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Trump Issued a 3-Sentence ‘Happy Kwanzaa’ Statement, and I Don’t Think He Wrote Any of It
I guess it’s customary for the president of the United States to say “Happy Kwanzaa,” but who really thought that Donald Trump would follow this tradition? Since taking office, Trump has done everything except don a white hood with eye cutouts to show his support of white nationalism, white supremacy and white power while in…
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Oklahoma Community Surprises Beloved Walmart Greeter With a Car
Yolanda Crawford is a fixture at her local Muskogee, Okla., Walmart, and when she is there, it is hard to miss her or her greetings as she carries out her job, welcoming everyone as family. So when customers found out that Crawford had been trekking to work on foot every day (regardless of weather conditions),…
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Woman Falsely Accused of Fraud After Buying Louis Vuitton at Saks Fifth Avenue
A Michigan woman is alleging that Saks Fifth Avenue employees profiled her after she made some high-end purchases at their store last week. With only a few days left until Christmas, Dana Hale and her 24-year-old daughter, Paris, went to a Saks store store in Troy, Mich., on Dec. 21 to get some shopping done.…
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Trump Believes That Democrats and Republicans Will Work Together to Craft New Health Care Plan. He’s Also an Idiot
Maybe the Ghost of Christmas Past came to visit President Donald Trump to show him what a xenophobic, racist asshole he’s been since birth. And maybe that miserly, cynical fuck stick has had a change of heart, and by “change of heart” I mean an angioplasty of his senses to open them up to reason…
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Police Remove Hate Group’s Memorial to White Woman Killed by Black Officer
A display honoring a woman killed by a Minneapolis cop was removed by police when authorities discovered that a white supremacist organization had created the tribute and placed it outside the city’s police headquarters. NBC News reports that the Minneapolis Police Department cleared an Identity Evropa memorial to Justine Damond, the “Australian bride” shot by…
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This 12-Year-Old Colorado Girl, Concerned About the Water Crisis in Flint, Mich., Invented a Lead Detector
What have you done with your life lately? How have you shown up and shown out for your fellow man? Because there’s a 12-year-old girl all the way in Colorado who saw what was going on in Flint, Mich., with the water crisis due to lead poisoning and decided to invent a lead detector. According…
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Can I Get a Window Seat? United Passenger Big Mad Over Losing 1st-Class Seat to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee became the subject of one United Airlines passenger’s ire after the customer alleged that the Texas Democrat had been assigned a first-class seat that was originally hers. Jean-Marie Simon, a 63-year-old attorney and private school teacher, according to the Houston Chronicle, said that she booked a first-class seat Dec. 3 for…
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97-Year-Old WWII Vet About to Be Evicted From His NYC Home. Merry Effing Christmas
A 97-year-old World War II veteran—one who was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked by the Japanese—is being kicked out of his Brooklyn, N.Y., home, according to a report. The Rev. James Blakely says that he’s being evicted from his apartment in the New York City borough some five years after, he says, it…
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Thanks to Fundraiser, Infant Mauled by Raccoon Will Be Able to Live in Safer Housing
The family of a 4-month-old Philadelphia infant will be able to search for a safer place to live after a GoFundMe set up to help her family find a home to rent exceeded its fundraising goal. The campaign smashed its $2,000 goal, with 701 people contributing a whopping $23,215 as of Tuesday morning over a…