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Throughout much of her life, and even now, 69 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is considered a larger-than-life Hollywood icon. And now, thanks to a new 26-foot-tall, 34,000 pound-memorial statue of the actress recently unveiled in Palm Springs, the actress is literally larger than life — but not everyone…
Indiana University business and economics professor Eric Rasmusen has come under fire for posting tweets labeled as racist, sexist and homophobic. Last week, Lauren Robel, the university’s executive vice president and provost, condemned his beliefs in a statement but said based on the First Amendment, the university would not fire him….
A photo of seven young white men wearing “Team Mitch” shirts and pretending to choke a cardboard cutout of Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surfaced on Twitter Monday. Mitch McConnell and the men faced backlash — including from Ocasio-Cortez herself. The photo was originally shared on Instagram with the caption, “break me…
St. Louis, Missouri police sergeant Heather Taylor did not hesitate to answer “yes” when CBS News reporter Jeff Pegues asked her if she believed there were white supremacists on the police force. Taylor’s answer comes after a damning exposé by the Plain View Project, a database of thousands of racist,…
Stephen Moore, one of President Donald Trump’s picks to serve on the Federal Reserve Board and a former campaign adviser for Trump, wrote a series of sexist articles in the early 2000s particularly demeaning women in sports. In one article, Moore wrote that women should be banned from refereeing, announcing…
Kevin Jackson, a Black Fox News contributor, was fired for his Twitter comments during the hearings about the women who accused Kavanaugh of assault and misconduct. “#ChristineBlaseyFord academic problems came from her PROMISCUITY!” he wrote on Twitter during the Senate appearance. “Dang girl stop opening your legs and OPEN A…
A record number of women are running for U.S. House of Representatives seats, along with women running at every level of public office. And they’re winning. Rachel Crooks, one winner in Ohio who also accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, told Elle magazine: “I want to be part of…
@911NoPlaner, or Ryan Rodrigues, who refuses to get his information from “fake news” mainstream media, found himself standing in front of the wrong Emma Gonzalez when he was on his quest to prove Parkland students were crisis actors. After searching blogs and Twitter, he showed up at her job with…
Trump knows exactly what he’s doing. After being told by the Mercers that he had to fire Bannon, he had to prove to his base that he is indeed the real king of Shithole Country. He did that by giving his base a little of the “he’s saying what we’re…
Only one candidate directly addressed the coalition of Black, Latino and white citizens who elected Barack Obama twice — Donald Trump. We are facing the choice between two flawed candidates, but one of them is a monster. Donald Trump exploited customers, contractors, business partners, wives and the man who was…
