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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 measly $600 that was passed in December with the $1,400 he’s looking to get approved once in offi...

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 central to Howard’s conviction was discredited. Additionally, tests run on a knife and various oth...

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 when are we going to talk about white-on-white crime? Everyone knows that the Proud Boys and antifa a...

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 investigators found that he posted bigoted messages on a website for cops to air their grievances anonymously...

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 four years in office, was a huge disaster. It cost American taxpayers billions of dollars, was never ...