But it comes at the expense of the American public.
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 inTheater & Performance
Top 20 Podcasts of 2017
Quaintly named for a once-revolutionary audio device that most people now no longer own nor remember, the podcast has slowly but addictively wormed its way into the hearts and ears of… it must surely be at least a couple hundred thousand people, right? Is it millions? Is it hundreds? Depends on which network is doing […]
Posted inScience!
Former Head of Secret Government UFO Program Says We Are Not Alone
Declassified Footage of “unidentified aerial phenomenon” To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science On Sunday, Politco and the New York Times published dual reports on a formerly top-secret Pentagon program launched in 2007 and tasked with investigating reports of UFOs. Supposedly shut down in 2012, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was championed by […]
Posted inDeath
Alex Jones’s Gut Says: “The FBI Will Murder Trump in the Next Month”
This kind of blathering might be funny if so many people didn’t actually believe it.
Posted inNews
Right-Wing Media Blames Amtrak Derailment on Leftist Activist
The Amtrak train that derailed Monday was making the inaugural run on a new, faster route. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Alt-right conspiracy peddler Jack Posobiec wasted no time at all blaming Monday’s Amtrak derailment in Pierce County on the anarcho-leftist group Anifa. His evidence? A seven-month-old now-deleted blog post from the anti-fascist group It’s Going Down. […]
Posted inEnvironment
House of Representatives and Logging Industry Poised to Make Eagle Creek Fire Damage Worse
The aftermath of the Eagle Creek Fire Trip Jennings/Balance Media Even before the Eagle Creek Fire was extinguished in the Columbia River Gorge last summer, Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Arkansas) wasted no time at all proposing a bill that would open the Gorge and other federal lands to clearcutting. Westerman and his friends in the forestry […]
Posted inPolitics
Pentagon Says Trans People Can Start Enlisting in the Military in 2018
Protesters in Times Square after Trump announced a ban on transgender troops last summer. Spencer Platt/Getty Images After a federal judge again ruled against the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to ban trans people from the military on Monday, a Pentagon official told the Associated Press that the military will begin accepting trans recruits on January […]
Posted inNews
Jeffery Tambor Says He’s Not Quitting Transparent After All
Jeffrey Tambor as Maura Pfefferman in Transparent Transparent/Amazon Contrary to previous reports, the New York Times is now reporting that Jeffrey Tambor, star of the hit Amazon show Transparent, has not, in fact, stepped down from his leading role as Maura Pfefferman, nor does he have any plans to. Tambor was recently accused of sexual […]
Posted inEconomy
Trump Administration Proposes Making It Legal for Employers to Steal Workers’ Tips
Surprise! Trump screws service workers again.
Posted inMedia
John Oliver and Dustin Hoffman Get Into Groping Allegations at Wag the Dog Screening
The audience was “visibly uncomfortable.”
Posted inEnvironment
Patagonia Is Very Angry About Trump Slashing National Monuments
Go to Patagonia.com right now and you’ll see quite the landing page