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NBA All-Star Weekend Was a Love Letter to HBCUs
Where shall we begin? Yes, Team LeBron put the beats on Team Durant with a 170-150 victory during the 2021 NBA All-Star Game, but anyone who watched Sunday’s festivities knows the real winners were the HBCUs that the league put at the forefront. Prior to NBA All-Star Weekend, the NBA and National Basketball Players Association…
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Former Trump State Department Employee Arrested in Relation to Capitol Attack
Though Congress failed to hold Trump legally accountable for his role in fomenting the Jan. 6 Capitol debacle, connections to the former president keep showing up as federal investigations continue. A former State Department employee who was appointed to his post in the government by Trump was arrested on Thursday by the FBI on felony…
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Capitol Police Says Militia Planning March 4 Attack; General Says Pentagon Took 3 Hours to Approve National Guard to Subdue Insurrection
There’s still a lot being unpacked regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and it doesn’t help that white supremacist militia groups are apparently planning another attack in Washington, D.C., tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow. That’s according to a release issued by the U.S. Capitol Police on Wednesday, saying the department has received intelligence that a militia group…
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Mitch McConnell Says He'd 'Absolutely' Support Another Trump Presidency Despite Trump Calling Him a 'Political Hack'
That’s it: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell shall henceforth be known by the name Trump’s-Lil’-Bitch McConnell. That’s all you can call him after ex-President Donald Trump referred to McConnell as “a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack,” and the Kentucky senator and senior citizen Yertle the Turtle cosplayer responded by telling Fox Snooze’s Bret Baier,…
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Federal Judge in Texas Rules Government's COVID-Related Eviction Moratorium Is Unconstitutional
Sometimes it really feels like America is The Bad Place. On the heels of the depressing news that a long-overdue increase of the federal minimum wage to $15 will no longer be included in the COVID-19 relief bill currently in Congress comes a federal court ruling that will undoubtedly make life harder for Americans already…
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Alleged Capitol Rioter Identified After Ex-Girlfriend Shared Berating Texts Sent From the Capitol With the FBI
It’s been going on close to two months since the redneck Taliban attacked the U.S. Capitol building because the Republican mafia led them to believe the 2020 election had been stolen. But the FBI is still identifying and arresting people suspected of taking part in the whiney and wrong wypipo war on non-MAGA votes. A…
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Georgia Historical Markers Commemorating Jackie Robinson and Victims of Lynching Shot Up by Vandals
Proving once more they’re the biggest snowflakes of the bunch, a group of unknown vandals repeatedly shot two historical markers in Georgia dedicated to Jackie Robinson and victims of lynching. According to CNN, the signs were part of the Civil Rights Trail, a series of markers devoted to explaining how Black people overcame slavery, Jim…