Atria Books Originally published by our sister paper, The Stranger. What millions of us learned when we first heard rap in the late 1970s is that rappers often boast about things they do not have, about glamorous lives they do not live, about credit cards that are not in their wallets. “I got a Lincoln […]
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Trump Made It Clear to Virginia That Blue States Now Get Treated Like the Brown People of Puerto Rico
The aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Joe Raedle / Getty Yesterday, Virginia’s entire Congressional delegation begged Trump to issue a federal emergency declaration for Virginia, which is currently more exposed to the destructive force of the monster hurricane Florence than North Carolina, and is likely to be hit as hard as South Carolina. […]
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Let’s Fight: Reading Indoors vs. Reading Outdoors
PAIGE VICKERS Reading Outdoors Is Overrated It has come to my attention that people continue to pretend to enjoy reading outside. Like any romantic person, I’m sympathetic in theory. Actors in movies look great tucked into the crotch of some mighty oak with a classic spread open in their lap, or laid out on a […]
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Trump Blames Puerto Ricans for the Disaster
NASA/ISS Trump finally got around to tweeting about the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. The problem, he tweeted, is not so much the hurricanes but the people of the island. They caused this mess by not upgrading their electrical system. Florida and Texas, Trump tweeted, did exactly that and so are doing great after the […]
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A Nazi Will Greet Aliens When They Open the Spaceship Voyager
Maybe aliens will spot the probe, capture it, open it, and hear a white supremacist introduce the whole human race.
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White Woman Slapped Police Car Before Being Shot By Cop, Says Report
Twitter According to a search warrant obtained from Hennepin County District Court by Minneapolis Public Radio and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the white woman, Justine Ruszczyk, allegedly killed by a black Somali and Muslim cop, Mohamed Noor, slapped the back of his patrol car just before the shooting. If this is the case, then the […]
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CNN Says Don’t Worry About Iceberg The Size of Delaware That Broke From Antarctica
Antarctica NASA CNN says this trillion-ton event changes nothing. Water levels will be the same, humans will not be harmed by “one of the biggest ever recorded” icebergs to break from the Antarctic shelf. Late in the post, CNN mildly mentions global warming, which may or may not have played role in all of this. […]
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Hick Hopper Kid Rock Running for Senate
Trump’s presidency has made it possible for this guy to run for a Senate seat earnestly, if you can even use that word in the same sentence as Kid Rock. Theo Wargo / Getty This afternoon, “rapper,” scratcher, and country singer Kid Rock tweeted that recently launched website Kid Rock For Senate is the real […]
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It’s Time for America To Have Another Serious Discussion About Mental Illness in the Context of Its President
CNN: “President’s Trump’s cabinet members introduce themselves and offer praise during the first full cabinet meeting.” At Trump’s first full cabinet meeting, which happened yesterday, each cabinet member was compelled (clearly by the president) to sing praises to the president. Ben Carson, the housing secretary, said it was “a great honor” to work for Trump. […]
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Conservatives on Twitter Still Convinced That the Deadly Accident in Times Square Was an Act of Terrorism
ferrantraite/Getty Judging from Twitter, US conservatives and ISIS have something in common at present: they want the deadly accident that happened around noon in Times Square to be an act of terrorism. What would greatly disappoint them is if the investigation of the tragedy reveals that the driver who took a wrong turn and sped […]
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Ghost in the Shell: Asian City Too White
Enough of This Dumb Race Shit.
Enough of this dumb race shit.
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New CIA Leak Reveals that Wikileaks Could Be a Department of the KGB
Spy verses spy type shit is going on here. harodominguez/gettyimages.com The best summary of the last seven days of Trump’s maddening presidency was posted by Foreign Policy. It’s called “Trump Knows the Feds Are Closing In on Him.” It points out that whenever the Russian issue gains momentum in the press, Trump does his nutty […]