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I Played Grand Theft Auto V Nightly for 3 Years. Here’s a List of Things I Never Did as a Result
In trying to shift the blame of white domestic terrorism from the actual white people committing it and the “president” who champions and enables it, there has been a lot of talk about the dangers of video games. Listen. I played one of the most violent video games, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V online, nightly…
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Chicago Police Have Been Compiling Dossiers on People Who Speak at Police Board Meetings
Why would the Chicago Police Department be running background checks on people who sign up to speak at public meetings of the city’s police disciplinary panel? That is what many people want to know after a public records request conducted by the Chicago Tribune revealed that since January 2018, CPD has collected information on at…
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Kamala Harris Is Seeking to Decriminalize Cannabis at the Federal Level
Although 35 states in the union plus the District of Columbia have either legalized, decriminalized or made cannabis accessible for medicinal purposes, it is still illegal at the federal level. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is seeking to change that by introducing a bill that would decriminalize the possession of cannabis overall. As Vox reports, the…
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Trump Administration Seeks to Literally Take Food Out of Poor People’s Mouths
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 36 million Americans were receiving an average of $121 monthly in food stamps as of April of this year. If the Trump administration has its way, that number will be cut by at least 3 million when proposed new regulations are released on Tuesday. Bloomberg reports that the…
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Whodunit? As Feds Scan DMV Records Using Facial Recognition Software and More Cities Use the Technology, Racial Bias Could Be a Problem
When you go to your local DMV office and stand in front of the camera to take as decent a photo as possible, you probably aren’t thinking about the possibility that said photo will come up in a facial-recognition search used by government agencies. If this is a concern you never had before, you should…
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Cyntoia Brown Documentary in the Works at Netflix
Cyntoia Brown was just 16 years old in 2004 when she was arrested and charged with the murder of 43-year-old Johnny Allen. She was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison. In January 2019, former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted Brown clemency and commuted her sentence. Brown, who is now 30, will…
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Study Shows Adults Who Can Legally Obtain Cannabis Use It as Substitute for Opioids and Other Prescription Drugs
A recent study has found that adults with access to legal cannabis not only use it to help with pain and trouble sleeping, but they often use it as a substitute for prescription medication, including opioids. According to researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and the University of Miami, medical…
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Iranian President Says White House Is ‘Afflicted by Mental Retardation’ as Trump Announces Sanctions
The Trump presidency has definitely lowered the bar as far as expectations when it comes to our world leaders and the person sitting in our country’s highest office. Trump alone has managed to destroy the notion that the president of the United States is knowledgeable about the world—including knowing the names of leaders of the…
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The War on Women
The Trump administration is waging a war on women. For too long, women’s voices have been dismissed when it comes to our reproductive freedom and we must fight back. Reproductive justice has been one of my top priorities for decades, from when I first began my journey on the Hill as a staffer to now…
