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I would like to thank this headline/byline combo for helping me set a record for the quickest "gross, pass" I've ever uttered in my life. The funniest part is framing

To truly understand the Arizona fake vote "audit," it's important to know it's a chaotic mess by design. It's theater of the possible, to showcase for the right what stealing

I've been thinking a lot about how the prosecution in the Derek Chauvin case has spent so much time establishing what anyone with two eyes and a working brain could

John Boehner's out there trying to rehab his image into a principled elder statesman. Don't buy it. He is one of the main architects of the right wing craziness that

There's frustration with the mainstream media for not calling the election, when they would in any other circumstance. Without defending the abundance of caution, I can say I understand it.

So are we finally ready to admit that Rogan is a fascist propagandist, and that it's best not to normalize or validate him? Ha, never, because that would be admitting

The more I think about it, the more frustrated I am that the focus of the NY Times article is that Trump is a tax cheat, and not that he

We're going to be hearing a lot about Coney Barrett's 7 children in the coming days. For those who don't speak Anti-Choice, let me explain why: Trotting out the (extremely

Yes, Trump is trying to stage a coup. But don't despair! He keeps running his mouth about what he intends to do and how he intends to do it. That

200,000 people have died. The virus is still spreading. Over 13 million are unemployed. But Trump and McConnell are too concerned with crushing democracy to give a crap about Americans.

Whatever their origins, gender reveal parties have now turned into bizarre pagaents of toxic masculinity to reassure the father that he's not emasculated just because there's baby stuff in his

Just as birtherism was a way for Republicans to express a belief that Black people can't be president, the Pelosi salon "scandal" is just a back door way to express