Politics
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Little Rock, Arkansas' Young, Black Millennial Hope for Mayor Looks to Unify the City
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Frank Scott knows he’s a black man. And he knows everyone knows he is favored to win tomorrow’s mayoral runoff. He knows black folks in Little Rock want him to represent them. But the community banking executive knows that in order to win, he needs to bring the city together and convince white…
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This Idiot Put ‘President Trump’ in Quotes Because Not Even He Can Believe This Shit Is Real
You can tell Donald Trump is at least a little bit nervous about what may be waiting for him behind the curtain of the Mueller investigation. Nearly everyone who was formerly associated with him has in some way, shape or form fallen, turned on him or decided to take a plea deal because the weight…
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Milo Yiannopoulos Pledges Broke Phi Broke Because Karma Has Finally Decided to Come and Collect
Serial agitator Milo Yiannopoulos—purveyor of all things xenophobic, racist, or misogynistic—is gonna have a hell of time trying to buy Christmas gifts this year, according to The Guardian: The far right activist Milo Yiannopoulos was more than $2m in debt during 2018, according to a collection of documents assembled by his former Australian tour promoters…
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Real White Housewives Episode Recap: Trump Wants Former Fixer Michael Cohen In All the Prisons
On the last episode of the Real White Housewives the president’s former fixer Michael Cohen, whose tagline is “Go get you some hot water, cause you know I’ve got all the tea!” had agreed to cooperate in special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation into all things Russia. Live footage of Cohen flipping: President Trump, whose tagline…
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Kamala Harris on Potential Presidential Bid in 2020: ‘It’s Going to Be Ugly’
Over the weekend, while speaking at the Know Your Value conference in San Francisco, Senator Kamala Harris stated the obvious with conviction. “Let’s be honest. It’s going to be ugly,” she told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski according to Newsweek. “When you break things, it is painful. And you get cut. And you bleed.” Her comments are…
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Michelle Obama Still Doesn't Want to Be President but That Doesn't Mean We Should Stop Trying
Despite consistently saying that she has no interest in running for president, Michelle Obama has once again confirmed that she doesn’t want to be president. But I, like the rest of us, am not trying to hear that. We need you, Michelle! And while we know that she has no interest in running the country,…
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As Tributes Pour In Honoring George H.W. Bush, Twitter Calls His Legacy Into Question
On Friday night, after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease and other ailments, our 41st president, George H.W. Bush, died in his Houston home. He was 94. As tributes poured in over the weekend, he was celebrated for being “great in his character, leading with decency and integrity” according to House Speaker Paul Ryan. Our…
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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…