Politics
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What Martin Luther King Jr. Would Say About White People and Their ‘Shithole’ Silence
Noor Salman has never killed a human being. She has never injured anyone. She doesn’t even have a criminal record. But after her husband massacred 49 people in Orlando, Fla.’s Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016, an FBI agent said that he “realized that she knew” about the attack. The FBI also discovered that Salman…
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Reporter April Ryan Asks Trump: ‘Are You a Racist?’ During MLK Event at White House
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is around the corner, so you know what that means? Time to rattle Old Ben Carson’s birdcage and see if he has some words he’d like to mumble as the resident black face in Donald Trump’s administration. On Friday the former neurosurgeon, who might want to do some work on…
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How Donald Trump Made Don Lemon Look Like Malcolm X
Did you see it last night on CNN? Don Lemon went full Huey Newton and called a racist a racist! It was glorious, but let’s slow down a bit—Don Lemon’s Afro didn’t grow to Colin Kaepernick levels. In fact, watching the metamorphosis of Lemon from passive Don Lemon to mildly annoyed Don Lemon has been…
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Killer Mike: Oprah’s A’ight, but if I Had to Choose a Black Woman for President, I’d Pick …
The white daredevils at TMZ who stop celebrities at the airport and shove cameras in their faces caught up with rapper and activist Killer Mike (not to be confused with me—Flesh-Wounder Mike) at Los Angeles International Airport and asked him about the hype surrounding the potential presidential candidacy of Oprah Winfrey. (Side rant: Why does…
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Just Kidding, We Lied: White House Admits There’s No Evidence of Voter Fraud in 2016 Election
Remember how, in the days leading up to the 2016 election, when it seemed like Donald Trump might lose to Hillary Clinton, he kept insinuating that there was some mass voter-fraud scheme happening? Remember how, even after he won, he held on to that myth and created a controversial voter-fraud commission to investigate it? Then…
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In Other News, Your President Is Still Racist
If you are one of those people who, like Omarosa Manigault Newman, believe that Donald Trump is not a racist, white-nationalist-enabling, bumbling idiot—he has given you yet another piece of evidence to sway your way of thinking. The Washington Post reports that during a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump spat…
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Bwahahaha, We Gonna Die, Y’all: Trump Claims He Sold Norway Planes That Exist Only in ‘Call of Duty’
The race for the worst president in American history is starting to look like no contest with a wide margin between the front-runner Donald Trump and the rest of the pack. During his visit alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg at the White House on Wednesday, Trump boasted about the sale and delivery of F-52…
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Trump Is an Idiot Who Didn’t Get an MBA From Wharton, Explained
Think about this: When President Donald Trump was a private citizen, he hated President Barack Obama so much that he regularly antagonized him on Twitter. In fact, one could argue that when Trump wasn’t eating KFC or killing a puppy with his tiny fingers, it was his part-time job to troll Obama on social media.…
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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus Will Honor Recy Taylor During Trump’s State of the Union
On Sept. 3, 1944, 24-year-old Recy Taylor and two friends were on their way home from a late-night church service in Abbeville, Ala., when a group of white men abducted and raped her. Taylor refused to stay silent about the assault. Two grand juries refused to bring charges against her attackers. Taylor, who died at…
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#NetNeutrality: The Fight for an Open and Free Internet Continues Across the Country
Nearly a month after the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the rules of net neutrality, lawmakers across the country are doing what they can to keep the internet open and free. In California, this comes in the form of Senate Bill 460. NBC Bay Area reports that the California Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality…