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Citing Donald Trump’s well-documented history of misogyny and sexual abuse of women—including being adjudicated as a rapist—some of the country’s leading male figures…
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Until people start to go into the streets and protest, we’re not going to see the changes… If you don’t have the…
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Let’s review what happened 10 years ago, on December 14: A 20-year-old white Connecticut man murdered his mother, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary…
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