Politics
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Did Michael Cohen Get $600,000 From AT&T so Trump Would Kill Net Neutrality and OK a Merger?
Whenever anyone asks, “Isn’t it funny how … ,” they are usually accusing someone of something without explicitly saying it. For instance: Isn’t it funny how your boyfriend always needs to go to the other room when he receives late-night texts? Isn’t it funny how we’ve never seen Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the same room…
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Gina Haspel, Trump’s Pick to Run the CIA, Is a Thug
On Wednesday, Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s nomination to head the CIA, made her first appearance before a Senate committee hearing, and she sounded like and looked the part of a sweet, cookie-baking grandmother who wants nothing more than to “Make America great again.” But make no mistake about it; during her 33 years with…
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Trump Wants the Nobel Peace Prize, and With His Latest Moves, the Deplorable in Chief Just Might Win
Thank you, North Korea, for releasing three American detainees early Thursday morning; but damn you, North Korea, for releasing them to the worst president to ever spit tabacky juice into an Oval Office trash can. In the dead of night, like a made-for-TV moment, President Donald Trump welcomed Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim…
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Kanye West Invades the Nevada Congressional Race, and Now I’m Forced to Write About Him
I almost made it. I had declared a personal moratorium on think pieces, social commentary or public statements about Kanye West. He’s a jackass, to quote Barack Obama, and unless you want to talk about 808s & Heartbreak or The Life of Pablo, I have basically refused to discuss his two-week cosplay as Stephen from…
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Trump Wants to Punish Journalists, Admits That ‘Fake News’ Is Anything Negative About His Administration
President Donald Trump is a lot of things—a man who paints his skin with the finest orange Krylons; a fine connoisseur of America’s best xenophobia, misogyny and racism—but he is not a smart man. Despite his team’s best efforts to keep a phone out of his tiny hands, somehow President Jebediah von Sleufoot continues to…
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When White Politicians Profit Off Black Pain and Then Go Begging for Black Votes: Georgia Edition
Break out the sunglasses and SPF 50, everyone; it’s scorched-earth time in Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. The race between Stacey Evans—the white, 40-year-old married lawyer and former state representative from Smyrna, Ga.—and Stacey Abrams, the black, 44-year-old lawyer, former Georgia House Democratic Caucus leader, Spelman grad, author and former owner of the Freaknik name (seriously)—was…
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‘Protect and Serve Act’ Would Make Police a Protected Class and Violence Against Them a Hate Crime
On Tuesday, Congress introduced the “Protect and Serve Act,” legislation created to address violence against police. The House of Representatives and the Senate introduced their individual versions of the bill, with the Senate version designating violence against police a federal hate crime. The House version (pdf) of the bill makes it a crime to knowingly…
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Not Only Did Melania Trump’s Team Bite the Obama Playbook, but They Also Got Mad When the Media Pointed It Out
On Tuesday, after several news outlets exposed first lady Melania Trump’s reuse of an educational booklet from the Obama-era Federal Trade Commission to serve as the template for her stupidly named Be Best campaign, her team reportedly took offense at being called out on it. Melania, aka Ofdonald, launched her initiative focusing on childhood “well-being,…
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Cynthia Nixon Catches Heat for Calling Cannabis Licenses in Black Community a ‘Form of Reparations’
In an interview with Forbes magazine Saturday, Cynthia Nixon, the former Sex and the City star and current New York gubernatorial candidate, told the outlet that communities of color most devastated by decades of the country’s war on drugs should get first priority when it comes to licenses to sell legal cannabis. “Now that cannabis…