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Petty on Fleek: Texas Woman Is Selling Her Now Famous Anti-Trump Stickers
Karen Fonseca, who I am now convinced is a national hero, is looking to sell the “Fuck Trump and Fuck You for Voting for Him” stickers that made her internet-famous. According to KHOU-TV, the Fort Bend County, Texas, woman and her children are selling the notorious “Fuck Trump” bumper stickers, and she’s also planning to…
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Richard Spencer Told to Kick Rocks After Farm Owners Realize They Were Hosting a Super-Secret Wypipo Meeting
A white supremacist bigot brunch was canceled midway through on Sunday when the owners of a Montgomery County, Md., farm realized that “alt-right” agitator and unverified tweeter Richard Spencer was behind the event. According to the Baltimore Sun, the National Policy Institute, Spencer’s “think tank,” rented Rockland Farms to host about 100 people for a…
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Arizona Police Chief Loses Gun in Library, Takes 4 Days to Realize It’s Missing
Really, the punch line just writes itself. Except this isn’t a joke. An Arizona police chief really did up and forget his service weapon in a library bathroom stall and didn’t even realize it was missing until four days later. And now he wants the public’s help finding it. According to the Arizona Republic, the…
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LeVar Burton Is a National Treasure, so How Dare Trump Voters Confuse Him With LaVar Ball?
I cannot believe that I live in an America where there are people who don’t know LeVar Burton. He’s only the man who taught every child born during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s how to read through the miraculous gift of the PBS show Reading Rainbow! Can anyone else say that? As if teaching the…
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Donor Found for Georgia 2-Year-Old Denied Kidney Transplant Because of Father’s Probation; Tyler Perry Gifts Child’s Mom a Car
About a month ago, things were not looking very good for one Georgia family. Little A.J. Burgess needed a lifesaving kidney transplant, which he was denied all because his father—a more than perfect match—violated his probation terms, and the health of the 25-pound 2-year-old who was born without working kidneys was rapidly declining. Fast-forward and…
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Former USA Gymnastics Doctor Pleads Guilty to Multiple Counts of Sexual Misconduct
The former USA Gymnastics team doctor at the center of a sexual assault scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday to multiple counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in a Michigan court. According to CNN, of the seven charges against Larry Nassar, three applied to victims under age 13, and three applied to victims 13 to 15 years…
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Justice Department Threatens to Sue Harvard Over Race-Based Admissions Practices
The Trump administration is squaring up for its first major legal challenge over affirmative action, as documents obtained by CNN indicate. The news network, which shared copies of the documents on its site, confirms that the Department of Justice is actively investigating Harvard’s use of race in its admissions decisions. The letters, which come from…
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With Trump Revoking Temporary Protected Status, Haitians Fear for the Future and Their Lives
Since 2010, thousands of Haitian immigrants who migrated to the United States have been allowed to stay in the country without fear because President Barack Obama granted Haiti eligibility for Temporary Protected Status. The protection is given to countries that have experienced political or environmental catastrophe such as armed conflict or natural disaster. But the…
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Donald Trump Just Can’t Get Off LaVar’s Balls
President ChiChi von FruitSnacks is up to his old WWE tactics again: He spent his presidential morning on the White House toilet tweeting his thoughts about an African-American father who doesn’t fuck with him. Look at that “IT WAS ME!” in all caps. Looks like the president is really butt-hurt over this whole thing. President…