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GoFundMe Campaign for Burned Texas Mosque Raises More Than $800,000
A South Texas mosque is receiving an outpouring of love and support after the building was burned down in a weekend fire, WFAA reports. According to the report, the fire started early Saturday morning at the Islamic Center of Victoria in Victoria, Texas. However, members of the mosque are urging people not to rush to…
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The Donald Blames Airport Mess on Computer Outage and Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Tears
Donald Trump is doing what he does best when faced with difficult questions: lying, deflecting blame, mocking people and talking trash on Twitter. On Monday, after protesters converged on airports throughout the country to protest the Muslim ban this administration swears is not a Muslim ban, except the part where it totally is, Trump took…
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ACLU Receives $24,100,000 in Donations the Same Weekend as Trump’s Muslim Ban
The American people appear to be signaling that they will not be divided or sit quietly as President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring entry to refugees and citizens of seven majority Muslim countries goes into effect. According to CNN Money, the American Civil Liberties Union has received six times as much money over one…
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Facts: Trump’s Muslim Ban Doesn’t Include Countries He Has a Business Interest In
The seven countries that President Donald Trump issued a ban against are predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa. Christian refugees from those nations can expect to receive more favorable treatment than Muslims from those nations. The countries included in Friday’s executive order (stayed by a federal judge on Saturday) are Syria, Libya,…
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#StayWoke: Trump Names ‘Alt-Right’ Racist Steve Bannon to National Security Council While the World Protests His Muslim Ban
In a flurry of executive orders* even the most ardent news hound finds hard to keep up with—including one banning Muslims from seven nations from coming to the U.S., sparking protests throughout the country Saturday night—President Donald Trump is remaking the world in his skewed, scary image. And while many are rightly incensed over the…
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Malia Obama Seen at Dakota Access Pipeline Protest at Sundance
America’s former first daughter (fight me) is apparently keeping busy now that her dad has stepped down from the presidency. Malia Obama marked her first week as a “normal” person by attending an event supporting the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah,…
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Clutch the Pearls: Will Gucci’s New Campaign Feature Only Black Models?
Gucci’s Instagram blew up Friday after it showed its #GucciPreFall17 campaign and a series of “audition” videos filled with all black faces. The rare-air fashion house featured six black models—all with natural hair— answering quirky questions and busting dance moves on its colorful IG page. Time reports that the casting agency featured in the videos…
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NBC Ain’t Shit: Megyn Kelly to Replace Only 2 Black Folks* on Today Show
In their groveling assent to the “people of the country who are so forgotten”—you know, real Americans—NBC is reportedly contributing its own special brand of self-interested racism to the culture by keeping daytime TV and news as white as it wanna be. You would have thought, after the MSNBC debacle when the network tried (and…
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Family Raises Money for Okla. Mother Killed in MMA-Fighter Double Homicide
Professional MMA fighter Roshaun Jones was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder this week. One of his victims was a mother and grandmother who was killed at work. Police charged the 33-year-old bantamweight—who lost more fights than he won—with the deaths of two people he allegedly shot and killed in an armed…
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Serena Williams Rocks No. 23 Jordans—Sent by Michael Jordan—to Celebrate Her 23rd Grand-Slam Win
Tennis phenom Serena Williams made history as she won her 23rd grand-slam title on Saturday night against her sister Venus Williams in in a 6-4, 6-4 victory at the Australian Open. And not only did Serena return to the world No. 1 ranking, but she capped off the sweet night by changing into classic “23”…