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Photo: Win McNamee (Getty Images) Now that the lawyer has gotten the “QAnon shaman’s” organic diet taken care of, he’s looking for the president who caused the insurrection on the Capitol last week to pardon his client. Advertisement In an interview with CNN, Albert Watkins said his client, Jacob Chansley, “felt like he was answering the call of our president” when he stormed the Capitol building wearing no shirt, carrying a spear and wearing bullhorns as a hat, with his face paint...

What bugs me is tRump has been/is acting exactly like the sociopath he is with every step he’s taken and every move he’s made! From calling for the execution of the Central Park 5 to the separation of children from their parents to the cavalier attitude when Puerto Rico was hit by natural disaster to the emergence of the lethality of Covid-19 - he not only doesn’t care about other humans, he ENJOYS inflicting pain! Of course he’d enjoy executing more people than anyone! Now, after the i...

A New Era for a Modern Museum: The Guggenheim Names Naomi Beckwith Its New Deputy Director and Chief Curator Photo: Nathan Keay for MCA Chicago, Heather Shimmin (Shutterstock) For 84 years, New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has represented the vanguard of modern art, an early champion of artists today, its nautilus shell-inspired structure houses artworks from generations of the world’s most visionary and experimental artists. Yet like many fine arts museums, for decades, the Guggenhe...

Prosecutors in Michigan announced on Thursday that former Governor Rick Snyder and several others will face charges for their role in the Flint water crisis.

The Roots Clapback Mailbag: Whitenotes Illustration: Oscar Bustamante Clapback MailbagEach Friday, we select the best (or worst) emails, tweets, DMs and comments from our readers and respond to them in the The Roots Clapback Mailbag. The Clapback Mailbag will often search through the emails, tweets, DMs and comments to find a common theme from our perturbed readers. Sometimes they are upset about one thing. Occasionally, we will receive a spate of responses that all have the same “whatabouti...

Damnit, Joe. Not like this. Joe Biden hasn’t even taken office and he’s already pulling some fuckshit. On Thursday, Biden unveiled his proposal for a relief package that would cost some $1.9 trillion to help the struggling economy during the coronavirus pandemic. Advertisement But it appears that Biden forgot about the $2,000 he promised Americans and now that the fine print is legible, it looks like Americans are only looking at $1,400. Apparently, Biden intended for Americans to count the...

Photo: Skyward Kick Productions (Shutterstock) A Black man in Mississippi who spent over 25 years on death row has been freed after key evidence used in his conviction was discredited. Advertisement According to the Associated Press, the now 67-year-old Eddie Lee Howard was convicted of capital murder multiple times in the 1992 stabbing death of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp. District Attorney Scott Colom has said that the murder charge against Howard was dropped after bite-mark testimony that was ...

Advertisement “I just want to know why she asked me to leave the property,” he continued. “Because I’m white? Because I’m white.” I never thought I’d be the one to say this, but: OH MY GOD, NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT RACE! Advertisement Maybe it’s about how he’s dressed—or that haircut. How do we know he isn’t buying supplies on his way to storm the U.S. Capitol building? When are white people going to stop playing the race card and take responsibility for themselves? And w...

Photo: BrandonKleinPhoto (Shutterstock) Stop me if you’ve heard this one: The head of the NYPD’s workplace discrimination office has been accused of being racist, misogynistic, homophobic and anti-Semitic. Advertisement Hilarious, right? I heard they also put a team of canine cops in charge of safeguarding New York’s Kibbles ‘n Bits supply. Seriously though, the head of the discrimination office has decided to retire following a 30-day suspension without pay, which came after investiga...

Photo: SAUL LOEB (Getty Images) The wall that no one wanted has become a metaphor for Trump’s time in office: an unfinished, expensive waste of time and energy that will be forgotten as soon as he leaves office. Advertisement On Tuesday, the president of people who shop at Big Lots will travel to Alamo, Texas, to gaze at his failure one last time, while the rest of America is still dealing with the fallout of a failed insurrection that he caused. The border wall, much like the president’s f...