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A Florida high school administrator was fired this week over his use of medical marijuana, which was prescribed to treat both physical and psychiatric ailments. According to the Associated Press, the Marion County School Board voted 5-0 to terminate Mike Hickman, the former dean at Belleview High School. The school district learned about his marijuana use about a year […]
In a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from McGill University, York University, and the Indian Institute of Science Education detail the fascinating discoveries that have been made about one “lava planet” in particular. Named K2-141b, this exoplanet is about half the size of Earth, per NBC News. The exoplanet was initially […]
Paula White, a prosperity gospel hawker and so-called “spiritual adviser” to Trump, has careened into headlines this week thanks to a video featuring some startling nonsensicality centered around the 2020 presidential election. The clips in question, which are rife with memeable bullshittery, come from a recent livestream event during which White attempted to passionately pray (i.e. scream into […]
The family of Zekee Rayford, a Black 18-year-old from Texas who was physically harassed and repeatedly tased by members of the Schertz Police Department, is calling on two of the involved officers to be fired. Around 11:30 p.m. on Monday, according to a report from regional paper the San Antonio Express-News, Rayford was on his way […]
For the first time, more than 100,000 new COVID-19 infections have been reported in a single day in the U.S. The New York Times database shows the total number of newly reported infections on Wednesday was more than 107,800. Single-day records were also broken in multiple states including Nebraska, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, and Indiana. This […]
The City of Philadelphia shed more light on the death of Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by police less than two weeks ago. During a press conference Wednesday, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw identified the involved officers as Sean Matarazzo, 25, and Thomas Munz, 26. Officials also released audio a portion of the […]
Every glimmer of hope for labor in the US comes with a grim counterpoint. For every statewide increase in minimum wage, there apparently is an example of companies asking employees to dance for their supper. Video game retailer GameStop made that very close to literal this week when they asked stores around the country to […]
A Massachusetts State Police officer has been fired after allegedly firing off racial slurs during an off-duty confrontation, the New York Post reports. The incident occurred when the unidentified officer got into an exchange with a motorist. The race of neither the trooper nor the victim has been disclosed, but the department made it clear that it doesn’t […]
GAP came through with a master class in failing to read the room on Wednesday. In a tweet that has since been deleted, whoever was operating the brand’s account dropped a trite message about unity alongside a clip of a blue-and-red hoodie zipping itself up. The hoodie itself, fittingly, was an eyesore. “The one thing […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders quite accurately predicted how the 2020 election would quickly become poisoned by a deeply depressing false narrative built on continued attempts at disparaging wholly valid mail-in ballots. During an interview with Jimmy Fallon in October, as many have since revisited amid the ongoing Trump-centered fuckery of the election, Sanders explained that the […]
