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Republicans on Fox News and elsewhere are going wild after seeing Donald Trumpâs mugshot last week.
Jesse Watters, for instance, said on The Five that the quadruple-indicted former president looks âhardââwhile claiming that the image is already managing to endear him to Black voters.
Itâs an extremely offensive insinuation, The New Abnormal host Danielle Moodie says.
âApparently what they believe about Black people and Black culture is that all we do is identify with criminals and crooks, which, by the way, we donât!â she said on this weekâs episode.
âThe worst of those is the ones that have the Trump mugshot and MLK Jr.âs booking photos side-by-side,â she added. âI just look at that and Iâm like, âWell, OK, Iâm not sure what youâre trying to say here, because you would be all for Martin Luther King rotting in jail. Iâm not even sure what kind of comparison youâre trying to make here, but it just, it doesnât work.â
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Plus! Why Jacksonvilleâs vicious heckling of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was so satisfying, according to co-host Andy Levyâeven though itâs nowhere near enough to right the damage heâs been enacting, especially in the stateâs educational system.
Then, an interview with Ari Cohn, the free speech counsel at TechFreedom, about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill currently making its way through the Senate that would, in theory, block minors from seeing harmful content online. Except, thatâs not what it does in practice, Cohn says.
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