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Apr 6, 2022

The Black Lives Matter movement is drawing a lot of justified criticism as activists have revealed the shady business practices of the movement’s leaders. Specifically, former executive director Patrisse Cullors came under fire last spring for buying four homes for a total of around $3 million, highlighting the wealth disparity between the movement’s leaders and on-the-ground activists and organizers.
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The Young Turks: April 06, 2022

CBS News Radio correspondent Steven Portnoy pressed White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on a potential international military response to Russia’s war crimes in Bucha and other Kyiv suburbs. Once Psaki got Portnoy to admit that he was calling for a military invasion, she responded by shutting down the call for direct military intervention and reiterated that it’s not in our best interest to do so.
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Senate Republicans are threatening to tank a $10 billion pandemic relief bill unless a vote is allowed to preserve Title 42, a Trump-era anti-immigration policy that the Biden administration is trying to end. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made the threats clear, saying that Republicans will need to make a deal with the Democrats about amendments to Title 42 in order to even consider voting on the coronavirus spending bill.
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Sacramento police have arrested three suspects potentially involved in the mass shooting that left six people dead. Police are reporting that the incident involved five total gunmen allegedly affiliated with local gangs and could involve even more arrests.
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The Black Lives Matter movement is drawing a lot of justified criticism as activists have revealed the shady business practices of the movement’s leaders. Specifically, former executive director Patrisse Cullors came under fire last spring for buying four homes for a total of around $3 million, highlighting the wealth disparity between the movement’s leaders and on-the-ground activists and organizers.
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After anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy was arrested for having the remains of five fetuses hidden away in her basement, Handy told police that she buried over 100 other fetuses stolen from a Washington D.C. clinic. In a recent press conference, Handy claimed that 115 fetuses were given a funeral mass and 110 were already buried in a private cemetery, with the five left being recovered by police during her arrest.
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In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court voted to reinstate a Trump-era pro-pollution amendment to the Clean Water Act, which limits states’ role in enforcing the Act. The Supreme Court made the decision without hearing oral arguments as well as not issuing any reasoning backing up their decision.
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Soon-departing Starbucks general counsel lawyer Rachel Gonzalez has been removed from her role as returning CEO Howard Schultz leads the charge against sweeping unionization efforts from workers across the nation. Just last year, Gonzalez raked in over $5 million from Starbucks to challenge unionization drives and will receive a further $8 million severance package from the company.
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During an interview with actor and filmmaker Sean Penn, Fox host Sean Hannity coined a new political doctrine, saying that if a world leader invades a sovereign nation, that leader has forfeited their right to live. Penn was visibly taken aback by Hannity’s openness in calling for Vladimir Putin to be killed but didn’t push back on the logic as harsh as he could have.
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The most recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience featured playwright and filmmaker David Mamet and Rogan talking about how much they hate California’s left-leaning social policies, at one point calling it an Orwellian State with 1984-esque practices. Mamet took his assault on “the Left” even further by calling it a “death cult” that believes that the Sun is killing them, taking a jab at climate change activists and environmentalists.
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A 60-yar-old German man has reportedly received around 90 COVID vaccine shots in order to sell fake vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers who refuse to get the shot. The man was caught by police after showing up at a vaccine clinic two days in a row with multiple blank vaccine cards.
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New page: The Black Lives Matter movement is drawing a lot of justified criticism as activists have revealed the shady business practices of the movement’s leaders. Specifically, former executive director Patrisse Cullors came under fire last spring for buying four homes for a total of around $3 million, highlighting the wealth disparity between the movement’s leaders and on-the-ground activists and organizers. - TYT.com