Politics
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The Kids Gon' Be Alright: Asante Blackk Talks Voting for the First Time
In an election cycle and year that is sure to go down as the most tumultuous we’ve ever experienced, Asante Blackk is making sure he stands on the right side of said history. In a conversation with People magazine, the 19-year old opened up about being a first-time voter, how the death of George Floyd…
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Day 3 of the Perpetual Queasiness That Is the Presidential Election
It’s Thursday. The presidential election was Tuesday. Here is what we know: Nothing and everything. We know that there are enough scenarios that exist in which both current President Shaymus Von Spittle and former Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden could be president. We also know that America is still fucked because Democrats couldn’t take over…
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Ice Cube Is Straight Outta Sense if He Thinks Trump Would Actually Give Half a Trillion Dollars of Capital to Black Folks
Ice Cube is still saying things. The 51-year-old rapper clearly still feels a way about the pushback he’s been receiving about not only meeting with Purgatory President Donald Trump but lending any credence to whatever the fuck Trump says he’ll do for this “Contract With Black America.” “Let me get this straight, I get the…
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Vote Challengers Chant 'Stop the Count' at a Detroit Vote-Counting Facility
Vote challengers erupted in a chant of “stop the count” outside of a vote counting facility in Detroit on Wednesday. The Detroit Free Press reports that police officers had to push back crowds who were demanding they should be allowed in the vote tallying room at the TCF Center. Republicans whined and shouted that they…
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Waiting on the Mail: Millions of Mail-In Ballots Remain Uncounted as Legal Challenges Loom
As of Wednesday afternoon, the presidential election was still very much ongoing, with millions of ballots still being counted in crucial battleground states. In total, voters mailed in nearly 64 million ballots prior to Election Day, spurred in large part by concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times. But it may take…
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You Aren't Alone. The Rest of the World Is Stressing Over These Election Results Too
Considering what’s at stake with this presidential election, I completely understand if you’ve spent the last 24 hours yanking every strand of hair from your head or have gnawed your fingernails into stubs. It’s a lot to process. But as stressed the fuck out as we all are as votes continue to be counted in…
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‘I’m Deeply Concerned’ About Maine Since Sen. Susan Collins Was Reelected
The tricycle of Senate evil consists of three wheels: Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Trump’s whipping boy Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine). Both Kentucky and South Carolina rejected positive, nonracist change to vote both McConnell and Graham back into office. Both states also voted for Trump. But what’s confusing about Maine, and what…
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As Expected, Trump Continues His Delusional Fight Against Mail-In Ballots
President Donald Trump tries to act like he doesn’t listen to mainstream media but he does and he heard the same news that we did; that mail-in ballots were likely to favor Biden because Democrats aren’t about that “standing in line during a fucking pandemic” life. So of course, before the election, Trump and his…
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The LGBTQ Community Will Usher In a New Era After Big Wins on Election Night
While it might’ve been an anxiety-ridden election night for most of us, for the LGBTQ community it was a historic night of triumph. Throughout the country, gay, queer, trans and non-binary candidates racked up congressional win after congressional win, prevailing over years of discrimination in order to put Black excellence at the forefront. In New…
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'Welp, Kanye West 2024': Rapper Concedes 2020 Presidential Race, Will Not Run This Town Tonight
For those of you who were expecting to tell Kanye West, “Congratulations, President-Elect Kanye West”…well, you can’t tell him nothin’. We may not know yet who our next president is—but it certainly isn’t Kanye. According to Billboard, Kanye admitted defeat in the 2020 presidential election race. The 43-year-old rapper tweeted “KANYE 2024” along with a…