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Why Armed Teachers Means Dead Black Students, Explained
I’m sorry. I was keeping an eye on Florida’s House of Representatives all day. House members passed a school-safety/gun control bill and sent it to the governor for his signature. I hear you, but this bill will probably mean more dead black kids. This is Florida, man. You can buy a boa constrictor at a…
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Donald Trump Be Acting Up, and Congress Be Letting Him
I want you to have this song playing in the background as you read this post. It’s important: We never have to question whether troubling news about our sitting president is going to break on a day that ends in “y” anymore. It is as inevitable as dusk and dawn at this point. It’s going…
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Betsy DeVos Is the World’s Most Useless White Woman
Of course, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is not the world’s most useless white person. That title belongs to sentient-pile-of-shredded-Monopoly-money-lining-an-albino-hamster’s-cage Jared Kushner, who has somehow managed to stay dead in the center of every Trump-related scandal despite the fact that no one knows what he does or did before whatever he’s doing now, or even what he…
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A Texas Judge Used Electric Shocks to Force a Defendant to Cooperate: Report
To understand this story, you first have to know that in Tarrant County, Texas, courtrooms, stun belts capable of carrying electric shocks are sometimes strapped to defendants’ legs. These belts are intended as a safety precaution, used to shock defendants should they get violent or try to escape. But as the Washington Post reports, that’s…
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The Geek Squad Is Dry Snitching on Its Customers to the FBI: Report
The Volkswagen-driving nerds who promised to remove the virus from your computer and have it back by Friday are also skilled in the art of unmoisturized tattling: Newly uncovered documents show how Best Buy’s Geek Squad has been working undercover in the FBI’s Department of Dry Snitching for a decade at the very least. The…
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The President of the United States Is Being Sued by a Porn Actress. Yep, America, We’ve Truly Lost It
I don’t know what’s going on anymore. I’m now openly rooting for a porn actress (I think we use the term “star” too freely when talking about porn) to take down the presidency. And while I know that she won’t, it doesn’t mean I can’t be happy that she’s doing the Messy Lord’s work. As…
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You’ll Never Guess Who Doesn’t React Well When Women or People of Color Become Their Bosses
OK, you probably guessed. It’s white men. At first glance, especially if you’re a woman or minority in the workplace, this seems like the kind of news you could file under “Well, fucking duh.” But what’s notable here is the ways these white male leaders react. A recent study shared by MarketWatch and set to…
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Someone Thought It Would Be Hilarious to Put the N-Word on a Theater’s Black Panther Sign
One of America’s finest warriors who protect our freedoms by placing their lives on the line for you and me apparently conjured up the ingenious idea that changing the sign on a movie theater showing Black Panther to “Phat Black Nigger” would be a priceless prank. It was not. According to a Facebook post from…
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Cornell University Student Facing Hate Crime Charges in Racist Attack Could Be Deported if Convicted [Updated]
Updated: Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 6:02 p.m.: Greenwood pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in April. He admitted to using the racial slur but denied being involved in the physical attack. The original charges, including a charge of attempted assault as a hate crime, were dropped due to a “level of doubt.” Earlier: A Canadian citizen…