Politics
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FBI Raids GOP and Tea Party Consulting Firm in Md. With Ties to Key Trump Advisers
Wearing plainclothes and bearing a search warrant Thursday morning, FBI agents raided GOP consulting firm Strategic Campaign Group in Annapolis, Md. The firm has close ties to two key Trump advisers: former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone. Dennis Whitfield, a senior adviser at Strategic Campaign Group, is also a…
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Anti-Muslim Crusader Picked for HUD Job in Trump Administration
The woman who has fueled Islamophobia, railed against the mythical encroachment of Shariah law and gone on national TV to disparage a 14-year-old student for having the gall to build a clock while being Muslim, has been hired by the Trump administration and noted dick stabber Ben Carson to work in the Department of Housing…
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A Conspiracy Theorist’s Guide to FBI Director James Comey’s Firing
President Vladimir TrumPutin and his Big Baller Brand-ass administration is like N.W.A when they dropped their first album. They’re brash, abrasive and in-your-face. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if TrumPutin, Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer, Steve “Big Poppa” Bannon and Jared “Got Dem Visas” Kushner just walked out of the Oval Office like this:…
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The Inherent Racism of Trumpcare: Blackness Is a Pre-Existing Condition
On Friday, 216 white people and Mia Love (R-Utah) voted to take away health insurance for 24 million Americans and replace it with a tax credit for the wealthy. Now 13 white males are working on a Senate version of the proposal. The repeal of Obamacare won’t simply affect the poor or the elderly—the secret…
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Sheila Jackson Lee Defends Obamacare on House Floor, GOP Congressman Calls Her ‘Hysterical’
Thursday morning, while we were all preparing to lose our health insurance, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stood on the House floor and gave the kind of speech that would have you nodding your head and saying “Amen” if you were in church. When she was done, Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) called her “hysterical.” Lee…
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Trump Just Made the Christian Right the Most Powerful Political Group in America
Many groups were afraid that Donald Trump’s newly signed executive order would be an attack on LGBT groups and other minorities whose lives and beliefs fall outside of traditional religious thinking. Even the ACLU exhaled when it saw the actual wording today. Although it has been lost in the butt-hurt wake of the fiasco that…
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Maxine Waters Says She’s Putting Her ‘Career on the Line’ to Resist Donald Trump
Baby, your Auntie Maxine is fed the eff up, and she’s not going to take it anymore. The Democratic representative from California says she is putting her “career on the line” to speak out against Donald Trump, and that’s more than what a lot of our passive-ass senators and representatives are willing to do. At…
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‘State of Black America’ Town Hall Lays Out a Plan for Surviving the Trump Era
Every year around this time, the National Urban League releases a “State of Black America” report, with its successes and challenges for the future. This year, under the Trump administration, the need for a cohesive plan is more urgent than ever. “I think we are in a state of disarray,” said CNN commentator Angela Rye…