This really happened. Getty Images “He’s getting great reviews,” Wolf Blitzer said on CNN after Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday. I suppose this makes my review a hot take. To treat Trump’s presidency fairly is to view it as a kind of performance art; it’s not to judge Trump’s speeches on the content, but […]
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Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns from Breitbart, Making His Bad Week Much Worse
Barcroft Media “Alt-right” poster-boy Milo Yiannopoulos is having a very bad, no good week. After his turn on <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/02/20/24881934/milo-yiannopoulos-girls-are-in-danger-when-adult-trans-women-use-public-toilets-but-13-year-old-boys-can-benefit-from-giving-head-to-adult-ma”>Bill Maher, he found himself in hot water when clips shared ahead of his speaking engagement at the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) found him making odious comments about pedophilia, where he flippantly said things […]
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Milo Dropped by Simon & Schuster (Like a Cuck)
News Flash: Medium Talent Gay Blogger loses book deal Bummer, man. Statement: After careful consideration @simonschuster and its @threshold_books have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos— (((Adam Rothberg))) (@AdamRothberg) February 20, 2017
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Let’s Talk About All the Lies Trump Told at His Press Conference Today
Unhinged. Mario Tama Earlier this afternoon, Stranger emperor-editor Dan Savage published a Slog post with the headline The President Is Insane. If you didn’t click on the little link he includes in the post, you wouldn’t know that he’s referring to the unhinged, fact-free, low-key racist, impromptu press conference Donald Trump delivered today. Hoo boy. […]
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Appeals Court Refuses to Reinstate Trump’s Travel Ban
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson outside the US District Courthouse in Seattle after a federal judge halted Trump’s executive order. SB A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has denied the government’s request to reinstate President Trump’s travel ban. After hearing oral arguments from the Department of Justice […]
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Wouldn’t It Be Great If Trump’s Nordstrom Freakout Got Him Impeached? Or Kellyanne Conway Indicted?
They’re going to deport Colbert’s Art Department. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert So this happened yesterday. Then this happened. Then this: White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that Nordstrom’s decision to stop carrying Ivanka Trump’s clothing and accessories line is an attack on the president’s policies and his daughter. Spicer told reporters […]
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Today In Trump’s Tongue Up Putin’s Ass
WaPo: President Trump offered a fulsome defense of Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend, leaving Republican lawmakers frustrated and flummoxed yet again by the president’s warm feelings toward the rival nation. In a Fox News interview, Trump, who during the campaign repeatedly praised Putin, again said that he respected the Russian leader and hoped […]
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UPDATED: Here’s a Leaked Copy of Trump’s Anti-LGBTQ Executive Order
Windover Way Photography / Shutterstock.com Updated: There is some question as to whether the documents are real. The Nation updated its post explaining: “A White House official, speaking with ABC News, did not dispute the authenticity of the draft religious freedom executive order, but officials said it is one of hundreds circulating, some drafted by […]
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Trump Names Neil Gorsuch as His Supreme Court Nominee
Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Don’t let his Democrat-heavy Denver homebase fool you. Federal appeals court judge Neil M. Gorsuch—who was just nominated by Trump to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia—is conservative AF, and his ideals fit right […]
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Jeff Sessions Dodges Question About Whether He’ll Go After Legalized Weed
Still not sure what time it is on weed’s doomsday clock. The Stranger During the Senate hearing to nominate Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, Senator Leahy of Vermont asked if Sessions if he wouldn’t enforce federal laws that ban marijuana. Sessions rolled out this primo bit of obfuscation: I won’t commit to never enforcing the […]
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Watch: Jeff Sessions’s Confirmation Hearing
It’s Jeff Sessions’s confirmation hearing day! So far, the longtime senator and former Attorney General of Alabama who was too much of a racist for a Republican-led committee to approve his nomination to Reagan’s federal court is performing about as well as you’d expect him to. Sessions’s responses to questions so far can be split […]
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Buffy the Psych Prof: Someone You Should Follow On Twitter
Another epic Twitter thread/Arrival review that’s worth your time… Dear Red State peeps: Happy New Year! I was wondering, could we talk for a second? I apologize if this is long.— Buffy the Psych Prof (@DrPsyBuffy) December 31, 2016 Have you seen Arrival? I saw it the other day (so good!) & it got me […]