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Trump blames ‘Radical Democrats’ for SNAP cuts, posts Sen. Schumer’s phone number online

With government food assistance set to lapse Saturday, President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform late Thursday night to blame Democrats for the disruption and to post Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office phone number. In the post, Trump said government lawyers determined that his administration does not have the legal authority to use available funds to pay out Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits during the ongoing government shutdown. Despite Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and […]

November 1, 2025 1

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‘Political violence is inexcusable’: MLK’s son calls for unity after Charlie Kirk shooting sparks heated online discourse

The shooting of Charlie Kirk has further emphasized the bipartisan reality of America today. As social media timelines are split with people grieving a tragic shooting and others highlighting the irony of Kirk—who was an advocate of the right to bear arms—being a fatal victim of gun violence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s son, Martin Luther King III, took to social media to share his thoughts on the discourse the incident has sparked. “Violence, no matter the target or justification, is […]

September 13, 2025 1

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Trump’s health becomes major focus, sparking online conspiracy theories. Some point out the Biden irony

After a week of limited public sightings and interaction with the press, conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump‘s health—and potential demise—permeated online, particularly among liberal corners of the internet. The chatter about the president’s rumored declining health got so loud that Trump, who appeared before the press in the Oval Office on Tuesday to announce a new U.S. Space Command headquarters in Alabama, responded to the hearsay on Truth Social over the Labor Day weekend, writing, “NEVER FELT BETTER IN […]

September 2, 2025

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An online debate over foreign workers in tech shows tensions in Trump’s political coalition

An online spat between factions of Donald Trump‘s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump’s movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump’s Make […]

December 27, 2024 1

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How rapper Plies became one of the most influential online voices of the 2024 election

When rapper Plies turns his phone on in his car and hits record, it isn’t to talk about his teeth or dating. Instead, the Florida-born star is dropping insights even some of the best of the nation’s top political strategists and pundits can’t articulate with as much precision. “America wants Kamala Harris to explain, and it wants Donald J. Trump to entertain,” Plies preached from his car in an IG post from earlier this summer. “[Harris] — everything come out your […]

October 15, 2024

News

Several Mark Robinson campaign staffers quit as fallout over online posts continues

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several top staffers in North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor have quit their posts, marking more fallout from a CNN report outlining evidence that he made disturbing posts on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago. The campaign said in a news release Sunday that senior adviser Conrad Pogorzelski III, campaign manager Chris Rodriguez, the campaign’s finance director and the deputy campaign manager “have stepped down from their roles with the […]

September 23, 2024

Economy

Black Family Launches New Online Business Focusing on Personal Development

Amidst the backdrop of pursuing the American dream, the Ayeni family has embarked on a transformative journey, launching a new online business centered around personal development. Originating from Nigeria in the early 2000s, Sam Ayeni arrived in the United States with aspirations of achieving success and creating a better life for himself and his loved ones.Driven by a strong work ethic and a desire to support his family back home in Africa, Ayeni worked tirelessly to obtain a college degree […]

May 10, 2024