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  • Sen. Tammy Duckworth Isn’t Here to Clap for ‘Cadet Bone Spurs’ 

    What you’re not going to do is tell Iraq War vet and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) what is and isn’t treason. The Black Hawk-helicopter pilot who lost both legs during her service took exception to President Donald Trump’s comments Monday that Democrats who didn’t clap for him during his State of the Union address…

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  • Parents Big Mad Over High School Math Teacher’s Drug-Referencing Homework

    One high school teacher in Illinois tried an unconventional way of getting students to care about math—drugs. The Roxana, Ill., teacher sent his students home with math homework with word problems centered on cocaine and how much money they might owe a theoretical dealer. Predictably, this created a stir among parents, as ABC affiliate ABC…

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  • ‘Un-American’ and ‘Treasonous’: Trump Is Really in His Feelings About Democrats Not Clapping During SOTU

    Welp, the president sure is in his feelings today. During a visit to a manufacturing plant in Cincinnati on Monday afternoon, NBC News reports, Trump called Democrats’ ice-cold reaction to his State of the Union address “un-American” and “treasonous.” Of course, if Trump had ever tuned in to one of these before, he’d know that…

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  • Yes, the MLK Estate Did Approve That Trash Dodge Super Bowl Ad

    Updated Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, at 1:40 p.m. EST: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S., which owns Ram, has made it all too clear that Martin Luther King Jr.’s estate was well aware of that Super Bowl ad and was “a very important part of the creative process every step of the way.” The statement was quoted…

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  • Eagles Fans Tear Down Property and Act a Fool After Super Bowl Win, but Police Show Restraint. Amazing

    Philly, this is why you don’t get nice things. The city celebrated its first Super Bowl victory (I mean, congratulations) and gifted us with the image of forlorn New England Patriot Tom Brady sitting on the football field, fresh off of fumbling the damn ball (and we are ever grateful). Both of these things—but especially…

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  • Move Over, Lois Lane! Hit Comic Features Black, Bisexual Tabloid Reporter

    First in Series ‘Sold Out on Day One’ Trump Vents With Reporters Before SOTU Smiley Begins Five-City Tour on Harassment New Mexico Keeps Prisoners Past Release Date Other Cities Eye Cleveland Decision on Wahoo Simeon Booker Has Company as Newspaper Pioneer Mogul Says Arise Network Has Beaten Despair Jacquie Jones Dies at 52, Led Black…

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  • The Nerve: In This Will Be My Undoing, Debut Author Morgan Jerkins Isn’t Afraid to Go There

    If you haven’t heard Morgan Jerkins’ name yet or seen her work, chances are you will soon. Her debut collection of personal essays, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, won over Roxane Gay, who lauds Jerkins as a “deft cartographer of black girlhood and…

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  • ‘See How It Feels to Be a Slave?’: NYC Teacher Steps on Student’s Back to Simulate Horrors of Slavery

    For the students at Middle School 118 in New York City’s Bronx borough, it was an immersive lesson gone way too far. Teacher Patricia Cummings is catching heat from students and parents after a social studies lesson she delivered about the Middle Passage—one that involved her stepping on her students’ backs. The New York Daily…

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  • A Clean Slate: San Francisco to Toss Out Thousands of Marijuana Convictions

    In an unprecedented move, the city of San Francisco will throw out thousands of marijuana convictions going back decades. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday that city prosecutors will retroactively apply California’s marijuana-legalization laws to past criminal cases dating all the way back to 1975. With no…

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