Politics
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As Democrats Seriously Consider How to Remove Trump, Republicans Plea to Biden to Save Him 'in the Spirit of Healing'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has instructed members of her party to get ready to go to work in the coming week on a plan to remove President Trump from office, given the clear and present danger his continued presidency poses after his gang of supporters overtook the U.S. Capitol building. Coincidentally—just around a year ago, the…
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Twitter Permanently Suspends Donald Trump’s Account for Violating 'Glorification of Violence' Policy
Twitter announced Friday evening that it would permanently ban the account of President Donald Trump after continuing to use the platform to incite violence following the riot at the Capitol on Wednesday. The company released a blog post explaining what led to this course of action. They cited two tweets the president published on Friday…
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Hate Crime Legislation in Arkansas Facing Roadblock From GOP Lawmakers
Arkansas is one of three states that doesn’t have a hate crime law on its books. Despite support from community members, local businesses, and the state’s Republican governor, Republican state legislators are working to kill a hate crime bill. The Associated Press reports that the lack of hate crime legislation has long made Arkansas a…
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Pay Me What You Owe Me: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Reintroduces Reparations Bill
“Is the stimmy a form of reparations?” my 1-year-old daughter asked me the other day. I looked at her puzzled, and then asked where she’d heard such big words. She replied that her daycare is near: I kid. My daughter doesn’t go to daycare with COVID-19 running unchecked in these MAGA streets. I live near…
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Nancy Pelosi Contacts Top General About Keeping ‘Unhinged’ President Away From the Nuclear Codes
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reached out to a top general to find out about adding extra steps to stop “unhinged” President Trump from using the nuclear codes. According to the New York Post, Pelosi called Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley about the madman in the White House and what he’s capable of…
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When They Go Low: Michelle Obama Responds to the Capitol Insurrection, Says 'I Hurt for Our Country'
“When they go low, we go high,” Michelle Obama famously said during her speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, as she joined a chorus of voices warning America of the dangers of allowing Donald Trump into the Oval Office. America—or should we say, the Electoral College—didn’t listen, and over the last four years, we’ve…
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GTFOH Trump Watch: Look Straight Into the Camera and Pretend to Love America
After some 60 failed court attempts to overturn the election and a failed coup, the president of people who still believe that the election was rigged has finally acknowledged electoral defeat. It only took two months, Rudy Giuliani’s human dookie face to begin melting, a whole lot of shouting from the Trump brood and an…
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Republicans in Pennsylvania Refuse to Seat Newly Elected Democrat, Which Seems to Be What the GOP Is About Now
Republicans are still going full speed ahead with their attack on America’s democracy, despite the dangerous consequences of this behavior as seen in the nation’s capital on Wednesday. Ahead of the madness in D.C., GOP senators in Pennsylvania launched their own upending of standard operating procedures on Tuesday by deciding to block the swearing in…
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Congress to Trump: Call Tyrone and Tell Him to Come On and Help You Get Your Shit
The president should be proud. In the end, he almost made the full four years as the most unfit, unwell, unprepared and underwhelming president of the 21st century. But in the end, the sickness of narcissism caught up with him and his ego wouldn’t let the election results rest. He pushed countless, unfounded, conspiracy theories…
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Black People Risked Their Lives to Get Biden Elected. Here's What He Owes Us
Senators-elect Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are seen as manifestations of the New South, but it was Black women like LaTosha Brown who risked their lives mobilizing enough Black people in Georgia to make it happen. Their victories tilted the balance of power to Joe Biden, whose victory in the state and nationally similarly…