Politics
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Trump Says Racist Nonsense Because He Means It and Because He Knows He Can Win on It
Donald Trump, in a series of tweets from Sunday night well into Monday morning, doubled down on his racist, xenophobic criticism of four Democratic congresswomen, Reps. Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley. After calling on the congresswomen to go back to their countries and fix them, Trump followed up his attack by…
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President Trump to the Fab Freshman of Congress: Go Back to Your Country
If the migrant concentration camps weren’t enough to show you exactly where the president of people who support migrant concentration camps stands, his comments about the fabulous freshmen women of Congress should remove all doubt. During one of his now-infamous stream-of-consciousness tweets, the president implied that the women should all “go back” and fix their…
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Here’s How Much Trump’s Golf Trips Have Cost Taxpayers
President Trump is a thot for golf. In fact, his entire presidency has been Trump playing golf and then doing presidential shit when he’s not on the course. The funniest part of Trump’s love for golf is that he not only sucks at it but he’s a notorious cheat and he consistently bashed forever President…
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AOC Slams 'Manufactured' Cruelty at US Southern Border in Testimony Before House Panel
Four Democratic congresswomen shared harrowing accounts about conditions facing migrant detainees at the southern border before a House panel Friday, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who took the unusual step of asking to be sworn in before testifying after Republicans challenged her report of the horrors. After raising her hand before the House Oversight and Reform…
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Missouri Rep. Lacy Clay Blasts AOC for ‘Using the Race Card’ in Her Pushback Against Pelosi
Veteran African-American Democrats in the House are taking freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to task over how she’s come for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and comments AOC’s chief of staff made comparing moderate Democratic caucuses to Southern pro-segregationist Democrats of old. The takes by Reps. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) and William “Lacy” Clay (D-Mo.) come on the…
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The Root's 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 3: Kamala Harris Throws Black Voters Under the Bus(ing?)
This week’s Root 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings is full of surprises. We have a new No. 1 after several candidates forgot that black people still matter, and a special guest power-ranking judge. This week, me (Dr. Jason Johnson, Politics Editor at The Root) and Marcus Ferrell, former African American Outreach Director for Bernie Sanders…
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DHS Officials Say Massive Deportation Raids Will Start This Weekend; More than 2,000 Undocumented Immigrants, Including Families, Targeted
Department of Homeland Security officials have told the New York Times that mass arrests of undocumented immigrants will hit at least 10 U.S. cities on Sunday. The Donald Trump-sanctioned operation had been postponed weeks ago, though the president recently hinted that immigration raids would begin soon. After a massive public outcry—and pushback from officials within his…
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A Darkened Image of Colin Kaepernick Appeared on a Republican Campaign Fundraiser, but They Swear They Didn't Do It
A fundraising email sent by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) appears to show a darkened image of former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, but the NRCC swears they didn’t darken the image. Maybe the image is like a protest photo of Dorian Gray. Maybe the NRCC has gotten hold of a photo of Kaepernick, the…
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Trump Doesn’t Know What Kidneys Are or Where They Are Located, Tells Crowd ‘The Kidney Has a Very Special Place in the Heart’
On Wednesday, President Horseshoe Von Dingleberry signed an executive order to aid those suffering from kidney disease in hopes of reducing the life-threatening disease by 25 percent over the next 11 years. The administration also promised to move patients on dialysis away from commercial treatments in centers to more low-cost, in-home treatments and will offer…