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Many Americans Believe Fake News Is a Bigger Problem Than Racism, New Poll Finds
Before an orange-tinged carnival barker began waging a war with the news media and Russian troll farms began spewing misinformation across social media to help said carnival barker ascend to the White House, the quality of news probably ranked fairly low among the things most Americans typically worried about. But a recent Pew Research poll…
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Umar Johnson Doesn't Announce Location of His Academy of (Con) Arts and Sciences … Again
The Honorable Dr. Umar Ifatunde GoFundme Johnson, great-grand-playcousin to Frederick Douglas, the most requested bullshitter in the Unconscious Community, Big P.O.P.A. (Prince of Panhandling Arts), the ride-or-dashiki school nurse who vowed to one day Make Hotep Great Again, has announced the location of his long-awaited Hogwarts School for Gifted and Talented. No one in America…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Was Broke Like a Month Ago, Which Fox News Hosts Found Hilarious
Fresh off her midterm election victory and the purchase of her first couch, representative-elect of New York’s 14th Congressional District, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, took a moment from representing the best of our political process to cut some faux-populist fat cats down to size. After Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet celebrating her new lease on home decor and her remarks…
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Trump Has Figured Out What’s Triggering Violence in America. Hint: It’s Not Him
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has proven he does three things well: Lie Stoke white fear Place blame on anyone other than himself When he’s really at his best—usually during one of his rallies in some midwestern showplace arena that normally holds monster truck shows and cowboy competitions—he works through all three of his…
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Fellow Media Friends, It's Time for Us to Talk (Again) About How We Identify Black Women
Fun fact: The woman in the picture on the above left is not the controversial Omarosa Manigault Newman, but revered actress Angela Bassett. But you wouldn’t know that from several outlets that misidentified the Oscar-nominated actress after the Emmy Awards on Monday night. As reported by Yahoo News, which on Tuesday ran an article titled,…
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Auntie Maxine's GOP Opponent to Speak With FBI After Tweeting Most Racist Fake Letter Ever
Although I have always believed there is no such thing as kinda pregnant, an intermediate Spades player or someone who a little bit racist, there are indeed levels of racism. If there was a scale on which you could measure bigotry, the racism threat meter’s colors would range from some-of-my-best-friends-are white to Make-America-Great-Again red. And…
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Florida House Republican Candidate Faked College Degree: Report
A candidate vying for a seat in Florida’s House of Representatives has been accused of faking the Bachelor’s degree she claims she earned from Miami University. Although The Root cannot confirm the candidate’s forgery, the accusations come from a somewhat credible source: Miami University. Not that Miami University. The other one. The one that’s not…
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President Vladimir TrumPutin's Latest Tweet Storm Claims Russia Is Bae and the Real Enemy is the American Media
It’s Thursday, so you know what that means? The old man in the White House is at it again. Fresh off a KFC bender, the president started in on his latest rash against American media, claiming that the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a success and that the real enemy is the American…