If you’ve been reading about Apple’s refusal to assist the FBI in breaking open an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, then you’ve probably already decided which side you’re on. However, if you’re on Apple’s side and want to tell the FBI to mind their own goddamn beeswax, you may want to […]
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Bus Ad in Los Angeles
So people who live in a blue cities are essentially saying to people who live in red states… Dear Gun Owners, Please don’t kill your kids. Love,People Who Don’t Own Guns It will fall on deaf ears. We were a bit less gentle in the Urban Archipelago… To red-state voters, to the rural voters, residents […]
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Behold John Oliver’s Primer on America’s Reproductive Health Crisis
Thinkstock Hollering and grousing about garbage anti-choice legislation and its discontents is one of my preferred activities, and we should all do more of it, but there’s something uniquely appealing about hearing from John Oliver what reproductive rights advocates have been saying for years: That segment, from Last Week Tonight, succinctly describes the crisis facing […]
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FBI Director Tries to Calm Down Everyone Freaking Out About Apple
FBI director James Comey says that the debate around digital rights shouldn’t be resolved “by corporations that sell stuff for a living.” Ellica / Shutterstock.com Apple is fighting the FBI over a request to break into an iPhone recovered after the San Bernadino shooting. Today, FBI director James Comey posted a statement that urges everyone […]
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Ted Cruz Associates Gluten-Free With Culture of “Political Correctness”
In line with the very surreal nature of the upcoming presidential election, Republican candidate/village idiot Ted Cruz told voters in South Carolina on Tuesday that he wouldn’t provide gluten-free ready-to-eat meals to the military: “The last thing any commander should need to worry about is the grades he is getting from some plush-bottomed Pentagon bureaucrat—or […]
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“My Concern for America Continues”
AMERICA is turning into a burning garbage heap of immorality and tyranny. Hello, I’m Phillip Abernathy, and I’m a fourth grader at Donald M. Adams Elementary School—and my concern for America continues. Yes, I may be “only” nine years old, but my eyes are wide open to the bureaucratic corruption that has polluted America—and, by […]
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Hillary Clinton’s Cough Was the Least Important Part of Her Speech Yesterday
Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons While we tolerate or even ~*admire*~ tears and messy hair in male politicians, the second a female candidate shows any vulnerability, she’s made into a joke. Yesterday, at Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Hillary Clinton introduced a massive plan to combat systemic racial inequality. It was a […]
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And Now Let Us Play the Supreme Court Nomination Speculation Game
“Surprise! I nominate myself.” Frederic Legrand – COMEO / Shutterstock.com The Senate gets back from its recess on February 22, and boy oh boy are they going to have some fun business waiting for them. For now, though, it’s time to just enjoy the wild furore of the SCOTUS Speculation Machine. Who’s Obama going to […]
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Bernie’s More Popular than Ever, So Why Is He Still Losing So Badly?
Bernie: Unfortunately for him, he’s only popular with voters. a katz / Shutterstock.com The good news for Bernie is that his loss is looking slightly less inevitable than it did a week ago. Polling is abruptly tied in Nevada, he’s narrowing the gap in Florida (Clinton 50%, Bernie 26%) and he’s catching up in Ohio […]
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In Case You Missed It, One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Best Friends Has Died
Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, via Wikimedia Commons A certain corner of the internet is having a real “DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD” moment right now over the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his deeply unpleasant hardline conservative opinions on abortion and LGBT rights, among other […]
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The Definition of Insanity: Gay Republicans
Every four years gay Republicans slime out from under their rocks to remind us that the Democratic candidate wasn’t always perfect on LGBT issues. They then implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) pivot to this nonsensical argument: Since your guy/gal wasn’t always perfect on LGBT issues, the LGBT community should vote for the Republican who was terrible […]
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Gay Hero Bear Confronts Marco Rubio
NYT: Mr. Rubio, who is seeking to win over conservatives, is seldom asked about gay rights at his campaign stops. But courting voters in a crowded New Hampshire diner on the eve of the primary is an unpredictable business. The voter, who identified himself as Timothy Kierstead, was seated at a table with his mother […]