united states
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Prosecutors Say 20-Year Veteran of NYPD Attacked Cop at Capitol ‘Like a Junkyard Dog,’ Beat Him With Metal Pole
A former officer with the New York Police Department, whose duties once included guarding City Hall and the mayor’s residence, has been charged in what prosecutors describe as a rabid attack on a Capitol officer during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Thomas Webster, a 54-year-old man who spent 20 years with the NYPD before retiring, is…
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Pennsylvania Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill Members of Congress and Shoot Black People to ‘Keep Them in Line’
White people love racism so much they’re willing to throw away their freedoms in order to indulge in America’s favorite pastime. Case in point: a Pennsylvania man was arrested for making a series of violent threats against members of Congress and Black people. According to USA Today, 62-year-old Harry E. Miller has been charged with…
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Trump to Speak at White Freaknik, aka the Conservative Political Action Conference
The problem with Donald Trump is that white people, (I know, not all white people, but a lot of y’all) love him. They really believe that he is a messiah or a magician or a madman but they aren’t just enthralled by his antics, they are literally in lockstep with his bullshit. So because the…
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From No Power to Unaffordable Power: Texas Households Receive Electric Bills as High as $10,000 Due to Snowstorm
Texas is still recovering from the snowstorm that caused the state’s power grid to collapse and left millions without electricity during freezing weather. For days, millions of Texans lived without power, sufficient warmth, accessible roads or empathy from certain elected officials. (I’m looking at you Sen. Ted Cruz and former Colorado City Mayor Tim Boyd.)…
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After Going Virtual in 2020, Essence Festival Announces a 'Hybrid' Format for 2021
The Girls Trip must go on—primarily online. After a year of lockdowns, we could all use a getaway, and miss our yearly turn up sojourn to the world’s biggest, Blackest and most bodacious family reunion imaginable in New Orleans (more than half a million people over July 4th weekend, to be exact). However, an ongoing…
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Abortion Ban Signed by South Carolina Governor Immediately Triggers Lawsuit From Planned Parenthood
Men will never stop their crusade to tell a woman what she should do with her body. One needs only to look at South Carolina’s governor, who, on Thursday, signed a bill that would effectively ban abortion in the state. NBC News reports that Planned Parenthood immediately sued the state, preventing the ban from going…
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Democrats Introduce Sweeping Immigration Legislation, Offering 3 to 8 Year Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants
Congressional Democrats are moving forward with the campaign promise of overhauling America’s problematic and oft-maligned immigration system. On Thursday, Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-Pa.) introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, a measure that would provide the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. At least 619,000 undocumented Black…
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As Coronavirus Cases Drop, Elementary Schools in Los Angeles County Are Set to Return to In-Person Learning
As coronavirus cases slowly decline, elementary schools have received authorization to reopen in Los Angeles County. According to NBC News, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has said that case numbers are set to reach 25 for every 100,000 people, which is the threshold for elementary schools to be reopened. “This encouraging news…
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NAACP Sues Trump, Giuliani and Two White Nationalist Groups for Failed Jan. 6 Coup
The NAACP, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll figure if Republicans won’t let their ovaries hang and impeach the voice of the insurrection, then they will just have to sue his ass and his supporters’ untanned asses. So a lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning in the Federal…