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US Census Will Not Ask Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Questions in 2020
On Tuesday the Trump administration submitted a report to Congress that listed the data it plans to collect in the 2020 census. In its original iteration, the list contained questions about sexual orientation and gender identity. In a revised version that appeared online, those topics were omitted. NPR reports that a Census Bureau spokesperson said…
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L.A. City Council Agrees to $2,000,000 Settlement With Family of Man LAPD Shot and Killed in His Driveway
The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday approved a $2 million settlement with the family of a man who was shot and killed by police in his driveway after his family called for help because he was exhibiting suicidal behavior. Christopher Eaddy, 26, had a history of brain injury, and the Los Angeles Times reports that his…
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NYPD Officer Reprimanded for Tweeting #BlackLivesMatter From Her Personal Twitter Account
An officer with the New York City Police Department’s 76th Precinct is in hot water with her superiors after she reportedly replied to a department Twitter post with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Police Officer Gwendolyn Bishop is black, and the New York Daily News reports that she was hit with departmental charges and accused of inappropriately writing…
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Kind IHOP Waiter Stops Working to Help Customer With Huntington’s Disease Eat
It’s always nice, amid today’s political climate, to know there’s still hope left for humanity. Most recently, a kind Illinois IHOP waiter went viral after he was photographed helping a customer who has Huntington’s disease eat. Another customer, Keshia Dotson, snapped the photo from her seat a few tables away. “She was coughing and then…
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Sean Spicer Thinks It’s ‘Demeaning’ to Suggest That April Ryan Can’t ‘Take’ His Bullshit
So Sean Spicer is back with another twist, actually saying that it is somehow “demeaning” to veteran White House reporter April Ryan to suggest that she can’t “take it.” By “it,” he is, of course, referring to the fact that he told a grown woman to “stop shaking your head” when she was listening to…
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Rep. Maxine Waters Ain’t Got Time for Bill O’Reilly: ‘I Am a Strong Black Woman and I Cannot Be Intimidated’
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has a lot of things going on, what with basically being one of the few members of Congress willing to fight the current administration tooth and nail and calling it out on all its bullshit. So it’s quite obvious that she doesn’t have time for Bill O’Reilly or his shenanigans trying…
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Fox News Slapped With Racial-Discrimination Lawsuit
Fox News has a lot of problems, and apparently racial discrimination is one. (Surprise?) Two black women filed a federal lawsuit in state Supreme Court in the Bronx, N.Y., Tuesday night, claiming that they were subjected to “top-down racial harassment” in the Fox News payroll department thanks to longtime comptroller Judith Slather. According to the…
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NYC Cops Accused of Using Choke Hold on Black Teen Who Seemed to Be Having Seizure: Report
The New York City Police Department is under fire after residents at Brooklyn’s Pink Houses accused officers of using a banned choke hold Monday on a teen who seemed to be having some type of seizure during the encounter. Witnesses identified the teen as 17-year-old Zavon Hodges. According to the New York Daily News, a…
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NYC Subway Rider Threatens to ‘Kill’ Iranian Couple: ‘Donald Trump Is in the House’
A video of a man on the subway in New York City is sparking online attention, as well as conversation about how to respond to hateful, violent threats in public, after the man was seen cursing and apparently threatening to kill an Iranian couple who were on a Manhattan train over the weekend. In a…
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Lawyer Asks Federal Judge to Dismiss Cop’s Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter Activist
Campaign Zero co-founder and prominent activist in the Movement for Black Lives DeRay Mckesson is being sued by an unnamed Baton Rouge, La., police officer who claims he was injured during a protest in the city four days after a police officer killed Alton Sterling, and now an attorney for Mckesson is urging a federal…