Politics
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Biden Announces Limited Gun Reform Actions Using Executive Order Powers
President Joe Biden announced six actions Thursday that will aim to address the rising ride of mass shootings, according to ABC. One of those actions include asking the Department of Justice to create a rule that would slow the rise of “ghost guns” within 30 days. Ghost guns can be put together from parts sold…
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Tishaura Jones Becomes 1st Black Female Mayor of St. Louis
More than six years after the Ferguson Uprisings brought a racial reckoning to the St. Louis metropolitan area—and the nation—St. Louis elected its first Black female mayor Tuesday. Tishaura Jones, the city’s treasurer, ran on a commitment to racial justice and promised to bring “fresh air” to the city, according to the New York Times.…
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Moves to Counter Georgia's Racist Voting Laws
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms doesn’t have authority to reverse Georgia’s racist voter suppression laws for her city, but she can at least educate her constituents on how to abide by them as best they can. Bottoms announced an executive order that instructs Atlantic’s chief equity officer to carry out “a series of actions to…
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Matt Gaetz Tried to Get a Preemptive Pardon In 2020. Trump: New Phone, Who Dis?
Matt Gaetz is the definition of a groupie, but a very bad one whose groupie skills are so weak or unimportant that his tricks discard him like an expiring subscription to OnlyFans. Well, let me apologize for comparing Gaetz to OnlyFans creators because those folks actually have skills that, for the most part, justify their…
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Republicans Don't Believe in Democracy (Duh!), Study Says
We really don’t need any scientific research to prove to us that Republicans do not care about democracy. Pretty much every Republican-controlled state has laws on the books that make it extremely difficult to vote and pretty much most of them cried fraud—falsely—when Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. But having scientific…
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Reactions to MLB Moving All-Star Game From Georgia: Some Dems Acknowledge Necessity of Action, Big Mad Republicans Blame Wokeness
The fallout from Georgia’s new voter suppression laws and the Major Baseball League’s decision to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta in reaction to them, continues. Activists, Democratic leaders and the Republicans whose actions drove the MLB’s decision to make a bold move against restrictions at the ballot box spent the weekend taking different sides…
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60 Minutes Details How Rich Floridians Cut the Line to Get COVID Vaccine
President Joe Biden announced that 90 percent of Americans will have access to COVID-19 vaccines by April and folks can get their shots within a five-mile radius. Issues of access have been a long-standing problem since the vaccine rollout began, but 60 Minutes reports that the vaccine rollout in Palm Beach County is drawing suspicions…
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Corporate America Has Spent $50 Million on State Lawmakers Who Support Limiting Voter Access
Some of America’s biggest and most profitable corporations have given more than $50 million to state lawmakers who have supported legislation that makes it harder for people to vote, according to Washington-based government watchdog group Public Citizen. The group’s accounting dates back to 2015, with AT&T being the biggest contributor at $811,000. Comcast gave $440,000,…
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YOOOO, Trump Played TF Out His Own People LOL!: Trump Campaign Dupes Supporters Into Automatic Recurring Donations
Donald Trump is a con artist—and he wouldn’t even be a good one if his marks were smarter than a box of dull hammers and rusty nails. Most Americans realize that the Trump presidency was a four-year-long con and that the biggest suckers involved were Orange Juissolini’s own supporters. What you might not know is…