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A South Carolina Woman Swore She’d Die Before She Took Down Her Confederate Flag … and Then She Had a Heart Attack
Annie Caddell had been flying a Confederate battle flag outside her home for some seven years, standing at odds with her neighbors and community members who tried to get her to take down what is widely seen as a symbol of racism and hate. Caddell, from Brownsville, S.C., roundly refused, once swearing that she’d die…
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Trump’s Justice Department Doesn’t Care About Civil Rights: Report
In news that would shock only an alien who just landed in the United States on his way to Pluto and was unfamiliar with the legacy of fuckboy shit that the Trump administration has pulled, the Department of Justice, headed by Jeff “King Keebler” Sessions, has pursued fewer civil rights cases than previous administrations. According…
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Dumpster Diving for Dro: Las Vegas Airport Offers New Way to Dispose of Leftover Weed and … Hold on, I’ll BRB
They’re calling them amnesty boxes, but these new green receptacles are essentially a treasure trove of discarded weed. Well, they would be if you could get your hands in them. As Fox News reports, visitors leaving from Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport now have the option of disposing of their legally acquired marijuana and prescription…
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Armed Sheriff’s Deputy Who Never Confronted Gunman During Parkland, Fla., Shooting Thinks ‘He Did a Good Job’
For all the talk of armed good guys stopping a bad guy, there was one trained and armed law enforcement officer who did not confront the shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as the shooting was unfolding. That sheriff’s deputy and school resource officer, Scot Peterson, still “believed he did a good job,” though,…
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Soccer Player Who Heard Racist Chants Tells Fans to Watch Black Panther
One Belgian soccer player has some homework for the fans he says hurled racist taunts at him on the pitch. Go watch Black Panther. During a UEFA Europa League match Thursday between Borussia Dortmund and Atalanta, Dortmund forward Michy Batshuayi says he heard Atalanta fans make monkey noises at him. “2018 and still [racist] monkey…
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Special Counsel Mueller Files New Charges of Money Laundering Against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates
Special counsel Robert Mueller is not playing any games when it comes to this Russia investigation and the big fish he has caught in the wide net he cast. On Thursday he issued a new indictment against former Donald Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, charging them both with money laundering. CNN reports…
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#NetNeutrality: Doomsday Is Here—It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It
We knew it was coming, and the day is finally here. The Federal Communications Commission published its ironically named new rules, the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, in the Federal Register on Thursday. It’s the end of the Internet as we know it. OK, maybe not right this minute. The effective date for most of the…
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Deranged NRA Spokeswoman: The Media Loves Mass Shootings, and Crying White Mothers Are Ratings Gold
National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch knows exactly what she is doing. Her job as a mouthpiece for the NRA is to shift the focus from looking at gun laws to looking at anything but gun laws. Seriously, she doesn’t care if the focus goes from the Parkland, Fla., mass school shooting to the county…
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China Dismisses Criticism Over Blackface Sketch During Lunar New Year TV Gala
China is turning a blind eye to criticism its media faced after an Asian actress appeared in blackface during a comedy routine on China’s biggest Lunar New Year TV show. Instead the country is flipping the situation around on critics, claiming that people are trying to undermine relations between China and Africa. According to Reuters,…