[Remember back in 2017? When I hated Under Armour? Well, I still hate Under Armour. Anyway, here’s a post I wrote back in February 2017.—Steve] Kevin Plank, supporter of Trump, maker of garbage clothes. Getty / Allison Joyce People who know me know I despise Under Armour—mostly because it’s the workout gear for bro-dudes who […]
National Politics
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Remembering 2017: That Time I Followed the Northwest’s Regional Abortion Fund Through Their First Week
ILLUSTRATION BY SYLVIA STØLAN [Yeah, go ahead and tell me 2017 sucked. Much of it did, but it was also an exciting year for activism and major progress at the state level on reproductive rights. Please join in me in a retrospective look at all the shit that got done this year thanks to scrappy […]
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Shut Up About Nazi-Punching and Pick Up Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
Mark Bray on Anti-Nazi Punks, Italian Feminist Witches, and How to Defeat an Ideology of Hatred
Mark Bray on anti-Nazi punks, Italian feminist witches, and how to defeat an ideology of hatred.
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The Best of 2017 (Part One)
Or, Yes! Actual Okay Things Happened This Year!
Hello, dears! While we could spend our two final columns of the year rehashing the putrid garbage fire of 2017 that included but was not limited to (DEEP BREATH) Muslim bans, Steve Bannon, Hurricanes, MAX murders, terrible proposed GOP health care and tax plans, ICE agents, Tiki-torch racists in Charlottesville, gutted environmental protections, North Korean […]
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Internalized Misogyny Is a Bitch
White Women: We Have a Problem
Of those who voted in the presidential election, 94 percent of Black women and 68 percent of Latina women voted for Hillary. Fifty-three percent of white women voted for Trump. Of those who voted in the Alabama special election, 98 percent of Black women voted for Doug Jones, while 63 percent of white women voted […]
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Between the Death of Net Neutrality and Disney Buying Fox, Today’s a Great Day for Our Soulless Corporate Overlords
David Soanes Photography / Getty Images This morning the Federal Communications Commission voted, along party lines, to kill net neutrality—the rules that have, until now, ensured an internet in which service providers were forbidden from giving preferential treatment to certain sites and services. While telecom companies are vowing that consumers won’t get screwed over by […]
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Kevin Young Goes Long on Cons
Why Do Americans Love Bullshit? The New Book Bunk Gets to the Bottom of It
Why do Americans love bullshit? The new book Bunk gets to the bottom of it.
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What’s She Mad About Now?: Where the Republican Party Draws the Line
MARLOWE DOBBE The President of the United States has 16 sexual harassment and/or assault allegations against him. Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore has nine allegations of either “dating” or sexually assaulting minors as young as 14 when he was in his 30s, including multiple reports of him trolling the mall. The RNC continues to support […]
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New Column!
Apologies in Advance
A fill-in-the-blank apology for the next time you harass someone.
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What’s She Mad About Now?
Where the Republican Party Draws the Line
Where the Republican Party draws the line.
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HRC Is Free
Why You Should Care About Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Second Act
Why you should care about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s second act.
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In Fascism Today, Winning the Fight Against White Supremacy
Shane Burley’s Prescription for Fascism: A Mass Movement Rooted in Antifa Solidarity, Not Separatism
Shane Burley’s prescription for fascism: a mass movement rooted in antifa solidarity, not separatism.