Politics
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Stacey Abrams May Ask For a Whole New Election: Report
As Georgia officials are preparing to crown former secretary of state and reigning Grand Wizard of Voter Suppression, Brian Kemp, governor, the legal team for the Democratic candidate for governor, Stacey Abrams, is readying an unusual but not unprecedented legal challenge: A do-over. In light of numerous instances of voter suppression, vote-tossing, long voter lines,…
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Trump Is Rage Tweeting Again, Which Means That Robert Mueller Is Getting Closer
I think it was the next governor of Florida (please, Black Jesus,) who said that a “hit dog will holler.” And if President Trump’s twitter account is anything, it’s an ongoing log that proves he and his administration should be on late night ASPCA commercials. In the president’s latest series of rage tweets, he did…
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Florida Judge Rules in Favor of Counting Votes Because…Football
In a win for Florida Democrats, Bill Nelson, the rule of law and common sense, a federal court cited the Constitution and (yes, this is actually true) the NFL rulebook to explain why election officials in the Sunshine State can’t just arbitrarily toss the ballots of eligible voters who voted by mail. “Consider the game…
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In a Stunning Move, the President Does Something Presidential That Actually Helps Black People [Corrected]
A broken clock is right twice a day, sometimes Kodak Black makes listenable music and sometimes, just sometimes, President Trump does something good. On Wednesday surrounded by some of his most famous blacks including that one pastor with the conk, Trump announced that he was supporting a bipartisan prison reform bill that would give former…
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Wait, What? Fox News Sides With CNN in Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration
In what can only be categorized as a shocking turn of events, President Trump’s personal Speak & Spell news station, Fox News, which is basically a megaphone for all of the White House’s racists dog whistles, has joined several media outlets announcing they back CNN’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. (Of course, not too long…
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Mississippi Governor Defends Cindy Hyde-Smith's Lynching Comments By Claiming African-American Abortion Is 'Black Genocide'
Mississippi is burning. It always has been. As U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is preparing to face a runoff against Democrat Mike Espy on Nov. 27, Hyde-Smith just can’t seem to stop stepping in it. And by “it,” I mean racism. In a video that has now been shared across all social platforms, Hyde-Smith appears to…
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‘Straight-Up Racist’: Boston State Rep Calls Out Democratic Party’s Institutional Problems
A new crop of Democratic leaders isn’t afraid to take its own party to task—saying what has been obvious to many black voters and voters of color for years now. The latest is newly elected Boston state Rep. Nika Elugardo, who at a recent panel called out the Democrats for being “straight-up racist.” The panel,…
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Melania Trump Is Petty AF, Publicly Calls for Ouster of a Top National Security Aide Because They’re Beefing
Instead of working on the three pillars (well-being, social media use, and opioid abuse) that make up her grammatically incorrect campaign, first lady Melania Trump is using her White House muscle to publicly call for the firing of deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel. Who is Ricardel? Who knows. But she’s apparently beefing with Melania…
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DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Has One Foot Out of the White House and the Other on a Banana Peel
President Trump is draining the swamp, and no that’s not a euphemism for the commandant in chief hitting the bathroom (well it kind of is). But if the rumors are true, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen (the woman on Trump’s staff with a random misspelling in her own name) is on her way…