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A 54-year-old New Jersey woman had her left tibia fractured on Wednesday after a fellow Staples customer threw her to the ground because she had been asked to wear her mask correctly. The incident is just the latest in an ever-growing list of ridiculous (sometimes violent) shit that has resulted from people taking our current face-covering culture war to […]
One of the country’s most notorious white supremacists is finally banned from Twitter. The company decided to permanently suspend former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke on Thursday, after he violated its hateful conduct policy multiple times. “The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful […]
Contrary to early beliefs, young people are not immune to contracting and transmitting COVID-19. After one Georgia summer camp sent a sick counselor home, the CDC was able to track more than 250 positive cases among the camp’s staff and campers. A new research paper released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows just […]
Prosecutor Wesley Bell said on Thursday that his office will not bring charges against Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson in 2014. Following requests from Brown’s family and continued national attention on the case, Bell’s St. Louis office had quietly reopened an investigation about five months ago, per […]
At the funeral for late civil rights leader John Lewis , Barack Obama voiced his support for voting reform ahead of the 2020 elections. During his speech, Obama spoke highly of the work Lewis accomplished during his lifetime. He called for making Election Day a national holiday, restoring voting rights to former prison inmates, automatically registering […]
Those unsolicited seed packages you may or may not have seen popping up on the timeline, and/or in your mailbox, have now resulted in warning messages being issued in all 50 states. CNN has compiled the warning messages from each state here, noting that officials in the U.S. are stating that the packages “appear” to originate from […]
This week a jump in reported COVID-19 related deaths, thanks to new data, revealed the severity of Texas’ crisis as one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots. That data also illustrated the wide discrepancy in deaths by race, with Hispanic residents disproportionately representing 47 percent of the state’s fatalities. Hispanic Texans make up only 40 percent of the overall […]
Donald Trump made another desperate attempt to win back suburban voters. And the classist, racist undertones couldn’t be ignored. On Wednesday, the president returned to Twitter to celebrate the repeal of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing law—an Obama-era regulation that aimed to combat racial discrimination. Trump told suburbanites that his decision to rescind the rule meant […]
A gathering in Texas hosted by a self-described COVID-19 denier resulted in 14 family members testing positive for the virus. Since the gathering, one family member has died and another is currently on life support. As NBC reports, this story comes directly from Tony Green, who shared his family’s tragedy in a column published by […]
Back in May, Black Lives Matter protests received criticism from conservative politicians and the media for allegedly inciting violence that resulted in property damage. While there are arguments to be made about why people are more important than property, in response to the criticism many social media users began pointing out that those instigating the […]
