Politics
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Trump Supporter Attacks Media During Trump Rally and Trump Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way
During another one of the president’s endless rallies in El Paso, Texas, on Monday, a supporter of the President Trump took the media-hater-in-chief’s consistent and frequent statements against the press literally and reportedly shoved a BBC cameraman before being taken away by security. The deplorable allegedly shouted “fuck the media” before issuing a series of…
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What It Means That a Black Woman Is Leading Julián Castro’s Campaign for President
WASHINGTON, D.C.—When Maya Rupert walked into then-Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro’s office with a tricky problem to solve, she expected some resistance. It was November 2015, and the agency had long been mulling a rule that would require HUD-funded shelters to accept transgender people under their proper genders, not the ones they were…
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Kamala Harris Stands By Her Time As a Prosecutor in Breakfast Club Interview
Monday morning, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris appeared on The Breakfast Club to discuss a wide range of subjects, from her time as a prosecutor, to critiques of her blackness, to her cooking skills. The interview, which had some interesting gems, was a mix of the predictable—she mostly stood by her time as a prosecutor, which…
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Va. Gov. Ralph 'Coonman' Northam Just Can't Stop Stepping In It, Calls Slaves 'Indentured Servants'
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (aka Governor Moonwalk F. Jackson) was trying to mend his broken image during an interview on CBS This Morning and he attempted to maneuver his way out of one minefield only to step on a live hand grenade. Northam still refuses to step down after website unearthed a photo of a…
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White House Defends Trump's 'Executive Time' After Leaker Reveals Sir Nap-A-Lot's Schedule
To hear the president tell it, he’s a hardworking commander-in-chief who would never take nap during “executive time” no matter what his aides tell the media. He was resting his eyes…and praying. Look, a man needs time to meditate after a family size bucket of extra crispy KFC, two Filet o’ Fish and a 2-liter…
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Exclusive: Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax Speaks Out on Sexual Assault Allegations and His Future in Virginia [Updated]
The top three elected Democrats in the state of Virginia have been mired in controversy for the last week. On Friday, Feb. 1, a medical school yearbook pictures from 1984 surfaced showing two people in blackface and a Ku Klux Klan uniform on Gov. Ralph Northam’s page, as well as showing a racist nickname in…
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Exclusive: Thousands of Black Votes in Georgia Disappeared and No One Can Explain It
Voter suppression in Georgia was one of the most discussed issues during the 2018 midterm elections. Front and center in the debate stood Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a longtime voting-rights activist who had dedicated much of her career to fighting for every citizen’s right to vote. Abrams was also running to become the state’s…
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Trump Appointed Members of Mar-a-Lago and His Private Golf Clubs to be Ambassadors: Report
Apparently it doesn’t take much these days to become the ambassador of a country like say, South Africa. In fact in Trump’s administration it seems the only things that are needed are paid memberships to his resorts or private golf cubs. Maybe ambassadorships are included in the exclusive package deals at Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago resort…
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As President Trump's Physical Approaches, He's Not Done Anything the Doctor Told Him To
President Hamburglar’s annual physical is on the horizon, and he’s not done anything the doctor said because the president doesn’t listen to anyone. He literally doesn’t listen to advisers, members of Congress, the FBI, the CIA. He will, however, listen to Fox News, so maybe they should’ve suggested that the president lose a dozen pounds…
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Trump Worries As House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff Hires Former White House Employees
If Trump starts keeping his potential enemies any closer, we may learn of a California King bed in the West Wing. After House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff hired Abigail Grace, a former career official at the National Security Council, Trump is worried Schiff is assembling a team of White House employees to gain an edge…