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Let’s Discuss How Republicans in Congress Are Complicit in Trump’s Bullshit
There is a $1.3 trillion spending bill being worked on in Congress right now. Democrats wanted to add language to the bill that would protect special counsel Robert Mueller and keep him from being fired by the president. Although a good many of them said that they believe Mueller should be allowed to finish the…
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Finally, LAPD Will Make Bodycam and Dashcam Videos Public
The Los Angeles Police Department is one step closer to being more transparent with the citizens it is tasked to protect and serve. After years of refusing to do so, the department will adopt a policy that requires the release of bodycam and dashcam footage to the public. The Los Angeles Police Commission—the department’s civilian…
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Brother of Accused Parkland, Fla., High School Shooter Held on $500,000 Bond, Charged With Trespassing on School Property
Zachary Cruz was arrested and held on $500,000 bond after authorities say he trespassed at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where his older brother Nikolas Cruz is accused of killing 17 people on Valentine’s Day. According to the Palm Beach Post, Zachary was warned by school officials to stay away from…
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Meet the Trailblazing Black Scientist Twitter Helped Identify From a Single Photograph: Report
Last week, Twitter jumped on the case of an unidentified black woman who appeared, partially obscured, in a 1971 photo taken at the International Conference on the Biology of Whales. She was the only woman in attendance in a sea of mostly white men, prompting the person who found the photo—Candace Jean Anderson, an author…
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How Popular Is Michelle Obama? So Popular That the Smithsonian Had to Move Her Portrait Because of ‘High Volume of Visitors’
Who wouldn’t want to go see the real first lady Michelle Obama, even if that meant “settling” for an amazing, intricate portrait rather than the real deal? As it turns out, everyone was just waiting to see the unique portrait Baltimore artist Amy Sherald painted of the former FLOTUS after it was unveiled at the…
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Package Bomb, Believed to Be Destined for Austin, Detonates at Texas FedEx Facility
Updated Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 3:07 p.m. EDT: Apparently there is no second device after all. On Tuesday morning, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said that there was a second, unexploded device found at the Schertz, Texas, FedEx location after a first bomb went off. A spokesperson for the department later backtracked, saying that…
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Trump Congratulates Putin on His Re-Election Because He Loves the Russian President More Than He Loves America
Donald Trump loves Vladimir Putin. He openly wants to be him. He secretly wishes that he could be the president of a mob country that hosts sham elections like Putin. Like a teenage boy who’s been forbidden from hanging with the troubled boy down the street, Trump has sneaked out of the house to smoke…
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2 Students Injured, Gunman Dead After Shooting at Maryland High School
Updated Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 2:09 p.m. EDT: The gunman involved in the shooting that left two Maryland high schoolers injured early Tuesday morning has been identified as 17-year-old Austin Wyatt Rollins. Austin, a student at Great Mills High School, shot a 16-year-old female student before he was shot and killed while exchanging gunfire with…
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Retaliation Firings, a Breakfront China Cabinet and a Bootleg Christian Charity: What’s Going On at Ben Carson’s Department of Housing and Urban Development?
First it was reported that Ben Carson, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and his wife, Candy, were out here balling without a budget, buying some $31,000 of dining room furniture that included a breakfront china cabinet—because nothing says old bougie blackness like a breakfront china cabinet. Initially, Carson denied knowing about…
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Is Aubrey O’Day’s Song ‘DJT’ About Her Affair With Donald Trump Jr.? Of Course It Is
While many of us believe that Donald Trump Jr. is just an inbred walking reindeer hoof whose flirting techniques include making bacon jokes about a woman’s vagina, and we are right, it turns out that he may still have been quite the ladies’ man. News broke late Monday that Trump Jr. had an affair with…