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Since We’re in a Pardoning Mood … Former Detroit Mayor Shoots His Pardon Shot With Trump in New Blog Post
Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, currently serving a 28-year stint in a Philadelphia federal prison for corruption charges, says he’s praying for a pardon from President Donald Trump. In a new blog post on the “Free Kwame Project” website (h/t Click on Detroit), Kilpatrick lays out 1,300 words on why he should be exonerated,…
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Trump’s Personal Fixer Michael Cohen’s Lawyers Have Bailed, and He’s Expected to Sing Like 1986 El DeBarge
Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime fixer who is currently being pressed out by federal prosecutors in New York City, is drinking lemon tea with honey to prep his throat for his rendition of Mahalia Jackson’s “Amazing Grace,” and that’s because Cohen is getting ready to sing. I don’t want to brag, but I predicted this.…
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Trump Administration Considers ‘Tent Cities’ to House Thousands of Unaccompanied Migrant Children
The Trump administration is reportedly looking to erect “tent cities” at military posts around Texas to house thousands of migrant children who have arrived unaccompanied or have been forcibly separated from their parents at the border. The report, from McClatchy’s Washington, D.C., bureau, indicates that the Department of Health and Human Services is scoping out…
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Georgia Church Expelled From the Southern Baptist Convention After Being Accused of Discriminating Against Black Congregation
The behavior certainly wasn’t “Christ-like,” which is probably why one Georgia Baptist church was unceremoniously kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention on Monday after being accused of intentionally discriminating against a black congregation that shared its church building. According to The Tennessean, the convention’s executive committee voted to withdraw fellowship from the Raleigh White…
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Florida Police Officer Resigns After Being Caught on Camera Calling Black Man a ‘Piece of Shit [N-Word]’
A St. Petersburg, Fla., police officer has resigned hours after being captured on cellphone video using a racial slur while responding to a dispute. Probationary Officer Michael Naples, who had only been sworn in last July, was seen on video calling a black man who was recording his encounter with police a “piece-of-shit nigger.” The…
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#Flint: Mayor Karen Weaver Says State Oversight of Water System Is ‘Unwarranted and Unnecessary’
As of Tuesday, it has been 1,510 days since the people of Flint, Mich., have had a clean and stable water system. Although experts in the state had flagged the city’s water system as still being “poor,” Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder still pulled the plug on free water distribution in the city, leaving the residents…
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Federal Judge Rules AT&T Can Purchase Time Warner for $85 Billion
When Makan Delrahim—head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division—filed a federal lawsuit in November to prevent AT&T’s $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, questions arose as to whether the former White House counsel was unduly influenced by Donald Trump’s seemingly personal vendetta against CNN, a company owned by Time Warner. The DOJ insisted…
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Muslim Inmates Finally Granted Meals During Ramadan After Days With No Food
Inmates in Washington state have been losing more than 20 pounds each during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan because of prison policies, according to a lawsuit brought by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR contends that during Ramadan, prison officials are refusing to provide prisoners with food between sundown and sunrise, the only time…