Politics
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Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown: Steve Bannon Is a White Supremacist and Senior White House Adviser Stephen Miller Seems to Be
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) stood by Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) on Sunday, saying that Wilson was right to call former White House chief strategist and human embodiment of the plague Steve Bannon a white supremacist. “I agree that Steve Bannon is a white supremacist, and [senior White House adviser] Stephen Miller seems to be. And…
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Habanero Hitler Confirms the Obvious: Hillary Clinton’s Name Will Never Completely Go Away, Even if You Want it To
It’s easy to lose sight of this in light of his bevy of controversies, conceived hour after hour, but many folks seem to forget that Donald Trump never intended to go away. Months before Election Day, Vanity Fair published a story asking whether that carrot-juice-induced, piss-colored con man’s end game was a television network. Moreover,…
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Donald Trump Is Delusional, Continues to Deny He Said What Even John Kelly Has Confirmed He Said
Because your president is a feeble-minded idiot, he got on Twitter Thursday night and continued to deny that he made an insensitive and reprehensible comment to a grieving widow earlier this week, even though his chief of staff confirmed for the world that he had, in fact, said it. Previously on White House Apprentice, the…
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White House Doubles Down on Disrespect to Fallen Soldier’s Family, Attacks Congresswoman Who Heard Call
Thursday’s White House press briefing featured a guest appearance by White House chief of staff John Kelly, who doubled down on the ignorant and disrespectful comments the president made to the widow of a fallen soldier earlier this week. The biggest takeaway from the briefing was Kelly using his time to attack Rep. Frederica Wilson…
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Va. Democratic Party Leaves Black Candidate for Lieutenant Governor Off Flyer (Then Blames Him for It)
In political campaigns, white candidates can always find a black guy. It’s literally Campaign 101: Most successful white American candidates know that in order to show that you are an open-minded progressive candidate—or to signal that you’re a horrible racist but some black people still like you—you have to find a black guy. After centuries…
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Donald Trump, White America’s Favorite Christian
There is no point in debating whether or not President Donald Trump is a “real Christian.” At this point it really doesn’t matter. He is America’s religious darling and is the single most important political figure in mainstream Christian politics. Delving into the minutiae of Scripture and its meaning is inconsequential because none of that…
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North Korea Says It’s Ready to Pop Off at ‘Any Moment’
If you wanted a reason to stop paying your student loans, North Korea’s got you. North Korea’s deputy United Nations ambassador, Kim In Ryong, told the General Assembly’s disarmament committee Monday that tensions between North Korea and the U.S. had “reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment,” the Washington…
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After Freddie Gray, Marilyn Mosby Intends to Keep on Fighting the Good Fight
Marilyn Mosby is fighting new battles. She’s used to that. The Baltimore prosecutor—an African-American woman, putting her among the 1 percent of all elected prosecutors in the nation who are women of color—made a name for herself by doing what shouldn’t have been considered remarkable: prosecuting six police officers in the death of a black…