There were people who saw the authoritarian in Trump from day one, and they sounded the alarm. But at that point, we had been crying “Nazi” on the internet for so long, it had become a trope. This inspired attorney Michael Godwin to create Godwin’s Law, essentially saying that the first person to invoke a […]
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Republicans Endorse Arming Preschoolers in Sacha Baron Cohen’s New Show
Courtesy Showtime Last night’s debut of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime show Who Is America? got off to a blazing start when the prankster debuted his newest character anti-terrorism expert Erran Morad, and convinced a bunch of Republicans that America should arm preschoolers. The program Baron Cohen described to GOP members was called “Kinderguardians” in […]
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Everything You Wanted to Know About ICE (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Everything you wanted to know about ICE (but were afraid to ask).
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Interview with Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer on Yes We (Still) Can, Obama’s Savvy Court Skills, and Hope for the 2018 Election
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer is an enjoyable voyage through the Obama years, and chock-full of advice on how to cope with the Trump years. Pfeiffer brings a thrilling view of the 2008 Obama campaign, his time in the Communications Department of the White […]
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Hitler Crawls Back from Hell to Ask People to Stop Comparing Him to Trump
In an astonishing turn of events, Adolph Hitler, who’s been burning in eternal hellfire since his death in 1945, has clawed his way up to the earth’s surface to make it clear that he’s nothing like Donald Trump. Immediately booked on Tucker Carlson’s show, Hitler seemed super annoyed when the Fox News host opened with […]
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Today in Trump’s Prison Camps for Children: White House Ignores Their Cries
JOHN MOORE / GETTY IMAGES Let’s check in on what Trump is doing in the name of the American people. Propublica released audio of children screaming and crying after they were separated from their immigrant parents by Trump and Sessions’ draconian “zero tolerance” policy. Listen to it here, it’s absolutely heartbreaking. Instead of being swayed […]
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Today in Trump’s Prison Camps for Children
A Chicago protest against child separation policy. Scott Olson / Getty Images News President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ policy of separating thousands of children from their border-crossing parents has sent the nation into crisis mode—but you wouldn’t know that from Trump’s tweets, as he’s still trying to blame his policy on Democrats. From […]
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Read This Thread: Inside Trump’s Detention Camp for Immigrant Children
Courtesy MSNBC As you’ve surely heard, children are being taken and separated from their parents because of President Trump and Jeff Sessions’ “Zero Tolerance” illegal immigration policy. After Oregon’s own Senator Jeff Merkley was turned away after demanding to inspect a facility where these immigrant children were being held, yesterday reporters were finally allowed inside […]
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President Trump Commits Crime Spree, Then Pardons Himself
In a move that shocked but did not appall Republican members of Congress, President Donald J. Trump spent a week committing state and federal crimes throughout Washington, DC, before pardoning himself for a long list of crimes on Monday morning. When congressional Democrats expressed their dismay, the president didn’t appear to have much empathy. “I […]
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Celebrate Trump’s Latest Fuck-Up with This Beautiful “Failed North Korea Summit” Commemorative Coin!
BACKGROUND IMAGE BY STILLFX / GETTY IMAGES On June 12, 2018, President Donald J. Trump was scheduled to hold a history-making nuclear arms summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. With this meeting, Trump would finally prove himself worthy of the title of president, having succeeded where so many other American leaders have failed. Unfortunately […]
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Celebrate Trump’s Latest Fuck-Up with This Beautiful “Failed North Korea Summit” Commemorative Coin!
On June 12, 2018, President Donald J. Trump was scheduled to hold a history-making nuclear arms summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. With this meeting, Trump would finally prove himself worthy of the title of president, having succeeded where so many other American leaders have failed. Unfortunately for him (and the rest of the […]
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Was There a Mole in the Trump Campaign?
According to Fox News, a government mole met “several times” with Trump staffers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos during the run-up to the 2016 election, prompting the President to “hereby” declare multiple times that he would demand an inquiry into this scandal that was “bigger than Watergate.” But how could a mole infiltrate the Trump […]