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Department of Education’s Twitter Account Just Quoted Some Man Named W.E.B. DeBois
One has to wonder if Betsy DeVos has taken over the Department of Education’s Twitter account, because someone just used a W.E.B. Du Bois quote but attributed it to some dude named W.E.B. DeBois. Now, before you go and blame an intern, nowadays most social media is actually run by full-time staff at government agencies.…
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Poor Betsy, Blocked From Entering a DC Public School
It’s safe to say that Betsy DeVos still hasn’t been inside a public school. ABC 7 News caught a glimpse of what happened when the new education secretary tried to enter a Washington, D.C., public school. Operative word here is “tried.” Brave protesters blocked DeVos, and she was quickly escorted back into her blacked-out SUV.…
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Here’s Why Maxwell (the R&B Singer, Not the Coffee) Is Trending
Looks like someone has something against Black History Month … well, at least that’s the consensus on Twitter. I’ll never know what Maxwell is actually talking about because he blocked me on Twitter earlier this summer after I questioned his “All Lives Matter” tweet. But here’s what everyone else is saying (and he apparently called…
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And Just Like That, Frederick Douglass Satire Account Deleted
Parody accounts are infamous on Twitter. From the fake Chris Rock to even characters from your favorite television shows, these accounts provide humor and, well, that’s pretty much it. But apparently, someone didn’t want to let a new Frederick Douglass satire account live. After Donald Trump’s ode to Douglass during his failed Black History Month…
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Wesley Snipes Isn’t Here for Trolling Trump Supporters
First there was Kirk Franklin with his Holy Ghost finger on the trigger ready to fire shots in the name of Jesus. And now Wesley Snipes is here to school people on “what you’re not gonna do.” Snipes posted several anti-Muslim-ban tweets early Tuesday evening, and of course there were those people who wanted to…
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Kirk Franklin Has Jesus and His Heater by His Side to Deal With Trolls
Kirk Franklin had social media in an uproar Saturday after he took on Twitter trolls who took issue with his anti-Muslim-ban tweets. “I am a Christian who would rather sit at the table with a Muslim brother than ban him from a home that wasn’t originally mine,” Franklin tweeted. Of course, it didn’t take the…
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Madeleine Albright Will Register as Muslim if Trump Implements Registry
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is not Muslim, but if President Trump continues his attacks against immigrants in the U.S. she’s prepared to register as one. “I was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian & found out later my family was Jewish. I stand ready to register as Muslim in #solidarity,” Albright tweeted The Hill reports.…
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Trump Sends Tough Tweet About Chicago Violence
The tweeter in chief is at it again, this time taking aim at Chicago. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump put Chicago on notice, tweeting: While it was unclear if the president meant the FBI, the CIA, the Drug Enforcement Administration or the National Guard, his tweet sounded really tough. My guess is that after he…
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Spy Chief Tries to Make Peace With Trump Over Russian Dossier
President-elect Donald Trump held his first press conference since winning the presidency, to less-than-stellar reviews. Trump was combative and elusive when questioned about Russia’s involvement in his bid to become president and compared the U.S. intelligence agencies to Nazis after unclassified information was leaked to the press. On Wednesday evening, James R. Clapper Jr., the…
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Trump Fires Off Series of Delusional Tweets, Calls UN Just a Fun Club
Donald Trump, the president-elect poised to take office in less than a month, believes that the United Nations is just a club for people to have a “good time.” After the U.N. Security Council voted to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, Trump tweeted Monday that the U.N. once had great…
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