Politics
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3 Reasons Keith Ellison Should Not Lead the Democratic Party
Real talk from one Ellison to another: This isn’t really the right time for U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) to chair the Democratic National Committee. That’s not to say Ellison doesn’t know what he’s doing. And it’s not saying he isn’t the on-the-ball tenacious champion of progressive causes we know him to be. But if…
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Introducing Trump's 2016 Alt-Right All-Star Hate Team
Following an intense election season in which even the preseason scrimmages were filled with intense excitement, the American political system finally crowned the most unlikely candidate as its 2016 electoral champion. As always, the winning side gets to choose its own all-star team, and after the new president-elect took his celebratory victory lap, Donald J.…
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Who Is Jeff Sessions? 11 Facts About Trump’s Pick for Attorney General
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Jeff Sessions, an Alabama senator with a questionably racist past, to be attorney general under his administration. Sessions met with Trump on Wednesday, and shortly after the meeting, the Trump transition team issued a statement saying, “The President-elect has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions and his phenomenal record as…
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Resisting Trump: Jeff Sessions’ Attorney General Nomination Will Be 1st Test for 2 Black Senators
On Thursday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) posted on Facebook a photo of Angela Davis and a quote: “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I’m changing the things I cannot accept.” The morning after the astounding election defeat for Democrats, Booker wrote, “This is not a time to curl up, give up…
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Ben Carson Knew When to End the Charade; Too Bad Tangerine Mussolini Didn't
There are many reasons not to serve in the Donald Trump administration. For starters, by the simple virtue of Tangerine Mussolini’s being grossly unqualified for the presidency, who could blame anyone for not wanting to serve under what will likely prove to be a disastrous commander in chief? However, when it comes to the likes…
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‘White Working Class’ Narrative Is Nothing but a Racist Dog Whistle
Here we are, eight days removed from President-elect, and corrupt businessman, Donald Trump grabbing the Electoral College “by the p—sy” and violating his way into the White House. And predictably, instead of focusing on the wealthy white supremacist, xenophobic and misogynist elements of society that rose from their dirty corners and corner offices to vote…
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What Pain Has to Teach in the Advent of a Trump Presidency
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.” —Audre Lorde I’ll never forget Valentine’s Day my sophomore year in high school. My social status had been uplifted from chubby black kid to chubby black kid who does sports. And with my freshly…
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The Wall and Deportation: For Latinos, Life Under Trump Brings Uncertainty and Fear
In Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, about a thousand middle and high school students took to the streets to protest President-elect Donald Trump, joining a movement that has swept more than a dozen cities across the nation since his election last week. In Los Angeles, young Latinos took to the streets, chanting, “I will not live…