Politics
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Vice President Pence to Oprah: ‘This Ain’t Hollywood’
On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence, the White House’s own version of Aaron Carter, was out stumping for Georgia gubernatorial candidate and current Georgia secretary of state and chief manipulator of votes, Brian Kemp. Pence, like the rest of America, has heard that Kemp’s opponent Stacey Abrams, the woman on the cusp of becoming the…
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A Formal Request for Hillary Clinton to Go Sit Her Ass Down Somewhere: [Updated]
Hillary Clinton is doing it again. You know the coy thing that politicians do when they are teasing whether or not they should run for office. The thing where they walk out into a crowd of people cheering their name and act like they want it to stop but secretly love the adoration. Two-time loser—I…
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Andrew Gillum's Hamilton Tickets Are Barack Obama's Tan Suit
When Barack Obama won the Iowa presidential primary in 2008 and went on to win Super Tuesday, I prayed the brotha didn’t have a side piece the Republicans could pull out to dash his hopes for winning the White House. Barring Fox News’ misleading reporting of his former pastor’s “Goddamn America” sermon and conservatives’ false…
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Ron DeSantis’ Racist Smear Campaign Forces Florida Civil Rights Group to Beef Up Security
For more than a month, Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis has been race-baiting the work of the Dream Defenders. That fear mongering, along with heated rhetoric from President Donald Trump, has begun having an effect on the civil rights group, which is why its leadership has grown concerned that Dream Defenders may be in…
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Laugh Your Ass Off on Election Night Eve, Then Vote
It’s the final push toward Election Day—and if voting isn’t already on your mind (girl, how?) and you haven’t had a chance to cast your ballot yet, Michelle Obama and her When We All Vote initiative have one final event for you: a digital telethon that anyone can participate in—because it doesn’t involve money. The…
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Oprah Winfrey to Join Stacey Abrams on Her Historic Campaign to Become the First Black Woman Governor
With less than a week to go before Georgia decides if Democrat Stacey Abrams will become the country’s first black woman governor, Abrams just received a huge endorsement from black America’s second favorite first lady, Oprah Winfrey. The television talk show host turned television mogul has joined sides to help battle the fuck boy shit…
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White Men Convicted of Plotting to Bomb Somali Muslims Claim Trump and Russian Bots Made Them Do It
Three white men convicted of planning to bomb a Muslim Somali community in Kansas are appealing for lighter sentences by saying that Russian propaganda and Donald Trump’s hateful, racist rhetoric is to blame for their actions. Attorneys for Patrick Stein, Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright filed court documents on Tuesday claiming that their clients were…
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Banging From the Inside: Activist Cat Brooks Runs to Become Oakland’s First Black Woman Mayor
Oakland, Calif., has long been a bastion of historical and cultural reverie in blackness. The “Detroit of the West” holds a special place in African-American esteem: Oakland incubated a nascent Black Panther Party; gave us Hieroglyphics, Too Short, and MC Hammer; and nurtured icons such as Elaine Brown, Zedanya, and Killmonger. It even has its…
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Florida Is on Course to Restore Voting Rights to Residents Convicted of Felonies
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Marissa Alexander knows politics. No political race—judgeship, state representative, national—nor proposed amendment escapes her notice. That’s why during this midterm election season, she has sat down her 18-year-old twins at the dinner table to go over everything—the amendments and candidates that voters must choose from on Tuesday so that her children will be fully…