These horses have the right idea. Motionshooter / iStock / Getty Images Plus Tonight President Trump will make a nationally televised address to convince Americans they should back his plan to fund his racist border wall. Without a doubt this speech will be overflowing with lies and misinformation—if the thousands of lies he’s made in […]
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Save Christmas by Disabling Fox News from Your Parents’ TV
#outfoxtheholidays Okay, this is kinda genius. Taking the idea of “parental controls” quite literally, a campaign called #OutFoxtheHolidays advises you to fiddle with your parents’ cable settings so that Fox News is blocked. It’s a simple idea, but an effective one, as the chances are pretty good that if your parents (or grandparents or aunts […]
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Holiday Resistance Tips: How to Navigate Politics at the Dinner Table
ANNA BRONES Many of us living in (and being repulsed by) Trump’s America have found ourselves in quite the pickle: Knowing that bigoted rhetoric—like the kind that spews from the president daily—can have very real consequences, what do you do if your relatives have a history of making derogatory jokes, using slurs, or bemoaning “political […]
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How We Got Through the Last Two Years, and How We’ll Get Through the Next Two
How we got through the last two years, and how we’ll get through the next two.
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America Likes to Look at Its Dead Presidents
Dogs: making the grim specter of death bearable. Drew Angerer / Getty Images Former president George H.W. Bush’s body is currently lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC. It will stay there until his state funeral at the National Cathedral tomorrow, Wednesday, December 5—a day that the Post Office and the stock […]
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Dear Oregonian: Joey Gibson Doesn’t Need Our Understanding
Joey Gibson speaking at a pro-Trump rally he organized in 2017. Doug Brown On Saturday morning, Portlanders awoke to news that a right-wing, anti-Semitic extremist entered a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people attending Shabbat service. The next day, the Oregonian ran a love letter to the leader of the Portland area’s own far-right extremist […]
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This Too Shall Pass: Taylor Swift, Jared Kushner’s Nuts… and BUNNIES!
Ahoy-hoy! Let’s kick off the week with a game of “Would You Rather”: Would you rather see additional in-depth reporting on Jared Kushner’s financial dealings that truly and fully demonstrate his illegal behavior but you have to read the whole thing, including looking up terms and tax laws that you don’t understand, OR see an […]
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Panic! Portland Overrun by “Mob Rule” (According to WSJ Opinion Writer)
Mob Rule? Alex Zielinski In today’s Wall Street Journal, Portlander Andy Ngo (the WSJ‘s go-to author for right-leaning reports on Portland anarchy) wrote an opinion piece subtly titled “A Leftist Mob ‘Polices’ Portland.” His op-ed centers on last Saturday’s protest of the Portland Police shooting of Patrick Kimmons, and the subsequent march in which a […]
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This Too Shall Pass: Miniature Horses and Speidi Crystals
Hi, everyone! I’m sincerely glad you’re taking time to read this biweekly documentation of one woman’s descent into madness. But we’re not dead… so that’s… something? Every day we’re not dead is one more middle finger to all those yahoos in charge. Hey, yahoos! We’re still here! Yes, “here” might be a large pillow fort […]
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The United States of Dunning-Kruger: How Russian Trolls Used Star Wars Fandom to Speed Us Towards Dystopia
DID YOU KNOW: Lonely, insecure men are phenomenally vulnerable to toxic propaganda? It’s true! Painfully true. And over the past few months, academia has been investigating the ways in which social media has been gamed to rally these men. The latest to make a significant impact is “Weaponizing the Haters: The Last Jedi and the […]
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Photos and Video: Women March On the Supreme Court
Our Tracey Cataldo—who is our Director of Operations for Events—is in D.C. for a HUMP! screening. Women and their allies are marching on the Supreme Court right now. Tracey sent along these photos and a video. View this post on Instagram Live from DC! Protesters march in anticipation of the impending Kavanaugh clusterfuck. 📷 by […]
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The FBI Investigation of Brett Kavanaugh Will Not Save Us
McNamee/Getty Images We just love a good story, don’t we? We love rewarding creative, wonderful liars for crafting beautiful narratives, and in turn they reward us for surrendering to that story with a satisfying ending. In a courtroom drama—a political thriller of the kind Aaron Sorkin might dash off in a fevered weekend—a multi-layered scandal […]