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Can Someone Take the iPad From the President? He’s Tweeting About ‘Criminal Deep State’ Conspiracy Again
My money is on Vice President Mike Pence as being the member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet who keeps sliding the president an unlocked iPad when no one is looking so that he can send out his conspiratorial tweets to take the spotlight off the very real Russia investigation. Early Wednesday morning, Trump confiscated Pence’s iPad,…
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Louisiana Prosecutors Try but Can’t Stop Ex-Felons From Regaining Voting Rights
Despite a last-ditch effort to overturn a recent bill restoring voting rights to ex-felons in Louisiana, legislators in the Statehouse recently passed a bill doing just that, another victory for criminal-justice reform. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that of the 70,000 ex-felons who served time in Louisiana prisons and who are currently on probation or…
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Miami Judge Uses Racial Slur to Describe Black Defendant, Blames Language on Growing Up in New York
A Miami judge is trying to blame his New York upbringing on the fact that he used a racial slur to describe a black defendant. It appears that Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Stephen Millan will face some discipline, with an investigative panel for Florida’s Judicial Qualifications Commission recommending that he be suspended for 30 days, fined…
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Pilot Kicks Passenger Off Flight for Hurling Racial Slur at Flight Attendant
A Tunisair pilot stood up for a member of his flight crew after a passenger referred to a flight attendant as a “black bitch of an air hostess.” Pilot Mounir Ajlani’s flight to Tunis, Tunisia, from Istanbul was delayed, and the incident occurred after Ghofrane Binous, the flight attendant, tried to defuse a disagreement between…
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Georgia Medical Examiner Rules CDC Employee Timothy Cunningham’s Death Suicide by Drowning
The death of Timothy Cunningham, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee who went missing in early February, only for his body to be found in the Chattahoochee River in early April, has been determined to be a suicide by drowning, the Fulton County, Ga., medical examiner revealed. As CBS 46 reports, the medical…
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Tomi Lahren Has Drinks Thrown at Her During Hip-Hop Brunch in Minneapolis
Tomi Lahren and her mother, Trudy, walked into a Saturday brunch in Minneapolis over the weekend, and they didn’t receive a warm welcome. The Lahren women instead got accosted at the Union Restaurant, and Topher had water and obscenities hurled at her. Excuse me while I try to find a fuck to give. The incidents…
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Stacey Abrams Wins Big in Georgia and Now Has a Shot at Becoming 1st African-American Female Governor in US History
While the polls in Georgia officially closed at 7 p.m., the window of opportunity for Stacey Abrams, the first black woman to win a gubernatorial nomination for any major party in Georgia, opened up. With only 34 percent of the vote in, everybody from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to CNN to Stevie Wonder could see that…
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Sure, Jan: Aaron Schlossberg’s Apology, Blacksplained
This is the story of a man who went on a racist, xenophobic rant and threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on some of his fellow customers as well as workers at a Fresh Kitchen restaurant in New York City’s Manhattan because they were speaking Spanish in his country. Aaron Schlossberg probably never expected…
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In an Attempt to Help America, the Earth Tries to Swallow Up Trump’s White House
A secret Russian tunnel has been found under the White House lawn … Editor: It isn’t a Russian tunnel. Fine, the devil’s portal … Editor: Nope. A hobbit hole? Editor: Whatever. A sinkhole (possibly made by the devil or a hobbit) has appeared on the White House’s North Lawn, and if we are lucky, said…