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Four days in the nation’s capital dodging tear gas, rabid misogyny, and casual racism.
Friday will be a made-for-TV inauguration for a made-for-TV president with a following of believers enabled by the internet’s worst conspiracy theories. Nate Gowdy My great-grandfather was a man of few words. I never met him, but I understand he had a thick accent from growing up speaking Yiddish in a shtetl in what is […]
Rejoice, kayaktivists! Kelly O With less than a month to go until the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, President Obama made a sweeping announcement earlier today that will indefinitely protect much of the Alaskan Arctic and parts of the Atlantic Ocean from offshore drilling. By invoking a 1953 law that does not explicitly allow future […]
ANGELA STERLING I hate The Nutcracker. I hate, hate, hate it. From the age of 4 to 14, I was forced to participate in its production every year. My mother, a former ballerina of the School of American Ballet, put me in ballet classes as soon as I could walk, and I stayed in ballet […]
Christinia Eala, 70, told me back in September that she took a stand against the pipeline for her grandchildren. Tentatively, it looks like Eala and her fellow water protectors may have won. Today the US Army Corps of Engineers announced in a press release that it is denying a permit builders of the Dakota Access […]
An activist locked to Dakota Access pipeline construction equipment in early September. SB Activists at Standing Rock have filed a class action lawsuit against North Dakota law enforcement over the authorities’ alleged use of water cannons in subfreezing temperatures, mace, sound cannons, and “blast” grenades on civilians during demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline. The […]
A scene from Oceti Sakowin camp at dusk in September. SB For the last seven months, Standing Rock Sioux tribal members and thousands of tribal and non-tribal allies have been camping at two locations near the Cannonball River. The original camp, called Sacred Stone Camp, is located on the land of the woman who launched […]
Oil lobbyists have feelings, too. Photographee.eu/Shutterstock I just came across this two-month-old piece on the ongoing #NoDAPL fight from North Dakota’s top oil lobbyist. Too many reporters are covering the biggest tribal resistance movement in United States history instead of the interests of oil companies, Ron Ness writes in the Bismarck Tribune. Ness, the president […]
These pins were sold openly at the RNC. Y’all really didn’t know Trump was running on the Rape Culture™ platform? The Stranger Donald Trump’s attorneys have asked the New York Times to retract reports from women who claim they’ve been sexually assaulted by the Republican nominee for president. The New York Times‘ lawyers replied today […]
The First Day of the Republican National Convention Was a Hot Mess
Sydney Brownstone talking to a guy in Cleveland who was very clear about his opinions. A black woman arguing with a white Republican National Convention attendee over whether America was founded on slavery. A white woman arguing with a black man about whether Donald Trump is an idiot and, additionally, about whether Hillary is a […]
We are following around photos of fetuses and protesters by day, but by night, we are on the prowl. Be warned, Cleveland: These ladies will be sitting in your local bars, smelling pretty bad and sunburnt, looking for anyone with juicy goss on Republican throwdowns. But mostly, we’re on Tinder. Our editors have been hounding […]
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