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CDC Says 'Small Household Gatherings' Are Causing a Spike in COVID-19 Cases
We all know by now that large gatherings hurt efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 infections, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now warns that small household gatherings are causing a spike in new cases. CNN reports that CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said during a Tuesday call with the nation’s…
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Twitter Suspends Dozens of Fake Black Trump Supporter Accounts as 2020 Continues to Be Weird AF
I’m not sure when it became so important to conservatives that they appear to be aligned with Black people, but booooy have they gotten desperate. I knew it was bad when Candace Owens, the grandmaster of tap-dancery, was out here paying Black people to attend a Trump rally and fake-represent “Blexit,” but it turns out…
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Ice Cube Working With the Trump Administration Was Dumb and Naive. Here’s Why
All of these Black celebrities would do well to understand how unlikely it is that a sitting president is going to meet with entertainers on major policy decisions. Now, our current president and his administration will meet with you. He’s so desperate for Black friends that he won’t pass on the opportunity to use you…
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Lindsey Graham Refers to Jim Crow as the 'Good Old Days.' He Says He Was Being Sarcastic. I Say He Was Being Sar-racist
So… Why can’t South Carolina Senator and official Trump foot-in-mouth-remover (it’s a full-time job with political benefits) Lindsey Graham (R) seem to stop saying shit that sounds so racist he’s forced to explain why it wasn’t racist at all? Graham is being called out by his Democratic opponent in the upcoming 2020 election, Jaime Harrison,…
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Prosecutor Says Amy ‘Central Park Karen’ Cooper Made a 2nd 911 Call, Claiming a Black Man ‘Tried to Assault Her’
Amy Cooper—the Becky of all Karens whose hit single “I’m Not a Gentrifier, I Just Shoo Away the Blacks a Lot,” who went viral earlier this year when she called the police on Black bird watcher Christian Cooper—made two separate 911 calls on that fateful day in New York City’s Central Park, according to prosecutors.…
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The Supreme Court Allowed the Trump Administration to Halt the 2020 Census Count
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the green light to halt the 2020 census count ahead of schedule. While the order technically only pauses the count while a federal appeals court decides whether or not the count should be stopped early, experts say the ruling effectively shuts down the count for 2020…
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Pennsylvania Lt. Governor's Wife Called the N-Word. She Ain't Black, So I'm Not Sure Exactly How Racist This Is…But It's Racist
Gisele Barreto Fetterman is the wife of Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman. The 38-year-old was born in Brazil and used to be an undocumented immigrant but is now a proud American citizen enjoying good old-fashioned American racism as a woman of color. On Sunday, Fetterman posted a two-second video to Twitter that showed part of…
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More Officers Were Fired for Killing Porcupines Than for Killing Breonna Taylor
Let me first just say that porcupine lives matter. Two Maine police officers were fired and criminally charged in connection with the beating and killing of 11 POC. (Porcupines of color…because I’m pretty sure they’re all black and brown although, to be fair, I’ve never actually seen a porcupine. I’ve also never met anyone from…
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Trayvon Martin to Be Honored With Street Named After Him
The death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin at the hands of neighborhood vigilante George Zimmerman was the first high-profile case to spark what would later become the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, the street outside of the high school Trayvon attended is set to be named after him. The Miami Herald reports that last week, Miami-Dade…
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Canine-Abusing Karen Violently Throws Puppy at Black Man After Incoherent Rant
Man…I don’t even know what to call this one. Canine Caroline? Animal Abuse Abby? All I know is a Black man has a new pet after a seemingly inebriated white woman harassed him and…*checks notes*…violently threw a puppy at him. A video posted to Twitter on Saturday begins with the Black man who filmed the…
