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Judge of Characters: White Gloves and Whiter Lies
This week I learned that Donald Trump Jr. earned his name fair and square and tweets just like his daddy! And it’s a good thing I learned that when my special guest, political strategist and #WokeBae Angela Rye, joined me on Judge of Characters, because how else would I have been able to unpack his…
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Donald Trump Jr. Releases Collusion Emails, Goes Full Fredo Corleone
Can’t you just see it now: Jared Kushner throws a posh party this weekend, where he walks up to Donald Trump Jr., gives him a big, angry kiss and whispers, “I knew it was you, Don. You broke my heart … YOU BROKE MY HEART!!!” There has been a long-running debate among political observers as…
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Where’s the Lie in Damon Wayans Jr.’s Tweet?
It seems as though you can’t even joke about the Fourth of July and its racist Founding Fathers without people saying things like, “You should be appreciative that you’re here in the U.S.,” and Damon Wayans Jr. found that out really quick. The actor posted a tweet on the Fourth that got a few people’s…
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We Need to Talk About Eric Holder’s Ominous 3 a.m. Tweet
Umm, I have so many questions—like, what was former Attorney General Eric Holder doing awake at 3 a.m.? And what was he doing on Twitter? Is he always on late-night Twitter, where things have been known to get a little raunchy? Was he sliding into someone’s DMs? No judgment. Holder doesn’t tweet often, but early…
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Morning Joe Co-Host Mika Brzezinski Claps Back at Trump’s Mean Tweet
One of the two is paid to talk politics, and the other is an Orange Ass Clown. The two don’t like each other very much, except that one of them isn’t supposed to be talking about the other on social media because he’s the leader of the free world—except when that leader paints his skin…
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Ezra Klein Just Sent the Whitest Tweet Ever
Early Wednesday morning, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was wounded when a gunman In Alexandria, Va., opened fire on a congressional baseball practice. It turns out the shooter, who was shot and killed during the incident, was James T. Hodgkinson, a person who had previously expressed anger toward the president and the political system—calling Donald…
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It’s Not the Blacks, Tinashe, It’s You
When your name is “Tinashe,” black folks don’t need Scooby Doo or a member of the Mystery Machine to guess that race. Yet the singer-songwriter-dancer is arguing that the lot of us don’t completely embrace her, a mixed-race woman, even though she considers herself to be a black woman. It was one of the more…
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President Twitter Fingas Is Back Like He Never Left
Well, you knew Ol’ Donnie Boy wasn’t going to stay off Twitter forever. It took the president of white nationalism only a day to tweet his thoughts about former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony. I will admit that this was an unusually short Twitter tirade, but it covered the usual tone-deaf bases that we’ve come…
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Comedian Jay Mohr Likes the N-Word, Too
Bill Maher isn’t the only white comedian who thinks it’s funny to throw around the n-word. Just take a look at a few recent tweets from that guy who used to be in movies, Jay Mohr. Earlier this week, Mohr had some interesting reactions to an old video of rapper Boosie BadAzz talking about the…
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