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CNN fires Kathy Griffin over offensive Trump photo - 0 views

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    Kathy Griffin will no longer appear with Anderson Cooper on New Year's Eve. A day after Griffin released a photograph holding a mock "decapitated" head of President Trump, CNN announced they have terminated their contract with the comic. "CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year's Eve program," the network tweeted on Wednesday afternoon.
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LeBron James' L.A. home vandalized with racial slur - 0 views

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    A West Los Angeles home owned by LeBron James was vandalized Wednesday morning at 6:44 a.m., Los Angeles Police Department officer Norma Eisenman confirmed to USA TODAY Sports. James was not present when the vandalism took place, Eisenman said.
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Comey to testify publicly about Trump confrontations - 0 views

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    Fired FBI director James Comey plans to testify publicly in the Senate as early as next week to confirm bombshell accusations that President Donald Trump pressured him to end his investigation into a top Trump aide's ties to Russia, a source close to the issue said Wednesday.
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Black Lives Matter movement to be awarded the 2017 Sydney peace price - 0 views

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    Black Lives Matter gaining support in the Trump era. Establishing it's self as a major movement that will not go away, even when it seems that the movement is not a priority on the presidents list.
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Thanks to Trump, Germany cant rely on the United States. What does that mean? - 0 views

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    Trumps election is heavily effecting our global relationships very early in presidency.
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My President is black - 2 views

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    Very Interesting read on the 44th President of the United States spoken from a African American perspective.
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The Age of Reaction - The New York Times - 0 views

  • Reactionaries, whether angry white Trumpians, European nationalists, radical Islamists or left-wing anti-globalists, are loud, self-confident and on the march.
  • share a similar mentality: There was once a golden age, when people knew their place and lived in harmony. But then that golden age was betrayed by the elites. “The betrayal of elites is the linchpin of every reactionary story,” Lilla writes.
  • Only the reactionaries have the wisdom to turn things back to the way they used to be, to “Make America Great Again.”
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  • Reactionaries are marked by a militant, apocalyptic mind-set, a crisis mentality. They are willing to take extreme, violent action to turn back the clock. In their narcissism, they think they alone understand the crisis and are in a position to reverse the trends.
  • for many groups, especially the less educated working class, life genuinely is worse than it was in the mid-60s. It’s no wonder such people buy Donald Trump’s paradise-lost narrative.
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