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Trump Talks Cuba, but All I Heard Was ‘Assata Shakur’ and All I Saw Was a ‘Blacks for Trump’ Sign
President Donald Trump is continuing on his “I’m going to do the opposite of whatever Obama did” presidency tour, announcing Friday that he’s going to get tough on Cuba, including a demand that the communist country return American fugitives and name-checking Assata Shakur, née Joanne Chesimard. “Return the fugitives from American justice, including the return…
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Jeff Bezos Is Buying Whole Foods, Completing His Monopoly on Whiteness
Amazon.com, the other tab that is probably open on your browser right now, announced Friday that it has agreed to buy the high-end supermarket Whole Foods, the final step in owner Jeff Bezos’ lifelong mission of cornering the market on whiteness. If you want anything from mom jeans to farm-raised, vegetarian chicken wings or a…
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NJ High School Reprinting Yearbook to Include Students Wearing Pro-Trump Shirts
Earlier this week, a New Jersey high school teacher was suspended after the school yearbook was edited to remove Donald Trump logos and slogans from the clothing of two high school students. Now the school has announced plans to reprint the yearbook to correct the intentional changes. Wall Township School Superintendent Cheryl Dyer sent a…
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LeBron James Suffers Another Loss
On Monday, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers watched as the Golden State Warriors were crowned NBA champions. And now LeBron James has finally said goodbye to the struggle with his receding hairline. A video making the rounds on social media Wednesday shows a bald LeBron fully accepting his deficient hairline. It’s been a tough…
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Family of Terence Crutcher Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit, Seeks Police Reform
The family of Terence Crutcher is still seeking justice and filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday seeking damages and widespread reform of the Tulsa, Okla., Police Department. Crutcher was shot and killed in September by Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby, who was later acquitted of first-degree manslaughter in the case before returning to a cushy…
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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…