Politics
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Trump's Travel Ban Could Expand Into an Immigration Ban Under Proposed Policies
Tonight I bring to you yet another example of the current administration being nothing but a group of white supremacists. CNN reports that the Trump administration has drafted plans not only to renew its infamous travel ban but to expand it to include restricting immigration from seven more countries. If you recall, shortly after being…
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City of Oakland Strikes Agreement for Sale of Vacant Moms 4 Housing Property Following Armed Evictions, Riot Gear Arrests
That’s the spirit. Here’s some corporate and civic kindness for MLK Day. On Monday, Moms 4 Housing announced that it had struck a deal with Oakland’s Mayor Libby Schaaf and housing developer Wedgewood Properties to sell the vacant Oakland house, located at 2928 Magnolia Street, to them. The agreement follows last week’s eviction and arrests…
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A Real Prize: On Her Birthday, Trump Administration Takes Aim at Michelle Obama’s School Nutrition Standards
Donald Trump is most likely the worst person to get a gift from; especially on your birthday. Ask Michelle Obama, who saw — like everyone else — The Trump Administration proposing loosening her signature school lunch standards yesterday. Trump’s Department of Agriculture’s proposed rule would give schools more latitude to decide how much fruit to…
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Tom Steyer Picks Up 3 Black Surrogates From the Carolinas
Tom Steyer, who is making some surprising inroads with African-American voters in South Carolina, has just picked up two more endorsements from powerful members of the state’s Democratic leadership and one more from neighboring North Carolina. Johnnie Cordero, chairman of the Democratic Black Caucus of South Carolina, and South Carolina state representative Jerry Govan, chairman…
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Trump Adds 2 of Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends to His Impeachment Defense Team
In what can only be called clown shit, President Trump will enter his Senate impeachment trial with former Bill Clinton special prosecutors Kenneth Starr and Robert Ray, plus retired Harvard constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz, as his attorneys. According to Politico, the three famous attorneys will serve as backups behind “White House counsel Pat Cipollone…
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Diamond and Silk Are Still a Thing and They're Still Ruining Madam C.J. Walker's Good Work
God doesn’t make mistakes, but people do. And sometimes those mistakes look like black aunties, who, in 2020 the year of our Lord Megan Thee Stallion, have the sensibilities of house negroes on dope. Anyway, because, much like cold sores and dentist appointments, they just won’t go away, Diamond and Silk did something or said…
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Marilyn Mosby Shares Anonymous Racist Call, Calls Out Misogynoir During Solidarity Trip to St. Louis
The office of Baltimore’s top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby released a voicemail this week sent to Mosby after she visited St. Louis to stand in solidarity with another progressive black woman prosecutor, Kim Gardner. The St. Louis prosecutor is filing a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging city leaders and the police union have conspired to drive…
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New Book Reveals Trump’s a Bigger, Dumber Asshole Than We Thought
When historians write about the 45th president, they will have to use photos and crayons or else the president himself won’t be able to read it. Because it turns out that the president of the United States, the man who 53 percent of white women voted into office, is about as smart as a second-grader…
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Lev-ing His Best Life: The 3 Biggest Takeaways From Lev Parnas’ Worldwide ‘Take Down the White House’ Tour
Turns out that Trump’s fixer Rudy Giuliani also had a fixer named Lev Parnas. Lev Parnas got caught up in some campaign finance fiasco in which he allegedly engaged in a scheme to funnel foreign cash to Republican candidates, which is illegal. And thank God he (allegedly) did. Because that act got him in trouble…