Politics
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Rick Gates Becomes 3rd Member of Trump’s Campaign to Plead Guilty to Lying
The bricks in the Kremlin wall, also known as the Trump administration, continue to crumble as former presidential campaign aide Rick Gates becomes the third person close to Donald Trump to make a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller after pleading guilty to conspiracy and making a false statement. Gates—who, in October, was indicted alongside…
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Florida Considers Porn a Health Hazard, Doesn’t Ban Assault Rifles but Agrees to Have More God in Schools
Everyone can stop worrying about guns and mass shootings in schools because a Florida lawmaker has just introduced groundbreaking legislation that will surely be adopted by other areas throughout the nation and will definitely put a halt to gun violence. According to CNN, Rep. Kimberly Daniels, a Democrat, pushed a bill requiring public schools to…
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Trump’s Justice Department Doesn’t Care About Civil Rights: Report
In news that would shock only an alien who just landed in the United States on his way to Pluto and was unfamiliar with the legacy of fuckboy shit that the Trump administration has pulled, the Department of Justice, headed by Jeff “King Keebler” Sessions, has pursued fewer civil rights cases than previous administrations. According…
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Oprah Delivers the Most Elegant, Unbothered Clapback to Trump’s Twitter Nonsense
Leave it to Oprah Winfrey to hit snooze on the bullshit. In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres on Thursday, the Queen Mother of Living Your Best Life revealed how she responded to Donald Trump’s attack on her following a piece she did for 60 Minutes. The 60 Minutes segment, which aired Sunday, featured Oprah with…
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Special Counsel Mueller Files New Charges of Money Laundering Against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates
Special counsel Robert Mueller is not playing any games when it comes to this Russia investigation and the big fish he has caught in the wide net he cast. On Thursday he issued a new indictment against former Donald Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, charging them both with money laundering. CNN reports…
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Deranged NRA Spokeswoman: The Media Loves Mass Shootings, and Crying White Mothers Are Ratings Gold
National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch knows exactly what she is doing. Her job as a mouthpiece for the NRA is to shift the focus from looking at gun laws to looking at anything but gun laws. Seriously, she doesn’t care if the focus goes from the Parkland, Fla., mass school shooting to the county…
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Trump Had to Check His Notes to Remember to Care About Mass-Shooting Victims
Wednesday’s White House meeting on school safety was a triumph in successful vetting and presidential hand-holding. While billed as an opportunity for victims of the Parkland, Fla., mass school shooting to voice their concerns to the president, it quickly devolved into moving but ultimately worthless tragedy porn that gave President Donald Trump and his puppeteers…
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Trump Can’t Seem to Get His NRA Objectives Together, Now Backtracking on Teachers Carrying Guns
News coming out of Lex Luthor’s secret cave, aka the Trump White House, continues after the president threw a Twitter hissy fit because news folks supposedly misunderstood his call to arm some teachers as a call to arm all teachers. As we’ve learned with this administration, what Donald Trump says on Wednesday has nothing to…
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South Carolina Lawmakers Want to Ban Baggy Pants Because What Other Political Issue Could Possibly Be More Pressing?
While the rest of the country clamors for gun control, South Carolina lawmakers have chosen to home in on the real issues, like banning baggy pants. According to WLTX 19, House Bill 4957 would make it illegal “for a person to expose their skin or underwear by wearing their pants ‘three inches below the crest…
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Pioneering Educator and Founder of Washington, DC’s Duke Ellington School of Arts Dies
Peggy Cooper Cafritz, a socialite, social activist and founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, died this past weekend in Washington, D.C. The Washington Post reports that the 70-year-old trailblazer died as a result of complications from pneumonia, her son, Zach Cafritz, said. Cooper Cafritz will be remembered for breaking down barriers, starting…