This is perhaps the first and the last time that the President and I have seen eye to eye.
Rich Smith
Rich Smith writes about politics, books, and performance for The Stranger. You can hear his impersonations of Bernie Sanders and Jeff Sessions on Blabbermouth, and you can read his poems at www.richsmithpoetry.com
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Is Facebook Silencing Black Activists With Racist Bots?
Let’s take a tour through Facebook’s banning process!
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Two Terrible Healthcare Bills Down, One More to Go, Probably… But Who Fucking Knows with These People?
Two pale miseries colluding on how best to kill people. Mark Wilson / GETTY The plan to completely repeal Obamacare just died on the floor of the Senate. One sad laugh is that more Senators voted for the full repeal than for the Better Care Reconciliation Action, aka “the Senate bill,” aka the bill 13 […]
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Sean Spicer Quits Post As White House Press Secretary
This pugnacious, dissembling leprechaun will no longer be the mouthpiece of American tyranny. Alex Wong / Getty NYT: Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, resigned on Friday morning, telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed with the appointment of New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. The Times goes on to say that Spicey […]
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Republican Effort to Repeal Obamacare Without Replacement Fails, For Now
Even this vampiric motherfucker couldn’t revive the vampire bill. Mark Wilson / Getty The repeal and no-replace plan, Mitch McConnell’s last-ditch effort to kick millions of people off of healthcare this session, has failed. Apparently, artificially creating a humanitarian disaster for Americans is just a bridge too far for batshit, less-far-right Republican Senators. NYT: Senators […]
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Barack Obama on Trumpcare: “This Bill Will Do You Harm”
President Barack Obama has weighed in on the Senate’s anti-woman, anti-elderly, anti-decency, anti-life bill. Steffi Loos / Getty Nobody sums up the Senate’s version of Trumpcare better than Barry O: “Simply put, if there’s a chance you might get sick, get old, or start a family—this bill will do you harm.” If you’ve already called […]
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Four Republican Senators Oppose the Horrendous New Trumpcare Bill, For Now
Senator Ted Cruz is among the villains who are opportunistically opposed to the Senate’s version of the “American Health Care Act.” Alex Wong / Getty Republicans can only afford to lose two Senators on their quest to pass their version of Trumpcare, which is as bad if not worse than the House’s version of the […]
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Trump Is Under Investigation for Obstruction of Justice
According to the Washington Post, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is looking at Trump for obstruction and Trump associates for “possible financial crimes.” T.J. Kirkpatrick / Getty Happy birthday, Mr. President. In his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, former FBI director James Comey said the bureau wasn’t investigating Trump personally, at least not […]
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Republicans Are Trying to Take Away Your Health Care, Again
Could they please just not. Stefan Zaklin For the last couple weeks, we’ve been playing the will-they-won’t-they game with the Republican attempt to revive their failed Obamacare repeal bill / massive tax cut for the rich at the expense of the poor and elderly. On Tuesday, Congressman Tom MacArthur (R-NJ) answered that question by adding […]
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Democrats Have the Votes to Filibuster Gorsuch
Seat thief. ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES The New York Times: With an announcement from Senator Christopher Coons, Democrat of Delaware, during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing to vote on Judge Gorsuch’s nomination, Democrats had found their 41st vote in support of a filibuster. WooooOOOooooo! For now. Despite the fact that Gorsuch sides with companies […]
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What Americans Can Learn from Badass Russian Dissident Reporter Victoria Lomasko
Other Russias: Victoria Lomasko’s Graphic Journalism is on display at Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery through April 5. VICTORIA LOMASKO When Victoria Lomasko returns to the Russian Federation following her US tour of Other Russias, she might be considered a foreign agent. For more than five years, Lomasko has been spearheading Russia’s graphic journalism movement. Her […]
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Let’s Talk About All the Lies Trump Told at His Press Conference Today
Unhinged. Mario Tama Earlier this afternoon, Stranger emperor-editor Dan Savage published a Slog post with the headline The President Is Insane. If you didn’t click on the little link he includes in the post, you wouldn’t know that he’s referring to the unhinged, fact-free, low-key racist, impromptu press conference Donald Trump delivered today. Hoo boy. […]