Politics
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Your Politician's Got Tweets? This Black Woman Software Developer's Got Receipts
“African Americans and Hispanics, brown people, we are the driving force on the major social media platforms,” said software developer Diana Eromosele. “Isn’t it high time for us to get behind the wheel and create these applications?” And this black woman in tech is doing just that. Just more than three years ago, Eromosele worked…
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Death Grip: Handshake Between Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and the Russian President, Analyzed
I’ve been black all my life. Therefore when I came out of my mother’s womb, I turned, coughed a bit, smacked the doctor five and pulled him in close for the brother handshake. The doctor, a white man, was confused, and not because a newborn just smacked him five, but because he didn’t understand the…
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The Trump Organization Wanted to Give Trump's Boo Vladimir Putin a $50 Million Penthouse: Report
It looks like The Trump Organization wasn’t just trying to build a mega building in his boo’s native land but the Trump Tower Moscow would’ve included a $50 million penthouse gift to his sidepiece, Russian President Bae-dimir Putin. Felix Sater, a real estate developer with ties to the Russian government, told the New York Daily…
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A Little Bit of Justice: GOP's Lone Black Senator Does the Right Thing, Opposes Controversial Trump Pick
I still don’t get why it took so long or why he seemed to struggle with what should have been a simple decision—if justice, not politics, was the goal—but Tim Scott, a U.S. senator from South Carolina, has announced he will oppose the nomination of Thomas Farr. That means the Scott I think I know—the…
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Trump Calls Off Meeting With Putin Right After Michael Cohen Agrees To Sing Like Johnny Gill at His Audition for New Edition
President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday noting: “Ouuuuu, bitch, they onto us!” Fine, who knows what the hell goes on in that empty pit of shame that sits atop the saggy-skinned movable KFC buckets that make up the president? But two days before he was supposed to sit…
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Trump Fixer Michael Cohen to Cooperate in Mueller Investigation. Too Bad He's Also a Liar
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney, has accepted a plea deal that includes cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation on election interference, collusion and obstruction of justice. However, all of this might not amount to anything because much like his former boss, Cohen’s ass stay lying too. In fact, Cohen “pleaded…
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President Petty Goes Back to Reality Show Roots and Threatens to Release Receipts on Democrats
The president of the United States is threatening to do all kinds of unpresidential shit because he’s the president of the goddamn United States! In an interview with the New York Post, the president of the fucking United States of America just said that if House Democrats use their power to demand to see how…
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Nancy Pelosi Wins 1st Victory In Her Bid to Be Speaker of the House Again
Nancy Pelosi is well on her way to being the Speaker of the House once again after House Democrats nominated her in a 203-32 vote. Pelosi, who served as Speaker of the House under President Obama, will now how have to get past a vote of the full House during the first week of January,…
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Hakeem Jeffries Elected to Lead Democratic Caucus, Karen Bass to Chair Congressional Black Caucus
With the Democrats taking over the House during the last election, it appears all the Congressional new blood is leading to new leadership across the board. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York will be the new Democratic Caucus leader, and Rep. Karen Bass of California will be the new chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.…
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If the NRA Seems Stressed, It’s Because She Ain’t Making Money Like She Used To
Things were looking pretty sweet for the National Rifle Association in 2016. Thanks in part to a presidential campaign in which gun owners and gun rights advocates feared that liberals (i.e. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton) would strip them of their beloved guns, the NRA boasted record-breaking contributions. What a difference a year makes. According…