congress
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I’m Pretty Sure a White Woman Who Almost Killed Me Thinks She Saved My Life, and I Hope Sandra Bullock Plays Her in My Life Story
I believe I have my own white-savior story that might actually be a Magical Negro story at the same damn time. I think the proper term for this story that I’m about to tell is an allegory. What’s the deeper, potentially political, meaning behind it? I don’t know. It sure as shit means something, though.…
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Sen. Jeff Flake Just Torched Trump on the Senate Floor, but Does This Really Mean He’s an Ally?
Before we run to nominate Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) as the designated white man to bring cups, plates, napkins and other nonfood items to the cookout because of the scorched-earth flames he threw on the Senate floor—in which he compared President Donald Trump to Joseph Stalin—let’s be selective about who gets into the collective backyard…
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If You’re Reading This, Thank You for Everything (and Also for Reading This)
On a macro level and, I think, by most objective measures, 2017 was a fairly shitty year. I don’t have the time or disposition to run down everything that went wrong, but in a nutshell: Our president sucks, Congress sucks, our white electorate sucks, white people keep white-folkin’, we lost a bevy of great people…
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The Christmas Gift You Didn’t Want: Deplorable Bill for the Top 1 Percent Passes Deplorable Congress
In what is probably the least shocking news coming out of the Trump White House and the deplorable Republican Congress, the tax bill that will help no one but Congress members and those in the top 1 percent has been approved resoundingly by both chambers of Congress with no Democratic support. Days before Christmas, Republican…
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Disgraced Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Strongly Considering Senate Run
Now that bigotry and racism is house-sitting 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., it seems fitting that ex-Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio—who was so vile and xenophobic that the courts ordered him to stop targeting Latinos in Arizona, but he refused and was sent to prison until the xenophobe in chief pardoned him—may be running for Congress.…
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Rep. John Conyers Paid $27,000 to Settle Sexual Harassment Complaint: Report
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, 1:30 p.m. EST: Rep. John Conyers has released a full statement “expressly and vehemently” denying allegations of sexual misconduct after a BuzzFeed report found that his office had settled with a former employee who had accused of him of inappropriate advances. Conyers insisted that “it is important to recognize that…
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Puerto Rico Awards Largest Relief Contract to Small, 2-Year-Old Mont. Firm With Ties to Trump Administration
Puerto Rico’s power authority, PREPA, has awarded a lucrative contract to rebuild the island’s devastated power grid to a small, 2-year-old Montana firm that had only two full-time employees at the time Hurricane Maria hit, according to a report by the Washington Post. The company, Whitefish, also has ties to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Whitefish…
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Congress Passes Legislation Urging the President to Act Less Like a White Supremacist
It’s a sad day when Congress has to pass legislation urging the president of the United States to speak out against racist hate groups, but that’s where we are, ’Merica. On Tuesday, Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation demanding more “forceful denunciation of racist extremism from the president,” the Washington Post reports. “The first thing it’s going…
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If Trump Ends DACA, Obama Is Ready to Show Out
Former President, and my president for life, Barack Obama promised that he wouldn’t armchair-quarterback current President Donald von DoucheFace’s presidency. Mostly because he knew that Trump was a disaster waiting to happen and he didn’t want to have to continually answer to von DoucheFace’s slipups. But when it comes to the Deferred Action for Childhood…
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Rep. Jason Chaffetz Has a Foot Like the Terminator
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is chairman of the House oversight committee, and his foot looks like something out of a Terminator movie. I don’t trust shaky Chaffetz as far as I can throw him, so who even knows if the photo he posted to Facebook on Wednesday is even his foot, but if it is,…