Politics
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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…
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These Trumps Ain’t Loyal: Was Arpaio Pardoned Just to Undermine a GOP Senator’s Bid for Re-Election?
When the president pardoned former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio during the middle of both Hurricane Harvey and a Trump media dump Friday night, many speculated that it was a bone being thrown to his base to appease it after the likely forced resignation of deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka. But was there more at…
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Donald Trump’s Election-Stealing, Secret Voter-Purge Plan
As Donald Trump’s approval ratings hit historic lows, everyone is asking how he intends to win a re-election campaign. And before the 2020 presidential election, many political observers are wondering how the Republican Party can keep its majority in the House and Senate in the 2018 midterm elections. Will the GOP legislators distance themselves from…
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Let’s Try This Again: Yvette Simpson Runs for Mayor of Cincinnati; Will Black Voters Rally?
Cincinnati has never had a woman directly elected mayor. This city has never had an African-American woman elected mayor. This city has never had a black woman with even a chance of getting elected mayor. These sentences apply to way too many municipalities in America, and for far too long. There are dozens of American…