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Idiots Can’t Even Boycott Beer Correctly
In today’s “We’re gonna boycott something because it reeks of diversity” news, a group of soggy and hateful people are all in their feelings because of Budweiser’s Super Bowl commercial that highlighted Anheuser-Busch co-founder Adolphus Busch’s journey to the U.S. in the mid-1800s, and the prejudice the German immigrant encountered. In the commercial, an American…
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Martellus Bennett Won’t Be Going to Trump’s White House
Turns out there is a black player on the New England Patriots (ha, just kidding; I know they have three black players!), and he isn’t going to the White House. Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett was barely into his celebration in the come-from-behind victory for the ages when he let it be known that he…
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Chicago Woman Convicted in Mom’s 2014 Bali Murder May Face Tougher Sentence for YouTube Comments
Prosecutors in Indonesia are looking into online videos apparently posted by a Chicago woman who was sentenced to 10 years in the 2014 murder of her mother in Bali to determine whether to impose a tougher sentence, Reuters reports. As the newswire notes, Heather Mack was convicted along with then-boyfriend Tommy Schaefer in the murder…
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All NYPD Officers Will Be Required to Wear Bodycams by 2019 for a Mere $1,880,000,000 in Salary Perks
The New York City Police Department’s largest officer union reached a $1.88 billion tentative deal with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio this week that will require all patrol cops to wear body cameras by 2019. The deal increases the average rank-and-file officer’s salary by 11.73 percent, and the average member of the Patrolmen’s…
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Trump Surrogates and GOP Pols to Meet With HBCU Heads During Black History Month
Given President Donald Trump’s recent interest in historically black colleges and universities and the rumored executive order supporting them, a group of Republican leaders plans to meet with HBCU heads in the coming weeks. The Grio reports that the meeting will include GOP congressional members and Omarosa Manigault, who is supposed to be presenting the…
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#NoDAPL: CEO Says Dakota Access Pipeline Will Move Forward; Trump Sends the Law to Clear Protesters From Land
As what will likely be the case with many of the new president’s policies and proclamations, the Dakota Access Pipeline may move forward as initially planned—even though many thought it wouldn’t. Although protesters of the pipeline got a victory in December, when the Army Corps under President Barack Obama denied the easement that would have…
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Faith Evans Will Release Album With Biggie 20 Years After His Death
Fans of ’90s hip-hop/R&B can break out their Timbs, phillies and 40s! Singer Faith Evans (not Hill, CNN) will release an album of duets with her late husband the Notorious B.I.G. 20 years after his murder in Los Angeles. Evans, who most likely has ownership of Biggie’s masters and unreleased work, will debut The King…
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Trying to One-Up Obama, Trump Will Sign Executive Order Supporting HBCUs: Report
Perhaps after the now infamous Frederick Douglass debacle kicking off Black History Month, President Donald Trump wants to make it right with the blacks. According to a BuzzFeed report, the White House is working on an executive order supporting historically black colleges and universities—a way to crow, since some believe that President Barack Obama did…
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Trump Threatens to Take Federal Funding From UC Berkeley, but Can He Do That?
After University of California, Berkeley officials canceled a scheduled appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos this week amid on-campus and online protests, President Donald Trump took to his Twitter account to threaten the university with the loss of federal funding for not allowing free speech. But is that something that is really within his power to do?…