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Katie Herzog is a staff writer at The Stranger, where she covers and comments on media, politics, pop culture, social movements, weed, climate change, free speech, French bulldogs, gender, sex, emotional support animals, airlines, Amazon, Donald Trump, Twitter mobs, internet hoaxes, wildfires, orcas, bike shares, Alex Jones, lesbians, the cost of living, conspiracy theories, moral panics, natural disasters, cults, the left, the right, the middle, podcasts, Jordan Peterson, Fox News, and, occasionally, Seattle.
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Serial Subject Adnan Syed Will Get a New Trial
Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast Serial, has been granted a new trial. Syed was convicted 18 years ago on charges of first degree murder, robbery, kidnapping, and false imprisonment after the body of his ex girlfriend and classmate Hae Min Lee was found in Baltimore’s Leakin Park. Syed was sentenced to a […]
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Senate Passes Bill That Will Hurt the Internet and Sex Workers
Getty Images On Wednesday, the Senate passed an “anti-sex trafficking” bill that has far wider consequences that protecting victims of sex trafficking—and not all of them good. The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, or SESTA, as well as the House version of the bill (the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, […]
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Conservatives Push Fake News About Democratic Connection to the KKK
Getty Images For whatever reason—maybe because the conservative gene is connected to the sour gene or maybe it’s because watching Fox News sucks all the humor out of life—conservatives just aren’t into funny. Predictably, the hashtag #triggeraliberalinfourwords, which trended on Twitter earlier this month, was about as amusing as skin tag removal (with one exception). […]
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Comedian Kathy Griffin Reminds Us What the Right Really Thinks of Free Speech
The Department of Justice investigated comic Kathy Griffin for two months. FREDERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES With much of the left currently arguing over whether or not America’s college youth have abandoned free speech while the right has inexplicably poised itself as the party of free thought, it’s worth reminding ourselves what government conservatives actually think […]
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McDonald’s Celebrates Women with Empty Gesture
Getty Images Good news, sisters! We can put out the bra-burning pile and quit whining about sexual harassment. We’ve finally achieved the thing our foremothers worked so hard to achieve: a McDonald’s sign. Business Insider reports that McDonald’s is marking International Women’s Day on March 8 by turning the iconic M logo upside down on […]
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Hope Hicks Just Quit the White House
Bye girl bye Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images And she’s out! Hope Hicks—the 29-year-old former model and political novice whose ex-boyfriend was recently fired from the Trump administration after being outed as an alleged wife beater—is stepping down from her role as the White House’s communications director. The news comes just a day after Hicks admitted under […]
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Murray Energy Defamation Suit Against John Oliver Dismissed
Oliver was sued by coal giant Murray Energy.
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Alex Jones Blames the Latest School Shooting on Democrats
Jones and other right-wing figures wasted no time peddling lies about the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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Parents Call for Boycott of Peter Rabbit Over Insensitivity to Allergy-Havers
Bad bun Neilson Barnard/Getty Images On Sunday, Sony Pictures and the makers of the new film Peter Rabbit apologized for what some viewers see as insensitivity towards people with allergies. The drama started after the movie (which grossed $25 million over the weekend) premiered last week. In one scene, Peter, who sounds like a real […]
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Betsy Devos’s Department of Education Won’t Investigate Trans Discrimination Complaints
Meanwhile, groups in Washington state continue pushing anti-trans legislation.