Politics
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Trump Calls Health Experts Data on Coronavirus Deaths False. His Proof: A Hunch
President Trump is a liar’s liar. Other less experienced liars look up to Trump. He’s #liargoals. He’s also a goddamn bumbling idiot who will say anything even when scientific data and experts say different. Trump is the racist uncle who makes up stories to shame kids for complaining about how difficult their life is. The…
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Black Women Went to the Voting Booth With Pragmatism on Super Tuesday
OAKLAND, Calif.—Branice McKinzie walked up to a ballot drop box near the Alameda County Courthouse in downtown Oakland knowing that much of the electorate isn’t voting for Elizabeth Warren at this point, but she cast her ballot for the Massachusetts senator anyway. She praised Warren for her aggressive challenge of banks engaging in predatory lending…
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The Root Exclusive: Symone Sanders Is Part of the Dora Milaje
We should’ve known that Symone Sanders’ work as senior adviser to former Vice President Joe Biden was a cover. We should’ve known by the haircut and the “don’t take shit” attitude. We should’ve known with the way that she punishes pundits on a daily basis. Symone Sanders is part of the Dora Milaje, the elite…
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Biden Stays on Brand, Bernie Wins Pot-Smoking States and Other Takeaways From Super Tuesday
It’s the resurgence of Uncle Joe! If you woke up on Regular Wednesday, which is the official name for the day after Super Tuesday, you would’ve thought that the former vice president was in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded walking up to the plate needing a grand slam to win the…
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There Is No Such Thing as the 'Black Vote'
Once, for about an hour, on a hot day in July 2007, I was not black. This was before people had music on their phones, but I had figured out a way to hook my iPod Shuffle up to my stereo system. After hearing my Uncle Junior play it, I fell in love with James…
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Evil Billionaire Mike Bloomberg Drops Out of Presidential Race, Endorses Biden After Blowing Half a Billion
It must be nice to be so wealthy that you can ignore people whose job it is to tell you that you don’t have a roasted marshmallows chance in Omarion’s heart of coming anywhere close to winning the Democratic nomination, and you forge on ahead anyway. After blowing half a billion dollars on what might…
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Weed Justice Is at the Top of Some California Voters' Minds on Super Tuesday
OAKLAND, Calif.—Chaney Turner has already voted in California’s primary and said that the person who got their vote was most likely to liberalize America’s federal marijuana policies to empower black cannabis entrepreneurs. Turner (whose pronouns are they/them/their) and I are in downtown Oakland at the Make Westing bar, which is located in an area where…
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Watch: Fox News Contributor Donna Brazile Tells RNC Chairwoman to ‘Go to Hell’ Live on the Air
Former interim Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile is a black woman. Yes, she is a black woman that works for Fox News but that doesn’t mean that Brazile doesn’t put her bonnet on one side at a time like the rest of black women. Well, some of Brazile’s edges came through Tuesday when she…
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Super Tuesday Is Really Just a Regular Tuesday in Leggings and Heels. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
It’s Super Tuesday, so you know what that means? It means that it’s a regular Tuesday that has a babysitter and is getting dressed up to go to the club with her girlfriends. It’s Tuesday in leggings and heels. It’s thotting and bopping Tuesday. It’s Tuesday saying “Ayeeee” while her homegirls dance in a roped…
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar Exits Presidential Race, Endorses Biden on the Way Out
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a woman so savage that she once ate a salad with a comb, has ended her bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee and has endorsed rival former Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., according to reports. The New York Times is reporting that Klobuchar is already scheduled to appear…