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    Mar 28

    “What’s your name?” “Eugene.” “That's kind of an older person's name.” “Yeah ... I'm name after my grandfather.” “Sooo who was HE named after?” “Actually he was named after the only white doctor in town that would see black patients.”

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  2. Kyler Murray, a Black Man, Was the Number One NFL Draft Pick. Trump Congratulated the Number Two Pick Instead

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    Apr 26

    DC is one of the few places in the country where gentrification is causing real displacement, especially in Capitol Hill, the Navy Yard, the Southwest Waterfront and parts of downtown. Via

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  4. In the U.S., people on the right end of the political spectrum (those who consider themselves somewhat or very conservative) are 42 percentage points more likely than those on the left to favor a larger role for religion in their country.

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    Some voting rights advocates said a discussion that is centered on voting rights for violent offenders, rather than voting rights for incarcerated people more generally, misses the point.

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    Apr 26

    "He's (Buttigieg) literally everything that the Christian right wants in a man, except that he's gay." , politics writer for talking with about her new article "Thank God for Pete Buttigieg, the Christian right's kryptonite."

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    Donald Trump + Lou Dobbs: “The 70-somethings share a penchant for schoolyard-style name-calling, grumbling about enemies seen and unseen, an apocalyptic view of illegal immigration and a deep embrace of hair-color shades not found in the natural world.”

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  8. “Our black bodies literally have less economic value than the body of a white person. As soon as a white body moves into the same space that I occupied, all of a sudden this place is more valuable.”

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    If you want to understand President Trump's hard-line policies and rhetoric, you have to understand (and watch) Lou Dobbs. He is the lodestar, the president's omnipresent id — more than Hannity, more than anyone.

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    Average presidential approval ratings through this point in term via ABC/Post and Gallup polling: Kennedy 73% W Bush 71% HW Bush 70% Johnson 69% Eisenhower 67% Nixon 58% Truman 56% Obama 55% Reagan 55% Carter 52% Clinton 51% Ford 47% Trump 38%

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  12. “The president seems to be arguing that there was nothing wrong with what he said in 2017, it was all a misunderstanding. But defending Lee and calling him a “great general” has its own racial issues.”

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  13. Trump says his ‘both sides’ comment was about Robert E. Lee supporters, not white nationalists. That’s not much better.

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    Apr 26

    In response to growing threats both from Russia and other adversaries, the F.B.I. recently moved nearly 40 agents and analysts to the counterintelligence division. w/

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    Apr 26

    61 percent of white women with a college degree disapprove of Trump. via

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    Apr 26

    A driver who plowed his car into a group of people on Tuesday did it because he thought they were Muslim, according to police

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    Apr 26

    Rodney Robinson (right), who teaches kids in juvenile detention as well as regular social studies classes, is America’s Teacher of the Year. But is breaking with decades of tradition and not meeting with Robinson. Why?

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    Apr 26

    Susan Bro, Mother of Heather Heyer: "I got a call from [Joe Biden] yesterday at 4:30 in the afternoon. That was the first time I had ever spoken to Joe Biden or any anybody related to his office or anything."

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  20. Apr 26

    “If Trump somehow bamboozles voters into giving him a second term, we will know that the worst fears of the Founders have been realized and our republic has been usurped by a lawless demagogue.”

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    Apr 26

    (•_•) General Robert E Lee <) )╯ / \ \(•_•) Fought for slavery ( (> / \ (•_•) and against America <) )> / \

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