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Donald Trump is an American businessman, media personality, and politician who served as the 45th President of the United States from 2017-2021. Known for his real estate empire, reality TV show 'The Apprentice', and controversial political career, Trump remains one of the most polarizing figures in American politics.
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2017 hasn't been exactly kind to the Kardashian/ Jenner clan thus far. Though that might seem a strange thing to say about one of the world's most famous and influential families, the Kardashian/Jenner's have been on the receiving end of a not inconsiderable amount of negative press this year. Things…
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Why do we go on social media? That's the million dollar question these days. Whereas before, logging onto Facebook or Instagram used to be a relaxing detour into the online world, nowadays it's rife with stress at every twist and turn. Why, you ask? It can all be put down…
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Do you remember back in January, when Meryl Streep gave her heartfelt speech about how Trump is a bad person, and it stopped Trump dead in his tracks and Republicans stopped supporting him? Yeah, me neither. For whatever reason, celebrity endorsements seemed to go belly-up in America for the Trump-Hillary…
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Everyone is familiar with the concept of trick questions, but I also think there are trap questions. It's no secret that if you ask the wrong question, you will receive the wrong answer. So much of solving life's entangled chains of grace and karma is simply understanding which questions are…
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Jeff Bezos, the brain behind Amazon.com, owns top media companies like The Washington Post, top food companies like Whole Foods, and can sell you virtually any entertainment, from books to streaming television, that your heart desires. With tendrils in media, food and retail, Amazon resembles a grand sky-octopus suspended over…
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Caitlyn Jenner landed herself in some hot water on Saturday night after she was confronted by a trans woman over her continued support of Donald Trump despite his seemingly "anti-trans" stance. The reality star, 67, was attending the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles when she was confronted by an angry…
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It's only logical that prolific writer and wizard enthusiast J.K. Rowling would be fairly good at Twitter. But where she would usually have thousands of words to play with, here she has only 140 characters. Yet she has managed to master the medium and bring some level-headedness to the largely unregulated…
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Among the world's royal families, perhaps the Saudis are the most difficult to swallow. Last year, Saudi Arabia executed 150 people by beheading, many of them open for public viewing. The country's number of beheadings has swelled since 2014, around the same time that the nation opened a US-backed covert…
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In October of 2014, stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress made the joke that ultimately led to dozens of women coming forward and accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault. In a riff about Cosby's condescending demeanor, Buress mentioned: "Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so that takes you down a couple…
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There are few more instantly recognisable faces in the world than that of Emiem. The rapper from Detroit has become synonymous with modern culture through this dizzying array of acerbic verses and ingenious rhymes. Never one to shy away from polarising opinion and potenitally offensive subject matters of the course…
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It was perhaps the first ideological battle waged in the newly-christened Trump administration. Back in January 2017, it was the issue of the moment, the one everyone was hanging on - how big was his inauguration crowd? Trump and CNN competed for days, with then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer whipping out…
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Earlier this week, the world stood still, for a little while at least, to witness the solar eclipse. Whether you were watching along via the copious amounts live streams, participating in some sort of special eclipse activities or imitating President Trump and looking directly at the sun during the phenomenon;…
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President Donald Trump's administration has proved itself to be more divisive than ever in the aftermath of the Charlottesville protests. After asserting that "both sides" are to blame for the tragedy wherein three people were killed and 19 others injured, the 45th President of the United States has been lambasted…
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In the aftermath of the events at Charlottesville, it's clear that society needs to be paying closer attention to those who ascribe to the harmful ideology behind the far right. Organised by white supremacist groups, the Unite The Right rally was held on Saturday, August 12th to protest the removal…
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Today's eclipse provided remarkable insight into the lengths Donald Trump will go to prove fake news wrong. Don't look at the eclipse? Pffh. He'll gaze into the widening gyre, the circling drain of cosmic death, and he'll do it without silly glasses. Despite warnings from scientists, saying that the unnatural…
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Indigenous Americans have been a casualty of the machinations of history. Pundits like Christopher Hitchens have said that there is no going back, and lamenting the genocide of Native Americans is equivalent to asking for the undoing of Western civilization, and yet the wounds still run deep in modern indigenous…
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Donald Trump's controversial administration has further distanced itself from the hearts of the American people, after he stated that "both sides" are to blame for the tragedy that occurred at Charlottesville wherein three people were killed and 19 others were injured. Violent clashes broke out after a Unite The Right…
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It's remarkable that in 2017, calling out Nazis has become a controversial political stand. Everyone from Ted Cruz to Mitt Romney has come out denouncing Nazis in unambiguous terms, leaving only Donald Trump to remain obsessed with comparing Antifa to Nazi protestors. Of course, political violence leads nowhere. But we…
