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As The Fallout Continues, Here’s What Puerto Ricans Are Saying About Trump and Kamala Harris
Social media has been in shambles since the Sunday event at Madison Square Garden.
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Bad Bunny, Other Puerto Rican Celebrities Respond to ‘Floating Garbage’ Comment About Their Country at Trump Rally
Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin have also shown support for Harris after Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of Garbage” at a Trump rally.
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As a Comedian Made Wildly Offensive Comments About Puerto Rico at a Trump Rally, Kamala Was On This Very Different Page
Harris visited a Puerto Rican restaurant on Sunday in Philadelphia.
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How The Climate Crisis Is Impacting Black People
Black and Brown Americans bear the brunt of rising sea levels and stronger and more frequent storms
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Did He Try Craigslist? Trump Reportedly Wanted to Sell Puerto Rico
Trump is the dude who successfully sold three NutriBullets on eBay for a combined $15 profit and now wants to talk with you about your finances. Apparently, the brilliant real estate mogul—who was gifted all of his real estate from his father, the actual real estate mogul—considered selling Puerto Rico in 2017 because it’s an…
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Fallout Continues in Puerto Rico After Warehouse Full of Unused Relief Supplies Is Discovered
A video showing a Puerto Rican warehouse full of unused supplies—allegedly given to aid survivors in the aftermath of Hurricane María—has set off a political firestorm on the island, currently reeling from a series of earthquakes. The footage, streamed on Saturday by Lorenzo Delgado Torres, instantly went viral, showing a warehouse in the southern coastal…
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Trump Administration Officials Arrested for Scamming Puerto Rico Out of $1.8 Billion in Hurricane Relief Funds
Remember when Trump blasted Puerto Rico’s government for their corruption and thievery, explaining that he was the best thing that ever happened to that foreign country whose president’s name he couldn’t quite remember? Well, it turned out, it was his own people who were actually doing the scamming. A federal grand jury indicted two former…
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Can Someone Tell Trump that Puerto Rico Is a Territory of the US? Maybe Then He’ll Stop Treating Them Like Trash
Because the fear of another natural disaster isn’t enough to deal with, the people of Puerto Rico have to now deal with President Trump bashing them on Twitter. On Wednesday, the perpetually abusive husband to America tweeted out that the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is one of the “most corrupt places on earth.” Did…
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White People Don’t Live in Flint or Puerto Rico, So President Sends Aid to France
Five years have gone by, some 1,825 days, since the people of Flint, Mich., were doomed to a life with no clean water, with no clear end in sight. (Nestle just pledged to continue providing bottled water for the town at least through August of this year.) And it’s been more than 18 months since…
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Trump Doesn't Really Understand What Success Means
As people in the Carolinas prepare themselves for the onslaught of Hurricane Florence, Donald Trump proved that he doesn’t know what the word “success” means when he praised his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year—where an estimated 3,000 people died as a result of the storm. The Washington Post reports that…