In September 2017, Dallas elementary school teacher Stacy Bailey was put on paid administrative leave for an unspecified reasons, just days after she inquired about adding LGBTQ-friendly language to her school district’s policies.
The Texas police officer who fatally shot 15-year-old Jordan Edwards has been charged with murder, nearly a week after the incident occurred.
On Saturday night, high schooler Jordan Edwards was leaving a party in a suburb of Dallas. Cops were just arriving at the scene after neighbors complained about “drunken young people”; Edwards was in a car that police originally stated was driven aggressively towards them. Officer Roy Oliver opened fire on the…
Chris Suprun is a paramedic from Dallas, Texas. A Republican member of the Electoral College, he has previously voiced his support for PEOTUS and poorly dressed meatball Donald Trump. In the last month, however, Suprun has changed his mind.
Okay jokers, listen up. Maybe you think dressing as a psychotic clown seems like jolly good fun. Maybe you see it as some larger commentary on the macabre absurdity of human existence. Maybe you didn’t have to sleep with the lights on for an entire summer after watching Stephen King’s It at a slumber party. I don’t…
The first female district attorney of Dallas, Texas has resigned, after two years in office that were plagued with controversy over her mental health struggles and what her critics called “erratic” behavior. Susan Hawk sought treatment and was hospitalized for long periods on three different occasions for depression;…
Police Chief David Brown was commended for his work with Black Lives Matter protestors this month, and the country mourned with him after five officers were killed by military vet Micah Xavier Johnson. Chief Brown had some words for protestors about what else he thought they could do for their city, and it seems like…
Donald Trump, an enlarged brick of spittle-flecked Crisco sliding headlong towards the White House, told the Associated Press a number of very stupid things in a Monday interview. Among them: Black Lives Matter is a “divisive” movement, and perhaps racist, because “all lives matter.” If black people feel unfairly…
On July 12th, President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush will join mourners at an interfaith memorial service in Dallas, Texas. Each will speak to honor the memories of the police officers killed last Thursday night.
Newt Gingrich, the villainous toad in the Disney movie of my nightmares, just said that white people don’t know what it’s like to be a black American and I am so destabilized that I can no longer be certain that my life isn’t a prolonged episode of the Truman show.
In a ghastly attack last night, a sniper in Dallas shot at police Thursday night, killing five and injuring six more. The attack came during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in downtown Dallas; a protester named Shetamia Taylor was also shot and wounded while reportedly protecting her children.
Three Dallas police officers and one DART transit official have been declared dead after being shot by two snipers during a Black Lives Matter protest over the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, who in turn were both killed by members of law enforcement earlier this week.
At least 30 people attending a conference Thursday night by motivational speaker Tony Robbins were badly burned after walking over hot coals. Everyone was stepping on hot rocks to “unleash the power within.” As sometimes happens, the power within got too hot and five people were hospitalized with burns to their feet…
For years, residents in a southern Dallas, an impoverished and neglected part of town, have complained about dangerous packs of stray and loose dogs roaming the streets. Now, a 52-year-old woman named Antoinette Brown has died from her injuries after being mauled by at least six of these dogs.
The recent spate of anti-LGBT bathroom bills across the country were built to solve a problem that doesn’t exist—that of sexual predators busting into ladies’ rooms by pretending to be women. It’s also creating a fun new problem by empowering ordinary folks to pretend as though they have a unique ability to gaze into…
The premiere of The Real Housewives of the Worst City In Texas was Monday night, and boy howdy did I enjoy every second of it. Though it’s too early for all the cast members’ dynamics to have been established, the season’s central rivalry was made abundantly clear.
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old arrested after his high school principal erroneously believed that his homemade clock was a bomb, continues to be the center of an ongoing legal battle between his suburban Dallas school district and the state of Texas. Earlier this month, the Texas attorney general ordered the school…
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Texas A&M University officials are expressing the requisite shock and disappointment after a group of white students reportedly yelled racial slurs at a group of black high school students visiting from Dallas’ Uplift Hampton Preparatory. A woman wearing Confederate flag earrings also reportedly approached two high…
Bobby Abtahi, a Dallas attorney who also serves as the vice-chair of the City Plan Commission, tweeted Monday that Virgin Airlines wouldn’t allow him to board a flight in New York. A crew member told him the captain didn’t feel “comfortable” with him on board. Abtahi, a Dallas native, is Iranian-American.
