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Voting Rights Activists Push Congress to Make Substantial Election Reforms as GOP-Led States File Over 100 Bills to Restrict Voting Access

Republicans love to talk about freedom, liberty, constitutional rights and all that, but a simple look at their actions shows that all that talk is just talk. GOP-led states have filed over 100 pieces of legislation to restrict voting access, leading voting activists to implore Congress to enact voting reforms at the federal level. According…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

February 8, 2021
Politics

Democrats Plan to Go After Child Poverty With $3,000 Payment Per Child Under COVID Relief Package

Democrats are using the opportunity presented by President Biden’s economic relief package to propose legislation that could further end the financial struggles experienced by families with children. The Washington Post first reported on the bill, led by Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), which is set to be unveiled today. If passed, the measure would expand…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

February 8, 2021
Politics

Senate Approves Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package But Rejects $15 Minimum Wage Increase [Updated]

The U.S. Senate approved a budget bill in the wee hours of Friday morning and after a voting session that lasted around 15 hours because Republicans and Democrats are still the Bloods and Crips of the political world, and there was plenty of beef to be had behind partisan agendas. The good news is that…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 5, 2021
Politics

House Votes to Eject Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene From 2 Committees

In an unprecedented move, the House voted to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) of her committee assignments. On Thursday, in a vote mostly along party lines—11 Republicans sided with the Democrats—the House passed the resolution 230-199 to remove Greene from her assignments on the budget committee, and the education and labor committee, according to…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

February 4, 2021
Politics

Republicans Try to Normalize Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Crazy Talk by Calling for Ilhan Omar’s Ouster

Instead of dealing with the woman who believes that Jewish lasers have caused forest fires in their own backyard, Republicans would rather attack Rep. Ilhan Omar because she’s a woman of color who runs with “The Squad.” You know, “The Squad”—the literal badass women of color who don’t take shit from Republicans and old-ass Democrats…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

February 3, 2021
Politics

Joe Biden and the Lie of the Great Stimulus Check

Have you heard the story of President Joe Biden and the Great Stimulus Check? It goes like this: when President-elect Joe Biden wanted to push for two Georgia senators facing a difficult runoff election that would ensure that Biden would be backed by a Democrat-controlled Senate, he told America that they’d be getting $2,000 stimulus…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

February 3, 2021
Politics

Trump’s Lawyers Submit Impeachment Response, Misspell ‘United States’ in Opening Line

Nothing says traitor like the inability to spell the country you illegally governed (because Russian interference) for the last four years. But Donald Trump is nothing if not hopeless. And a fucking idiot. And a racist and a white supremacist and a misogynist. On Tuesday, the former president, who can’t even tweet anymore and has…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

February 3, 2021
Politics

Georgia Does What Georgia Does, Introduces Legislation to Suppress the Black Vote

White supremacists in Georgia introduced legislation aimed at disenfranchising Black voters by restricting access to the polls. The eight proposed laws would— Wait. Did you click on this link expecting a whitewashed article euphemizing racial politics? If that’s what you were expecting, perhaps you should read the CNN story that says: “GOP state senators in…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

February 2, 2021
Politics

I’m Going to Need Rep. Nancy Mace to Keep Auntie Maxine’s Good Name Out of Her Mouth

There are certain things Black people don’t play with: Beyoncè Jesus And Auntie Maxine. For some reason, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) thought it was a good idea to mention Auntie Maxine Waters’ name in vain. Yes, on this day of our lord Bridgerton, Mace found it to be the day that she wanted to blow…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

February 2, 2021
Politics

You Know It’s Bad When Mitch McConnell Thinks Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Telling ‘Loony Lies’

Fanny Neck Mitch McConnell sat there for four years as the Senate majority leader and never once condemned, commented, complained, castrated–or any other C-word–anything coming out of former President Donald Trump’s anus-shaped mouth. He didn’t say a damn thing when Trump was suggesting that scientists find a way to bring the light inside the body…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

February 2, 2021