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Chicago Tribune Report Finds Black and Low-Income Residents Pay the Most for Water
In America, being poor is expensive. Being poor and black is even more costly. A recent, must-read Chicago Tribune investigation illuminates precisely how by taking a look at one of the most basic human needs: water. The Tribune analyzed how much different communities across the Chicago region were paying for water pumped from Lake Michigan…
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Roy Moore and the Alabamafication of US Democracy
For years, Alabama has been a regressive state with little national influence, but President Donald Trump’s rise and the elevation of former Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to U.S. attorney general have changed everything. These regressive voices are now shaping national policy and have ensured that originalist justices dominate the Supreme Court. Enter Roy Moore. The…
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Energy Company Tasked With Bringing Power Back to Puerto Rico Gets Into Twitter Beef With Mayor Instead
The company tasked with repairing Puerto Rico’s power grid and restoring electricity to the island got into a public Twitter spat with the mayor of San Juan Wednesday after she said in an interview that the small Montana firm’s $300 million contract should be voided. According to Yahoo! News, the online feud ended Wednesday with…
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Mother of Off-Duty Police Officer Killed in Las Vegas Mass Shooting Dies the Same Weekend as His Funeral
More tragedy has hit the family of one of the Las Vegas shooting victims. The mother of a victim killed in the mass shooting had a heart attack and died the same weekend that she buried her son. According to CNN, 56-year-old Sheryl Stiles was the mother of Charleston Hartfield, an off-duty Las Vegas police…
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Calif. Man Beaten, Stabbed Because He Is Black, Authorities Say
A Goshen, Calif., man is fighting for his life in a Fresno, Calif., hospital after being beaten and stabbed multiple times solely because of his race, authorities say. According to the Visalia Times-Delta, the 60-year-old man, who is black, is expected to recover from his injuries, but his attack has left many residents in Goshen…
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Fla. Cop Sent for More Training After Accidentally Using Taser on 10-Year-Old During Gun-Safety Lesson
A Plantation, Fla., police officer will be sent for additional training after accidentally deploying her Taser on a 10-year-old boy right after telling the child and his brother that the weapon wasn’t a toy. According to the Sun-Sentinel, the boy suffered only minor injuries, but investigators noted that if the probes had penetrated deeper into…
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2nd Woman Accuses ‘David Cop-a-Feel,’ aka George H.W. Bush, of Groping Her
Updated Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, 1:36 a.m. EDT: A second woman has come forward and accused former President George H.W. Bush of groping her. Deadspin reports that New York actress Jordana Grolnick said Wednesday, “I got sent the Heather Lind story by many people this morning, and I’m afraid that mine is entirely similar.” From…
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Ben Carson Says He Doesn’t Have to Know Anything About Housing Policy, He Just Has to Be Able to Boss Around the People Who Do
For someone who went to school for as many years as Ben Carson did to become a neurosurgeon, he sure is an idiot. He says a lot of incredibly dumb things, and this latest is no exception. Carson said Wednesday that it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t have any experience in housing policy, and that…
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NYC Cops Accused of Raping Teen Resort to Victim-Blaming in Attempt to Avoid Indictment
What’s worse than cops who abuse their position to force a teenager to have sex and perform fellatio on them? That would be having those same two cops resort to victim-blaming in order to avoid an indictment as a result of their heinous acts. Disgraced New York City cops Eddie Martins and Richard Hall have…
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Why Is the Only Brown Corn Pop the Janitor? Kellogg’s Called Out for Racist Cereal Box
First it was Shea Moisture. Then Pepsi. Then Dove. And now my son’s beloved Corn Pops have shit the proverbial race bed. Bad ads! Kellogg’s, which makes the tasty cereal, says it will make over its cereal boxes after an astute consumer pointed out that of all the cartoon corn pops populating a retail mall…