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Hate Crime Charges for Woman Who Attacked Student With Her Own Hijab
NBC News reported Saturday that authorities in Portland, Oregon, have charged 23-year-old Jasmine Renee Campbell with multiple hate crimes for allegedly snatching the hijab from the head of a 24-year-old Saudi Arabian exchange student attending Portland State University on Nov. 12 at a transit stop, according to a statement by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s…
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Why You Always Lying?: Mike Pence Wrongly Ties Soleimani To 9/11
A thing that has always troubled me about conservative America is the propensity towards justifying US aggression against Islamic adversaries by taking the “a Muslim is a Muslim is a Muslim” approach. George W. Bush and his administration convinced most of the country that going to war in Iraq against Saddam Hussein was the right…
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Terry Gilliam Is Tired of White Men Being Blamed for Everything. I Blame White Men for This
These days I kind of hate that I love the movies 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas so much because…boooooy, did their creator turn out to be a living, breathing dumpster fire of non-biodegradable trash. Filmmaker and Monty Python member Terry Gilliam recently sat down for an interview with Alexandra Pollard of the…
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'I Feel Betrayed': Army Officer's Mother Gets Deported
On Thursday, US Army 2nd Lt. Gibram Cruz discovered a hard truth: that his country ain’t loyal. Cruz and his family had been trying for months to convince officials to let his mother, Rocio Rebollar Gomez, remain in the United States, but on Thursday he got a call from her, from the other side of…
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You're Losing All Your Friends, Trump: U.S. Allies Are Not OK With Iran Strike
After President Donald Trump’s decision to authorize the assassination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in the airstrike heard around the world late Thursday, US allies are warning against any further escalation of the conflict with Iran, Business Insider reports. It turns out that not only did Trump order the airstrike without congressional approval, but…
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More Republican Bigotry in Today's 'Water Is Wet' News
Ok, I need everyone to brace themselves. You’re going to want to sit down for this and make sure you’re not currently operating any heavy machinery or in the middle of fixing your edges just right. The news I’m about to break is both shocking and virtually unheard of: Republican leaders have recently been caught…
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Alex Jones to Pay $100k Legal Fees of Sandy Hook Victim He Slandered
Yesterday, CNN Business reported that conspiracy theorist and delusional blowhard Alex Jones and Free Speech Systems, the parent company of his website for fellow right-wing crazies InfoWars, has been ordered to pay around $100,000 in legal expenses related to a defamation lawsuit filed in April 2018 by Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was killed in…
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Racist Cop Who Kicked in Black Woman's Door Is Still a Cop: But Why Though?
You may remember reports of New York City police officer Michael J. Reynolds landing in Nashville, Tenn. in July 2018, according to court records. Reynolds was attending a 3-day bachelor party with six other men, two of whom were also identified as NYC officers. Reynolds was staying in an Airbnb, one door down from a…
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Bloomberg Plays Clueless When Questioned About Central Park 5
I’m thinking former New York City mayor and new presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg must not have gotten the memo that Democratic candidates are supposed to be wooing the black vote. Either that or he just forgot, apparently, along with his entire stance on his city’s handling of the Central Park Five. Because, on Monday, this…
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Here We Go Again: Buttigieg Getting Dragged for Saying Constitution Signers Didn't Know Slavery Was Bad
Once again, South Bend, Ind. mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg finds himself under the microscope and under fire for recently unearthed video of him saying something trash. You may remember that last month, The Root’s own Michael Harriot blasted Buttigieg over past comments about why black kids fail in school so often, saying, “Kids need…
