Politics
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Black Female Lawmaker Isn't Caving in After Death Threats, Losing Committee Assignments
Michigan state Rep. Cynthia Johnson knows why she is being inundated with death threats after she confronted Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani during a Dec. 2 Michigan state oversight hearing over the 2020 election. “You’re out of order for asking a white man such a question,” she told The Root. “That’s how I took it. You’re…
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Kelly Loeffler’s Campaign Claims She ‘Had No Idea’ the Man She Posed With in a Photo Is a Former KKK Leader
It must be terribly inconvenient for Republicans trying to convince America that their party isn’t racist, that racists keep gravitating towards the Republican Party. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) posed for a photo with a former KKK leader during a campaign rally in Dawsonville, Ga., Friday, and now her campaign is claiming she had “no idea”…
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GTFOH Trump Watch: You’ve Stolen an Election Before, So Why Won’t You Do It Now?
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is a thief. He stole his first name from a famous crooner whose surname is McKnight and his last name from a promiscuous former NBA dunker. He stole his style from Ward Cleaver and his haircut from Colonel Sanders (not the Latinx version. Man, I want so much more for Mario…
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A Republican Coronavirus Denier’s Story Told In 2 Acts
Tennessee state Rep. David Byrd once claimed that the “mainstream media has sensationalized the reporting on COVID-19 in the service of political agendas.” Byrd has been seen on the House floor without a mask, which goes against everything that scientists have suggested during the pandemic. On Thursday, Byrd posted a message to Facebook asking friends…
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Joe Biden Met With Civil Rights Leaders, and I’m Going to Need Him to Watch His Tone
If you are a Black person, you already know what I’m talking about. If you are white reader, then let me explain something that doesn’t work with Black people around the world: tone. Tone is the raising of your voice. It can also be associated with “talking to me like I’m a damn child.” It…
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The Republican Party Goes All In Against Democracy, Files Brief to Supreme Court Asking to Void Millions of Votes [Update: SCOTUS Rejects Texas' Lawsuit]
Though it may be easy and somewhat comforting to hold onto the idea that President-elect Biden’s win and soon-coming inauguration will fix the problems in America’s democracy exposed by Donald Trump, the reality of today’s Republican Party upends that notion. This week, 126 out of the 196 Republicans in the House signed onto an amicus…
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GTFOH Trump Watch: You ’Bout to Go to Prison
If you’ve ever wondered why President Trump is fighting so hard to steal the election and remain in office, it’s because he knows that once he becomes a regular citizen again he’s going to prison. OK, maybe not directly to prison, but he’s going to have to answer for all the crooked shit he did…
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to Mitch McConnell: ‘Dear God, Stop the Nonsense’
If you are unfamiliar with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, she’s the no-nonsense politician who told her constituents during a pandemic that their jumpshot was always going to be weak and, therefore, they should stay their asses in the house and off the basketball courts. I will not discuss the countless memes of her telling you…
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Black Farmers, Civil Groups ‘Enraged’ After Joe Biden Selects Tom Vilsack Over Rep. Marcia Fudge to Head USDA
Black farming and civil rights groups are giving President-elect Joe Biden an earful about his decision to bring former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack back to head up the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a job he held for eight years under former President Barack Obama. According to Politico, leaders of farming and civil rights organizations say…
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Susan Rice to Run White House Domestic Policy Council
President-elect Joe Biden is getting the band back together. According to people with knowledge of these kinds of things, Susan Rice, the former national security adviser under Barack Obama and Biden’s reign, has been tapped to run the White House Domestic Policy Council. According to Politico, Rice also served as the U.S. ambassador to the…