black, told Click on Detroit that the bullying their daughter Nayeli faced at Switzer Elementary School got worse after Donald…
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Rick Ross on Life Support: Report
Miami rapper and Maybach Music CEO Rick Ross is reportedly on life support after being rushed to a Miami hospital early Thursday morning. TMZ first reported that Ross was taken to the hospital by ambulance after someone in his home called 911 and reported a person in distress who was “breathing heavy” and unresponsive. 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 Ain’t Slick. Don’t Let His Backpedaling Fool You
So remember how it came out that Ben Carson’s wife, Candy, had bullied staff at the Department of Housing and Urban Development into purchasing a $31,000 dining set? And remember how, when he was asked about it, Carson said he didn’t see the problem and he wasn’t going to return it? Well, it turns out…
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Riding the Red River: Safely Navigating Your Way Through Period Sex
“Everyone has laid down the dark towel before.” That is how my sister explained period sex to me a long time ago, and that phrase has always stuck in my head. I’ve heard it called “running the red light,” “riding the red river,” “fighting a bloody battle” and “earning your red badge of courage,” but…
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The Return of Back-Alley Abortions? Mike Pence Predicts End of Legal Abortion ‘in Our Time’
Vice President Mike Pence continues to stick his nose where it doesn’t belong: in the reproductive organs of American women. While speaking at a luncheon hosted by the anti-abortion organization the Susan B. Anthony List & Life Issues Institute in Nashville, Tenn., Pence said that he believes legal abortion in the United States will end…
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