Politics
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It’s Official: The White House Is a Flaming-Hot Dumpster Fire That Shows No Signs of Cooling Down
The White House has been trash since the pristine Obamas left it to a KFC-eating mass of bagged afterbirth. Since he took office, the White House has been reshuffling the staff like it was dealt a hand with no spades. To date, the Trump administration has lost over a dozen notable members. Earlier this week,…
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Why Don’t Some Lawmakers in Tennessee Want to Denounce White Nationalism and Neo-Nazis?
If you live in Tennessee, you should be paying attention to what some of the lawmakers in your state are doing. Even if you don’t live in Tennessee, this is an important story to pay attention to. On Wednesday, legislators declined to pass a resolution that would denounce white nationalism and neo-Nazis in that state.…
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Doug Jones and the Democratic Party Just Screwed Black Voters … Again
There is a saying that “no good deed goes unpunished.” My grandmother, a slight woman whose values still trickle down through four generations, and who radiated love and wisdom as if she were our family’s own self-contained solar system, once showed me the scars on her legs from being bitten by a police dog and…
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Top Cop Jeff Sessions Speaks to Chiefs of Police and Collectively They Form the Broviet Union
The Trump administration is continuing its tradition of speaking to crowds that are largely favorable to its policies. On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff “King Keebler” Sessions spoke at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Nashville, Tenn. What is the International Association of Chiefs of Police? Who knows, but it looks like a…
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These Are the Women of Color Who Fought Both Sexism and the Racism of White Feminists
For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of color, domestic workers and sex workers. In December of last year, Gloria Steinem, a woman whose name and face has come to symbolize the feminist movement of the ’60s and ’70s, spoke before the Massachusetts Women’s…
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Watch: Trump’s Recent Speech Proves He Doesn’t Care About Black People
President Donald Trump made a very startling appearance in Moon Township, Pa., last week in support of Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone, who was running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. (With only a handful of absentee ballots remaining to be counted, Saccone appears to have lost to Democratic candidate Conor Lamb.)…
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Ben Carson Proves He’s Still Black: $31,000 Dining Room Set Included Breakfront China Cabinet
I would love to say that neurosurgeon-turned-head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Ben “Mumbles” Carson is merely following in the lying tradition established by the Trump administration, but Mumbles was a liar long before joining the ranks of the White House elite. There was the time Mumbles claimed that he avoided being…
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Millions of Students Are Quietly Being Taught the Koch Brothers’ Whitewashed Version of Black History
Cash-strapped social studies teachers across America have discovered an exciting new resource that provides lesson plans, study materials and even seminars geared toward elementary, middle and high school students. The lessons are extremely detailed and come with suggestions for activities, multimedia and additional reading. More importantly, unlike many educational tools, most of these materials are…
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‘Rex, Eat the Salad’: Trump Pulled an Ike Turner and Ordered Tillerson to Eat Wilted Greens
Soon-to-be-former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made the fatal mistake of mentioning Russia’s alleged involvement in the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in England earlier this month. Despite all signs pointing to Russia, the Trump administration has been adamant that while it was standing with the United Kingdom, it…