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An 18-Year-Old Who Just Graduated From High School Is Looking to Unseat an Incumbent on Denver School Board
Auontai “Tay” Anderson just graduated from Denver’s Manual High School on May 27, and his plans for the summer include going to Elitch Gardens amusement park, working at the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop and campaigning for the District 4 seat on the Denver School Board. The Denver Post reports that a wave of community activism…
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Housing an Inmate in a Calif. Prison Costs More Than Tuition for a Year at Harvard University
There are 130,000 inmates in California’s prison system, and under Gov. Jerry Brown’s spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1, the cost of housing them is expected to reach a record $75,560, which is more than the annual cost of attending Harvard University. Brown’s plan includes a record $11.4 billion for the…
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A Recap of This Weekend’s Wypipo Hunger Games
Between Saturday’s London terror attacks, Bill Maher blurting out the n-word on live TV and the NBA Finals, you might have overlooked the fact that Portland, Ore., hosted a mashup of The Purge and The Hunger Games this weekend. White supremacists, militia groups and people who simply want to “make America great again” squared off…
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Flint, Mich., Official Resigns After Being Caught on Tape Blaming Water Crisis on ‘Niggers’ Who ‘Don’t Pay Their Bills’
A Flint, Mich., official has tendered his resignation after water activists recorded him using a racial slur and racially charged stereotypes as he pointed blame for the city’s water crisis. Phil Stair, the sales manager of the Genessee County Land Bank, handed in his resignation after being recorded blaming the city’s water crisis on “fucking…
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Racist Bullies at Texas Middle School Called Black Girl an Ape, Pretended to Whip Her Like a Slave, but School Does Nothing, Father Says
The father of a 12-year-old girl who is being targeted by racist bullies is speaking out after he said that the school did not properly discipline the students involved in the hurtful and hateful attacks. According to a written report from the school, the Austin American-Statesman reports, one girl at Tippit Middle School in Georgetown,…
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8-Year-Old Girl’s Soccer Team Disqualified Because ‘She Looks Like a Boy’
An 8-year-old soccer player from Nebraska is calling foul after her team was disqualified from a tournament because officials said she looked like a boy. Mili Hernandez likes to wear her hair short because it’s her hair and she can do that. Mili is also an excellent soccer player who’s playing above her age level…
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Colo. Woman Is Being Terrorized by Racist Notes Slipped Under Her Door, but Apartment Complex Refuses to Let Her Break Lease
A dumb lease is more important than helping a woman who is being terrorized by some asshole slipping racist notes under her door and knocking on her door and running away. At least that’s what one Colorado resident is apparently going through because her apartment complex is reportedly refusing to allow her to break her…
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Students Get Harvard Admissions Offers Rescinded After Posting Offensive Memes on Facebook
Harvard University administrators were like, “You thought,” after they became aware of a secret Facebook group in which incoming freshmen posted offensive memes after they were accepted at the Ivy League school. At least 10 students are now on the hunt for a new college to attend this fall after they learned that not everything…
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Y’all’s Drunk Uncle President Is Tweeting Again
I’ve figured it out. Aside from scarfing down family-size buckets of KFC, pathological lying and a predilection for pussy grabbing, we all know that Donald Trump’s vices do not include drinking alcohol or imbibing in recreational drugs. Yet our nation’s leader repeatedly leaves us perplexed with late-night tweets that sound as if he just got…