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Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Trump’s Presidency: ‘We Are Not Experiencing the Best of Times’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spoken out about Donald Trump before, and her distaste for him is no secret. In a recent interview with the BBC, the feisty justice intimated that she doesn’t think the country is in good hands, but she is hopeful for the future. While Ginsburg did not comment directly…
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Black Women Were Basking in Excellence at Essence’s Black Women in Hollywood Awards
“I challenge you not to deny yourselves … we must survive because we love you.” Those were Aja Naomi King’s last words as she left the podium in a room filled with the glow of radiating love and #BlackGirlMagic, also known as the 10th Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood event. On Thursday evening, King,…
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CNN, NY Times, Politico Among News Organizations Blocked From White House Briefing With Sean Spicer
Apparently, President Donald Trump’s regime White House barred several news organizations from attending an off-camera, informal press briefing today. CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, BuzzFeed and most of the attending foreign press were reportedly blocked from attending the gaggle with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. The Associated Press and…
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Trail of Tears: Militarized Imperialist Forces Seize Standing Rock Camp
With fire and smoke lapping the skyline, Standing Rock Sioux tribal members and water protectors marched, drummed, sang and prayed their way from Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) Camp, the home they have built while protecting their sacred land from the “black snake,” also known as the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Associated Press reports that…
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Trump’s CPAC Speech Is Like All the Rest of Them: A Word-Vomit Salad of Stupidity
In 2015 Donald Trump was booed at the Conservative Political Action Conference. So after that, Trump got tight and wasn’t fucking with CPAC. He blew off the gathering of conservatives in 2016, and here is the funny part: CPAC didn’t care, because they weren’t fucking with him, either. In a 2016 CPAC poll of Republican…
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ESPN vs. ESPN: Hosts Get Racial Over Magic Johnson’s Promotion
It’s ESPN-on-ESPN violence after two sports broadcasters for the network started a war of words over the Los Angeles Lakers’ recent announcement that Magic Johnson would become its new president of basketball operations. It started when radio host Dan Le Batard took to his ESPN morning-radio show to blast Johnson’s promotion. “What you’ve got here,…
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Swastika Made of Excrement Found in Gender-Neutral Bathroom at RI College
The Rhode Island School of Design is reportedly investigating after anti-Semitic graffiti made from human excrement (??) was found in a gender-neutral bathroom. (Y’all people with your “isms” and phobias are gross … but we knew that.) According to WJAR, students at the school were shocked and disgusted by the graffiti, which was confirmed to…
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FBI Refused White House Request to Tell Public Trump-Russia Stories Were False: Report
Now, this is getting interesting: The FBI reportedly rejected a White House request to stop media reports about communication between President Donald Trump’s associates and the Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign. Of course, a White House official claims the request was only made after the FBI learned the reports were false, but at this…
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Mich. Judge Qiana Lillard Has No Time for ‘Clowns’ Who Allegedly Laughed During DUI Sentencing
It’s safe to say that generally, if you’re in court (whether to support a family member or because of your own actions), it’s not a wise idea to be grinning and/or laughing. People don’t generally end up in court for laughing matters. The family of 26-year-old Amanda Kosal learned that the hard way Thursday after…
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Google Just Dropped $11,000,000 to Make Sure #BlackLivesMatter
Of course, the company didn’t phrase it that way because it would have to spend another $11 million cleaning up all the mess from the white people’s heads that exploded. But according to USA Today, Google just pledged $11.5 million in grants and funding to help organizations fight racial bias. Specifically, Google’s philanthropic division wants…