The New York City Police Department is disbanding a 600-person plainclothes anti-crime unit in a move that a top official described Monday as the end of its controversial stop-and-frisk program. The unit, which has operated in every precinct in the city, was charged with proactively finding guns and taking them off the streets. Addressing a […]
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Beloved Children’s Cartoon Character Revealed To Be Gay
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he… and gay? A Pride Month tweet from the official Nickelodeon Twitter account has the internet believing SpongeBob SquarePants is not just a happy guy. “Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month,” the kids network tweeted out Saturday afternoon, along with rainbow-embossed […]
Supreme Court Protects LGBTQ Employees From Being Fired
The Supreme Court handed a big win to the LGBT community Monday, ruling in a 6-3 decision that an employer who fires a worker for being gay or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act — which already protected people from employer sex discrimination, as well as discrimination based on race, color, religion […]
Planned Parenthood Endorses Joe Biden For President
Planned Parenthood Action Fund endorsed Joe Biden for president Monday in hopes that he will roll back actions taken by the Trump administration against abortion rights. The endorsement, though unsurprising, comes after a primary in which Biden was pressed by those on the left over his long and varied history on the issue. “Joe Biden […]
NFL Star Players Say They Will Kneel This Season
Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield said this week that he “absolutely” plans to join kneeling protests against police brutality and racial inequality during the national anthem when the NFL season picks back up. Mayfield revealed his intentions to join kneeling protests for the coming season in an exchange with a social media user on Instagram […]
NFL Teams Consider Signing Colin Kaepenick
Dressed in a blue long-sleeve shirt and seated in the basement of his suburban home outside New York City, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell spoke in a subdued voice on camera and admitted that the league had poorly mishandled player activism. “We, the National Football League, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players […]
Trump In Poor Health?
President Trump struggled to lift a glass of water Saturday during his speech to U.S. Military Academy graduates at West Point. Trump started to lift the glass with his right hand but seemed unable to guide it all the way up to his lips. The president used his left hand to steady the glass and […]
Bolton’s Book To Claim Trump Committed Multiple Impeachable Offenses
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming memoir claims President Trump’s “transgressions” went well beyond the Ukraine saga that led to his impeachment and alleges that “reelection calculations” drove the president’s major decisions, according to a press release for the book. “This is the book Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read,” the press release […]
New Political Ad Compares Confederate Officers To Terrorists
VoteVets, a progressive veterans group, released a new ad Friday targeting President Trump’s refusal to support the renaming of Army bases named after Confederate officers, who it compared to foreign terrorist leaders. “We’d never name bases after America’s enemies, like Osama bin Laden,” the group tweeted along with the ad. “Why does Donald Trump so […]
Trump Will Not Change Names Of Military Bases Named After Confederates
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would “not even consider” renaming Army bases that honor Confederate leaders who fought to protect slavery and uphold white supremacy despite nationwide reckoning over racial discrimination in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. “The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these […]
Polls: Black Lives Matter Support Doubled Since 2016
Support in the U.S. for the Black Lives Matter movement has more than doubled since 2016, according to a poll released Thursday. Fifty-seven percent of American adults said they have a favorable opinion of Black Lives Matter, according to the Yahoo News/YouGov survey, compared to 27 percent who said the same in a similar poll […]
Nursing Homes Caught Stealing Resident’s Stimulus Checks
Nursing homes are coming under more scrutiny during the coronavirus pandemic, this time for complaints about efforts to confiscate coronavirus stimulus checks. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling on the Trump administration to ensure nursing homes and assisted living facilities aren’t improperly seizing the checks from residents following alerts from the Federal […]