Politics
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Report Finds North Carolina Threw Out Black Voters’ Mail-In Ballots at Twice the Rate of White Voters in 2018
Voter suppression isn’t a new phenomenon. But as the country lurches toward a November election in which President Donald Trump has flatly refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose, concerns over the integrity of the voting process are as high as they’ve ever been. Adding to those concerns is a…
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Trump to Ballots: I’m Going to Punch You in the Nuts!
I’m not sure what ballots have done to President Trump but he hates them. Maybe it’s because he knows that ballots can’t be tampered with. Maybe he knows that a physical ballot is a receipt of a vote cast, most likely against his ass. So, the president of people who really wanted to make ass…
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Florida Just Doesn’t Want Former Prisoners to Vote
First, Florida voters did something so un-Florida-like that everyone outside of Florida was like, “Bitch, do y’all see Florida?” That’s because in 2018, Florida voters voted to give felons back the right to vote, which, now that I think about it, might be completely Florida-like considering Florida is made up of two things: old people…
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Trump to Rep. Ilhan Omar: How’s Your Country Doing? Omar to Trump: This Is My Country, Ho! (OK, I Added the Ho)
Trump knows that he’s down in the polls, so that means tickling the taint of his base, which always involves dimming the lights a bit and putting on some soft mood music and playing the musical stylings from his racist dog whistle. During racism’s birthday party disguised as a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday,…
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Republican State Representative: Hey, Sorry About the Recorded Racist, Homophobic Statements I Made
I once called an editor an asshole. I didn’t mean for him to see it. I sent a message over the Washington Post messaging system and, somehow, instead of sending it to the one person I was messaging with, I sent it to the entire newsroom. I freaked out. He’d been my editor during an…
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President Trump Continues to Be a Racist, Upholds Ban on Race Discrimination Training
On Tuesday, President Trump extended his ban on race sensitivity and sex-based discrimination training because the president is a serial sexual assaulter who is also a raging racist. And you know who this appeals to? His base, which is a large swath of America’s racists who also believe in sex-based discrimination. His base also carries…
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This Is Probably Going to Get Ugly Fast: First Trump-Biden Debate Topics Include Race, Coronavirus and the Supreme Court
There are certain things that we already know are going to be painful to watch. Childbirth is one. Mike Tyson versus Roy Jones is another. And the first debate between a lying white man who can’t watch his mouth and another white man who always wants to fight. Something tells me this is going to…
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Billionaire Michael Bloomberg Pays ‘Poll Tax’ for 32,000 Felons in Florida So They Can Vote
Florida is fucked up. Like sometimes when I think about hell, I imagine that it’s a lot like Florida without Miami but hotter. Much hotter. Florida is basically America’s illegitimate cousin with a meth problem who you don’t want inside the house but you also don’t want to call the police on. So they just…
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Betsy DeVos Is the Subject of an Ethics Violation Investigation
Of all the egregious things Betsy DeVos has done since becoming Donald Trump’s inept secretary of education, could a possible violation of the Hatch Act be the thing that takes her down? The New York Times reports that during an appearance on Fox News earlier this month, DeVos criticized Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice…
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RBG’s Body Isn’t Even Buried and Sen. Lindsey Graham Is Bragging They Have the Votes to Fill Her Supreme Court Seat
If there are people who still believe that the Republican Party has a conscience, then I would like to talk to you about a sou-sou in which you give me $20 of actual money and I will give you back $800 of ghost cash. Republicans have one agenda and that’s furthering their agenda. That’s it.…