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We Watched Day 1 of the Impeachment Trial Because We Knew You Didn’t Want To
The first day of the impeachment trial was longer than the church service when you didn’t have breakfast. The first day of the impeachment trial was longer than the line at the DMV. The first day of the impeachment trial was so long (13 hours!) that we are sure you stopped watching, so we watched…
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Trump's Travel Ban Could Expand Into an Immigration Ban Under Proposed Policies
Tonight I bring to you yet another example of the current administration being nothing but a group of white supremacists. CNN reports that the Trump administration has drafted plans not only to renew its infamous travel ban but to expand it to include restricting immigration from seven more countries. If you recall, shortly after being…
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A Pilot and a Racist Trump Supporter All Wrapped in One: #MAGA Pilot Arrested for Racist Airport Graffiti
I mean…not that we needed yet another story tying Trump support to good-old-fashioned American racism, but we got one via a 53-year-old pilot for Endeavor Air, a regional subsidiary of Delta, in today’s “Yep, Water is Still Wet as Hell” news. James E. Dees, whose name was probably not intentionally made to sound eerily similar…
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A New Poll Highlights Black Americans' Growing Pessimism of Both Trump and the Country
To be black in America is to exist in a state of perpetual exhaustion and mild paranoia. If you thought you were alone in feeling that the current presidency has exacerbated that exhaustion, you are very much not. The Washington Post published a poll on Friday that surveyed black Americans. It showed that 65 percent…
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Trump Adds 2 of Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends to His Impeachment Defense Team
In what can only be called clown shit, President Trump will enter his Senate impeachment trial with former Bill Clinton special prosecutors Kenneth Starr and Robert Ray, plus retired Harvard constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz, as his attorneys. According to Politico, the three famous attorneys will serve as backups behind “White House counsel Pat Cipollone…
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Diamond and Silk Are Still a Thing and They're Still Ruining Madam C.J. Walker's Good Work
God doesn’t make mistakes, but people do. And sometimes those mistakes look like black aunties, who, in 2020 the year of our Lord Megan Thee Stallion, have the sensibilities of house negroes on dope. Anyway, because, much like cold sores and dentist appointments, they just won’t go away, Diamond and Silk did something or said…
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New Book Reveals Trump’s a Bigger, Dumber Asshole Than We Thought
When historians write about the 45th president, they will have to use photos and crayons or else the president himself won’t be able to read it. Because it turns out that the president of the United States, the man who 53 percent of white women voted into office, is about as smart as a second-grader…
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Lev-ing His Best Life: The 3 Biggest Takeaways From Lev Parnas’ Worldwide ‘Take Down the White House’ Tour
Turns out that Trump’s fixer Rudy Giuliani also had a fixer named Lev Parnas. Lev Parnas got caught up in some campaign finance fiasco in which he allegedly engaged in a scheme to funnel foreign cash to Republican candidates, which is illegal. And thank God he (allegedly) did. Because that act got him in trouble…
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Federal Watchdog Finds That Trump Broke the Law by Withholding Ukrainian Aid
Did you know that there is a federal watchdog group that holds the government accountable? I didn’t either. But apparently, the Government Accountability Office has put a ring (and by “ring,” I mean handcuffs) on it and made it official: Trump broke the law when he withheld congressionally-approved aid to Ukraine last year. According to…
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 7-Member Impeachment Hit Squad Includes Hakeem Jeffries and Val Demings
On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the seven House members who will prosecute President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, and while the usual names are there (we see you, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.)), we also see black members Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)…