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It has not been a good week on the internet for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. As someone taking home five times the average American’s income, we figure she’ll be fine, but the rookie congressional representative from Georgia has been repeatedly called out this week over her history of fringe-right beliefs and advocacy of harmful conspiracy theories. […]
A disturbing video that has recently begun circulating on social media shows a Florida school resource officer slamming a female student to the ground. The clip appears to show a deputy throwing the student into the concrete walkway, later placing handcuffs on her as she appears to lay motionless on the ground. WKMG-TV reports that the […]
Criticism is stacking up in connection with 20-year-old Emanual Jackson, a participant in the violent Capitol riot earlier this month who’s now said to have been denied bail. Jackson, who is Black, turned himself in to the Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. on Jan. 18 and confirmed that he was seen in footage from the riot […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected republican representative, repeatedly endorsed calls to execute prominent Democratic politicians before taking office. According to reporting from CNN, Greene frequently used her Facebook to endorse threats of violence against Democrats in 2018 and 2019 as a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy, which falsely accuses politicians and celebrities of participating […]
It’s the photo that launched a thousand memes. While all eyes were set on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, photojournalist Brendan Smialowski captured an image so striking, so impactful, that social media users couldn’t help but welcome it into the meme hall of fame. Nearly a week later it seems like there isn’t a person […]
It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has and continues to devastate communities across the globe. Unemployment rates are up, thousands are facing pending evictions, and people are hungry. But to put a rubber stamp on this living hell, a new report from the U.N. confirms that we’re in the middle of the worst employment […]
A Black cheerleader attending Ottawa University says her coach kicked her off the squad following a racist rant about her hair. As reported by the Kansas City Star, Talyn Jefferson decided not to remove her bonnet during practice because she didn’t want to hit her teammates with her long braids. After refusing to remove her bonnet, […]
Rudy Giuliani is facing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, the electronic voting hardware and software company that manufactured the equipment used in the presidential election, the New York Times reports. Per CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Giuliani is being accused of peddling “demonstrably false” allegations that resulted in harassment and death threats for employees.” As Giuliani […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci has openly spoken about the death threats he received while working under the Trump administration, but now we’re learning how bad it got. In a new interview with The New York Times, Fauci said he received an envelope filled with an unknown powder. “[O]ne day I got a letter in the mail, I opened it up and […]
In today’s bit of unsurprising news, people who bragged openly about committing federal crimes continue to be arrested by federal agents. The latest Capital rioter to be taken into custody is 34-year-old Garrett Miller, who posted unmasked photos of himself inside the Capitol shortly after tweeting death threats at Congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NBC News […]
