Easy come, easy go: After I half-chuckled at Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg mocking a dead senator who’d predicted her own untimely demise yesterday, she reportedly gave a talk last night where she reflected that Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch “are very decent, very smart individuals.” How nice! Read more
This, to me, is genuinely hilarious: NBC News analyst Howard Fineman found himself in a controversy of his own…
Live footage of me enduring today. Read more
Echoing his father’s unhinged Twitter presence today as Robert Mueller testifies before two House committees, Donald…
In case this whole affair wasn’t crazy-making enough already, Robert Mueller’s second round of testimony before the…
The Senate voted today to confirm Mark Esper, a former lobbyist for the defense contractor Raytheon and a military veteran, as Trump’s new secretary of defense. The vote passed by a wide margin of 90-8. Five Senate Democrats running for the 2020 nomination were among the “no” votes. Read more
After all of the uncertainty around why Vice President Mike Pence abruptly canceled a trip to New Hampshire earlier…
Thank god that’s over: Shortly after tweeting that the four lawmakers and women of color known as the Squad are the real racists, President Trump told reporters “There is no racial tension,” according to the pool. He also claimed the party has “fantastic relationships” with black voters. Read more
Very busy businessman President Trump stopped by not one but two events for a MAGA-themed wedding (a cursed phrase…
Things are testy between the Catholic Church and ex-Trump staffer Steve Bannon at the moment. Reporting today from ThinkProgress, on how Bannon and the group CatholicVote used phone data location to target voters who’d been to Catholic Iowa churches with ads, likely won’t help matters. Read more
Because this is a story that won’t die, President Trump opened up a predictable new front in his war against Ilhan…
LOL: Anthony Scaramucci, perhaps the shortest-lived member of this administration, was uninvited from a Palm Beach County GOP fundraiser for criticizing Trump’s remarks about Ilhan Omar. “We believe the tweets were not racist, the president is not racist,” the chair said. Cursed country. Read more
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After days spent hurling racist attacks at Rep. Ilhan Omar spilled into his supporters chanting “send her back” at a…
As the braying masses chanting “send her back” in response to to Donald Trump’s criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar have…
The head of Planned Parenthood, Leana Wen, was forced out of the job after less than a year on Tuesday. The Washington Post reported Wen favored positioning Planned Parenthood as a broader health provider, while members of the board pushed for a focus on the group’s commitment to abortion services. Read more
Sixty-two Border Patrol staffers are under internal—but not criminal—investigation after reporting that agents were members of a secret Facebook group that mocked dead migrants and posted violently misogynist memes about AOC, according to the AP. Eight former agents are also being investigated. Read more
Wormed-brained attendees at Donald Trump’s Social Media Summit were treated to nearly an hour of him complaining…
Twitter is down, so there’s no way for me to know what everyone’s saying about me. Did the critical mass of brain power at Trump’s Social Media Summit for far-right weirdos overload the matrix? I’ll let you know—just as soon as that hellsite comes back online. Read more
Speaking outside the White House on Wednesday morning, a top staffer for Vice President Mike Pence said he “can’t…
Hello fellow teens—are you down with the hella new trend that is e-vaping? Because I’m here to say: Put down that…