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Let There Be No Mistake: If You’re Outspoken and Black or Muslim, ‘They’ Are Definitely Watching You
Because I am predisposed to take everything with a grain of salt and was born with the inability to have delusions of grandeur, when friends and acquaintances tell me, “You know they are watching you,” I usually dismiss it with the same relative inattention I pay to accusations of reverse racism or white oppression. After…
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What It Feels Like to Receive a Call From Your Child After Cops Draw Their Guns on Him
I’ve had the same headache since 2 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 4. My son has had the same nightmares every night since then as well. Most people will say, “Be lucky he wasn’t shot or killed,” but when you send your child to college, the last thing you expect to happen is for him to call…
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The White House Knew That Rob Porter Had Allegedly Assaulted His Ex-Wives and Kept Him Around Anyway: Report
The White House has become an endless, vast hole of shame and embarrassment. Just when you think that the allegations coming from one of the most revered and respected adobes worldwide can’t get any worse, the entire White House—staff, administration, housekeeping—is like, “Hold my folders.” On Wednesday the White House was rocked by allegations that…
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Princeton Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Allegedly Used the N-Word: Report
Students from Princeton University say that an anthropology professor repeatedly used the n-word in class while asking students a question, prompting several of them to walk out of the Tuesday lecture. According to the Daily Princetonian, the university’s daily newspaper, Professor Lawrence Rosen asked students, “What is worse, a white man punching a black man,…
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Bomb Kush Forces Man to Get Naked, Stab Mom Because He Thought She Might Rape Him: Report
As marijuana becomes legal around the country, more-potent varieties are becoming available. You may think you have tried the good stuff, but have you tried the stab-your-mama-get-naked-and-think-you-can-fly strain they’re apparently selling in Wisconsin? According to Fox 2 News, in Racine, Wis., a woman wandered into a Dollar Tree bloody and injured (which happens almost every…
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‘I Love This Shit’: Tennessee Sheriff Recorded Boasting After Ordering Officers to Shoot Unarmed Man During Slow-Speed Chase
A Tennessee sheriff is being sued for excessive force after he was recorded laughing and boasting about how he told his officers to shoot a man during a slow-speed chase rather than risk damaging police cars attempting to drive him off the road. According to News Channel 5, White County Sheriff Oddie Shoupe did not…
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Jeff Sessions Won’t Hold Bad Police Departments Accountable, so California Is Doing It on Its Own
In September 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided that under his leadership, the U.S. Department of Justice would focus more on bolstering police morale than it would on correcting issues in problem police departments. To that end, the DOJ ended an effort put in place by the Obama administration to investigate and publicize police department…
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This Mom Just Walked Out of Her Son’s Televised College Announcement and I Have Questions
On Wednesday, aka National Signing Day, aka one of the biggest days in college football, aka the day that Midwesterners and Southerners wait for all year, the day top high school players stop dating and make it official with the college of their choice. There are usually cheers and tears and smiles and bitter beer…
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Color Me Surprised: Someone Was Actually Arrested During That Philly Super Bowl Celebration
Don’t look now, but it looks like raucous, white sports fans just trying to have a good time by destroying property actually can get arrested. WPVI-TV Philadelphia reports that police have arrested a 20-year-old man on charges he damaged a Nissan Rogue SUV that was flipped over during the over-the-top and destructive celebrations in the…