Politics
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Undocumented Black Immigrants May Fare Worse Without DACA Protections
Tobore Oweh knows the next six months of her life will be stressful after Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Tuesday. She is one of 800,000 people covered under the Obama-era policy who fears the worst if Congress doesn’t come together to resolve the crisis Trump created. She and…
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How Donald Trump Uses Ivanka as His Secret Weapon
I guess the White House has a move when President Douchey von ShitBag is in a meeting, and that is to have his daughter Cersei Lannister Ivanka Trump stroll into the meeting as if she doesn’t know that a meeting is happening so that everyone in the meeting can play nice. And then, while Ivanka…
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How Petrified Should We Be for Hurricane Victims Now That Ben Carson Is the Head of HUD?
As the waters recede in parts of Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur and other areas of Texas impacted by the horrific Hurricane Harvey, the agony of recovery efforts has begun. Approximately 100,000 homes have been damaged, and the varying degrees of insurance—notably the lack of flood insurance in the flood-stricken Houston—present a unique conundrum for storm…
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15 States, DC Sue Trump Administration Over the End of DACA
On Wednesday, 15 states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. government over the president’s plan to remove protections against deportation for young immigrants, alleging that it was motivated by prejudice against Mexicans. According to the Boston Herald, legal experts do not believe the evidence is strong enough to support a claim of bias…
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Fear and Uncertainty for People Living Under DACA Now That Their Fates Rest With Congress
Cinthya Zapata came to the United States from Mexico and settled in Austin, Texas, with her family when she was only 2 years old. No one from her family lives in their old town of Toluca anymore. So if Congress, over the next six months, doesn’t come up with a solution to Donald Trump’s plan…
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Someone Tell the Democrats to Stop Acting Like the Political Equivalent of Unseasoned Chicken
Leave it to the donkey party to act an ass and see an opportunity dangled before it and stupidly squander time debating whether or not an obvious winning strategy is worth pursuing. Politico reports that Democrats are torn over how to handle what happened in Charlottesville, Va., the debate over Confederate monuments in general and…
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Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer Has Officially Left the White House. Who Else Thought He Was Already Gone?
Thursday marked the last official day of Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer’s tumultuous run as a member of President Ezekiel von FuckFace’s staff, and who knew? I mean, I loved the guy and I didn’t even know. In fact, I thought he’d been gone ever since Sarah Huckabee Sanders, aka Suckabee, took over the role of…
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White Ga. Lawmaker Threatens Black Woman, Says She May Go Missing … but Was She Already in the Sunken Place?
When will politicians, cops, educators and other government officials realize that nothing good ever comes from fighting about race on Facebook? Inevitably, the whole awful exchange gets a screenshot, and then there’s a 48-hour news cycle of said bigot claiming, I don’t have a racist bone in my body or I was just reciting a…
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Trump Energy Official Resigns After Claiming Controversial Comments Attributed to Him Were the Result of Hacking
William C. Bradford, appointed by Donald Trump to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, resigned Thursday afternoon in the midst of a scandal involving disparaging comments he allegedly made online regarding former President Barack Obama and his mother. On Tuesday, CNN’s KFile reported on evidence it found that suggested…
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In the Middle of a Devastating Hurricane, House Republicans Look to Make Cuts to Disaster-Relief Fund
This administration is exhausting. Our current Congress is exhausting. Everything about living in this country right now is exhausting, and it never seems to end. We receive daily reminders that our current government is trash, and there are no signs that there will be any change in the immediate future. The latest example of “Are…