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America Has Been Marinating in White Supremacy for Hundreds of Years
Trump’s Election Shouldn’t Come as a Surprise
Trump’s election shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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We Can’t Go On. We’ll Go On.
When You Feel Despair Coming On, Remember That You Live in Oregon
When you feel despair coming on, remember that you live in Oregon.
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Frank Cassano’s Imbecile Parade
Frank Cassano Asks, “Who’s to Blame for the 2016 Election?”
Frank Cassano asks, “Who’s to blame for the 2016 election?”
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Why We March
The Mercury on why revolting against Trump’s presidency is the most moral thing to do right now.
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No, New York Times, I Will Not Give President Trump “a Chance”
Why Donald Trump Doesn’t Deserve a Chance
Why Donald Trump doesn’t deserve a chance.
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“Awash in False Conspiracy Theories and Petulant Immaturity, Liberals Put Trump in the White House”
Bernie supporters in July 2016, at the height of conspiracy theories about the DNC. If you still believe those conspiracy theories, you have some reading to do. Gregory Reed/Shutterstock One of the surprising turns in the election was Newsweek as a source of serious, important journalism, and when I say “serious, important journalism” I’m thinking […]
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Trump Discusses Overturning Roe v. Wade, Deporting Undocumented Immigrants, and More Scary Stuff with 60 Minutes
Lesley Stahl begins by calling the 2016 presidential campaign “interminable”—to which I say: if only it lasted for ever, I had hope during the campaign!—and then she says that “a divided country found all kinds of ways to describe Donald Trump: visionary businessman, vulgar self-promoter, political neophyte.” I have to say, I didn’t hear anyone […]
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John Oliver: President-Elect Donald Trump Is a “Klan-Backed Misogynist Internet Troll”
Don’t get comfortable. That was comedian John Oliver’s message to viewers last night, when he addressed Donald Trump’s shocking presidential win on November 8. On Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, he summed up his feelings about this election year: “I thought I wanted it to be over but now that it’s over I wish […]
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No, I Will Not Give Trump a Chance.
iStock/Andy Katz This morning, the New York Times ran an editorial by Nicholas Kristof, titled “Gritting our Teeth and Giving President Trump a Chance,” the premise of which is one of the dumbest fucking things I’ve ever seen in that publication. Firstly, giving Trump anything is a ridiculous notion. He’s just been given the White […]
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New Column!
A Message from the New President of the United States (of the Upside Down Place)
A message from the new President of the United States (of the Upside Down Place)