Politics
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I’m De Captain Now! Republicans Hold 9,000,000 Kids Hostage With Likely Government Shutdown
Saturday is the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and you must admit that he’s managed a pretty radical transformation of America. He’s turned his White House into the location of a horrible reality show. He’s turned Twitter into a weapon of mass destruction. He’s made the United States the most hated country on…
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Ian Conyers, Great-Nephew of John Conyers, Announces Campaign to Take Great-Uncle’s Seat
Ian Conyers—the 29-year-old great-nephew of former Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)—officially launched his campaign Friday for the U.S. House of Representatives to win his great-uncle’s 13th District seat, after the legendary politician was forced to resign amid sexual harassment allegations. Ian Conyers, a Michigan state senator from the 4th District who announced his run on the…
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Trump Appointee Resigns After Report Proves He’s Racist, Homophobic, Sexist Trash
Carl Higbie, an appointee in Donald Trump’s administration and the former chief of external affairs at the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal government volunteer organization that oversees services like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps, resigned Thursday after CNN’s KFile unearthed some radio clips that have Higbie making racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT statements.…
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The Model Minority Is Not a Myth: It’s Ajit Pai
In the week after liberals clutched their organically grown pearls that our president would (openly) call the first black republic a “shithole,” many immigrants jumped on Twitter to quip about the shithole countries they come from. But immigrants come from various kinds of shitholes, some more palatable to white America than others. Ajit Pai and…
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Funny Money: Trump’s Inauguration Fund Is Missing; Also, the FBI Is Looking Into the NRA’s Campaign Donation
Donald Trump’s inauguration committee raised a record-breaking $107 million to send him into office, and almost a year after the staggering amount of money was raised, no one seems to know what happened to the leftover funds. According to Newsweek, the Trump administration has disclosed very little information surrounding the large collective donation, which was…
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Trump’s Big Mad After Chief of Staff Contradicts His Stance on Border Wall and Calls Him ‘Uninformed’: Report
According to President Donald Trump, his position on the border wall to separate Mexico and the United States has never changed, despite what White House chief of staff John Kelly said in recent interviews, and despite Trump’s flip-flopping on the wall since running for president. On Wednesday, Kelly appeared on Fox News and said that…
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Donald Trump Told a Woman He Was Having Sex With That She Was Just Like His Daughter: Report
When the news of Donald Trump’s $130,000 payoff to Stormy Daniels broke on Friday, we knew that it wouldn’t be long before salacious details about their affair came out. You don’t pay someone that much money to keep them quiet about a one-time encounter. That’s some “You know some stuff about me, so please keep…
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#NetNeutrality: States, Public-Interest Groups File Lawsuits to Stop the FCC From Killing the Open Internet
As Democrats in the Senate work to push forward a resolution that would stop the Federal Communications Commission from killing net neutrality and ending the open and free internet for everyone, multiple lawsuits were filed Tuesday by different groups with that same goal in mind. A group of attorneys general from 21 states and the…
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The Girther Movement: Many People Don’t Believe the President Is Only 239 Pounds
On Tuesday, White House doctor Ronny Jackson, the white doctor with the inherently black name, announced that the president had the hands of a Grecian god and the balls of a Spanish bull. Seriously, Dr. Jackson proclaimed that the only ailment troubling the KFC-fingered president was high cholesterol, and he added that Donald Trump could…
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In the Race for Georgia Governor, Can Stacey Abrams Usher In a New Southern Strategy for the Democrats?
Stacey Abrams was 17 years old in 1991 when she was first told she couldn’t enter the governor’s mansion in the affluent Buckhead district of Atlanta. She and her parents stepped off the MARTA bus stop nearby and walked toward the guards booth, where they were met with the blunt response. “You can’t come in…