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Russia Is Pretending to Have a Presidential Election
If you haven’t heard, there’s an election in Russia and President Vladimir Putin has already won. Well, Putin hasn’t technically won yet, but he’s going to win, just like he’s won every other sham election during his reign. The results, which will show him winning by a landslide, are not as much the story as…
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Felix Sater Claims Trump Organization Pursued Deal With Sanctioned Bank During 2016 Election
Longtime Donald Trump associate Felix Sater told Chris Hayes on his MSNBC show Friday that he was trying to secure a real estate deal during the 2016 campaign to build “Trump Tower Moscow” with funding from VTB Bank, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. “I had a local developer there [in Russia], and I had…
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Moms Took Kids to Mosque to Broadcast Islamophobic Rant on Facebook Live
Two Arizona mothers live-streamed themselves inside a Tempe, Ariz., mosque yelling Islamophobic statements in front of their children, according to CNN. In the March 4 Facebook Live video, Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer are inside the Islamic Community Center of Tempe claiming to expose “Shariah law in America” and “the illegal invasion of Muslims.” They…
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A Word About Louis Farrakhan and Tamika Mallory
Women’s March Co-President Tamika Mallory’s public image has been taking a drumming all week since news broke of her attendance at the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviour’s Day, during which Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a speech with anti-Semitic commentary. The speech was delivered at the end of February, but Twitter went ablaze last weekend after…
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‘Patriotic’ Trump Supporter Finds Out She Was Tricked by Russian Trolls and Her Reaction Is Hilarious
Florine Gruen Goldfarb loves America. She is a real, down-home patriot. So much so that she unwittingly promoted Russian-coordinated events on Facebook in support of Donald Trump. Goldfarb, who runs the Team Trump Broward County Facebook page, was one of the 53 percent of white women who backed Trump in 2016 and likely didn’t need…
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Can We Stop Blaming Russian Bots for White People’s Racism, Please?!
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller on Friday dropped a 37-page indictment charging 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities with election fraud. The entire indictment focused on how the charged parties used social media to organize pro-Donald Trump and anti-Hillary Clinton rallies and took on fake social media profiles, especially on Twitter and Facebook. Much of…
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I Toured One of the Most Radioactive Places on Earth
It’s 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 13, and I’m sitting in a white minivan at Kiev, Ukraine’s central train station waiting to visit Chernobyl, where the world’s most catastrophic nuclear incident took place in 1986. I’ve been visiting Kiev every three months since 2008, but I’ve never been to Chernobyl, just two hours north of…
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In the Race for Georgia Governor, Can Stacey Abrams Usher In a New Southern Strategy for the Democrats?
Stacey Abrams was 17 years old in 1991 when she was first told she couldn’t enter the governor’s mansion in the affluent Buckhead district of Atlanta. She and her parents stepped off the MARTA bus stop nearby and walked toward the guards booth, where they were met with the blunt response. “You can’t come in…
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‘Neo-Nazi’ Teen Charged With Killing Girlfriend’s Parents After Mom Asked Her to Break Up With Him
A 17-year-old “outspoken neo-Nazi” was charged with two counts of murder after allegedly shooting and killing his 16-year-old girlfriend’s parents Friday morning after her mom convinced her to stop dating him, according to the Washington Post. Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, and her husband, Scott Fricker, 48, were killed at their home in Reston, Va., around 5…
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Colorado Teen Charged With Murder After Allegedly Stabbing Stepdad and Posting Video on Snapchat
A Colorado teenager has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing his stepfather Friday night at their home in the city of Aurora and posting video of the dying man on Snapchat, according to the Denver Post. In the video, Nickolas Vinson, 19, is seen saying, “Hey, guys, I just killed him. I just…
