Donald Trump
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The White House Beat Rachel Maddow to Publishing Trump’s 2005 Tax Return, but Rachel Won the Game
Unless you turned off your phone, computer and television Tuesday night in order to enjoy some quiet time with your thoughts, you have already heard that Rachel Maddow tweeted that she would be revealing Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return courtesy of the two pages of a Form 1040 that were mailed to Daily Beast reporter…
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Why Can’t We Cover Trump’s Twitter Fingers and His Presidency?
President Vladimir TrumPutin has been a busy man since taking office. Mostly he’s been busy hiding his taxes from the American public, and hiding his relationship with Russian operatives. He’s surely spent time keeping the video of paid Russian thots R. Kelly-ing all over a hotel room out of the hands of the public, and…
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What Trump’s Tweets Teach Us About Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Emmett Till
Explaining racism is hard. When you’re illustrating the complexities of racial prejudice in America, it is difficult to bridge the gap between understanding and skepticism in a populace pretending to listen with its arms folded, ready to dismiss any reasonable, salient point that demonstrates the existence of privilege and bigotry. Sometimes it’s not that people…
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5 Things Trump Can Do to Piss Off TrumpPets
What if you could do anything you wanted? What if every time you heard something you didn’t like, you could punch the person who said it in the mouth? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to say anything you wanted—even if it’s a lie—and have it manifest itself into reality? You might be too…
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Hawaii and Ore. Join Wash. and Minn. in Legal Challenge Against Trump’s Travel Ban
The states of Hawaii and Oregon joined Washington and Minnesota on Thursday in their legal challenge against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, which goes into effect March 16, and the states of New York and Massachusetts have said they will join the challenge, too. The Washington Post reports that Hawaii filed a lawsuit against…
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TrumPutin’s Longtime Friend Roger Stone Communicated With Russian Hackers Before Election: Report
Roger Stone, a political consultant and longtime friend of President Vladimir TrumPutin, was reportedly in contact with the Russian hacking “online persona” Guccifer 2.0, which the FBI believes was responsible for the theft and leaking of emails during the Democratic presidential campaign. Stone allegedly used Twitter (because of course he did) to send private messages…
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Watch Mike Pence’s Matrix-Like Deflection of Obama Wiretapping Claims Made by Trump
Vice President Mike Pence knows that President Mother Russia was lying when he took to the keyboard with his little fingers to type those crazy claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City. In fact, the vice president pulled out some Matrix-like dodging moves when he was asked flat out…
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The Distraction Of Racism And The Bipartisan Roots Of Chicago's Black Suffering
There’s a Toni Morrison quote I used to bristle at: “The function of racism is distraction.” I had never read the full context of this quote and initially, I thought this was another attempt to dismiss racism as a primary societal ill deserving of discussion, while prompting us to start paying attention to the “real”…