Politics
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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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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…
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Video Evidence Proves That Betsy DeVos Might Be the Dumbest Person in Trump’s Cabinet
If the fate of the world rested on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ ability to answer a question about anything from elementary-level math to what she ate for breakfast, I’d pray only that we all got at least five phone calls to tell our loved ones goodbye. If DeVos were in a mental-math Olympics against a…
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Trump’s Bullying of the Justice Department Again Must Mean the Russia Investigation Is Heating Up
Whenever President Donald Trump starts tweeting wildly and furiously, it usually means he’s bothered about the Russia investigation. On Sunday the president fired off a series of all-cap-and-exclamation-point-laden tweets that were all over the place. In the end, the most telling tweet, and the one that proves that Trump is about his business of deflecting…
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‘Decolonize the Mind’: Black South Africans Are Figuring Out How to Heal From the Mental Damage of Apartheid
Black South Africans have been fighting for their right to live with dignity since before the time of King Shaka Zulu. Millions are still trying to heal from the brutality of an institutionally racist system that placed them in the lowest social status—below the “coloreds,” who were below white people. Now black South Africans have…
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#StayWoke: Trump’s Team Hired Firm to Suppress the Black Vote: Report
On Wednesday, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie told the Senate that President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign—more specifically, former chief strategist Steve Bannon—hired the firm with the intention of using data to “discourage or demobilize certain types of people from voting,” The Hill reports. You read the above paragraph correctly. But let’s run it again…
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Trump Didn’t Know the Difference Between HIV and HPV, so Bill Gates Explained It to Him—Twice
At this point it might be better for everyone to keep a running list of things that President Donald Trump does know. So far my list contains racism, lying, paying for sex, Russian prostitutes, KFC, punching his staff, lying, xenophobia and lying. In newly revealed footage, the embarrassment of the entire United States showed just…
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Michael Avenatti vs. Anthony Scaramucci: Coming Soon to a Television Near You?
Would you watch a television show that featured Michael Avenatti—the attorney who is suing Donald Trump on behalf of adult-film actress Stormy Daniels—going up against former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci? Both men have been popping up on television a lot lately—Avenatti speaking against Trump, and Scaramucci standing up for him, despite having been…
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It’s Been a Year Already: So, What Actually Happens if Trump Fires Mueller?
Today, Thursday, marks the one-year anniversary of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s appointment to personally fulfill the political fantasies of every pussy-hat-wearing, resistance-T-shirt-sporting, Salon-reading citizen left in America. That fantasy, of course, is of Mueller finding evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians to influence the 2016 presidential election in his favor. More…
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Bigot Bus Breaks Down Before Bashing of Immigrants Begins
When Georgia gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams announced plans for his ridiculously bigoted and attention-seeking “Deportation Bus” tour on Tuesday, most sane people who aren’t xenophobic racists thought, “He can’t be serious.” It turns out he was very serious, and on Thursday, he got his white ass on that bus and attempted to go harass immigrants…