Politics
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US Supreme Court Rules Dreamers Are Safe … for Now
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to immediately review lower-court decisions that keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program from going kaput, in what has to be a huge relief to DACA recipients, and is yet another blow to the Trump administration. The DACA program gives at least 700,000 young immigrants a path…
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105 Nigerian Girls Are Missing Because Donald Trump Is a Racist Idiot
Almost a week after Boko Haram extremists kidnapped more than 100 girls, the young women remain missing, leaving parents in the northern Nigerian town distraught and angry. Many fear that the girls abducted from Government Girls Science and Tech College in Dapchi, Yobe state, Nigeria, on Monday, will become child brides for the Boko Haram…
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Illinois Republican Called Black Female Attorney General Candidate ‘Lesbo’ and Used N-Word
Question: What does a Republican call a black woman who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois, finished Harvard Law School, won the Miss America Pageant and became a successful attorney? Answer: A “lesbo” and a “nigger.” That’s what Republican candidate for Illinois Attorney General Erika Harold found out recently when one of…
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Former RNC Chair Michael Steele Shocked by Racist Comment From Racist at Convention of Racists
Pundits and politicos were shocked Friday when a spokesperson for the Conservative Political Action Conference publicly admitted that former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was the party’s token black guy. Although the comment was the least racist thing you might hear at CPAC, people were stunned by Steele’s reaction, whispering among themselves: “Wait ……
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Yes, Florida Gov. Rick Scott Is Breaking Ranks With the NRA and Trump. No, We Shouldn’t Celebrate Just Yet
The student-led push to finally bring a semblance of gun control appears to be working in Florida. Gov. Rick Scott and other state lawmakers on Friday offered a series of proposals that would mark “the most significant move toward gun control in Florida in decades.” The proposed gun laws defy the National Rifle Association and…
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NRA Spokeswoman Dana Loesch Continues Her Crusade to Become the Worst Woman in the World
I didn’t know who National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch was before the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that took the lives of 17 students and teachers, and I wish it had remained that way. Sadly, I and the rest of CNN watchers have unfortunately had to see her smug, heartless face way too much. Earlier…
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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…