wisconsin
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Idiot Teacher Asked 4th-Graders to ‘Give 3 Good Reasons for Slavery’
I think it was the esteemed Founding Father Benjamin Franklin who once wrote, “Nothing in this world can be said to be certain except death, taxes and white people white-peopleing.” I may have added the last part, but it is definitely true. What else could explain a teacher asking a fourth-grade class to give three…
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Gun-Wielding Drunk Charged With Hate Crime After Chasing, Shooting at Black Man While Yelling Slurs
A drunken thug from Green Bay, Wis., is facing hate crime charges after chasing a black man over the weekend while yelling slurs before ultimately discharging a firearm at the fleeing victim. According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, 24-year-old Taylor W. Hill was charged Monday with recklessly endangering safety using a dangerous weapon as a…
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The Supreme Court Case That Could End Political Gerrymandering for Good
The Supreme Court will hear arguments today on whether Wisconsin’s legislative maps are so extremely partisan that they are, in fact, unconstitutional. It’s a case that could fundamentally reshape the way politics is practiced in America. As The Nation reports, legal scholars and voting rights activists claim that in 2010, Wisconsin’s Republican Legislature sought to…
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Superior, Wis., Police Department Swears in 1st African-American Officer
We still have a long way to go if police departments across the country are still just beginning to swear in their first African-American officers. In Superior, Wis., that is just what was celebrated Thursday as, for the first time in the 133-year history of the city’s Police Department, an African-American recruit was hired the…
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Sean Duffy Has Been Trash Since The Real World: Boston, so Why Does CNN Keep Booking Him?
Long before there was a racist, practically brainless U.S. president whose previous greatest claim to fame was being the host of a reality show, there was Sean Duffy. For those of us who remember MTV’s The Real World before season 97 or whatever number they’re on now, Duffy was on season 5 of the legendary…
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Former Milwaukee Cop Charged With 1st-Degree Reckless Homicide in Fatal Shooting of Sylville Smith
Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm has charged former Police Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown with first-degree reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of Sylville Smith, a 23-year-old black man, the Associated Press reports. According to the newswire, Chisholm didn’t officially announce the charge, but it showed up in online court records that also showed that Heaggan-Brown made…
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Jill Stein Calls for Recounts in Mich., Wis. and Pa.—But Why Is She Leading the Charge and Not Hillary Clinton?
Throughout election night, the Clinton campaign comforted themselves with the belief that her “blue wall” would ultimately secure her presidential victory. Then, one by one, to the surprise of just about everyone in America, including the Trump campaign, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin all went red. These are states that not only were polling in Clinton’s…
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#Recount2016: Jill Stein Raises $3,000,000 for Vote Recount in 3 States Clinton Narrowly Lost
Perhaps that “blue wall” held after all. Or maybe the Defiance election-rigging plotline from Scandal has really come to life. In the last week, prominent computer scientists and election lawyers have been urging the Hillary Clinton campaign to challenge election results in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, three swing states that Donald Trump won, ceding him the…
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Milwaukee Officer Who Fatally Shot Sylville Smith Fired After Sex Assault Charge
The Milwaukee Police Department has fired the officer who fatally shot Sylville Smith, following an investigation into an unrelated sexual assault case, Time reports. Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown was terminated, effective Monday, after a Milwaukee Police Department Internal Affairs investigation into a criminal complaint filed against the officer. Last week, a man reported to Milwaukee police…
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Milwaukee Cop Who Fatally Shot Sylville Smith Is Now Facing Charges of Sexual Assault
The Milwaukee police officer who shot and killed Sylville Smith is now being accused of sexually assaulting a man in an incident that occurred just two days after the fatal shooting, CNN reports. According to a criminal complaint, Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown was watching TV coverage of the turbulent protests that followed Smith’s Aug. 13 death at a…