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A Clean Slate: San Francisco to Toss Out Thousands of Marijuana Convictions
In an unprecedented move, the city of San Francisco will throw out thousands of marijuana convictions going back decades. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday that city prosecutors will retroactively apply California’s marijuana-legalization laws to past criminal cases dating all the way back to 1975. With no…
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Black Man in ICU After One-Night Stand’s Racist Brother Attacks Him With Bat
A Washington man lies unconscious in the intensive care unit fighting a traumatic brain injury after a woman’s brother brutally beat him with an aluminum bat and said, “This is what happens when you bring black people around here.” According to the Seattle Times, 26-year-old DaShawn Horne went out to a Seattle club during a…
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Devin Nunes Is Trash, the Memo Is Garbage and the Entire Trump Administration Is Basura, Explained
“Memo-gate” might be one of dumbest scandals coming out of this administration, which, let’s face it, has never read on grade level. To my understanding, because I’ve refused to follow this closely, Republican House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who has been trash since the investigation into Donald Trump and Russia began (more on that…
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New Report Says White Supremacist Propaganda Spiked on College Campuses Last Year
White supremacist propaganda on college and university campuses increased more than 258 percent in 2017 compared with 2016, according to a new report released by the Anti-Defamation League. As the Chronicle of Higher Education reports, the ADL tracked 147 incidents of white supremacist propaganda on campuses during the fall 2017 semester alone. This includes flyers,…
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Mom Says Ex-Boyfriend Is Person of Interest in 16-Year-old Virginia Girl’s Death
Authorities say they have identified a 17-year-old young man as a person of interest in the death of 16-year-old Jholie Moussa. According to NBC News, a Tuesday press release from the Fairfax County, Va., Police Department noted that the teen, who remains unidentified because of his age, “was arrested on Jan. 18 for a previous…
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Iowa Man Says He Was Racially Profiled by Old Navy Employees Who Didn’t Believe He Purchased the Jacket He Walked Into the Store Wearing
A black man from Iowa is accusing employees at the West Des Moines Old Navy of racial profiling after he says they didn’t believe that he had already purchased the jacket he walked into the store wearing. James Conley III shared a picture and four videos on his Facebook page Tuesday evening, expressing his frustration…
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Texas Man Fined Less Than $600 for Assaulting 8-Year-Old Black Child
A Fort Worth, Texas, man has been found guilty of misdemeanor assault by contact for attacking his neighbor’s 8-year-old son in 2016, whom he had accused of littering in his yard. Itamar Vardi was ordered to pay a $569 fine and sentenced to community service and six months of deferred adjudication. If Vardi fulfills his…
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Donald Trump Jr. Came Looking for Joy Reid on Twitter, and Boy, Did He Find Her
Donald Trump Jr., aka Not Ivanka, is a lot like his father, meaning that he is an idiot. He’s not your run-of-the-mill idiot who doesn’t know big words; he’s the kind of idiot that would accidentally leave his keys in his car and then dive through the back windshield to retrieve them. But even a…