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This Is Really Weird: Steve Bannon Wrote a Hip-Hop Play
In arguably the most perplexing twist to hit the Trump administration yet—and trust me, I know that’s saying a lot—the internet has unearthed a hip-hop musical about the Los Angeles riots written by white nationalist, chief strategist and real president of the United States, the man whom Trump calls Papa, Steve Bannon. I. Wish. I.…
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Betsy DeVos to Speak at Bethune-Cookman University’s Commencement Ceremony
For some reason unbeknownst to many of us, historically black college Bethune-Cookman University in Florida has announced that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will be the keynote commencement speaker next week. The news is super confusing, considering that the pro-school-choice head of education once famously flubbed that HBCUs were the true pioneers of school choice, rather…
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Black Tenn. Lawmakers Tricked Into Honoring KKK Leader
Black lawmakers in Tennessee’s House of Representatives were incensed late last week when they learned they had been duped into voting for a resolution honoring the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. According to Nashville Patch and The Tennessean, Rep. Mike Sparks, a Republican in the Tennessee Legislature’s lower chamber, sponsored a bill…
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Trump Is Insane and This Interview Proves It
President Donald Trump not only continues to imply that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phone when Trump was a candidate, but when pressed for proof—which everyone, including his staff, knows doesn’t exist—Trump grew angry and ended the interview. CBS News reporter John Dickerson asked the president if former presidents, including Obama, had given him…
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Trump Supporter Targets Non-Republicans in Machete Attack
In a ranking of the scariest phrases in the English language, coming in somewhere between the terms “states’ rights” and “The 45th president of the United States tweeted … ” are the words “disgruntled white male.” On Friday, a former student at a university in Lexington, Ky., carried a machete and a bag of knives…
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Texans Rookie QB Deshaun Watson Is a Better Son Than All of Us
Deshaun Watson was drafted to the Houston Texans (What? Like a day ago?), and he hasn’t played one game, but he’s already spending that NFL money to take care of his mom. On Saturday, the former Clemson great took to Twitter to show off his mom’s new birthday gift. This was his first big purchase…
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Restaurant Apologizes After Staff Sings ‘F–k the Police’ to Cops
The owners of a North Carolina restaurant quickly apologized after a police union took to social media to complain that employees of the eatery sang “F—k the Police” to dining officers. According to the News & Observer, when a few of Raleigh’s finest decided to have a bite to eat at Smithfield’s Chicken-n-Barbecue in Garner,…
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TrumPutin on Trumpcare: You Want to Know What Sucks? Obamacare
As a candidate, Vladimir TrumPutin swore that he was going to make a 100-day contract with the American public. He swore that he was going to “drain the swamp” and repeal and replace Obamacare. At this point, TrumPutin is the divorced dad who swears he’s coming to pick up the kids on his weekends, and…