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Impeachment Trial, Day 1: Senate Votes to Proceed With Trial, Rejecting Trump's Argument That It Was Unconstitutional
The first day of the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump provided his lawyers an opportunity to prove that the trial was unconstitutional and therefore should not proceed, an argument the Senate rejected in a mostly party line vote of 56 to 44. Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) delivered…
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Man Charged With Storming the Capitol Formerly Worked for the FBI and Held Top Secret Clearance
The more information that comes out about the Capitol riot, the clearer it becomes that it was attended by a lot of folks who really had no business being there. I mean no one had any business rioting at the Capitol, but a former FBI employee who held top secret security clearance really should’ve known…
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Donald Trump's Second Impeachment Trial, Explained
Today, the U.S. Senate will begin the impeachment trial to determine whether former President Donald Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection. This is the second time he has been impeached, the first time ever for a U.S. president. In 2019, he was impeached on two counts of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Continues to Push Conspiracies on Twitter, This Time About the Capitol Insurrection
Despite Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s halfway attempt at walking back her love of conspiracies theories last week—ahead of having her committee assignments in Congress taken away—the Republican fire-starter continues to show she’s still someone who doesn’t belong in government, period. On Tuesday, Greene took to Twitter—where her fellow profligate liar former President Trump has…
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University of Alabama Removes Name of Noted Segregationist George C. Wallace From Building
It’s weird that so many struggle to believe that America was built on racism when so many of our buildings and monuments are dedicated to people who fought to preserve institutional racism. A building at the University of Alabama at Birmingham named after George C. Wallace has been renamed because of Wallace’s historical support of…
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Students Protest Firing of Arkansas Teacher Who Called Lawmakers Out for Being Fragile AF Over 1619 Project Curriculum
A Rogers, Arkansas, educator has been fired for committing the egregious offense of…calling out Republicans from his state for being the fragile white nationalists that they absolutely are. Specifically, the now-former teacher from the Arkansas Arts Academy was terminated for sending a justifiably angry email to state lawmakers who have proposed a bill barring funding…
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GOP-Led States Still Mad About The 1619 Project, Considering Legislation to Dictate How Slavery Is Taught
It’s Thursday, so you know what that means: Another round of Republicans being unwilling to face the fact that slavery was the horrific, violent foundation upon which this country was built. In several states with GOP leadership, legislation is being considered to ensure that the brutal reality of slavery isn’t taught in schools. According to…
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Prosecutors Seek Arrest Warrant and Increased Bond for Kyle Rittenhouse After He Flips Off the Law, Again
The case of Kyle Rittenhouse is fascinating, not because it shows that white men have privilege under the law (because we already knew that), but because of just how many allowances this guy, charged with killing two people and wounding another, has been able to get. As I said recently, 2021 is showing that white…
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Capitol Insurrectionist Who Says She’d ‘Do It Again’ Asks Court to Let Her Vacation in Mexico
The first few weeks of 2021 have been a lesson in white privilege for anyone who’d still like to deny its existence in America. We saw a mass of domestic terrorists take over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, threatening to assassinate elected officials and even trampling to death some of their own fellow MAGA…