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Wednesday, multiple politicians were injured in a shooting at a Congressional Baseball practice. As expected, the tragedy sparked a heated debate on gun control. Elsewhere, top Michigan officials have been charged with involuntary manslaughter due to Flint's ongoing water crisis. Meanwhile, Steve Harvey made an unnecessary and tasteless joke about the city's plight. Reel it in Steve. REEL. IT. IN.

Philadelphia recently changed the design of the iconic Pride flag to further recognize LGBTQ people of color. Unfortunately, not everyone was a fan. Remember that debate surrounding Tinashe and colorism? The singer has added a little more context.

Society is all kind of fucked up… This one man supposedly drugged over 100 women to have sex with them, but while the women just stepping up to the plate to sue or to get justice?  From what my daddy says, drug and insects were hand-in-hand back in that day… But what do I know, my daddy was a pimp so the story goes and my mother ran the pad where my daddy macked the hoes. I'm just saying...

The world is scorn and I don't know what the hell is going on. Your president is whack in my president was black. This guy goes on a tirade and is always ready to attack. Peace, something that is not in his vocabulary. A freak of nature by any means and I bet his palms are hairy

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Trump, to impeach or not to impeach. Why Do Republicans bother lying?

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked news reports based on unidentified sources as phony and dismissed leaks from the White House as "fake news," following reports his son-in-law tried to set up a secret channel of communications with Moscow before Trump took office.

Trump returned to the White House after a nine-day trip to the Middle East and Europe that ended on Saturday to face more questions about alleged communications between Jared Kushner and Russia's ambassador to Washington.

"It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media," Trump wrote in a series of Twitter posts on Sunday.

Shortly after the tweets, Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, John Kelly, made the rounds of Sunday television news shows to praise any so-called back channel communications, especially with Russia, as "a good thing."

The White House faces mounting questions about potential ties between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign, which are also the subject of criminal and congressional investigations. Trump officials were preparing to establish a "war room" to address an issue that has begun to dominate his young presidency.

Two Republican U.S. senators played down the Kushner reports on Sunday, while the former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, took a darker view of such contacts with representatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"Whenever you see the words 'sources say' in the fake news media, and they don't mention names," Trump wrote, "it is very possible that those sources don't exist but are made up by fake news writers. #FakeNews is the enemy!"

I was in a Starbucks on the way to a train, I think last year. I had already ordered, and was waiting for the barista to make my drink. The barista addressed the woman standing near me, who had ordered first - she looked to be about 60.

Barista: I’m sorry, we don’t have any eggnog left for eggnog lattes. Can I get you anything else?

This customer takes about 10 seconds to respond, but before she says anything, she gets this tight-lipped grin on her face. She looked like she’d just realized she’d won a game and was about to play the winning card.

Customer: You know you’ve ruined my whole morning, don’t you? This is unacceptable. You will make me TWO mocha lattes and I hope you’d don’t expect me to pay for my order.

Barista: Of course ma’am.

After another minute of making her order, the Barista says: The eggnog latte is a seasonal item, and we’ve actually had very few requests for it. I think that’s why we don’t have enough, they haven’t been sending us very much.

Customer: Oh… just.. SHUT UP!

At this point the customer’s companion joined her from outside the store, and she tried to say something to the barista as if it was all fine and it was just customer bantering. But it clearly was not. I still bear some shame in not stepping in on behalf of the barista. I read comedic posting sites such as “Not Always Right” on a regular basis, but I’d never actually seen such behavior in person before.

1. I'll take two, please. Male rompers are lit and  #Romphims is the hashtag we deserve.

2. From bad to worse. Sheriff David Clarke is joining the Department of Homeland Security despite having Russian ties. *facepalm*

3. Grasping at straws. Bill Cosby is speaking out about his upcoming trial. He insists his sexual assault charges are racially motivated.

4. Healthcare, criminal justice, and Donald Trump.

5. The next big move. The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Jordan Edwards' death.

Thank you for always putting me and my brother first.  Thank you giving us the opportunities to succeed even when it was sometimes to your detriment.  Thank you for always making me feel loved even in our worst moments when we had nothing, and for making me feel like I was special enough that someday I had a shot to do great things.  You sacrificed yourself and your hopes and goals and showed me what true love and devotion to one's children is all about.  Now that we're so blessed to have a much better life, and in those moment when you allow me to give back and try to take care of you in anyway I can please know that I know that if you were not the wonderful person you are none of it would be possible.  I love you, and no matter how old I get I am always hoping I make you proud of me and honor the dedication, and love you have given me, and continue to give me to this day -

M.O.C.K. Talk Radio: The Weak Week in Review - 5/13/1