Politics
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Rides for Deputy Rod Rosenstein After Members of GOP Call for His Impeachment
The GOP attacks on America’s freedoms is starting to look a lot like 50 Cent’s beef with Floyd Mayweather: I have no idea when it started, but it’s heartless and petty. On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced to publicly defend his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, after GOP Congressmen Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan introduced…
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Bernie Sanders Takes on Unjust Cash Bail System, but Still Doesn't Make Direct Connection to Institutional Racism
In a bold attempt to correct a major flaw in America’s criminal (in)justice system, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would end cash bail at the federal level and incentivize states that follow suit. Named the No Money Bail Act, the bill (pdf) would formally end the use of secured bonds in…
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White House Bans CNN Reporter From Event and Journalists Are Pissed, Including Fox News
The president of the United States doesn’t like to be questioned. Most dictators don’t. Unlike the president’s home away from home, Russia, where journalists who question Vladimir Putin come up missing, a CNN reporter was banned from an open press event for asking the president questions. On Wednesday, at the end of President Trump’s meeting…
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Has a $40 Million Yacht and Vandals Set It Free
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was reportedly holding a $40 million yacht hostage and some good samaritans set the yacht free. Fine, DeVos owns the yacht the $40 million yacht and vandals reportedly untied it from a northern Ohio marina where is was docked and it drifted out to sea. First off, Betsy DeVos has a…
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11 Republican Congressmen File Articles of Impeachment Against Rod Rosenstein, Proving That U.S. Democracy Is Indeed on Its Deathbed
Eleven House Republicans have taken their hypocritical, self-serving indignation to the floor once again, in a clear effort to try to get rid of the man who may make their leader’s presidency go bye-bye. On Wednesday, North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan filed articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod…
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Lucy McBath, One of the 'Mothers of the Movement,' Advances in Congressional Run in Georgia
Lucy McBath, mother of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who was gunned down by a violent white supremacist for playing music too loud in 2012, has advanced to become the Democratic candidate for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. Mother Jones reports that in May, McBath won 36 percent of the vote in a crowded Democratic primary, and on…
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Yep, That Soccer Ball That Vladimir Putin Gave to Trump Had a Transmitter Chip: Report
It was supposed to be a fun moment in the midst of a 2018 World Cup, which just happened to be in Russia, in which the Russian president (who just happens to be a brutal thug responsible for the deaths of those who oppose his regime, but let’s ignore that part because it ruins the…
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Sean 'Spicy Facts' Spicer Is Still Trash
We were rooting for you! (Tyra Banks voice.) Fine, none of us were rooting for former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, but the hope, I guess, is that once he left the horrid Trump administration he’d finally admit that he was a lying ass liar and that he’s changed his ways. Welp, that ain’t…