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Trump Threatens to Veto Senate’s Vote Against His Wall Because That’s What Mob Bosses Do
Trump is doing it again. The arrogant thing that has become the signature of his time in office, where he ignores everyone around him like a kid who sticks his fingers in his ears when his parents are talking, only to do what he’s been told not to do. No one wants this dumbass wall.…
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Trump Ready to Issue First Veto As New Budget Calls for Budget Cuts
They grow up so fast. One day, your new President is on the job for the first day. Wobbly and uncertain, you watched as he moved around Capitol Hill aimlessly, like a deer in headlights after a daring escape from the Doritos compound. He stumbled through his first top-level hires, invented a word, and gave…
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Seven-Year-Old Girl in U.S. Custody at Mexican Border Goes 90 Minutes Without Medical Care, Dies
Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin showed symptoms of dehydration and shock before she was transported from a remote area near the border to a border station. When she arrived at the border station three hours later, she had stopped breathing. After two revival attempts, Caal was pronounced dead by her father’s side. She had been…
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Trump’s Explanation for How Mexico Will Pay for Border Wall Is So Stupid Even Republicans Can’t Explain It
I don’t find Donald Trump’s boasts about graduating from the famed Wharton business school troubling. Even though he doesn’t have an MBA or a degree in business (he transferred to Wharton and only earned a bachelor’s in economics), as a fellow Ivy League graduate, I sympathize with him (during grad school, I had professors named…
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Oh, the Irony: Ivanka Trump's Makeup Artist Is … a Mexican Immigrant?
Here’s a study in “cognitive dissonance.” Style site Refinery29 recently revealed a very interesting and ironic fun fact about devoted first daughter and right-wing beauty icon, Ivanka Trump: her longtime makeup artist, Alexa Rodulfo, is a Mexican immigrant. Yes, you read that right. Already a beauty entrepreneur in her native Juarez, Mexico, in 2005, Rodulfo…
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Waitress in Mexico Writes N-Word on Texas Woman’s Bill
Some Houston residents were just trying to have a good time at a resort in Mexico but instead were faced with the n-word. The crew went to the Be Telum resort to relax and kick back, but instead, the opposite happened, which led them to return early from the vacation, WTRK-TV reports. Tiffani Janelle, a…
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Cinco de Mayo Is More Than Margaritas and Sombreros, and Cut It Out With the Sombreros if You’re Not Mexican
Contrary to popular belief, there’s more to Cinco de Mayo than margaritas and eating foods covered in guacamole. Cinco de Mayo is also not a celebration of Mexico’s independence; that’s actually Sept. 16. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over the French forces of Napoleon III on May 5, 1862, at the Battle…
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Beyoncé Drops ‘Mi Gente’ Remix to Benefit Disaster Relief in Mexico, Puerto Rico and Other Caribbean Islands
While y’all’s dusty president is still dropping incendiary and largely inaccurate tweets about the NFL protests against racial injustice, celebrities are doing the Lord’s work, focusing on the fact that there are thousands of Americans (and non-Americans) who need help after natural disasters have ravaged their states and islands, leaving many in desperate need of…