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Source: ANNABELLE GORDON / Getty Back in January, Florida Rep. Neal Dunn announced his retirement from Congress after serving five terms. While rumors may have floated around regarding the 73-year-old’s declining health, Dunn had not addressed those rumors or talked about any illnesses he might be suffering from, nor had he spoken at all about why he chose not to seek re-election, apart from wanting to spend time with his grandchildren. But […]

Source: ione nicole thomas / IONE, VIA NICOLE THOMAS If you want the real tea on what has the culture talking, you already know where to go. On the latest episode of the Trip After Dark podcast, DJ Misses brought the heat during her signature “Trending on the Timeline” segment. We are diving deep into a week that gave us major moments of Black excellence, historic wins, and some exciting […]

Kiki Shepard, who served as the co-host of the popular Showtime At The Apollo, has died. According to her rep, Kiki Shepard suffered a heart attack while in Los Angeles on Monday (March 16). TMZ broke the news and obtained details from Kiki Shepard’s rep that the longtime dancer, actress, and co-host suffered a massive heart attack, adding that the loss was unexpected. Shepard was born Chiquita Renee Shepard in […]

Source: halbergman / Getty I was today years old when I found out the state of Washington has no income tax whatsoever. As you can imagine, that doesn’t help when it’s trying to balance the budget. In an effort to manage the state’s growing deficit, the state legislature has passed a bill imposing what’s been labeled a “millionaire tax” on high earners.  According to KUOW, the 51-46 vote came after […]

Source: Scott Olson / Getty Not that we needed any more evidence that the Trump administration is overseeing the most woefully incompetent federal government in recent history — it appears to be launching supposedly accidental missile strikes on Iranian elementary children, after all — but deadly tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Plains last weekend, and state and local search-and-rescue crews struggled to do their jobs because the Department of Homeland Security […]

Source: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / Getty Under the MAGA regime, we are officially charging U.S. citizens with crimes based on right-wing delusion. Antifa is still a loose ideology, not an organization, but that hasn’t stopped propaganda-inspired prosecutors from arguing that nine protesters accused of engaging in an “ambush” attack on a North Texas ICE detention facility are part of an Antifa terrorist cell while providing no unambiguous evidence that the defendants even […]

Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty A few months ago, you couldn’t turn on cable news or scroll through social media without hearing about an alleged humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in South Africa. According to the story pushed by Donald Trump and amplified across right-wing media, white farmers were being hunted down, civilization was collapsing, and the country had become the epicenter of a racial bloodbath dubbed “white genocide.” The situation was […]

Source: NurPhoto / Getty The Trump administration has scaled back its aggressive and often cruel and inhumane mass deportation crackdown, likely due to public backlash and mounting lawsuits, and, as a result, ICE arrests are in decline, as are due process petitions launched by ICE detainees. Also, water is wet, the sky is blue and MAGA is a direct reflection of adult literacy rates in the U.S. (Whatever, you know […]

Source: Anadolu / Getty “They got money for war, but can’t feed the poor.” – Tupac Shakur According to the Pentagon, the first week of the war against Iran that President Donald Trump involved the U.S. in voluntarily, not out of any discernible necessity, has cost the nation upwards of $11 billion. The New York Times reported that Pentagon officials revealed the estimated price tag for the first six days […]