c.i.a.
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Candace Owens is Loud, Wrong and Offensive Again…This Time Ice Cube Responds
Owens is desperate to remain relevant so Ice Cube set a few things straight.
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz Is Big Mad That A Former CIA Director Endorsed Beto O'Rourke
With the midterms so close, you can smell the swell of the blue wave coming. Maybe that’s why Texas Sen. Ted Cruz got all huffy on Twitter after learning former CIA Director John Brennan endorsed his opponent, Beto O’Rourke. Brennan listed his Texas resume before adding he doesn’t fuck with Grandpa Munster, aka Ted Cruz…
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#SayHerName: 100 Years Ago, Mary Turner Was Lynched
Editor’s note: This story contains graphic descriptions of a lynching, which some may find triggering. Mary Turner was eight months pregnant when she was lynched on May 19, 1918. It all began, as do many things in America, with a mediocre white man. What happened 100 years ago today has been forgotten by America. Like…
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Trump’s Thug, the Ruthless Gina Haspel, Confirmed as the 1st Female CIA Director
Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s pick who refused to call torture immoral, was confirmed Thursday with the help of several spineless Democrats who voted in favor of Haspel’s becoming the first female director of the CIA. I shouldn’t call the six Democrats who voted for Haspel spineless, since many would argue that they are morally…
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Gina Haspel, Trump’s Pick to Run the CIA, Is a Thug
On Wednesday, Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nomination to head the CIA, made her first appearance before a Senate committee hearing, and she sounded like and looked the part of a sweet, cookie-baking grandmother who wants nothing more than to “Make America great again.” But make no mistake about it; during her 33 years with…
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Insecure Director Melina Matsoukas Will Helm Her 1st Series for Amazon Studios
The auteur who has blessed us with stunning visual work for Solange (“Losing You,”) Beyoncé (“Formation”) and Rihanna (“We Found Love”) will direct her first series with Amazon Studios: an adaptation of Marlon James’ novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. Melina Matsoukas, who is of Jamaican descent, is already the executive producer and director of…
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Trump Is Going to Build His Damn Wall, and Other Questionable Executive Orders
President (ugh) Trump continued his bull-in-a-china-shop routine Wednesday by signing a few questionable executive orders, including one to build a border wall with Mexico, one to cut off funds to cities that do not report undocumented immigrants, and one that could restart an interrogation program that was dismantled in 2009 after being condemned as torture.…
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Trump, Butt-Hurt Over the Size of His … Inauguration Crowd, Lies About It (So Does His Whole Team)
Donald Trump and his squad remind me of that old ’90s classic by En Vogue. The hook goes something like this: “Lies. Lies. Using lies as alibis. Lies. Lies. Just the devil in disguise.” After vilifying the intelligence community after it reported that Russia definitively hacked the U.S. elections in his favor, President Donald Trump…
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Black Writers’ Room: Author Gives Us a Glimpse Inside the CIA’s Covert War on Jamaica
With the death of Fidel Castro, there has been a resurgence of interest in his role as an advocate for countries in Africa and the Caribbean. One of those countries was Jamaica, where Castro would help build schools and hospitals and train Jamaican workers. In the 1970s, Castro developed a friendship and partnership with then-Jamaican…