Politics
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Well This is Awkward: Black GOP Candidate Claims She Can Win Because People Don't Want to Vote for 'Old White Men'
The Republican Party, aka the party of old white men, has a new black firecracker with an interesting platform: Vote for me because people don’t want to vote for old white men! According to The Sun-Sentinel, Carla Spalding, who is Caribbean-American, spoke during an Americans For Trump-Broward meeting in Florida. Nothing says old white men…
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What Did Rick Gates Tell Robert Mueller?
Paul Manafort’s former right-hand man, Rick Gates, is somehwere in a private room with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, doing his Minnie Ripperton impression—singing in his best four-octave coloratura soprano and hitting all the high notes, even the ones that only dolphins—or Mariah Carey—can interpret. And it’s a song so beautiful that Mueller doesn’t…
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Omarosa Confirms What We All Suspected: Trump's a Racist Who Uses the N-Word
Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the former best black friend to the president, has a new book, Unhinged, which sadly is not an autobiography but a memoir about her time inside the Big House White House. According to the Daily Beast, Omarosa writes that she felt a “growing realization that Donald Trump was indeed a racist, a bigot,…
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It's Official: Melania Trump's Parents Are Now US Citizens
Melania Trump’s parents didn’t get stopped at the border for their second daughter to be ripped from their arms. They didn’t have to pine for the day that they’d all be reunited; they didn’t have to wonder if she was safe or being fed properly or even if she slept on a bed. They never…
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Devin Nunes Joins Omarosa and Michael Cohen's White House Leaked Mixtape Series
Tapes have an important history in hip-hop’s legacy. During the 1980s, mixtapes were all the rage because most radio stations weren’t playing this new genre of music and no one had time to lug around thousands of albums. Before Soundcloud, Spotify and Tidal became a thing, these pre-internet recordings determined what everyone would be listening…
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Trump's Legal Team Gives Robert Mueller a Last-Minute Birthday Gift
On Tuesday, Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III celebrated his 74th birthday. On Wednesday, he got a late gift from Donald Trump’s legal team—a counter-offer to his request for an interview with the president as he continues his investigation into whether or not members of Trump’s campaign colluded with Russians in the 2016 presidential election.…
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Enough With the Shit, Green Party. The Coming Midterms Are Too Important for Your Shenanigans
In theory, the Green Party is vitally necessary for a two-party system with party platforms so rigid and legacy-laced that not all potential candidates can get with either of them. I get it. But in practice, the Green Party has become a catch-all for wackos and faux-Democrats who wouldn’t have a shot in hell in…
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Ferguson Uprising: Prosecutor Who Didn't Bring Charges in Michael Brown Shooting Loses Primary to Black Councilman
The ashes of the Ferguson, Mo., uprising have given way to the ouster of a longstanding St. Louis County prosecuting attorney who not only led the investigation into the shooting death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson, but took a moment to chastise the public who demanded that Wilson be…
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From Hater to Hopeful: How Netroots Nation Changed My Opinion of Kamala Harris
“You’re just a hater!” “She’s the only one who can carry black women!” “So you want Trump to get re-elected?” I hear these things all the time from my political friends. Usually right after I air-drop fifty-kajillion gallons of cold water on their fantasy of a Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) led Democratic ticket beating Donald…
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White House Pushing New Policy That Would Punish Legal Immigrants Who've Received Public Benefits: Report
The White House is at again, this time, President Trump’s advisor and resident white supremacist weasel, Stephen Miller, has reportedly proposed a new policy that would make it harder for legal immigrants whose families received public benefits such as subsidies for Obamacare or food stamps to get citizenship. According to CNN, The White House (emphasis…