Politics
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The Democratic Party Does a Lousy Job Protecting Black Women
“Why are you wearing all black?” I asked my friend, noticing her wearing a long sleeve black shirt, black jeans and black sneakers in the 1,000-degree Arizona heat despite being in an air-conditioned convention hall. She leaned over to me and said: “I just want to warn you, we’re about to do some real disruptive…
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Your Celebration of Pride Must Go Further Than Putting Up a Rainbow on Social Media
With the coming of June marks another year where I celebrate being 55 shades of gay. Indeed, I do celebrate my homosexuality every day I chose to take a breath, but June marks Pride Month and with that, the celebration gets kicked up a couple decibels. Unless you’ve been under a rock—and honestly, that might…
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#SayHerName: Chynal Lindsey Is the 3rd Black Trans Woman Killed in Dallas in Less Than a Year
Chynal Lindsey was just 26 years old when her body was pulled from White Rock Lake in Dallas on Saturday, in what i believed to be the second death of a black trans woman in the city in less than a month, and the third in less than a year. Amid mounting fear of targeted…
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Trump Claims He Doesn’t See the Big-Ass Trump Blimp Baby Protesting His Visit in London
It’s time that we come to accept that the United Kingdom does many things better than the United States. Its healthcare system actually cares about the patients more than the profits. The Office U.K. is easily better than its U.S. counterpart. And the U.K. protests way better than the U.S.; they make robots and fun…
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Trump’s Clearly Watching Sons of Anarchy Reruns Again, Channels Jax Teller With New Hair Style
President Donald J. Trump, who tells everyone that his middle initial stands for Jax (which is totally a lie unless he’s shortening “jackass” to just “jax”), channeled his inner Sons of Anarchy during a memorial service for Virginia Beach shooting victims at McLean Bible Church, in Vienna, Va. It was Trump’s eighth time in a…
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Someone Get Kim Kardashian on the Phone: Trump's Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort Headed to Rikers Island
I am sure that Kim Kardashian is already on top of this but Paul Manafort, the president’s one-time campaign chairman who’s serving a federal prison sentence, is heading to the notorious Rikers Island jail in New York City where he’s expected to spend his time in solitary confinement while he awaits state fraud charges. Manafort…
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Trump's Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Claims Racism Doesn't Count If He's Not Involved In It
Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and holder of a top-level security clearance as an adviser to Trump, participated in a one-on-one sit down with Axios on HBO that can only be described as a one-night-stand between a drunken circus clown and a shitshow that then gave birth to a Jared Kushner interview. During the interview…
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In One Day, Jaime Harrison, Lindsey Graham's Challenger, Raises Six Figure in Donations
He’s the son of a single mom and already has an endorsement from Luke Skywalker. (Fine, it’s actor Mark Hamill, who played Skywalker, who showed love—but if I said that Hamill endorsed him, would you even have known who he was?) He’s running a campaign under the hashtag #SendLindseyHome—as in President Trump’s favorite whipping boy,…
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Black Voters in Mississippi File Lawsuit to Challenge Racist Election Law
A group of black voters represented by a foundation affiliated with former Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee is challenging Mississippi’s Jim-Crow era laws written to place black candidates for statewide office at a disadvantage. According to ThinkProgress, four voters filed suit with the U.S. District Court of Southern Mississippi Thursday, challenging election…
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Professor Who Has Correctly Predicted 9 Presidential Elections Picks Trump in 2020 Unless Dems Impeach Him
Here’s to hoping that Trump isn’t a sure thing. But if I were a betting man, I’d have to put money on whatever Allan Lichtman says. Who is Allan Lichtman, you ask? Well, he’s a political historian and an American University professor but more importantly, he’s correctly predicted the last nine presidential elections. Sadly, Lichtman…