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Republican Jewish-space-laser kook Marjorie Taylor Greene offered up a nonsensical Holocaust analogy the other day, comparing vaccine passports to yellow stars worn by Jews during the Holocaust.

Republican Jewish-space-laser kook Marjorie Taylor Greene offered up a nonsensical Holocaust analogy the other day, comparing vaccine passports to yellow stars worn by Jews during the Holocaust. Though Greene has problems grasping historical context, she apparently possesses the ability to induce the entire left wing to pretend they are offended by dumb Nazi analogies. It’s a quick turnaround. The media spent four years acting like the 2017 inauguration was akin to von Hindenburg handing p...

Rolling Stone Menu The Rolling Stone Interview: Barry Jenkins The Oscar-winning director on his adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘The Underground Railroad,’ the beauty of black bodies, his unique path to Hollywood, and much more By Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel The Underground Railroad depicts both the savage reality of American slavery and the danger of escaping it. Much like Gulliver’s Travels, the story takes its fugitive protagonist,...

Republican state lawmaker was dragged for tweeting that the founders didn't intend for Washington, D.C. to obtain statehood.

44-year-old Edward Prince was accompanied by his attorney when he turned himself into the police Wednesday afternoon. Police say Prince was behind the wheel of a blue SUV that hit and killed 60-year-old Roberto Oquendo along the 3300 block of North 2nd Street last Wednesday night. Prince is being held on homicide by vehicle and related charges. Philadelphia police have identified a suspect wanted in connection to a deadly hit-and-run Wednesday in West Kensington. Authorities suspect that Prince...

By Tom King   The 1970’s was really the best decade for almost everything….music, tv-shows and movies, fast food…and political scandals. I bring this up to remind you of that night in 1974 when a stripper named Fanne Foxe brought down one of the most powerful men in DC by taking a 2am swim in the Tidal Basin…she died this week……let your mind drift back to when society really cared about stuff like this….   Here is the Washington Post obit for Fan...

And then there was Melania Trumps rearrangement of the Rose Garden last year, which Slate called "fit for an unchecked presidency" and "Versailles in miniature." One CNN political analyst accused her of cutting down "Jackie Kennedys trees."   "Melania dug up the WH Rose Garden, removing roses from every First Lady since 1913," Occupy Democrats alleged in a post that went viral. Several fact-checks shot down these ridiculous claims. But, as the saying goes, “a lie can travel halfway around t...

ThyBlackMan.com) “Anyone with decent vision can see from the parking-lot video of the shooting that the claim that Loehmann was able to repeatedly warn Tamir warrants incredulity. In less than two seconds, Garmback screeches to a halt in the cold mud, Loehmann pops out of the passenger door, and he fires the shot that eventually killed Tamir. He’d have had to be speaking like one of those speed readers dictating legal disclaimers on radio advertisements. However, despite that common-sense ...

By Marc Morial President and CEO National Urban League Published January 7, 2021 “Anyone with decent vision can see from the parking-lot video of the shooting that the claim that Loehmann was able to repeatedly warn Tamir warrants incredulity. In less than two seconds, Garmback screeches to a halt in the cold mud, Loehmann pops out of the passenger door, and he fires the shot that eventually killed Tamir. He’d have had to be speaking like one of those speed readers dictating legal disclaim...

NPR Originally published on December 11, 2020 1:10 pm NPR assembled a team of journalists in 2013 to plow new ground at the intersection of race and culture. In 2016, the Code Switch team launched a podcast. Last week, Apple named the show the podcast of 2020. Rightly so. Perhaps no other news team was better prepared to address all three of the years biggest stories: the fourth year of President Donald Trumps term in office, a global pandemic that disproportionately kills people of colo...