Politics
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Oglala Sioux Tribe Tells South Dakota Governor ‘You Are Not Welcome’ in Dispute Over Right to Protest Keystone Pipeline
The Oglala Sioux Tribe has yanked the welcome mat right out from under South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s feet, basically telling her to stay off their lawn. In a letter to the Republican governor Thursday, Julian Bear Runner, president of the indigenous nation, told Noem she was no longer welcome on one of the largest…
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Trump Just Got Off Russia Punishment and You Won't Believe Who He Called When He Got His Phone Back
Well that didn’t take long, at all. It’s been less than a month since Special Counsel Robert Mueller released the Russia report, and President Trump is already on the phone with his Russian Bae, Vladmir Putin. According to CNN, Trump and his Russian Bae spoke Friday morning for “over an hour,” and the phone call…
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California Senate to Trump: Either Release Your Taxes or You Won't be on the 2020 Ballot
Unfortunately, it’s come to this. The president of the United States, or as he’s called in Russia, “Putin’s bitch,” refuses to show us those tax returns, claiming that he would if he could (he can) but he can’t because he’s being audited (he can still release his tax returns) because he has something to hide.…
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Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Books Out the Door, Abandons City Hall Post
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has written herself out of her role as the city’s chief executive, announcing her resignation Thursday after coming under intense scrutiny over the sale of books she wrote to those doing business with both the city and the state of Maryland. Sorry. The puns are endless. “I am sorry for the…
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You Paid for Bottle Service for MAGAholics and You Didn’t Even Know It
Remember back when America was trying to figure out how Donald Trump the business man and Donald Trump the president were going to coexist, considering Trump could, say, host events at, say, a property he owns, like Mar-a-Lago, and, I’m just spitballing here, because he’s the president, the charges would be footed by the American…
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Suicides Among Black Children Are at Crisis Levels. The Congressional Black Caucus Aims to Do Something About It
The rise in the suicide rate for black children ages 5 to 12 is an overlooked national emergency, according to a panel convened by the Congressional Black Caucus on the eve of Mental Health Awareness Month. Chaired by Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), the CBC Task Force on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health brought…
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Hot Take: Comey Blasts Barr as Too Weak to Withstand the Corrosive Force That Is Donald Trump
Donald Trump is a corrupt force that corrupts everything and everyone around him. So opines former FBI Director James Comey in an op-ed Wednesday in the New York Times. And Trump’s corrosive nature is so potent, Comey writes, it can eat away at the most “accomplished people,” referencing current Attorney General William “Bill” Barr and…
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Watch Sen. Kamala Harris Dunk on Attorney General William Barr
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is running for president, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have time to hand Attorney General Barr his ass right quick. In fact, she did it all in less than a minute. Here’s how it all went down: Barr—who may or may not subsist on a diet of T-Rex T-Bones and…