Jeffrey Lord, CNN’s favorite Trump defender and “colorblind” ideologue, says Trump has never said anything racist. You have to give Donald Trump a small measure of credit: No matter what he says, no matter the reaches of its vulgarity, he has found a small army of opportunistic attack dogs …
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State legislature filed a measure calling for impeachment along with egregious bill allowing for “separate but equal” bathrooms for evangelicals claiming “religious liberty.” The GOP-dominated legislature in Oklahoma is taking extremism to a new level, filing a measure calling for President Barack Obama’s impeachment over his administration’s recommendations (which, …
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Obama’s directive and DOJ’s lawsuit against North Carolina seen as controversial To many, the debate over the “Bathroom Bill” – the North Carolina law known formally as HB2, mandating that transgender people use the restroom corresponding to their biologically assigned gender – is a nonissue, an inherent distraction from the …
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“Unfortunately, for seven and a half this years this animal we call president– because he’s an animal, OK?” Wow. Trumpism has officially gone wild. We first reported on Carlos Beruff – the affluent, combative real estate developer running for Florida’s Senate seat currently occupied by Marco Rubio – …
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President Obama announced on Wednesday that he will nominate Merrick B. Garland as the nation’s 113th justice, according to White House officials. Garland is a centrist Federal Appeals Court judge widely respected on both sides of the aisle. [email protected], @VP and @SCOTUSnom Garland. Obama says his pick is "uniquely prepared …
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Happy to repeat if you’re as flabbergasted as I am, but yes, you heard correctly: Prominent conservatives think Antonin Scalia – the Supreme Court Justice who has now been dead for nearly two weeks – should be allowed to vote on Supreme Court cases from beyond the grave. Hans Von …
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Today’s edition of the Washington Post contains an op-ed by President Obama outlining a series of executive actions on the use of solitary confinement in American federal prisons. Currently around 100,000 inmates are serving time in solitary confinement. The Justice Department’s research has found a high incidence of depression, withdrawal, exacerbated …
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Katrina Pierson, a top aid to Donald Trump known most notably for being even more absurd than Donald Trump, has yet again opened her mouth to spew her racist gibberish. This time, the rhetoric was in response to allegations she had previously made in 2012 about the illegitimacy of both …
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2015 was, by some definitions, a historic year for race relations in the United States. On one end of the spectrum, Black Lives Matter firmly established itself unequivocally as much more than a hashtag, but an organized and determined struggle to stop police terror and inequality. From the opposite side, …
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A Donald Trump supporter in Omaha, NE displaying a poster in his window on MLK Day that said ‘N****r Obama’ was confronted by an African American reporter, admitting the sign is ‘a little racist.’ Via Raw Story: WOWT reporter John Chapman interviewed Steve Bowman, a white man living in northeast Omaha, on …
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The US Supreme Court announced Tuesday morning that it would consider a legal challenge to President Obama’s Executive Action on immigration reform. The initiative, introduced roughly fourteen months ago, mandates the creation of a program intended to allow as many as five million illegal immigrants who are the parents of natural-born …
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In his final State Of The Union Speech, President Obama sought to close the final chapter of his historic presidency with many policy urges. In a second term that has come to define a progressive legacy not seen since LBJ, the President laid out an agenda that included many new …
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104 detainees remain with one year to go in Obama’s presidency. On Sunday White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough revealed in an interview that Obama is preparing a plan to submit to Congress to close down the U.S. detainment facility in Guantanamo Bay for good, a promise he made in his …
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