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Report: Water From a Hazardous Waste Site Is Being Given to Puerto Rican Hurricane Survivors to Drink
More than three weeks after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, over 35 percent of the American citizens there (and Puerto Ricans are all American citizens, every single one of them) do not have potable drinking water—and a report that came out late Friday night indicates that the residents of Dorado, Puerto Rico, are being given…
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NJ Man Finds Lottery Ticket Worth $24,000,000 in Pocket of Old Shirt
How many times have you gone through the pockets of your jeans or cleaned out an old purse and stumbled across a $5 or $20 bill you forgot you had? Now imagine going through the pocket of an old shirt and finding a lottery ticket worth $24 million. That’s just what happened to 68-year-old Jimmie…
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Hundreds of NJ Students Protest After Cop’s Manhandling of 2 Teenage Girls
A violent confrontation between two high school girls and a cop has caused hundreds of New Jersey students to walk out of school in protest. After two female classmates were manhandled by a cop, hundreds of students at a New Jersey high school walked out in protest Friday morning. According to WNBC-TV, the students marched…
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The Blood on Trump’s Hands: White House Ends Obamacare Subsidies for the Poor
Donald Trump, saddled with a Congress that couldn’t repeal Obamacare, finally took matters into his own tiny hands yesterday. Unable to toss out the Affordable Care Act outright, Trump has instead opted to sabotage it. After signing an executive order Thursday morning that cripples Obamacare by loosening regulations on health plans, later that same afternoon,…
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‘You Are My Slave’: Ga. Mom Furious After White Student Targets Son During School’s Civil War Day
A Kennesaw, Ga., mother is demanding answers after a white student called her son a slave during the school’s Civil War Day last month. According to the Associated Press, Big Shanty Intermediate School—which is near Kennesaw Mountain, where Confederate soldiers once fired their cannons at Union troops—encouraged fifth-graders to dress up as characters from the…
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Trump Claims to Have Spoken to the President of the US Virgin Islands Because He Doesn’t Know He’s the President of the US Virgin Islands
President Donald Trump is not a bright man. In fact, he might the dumbest man in the room—all of the rooms—because he doesn’t know that he’s dumb. In his mind, he’s smart and everyone else is slow. President Trump is also a liar. And he might be the worst kind of liar, because he actually…
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Disaster Relief Workers in Puerto Rico Treat Themselves to Taxpayer-Funded ‘Spa Day' Given by … Puerto Ricans
Here are a couple of things your tax dollars have paid for in the past few weeks: Vice President Michael Pence’s NFL protest/publicity stunt, the Scotch tape keeping Donald Trump’s ties together, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calling for Jemele Hill to get fired, and federal relief workers treating themselves to a “spa…
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Chinese Museum Removes Photography Exhibit That Compared Black People to Animals
Apparently China is high-key tripping this week. First WeChat, the country’s most popular chat app, had to apologize after its software translated “black foreigner” to the word “nigger.” Now it seems a museum in China is only just realizing that it’s a bad idea to juxtapose images of wild African animals with black people. According…
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Parents Sue Miss. School District After White Teacher Allegedly Makes Comment About Hanging Black Child
Local parents have filed a lawsuit against a central-Mississippi school district after they say a white substitute teacher made a horrific, threatening racist comment about their black son being hanged. According to the Associated Press, Tony and Kayla Lindsey say that their son, who has since graduated, got into an argument in April and threatened…