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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…
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Ohio Teacher Keeps Job After Telling Black Student Classmates Would ‘Lynch’ Him if He Didn’t Behave
Renee Thole, a middle school social studies teacher who told a 13-year-old black student that he would be lynched if he didn’t behave, will not be suspended or fired. According to Cincinnati.com, Thole, who teaches at Mason Middle School in Mason, Ohio, made the comment in December. Thole submitted a statement during the district’s investigation…
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Bwahahaha, We Gonna Die, Y’all: Trump Claims He Sold Norway Planes That Exist Only in ‘Call of Duty’
The race for the worst president in American history is starting to look like no contest with a wide margin between the front-runner Donald Trump and the rest of the pack. During his visit alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg at the White House on Wednesday, Trump boasted about the sale and delivery of F-52…
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Trump Is an Idiot Who Didn’t Get an MBA From Wharton, Explained
Think about this: When President Donald Trump was a private citizen, he hated President Barack Obama so much that he regularly antagonized him on Twitter. In fact, one could argue that when Trump wasn’t eating KFC or killing a puppy with his tiny fingers, it was his part-time job to troll Obama on social media.…
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Virginia Man Says Law Banning Use of Nooses to Intimidate People Violates His Rights
A Virginia man hopes to convince the state’s Supreme Court that he should legally be allowed to hang a noose to intimidate black people—if it’s on his own private property. Jack Turner of Rocky Mount, Va., is in court this week hoping to overturn a conviction for breaking a Virginia state law that prohibits hanging…
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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus Will Honor Recy Taylor During Trump’s State of the Union
On Sept. 3, 1944, 24-year-old Recy Taylor and two friends were on their way home from a late-night church service in Abbeville, Ala., when a group of white men abducted and raped her. Taylor refused to stay silent about the assault. Two grand juries refused to bring charges against her attackers. Taylor, who died at…