Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson at Sunday’s “Defend the Constitution” rally in Olympia. Karen Ducey / Getty Images [The following was originally published in our sister publication, The Stranger.—eds] Yesterday, Facebook made clear it will no longer allow its platform to be used for promoting “events that defy government’s guidance on social distancing.” So The […]
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Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this, but he also once crashed his bike into a parked car while on his way to a staff meeting, never mind this, so… His website, which probably hasn't been updated in a while, is www.elisanders.net.
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Trump Coronavirus “GUIDELINES” Land in West Coast Mailboxes
Delivered to a local mailbox yesterday. Roberto When he’s in front of cameras, President Trump has been lying over and over again about coronavirus, minimizing its lethality, promising the illness will miraculously disappear soon, and claiming his administration has done things (like invoking the Defense Production Act) when, in fact, it has not. This week, […]
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First US Case of Wuhan Virus Reported in Washington State
Washington state is home to the first reported case of the Wuhan coronavirus in the United States. TomKli / iStock / Getty Images Plus There are new fears that a mysterious virus that broke out in China is spreading globally. It’s called the Wuhan coronavirus, and the Centers for Disease Control just reported that the […]
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Kamala Harris Drops Out of the Presidential Race
Senator Kamala Harris. Alex Wong / Getty Images According to The New York Times, Senator Kamala Harris’s campaign unraveled long ago (at least in political time) due to her own clumsy campaigning and florid dysfunction among the campaign staff she oversaw. According to Harris today, she “simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to […]
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Pete Buttigieg and the Modern False Smear Formula
Pete Buttigieg, not the first victim of an internet smear and certainly not the last. Scott Olson / Getty Images For decades upon decades in recent American history, if you wanted to mislead a vast audience with a false smear against someone, you needed to get that smear past certain mass media “gatekeepers”—people like radio […]
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The Trump-Adjusted Supreme Court Appears Ready to Uphold 2020 Citizenship Question
Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s additions to the US Supreme Court. Getty Images It hasn’t happened since the 1950s, yet unsurprisingly the Trump administration wants to bring back a question for the 2020 US census asking whether respondents are US citizens. Three federal judges have already blocked the plan, saying the Trump administration’s […]
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Nancy Pelosi Again Says No to Impeachment
Nancy Pelosi, not in a hurry to ITMFA. Alex Edelman / Getty Images In the wake of the redacted Mueller report, a number of Democrats are demanding impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Among them: AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Maxine Waters in the House of Representatives and Elizabeth Warren in the Senate. Plus, Seattle’s […]
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What Buttigieg Gets Right About Bernie Supporters and Trump Supporters
Mayor Pete, whisperer to the “blow up the system” constituency. Scott Eisen / Getty Images The New York Post has a headline today that suggests there’s something shocking about Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg noting similarities between Bernie Sanders voters and Trump voters. Drudge then takes it a half step further, telling his massive audience […]
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Good Morning, Mueller: Let’s Read the Just Released Mueller Report
Today we all get to read the “lightly redacted” work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Alex Wong / Getty Images The Mueller Report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and more will finally be released today. But first: a press conference from Attorney General William Barr, happening now. 7 am: In the press […]
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The Mueller Report Is Coming Thursday
Finally. Alex Wong / Staff It’s about 400 pages long. It will have color-coded redactions. It doesn’t prove that Trump obstructed justice, according to Trump-appointed Attorney General William Barr. It’s a “Complete and Total EXONERATION,” according to Trump. But according to multiple reports, people at the White House are seriously concerned about what the Mueller […]
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Who Is This John Hickenlooper Guy?
Democrat John Hickenlooper used to be the governor of Colorado. Now he wants to be president. Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images There are a lot of Democrats running for president—16 of them at present. But on most days, the focus is on just a few people: Bernie, Beto, Kamala, Elizabeth, and maybe one or two […]
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McConnell Is Going Nuclear (Again) to Give Trump the Federal Judges He Wants
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Drew Angerer / Getty Images After spending hundreds of days blocking President Barack Obama’s 2016 nomination of Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell then went “nuclear” to get Trump’s first supreme court pick, Neil Gorsuch, approved. In 2017, McConnell changed Senate rules […]