National Politics

“Don’t be fooled by our cheerful smiles and professional bearing. We fucking hate the AHCA.” Sam Edwards / Getty And Oregon’s one of the states that hates it the most. According to data shared by the New York Times‘ Upshot this week, 56 percent of Oregonians oppose the AHCA. We’re only beaten by D.C., Massachusetts, […]

Malachy120 / Getty Good morning! For all the somber reflection from the GOP about “toning down the discourse” following yesterday’s shooting at a Republican baseball practice… it has been 24 hours, right? Which means it’s time to start politicizing tragedies again. Let’s do this! From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — Shaken and angry, Republican […]

Jeff Sessions before the Senate intelligence committee. Attorney General Jeff Sessions just wrapped up his testimony before the Senate intelligence committee where he said “I don’t recall,” a whole bunch (auto-tune of this phrase coming soon!), and called allegations of collusion with Russia during the Trump campaign “a detestable lie.” Twitter is fired up about […]

He’s got no respect for the miracle of flight. DigitalVision / Getty The Trump administration has given us no shortage of reasons to be concerned, but while today’s Comey revelations are exactly as bad as I’d thought they’d be, there’s one baffling Trump administration trend that hasn’t gotten nearly as much social media heat under […]