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Federal Judge in Va. Rules on a Technicality in Favor of Trump’s Travel Ban
Because we know there had to be one, a federal judge in Virginia ruled in favor of President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban and in opposition to the decisions of judges who ruled before him—and providing ammunition to Justice Department lawyers who are arguing in favor of the ban in several courts across the U.S.…
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Fight for $15, Movement for Black Lives Plan Nationwide Protests to Fight Racism, Raise Pay
Fight for $15 and the Movement for Black Lives have joined forces for a nationwide protest on April 4 to fight racism, raise pay and resist the GOP crackdown on protest. Two of the nation’s most powerful social movements, including thousands of workers, elected officials and national civil rights leaders, will take to the streets…
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Trumpcare Pulled Because Like the President, the Bill Hates Old and Poor People
Trumpcare got all dressed up with no place to go. President Orange Assclown pulled his shitty health care bill at the eleventh hour because it was so bad that even House Republicans couldn’t get behind it. After all this huffing and puffing, and seven years of Republicans swearing that they would get rid of Obamacare,…
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Wendy’s Employee Fired Over Receipt With N-Word on It
A Wendy’s employee was given the boot after a black Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted an old receipt near the worker’s station that had the n-word on it. According to the Click Orlando, the trooper was in line to get his dinner Tuesday night at an Orlando restaurant when he saw the receipt next to…
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White House Budget Director: Don’t Like Trumpcare in Your State? Change Your State
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has been working tirelessly to push this bullshit Republican health care bill through the House. When grilled by CBS This Morning about the 10 essential health benefits (EHBs), including maternity care and mental-health and substance-abuse treatment, that were covered under Obamacare but would be cut from the…
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#MissingDCGirls Finally Caught People’s Attention, but How Do You Bring Them Home?
On March 12, 2017, I wrote about the number of black and Latino teens who have gone missing in the Washington, D.C., area since February. At the time, 10 teens, including one young man, were missing. The Metropolitan (D.C.) Police Department reported that a few had been found, but there were still missing cases open.…
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Pa. Mother Arrested After Allegedly Assaulting Her Daughter for Reciting Bible Verses Incorrectly
A Pennsylvania woman was arrested after allegedly assaulting her daughter and kicking the girl out of the house because the child could not recite Bible verses correctly. According to Penn Live, Rhonda Kemp Shoffner, 41, of Middletown, is facing charges of child endangerment, strangulation aggravated assault against a child and terrorist threats related to the…
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Okla. State Rep. Believes Rape and Incest Part of God’s Will
Because the world is losing its collective grip on reality, and conservatives want to govern everything, including women’s bodies, Oklahoma state Rep. George Faught, a Republican, authored a bill that would stop abortions including cases involving genetic abnormalities. But wait—I know it’s hard to imagine, but it actually gets worse. When Oklahoma state Rep. Cory…
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Killing of Black Man by Self-Proclaimed White Supremacist in NYC ‘Most Likely an Act of Terrorism’: Prosecutor
Prosecutors in New York City are saying that the targeted killing of a black man in midtown Manhattan was most likely an act of terrorism after, they charge, self-proclaimed white supremacist James Harris Jackson, 28, stabbed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman to death. WABC reports that Jackson, from Maryland, was arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday and…
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Chicago Cop Faces New Charges in Shooting Death of Laquan McDonald
Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who is facing first-degree murder charges in the 2014 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, will face an additional 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, a special prosecutor announced Thursday. According to USA Today, the new indictment racks up the number of felony charges against Van…