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Feb 22, 2022

Donald Trump’s new social media platform Truth Social has been riddled with controversy since its inception and is continuing the trend as the app ‘launched' just yesterday. For how much complaining Trump and co. do about cancel culture, the platform has already banned a parody account that claimed it was founder Devin Nunes’ cow.
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The Young Turks: February 22, 2022

All three men who participated in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery were found guilty on all counts of committing federal hate crimes. Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan will now wait a few weeks in prison before they are sentenced.
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According to Axios, Democrats are trying everything in their power to avoid a disastrous 2022 midterm election cycle, where the party could lose their slim majority in both the House and the Senate.
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An Atlanta police officer was ordered to pay $1.5 million to a Black transgender woman who was falsely imprisoned for trafficking cocaine back in 2015. Ju’Zema Goldring claimed she was racially profiled and targeted based on her race and sexual orientation and was able to prove that in court since officer found no trace of cocaine anywhere in her purse even after spending almost six months in prison.
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The right-wing’s favorite media provocateur Candace Owens is calling for a U.S. invasion of Canada over PM Justin Trudeau’s response to the Freedom Convoy trucker protests. Owens accused Trudeau of becoming a tyrannical dictator for cracking down on the protests by invoking the country’s Emergencies Act.
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After formally recognizing the independence of the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin has authorized “peacekeeping” troops to move into the now separatist-controlled Donbas region. Although it is unclear if troops have already made their way to the cities, this is a clear act of aggression towards Ukraine and their western allies.
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Conservative Rep. Marjorie Greene was caught on camera trying her best to do an impression of a stand-up comic by mocking AOC for working as a bar tender before her political career took off. Not only is Marjorie Greene belittling the working class, she is also going against other attacks on AOC that paint her as an elitist politician.
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Oklahoma Democratic House candidate Abby Broyles is in a tough position as it was revealed that she drunkenly berated a group of teenager girls during a Valentine’s Day sleepover at a friend’s house.
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Finnish cross country skier Remi Lindholm was struck with a starling injury during the 30km freezing ski race at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Lindholm suffered from frostbite on the his penis, the second time it has happened in his career.
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The non-profit Mars Society is putting on a simulated Mars colonization camp to test and observe what future astronauts will have to deal with if humans want to someday colonize the planet. Located in the deserts of south-eastern Utah, the Mars Desert Research Station gathers strangers together in a small base camp to simulate what the colonization of Mars could look like and how humans can approach the effort.
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Donald Trump’s new social media platform Truth Social has been riddled with controversy since its inception and is continuing the trend as the app ‘launched' just yesterday. For how much complaining Trump and co. do about cancel culture, the platform has already banned a parody account that claimed it was founder Devin Nunes’ cow.
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After a gunman opened fire on a group protesting for justice for police brutality victim Amir Locke, killing a 60-year-old woman and injuring at least four others, the general public has discovered that he seems to be a far-right extremist. The shooter, Benjamin Jeffery Smith, is now being charged with murder while he is in critical condition in the hospital.
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New page: Donald Trump’s new social media platform Truth Social has been riddled with controversy since its inception and is continuing the trend as the app ‘launched' just yesterday. For how much complaining Trump and co. do about cancel culture, the platform has already banned a parody account that claimed it was founder Devin Nunes’ cow. - TYT.com