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Haiti, Botswana and Other Alleged ‘Shithole’ Countries Clap Back at ‘President’ Trump
The “shithole” countries that the “president” of the United States disparaged during an Oval Office meeting Thursday would love someone from the administration to say that shit to their face appreciate some clarification of Donald Trump’s explicitly racist and incendiary comments. To recap for everyone just emerging from rocks, boulders or other similarly heavy and…
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How Donald Trump Made Don Lemon Look Like Malcolm X
Did you see it last night on CNN? Don Lemon went full Huey Newton and called a racist a racist! It was glorious, but let’s slow down a bit—Don Lemon’s Afro didn’t grow to Colin Kaepernick levels. In fact, watching the metamorphosis of Lemon from passive Don Lemon to mildly annoyed Don Lemon has been…
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Pastor Who Admitted to Sexually Assaulting Teen Put on Leave
Updated Friday, January 12 2018, 8:55 AM EST: CNN reports that a pastor who admitted to having a sexual encounter with a teen will be placed on leave. Andy Savage, a pastor at Highpoint Church in Tennessee, confessed on Sunday to his congregation that he had a “sexual incident” with a high school senior in…
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Get ’Em Bodied: FBI Investigates Colorado Funeral Home That Sells Human Body Parts
Let me pose a hypothetical scenario: You’re burying your loved one—a process that’s known to be stressful and overwhelming—and you find out that, on the very same premises, the owners are cashing in on human body parts. WWYD? The FBI is investigating a funeral home in Montrose, Colo., that’s doing exactly that, according to Reuters.…
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Bill Cosby Says He Doesn’t Want to Be Put on #MeToo
In what looked like a publicity stunt for the cameras, Bill Cosby and several associates had a night out Wednesday in Philly’s Old City at Ristorante La Veranda. Cosby, who is facing a retrial in the sexual assault of Andrea Constand, at times seemed to need a guiding hand because of alleged blindness. During the…
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Teenage Boys Who Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl on Facebook Live Given 5 Years’ Probation
Two teenage boys in Chicago who sexually assaulted a teenage girl and broadcast it on Facebook Live in March 2017 were sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation and ordered to register as sexual offenders. The Chicago Tribune reports that Cook County Juvenile Division Judge Patricia Mendoza had already indicated she would sentence the teens…
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#Flint: 1,357 Days With No Clean Water; Control Over City Finances May Return to Local Government
As of Thursday, the people of Flint, Mich., have gone 1,357 days without clean water in their pipes. While the bureaucratic wheels of resolution continue to spin slowly, a state board voted Wednesday to return control over city financial decisions back to the local government. Flint’s finances have been monitored by the state-appointed Receivership Transition…
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Just Kidding, We Lied: White House Admits There’s No Evidence of Voter Fraud in 2016 Election
Remember how, in the days leading up to the 2016 election, when it seemed like Donald Trump might lose to Hillary Clinton, he kept insinuating that there was some mass voter-fraud scheme happening? Remember how, even after he won, he held on to that myth and created a controversial voter-fraud commission to investigate it? Then…
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In Other News, Your President Is Still Racist
If you are one of those people who, like Omarosa Manigault Newman, believe that Donald Trump is not a racist, white-nationalist-enabling, bumbling idiot—he has given you yet another piece of evidence to sway your way of thinking. The Washington Post reports that during a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump spat…