death threats
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Los Angeles Teacher Forced to Flee Home After Wypipo Lost It Over Her 'I Can't Breathe' T-Shirt
Earlier this month, a Los Angeles charter school teacher did a simple thing to show solidarity with the movement against systemic racism in policing—she wore a T-shirt that reads “I can’t breathe.” The result? White people lost their damn minds. For the mere acknowledgment that Black lives do in fact matter, this educator said she…
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Wait, Who Wants to Hurt Dr. Fauci? America’s Only Hope for Coronavirus Honesty Forced to Beef Up Security
Dr. Anthony Fauci, stealer of Trump’s press conferences and corrector of Trump’s lies, “the country’s top medical expert on the coronavirus pandemic and a member of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force,” has been forced to beef up security after receiving threats to his personal safety. According to CNN, America’s top pandemic doc has to…
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Man Sentenced to a Year in Prison for Threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar
The election of Donald Trump has really emboldened the “I don’t have a racist bone in my body” crowd. Seeing the president talk crazy with impunity has inspired his admirers to see if that lack of consequences also translated to them. In news surprising no one but white men, they don’t. NBC News reports that…
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Islamophobic Trump Supporter Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Kill Rep. Ilhan Omar
A man who threatened to assault and kill Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar pleaded guilty in court Monday, according to the United States Department of Justice. In a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York, the DOJ said 55-year-old Patrick W. Carlineo Jr., of Addison, N.Y., pleaded guilty…
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In Death Threat Against Ilhan Omar, Writer Vows to Shoot Congresswoman at Minnesota State Fair
Dogged by death threats and public attacks, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar revealed in a chilling Twitter post on Wednesday why she requires a security detail. “I hate that we live in a world where you have to be protected from fellow humans. I hated it as a child living through war and I hate it…
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The Warriors Owner's Wife Received Death Threats Because the Beyhive Is Petty AF [Updated]
The wife of Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob has reportedly received death threats after she decided, using her own free will, to crane her neck across Queen Beyoncé’s air space to speak with her majesty’s husband, who apparently does something in music. During Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Warriors and the…
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Omar, Tlaib and Booker Hit With Death Threats, Feds Say in Case Against Florida Man
A Florida man has been charged with making death threats against prominent Democratic officials, including Sen. Cory Booker, and Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, and spewing hateful invective against blacks, Muslims and immigrants in a series of phone calls. John Kless, 49, of the Fort Lauderdale area, faces up to five years in prison…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar: ‘I Have Experienced an Increase in Direct Threats on My Life’ Since Trump’s 9/11 Video Lie
In almost every area of politics, President Donald Trump is out of his league. In fact, he’s not even in the ballpark when it comes to everything outside of putting his Diet Coke on his Oval Office desk without a coaster. But there is one area where the president surpasses all of those before him:…
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President Mocks Rep. Ilhan Omar Day After Trump Supporter Who Threatened to Kill Her Is Arrested
The great divider in chief just doesn’t get it or really doesn’t give a shit, but either way, his rhetoric is not without consequences. Police arrested Patrick Carlineo Jr., 55, of Addison, N.Y., after he allegedly made calls to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in March threatening to assault and murder the Muslim lawmaker. And only…
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‘White People,’ Explained
Not all white people. I think I should issue that caveat at the beginning. Because I was partially homeschooled, I probably missed the day in first-grade language arts when they instruct people that, whenever the word “white” is used as an adjective to describe the word “people,” the reader should automatically assume the word “all”…