Politics
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Georgia Board of Elections Nixes Plans to Shut Down 7 of 9 Polling Places in Majority Black County
In what can only be hailed as a hard-fought victory against blatant voter suppression, on Friday, a rural Georgia elections board voted down a plan to close down seven of nine polling places in a majority-black county. Many deemed the move “consolidate” polling places in Randolph County, Georgia as a brazen attempt to depress the black…
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1-800-WYPIPO: Breaking Down Trump’s Tweets About Black Folks
Why does Donald Trump keep coming for black folks? Here at The Root, we’ve been keeping an eye on the internets, and it looks like Trump has something disparaging to say about black folk, like, all of the time. He’s called Omarosa a dog; called LeBron James and Don Lemon dumb; not to mention his…
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Top Trump Official Granted Immunity: This Is the ‘Ultimate Nightmare Scenario for Trump’
And the deplorable cookie continues to crumble, as the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization has been given immunity for information into hush money payments made to two former Playboy Playmates who claim to have had affairs with the president of people who eat roadkill. According to the Wall Street Journal, Allen Weisselberg was…
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Arizona Sen. John McCain to Stop Cancer Treatment
It has been a long and valiant fight but on Friday, Arizona Sen. John McCain’s family announced that one of the most popular Republicans to speak out against the current president’s authoritarian regime will discontinue his brain cancer treatment. “The progress of the disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict,” McCain’s family said…
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President Trump and Jeff Sessions Continue Their Reality Show Reunion Brawl on Twitter
This week’s version of The Real Husbands of the White House aired a very special episode when the public break up between Nicki Minaj and Safaree President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions continued on social media. On Thursday, the president of people who find pleasure in watching monster trucks smash regular cars made an…
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Very Unstable Genius Says If You Impeach Him ‘Everybody Would Be Very Poor’
During an interview with Ainsley Earhardt on Fox & Friends Wednesday, Donald Trump made the argument that if he were ever to be impeached, “everybody would be very poor.” The very unstable genius rambled his way through the interview, patting himself on the back, throwing out “facts” and “figures” to illustrate how successful his presidency…
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Trump Insults Attorney General Jeff Sessions and King Keebler Fights Back
The love affair between Attorney General Jeff “Kindergarten King Keebler” Sessions and President Vladimir TrumPutin could be titled, “When Being Racist Isn’t Enough.” Trump believed fool-heartedly that because he and Sessions shared a disdain for all things non-white, that the attorney general would protect the president from obvious issues that he knew or even suspected…
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Flint Still Doesn’t Have Clean Drinking Water but Trump Is Tweeting About White South African Farmers
As it stands Flint, Mich., still doesn’t have clean drinking water and Puerto Rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria’s aftermath. But President Trump, in a late-night tweetstorm, decided to run down the rabbit hole that seems to be the latest white nationalist conspiracy theory, specifically, that white South African farmers are being murdered for…
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Trump’s Fox News Interview Sounds a Lot Like a Criminal Trying to Convince His Cellmate He’s Innocent
On the heels of Trump’s former campaign manager and personal lawyer heading to the pokey, the president of people who stuff chew in their jaws and spit the brown residue into water bottles, made an appearance on his personal YouTube channel Fox News in which he proudly claimed that he’d give himself an A-plus for…