George Frey / Getty If you missed the reporting about Trump’s speech to the National Boy Scout Jamboree yesterday, please read this story from the Washington Post which deftly explains how gross and inappropriate it was (yes, even by Trump’s low standards). Here’s an excerpt from the story, describing Trump’s speech for children: Over the […]
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Several Trumpcare Provisions Now Need 60 Votes to Pass—Including Defunding Planned Parenthood
POLITICS HAS RULES. mphillips007 / Getty We thought they didn’t have the votes, but it turns out they really don’t have the votes. Today, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that several of Trumpcare’s provisions are in violation of the Byrd Rule, which means that they now require 60 votes—rather than a simple majority—to pass. Among them? […]
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Fischli and Weiss Meets Clarissa Explains It All at Killjoy Collective
The Fight for Women’s Rights TAYLOR ADKINS For months, I’d been meaning to pay Killjoy Collective a visit. When I finally arrived at the gallery space at Southeast 10th and Sandy last Sunday, I was greeted at the door by collective member BriAnna Rosen and a Shiba Inu mix puppy she’d adopted just the day […]
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Turns out There Was an Eighth Person at That Once-Secret Trump Tower Meeting, and He Works for a Russian Oligarch
The list of people at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting keeps getting longer. Drew Angerer / Getty Images It’s been more than a week since The New York Times broke the news of a secret June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Trump campaign officials and Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. It’s also […]
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Let’s Discuss the Rapid Devolution of the GOP’s Health Care Bill
They still don’t have the votes. BIGFISHDESIGN / GETTY The Republicans’ awful health care bill is dead for now—you know things are bad when you can’t muster the support for a procedural vote!—so let’s pause and take a quick look back on the presently thwarted attempt to keep America’s sick grandmas from going to the […]
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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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Was the Trump Campaign’s Russia Collusion Not Just About Getting Clinton Dirt, But Also About Giving Voter Data?
Data driven? GETTY IMAGES An intriguing McClatchy article today suggests we may be thinking too narrowly about possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. It’s not just that Donald Trump, Jr. was eager to get Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton. It could also be that Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was involved in helping […]
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Highlights from Donald Trump Jr. and Rob Goldstone’s Poorly Punctuated Correspondence
Everybody has been doing emails! (This is not a picture of Donald Trump Jr.) Yuri_Arcurs / Getty You know the emails I’m talking about! Here you go: First, here’s the braggy signature from Rob Goldstone’s email account: This iphone speaks many languages What, “please excuse typos” wasn’t good enough for you? And now for the […]
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I Didn’t Think Oregon’s Abortion Coverage Bill Would Pass. It’s a Big Deal That It Did
The Reproductive Health Equity Act would require insurance companies to cover abortion as well as a host of reproductive health care services. Sebastian Kaczorowski / Getty If you weren’t paying attention on Wednesday, you might not have heard anything about the quiet triumph of the Reproductive Health Equity Act, which would require insurance companies to […]
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Kill All Normies: Angela Nagle on the Monstrous Rise of the Alt-Right
Angela Nagle seems fearless. Who else would dive deep into the Alt-Right’s swamp of Pepe the Frog memes, conspiracy theories, and anonymous depravity unified by a hatred of “PC culture,” feminism, and multiculturalism, and a love for Donald Trump? Her new book, Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and […]
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Angela Nagle on the Monstrous Rise of the Alt-Right
Angela Nagle on the monstrous rise of the Alt-Right.
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Trumpcare Vote Delayed Because It Doesn’t Have the Support to Pass
They don’t have the votes. BigFishDesign / Getty The vote on the Senate Trumpcare bill no one wants has been delayed through the July 4 recess due to a lack of consensus among members of the GOP. It’s a little what you’d expect. I suspected that we’d see opposition from senators from states with Republican […]