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A slew of nasty text messages were sent to unsuspecting voters’ phones yesterday, criticizing President Obama with anti-gay and largely false attacks. But is this shady, underhanded kind of campaigning even effective?

    Five deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department are under investigation for allegedly sending racist text messages while on duty. Sheriff Phil Plummer said two of the five deputies — Sheriff’s Capt. Thomas J. Flanders and Detective Michael J. Sollenberger, had been placed on indefinite paid administrative leave as of Dec. 1. 

The attorney for Richie Incognito has released text messages exchanged between his client and Jonathan Martin that show the players talking as though they were friends. The offensive lineman was suspended from the Miami Dolphins after Martin walked away from the squad due to allegations of bullying. CBS news was provided with 40 pages of […]

Parents of the Coatesville Area School District are demanding that two top administrators be fired after racist texts have surfaced. In a series of texts messages, Superintendent Richard Como and high school athletic director Jim Donato referred to students and faculty with the n-word. The two officials also used demeaning language to describe Jewish people, women and other minorities in the exchange of more than a dozen messages.

At a hearing this morning, judge Debra Nelson has ruled that discussion of Martin’s alleged drug use and fighting will not be admissible in court.

A Black high school student is suing her school district for being prevented from performing with her dance team because she is “too dark.”

According to a report from Reuters, the United States government is attempting to force Facebook to decrypt its Messenger application when individuals are under a criminal probe so that they can listen to the suspect’s voice conversations in search of illegal activity. This brings forth the issue of whether or not companies can be forced […]

Dyne Suh was on her way up to a cabin in Big Bear, California when the owner decided to refuse the accommodation. Why? Because she refused to rent to “foreigners” and this is “why we have Trump.”

Apparently, Black Lives Matter groups have even more to be concerned about when it comes to police authorties. The Guardian reports that New York Police Department officers went undercover to infiltrate small groups of Black Lives Matter activists. The department was then able to gain access to private text messages and offer the locations of […]

San Francisco’s police department has been going through what could be generously referred to as a rough patch. It fell under harsh criticism in 2015 after Mario Woods was shot 2o times while holding a knife and continued into 2016 as it went through multiple police chiefs following the exposure of multiple scandals – one […]

Due to the importance of transparency in government work, it is essential that we talk about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and the new emails that might surface from this investigation. What I should say about them, however, is unclear, as these new emails may not have anything at all to do […]

It wasn’t really a secret that San Francisco’s police department suffered from the same racial issues that many stations across the country are plagued with. In fact, the are currently managing a scandal that involved multiple officers sending racist text messages. To confirm that these racial undertones affect the department’s police work, the Department of […]