There are plenty of good reasons to criticize Cory Booker, many of which we’ve engaged with on this very site. This is not one of them! Booker doesn’t drink!! Pick something better, you libertarian nerds. Read more
Very cool to liken your flirting with a presidential run to the conquering of the Aztec Empire by Spanish colonists, which involved slaughtering the Native population by the hundreds and millions dying of smallpox! Right on, my guy!! Read more
Former Donald Trump confidant Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony on Wednesday was already going to be a…
They should really have a designated survivor sequestered away somewhere during the Conservative Political Action…
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman are two men who have worked quite hard in…
Donald Trump’s administration doesn’t have much to say about the Coast Guard lieutenant charged with stockpiling…
A Tuesday court filing in a Maryland district court alleges that a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant had ties to white…
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Occasionally, the universe provides: NowThis obtained and published video on Wednesday of the never-aired segment of…
Donald Trump on Bernie Sanders entering the 2020 race, per the White House pool: “Personally I think he missed his time.[...] I wish Bernie well, it will be interesting to see how he does....He was not treated with respect by Clinton...” Broken clock etc., etc., at least on that last part. Read more
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21 Savage was freed on a $100,000 bond in immigration court today in Atlanta. Federal authorities took the rapper, whose given name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, into custody earlier this month, claiming he’s a UK citizen who overstayed his visa. Read more
Apart from everything she already is, the only way Chelsea Clinton can get worse is if she tries to edge the Krassensteins out of their hustle of replying to everything Donald Trump says on Twitter. Read more
Be still, my heart: Dutch historian Rutger Bregman has been on a bit of a wild ride since his appeal for the…
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Very cool! According to a new Pew Research Center poll out Monday, about one in three Americans think it’s “always or sometimes acceptable” to wear blackface, including as part of a Halloween costume. Ralph Northam breathes a sigh of relief. Read more
Another fun nugget from ex-New York Times’ editor Jill Abramson’s book Merchants of Truth, which has been plagued by accusations of blatant plagiarism: She apparently referred to John Stanton, who was BuzzFeed’s DC bureau chief, as looking like an “ex-convict.” Read Stanton’s thread about how fucked that is. Read more
Shocking: A researcher uncovered old tweets by the Daily Caller’s White House correspondent, Amber Athley, which include words like “nigga,” “fag,” and numerous anti-Semitic jokes. She apologized, insisting she is “no longer the stupid person” she was in high school. They never learn!!
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BuzzFeed reports that Georgia Congressman Rob Woodall won’t seek re-election. Woodall, a Republican, won the race by just over 400 votes last year—so you better believe the district is going to be on Democrats’ minds in the year ahead. Read more