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Ransom Text Sent to Relatives of Missing Michigan Child
The family of a missing Michigan teenager received a text demanding that a ransom be paid for the girl’s safe return. According to a Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office news release, Shanijah Christionna Payne, 14, was last seen Thursday around 4:30 p.m. at her home in Ypsilanti Township. When Shanijah didn’t come home, her mother and…
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Either Tom Arnold Is Selling Us Wolf Tickets or Donald Trump Is in a World of Trouble
Will Tom Arnold finally get us those pee-pee tapes of Donald Trump that allegedly exist? The ones of him in a Moscow hotel with Russian sex workers? Or tapes of him allegedly using the n-word during The Apprentice? Well, Arnold told CNN that he plans on spending this weekend with Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney…
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Your Bank Is a White Supremacist
Lie. … This is the first rule of talking about race. If you wish to discuss racism, the first thing you must learn is that you cannot call a thing exactly what it is. Even when you’re exposing the most egregious forms of discrimination, in America there is no room for truth. You must euphemize…
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‘Racial Profiling at Its Finest’: White Man Uses SUV to Block Black Doctor From Entering Gated Community Where She Lives
A black doctor coming home from a late-night shift was greeted by the ugly face of racism after a white man used his SUV to block her from entering the gated community where she has lived for about eight years. Dr. Nnenna Aguocha captured some of the encounter on camera. According to WXIA-TV, the good…
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Joe Jackson Hospitalized With Terminal Cancer: Report
Joe Jackson, the patriarch of the iconic Jackson family, is fighting terminal cancer, and his condition is rapidly deteriorating, according to reports. According to TMZ, the 89-year-old has been hospitalized with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. His family had reportedly been trying to visit him in Las Vegas as he deals with the end stages of…
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Melania Trump Not Only Wore a Dumb Jacket; She Had This Sage Advice for Separated Children: ‘Good Luck’
I find it rich that President Donald Trump’s mighty band of ravenous deplorables, aka Trump supporters, love to push this “Speak English” doctrine to those from other countries who communicate in their native tongues. Remember the asshat lawyer who went full “MAGA” at a New York City lunch spot because two workers were speaking Spanish?…
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Fox Idiota Claims Black People Told Her Child Detention Centers Were Better Than Public Housing
Another day, another Fox News guest attempting to validate the cruel treatment of America’s black and brown folks—this time, by seemingly pitting the two against each other. Fox commentator Rachel Campos-Duffy (formerly of Real World fame, itself a far more respectable platform than Fox News) defended the conditions in detainment centers housing migrant children on…
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Michelle Alexander Joins the New York Times Opinion Pages as Full-Time Columnist
Michelle Alexander, author of the best-selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, will become a columnist for the New York Times Opinion pages, the Times announced Thursday. The book has captured and still captures national attention, won the NAACP’s Image Award for Outstanding Nonfiction in 2011 and was a…
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The NBA Draft Is Over and LiAngelo Ball Is Still Without a Team
In news that is shocking to no one who even remotely watches basketball, the NBA draft has come and gone, and LiAngelo Ball—the middle Ball child, the one who doesn’t have the height of older brother Lonzo or the potential of younger brother LaMelo—has gone undrafted. The only person who might actually have been shocked…
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Oregon DMV Employee on Leave After Posting on Facebook That Immigrants at the Border Should Be Shot
There’s nothing like a zero tolerance immigration policy to bring all the racist social media posts out into the light, it seems. A worker for Oregon Driver & Motor Vehicle Services, a division of the state’s Department of Transportation, is the latest to be dragged under the microscope of scrutiny after she made a Facebook…