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What She Said: Amanda Marcotte On the Fight
I see a lot of liberals using language like, “We’re on the cusp” and “if we don’t fight now, we could lose”. But it it likely that we’ve gone over the falls. The time to fight, the cusp period, was November 2016. This isn’t a movie where you get saved at the last minute. — […]
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Green Day’s “American Idiot” Soaring Up UK Charts in Anticipation of Trump Visit
This album is nearly 14 years old, the same age as its ideal listenership One good thing about the United Kingdom, aside from its surprisingly strong showing at this year’s World Cup, is that they still care about pop charts there. Every so often, a percentage of the British population bands together to ensure that […]
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Trump Nominates Conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh for Vacant Supreme Court Seat
Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s second nominee to the US Supreme Court. Alex Wong / Getty Images Midterm elections have consequences. “Miserably low turnout in the 2014 midterms helped Republicans take the Senate,” David Leonhardt reminds us, “which in turn allowed them to steal a Supreme Court seat from Barack Obama. And mediocre turnout in 2016 […]
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If Dems Want to Win Elections, They Should Talk About Ice, Not ICE
What’s more terrifying than extreme, uncontrollable weather?
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Jordan Peterson’s Views on Gay Marriage and Child-Rearing Are Dumb
Love wins? I dunno, looks like a cultural Marxist conspiracy to me… Kelly O Tonight professor Jordan Peterson—daddy of all lobsters, Kermit of all frogs, palest of the spiders crawling around on the Intellectual Dark Web—will stop by Portland’s Keller Auditorium. I won’t attend the lecture because I wasn’t invited, but I do want to […]
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She Doesn’t Really Care
ZARA Marie Claire: In a The Onion-style moment, Melania Trump boarded a plane to visit immigrant children apparently wearing a jacket that said, “I Really Don’t Care. Do u?” according to The Daily Mail. The jacket she appeared to be wearing is $39 from Zara…. Melania wore the jacket as she boarded a plane en […]
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Paul Manafort Is Going to Jail
NYT: A federal judge revoked Paul Manafort’s bail and sent him to jail on Friday to await trial, citing new charges that Mr. Manafort had tried to influence the testimony of two of the government’s witnesses after he had been granted bail. Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, had been allowed to post a […]
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What the Supreme Court Voter Purge Ruling Means
Today the Supreme Court made it easier for states to kick people off their voter registration rolls. Getty Images In a 5-4 ruling, with all the liberal justices dissenting, the US Supreme Court today upheld Ohio’s right to purge infrequent voters from its lists of approved voters. Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion, […]
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Jim Carrey Demonstrates the Value of Art as Politics
You don’t need Breughel to parse the Trump administration’s commitment to corruption. You don’t even need Jim Carrey. But Jim Carrey is indisputably who we’ve got.
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In Case You Were Under the Impression That America Had Cornered the Market on Racist Dipshits…
Tommy Robinson in the streets, Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon in the sheets Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images The canard of defending “free speech” (a phrase that has no business existing, but here we are) by speaking exclusively in hate speech has become as American as using depleted uranium in bomb shell casings. But in the same way the […]
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Run the Jewels Rejected the NFL’s Request to Use “Legend Has It” During the Super Bowl
Run the Jewels member El-P profanely slams the NFL after the league sought to place their track in the Super Bowl.