In case you are not a millennial, the “DM” in the show’s title stands for “direct message.”
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Kellyanne Conway Defended the President By Listing Words that Rhyme with “Collusion”
I don’t know, guys, that x through “collusion” seems like abusion. In case you missed it—see video below—Kellyanne Conway held up pieces of paper with words that rhymed with “collusion” to defend the White House yesterday. Just in case “collusion” keeps on being, you know, a thing that people want to talk about, are some […]
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“Here’s a Little Economics Lesson,” Rick Perry Says, Before Completely Blowing It
Maybe if he uses his hands he can make this clearer. Alex Wong/Getty Images Rick Perry is visiting a West Virginia coal plant today, site of all those jobs Trump is going to bring back. According to news reports, it’s “a general tour for Perry to familiarize himself with a modern coal facility.” At the […]
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Kevin Spacey Was Not a Great Tony Awards Host, and Bette Midler Would Not Stop Talking During Her Acceptance Speech
At first I thought the problem with the opening number was that Neal Patrick Harris wasn’t doing it—in case you’ve forgotten how good he is, scroll down—or that I didn’t know this year’s musicals very well. But the problem was also Kevin Spacey. The Whoopie Goldberg jokes about coming out of the closet were kinda […]
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Listen to the Nobel Lecture Bob Dylan Finally Gave (Spoiler Alert: It’s Kind of Weird)
A mural of Bob Dylan being painted on the side of a building in Minneapolis in 2015. He looks happier here than in any photos since the Nobel announcement. Adam Bettcher/Getty Images Two months ago, a Swedish news site reported that “a man thought to be Bob Dylan, clad in a hoodie” had been photographed […]
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Horrifying News out of Chechnya: “World’s First Concentration Camp for Homosexuals Since Hitler’s in the 1930s”
President Ramzan Kadyrov, above with the gun, “who is a key ally of Vladimir Putin, allegedly ordered the clampdown,” Daily Mail reports. Getty Images Reports of “mass detentions” were first seen in Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta on April 1. Citing that story, a New York Times story quickly followed. Chillingly, President Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime […]
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Speedballs for Hitler: According to Blitzed, Nazis Were Meth-Addled Psychos
Blitzed is a fast read and it explains a few things. When the Nazis invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, they were high on methamphetamine. The German-made product Pervitin “helped the tank units not to worry too much about what they were doing” and “let them get on with the job—even if the job meant […]
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Lindy West Quits Twitter: “It Is Unusable for Anyone But Trolls, Robots and Dictators”
I disagree that it is “unusable” for people like me. Though I did LOL when Twitter’s founder asked for feedback and had the above interaction. Lindy West is not known for understatement, going along with authority figures, or sugar-coating. She takes a fierce stand when it comes to trolls: She wants to defeat them or […]
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Trump’s Cabinet Picks Include Betsy DeVos, a Major Funder of Conversion (or “Ex-Gay”) Therapy Groups
If I pray hard enough, will Betsy DeVos and Mike Pence just go away? Betsy DeVos Media Photo/Shutterstock I can’t believe we’re back to conversion therapy being a mainstream idea. A few years back, the Obama Administration responded to the death of a transgender teen who threw herself into highway traffic following psychologically abusive conversion […]
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As Senate Democrats Reorganize, Patty Murray, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren Assume Leadership Positions
“When you lose an election like his,” New York Senator Chuck Schumer said this morning, “you can’t flinch, you can’t ignore it, you need to look it right in the eye and ask why, analyze it, and learn from it.” First thing. Have you read Elizabeth Warren’s letter to Donald Trump? It’s great: The American […]
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“Awash in False Conspiracy Theories and Petulant Immaturity, Liberals Put Trump in the White House”
Bernie supporters in July 2016, at the height of conspiracy theories about the DNC. If you still believe those conspiracy theories, you have some reading to do. Gregory Reed/Shutterstock One of the surprising turns in the election was Newsweek as a source of serious, important journalism, and when I say “serious, important journalism” I’m thinking […]