What Elizabeth Warren showcases as a sincere progressive Democratic candidate, is the many contradictions that exist within that party. This article was originally published by the Hood Communist By Erica Caines My earliest recollection of Elizabeth Warren, politically, was in 2012 when she ran in Massachusetts against the incumbent, Scott Brown. I recall the headlines...
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Abolish It All: A World Without Private Prisons is Still A World With Slaves
None of these candidates are committed to abolishing private prisons because each of them have investments in the very things that allow for prisons of any kind to exist. Bernie Sanders recently tweeted that he wants to end “private prisons and detention centers” in the united states. This has been a sentiment expressed by many...
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Muslim Americans Don’t Have The Privilege of Forgetting Bush’s Crimes
By sanitizing George W. Bush into a harmless old man with different political views, we dishonor the people who lived through or died by the injustices that he caused. CW: war, torture, death, racism, Islamophobia I envy those with the privilege to forget, to sanitize the horrors of the past. I can’t imagine the comfort...
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The Trump Administration Is Siding With Rapists
Trump’s plan to erase the Obama administration’s policies will support a system that will continue to inflict trauma and will perpetuate the informal legalization of rape. In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced that the Department of Education under President Donald Trump, would dismantle parts of Title IX, including policies...
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This Video of President Obama Singing Hotline Bling Is the Best Thing You’ll See Today
Be prepared to waste your day away watching this (very hypnotic) video of President Obama singing Drake’s Hotline Bling. The video was posted two days ago by baracksdubs (which has other awesome POTUS mashups on their YouTube Page), taking video footage of President Obama and turning into Drake’s hit. Hopefully, they won’t be doing mashups of...