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This Might Be Trump’s Best Tweet Yet
President Donald Trump and I rarely agree. In fact, we are so far apart that if he said the sky was blue, I would say, “Shut up, you orange-faced afterbirth, lying sack of Russian urine!” But I must admit that Trump’s latest tweet is a good one. On Friday he confirmed that he was under…
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When a Deplorable Interviews a Nutjob: How Alex Jones Played Megyn Kelly and Scooped Her Interview
Oh, Megyn Kelly, this is what happens when you stake your mainstream career on a conspiracy theorist who has so gone off the deep end that he believes U.S. moon landings are fake and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings were staged. No one wanted this megaphone of fake news to have an even bigger…
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Detroit Man, Convicted Based on a Single Hair, Released After 41 Years in Prison
Ledura Watkins has spent his entire adult life in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. On Thursday, after some 41 years behind bars, Watkins, now 61, walked out of Michigan’s Wayne County Jail after his conviction was overturned. According to the Washington Post, Watkins was freed after prosecutors agreed that his murder conviction in…
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‘It Was Very, Very Scary’: Bus Drops 5-Year-Old Off at the Wrong School, Terrifying Her Family
A mom in the Natomas area of Sacramento, Calif., was left terrified after her 5-year-old daughter was dropped off at the wrong school in a school bus mix-up. Thankfully, little Myah Fisher was safely located and reunited with her family, but her mom remains frustrated that her little girl could have gone missing while in…
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Noose Found Hanging From Tree in Montgomery County, Md.
Yet another noose has been found in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area, with police responding to reports of a noose seen hanging from a tree in a Montgomery County, Md., condominium community Thursday. Authorities say that they responded to a call in the Heron’s Cove Condominium neighborhood at 9:09 a.m. The synthetic rope noose found in…
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Dying Woman Dragged Half-Naked Down Crowded Airplane Aisle by Emergency Workers
A woman who experienced medical distress shortly after entering an airplane bathroom was dragged partially clothed down the aisle of the crowded commercial airline, much to the horror of other passengers, so that EMTs could render medical aid to her outside the plane. The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that the woman, identified by relatives as…
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Black Lives Matter Chicago Files Lawsuit Demanding Federal Oversight of City’s Police Department
Lawyers for Black Lives Matter Chicago and other community groups filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday accusing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel of trying to cut “a back-room deal” with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and demanding federal oversight of the city’s Police Department. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that six individuals and seven community groups are…
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ACLU Lawsuit Alleges Ga. Board of Education Disenfranchised Black Voters in School Board Selection Process
A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in Georgia alleges that the Crisp County Board of Education and the county election supervisor violated Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act by denying black voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process through its at-large method of electing Board of Education…
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Steve Harvey to Flint, Mich., Resident: ‘Enjoy Your Nice Brown Glass of Water’
The marginally talented mustache who makes millions screaming, “Survey says!” used the Flint, Mich., water crisis as a punch line for a joke on his radio show Wednesday morning. According to MLive, The Steve Harvey Morning Show took a call from a Flint resident who said of the Cavaliers’ NBA Finals loss that “Cleveland didn’t…