Webmaster/California Rep. Devin Nunes Mark Wilson / Staff Looks like Devin Nunes has a secret hobby. Politico reported Sunday that Nunes, the California representative who chairs the House Intelligence Committe, is behind fake news website the California Republican. Currently, carepublican.com is down for business and the site redirects to a Facebook page that blames the […]
Katie Herzog
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.
Posted inFood and Drink
Doritos Didn’t Invent Lady Chips. The Internet Did.
Your regular reminder not to believe everything you read on the internet.
Posted inTech
Facebook Spreads Conspiracy Theories Soon After Charlottesville Amtrak Crash
One hundred Republican lawmakers and their staff ran into a truck outside Charlottesville. The news quickly spread to Facebook.
Posted inHealth
Amazon Announces Health Care Initiative, and All Hope for a Single-Payer System Dies
A trio of giants are coming together to provide affordable heath care for … Amazon employees.
Posted inPolitics
Cuckold Study Gets Conservative Panties in a Knot
CNN covered an academic study on cuckolding and the internet went wild.
Posted inPolitics
Thrice-Married Porn Lover Who Was Pro-Choice Until Five Minutes Ago Speaks at Anti-Abortion Rally
If you or anyone you know has aborted this man’s fetus, please, for the sake of the world, come forth. Mark Wilson/Getty Images Fresh on the heels of rescinding Obama-era protections for Planned Parenthood and paving the way to allow medical providers to refuse to perform procedures like abortion for religious reasons, pornography fan and […]
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Shithole Hotels Have Been Flooded with Shitty Reviews
The internet may have given us terrible things (‘cash me outside’ girl, planking, President Donald Trump), but it’s also given us this, compliments of the Washington Post: In the past week, hundreds of one-star reviews have flooded the Yelp page for the Trump International Hotel in Washington, describing the establishment as a “shithole.” Similar negative […]
Posted inPolitics
Virginia House Race Decided by Pulling a Name Out of a Bowl
Remember this the next time you’re tempted not to vote.
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Roy Moore’s Jewish Lawyer Hates His Racist Ass, Too
Roy Moore: Loser/hater/alleged child fucker Joe Raedle/Getty Images Remember when Roy Moore’s brainwashed devoted wife Kayla argued—in public—that her husband isn’t racist because some of their best lawyers are Jews? Turns out, that Jewish lawyer actually voted for Moore’s opponent. The Washington Examiner reports: Richard Jaffe is an Alabama defense attorney hired by the Moores […]
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POLITICO: Elizabeth Warren Gearing Up for Presidential Bid
Nvertheless, she persisted. Mark Wilson/Getty Images With the next presidential election a mere 1,036 days away, politicians, public thinkers, and media pundits have begun speculating on who will enter the ring to replace the god complex currently residing in the Oval Office. According to former DNC head Ed Rendell, the only Dem who would “win […]
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Top 20 Podcasts of 2017
From Crimetown to S-Town (with two conflicts of interest in between), the shows we chose for our private radios.