Politics
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#NetNeutrality: Senate Votes to Overturn FCC Repeal of Open-Internet Rules
On May 10, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the agency’s new rules repealing net neutrality would go into effect June 11. On Wednesday the U.S. Senate voted to approve a resolution that would stop that from happening. NPR reports that Senate Democrats were joined by three Republicans—Susan Collins of Maine, John Kennedy…
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Well, What Do You Know? Trump Did Reimburse Lawyer for Porn-Star Payment: Report
For months, President Donald Trump claimed that he had no idea that his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid porn actress Stormy Daniels, who reportedly spanked the president’s orange-tinted ass with a rolled Forbes magazine, for her silence about the sordid affair. Well, it turns out that Maury’s lie detector has determined that that was a…
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The Meeting Between Kim Jong Un and Trump Is About As Likely as a Full-Member New Edition Reunion Tour
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is about as stable as a Fabergé egg balancing on a toothpick that’s attached to the back of a cat that suffers from ADHD and hasn’t taken its medication but has just seen a mouse dart across the room. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is a egomaniacal, microwaved bag of…
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#StayWoke: The Real Reason Trump’s Trying to Make China Great Again
On Sunday, seemingly out of nowhere, President Donald Trump tweeted that he was going to ease crushing sanctions on Chinese phone company ZTE, which, under President Barack Obama’s administration, pissed off the United States by selling Iran’s largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of spying on its citizens. After an investigation in 2012,…
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This Cynthia Nixon Marijuana-Reparations Drama Is Dumb
There are a lot of issues on which you can challenge Cynthia Nixon, but chiding her for saying that weed legalization should be considered a form of reparations for black folks shouldn’t even register. Not only that, but she clarified her words last week. Yet a group of black pastors felt the need to call…
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While Trump Congratulates Israel and Plugs Fox News, Here’s What’s Happening in Gaza
Shortly before 7 a.m. Monday, Donald Trump began his day on Twitter by plugging the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem this way: by plugging the event’s coverage on Fox News. Meanwhile, here’s what was happening on the Gaza Strip, where dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops as they protested the…
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Watch Nashville, Tenn., Mayoral Candidate Tell Roomful of Black Voters Racial Profiling Is ‘Absolutely Necessary’
There are some things that make you feel so icky that they’re impossible to explain. I don’t know why my gag reflex is triggered every time I (ack!) think about (ack!) tongue-kissing Kellyanne Conway. Until I learned about trypophobia, an irrational fear of bumps or holes, I had no idea why those pictures of Erik…
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Trump Knew Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Was an Alleged Sexual Abuser in 2013: Report
President Donald Trump reportedly knew that Eric Schneiderman, the former New York attorney general, was accused of sexually abusing two women back in 2013. It was news that was kept under wraps until recently, when four women came forward to claim in a New Yorker report that they were the victims of sexual assault during…